Analysis of “the lumber room” by H. Munro
Analysis of “the lumber room” by H. Munro
The text under analysis is a short story by a British novelist and short-story writer Hector Hugh Munro who was born in Akyab, Burma when it was one of the parts of the British Empire 1870, he was killed on the French front during the first world war in 1916, he is better known by the pseudonym Saki, and he is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Beside his short stories, he wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire, the only book published under his own name. It is necessary to mention that after his mother’s death he was sent to England with his siblings and they were brought up by their grandmother and aunts in the early of childhood. And the character of the aunt in this story is created based on one of his aunts, by the words of Munro’s sister.
The story is about a boy’s expedition in a lumber room. He is called Nicholas who is in disgrace by putting a frog into his bread-and-milk. On the contrary, the other children are to be driven to the sands at Jagborough. Actually, it is a special way of punishment created by their aunt who is a woman of few ideas. Nicholas is in disgrace so he is not allowed to get into the gooseberry garden. In fact Nicholas is determined to get into the lumber room, he knows where the key is kept and he even practiced with the key of the schoolroom door. In the end he achieves his aim and spends a great time in the lumber room, the picture on the tapestry, the candlesticks, the books and so many other subjects, which are claiming his attention. Suddenly, an abrupt voice of his aunt comes from the gooseberry garden, exactly from a rain-water tank. Nicholas doesn’t give his hand to his aunt, because he considers the voice sounds like the Evil One’s but not aunt’s. This story ends again in the dining room, where all children are tired
The text under analysis is a short story by a British novelist and short-story writer Hector Hugh Munro who was born in Akyab, Burma when it was one of the parts of the British Empire 1870, he was killed on the French front during the first world war in 1916, he is better known by the pseudonym Saki, and he is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Beside his short stories, he wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire, the only book published under his own name. It is necessary to mention that after his mother’s death he was sent to England with his siblings and they were brought up by their grandmother and aunts in the early of childhood. And the character of the aunt in this story is created based on one of his aunts, by the words of Munro’s sister.
The story is about a boy’s expedition in a lumber room. He is called Nicholas who is in disgrace by putting a frog into his bread-and-milk. On the contrary, the other children are to be driven to the sands at Jagborough. Actually, it is a special way of punishment created by their aunt who is a woman of few ideas. Nicholas is in disgrace so he is not allowed to get into the gooseberry garden. In fact Nicholas is determined to get into the lumber room, he knows where the key is kept and he even practiced with the key of the schoolroom door. In the end he achieves his aim and spends a great time in the lumber room, the picture on the tapestry, the candlesticks, the books and so many other subjects, which are claiming his attention. Suddenly, an abrupt voice of his aunt comes from the gooseberry garden, exactly from a rain-water tank. Nicholas doesn’t give his hand to his aunt, because he considers the voice sounds like the Evil One’s but not aunt’s. This story ends again in the dining room, where all children are tired