The Storyteller

Another theme of this short story is that virtue and goodness should be their own reward and that one cannot persuade people to be truly good by promising some reward to them. The children's aunt...

In Saki's tale, the bachelor manages to entertain his youthful fellow passengers with an "improper" story during an especially uneventful train ride. He tells a story about a perfectly behaved...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

The first conflict in the story exists between the aunt and the three children, who are boisterous, disobedient, and extremely annoying. Despite her numerous attempts to distract and silence her...

The bachelor in "The Storyteller" tells the three children on the train a completely inappropriate story that contradicts all the good lessons their aunt has tried to drill into them with a boring,...

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...

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”...

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...

You could say it's ironic because most people would presume that an unmarried man would not have a clue about children and how to entertain them. This is exactly what the aunt presumes. She even...

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...

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...

"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...

“The Storyteller” is a short story by Hector Hugh Munro, who used the pseudonym Saki. It was first published in 1897. The short story is about a train journey. In order to entertain the children...

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...

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...

Cyril's aunt tells him to look out the window because she wants to distract him. As the story begins, the aunt is on a train ride with her nephew and nieces. The children are restless and bored,...

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...

One could interpret this story as a salutary warning against the dangers of idolatry: worshipping a piece of art as if it were a god. Henri Deplis has a masterpiece on his back, a tattoo depicting...

Satirizing the foibles of the Edwardian Age, Saki exposes the oppressive rituals and follies of the society of his time. Representative of this strict adherence to the mores of Edwardian society is...

It's a boiling hot day, and three bored little children are getting restless as they remain stuck inside a stifling railway carriage. To keep the little darlings occupied, their aunt tells them a...

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...

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...

In order to answer this question one must understand H.H. Munro's (Saki's) writing style and purpose. Saki is a late Victorian to Edwardian-era writer whose style is very much comparable with the...

With a rather satiric message that points to the innate enjoyment of the children for the gruesome rather than the uplifting, Saki's ironies further the thematic development of "The Storyteller."...

Ironically, in "The Storyteller," it is the inner satiric story that exemplifies more about the art of storytelling than its frame story, while providing more insights about human nature as the...

"The Storyteller" begins with an aunt who is trying and failing to control her nephew and two nieces in a railway carriage. She attempts to keep them quiet by telling them a story about a good...

In the short story "The Storyteller" by Saki, three young children are riding in the carriage of a train with their aunt. The only other passenger with them is a bachelor who is a stranger to them....

The short story "The Storyteller" tells of an aunt who is trying to keep three children attentive and occupied during a long train ride. After attempting to distract them by pointing things out...

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...

Early on in the story, the bachelor points out that the aunt does not "seem to be a success as a story-teller." She has attempted to quiet her two nieces and one nephew with a story that was...