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The Kamikaze Ωf Literature
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LITERATURE-ISM

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“For vengeance's sake for glory’s sake”
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 The Syllabus

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❑ The Lumber Room by Saki

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❑ The Lahore Attack – Kumar Sangakkara
❑ The Nightingale and the Rose – Oscar Wilde

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❑ The Wave – Sonali Daraniyagala
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 Formula of a prose

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Climax

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Conflict
Falling of Actions

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Time
 The Writer

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Hector Hugh Munro (1870 - 1916)
Pseudonym – Saki

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From British Burma
Killed in War

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The description of the lumber room

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In the first place it was large and dimly lit,

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one high window opening on to the
forbidden garden being its only source of

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illumination. In the second place it was a
storehouse of unimagined treasures.
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An accurate depiction of the Lumber Room

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But there were other objects of delight and interest claiming his
instant attention: here were quaint twisted candlesticks in the

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shape of snakes, and a teapot fashioned like a china-duck, out of
whose open beak the tea was supposed to come. How dull and

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shapeless the nursery teapot seemed in comparison! And there
was a carved sandalwood box packed tight with aromatic

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cotton-wool, and between the layers of cotton-wool were little
brass figures, hump-necked bulls, and peacocks and goblins,
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delightful to see and to handle. Less promising in appearance
was a large square book with plain black covers; Nicholas
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peeped into it, and, behold, it was full of coloured pictures of
birds.
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 An accurate depiction of the tapestry

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A man, dressed in the hunting costume of some remote period, had just transfixed a stag
with an arrow; it could not have been a difficult shot because the stag was only one or two

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paces away from him; in the thickly growing vegetation that the picture suggested it would
not have been difficult to creep up to a feeding stag, and the two spotted dogs that were
springing forward to join in the chase had evidently been trained to keep to heel till the

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arrow was discharged. That pan of the picture was simple, if interesting, but did the
huntsman see, what Nicholas saw, that four galloping wolves were coming in his direction

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through the wood? There might be more than four of them hidden behind the trees, and in

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any ease would the man and his dogs be able to cope with the four wolves if they made an
attack? The man had only two arrows left in his quiver, and he might miss with one or both
of them; all one knew about his skill in shooting was that he could hit a large stag at a
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ridiculously short range.
An accurate depiction of the tapestry

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‘Wholesome of bread and milk ’

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 Juxtaposition

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The contrast of two ideas.

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Childhood vs Adulthood
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 Use of epithets

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Epithet

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An adjective or phrase that describe characteristics of a person or
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 Epithets of the childish world

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[teacher’s guide.]

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Grim chuckle, alleged frog, unknown land, stale delight,
mere material pleasure, bare and cheerless, thickly growing

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vegetation.

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 Epithets of the adult world

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Frivolous ground, considerable obstinacy, trivial
gardening operation, unauthorized intrusion.

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 Use of Metaphors (as per teacher’s guide)

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A circus of unrivalled merit and uncounted elephants.

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The flawlessness of the reasoning, self imposed sentry-
duty.

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 Rhetorical Questions

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But did the huntsman see, what Nicholas saw, that four

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galloping wolves were coming in his direction though the
wood?

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 Characters

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1. Nicholas – The protagonist

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2. Nicholas’ Aunt – The antagonist
3. (Girl Cousin)

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4. (Boy cousin)
5. (Quite uninteresting brother)

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6. (A maid)

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 Themes [Teacher’s guide]

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❑ Poetic justice against moral degradation and hypocrisy.
❑ Innovation of young minds.

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❑ Generation gap.

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❑ Using religion to instill fear. [The evil one]

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❑ Adults should be cautious when punishing children
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 Nicholas

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❑ He is the protagonist and a rebel without a cause.

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❑ About 8-10 years of age (guess)
❑ Mischievous (deliberately puts a frog in his

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wholesome bread and milk)
❑ He is disruptive (Has the urge to test adults)

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❑ Creative (find creative solutions to problems)
❑ Motive = Enter the lumber-room
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❑ A strict and authoritative figure
❑ Narrow minded

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❑ Punishes the children by depriving them of
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❑ Is the antagonist of the story
❑ Is a hypocrite
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 The Exposition

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Nicholas gets into a conflict with this aunt regarding a frog in

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his wholesome bread and milk

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His cousins are to be taken to Jagborough sands that
afternoon and he is deprived from the excursion as

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punishment. He is also ordered not to enter the gooseberry
garden.
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 The complication

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Nicholas enters the lumber room, a storeroom of unimagined

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treasure. Every single item brings life and imagination to Nicholas
and is symbolic of what the adults of the real world lack. The

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tapestry awakens his imagination to a great extent. The pots and
candlesticks stir up his creativity and lastly the large book, full of
pictures of birds, make it a superb expedition for him.

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 The climax

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While Nicholas is admiring the coloring of a mandarin duck,
the voice of his aunt comes from the gooseberry garden. She

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has slipped into the rainwater tank and cannot get out. She
commands the boy to bring her a ladder and her ignores her.

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Nicholas also calls his aunt the evil one. Resulting in the
ultimate defeat of the aunt.

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 Resolution

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The furious aunt maintains the frozen silence of one who has
suffered undignified detention in a rainwater tank for thirty-five

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minutes. Nicholas is also silent in the absorption of an enchanting
tapestry of the hunter and stag (which is symbolic)

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