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Analyse des Textes "The Sound Machine" von Roald Dahl.
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The short story "The Sound Machine" was originally published in 1949 in New Delhi by Penguin Books India. It was written by Roald Dahl.
He was born on the 13th September 1916 in Llandaff and he was a Norwegian-Welsh writer, who wrote mainly novels and short stories.
He is especially known for his black humour.
The story itself is about a man named Klausner, who is the main character in the story. He is a scientist and he invents a sound machine.
Klausner is a small, frail man and his hands are always moving. Furthermore, he is nervous and twitchy. His face is smooth and pale,
he has pale grey eyes, and he wears a pair of steel spectacles. He often talks to himself, especially while working,
and he is obsessed by his great invention.
The second person of the story is Mr. Scott, a doctor whom Klausner invites to look after his aching throat. He is a tall, friendly and polite man.
Klausner wants to convince the doctor of his invention.
Finally, there is Mrs. Saunders, Klausner's neighbour, but she is less important for the story. She thinks that her neighbour is a rather peculiar person.
The narrator tells the story in a chronological order and his perspective is very objective. The main part is a narrative story, but there are dialogues too.
At the beginning of the story the reader is not provided with a lot of information about the real action. We only learn that Klausner is working on something obsessively and that he is speaking to himself. At this moment the reader is under the impression that Klausner is a crazy amateur scientist and a little bit mad. Later on the narrator tells the reader about Klausner’s invention which is a sound machine. With this one he is able to hear the noises plants make. He found out about it while listening to Mrs. Saunders cutting her roses. Klausner is very excited when he finds out that it works. He breathes loudly and quickly through his mouth. There are other situations as well, in which the narrator descibes the characters' feelings by using many adjectives. So the reader gets a clear image of the persons and the situations. At the end we are shown how crazy Klausner is about the sound machine. He calls the doctor in the early morning to convince him that his machine is working. He wants him to put on the stethoscope and to listen while he is hitting a tree with an axe. The narrator shows us that Klausner does not thanks Mr. Scott although he comes to him in the early morning. This makes Klausner appear as an egoistic man. He does not consider the feelings/needs of other persons. But he tells the doctor to paint the cut with iodine and checks (das s ist hier nur richtig, wenn Klausner selber den Baum anguckt, wenn es aber der Doktor ist, dann muss das s weg) the tree on the next day. This gives us also the impression that Klausner is a lonely man and that he does not trust any other person , not even the doctor. He is afraid because of the nature. The end of the story is open. The reader does not know whether Mr. Scott heard the plants making any noise.
The tension of the story rises from the beginning to the middle of the story as the reader gets to know that Klausner invents a sound machine and that it works. At this moment the story reaches its climax and the tension decreases towards the end. The story is set in Klausner's little shed in his garden and at the end in the park. The main symbol and the main topic of the story is the sound machine. Another focus point is the Klausner's relationship with his environment. In this story he is only in contact with two people. He is afraid of nature because he hears the pain of the plants when he uses his invention.
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