Question

Read the passage from The War of the Worlds.

There were really, I should think, two or three hundred people elbowing and jostling one another, the one or two ladies there being by no means the least active.

In this passage, the author uses humor to comment on the

foolishness of people.
cleverness of the aliens.
necessity of community.
importance of journalism.

Answer 1

In the passage from The War of the Worlds, the author deploys humor to show the foolishness of people. In here it is said that the narrator saw Martian cylinders landing on earth. To add to this foolishness, the people of earth saw that the Martians does not move the way humans move and so they laughed. They just did not know that the Martians planned to rid humans for them to occupy.

Answer 2

In the passage above, the author uses humor to comment on the foolishness of people. This scene is from the fourth chapter of "The War of the World" novel written by H.G. Wells titled "The Cylinder Opens". The author uses the passage above to describe the foolishness of people because they were very interested with the cylinder with no reason.