In The Name Of God
Student Name: Zhaleh Minooei
Supper visor: MS. Farzaneh
Book Name: Oral Reproduction of Stories(1)
Title: The Story-Teller (lesson 4, page 15)
Author: H.H munro(saki)
Author biography
Hector Hugh Munro
Born: 18December 1810
Died: 13 November 1916 (aged 45)
Pen name: Saki
Occupation: Author, Playwright
Nationality: British
Hector Hugh Monro is better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as
H.H.Munro. He was a British writer besides his short stories, he wrote a full-length
play. The pen name Saki maybe reference to the cupbearer in the Rubaiyat of Omar
Khayyam on Christmas presents and alluded to in a few other stories.
Some of his example works:
The Interlopers
Gabriel Ernest
The toys of Peace
The Story-teller
The open window
Summery
It was a hot afternoon, and the next stop was at Templecombe. The occupants of the
carriage were two small girls, a small boy, their aunt and a bachelor who was a stranger
to their party. The frown on the bachelor’s face was deepening to a scowl. “come over
and listen to a story”, said the aunt. The story was about a good little girl who was finally
saved from a mad bull by a number of rescuers who admired her moral character. It was
unenterprising and deplorably uninteresting story so the bachelor began a story.
There was a good little girl who won several medals for her goodness and the prince of
the country allowed her to walk in his park. As she walked in the park a wolf come
prowling there. She saw it and ran as hard as she could and hide herself in one of the
bushes. As she trembled the medals clinked against. When he heard the sound of the
medals dragged her out and devoured her and the story come to an end with the
children’s admire. The aunt said the bachelor that you have undermined the effect of
years of careful teaching. “I kept them quiet for ten minutes, which was more than you
were able to do”, said the bachelor. He observed to himself; “for the next six months or
so those children will demands for an improper story!”.
vocabulary
Correspondingly: Subsequently
Bachelor: Single, Unmarried
Reluctantly: Unwillingness
Smack: Slap
Flicker: Seem briefly
Resolute: Determined
Deplorable: Pitiable, Regrettable
Sniffing: To smell
Ferocity: Fierce nature
Approval: Agreeable, Conformable
Occupants: Resident
Compartment: Coupe
Rarity: Scarcity
Fatuously: Foolishly
Scowl: Petulant
Lamely: Weakly
Retort: To recompense
Devour: To swallow
Rarity: Scarcity
Techniques Of Literature:
• Theme
The author seems to be poking fun at the kind of dull, moralistic tales that
were often told to children . In this story (as real life) the children prefer the
story of a goody-goody who is destroyed by her own goodness.
On another level , the author may be questioning the religious notion that
good things happen to good people.
• Setting
Place
Time
Season
Country
Railway carriage
Afternoon
Summer
England
• Character
Protagonist: The bachelor and the aunt
Round: The bachelor
Flat: The aunt and children
• Conflict
It is the struggle between the aunt and the bachelor about their success for
telling the story.
Internal: The bachelor and his mind
External: The aunt and children, The aunt and bachelor
• Climax
The climax of the story within the story is of course when the good little girl
almost (but not quite) escapes from the jaws of the ravenous wolf.
• Moral Point
We should be update with children.
• Conclusion
The bachelor kept the children quiet for ten minute which was more
than the aunt were able to do.
• Proverb
“Out with the old, in with the new”