Text Analysis the Lumber-Room

Hector Munro (pseudonym Saki, 1870-1916) is a British novelist and a short-story writer. He is best known for his short stories. Hector Hugh Munro was a British writer, whose witty stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. The author’s style of writing is satirical in a humorous way. He uses a witty tone to mimic characters in order to subtly criticize them. The criticism is done in a subtle way that is humorous. The plot of the story revolves around a little orphan Nicholas who was trusted to his tyrannical and dull-witted aunt. One day Nicholas was “in disgrace”, so he made his Aunt believe that he was somehow trying to get into the gooseberry garden, but instead had no intention of doing so but did sneak into the Lumber Room. There a tremendous picture of a hunter and a stag opened to him. Soon his aunt tried to look for the boy and slipped into the rain-water tank. She asked Nicholas to fetch her a ladder but the boy pretended not to understand her, he said that she was the Evil One (This metaphor shows author’s irony and essential clue to the character). The plot is ordered chronologically, each episode is given with more and more emphasis. The author’s choice of vocabulary and stylistic devices in this story emphasize a deep dissension between generations, to convey a thrilling power of child’s creative mind.
The story could be divided into two logically complete parts. The first part opens with the introduction of the characters. Nicolas and his cousins were taken to the sands of Jagborough as a special treat. This trip was the idea of Nicolas’s aunt, a woman of ungovernable temper. The reason for such kind of punishment was Nicolas’s morning trick when he refused to eat his wholesome bread-and-milk on the seemingly frivolous ground that there was a frog in it. But indeed he had put a frog there himself. So, Nicolas was in disgrace and he was prohibited enter a gooseberry garden. He deceived his aunt by making her think that he