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"Tobermory" is a half-comical, half-sinister story published in 1911 in the Chronicles of Clovis. It is, primarily, the story of an incident concerning a cat named Tobermory, who has the curious...
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In “The Interlopers,” we know for certain that Ulrich von Gradwitz has come out into the forest on this stormy night because he hates Georg Znaeym. We are not specifically told why Znaeym has...
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One reigning theme in "Fur" is friendship vs. convenience, among many other themes that could be extrapolated from the tale. In this story, two women who are friends, Eleanor and Suzanne, are...
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"The Storyteller", by Saki, the pen name of Hector Hugh Munroe, is a short story that features two stories being told to a group of young children who are restless during a train ride- the first, a...
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Following Saki's signature style, even the singularly ridiculous name of the Pigeoncotes hints at their similarly peculiar personalities. A parody of the shallow English upper classes, the...
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As a literary device, the rising action comprises all decisions, characters’ flaws and background circumstances that together create turns and twists leading to a climax. Therefore, this is not...
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The moral of "The Seven Cream Jugs" can be summarized with the statement “Do not judge others if you cannot stand others judging you.” In this story, the Pigeoncotes, a wealthy couple, have...
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Vera asks Framton Nuttel the initial set of questions in order to determine the likelihood of having a bit of fun with a seemingly nervous hypochondriac. As Vera entertains the new guest, she is...
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Cornelius Appin has done the impossible: he has trained a regular cat to talk and make full use of human speech. While his deed is, in fact, quite amazing, it is very hard for those who surround...
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It is ironic that Mr. Appin is killed by one of the animals he is working with, since working with the elephant was suggested as safer for people than having house cats and other household pets....
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Hello! In Mrs. Packletide's Tiger, Loona Bimberton did not shoot a tiger; her chief accomplishment was being flown by an Algerian aviator eleven miles in an airplane. Mrs. Packletide and Loona...
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The answer is C: The young man is annoyed by the children and the activity in which their aunt engages them. In the first paragraph of Saki's short story, the bachelor sits as far away from the...
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There are two main images found in Saki's "The Image of the Lost Soul": the little bird and the Lost Soul. Both images represent the idea of the solitary, exiled, and embraced. The little bird is...
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Saki's nested short story "The Storyteller" is, like the term "nested" implies, a story within a story. The main character, a bachelor who has no choice but to share the cart alongside an aunt and...
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The Interlopers
To write a paragraph about setting, you must understand what comprises setting. Setting has two parts to it. Setting tells the physical location. Setting tells the temporal time. Sometimes setting...
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It is a very hot day on the train. Three little children and their aunt are traveling together and it is at least another hour before they will have a stop. This is beginning of “The...
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The conflict of "man versus man" entails that the main character will undergo an obstacle or challenge that is caused by a secondary or minor character. The main character, as a result, is rendered...
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"The Storyteller" by Saki represents two versions of reality: a traditional, old-fashioned view of the world as represented by the Aunt's story to the children, and then a much more cynical but...
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In literature conflict is either internal (caused within the character), or external. Out of the external conflicts there are four distinct types that serve as catalysts which help the plot move...
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In "The Storyteller", Saki uses indirect characterization, which is the description of characters, not by telling us information about them, but by telling us about the behaviors and expressions...
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The main character of Saki's short story "The Storyteller" is the young bachelor who is travelling in the railway carriage and has to share such carriage with a lady and three children. The lady is...
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"The Storyteller" by H.H. Munro (Saki) is a nested story, or a story within a story. The external story is "The Storyteller" itself, as it is told by Saki, where he narrates the events that are...
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"The Storyteller," by Saki (whose real name was H.H. Munro) is about a woman who is travelling by train with two young nieces and a nephew. The Aunt tries to entertain the children by telling them...
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He uses complex sentences with very big words. Saki’s main writing style uses irony, imagery, and diction, where Saki finds flaws in the human behavior and characteristics like greediness,...
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Dusk
The young man who tells about losing his hotel room in Saki's "Dusk" is trying to cheat Gortsby out of some money. The elderly gentleman who sells the narrator's mother an umbrella is not cheating...
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Dusk symbolizes dullness and failure. All the people who failed in life will be out in parks like norman gortsby. People after a days of hard work the time of the day when people cared the least is...
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importance of of dusk: it is through the atmosphere of dusk that the author creates the pessimistic view of the characters. Dusk represents the cynical and disillusioned attitude of the people who...
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"The Storyteller" begins in a railway carriage. An aunt is traveling with her nieces and nephew. They are an hour away from Templecombe: It was a hot afternoon, and the railway carriage was...
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1909.
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The story is about the Pigeoncotes, who have recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary and received numerous silver gifts from their family and friends, including seven silver jugs. One...
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In Saki's short story "Fur," two friends find out who is true and who is not. Suzanne and Eleanor are friends. Eleanor seems to be the true friend. She agrees to meet with Suzanne's cousin Bertram...
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This is actually a story within a story, so you have two of everything above. Introduction: An aunt and her three charges are on the train and the children are being disruptive. She cannot...
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She's a bad story teller.
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The 'Dusk' is an appropriate title for the story for following reasons: •All the action in ths story takes place at dusk time.The three characters in the story meet in a park when dusk had...
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Gortsby believes the young man is lying and is trying to con him out of money. He believes himself a good judge of people, and, after listening to the young man's story, confronts him with the...
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These lines are descriptive of Gortsby's perception of the elderly gentleman who sits alongside him on the park bench in the "gloaming hour." Taking a rather cynical point of view regarding the...
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If you have used any of the study guide aids such as the essays and criticisms, character analysis, of summary, for instance, there is an icon on the page that you can click which will provide you...
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Part of Saki's signature satire exists in the aunt's delusion that because the children are young, they have no taste for the sadistic. But, the storyteller, having a better comprehension of the...
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For Saki, satire is the tool with which he is most proficient; in addition satire serves Saki's purposes as an author. For satire, while providing humor in its ridiculing of human foolishness or...
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In "The Blind Spot," by Saki, Egbert has just come from his Aunt Adelaide's funeral. He has been named executor and principal heir of her belongings. Egbert is having lunch with his Uncle Lulworth....
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First of all,get hold of a Question-Bank of previous 10yrs in the concerned subjects to be referred and worked out as you take up each subject.Decide on the best time you'd like to study, (early...
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In Saki's "The Storyteller," the aunt is outraged at the bachelor's "most improper" story that leaves good not only unrewarded, but punished. For the bachelor puts an ironic twist onto the aunt's...
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It is ironic precisely because of the fact that a bachelor, because of his status as an unmarried man without children, should not know how to tell a story that could appeal to the imagination of...
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In the short story, "The Mouse," by Saki, the main character is a gentleman who is sitting next to a lady on a train. The gentleman realizes that a mouse is in his clothing. He is in fear and...
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Looking in Wikipedia and its sources, the Chambers Dictionary of Biography, and Oxford and Cambridge guides to literature, there is no reference to any honours received by Saki, even by his...
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In their narratives, authors use various methods of characterization: through a physical description through a physical description of the character through the character's actions through the...
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Saki (H. H. Munro) succeeds in his fiction because of his inimitable blend of satire, irony, startling endings, clever dialogue, sparkling wit, psychological insight, unconventional settings,...
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Saki's short story "Dusk" presents people in a park who partake in that time of day that is neither day nor night. In this "gloaming" period they pass along the walks unnoticed. On the bench...