The+New+Accelerator

= ﻿//The New Accelerator // =



= Summary  = Professor Gibberne wants to create a stimulant drug that wakes up the body as a whole instead of just part of it. He comes up with the idea of "The New Accelerator" which does just that. This drug, if abused, would accelerate a person's entire life meaning that they would be elderly by the age of 30. When the narrator tries the New Accelerator he does not feel any different. The only difference is that the rest of the world around him is going a thousand times slower than he is, but in reality he is going a thousand times faster. Most objects seemed motionless to Gibberne and the narrator. The two go out and are amused by the almost frozen world around them. They inspected the world for what seemed like a half hour, but was truly only a couple seconds at most. Gibberne wants to create a Retarder to dilute the potency of the Accelerator. Since the Retarder has not yet been discovered only the Accelerator is available to chemists and druggists and it will be called Gibberne's Nervous Accelerator.

Protagonist:﻿ Professor Gibberne Antagonist: Professor Gibberne is attempting to overcome the limitations of human processing speed. Setting: The month of August in the early 1900s in the town of Folkstone. Forms of technology: New types of chemical compounds which alter the speed of the human nervous system. Main conflict: Man vs. himself Themes: Human greed, the abuse of technology and it's consequences, and the dangers of man's wild imagination.



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Questions: Why do the narrator and professor Gibberne conclude that the consequences of the New Accelerator are "outside their province"? What causes the professor to grab his neighbor's dog? What caused the grass and the window sill to become singed in the story?

By: Mike Rituper, Victoria Schelkun