Here are the plot points of H.G. Well’s War of the Worlds, as stated in www.shmoop.com:
Initial Situation
Martians land. Everyone is the London area is interested in the aliens.
Conflict
The Martians are different from us – and they're attacking!
Complication
The British army can't win. Everyone gets some companions. (Do companions help or hurt?)
Climax
The narrator and the curate fight in the ruined house; the narrator's brother and his friends get to a ship.
Denouement
The Thunder Child defends the ships fleeing England; the narrator finds the world totally changed when he emerges from the ruined house.
Conclusion
The brother and the Elphinstones escape; the narrator discovers that the Martians have died and his wife is alive.
Note that the site terms ‘Initial Situation’ for Exposition and ‘Complication’ for Rising Action. Published in 1898, The War of the Worlds is an early science fiction novel which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. It is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an alien invasion of Earth, and has influenced many others, as well as spawning several films, radio dramas, comic book adaptations, and a television series based on the story.
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