Wells' books told of futures of humankind evolving into smarter beings through science. His books also predicted humankind would destroy itself. Some times Wells had readers that liked his books and told everybody about them, sometimes he had people that would hold riots trying to persuade people not to buy his books because of issues like women's rights and his criticism of the slums. H.G. Wells was sometimes scorned and ridiculed. His actions took courage. Wells was frustrated with society while other people didn't even care to see how and why it should be changed. Wells was a humanitarian, saying "our ture nationality is mankind-, he wanted to help people out. H.G. Wells had initiative which means he did the right thing on impulse. Initiative makes good people. He did what was right, not what was accepted. H.G. Wells was a person that knew what it was like to be living in poor conditions and stood up and earned the influence to try to stop it. His enduring fame is found in the messages in his books. .
Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent. His father was a shopkeeper and a professional cricketer until he broke his leg. In his early childhood Wells developed a love for literature. His mother served from time to time as a housekeeper at the nearby estate of Uppark, and while Wells was young, he studied books in the library secretly. When his father's business failed, Wells was apprenticed like his brothers to a draper. He spent the years between 1880 and 1883 in Windsor and Southsea, and later recorded them in Kipps, 1905. In the story Arthur Kipps is raised by his aunt and uncle. Kipps is also apprenticed to a draper. After learning that he has been left a fortune, Kipps enters the upper class society, which Wells describes with hard social criticism. (Aaron A. Polson, Online).
In 1883 Wells became a teacher and pupil at Midhurst Grammar School. He got a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London and studied biology under T.
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