Referring to HG Wells' 'Time Machine', how does the author in lines 12-25 of the extract use language and structure to show the narrator's thoughts and feelings about the people he meets? (Edexcel GCSE 2018)

One way in which Wells uses language to portray the narrator's sentiment about new people is by certain literary devices such as pathetic fallacy and alliteration. The narrator describes the 'warm air' around him as one of the robe-clad men approach him. The use of pathetic fallacy here symbolises a sense of relaxation felt by the narrator; had the author used 'hot' or 'cold' to describe the air the reader would sense discomfort or foreboding. 'Warm' entails the narrator is relaxed and unprovoked in his encounter with these new people. Secondly the author uses alliteration to describe the stranger as a "fragile thing out of futurity." Alliteration. draws attention to the physical inferiority of the stranger once more placing the narrator in a zone of comfort. Additionally, the phrase emanates a sense of curiosity, "fragile...futurity" highlights the enticement of the unknown, not just about the newcomer themselves, but about their whole world and the vulnerability of time which the narrator can so easily abuse.