Herbert George Wells was born in 1866 in England to a poor family. He had to work from a young age to support his education. Though he struggled with his health, he was able to attend college and become a science teacher. He wrote in his spare time while maintaining his teaching job. The main events of Chapter 3 describe the arrival of the stranger's luggage at the inn, including many trunks, boxes, and crates. The innkeeper's dog attacks the stranger, tearing his trousers. When the innkeeper checks on the stranger, he is violently pushed back and confused. The stranger's room becomes filled with bottles of chemicals and equipment, looking like a chemist's shop. Locals gossip about

1. THE INVISIBLE MAN
LESSON 3
BY PRATYUSH

2. Herbert George
Wells
(1866-
1946)
Herbert George Wells was born in 1866 in
Bromley, England into a family where there was
little money to spare; his father ran a small shop
and played cricket professionally and his mother
worked as a housekeeper. The family’s financial
situation meant that Wells had to work from the
age of fourteen to support himself through
education. His success at school won him a free
place to study at a college of science in London,
after which he became a science teacher. His
poor health made life difficult, though, and he
struggled to keep his full-time job while trying to
write in his spare time.

3. MAIN EVENTS OF CHAPTER 3
 Soon the stranger luggage arrived
 Luggage consisted of trunks , a box of big and fat books, crates, boxes and cases
containing object packed in straw and glass bottels.
 The cart of the delivery man, Fearenside, was filled to capacity.
 Fearenside owned a dog who growled savagely and jumped and gripped the stranger’s leg
and also ripped off his trouser.
 Fearenside used his whip to control the dog .

4.  The stranger rushed into the inn and into his room to reshape himself in a solid appearance as he
looked hollow.
 Mr . Hall rushed to the stranger’s room to know if he had been bitten and needed some help
 Mr . Hall saw a bizzare thing .
 He was struck violently and pushed back.
 All this was done so that he could see nothing clearly.
 Mr. hall was amazed and confused.

5.  The stranger rushed into the inn and into his room to reshape himself in a solid appearance as he
looked hollow.
 Mr . Hall rushed to the stranger’s room to know if he had been bitten and needed some help
 Mr . Hall saw a bizzare thing .
 He was struck violently and pushed back.
 All this was done so that he could see nothing clearly.
 Mr. hall was amazed and confused.

6.  The stranger soon reappeared with the changed trouser and ordered to bring rest of the luggage to his
room.
 The stranger unlocked the crates very eagerly scattering the straw carelessly on the carpet.
 There came out bottles of different sizes and shapes containing powders,coloured and white
fluids, bottles labelled poison , wine bottles,salad oils bottles and so on.
 He put them in a row wherever he found space.
 The room looked as chemist’s shop . Then came out many test tubes and carefully packed balance from
the boxes .

7.  When Mrs. Hall took his dinner to him , he was busy in his
work, pouring little drops out of the bottles into test tube.
 Mrs. Hall saw him without his glasses and she felt that his eye
sockets were extraordinarily hollow .
 He asked her that she should not enter without knocking.
 He assured her that he would pay for any damage done to the room
and other accessories.
 People gossiped about the stranger.
 Fearenside, the cab driver said that the man must be a ’piebald’, all
black and white in patches

8. GLOSSARY
 Thaw a period of warm
weather.
 Slush watery mud.
 Sniffing investigating.
 Dilettante carelessly.
 Bristle react angrily.
 Growl make low sound.
 Flanking side.

9.  Rip tear.
 Yelping crying sharply.
 Dismay wonder.
 Pansy a plant in rich colour.
 Rapid quick.
 Indecipherable not able to read.
 Concussion confusion due to
blow.

10.  Fatuities silly and pointless.
 Cauterised burnt.
 Chiffonnier low cupboard.
 Hollow empty.
 Exasperation irritation.
 Resolute firm.
 Pacing moving .

11.  Athwart from side to side .
 Hobnails heavy headed nails.
 Soliloquy speaking to oneself.
 Crepitation cracking sound.
 Piebald having irregular
patches of two
colour.

12. QUESTIONS
 The room looked like a shop of chemist.
How?
 What made the stranger so aggressive?
 Why did the dog pounced on the stranger?
 What made the stranger to come out to help
the stranger?
 What incident made the stranger more alert
and people suspicious of his identity?
 Why did the stranger look insensitive?