The Secret
By Arthur. C. Clarke
Theme: Having a bad feeling and looking for solutions to clarify hidden facts.
Voice: 3rd person
Mood: Interested and anxious.
Tone: Informal and sincere
Setting: Colony in (ON) the moon
Characters: Henry Cooper, Dr. Hasting, Chandra Coomaraswamy.
Plot:
Exposition: Henry Cooper was on the moon discovering new stuff and writing ideas for a book.
Rising Action: Henry Cooper suspects that something bad is happening and that it is possibly information that can be useful to him.
Climax: at that moment Henry and Chandra start looking for clues that will help them find what is happening.
Falling Action: In the end, Chandra gets what she was looking for and quickly tells Henry and they both confront a scientist named Dr. Hasting.
Resolution: Dr. Hasting reveals the secret which both were looking for, it was about how many investigations concluded that the moon could give a lot of life to living beings and they experimented with hamsters.
Conflict:
Man vs Man: Henry Cooper feels that something bad is happening but he thought it was just a hunch, until he truly discovers what it is and hesitates to people.
Man vs nature: Humans face an era of discoveries about nature, however they do not know the consequences or benefits they may have.
Man vs society: Henry and Dr. Hasting are afraid of people's reaction to hearing the news of the moon.
Cause and Effect:
Cause: Henry felt something was wrong, and something was hidden. Effect: He contacts Chandra for help.
Cause: Chandra finds information and tells Henry. Effect: Henry Cooper faces Dr. Hasting
Cause: Dr. Hasting tells him the secret and asks him to keep it. Effect: Henry Cooper kept the secret.
What would be the effect(s) of sharing the information with the people from the Earth?
Perhaps the moon has certain benefits that Earth does not, but who assures us that this information is correct? I honestly think that people would react in an aggressive and nervous way, as it is a total turnaround on where we live. We also do not know if it is a safe place to live on, since it could bring us different consequences, be they diseases or drastic changes.
By Valerie Cuello, Step 8 Yellow.
