Interpreting War of the Worlds through simple words on paper did not have nearly as much impact as it did while listening to it. The story seemed legitimately real in a sense that you could really hear the panic in the news broadcaster's voice. The men speaking to each other via the radio sounded real because of the static and brief interruptions. I could hear the old-fashioned newscasters transferring the broadcast to someone else in order to hear more of the story. And although the story we heard didn't fully read the book's every line, the fear translated from paper to really listening had an affect that would not have been the same if it were done another way at the time.