Herbert George Wells

A role model is someone you look up to, someone that affects you in a certain way that you’d desire to better yourself or act the way they do or live the same life they had. That is why everyone should have one or extra role models or heroes. One of my role models is H.G. Wells. The way he writes and his stories are an inspiration to what myself and others can do. Just by imagination and creative writing and thinking H.G. Wells contributed and achieved in the world of literature, that’s amazing.

As a young boy, born September 21st 1866 in Bromley, England, Herbert George Wells realized early that life was a struggle. Especially when he was the youngest of three children, he had two older brothers named Frank and Fred. The brothers had a huge rivalry and H.G. Wells learned how to defend himself because of that. Wells' father, Joseph was somewhat of a slacker, who was almost never home; he was mainly out with his friends. His mother, Sarah was left to clean, run the maid business and take care of her children. She even wrote in her journal once that she felt like a slave. Wells lived a busy life as a child and found an escape in reading books by significant writers, even Plato.

When Wells was fourteen, his mother left his father. Although there was no official divorce, the normal routine of Wells' life changed dramatically. Because of Wells reading ability and power of perception were well beyond his age, he found a vast fascination with science and science fiction, and he spent a lot of his time studying biology with his teacher, Thomas Huxley, who was known as one of England’s greatest minds and seemed almost godlike to Wells. Wells was taught at London University. Wells' first significant strivings as a writer were inspired by Huxley’s ideas about evolution. It made Wells wonder what man's future would be like. Also, because of Wells' highly intellectual mind, he landed many teaching jobs at universities.

In between college and his teaching jobs, Wells wrote a few short stories and after they were successful Wells carried on with it. Almost all of his stories were published in a magazine, which weren’t widely read as much as books. Until one of his stories caught the eye of W.E Henley, who was the editor of National Observer, one of the best and most widely read British newspapers. Wells' story The Chronic Astronauts was about time travel, one of Wells most biggest and successful ideas. Wells really became successful when he jumped at a chance to write a novel. He rewrote his “Time Traveler” series into a book known as The Time Traveler. This book appeared in bookstores the summer of 1895 and was an immediate success and launched his writing career.

H.G Wells (Photobucket)

Many people considered H.G Wells a man of genius and a significant voice in British literature. I think he was, but he faced many distractions and obstacles. Some of them were the divorce of his parents, the divorce of his first wife, who was his cousin Isabel. He considered this marriage a mistate. He later married a women named Jane and had two boys, George and Frank, with her. Some other hardships he faced was he’d later become a diabetic in his late years. Some think that was the cause of his death in 1946. He died in his sleep. Even after his death Wells was considered an enormous mind in writing and his stories are still read and remade. His name is sure to be remembered because he paved a pathway for other minds and ideas for other authors of science fiction.

H.G Wells accomplished much in his 80 year life. He wrote and published many creative stories such as, The War Of The Worlds, The Invisible Man and many others. These books helped shape the creative minds of numerous people. Wells' creativeness was influenced by many famous visionaries. H.G Wells has also interested and influenced me with his immensely creative stories of science fiction.