Interestingly, the room that is veiled in such secrecy is only a lumber room (a room used to store unused furniture and knickknacks in old English houses). In the story, the room comes to symbolize a place of wildness and imagination, and the aunt’s stern attempts to keep the children out of it emphasize that she wants to keep wildness and imagination out of their lives. · A reading of Saki’s classic short story – by Dr Oliver Tearle ‘The Lumber-Room’ is a classic short story about a child who is too clever for the adults. Specifically, it is about how one clever but mischievous boy, Nicholas, seeks to outwit his aunt so he can gain access to the lumber-room with its hidden treasures and www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins. The Lumber Room Summary. Buy Study Guide. As punishment for unacceptable behavior, Nicholas must stay home while his cousins and brother are treated to a trip to the beach at Jagborough. At breakfast that morning, Nicholas had complained about a frog in his bowl of bread and www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins.
The Lumber Room Summary. A young boy named Nicholas refuses to eat his breakfast of bread-and-milk because, he claims, there is a frog in it. The aunt he lives with (who is his cousins' aunt, but insists that she is Nicholas's aunt, too) demands that he stop making up ridiculous tales because it is impossible for a frog to be in his breakfast. The Lumber Room is regarded as one of the best known stories of Saki (a.k.a. Hector Hugh Munro), a British author who writes with generous flashes of Wildean wit and wicked humor. This is my second Saki story and I loved it. In The Lumber Room, as in Shredni Vashtar, Saki pits a powerless but clever child against a controlling and mean-spirited adult. In The Lumber-Room by Saki we have the theme of imagination, ingenuity, trust, freedom, arrogance, escape and pride. Taken from his The Complete Short Stories collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and after reading the story the reader realises that Saki may be exploring the world of a child versus that of an adult.
A reading of Saki’s classic short story – by Dr Oliver Tearle ‘The Lumber-Room’ is a classic short story about a child who is too clever for the adults. Specifically, it is about how one clever but mischievous boy, Nicholas, seeks to outwit his aunt so he can gain access to the lumber-room with its hidden treasures and curiosities. The Lumber Room Summary. Buy Study Guide. As punishment for unacceptable behavior, Nicholas must stay home while his cousins and brother are treated to a trip to the beach at Jagborough. At breakfast that morning, Nicholas had complained about a frog in his bowl of bread and milk. The Lumber Room by H.H. Munro (SAKI) The children were to be driven, as a special treat, to the sands at Jagborough. Nicholas was not to be of the party; he was in disgrace. Only that morning he had refused to eat his wholesome bread-and-milk on the seemingly frivolous ground that there was a frog in it.
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