The Narrator then parts ways with him permanently thus, the Artilleryman's final fate is unknown. It may be speculated that, like the Narrator, he has experienced great trauma that has affected his mental condition. The Narrator encounters the Artilleryman again on Putney Hill and finds him to be a completely changed man, caring more for booze, games, and idealistic, grandiose plans than concrete action against the Martian invaders. He eventually discovers some survivors from his unit and rejoins them to fight against the Martians once more. When the danger escalates and the need to escape becomes necessary, his military training, caution, and prudence prove to be exceedingly useful in their survival in the battle-ravaged landscape. He luckily escapes the heat rays of the Martian war machines and ends up wandering into the garden of the Narrator, where he is taken in an cared for. The unnamed Artilleryman was separated from the rest of his combat unit when he was unhorsed. Despite all of their advancements, a common strain of Earth bacteria kills them all. They feed upon humans by grotesquely draining them of bodily fluids and then injecting these fluids directly into themselves. Martians are said to be gray and long-limbed they greatly resemble earth octopi because of their tentacles and radial symmetry, but they are the size of bears. Human weapons are useless against their war machines. They are conquerors from the beginning and they make it clear to the Earth’s populace that cohabitation is not an option, attacking humans with advanced weapons such as heat rays and biological agents. MartiansĪn aggressive, merciless, and technologically advanced alien species trying to flee their dying planet. He experiences a temporary mental breakdown but eventually recovers after receiving care from other survivors he is finally able to unite with his wife by the end of the novel. Despite the relative stoicism he displays throughout the novel, prolonged exposure to the atrocities that the alien invaders inflict upon humanity takes a serious toll on his sanity. The Narrator manages to survive past the end of the invasion mostly unharmed.
He is also one of the first to notice some oddities occurring on the Martian landscape and to infer that the Martians are indeed launching an invasion. The novel is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator who is a philosopher and a hobbyist astronomer.
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