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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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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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Norman Gortsby sits on a park bench at dusk, a time when, in his estimation, individuals who have experienced defeat in their lives can sojourn unrecognized. An elderly gentleman sits nexts to...
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The opening clues us in that "Shot in the Dark" was written and set in the past, for in this story, trains appear to be the normal way to travel. If the story were set in our time, it's much more...
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This is one of Saki's lighter and more purely humorous stories. It concerns a fussy and socially awkward man named Theodoric Voler and the difficulties he has when he is on a train and finds that...
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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 just...
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In "A Shot in the Dark," Philip Sletherby hopes to get the position of member of Parliament for the eastern division of the fictional county of Chalkshire in England. For this reason, he has...
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The first conflict is between the aunt and the bachelor. The aunt gives the children a mundane, boring story. She is careful to make her story "proper." Thus, it lacks anything salacious, violent,...
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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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This story is "a story within a story." A young man on a train by chance shares his coach with a woman with two children who are bored and fretful. When she is unsuccessful at entertaining them...
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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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"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 old gentleman is a functional character in the story with whom Saki develops his surprise ending and accomplishes his theme. Norman Gortsby sits on a bench in Hyde Park, London, as darkness...
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To me, the main theme of this story is that people are not able to really know what is in the hearts of the other people that they meet. I think that this is why the story is entitled "Dusk" --...
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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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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 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 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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Saki's written style is perfectly matched to his choice of settings. He often sets his stories in the kind of respectable social environments with which he was all-too familiar. One thinks of the...
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This excellent story actually consists of two stories being told within a story, as an aunt and then a bachelor amuse some children with very different stories. The setting however is on a train in...
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Mr. and Mrs. Pigeoncote have always been reluctant to invite cousin Wilfrid to stay with them, as he's an incorrigible kleptomaniac. This means that he has an uncontrollable impulse to steal...
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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 Storyteller”...
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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 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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As I read it, the story "The Background" by H.H. Munro (Saki) is about the place of art as a unifier and a divider. The protagonist has a deep connection to great works of art. He...
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I have included a few links below to various enotes study guide on Saki so that you can read more about Saki's life and his work. What is notable is the way in which his writing career began when...
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I think that the irony of this story is that the child who was to be punished (Nicholas) had the best day, the most fun. Meanwhile, the children who were supposed to be having the fun did not. So...
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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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"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 Saki's "The Seven Cream Jugs," Wilfred Pigeoncote has recently been named as heir to the title of baron and a large sum of money. As a result, Mrs. Peter Pigeoncote comments that upon his recent...
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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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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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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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In "The Storyteller," the aunt underestimates the children's attention span. She underestimates the children's ability to show interest in any story. She has tried everything to keep them quiet....
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Climax is the moment of highest emotional intensity in a plot, when the outcome of the conflict is finally made clear to readers; this moment occurs in Saki's "Dusk" at the point in which Gortsby...
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In my opinion, the significance of this title is mainly a figurative one -- the title emphasizes one of the major themes that the author is trying to convey. I think that a major theme of this...
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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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Yes. In Saki's "Dusk," after Grotsky hands the young man a sovereign and his card, he reflects, Poor boy, he as nearly as possible broke down....I don't wonder either; the relief from this...
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This line that you are citing comes from "The Open Window," by Saki. The narrator says this with reference to Framton Nuttel. The narrator uses these lines to describe Nuttel when Nuttel starts...
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Saki's "The Storyteller," like his story "The Open Window" is a story-within-a story. Trapped in a compartment with three rather unruly children and their unassertive aunt, a bachelor is subjected...
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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 come...
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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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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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While Saki's techniques are conventional, his sympathies are not. In his short story, "Dusk," as in many of his writings, he satirizes the same people that he has entertained with his writing....
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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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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 Interlopers" is a short story written by Saki, the pen name of British writer Hector Hugh Munro. The story centers on two men from rival families. Their hatred for one another blinds them to...
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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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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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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....