Sub-Satellite story
A professor builds a rocketship to fly on a return mission to the Moon but his disgruntled assistant has other plans.
11 total · 4 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| engaged couple | major | Jack Jarvis and Jacqueline. |
| facing financial ruin | major | Jack Jarvis was put into dire straits, and his engagement to Jacqueline was put into jeopardy, after it became apparent that his father Dr. Jarvis neglected to include him in his will because he was preoccupied with building a rocketship. |
| interplanetary space travel | major | The narrator Kornfield recounted the story of Dr. D. Francis Jarvis' voyage to the Moon. |
| the desire for vengeance | major | Dr. Jarvis' disgruntled assistant R. Henry Duseau hatched an elaborate plot to avenge his dismissal from the voyage to the Moon by Jarvis. |
| brother and brother | minor | Jack and Donald were in a struggle over who would inherit their father's fortune. |
| inheritance fight | minor | The courts awarded Donald Jarvis with all his father Dr. Jarvis' fortune after it was thought that Dr. Jarvis had been murdered on the Moon. Donald's brother Jack got nothing as a result. Although in the end the decision was reversed. |
| murder | minor | The question of whether Duseau could be lawfully punished for murdering Jarvis on the Moon after he returned to the earth. In the end, it turned out that Duseau had not been successful in his attempt to murder Jarvis. |
| roommate and roommate | minor | The narrator Kornfield recounted the story of Dr. D. Francis Jarvis' voyage to the Moon to his roommate C. Jerry Clankey. |
| voice identification device | minor | A photograph of the vibrations of Dr. Jarvis' voice was used to identify him as having sent an audio transmission from the Moon. |
| what if I found myself in a low gravity environment | minor | Jarvis and Brown were able to leap 30 feet with ease on the surface of the Moon. |