Falling For It: The Theme Of Deception In The Open Window

Falling For It
(The Theme of Deception in The Open Window) The story “The Open Window” was one that had many different interesting characteristics to it. Throughout the whole thing, there are surprises, as well as specific details that help the reader understand a little bit better what is going on. In the end of the story, it comes as a complete shock to the reader what happens, because the author set everyone up very carefully. There were many different techniques that he used in order to set the reader up, so he was very successful in his writing. When it comes to point of view, the author played many games with this in order to make the story as dramatic as it could possibly be. First of all, he started “The Open Window” with dialogue coming from the young girl. This was most likely a technique that Saki used in order to catch the reader’s attention. Right after he pointed out the very first
The aunt most likely would’ve gotten very upset with her niece if she knew the story she was telling him while she was away. When writing “The Open Window,” the author also did a wonderful job on giving details of the young girl’s facial expression when she looked out the window and saw three bodies walking towards the house with a dog. “The child was staring through the window with dazed horror in her eyes.” By giving this detail to the reader, Saki made us unware whether or not the whole story that the niece was true or if she was just lying to scare that man. Come to find out, she only told that story because she knew they were going to come back. They never disappeared in the first place, they were simply just out there hunting. However, this was something that the man wasn’t aware of. When he caught the first glance of the people walking back, he was long gone out of that house because he was terrified for his