PART A: Consider the silence at the end of the story. How is this detail important to the development of the passage's
central ideas?
O A Silence means the Machine has officially stopped,
supporting the idea that technology has its limits.
OB Silence literally and figuratively means death when the
Machine stops: both the end of individual lives and the
collapse of human civilization.
OC Silence represents the unknown, like the darkness, which
also comes when the Machine stops.
OD Silence means the Machine has officially stopped, and
with it the destruction of faith and establishment of an
indifferent universe