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Tone Of The Story Teller By Saki
Many parents with children know how hard it is to travel on long trips with them. In the short story "The Story Teller" by Saki, an aunt was traveling with 3 little children. When the tries to get the children's attention, the children don't respond to her and continue to disobey her. When a bachelor that was traveling in the same carriage as them starts to tell the offspring's a story, the children, with hesitation at first, start to listen to him with excitement. The bachelor seemed to know what story the children will like and what type of tone and language the story had to be told to get the children's attention.
In the first part of the story, the author presents a scene in which 3 children, their aunt and a bachelor were traveling all in the same carriage on a train. The children don't seem to want to listen to their aunt and do what they please to do. The aunt tries to tell the children not to do things but all she gets n return is the question "Why?" The aunt
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His imaginative story amazes the children. When the boy starts to question the bachelor, the unattached man replies to the boys question in a simple way. The bachelor seemed to entertain the children with his delightful story. When the story came to an end, the children exclaimed that that was the best story that they ever heard, even though at the beginning of the story they were protesting the story. The story was about this girl that was "horribly good" and was invited to the Princes garden. At this garden, there were many pigs but no flowers. While the girl was walking through the garden, a wolf came out. The girl started to run away from the wolf. As soon as she got near a couple of bushes she hid in them. The strong smell of the flowers covered the smell of the girl, so the girl was safe, until her medals, which she always wore, started to jingle against one another, so the wolf found the girl and ate

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