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    Mrs Saunders was walking down the garden with a flower-basket on her arm. She was bending down, cutting yellow roses with a pair of scissors and putting them in her basket. Read summary of The Sound Machine

    Mrs Saunders was walking down the garden with a flower-basket on her arm. She was bending down, cutting yellow roses with a pair of scissors and putting them in her basket.

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    The protagonist of the story, Klausner, was quite different from the other characters and the public at large in the story. He was an eccentric scientist who had an unhealthy obsession with his experiment. He gave all his time and energy in developing the sound machine. Not once was he seen in the sRead more

    The protagonist of the story, Klausner, was quite different from the other characters and the public at large in the story. He was an eccentric scientist who had an unhealthy obsession with his experiment. He gave all his time and energy in developing the sound machine. Not once was he seen in the story doing something else that didn’t involve his experiment. Mrs Saunders had always believed that Klausner, her neighbor, to be a rather peculiar person but when he asked her to cut another rose, she became convinced that he had gone completely mad but was harmless. Same with the doctor who applied wound at a tree just to humor Klausner as he didn’t want to face Klausner when he is displeased.

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    The moral of the story is that unhealthy obsession can result in drastic occurrences in a person’s life. Klausner was obsessed with his sound machine, not once was he seen in the story doing something else. His obsession with the machine kept him aloof from the actual world. Through through his unheRead more

    The moral of the story is that unhealthy obsession can result in drastic occurrences in a person’s life. Klausner was obsessed with his sound machine, not once was he seen in the story doing something else. His obsession with the machine kept him aloof from the actual world. Through through his unhealthy obsession Klausner does shed some light on the fact that nature too has feelings just like the humans do, his obsession marked the climax of the story.

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    Klausner’s obsession was with his sound machine and trying to prove that even plants can exhibit emotions like almost that of humans. At the end, he was so overcome to prove his hypothesis to the doctor, it ended up with the machine being destroyed. Read summary of The Sound Machine

    Klausner’s obsession was with his sound machine and trying to prove that even plants can exhibit emotions like almost that of humans.

    At the end, he was so overcome to prove his hypothesis to the doctor, it ended up with the machine being destroyed.

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    Klausner carried out the second experiment in the park. Around six in the morning he went to the park, stood in front of a large tree, a beech tree, and he placed the machine on the ground. He then went back to his house and got an axe. He put the earphones on his head and switched on the machine. HRead more

    Klausner carried out the second experiment in the park. Around six in the morning he went to the park, stood in front of a large tree, a beech tree, and he placed the machine on the ground. He then went back to his house and got an axe. He put the earphones on his head and switched on the machine. He listened for a moment to the faint familiar humming sound; then he picked up the axe, took a stance with his legs wide apart and swung the axe as hard as he could at the base of the tree trunk. The blade cut deep into the wood and stuck there and at the instant impact he heard a most extraordinary noise in the earphones. It was a new noise, unlike any he had heard- a harsh, noteless, enormous noise, a growling, low pitched, screaming sound, not quick and short like the noise of the roses. Klausner stared in horror at the place where the blade of the axe had sunk into the wood flesh of the tree as he realized the pain was internal, the tree expresses the pain which was heard by him through his sound machine.

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    Klausner called Dr. Scott early in the morning as he wanted to show the doctor his experiment. He wanted to see whether anyone apart from him gets the same result as Klausner did or not. Read summary of The Sound Machine

    Klausner called Dr. Scott early in the morning as he wanted to show the doctor his experiment. He wanted to see whether anyone apart from him gets the same result as Klausner did or not.

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    Klausner carried out the first experiment in his own garden. Klausner carried the machine, with some difficulty, into the garden. He connected his earphones and then pressed a switch on its front. Then he turned on the volume control and his right hand on the knob that moved a needle across a largeRead more

    Klausner carried out the first experiment in his own garden.

    Klausner carried the machine, with some difficulty, into the garden. He connected his earphones and then pressed a switch on its front. Then he turned on the volume control and his right hand on the knob that moved a needle across a large central dial, like the wavelength dial of a radio. At first there was a crackling sound and while listening to it, he saw his neighbor, Mrs Saunders out in her garden with a basket and a pair of scissors to cut some flowers. As he listened, he became conscious of a curious sensation, a feeling that his ears was connected to his head by a thin stiff wire, like a tentacle, and that the wires were lengthening slowly towards a forbidden territory. And then he heard a shriek, a frightful piercing shriek and he jumped up but there was no one around him apart from the woman in the garden next door, who was bending low and cutting yellow roses. Again it came- a throat less, inhuman shriek, sharp and short, very clear and cold. Klausner could understand the source of the sound was coming from the plants. He asked Mrs Saunders to cut one more rose and through his machine, he heard the sound again. It seemed as if each rose that Mrs Saunders cut, screamed in the most terrible way.

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    Klausner was seen to be obsessed with sounds in the story. He worked only to prove his theory that odd inaudible sounds can be heard only if it were captured and transported at an audible frequency. His experiment showed that plants too have emotions, even if it was not exactly the same as humans. PRead more

    Klausner was seen to be obsessed with sounds in the story. He worked only to prove his theory that odd inaudible sounds can be heard only if it were captured and transported at an audible frequency. His experiment showed that plants too have emotions, even if it was not exactly the same as humans. Plants are living beings so they too can feel things like pain. The world was not yet ready to agree to Klausner’s theory because of his mad eccentric ideas, even if they were proved somehow. People saw him mad but harmless and hardly took him seriously even if his heart was at the right place.

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    Irony of the story lies in the fact that people who are called crazy or mad are actually the ones who share a different connection with the surroundings. They are sensitive people who can’t stand the pain on others yet are unable to create an impact as the world has shunned them because of their eccRead more

    Irony of the story lies in the fact that people who are called crazy or mad are actually the ones who share a different connection with the surroundings. They are sensitive people who can’t stand the pain on others yet are unable to create an impact as the world has shunned them because of their eccentricities. Klausner experiences the pain through his machine when the plants are cut, showing that even trees and plants have emotions. Just because they couldn’t talk, they shouldn’t be taken for granted. Much like Klausner who has been taken for granted for being different than the general public.

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    Klausner, the protagonist of the story, was an eccentric amateur scientist. He was a frail man, nervous and twitchy, with always moving hands. His large head was inclined towards his left shoulder as though his neck were not quite strong enough to support it rigidly. He was a frail, nervous, twitchyRead more

    Klausner, the protagonist of the story, was an eccentric amateur scientist. He was a frail man, nervous and twitchy, with always moving hands. His large head was inclined towards his left shoulder as though his neck were not quite strong enough to support it rigidly. He was a frail, nervous, twitchy little man, a moth of a man, dreamy and distracted; suddenly flattering and animated. The public at large and even his neighbors and the doctor thought him to be mad but harmless. He was incredibly passionate but no one understood his inventions. He worked for the betterment of others even my making scientific advancements but was shunned because of his eccentricities. Klausner was obsessed with the titular sound machine and not once was he seen doing anything else. He was so obsessed to set his theory right that he kept on inflicting pain on the plants despite being regretful for his actions. He was also a violent man when it came to anyone disobeying his orders as seen in the end. When the doctor was refusing his silly idea of stitching up the tree, Klausner took up an angry stance with the axe. Klausner represented the ideal mad scientist seen in science fiction stories.

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