After reading Chapter 11 of 'The Time Machine', answer the following questions 1. Why was the inventor reminded of his mountaineering experience?


2. What was the 'threadlike' thing which the inventor grasped? Why was it so frightening?


3. What are the dominant colors used to describe the landscape in the first paragraph?


4. What does the description of the crab's mouth as 'alive with appetite' mean?


5. What does the inventor mean by the 'sense of abominable desolation' which hung over the world?