Sur v e y o f

Eng l i sh a n d
Ame r i c an L i t

Presented by: Retchie Lou V. Gerodias

 Table of contents
01 Author's Biography
02 Author's List of Works
03 Author's Famous Work
 BIOGRAPHY
Saki (Hector Hugh
Munro)
• December 18 , 1870 - November 14, 1916
• Burma, Myanmar
• His father is Charles Augustus Munro
( inspector general)
• His mother is Mary Frances Mercer
Munro
• He has two siblings
• He joined Indian Imperial Police when he's
20.
• He become a successful journalist, and by
1909, a popular writer of fiction.
• When he's 43, the First World War begins.
• Killed by a German sniper's bullet
 LIST OF WORKS

• The Lumber Room

• The Open Window
• Sredni Vahstar
• Gabriel-Ernest
• Tobermory
• Filboid Studge, The Story of a Mouse That Helped
• The Unrest-Cure
• The Jesting of Arlington Stringham
• The Music on the Hill
• Laura
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SUMMARY
Nicholas being kept indoors as punishment, deprived of the ‘treat’ of a trip to Jagborough Sands
and denied access to the gooseberry garden outside the house.
But Nicholas is smarter than the aunt who endeavours to keep him indoors. First of all, he is told
he will not be allowed to accompany his siblings on their day trip, because he refused to eat his
bread-and-milk.Nicholas’ aunt is mistaken in thinking that there isn’t a frog in his food, but only
because she fails to ‘know her enemy’ and realise that Nicholas is the just the sort of boy who
would have a frog in his food, if only because he’s also the sort of boy who would put one there.
Nicholas is kept indoors all day while the other children are out playing. Once again, Nicholas
outwits his aunt, convincing her that he longs to go exploring in the gooseberry garden, and thus
decoying her into keeping stern watch on the garden, since she fully expects him to attempt to
break out into that fruity paradise.

But this is just a distraction, since, knowing that he now has his aunt out the way, Nicholas is able
to steal the key that unlocks the lumber-room of the house, and gain access to that forbidden
chamber of secrets.
SUMMARY
His aunt, believing she must have missed him when he crept out into that gooseberry garden, goes
looking for him, and ends up falling into the rain-water tank. She calls for Nicholas to come and
help her to get out, but he tells her that he has been forbidden to set foot in the garden. Nicholas
walking away and leaving his aunt to be rescued by a kitchen-maid, on the grounds that he would
be going against her own orders if he strayed into the forbidden garden to rescue her. The child
turns the adult’s punitive rules against her; in doing so, he outwits her, adding her own lie – about
there being no jam to have for tea – to the list of charges. Nicholas’ mind returns to the tapestry he
had been captivated by in the lumber-room.
The Aunt’s silence says more than words can about how she is feeling. No longer is she dominant
over Nicholas. Through his ingenuity Nicholas has managed to control his Aunt rather than it
being her who controls him. Her original goal was to punish Nicholas. Instead she is the one who
has been punished and to make matters worse she has been punished by a child. Someone she is
unable to control due to Nicholas’ ability to see things as only a child would.
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