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Introduction
Author’s Name: H. G. Wells
Book’s Name: The Door in the Wall
Genre: Science Fiction
Language: English
About the Author
Herbert George Wells was an English writer who lived from September 21, 1866, until August 13, 1946. He created hundreds of novels, short tales, and works of social criticism, history, satire, biography, and autobiography, among other genres. He also wrote two books about leisure war games. Along with Jules Verne and publisher Hugo Gernsback, Wells is today most known for his science fiction books and is dubbed the "Father of Science Fiction."
Herbert George Wells was an English writer who lived from September 21, 1866, until August 13, 1946. He created hundreds of novels, short tales, and works of social criticism, history, satire, biography, and autobiography, among other genres. He also wrote two books about leisure war games. Along with Jules Verne and publisher Hugo Gernsback, Wells is today most known for his science fiction books and is dubbed the "Father of Science Fiction."
About the Book
H. G. Wells' short story "The Door in the Wall" first appeared in a book named The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories in 1911. The story's main topic is the battle between science and imagination, which was a huge hit when it originally came out. Both readers and reviewers agree that "The Door in the Wall" is Wells' best short tale.
H. G. Wells' short story "The Door in the Wall" first appeared in a book named The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories in 1911. The story's main topic is the battle between science and imagination, which was a huge hit when it originally came out. Both readers and reviewers agree that "The Door in the Wall" is Wells' best short tale.
The conflict between aesthetics and science, and the difficulties of choosing between them, is explored in “The Door in the Wall,” a theme that Wells addressed often in his work. Lionel Wallace, the protagonist, has a rich imagination but chooses a career in politics, where he is seen as highly logical.
Book Summary
The imaginative narrative of the door in the wall, given to him by his normally quiet buddy Lionel Wallace, is related to a guy named Redmond in The Door in the Wall. During dinner one evening, Wallace discloses the reason for his long-term absence from his job and relationships. Although Redmond is unclear whether the story is real, he is certain that Wallace believes it.
While exploring the streets of London when Wallace was five years old, he stumbled upon a green door set in a white wall that appeared to appeal to him. He assumed the door would be unlocked, but he was hesitant to open it because he was afraid his strict father would be upset if he did. He hurried in the door, full of emotion, and saw an unearthly garden that immediately brought him calm and pleasure.
Wallace acknowledges that he may have changed some of the features of the garden in his memory over the years, but he stresses the sensations it provided him: exhilaration, lightness, kindness, and well-being. He encountered two harmless panthers in the garden, as well as a lovely girl who took him by the hand to other youngsters who played games with him.
Eventually, a solemn woman led him into a room and handed him a book containing his prior history. However, when it got to the page where Wallace was standing outside the green door urging the woman to continue, he found himself back on the London Street where he had been before entering through the door.
The imaginative narrative of the door in the wall, given to him by his normally quiet buddy Lionel Wallace, is related to a guy named Redmond in The Door in the Wall. During dinner one evening, Wallace discloses the reason for his long-term absence from his job and relationships. Although Redmond is unclear whether the story is real, he is certain that Wallace believes it.
While exploring the streets of London when Wallace was five years old, he stumbled upon a green door set in a white wall that appeared to appeal to him. He assumed the door would be unlocked, but he was hesitant to open it because he was afraid his strict father would be upset if he did. He hurried in the door, full of emotion, and saw an unearthly garden that immediately brought him calm and pleasure.
Wallace acknowledges that he may have changed some of the features of the garden in his memory over the years, but he stresses the sensations it provided him: exhilaration, lightness, kindness, and well-being. He encountered two harmless panthers in the garden, as well as a lovely girl who took him by the hand to other youngsters who played games with him.
Eventually, a solemn woman led him into a room and handed him a book containing his prior history. However, when it got to the page where Wallace was standing outside the green door urging the woman to continue, he found himself back on the London Street where he had been before entering through the door.
Wallace was heartbroken to be kicked out of the garden. He also tried to tell his father what he saw, but he was chastised for lying and was forbidden from speaking about the garden.
Years later, on his way to school, Wallace came upon the door by chance. He felt compelled to walk through it as well, but he ignored it in order to go to school on time. He made the mistake of informing another guy about the door, but when pressed into taking his classmates there, he couldn't find it and was humiliated severely by the other students.
On his way to Oxford to obtain a scholarship, he noticed the door again and opted to ignore it. For years, the door only opened to him on his way to crucial meetings, and he never entered.
Wallace, now in his forties and a famous politician, is unsatisfied with his life. He made a promise to himself that he'd seen the door again, he would open it. It has, however, shown to him three times in the last year—during a crucial vote, on his way to his father's grave, and in the middle of a promotion—and he has ignored it each time.
Years later, on his way to school, Wallace came upon the door by chance. He felt compelled to walk through it as well, but he ignored it in order to go to school on time. He made the mistake of informing another guy about the door, but when pressed into taking his classmates there, he couldn't find it and was humiliated severely by the other students.
On his way to Oxford to obtain a scholarship, he noticed the door again and opted to ignore it. For years, the door only opened to him on his way to crucial meetings, and he never entered.
Wallace, now in his forties and a famous politician, is unsatisfied with his life. He made a promise to himself that he'd seen the door again, he would open it. It has, however, shown to him three times in the last year—during a crucial vote, on his way to his father's grave, and in the middle of a promotion—and he has ignored it each time.
Wallace informs Redmond, depressed and remorseful, that he has missed his chance to return via the door. He walks about the streets late at night looking for the door. Wallace was murdered three months after that discussion, according to Redmond, when he fell into a hole at a railway construction job. The hole was located just inside a door in a homemade fence that had been left open by accident.
Redmond thinks about how the door must have appeared like Wallace's green door under the electric lights. Regardless of whether the green door was really genuine or merely a dream, it appears to Redmond that some people believe the door betrayed Wallace in the end. But Redmond wonders if Wallace, a visionary and a dreamer, would have viewed it that way.
THE END!
Redmond thinks about how the door must have appeared like Wallace's green door under the electric lights. Regardless of whether the green door was really genuine or merely a dream, it appears to Redmond that some people believe the door betrayed Wallace in the end. But Redmond wonders if Wallace, a visionary and a dreamer, would have viewed it that way.
THE END!
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Written By - Grasha Mittal
Written By - Grasha Mittal
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