A QUESTION OF TRUST

- JANET AND MONICA SREE

OBJECTIVES

✶ About Victor Canning

✶ A question of trust
✶ Theme
✶ Message
✶ Character sketches
✶ Meanings
✶ Title
THE PURPOSE OF LITERATURE
IS TO TURN BLOOD INTO INK
A question of trust
- Victor canning
VICTOR CANNING

 16 June 1911-21 February 1986

 a prolific British writer
 flourished in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
 personally reticent
 writing no memoirs
 giving relatively few newspaper interviews.
VICTOR CANNING
✶ It is said that you must set a thief to catch a
thief.
✶ But it is also said that there is honour among
thieves.
✶ Which saying does this story illustrate? Any
idea ?
Introduction

✶ about a 50 year old man - Horace Danby

✶ everyone around him thinks he is a good

and an honest man.
✶ used to build locks and used to earn enough
profit so that he could hire two servants to
help him.

✶ was sent to jail once about 15 years ago

because he used to commit robberies every
year.
✶ This year, when he goes to a house for
robbery, he meets a woman who pretends
to be the owner of the house.

✶ Later when he leaves from there and is

arrested after 2-3 days, he comes to know
the truth of that lady.
LET’S BEGIN
✶ Grange- a country house with farm buildings
attached.
✶ Hay fever- an allergy caused by pollen or
dust in which the mucous membranes of the
eyes and nose are inflamed, causing running
of the nose and watery eyes.
CHARACTER SKETCH

✶ HOARCE DANBY:

He was about fifty years old and unmarried. Everyone

thought him a good and honest citizen. He was otherwise very
well and happy except for attacks of hay fever in summer. He
made locks and was fairly successful at his business. He used
to rob a safe every year. He used to do so because he needed
money to buy books. He would rob only the rich person. He
never hurt anyone and carried no weapon with him. He was
not very aggressive and didn’t want to go to prison.
✶ The women in red

She lady in red is gifted with a rare personality. She is full of

confidence. She acts like a perfect actress presenting herself
as the lady of the house. Even the dog was rubbing against her
in a friendly manner. In a very subtle way, she told that she
wanted to wear the jewels in the safe to a party that night. She
made him open the safe without gloves. Horace willingly
hands over the jewels and she decamps with them.
theme
Theme

✶ The theme of the chapter is that you should

not trust anyone without finding out about that
person.
✶ The lady in the house pretended to be the owner and
Horace trusted her words.
✶ She was a thief too, but Horace did not suspect her
and trusted her.
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Message

✶ The message of this story is that we should

not trust anyone without discovering out
about that person.
✶ The lady in the house pretended to be the
owner and Horace trusted her words. She
was a thief too, but Horace did not suspect
her and trusted her.
✶ Therefore, the trust that Horace placed in
her was questioned and there is a doubt
whether he should have trusted her.
✶ Therefore, the title is appropriate.
MORAL

✶HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY

✶DON’T TRUST A PERSON
WITHOUT DISCOVERING ABOUT
HIM/HER.
SELF UNDERSTANDING
ASSIGNMENT
✶ Text to self
✶ Text to text
✶ Text to world
 SELF UNDERSTANDING ASSESMENT

TEXT TO
TEXT TO SELF TEXT TO TEXT
WORLD
TRUST IS THE HIGHEST
FORM OF HUMAN
MOTIVATION
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