Genre
A short story
Setting and Context
Pulawy town, time is unknown
Narrator and Point of View
First-person narration
Tone and Mood
This story is very abstract, mysterious, and sometimes hardly understandable. Though it seems very clear and simple, it hides a deeper sense which reader has to find.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The narrator and botanist
Major Conflict
Major conflict lies in conversation between the characters. The Botanist tries to teach the narrator and show him the problem, but the narrator can’t understand it initially.
Climax
The climax happened when the boulder turned into a globe. It shocked the narrator and changed his mind.
Foreshadowing
A whole narrative is built on foreshadowing about people’s disastrous influence on the planet.
Understatement
N/A
Allusions
There are allusions to other stories of the author like “Pharaoh” and “The Outpost”.
Imagery
The image of mold is created in the story.
Paradox
Paradoxical is the fact that not mold is like humanity, but humanity us like the mold. Such a simile is paradoxical.
Parallelism
While story goes, the botanist bears his mission and his desire to show the problem to the narrator.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
God is personified in botanist.
