The Lumber Room

The text nether analysis is written by an outstanding British novelist and short business relationship writer Hector Munro. Hector Hugh Munro was a British writer, whose humorous stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. The authors style of writing is satirical in a humorous way. He uses a witty odor to mimic characters in order to subtly criticize them. The reflection is through with(p) in a subtle way that is humorous. The excerpt is homogeneous. The story is narrated in the 3rd person. This allows the reader to access the situation and the characters in an objective manner, because the characters argon having both positive and negative posturepoints.The third person point of view is impersonal which fits the impersonal atmosphere of the household. The plot of the story revolves around a little orphan Nicholas who was trusted to his tyrannical and dull-witted aunt. atomic number 53 day Nicholas was in disgrace, so he made his Aunt believe that he was somehow trying t o get into the gooseberry bush 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 undefended 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 authors mockery and essential clue to the character). The plot is ordered chronologically, each episode is intellected(p) with more and more emphasis. The authors choice of vocabulary and rhetorical devices in this story emphasize a deep dissension between generations, to convey a thrilling power of childs germinal reason. The author uses a large variety of stylistic devices, such as epithets to show us the great difference between the Childs and Gr possess-ups existence.Such epithets from Childs world (grim chuckle, alleged frog, mystical land, stale delight, mere material ple asure, bare and cheerless, thickly growing vegetation) and the virtuoso from Grown-ups world (frivolous ground, considerable obstinacy, trivial gardening operation, unauthorized intrusion) answer the author to emphasize all the beauty of the childhoods mind and the commonness of the adults mind. The text can be change integrity into several parts according to the change of the general slant 1. The exposition, in which we learn about little Nicholas, his cousins and his strict aunt.Nicholas got into his aunts disgrace. So his cousins were to be taken to Jagborough sands that afternoon and he was to stay at home. The Aunt was absolutely sure that the boy was determined to get into the gooseberry garden because I have told him he is not to. The author uses caustic remark and witty tone throughout the story. For example, Aunts condescending tone in describing Nicholas fluff disgrace, sin, fell from grace. The author is obviously using the Aunts own word choice to reveal her self-rig hteous attitude. This is a subtle criticism of her arrogance which she is blind to.To lay stress on the Aunts narrow-mindness Munro uses such metaphors as a circus of unrivalled virtuousness and uncounted elephants 2. The complication, when Nicholas got into an unknown land of lumber-room. Forbidden fruit is sweet and in truth the lumber-room is described as a storehouse of unimagined treasure. Every one item brings life and imagination to Nicholas and is symbolic of what the adult of real world lacks. He often pictured to himself what the lumber-room was like, since that was the region that was so carefully blind drunk from youthful eyes.The tapestry brings to life imagination and fantasy within Nicholas, the provoke pots and candlesticks bring an aesthetic quality, visual beauty which stirs up his creative mind and lastly a large square book full of color pictures of birds. And such birds They allow Nicholas to learn in a fun and raise way. The author uses irony to poke fun and criticize the Aunt. For instance, trip to Jagborough which is meant to elicit Nicholas fails. Instead of being a penalty for the child, it became a treat for him whereas it became a torture to those who went.The Aunts conception of the enlightenment. The real paradise is the Lumber-room not the garden. This reveals the irony that the ideal world of an adult is dull and windy to that of a child. 3. The climax of the text. While the boy was admiring the colouring of a mandarin duck, the voice of his aunt came from the gooseberry garden. She got slipped into the rain-water tank and couldnt go out. She demanded from the boy to bring her a ladder, but he said her voice didnt sound like his aunts. You may be the Evil One tempting me to be disobedient said a little boy desiding the Justice must be done.The Aunt tasted the fruit of her own punishment on the children. She is accused of falling from grace, of lying to Nicholas about jam and so termed the Evil One. She feels what it is like to be condemned. 4. The denouncement. The Aunt is furious and enforces in the house. She maintained the frozen muteness of one who has suffered undignified and unmerited detention in a rain-water tank for thirty-five minutes. Nicholas was also silent, in the absorption of an winning picture of a hunter and a stag.