The Time Machine – Chapter 11-tiivistelmä

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1. The narrator and Weena reach the ruined palace around noon and discover museum galleries filled with decaying exhibits.
2. Weena grows frightened in a descending machinery gallery, where footprints and noises suggest Morlocks nearby.
3. The narrator breaks a lever from a machine to use as a weapon and leaves the dark gallery with Weena.
4. After passing ruined books, he discovers working matches and camphor in sealed containers and celebrates his new protection.
5. He keeps his iron bar rather than other weapons, but two apparent dynamite cartridges prove useless when tested.
6. Near sunset, they rest in a grassy courtyard, and he proposes a night beside a fire and an attempt to retrieve his machine.

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Finding matches changes his sense of vulnerability. He now sees fire as protection and feels more confident about facing the Morlocks.

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