THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON: Third blog entry; The moon more like a planet than like a rock.

At this point both characters have several hours in the moon, they comprehend that there was almost zero gravity, therefore that they could almost fly. I enjoyed this part of the book because the landscape was amazing, the way Bedford said it looked the dawn in the moon, , this part felt very real. I think the moon at this point felt more like a planet than like a natural satellite.

“He sighed and looked about him. 'This is no world for men,' he said. 'And yet in a way...it appeals. Carvor said.”

(page 81)

This quote shows how beautiful and at the same time strange the moon was, It had some kind of snow, also the plants growth really fast, some plants moved by themselves other ones just increase in a vertical way. So the landscape could change within hours.

They discovered several alien species some of them very big and other ones kind of small; most of the creatures that inhabitant the moon were harmless, a few of them where dangerous but one thing that I notice was that all were insectoids. I thought this alien life was fascinating; at this point the characters get lost in the moon here is when I get to know more about this place. But the most remarkable thing the book are the “Selenites”; An intelligent alien society, an insect- like people, the equivalent of humans on earth. I will talk about in more depth about the Selenites in the next entry.

Vocabulary:

Inhabitant; when you live permanently in a specific place.

I inhabitant Metepec because most of the time I live there.