Out of the Silent Planet Freyteg Triangle

1. Introduction:
The story begins with Elwin Ransom, a professor of philology, on a hiking trip in the English Midlands, knocking on the door of a cottage in an attempt to finding somewhere to sleep. He comes across an old cottage and asks the woman who lives there if he could stay the night. She told him he could if he went and picked up her son. Ransom goes and picks up her son, and finds that her son was with an old schoolmate of his, Devine, whom he does not like. Devine offers him a room, a meal, and a drink. Devine and his associate, Professor Weston, have different intentions. Weston is a scientist and has discovered a way to travel in space and the two men need another person to take with them on their journey. The two men drugged Ransom's drink and before he could escape he is hit on the head and loses consciousness. When Ransom awakes he finds himself on a space ship traveling through space to the planet Malacandra.

2. Initial Conflict:
While on the journey Ransom overhears Weston and Devine talking about whether they should again drug Ransom before they turn him over to the inhabitants of Malacandra, the sorns, or allow him to stay conscious. Ransom decides to escape as soon as he gets a chance.

3. Reversal:
When they land on the planet, Ransom runs off. Ransom runs into an intelligent native of Malacandra, a hross named Hyoi. He stays for several months at Hyoi's village, where he uses his philological skills to find out about their culture and learn their language. He also discovers that Devine's motivation for making the journey is to seek gold, known as sun's blood to the hrossa, because there is a lot of it on Malacandra. On a hunt for the hnakra, the most dangerous predator on the planet, Ransom is told that he needs to meet Oyarsa, the eldil in charge of the planet.

4. Climax:
Ransom meets Oyarsa. They have a long conversation. While the two are talking, Devine and Weston are brought in guarded by hrossa because they have killed three hrossa.

5. Peripetia:
Oyarsa becomes furious with Weston and Devine and tells them they must go back to earth. Oyarsa offered Ransom the option to stay in Malacandra, but Ransom decided that he does not belong there. He likes Malancandra, but he misses earth. After a difficult journey back, the ship finally makes it back to Earth.

6. Falling Action:
Ransom wonders if all of this was true or if he was dreaming because the ship "unbodied" when they landed on earth. A friend wrote him and asked him and asked him if he had heard of the latin word "Oyarsa" and he knew what it meant. He then believed that the trip really did happen and now his mission was to stop Weston from doing anything else evil.