Interview with the Narrator

Here is an interview with the Narrator of the book "The Time Machine." These questions were asked a couple years after the Time Traveler had already gone back through time and had never returned.

1) Narrator, did you really believe that the miniature time machine the Time Traveler showed you really traveled through time?

Narrator: Well at that point in time, I really was not sure what to believe. That Time Traveler was quite a trickster, so at first I believed it was all just another trick of his. Now, however, I am guessing that it and he possibly did travel in time, though no one else seems to think so.

2) When the Time Traveler disappeared before supper, where did you believe he went?

Narrator: I honestly had no idea. I figured he just went into town or something simple such as that. Although it was all quite mysterious I must say.

3) What did you first think happened to the Time Traveler when he arrived all haggard and wounded?

Narrator: It was a very confusing and unbelievable event. However I suspected that he had simply been beaten up or something strange may have happened in his laboratory, but I most certainly did not expect him to have actually traveled through time.

4) When he was telling of his adventures through time, did you believe him then?

Narrator: Well, I must say that I did believe him more than the others. Though I still was not entirely sure what to believe. I supposed something must have happened to him. I just was not very sure what, and I did not believe everything he was saying was true. I thought that he may have possibly exagerated. After being cooped up in a room so long, who knows what kind of hallucinations may come upon a person.

5) Did you believe the future would turn out as the Time Traveler portrayed it? With Morlocks and Eloi?

Narrator: Though it somewhat makes sense to me now how such a future would come about, before the Time Traveler spoke of it, I can say that I honestly did not believe such a strange thing would become of this world we live in. I knew we would improve our technology to a great degree after hundreds of thousands of years, which was where the Time Traveler said he had been, but I definetely did not believe it would be to such an enormous degree as to where the universe would almost disappear into darkness. It is a rather scary idea if I do say so. I do know however that that Time Traveler was not always right in the mind, so for him to come up with such a conclusion is not all that surprising.

6) Why did you go back to see the Time Traveler the day after he had told you his story?

Narrator: I was so confused at the time. I did not know what to believe. The Medical Man and all the others seem to know so surely what they believed. In their minds, they absolutely knew that the Time Traveler was not at all telling the truth, and what he said was just a story of his imagination. I, however, was not so sure. I went back the next day simply because I wanted to find the truth. I hoped talking more to the Time Traveler would help me make my decision. If it were true, then I would want to hear much more about this dark future we have ahead of us.

7) You went back to find the Time Traveler, but he was gone. What to you think happened to him?

Narrator: I now believe he traveled in time. To where I do not know. How he spoke of Weena makes me assume that he went back to see her.

8) Where do you believe he is now?

Narrator: I am not sure. For all I know, the Morlocks could have gotten him and he could be dying as we speak. He could have gotten lost in time. He could have stayed to live happily with Weena and the Eloi, and he could have helped save them from the Morlocks. His Time Machine could have broken down and he could be stranded in the past with cave men. I really do not know.

9) If you had the oppurtunity, would you travel to the future?

Narrator: The adventure sounds exhilerating. However, I am too much of a home body to take such a dangerous journey. I am comfortable with the time zone I am in now. I do wish however, that the Time Traveler had brought back with him some of the future for me to see with my own eyes without me having to travel there. Also, how the Time Traveler told of it, the future does not sound like such an amazing place as the people of today imagine it to be.

10) Do you think you would pursuade the others to believe that the Time Traveler actually went to the future and what he said was actually all true?

Narrator: I can barely pursuade myself! I do not think I could pursuade anyone else. If what the Time Traveler said was in fact true, I think he would have to tell them himself. What they wish to believe is not my choice. I somewhat do not want to believe what the Time Traveler says. I want to believe the future is a much happier place.