The Foghorn Analysis

In “The Foghorn” by Ray Bradbury McDunn makes a major decision in which majorly changes the outcome of the story. McDunn makes the choice to turn off the foghorn. He makes this decision so that the monster that has been uninvitingly visiting the lighthouse will go back to wherever it came from. The decision that McDunn made was certainly the best choice.
Furthermore, the plot of “The Foghorn” by Ray Bradbury follows Johnny the narrator and his boss McDunn who work in a remote lighthouse right off shore. From the lighthouse is a resonating foghorn which alerts passing ships of nearby land and the foghorn also seems to attract existence other than ships McDunn tells Johnny for the past three years a monster has been visiting the lighthouse this time of year. Johnny was sceptical at first, but then all of the sudden a 100 foot monster reaching out of the water making a sound eerily similar to the foghorn, Johnny is then utterly …show more content…
If he didn’t turn off the foghorn he and Johnny could of been in a dangerous situation. First of all the people that like to visit the lighthouse probably would not want to visit anymore if the people knew there was giant monster roaming around adjacent to the lighthouse. It also might be dangerous for the monster to be so convenient to land in that the monster might get stuck. So It would definitely be dangerous for McDunn, Johnny and the monster. So by McDunn turning the foghorn off was the safest choice for everyone including the monster. In conclusion, if McDunn didn’t turn off the foghorn the storyline would have ultimately changed in the fact that the monster would not of been furious and destroyed the lighthouse. If he had not turned the foghorn off it could of been worse than it was in becoming too dangerous to anyone to come in contact with the lighthouse. So by McDunn turning the foghorn off it was certainly the best settlement for the