The Sound Machine Lesson Plan

Describe Klausner as a character. Compare and contrast him with Doctor Scott.

Klausner and Doctor Scott are pretty different personality types, though each views himself to be the more knowledgeable man of science. Klausner, the inventor, is an eccentric, passionate, nervous man - compelled by emotion to discover for the sake of discovery - and very much a “Mad Scientist” archetype. Scott, on the other hand, is dispassionate, rational, skeptical, a medical doctor. Klausner is open to the discovery of new knowledge - he expects there are many new things to be learned about the world. Scott, however, acts as though he already knows all there is to know, and dismisses...