ENG 315

Group Activity

Abbas, Nur-Sallah M.
Areño, Kiana A.
Cahatol, Keven Jay S.
Lumbab, Rosebe
Talaman, Fairly Joy T.

Title: Silence, A Fable

By Edgar Allan Poe

SUMMARY OF THE STORY

The story begins when the demon tells the story to the narrator. The demon told the
narrator about how he manipulates nature to scare the man. The man was observing his
surroundings while listening to nature's sounds. The demon wants to know the man's
reaction. He did everything, but the man still remained. This made the demon rage and curse
the surroundings with silence. Then silence made the man terrified and tremble. At the tomb,
the demon ends his story by laughing. He cursed the narrator because he didn't join him.

Characters of the Story Type of Character Reasons/Justifications

1. Narrator Static character Remain as the narrator all
throughout the story
2. Demon Flat character Manipulate the nature to
distract the man. In the end,
he made the nature in
silence.
3. Man Flat character He observed and wondered at
the surroundings, then suddenly
felt terrified by the silence of
nature.
4. Hippopotami Static character Remain as an animal.
5. Behemoth Static character
Conflict of the Story Reasons/Justification (Text Evidences)

Man (Demon) vs. Nature “Then I grew angry and cursed, with the curse of silence, the
river, and the lilies, and the wind, and the forest, and the
heaven, and the thunder, and the sighs of the water-lilies.
And they became accursed and were still….”
Man (Demon) vs. Man “And I lay close within shelter of the lilies, and observed the
actions of the man. And the man trembled in the solitude --
but the night waned and he sat upon the rock.”

Man vs. Himself
Theme of the Story
“And his brow was lofty with thought, and his eye wild with
care; and, in the few furrows upon his cheek I read the fables
of sorrow, and weariness, and disgust with mankind, and a
longing after solitude.”
Justification/Reasons (Text Evidences)

Silence is what mankind “But there was no voice throughout the vast illimitable
fears most. desert, and the characters upon the rock were
SILENCE. And the man shuddered, and turned his face away,
and fled afar off, in haste, so that I beheld
him no more.”

Symbol Justification/Reasons (Text Evidences)

Tomb “…and he cursed me because I could not laugh. And the lynx
which dwelleth forever in the tomb, came out therefrom,..”

Water lilies “I hid myself among the water-lilies that I might discover the
actions of the man…”

Blood "It was night, and the rain fell; and, falling, it was rain, but,
having fallen, it was blood.”
Point of View Justification/Reasons (Text Evidences)

First person point of view “…, I hold to be the most wonderful..”

“..he cursed me because I could not….”

Third person limited point of “Listen to me," said the Demon, as he placed his hand upon
view my head”
Type of Ending Justification/Reasons (Text Evidences)

Indeterminate Ending “And the lynx which dwelleth forever in the tomb, came out
therefrom, and lay down at the feet of the Demon, and
looked at him steadily in the face.”