There are two parallel storylines in the story. In the first storyline there is a father who is trying to calm down his two children. In the parallel story, there is a storyteller, and he is talking about how this teleport machine is made. The man who made the teleport machine is named Victor Carune, he is an eccentric guy, who has always had a dream and an idea about how he would be able to teleport things through a machine. He made the machine because he wanted to solve some of the environment problems. For example how he could send letters without using any resources, because at that time there were many problems with the environment, because people did …show more content…
Maybe the earth will also be a ruin, that the humans cannot live on, and therefore we will have to move to other planets, and live on their resources. Therefore a machine like the one in the story would be practical, but not realistic. We will have to think about how we treat our Earth, or the machine will be necessary, though it will be dangerous. The machine could possibly cost the human race it’s existence. The father in the story knows that it is dangerous, but on the other hand he also knows, that it is only a few people who has gone mad by the machine in the story. They also say that you have to be unconscious when you are going in the portal, or then your will mind stay out in nowhere. However if you are unconscious, your body will only “be away” for about a half second and that will not cause the body any damage. If you are conscious when using the machine, the body will not get any damage, but your mind