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    Klausner is the protagonist of The Sound Machine. He was an amateur scientist, who was obsessed with sounds. He invented a sound machine, which captures the inaudible sounds, and turns them into audible sounds. Read Summary of The Sound Machine

    Klausner is the protagonist of The Sound Machine. He was an amateur scientist, who was obsessed with sounds. He invented a sound machine, which captures the inaudible sounds, and turns them into audible sounds.

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    Mrs Saunders was Klausner’s neighbour and lived just next door to him. She was walking down the garden with a flower-basket on her arm. She was then 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 Klausner’s neighbour and lived just next door to him. She was walking down the garden with a flower-basket on her arm. She was then bending down, cutting yellow roses with a pair of scissors and putting them in her basket.

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    Unhealthy obsession in the story portrays the fact that it’s raises instability and fear in one’s mind which creates drastic consequences for the person. Klausner was obsessed with the titular sound machine obsession that lead to people around him think that he is mad. Roald Dahl illustrates the theRead more

    Unhealthy obsession in the story portrays the fact that it’s raises instability and fear in one’s mind which creates drastic consequences for the person. Klausner was obsessed with the titular sound machine obsession that lead to people around him think that he is mad. Roald Dahl illustrates the theme of obsession by depicting Klausner‘s preoccupation with the sound machine and how he becomes more and more absorbed in his work. Klausner‘s obsessiveness clouds his reality and his logical judgment as he no longer recognizes the doctor’s humanity or authority when at the end he strikes up a menacing pose with the axe.

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    The sound machine in the story symbolizes the dark side of the scientific advancements and how they rob humanity and nature of its innocence and beauty respectively. At the beginning of the story, the machine is denoted as a “child’s coffin” marking the death of humanity in a way. The sound machineRead more

    The sound machine in the story symbolizes the dark side of the scientific advancements and how they rob humanity and nature of its innocence and beauty respectively. At the beginning of the story, the machine is denoted as a “child’s coffin” marking the death of humanity in a way. The sound machine is also the cause of Klausner’s obsession which at the end leads to drastic changes. Unhealthy obsession over scientific growth and development harms the people and nature around them.

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    Klausner is the protagonist of the story who invents the titular sound machine and discovers that even plants convey emotions like humans do. Read summary of The Sound Machine

    Klausner is the protagonist of the story who invents the titular sound machine and discovers that even plants convey emotions like humans do.

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    At the end of the story, a thick branch from the tree fell upon the sound machine and smashed it into pieces. The sound machine was destroyed by the force of nature falling upon it. Read summary of The Sound Machine

    At the end of the story, a thick branch from the tree fell upon the sound machine and smashed it into pieces. The sound machine was destroyed by the force of nature falling upon it.

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    According to Klausner, the human ear actually can’t hear everything. Any sounds that are so low-pitched or so high-pitched that one can’t hear it at all whereas a dog can. And up the scale, higher than the vibration of that a whistle, there is another vibration and it keeps going on, an endless succRead more

    According to Klausner, the human ear actually can’t hear everything. Any sounds that are so low-pitched or so high-pitched that one can’t hear it at all whereas a dog can. And up the scale, higher than the vibration of that a whistle, there is another vibration and it keeps going on, an endless succession of vibrations as far as the numbers go, which is infinity. There is a whole world of sound about human all the time that we cannot hear. It is possible that up there in those high-pitched inaudible regions there is a new exciting music being made, with subtle harmonies and fierce grinding discords, powerful enough to drive humans mad if they could hear it. So he has made a machine that can prove him the existence of many odd inaudible sounds. The machine has been designed to pick up sound vibrations that are too high-pitched for reception by the human ear and to convert them to a scale of audible tones.

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    The message 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 unRead more

    The message 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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