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1. FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET
H.G. Wells

2. About the Author
~H.G.Wells (Herbert George Wells)
~BIRTH- September 21,1866,Bromley,UK
~DEATH- August 13,1946
~In 1895,Wells became an overnight literary sensation
with the publication of the novel ‘The Time Machine’.
The book was about an english scientist who develops
a time travel machine.
~He publish the ‘The Island of Doctor Moreau’(1896),‘The Invisible Man’
(1897) and ‘The War of Worlds’(1898).
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3. Before we proceed
• Can a man become invisible?
• This is a story of a scientist who discovers how to
make himself invisible.
• Does he use, or misuse, his descovery?
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4. Summary
• Footprints without Feet is an interesting story written by Herbert George
Wells. This story is about a brilliant scientist named Griffin who had
developed a drug that could make a man invisible. He was successful in
his experiment and developed a formula that had the power of invisibility.
By consuming the drug, a man could become transparent that could not
be seen with the naked eye.
• Griffin carried out the experiment on himself so he gulped the drug and
his body became transparent like a sheet of glass. Inadvertently, he
stepped in mud and the fresh muddy imprints of his feet were all over the
place. It was first seen by two young boys who followed his footprints
until they became fainter and disappeared altogether. Although Griffin
was an outstanding scientist, he was a lawless man. His landlord disliked
him and had asked him to eject the house. In vengeance, Griffin set the
house on fire and soon wandered around the streets without food,
money and clothes.
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• Owing to his invisibility, no one could see him and as he was walking
down the streets, he started feeling cold and entered a big London
shopping centre to warm himself. After the stores were shut down, he
picked up some comfortable clothes to warm himself and fed himself with
cold meat and some expresso from a nearby restaurant. Later he slept
on a pile of quilts in the store. The following morning some associates
started approaching him and he removed all his clothes immediately and
became invisible again.
• As Griffin wandered without clothes in the chilly weather, he could feel
the biting cold and decided to take some clothes from a theatre
company. Soon, he found an appropriate shop and wore bandages
around his forehead, a false nose, dark glasses, big bushy side-whiskers
and a huge hat. Then, he went to a shopkeeper’s store and stole all his
money.

6. Find Out
• How did the invisible man first become visible?
• Why was he wandering the streets?
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• He realised that staying in a crowded city like London could be difficult
for him, so he thought of moving to the Iping village. He had booked two
rooms at the local inn in the village and reached there by boarding a train
from London. It was quite an unusual experience for the villagers to
expect an outsider with a strange appearance who had come to stay at
the hotel during winter. Mrs Hall, the wife of the landlord of the inn tried to
be friendly with him, but Griffin did not want to talk to her. Soon enough,
his money was exhausted and he started stealing to sustain himself. Due
to his suspicious appearance, the inn owner and his wife attempted to
check his room while he was away.
• Out of anger, Griffin damaged the furniture of the inn and threw it across
the room towards them. The owner and his wife got scared thinking that
there were spirits around and their unusual guest was responsible for all
the chaos. Meanwhile, Mrs Hall requested the town constable, Mr Jaffers
to inquire about the identity of this peculiar individual and arrest him for
damaging her furnishings.

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• This annoyed Griffin further and he decided to reveal his identity as he
started unwrapping his bandages, whiskers, spectacles and nose.
Everyone was shocked to see this as there was no normal human being
hidden behind the bandages. The constable could not catch hold of
Griffin as he took off all his garments, became invisible and disappeared
in thin air.

9. Find Out
• Why does Mrs Hall find the scientist eccentric?
• What curious episode occurs in the study?
• What other extraordinary things happen at the inn?
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10. PRESENTATION BY-
Vansh Vashist
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