The Open Window Deception

The Open Window and Charles, both show how children can use their imagination to empower adults. The children in the stories used their advantage to convince the adults into believing something that wasn’t true. The adults seemed so unobservant and unconcerned to what was really happening around them. The kids knew that it would be easy to get the adults to believe them, even though they knew it was wrong. These two stories were both written about, in my opinion, a deception of curiosity. Laurie in “Charles” fabricated an imaginary boy to take responsibility for the things that he was doing in class. “Charles” was made for Laurie to try and hide the trouble he was getting into at school from his parents. Laurie was able to hide the truth from his parents until at PTA meeting. His mother finally became curious about who Charles was and who were his parents. Laurie’s parents figured that if Laurie had this bad classmate that Charles would start to influence him. “Charles” took away the guilty conscience of Laurie. Deception
Vera was a teenager that felt that telling a mischievous fantasy to a mental man was funny. The story was about her family that went on shooting trip and never returned, but after 3 years they did. Which this seemed really unnatural so it was hard to believe, but for Framton Nuttel it wasn’t. Saki utilizes the characters to show how easy it was to influence someone who is not as mentally stable as others. Vera explains the deception of curiosity very well because she knows that what she is telling Frantom isn’t true, but wants to see how he would react when he sees the family walking back to the house. The reaction Frantom had was exactly what she wanted “One would think he had seen a ghost” (Saki28). She did this for self-thrill. This showed the power that Vera had over