Book Review- The Invisible Man

“He stared right through me.” The Invisible Man is the story of a troubled character named Griffin. He is a very smart man who figured out how to make things invisible, including himself! Instead of sharing his discovery and becoming famous, he uses his new discovery to harm others and put himself first. H. G. Well’s The Invisible Man was thrilling and captured me by explaining the life of this troubled invisible man.
The author’s writing style was in old English. This made the book a little harder to understand and caused me to have to use footnotes. It does, however, help establish the time and setting the story took place. I haven’t read many books in this style and although it was challenging I felt it was a good, educational book to read.
The main character in this book is the invisible man, Griffin. The author paints a pretty negative picture of him throughout the book. During his stay at the Coach and Horses he was excessively rude to Mrs. Hall. He demands meals, stresses that he must be left alone, is discourteous to the clock repairman, and even goes as far as to make furniture come “alive with spirits” and attack Mr. and Mrs. Hall. He makes Mr. Thomas Marvel do everything he commands with the threat of killing him if he doesn’t. Griffin also steals from innocent people. He goes to the department store called “Emporium” and steals food, clothes, and sleeps there using bedding from the store. He also steals from citizens using force. He tied one man up in a bed sheet after knocking him out so he could steal clothes and money from his home.
The setting of this book is the 1890s in England. There are many things about this setting that are different than the present time. The author used lots details to describe the picture of the places in the story. I could see vivid images of all the places described in the story.
After Griffin discovers how to become invisible, he goes on many adventures. He has to escape from people as they figure out that he is invisible and run from the people he is stealing from. Read this book to find out if he can get away in time. Will he ever become normal again? Will Mr. Marvel ever get away from his evil grasp?
I liked the book The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells. I would recommend this book to any fairly advanced reader. It was a little bit harder to understand than most books but overall had a good story line. This book taught me some new vocabulary and I think I learned a lot from reading this book!
163 pages