Read this passage from H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds:And invisible to me because it was so remote and small, flying swiftly and steadily towards me across that incredible distance, drawing nearer every minute by so many thousands of miles, came the Thing they were sending to us, the Thing that was to bring so much struggle and calamity and death to the earth.
Which statement best explains why Wells calls the Martian spacecraft "the Thing"?
A.Wells calls it "the Thing" to explain to readers how unimportant it is to the rest of the story. B.Wells calls it "the Thing" to give readers the impression that it's almost too terrible to name or describe. C.Wells calls it "the Thing" to describe what the ship and the creatures within it look like to readers. D.Wells calls it "the Thing" to provide readers with the proper name he will use for it later.