The Open Window
1. Focus on general aspcts of the story
* Author
Hector Hugh Munro, who wrote under the pen-name Saki, was born on 18th December 1870 in Burma. Munro is best know for his witty, sometimes whimsical, often cynical and bizarre sentence. Some of his collections of short stories are Reginald (1904), The Chronicles of Clovis (1911), Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914), among others. His two novels are The Unbearable Bassignton (1912) and When William Came (1914). Munro was killed in the trenches of France in World War I in 1916. * Subject-Main Topic
The Open Window is about a fifteen-year-old girl called Vera, who enjoyed inventing stories and telling them to the people around her. * Setting
The story takes place in a house situated on a farm, in October (the city or country where the action develops is not specified). * Characters
Main characters: Vera and Mr. Framton Nuttel. Vera was a self-possesed lady of fifteen and a big liar. Mr Nuttel, a polite gentleman, was temporarily in the countryside to recover from a nervous breakdown.
Secondary characters: Mrs Sappleton (Vera’s aunt), Ronnie (Mrs Sappleton’s youngest brother), Bertie and Mr Sappleton.
2. Focus on the reconstruction of the storyline
* Summary
The Open Window is about a fifteen-year-old girl, Vera, who used to tell lies and invent stories. One day Mr Framton Nuttel, who suffered from stress, moved to the countryside to relax. His sister, who had been living there for some time, had given him some letters of introduction so that he could visit some people. When he went to the Sappletons’ house, he was welcomed by Vera, who told him that her aunt, Mrs Sappleton, would arrive pretty soon. While they waited in the living-room, Framton noticed that there was a big window open on ac October afternoon. Vera explained that a tragedy had struck her aunt: three years before her two brothers, her husband and a spaniel had gone hunting and they had never returned. This was the
* Author
Hector Hugh Munro, who wrote under the pen-name Saki, was born on 18th December 1870 in Burma. Munro is best know for his witty, sometimes whimsical, often cynical and bizarre sentence. Some of his collections of short stories are Reginald (1904), The Chronicles of Clovis (1911), Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914), among others. His two novels are The Unbearable Bassignton (1912) and When William Came (1914). Munro was killed in the trenches of France in World War I in 1916. * Subject-Main Topic
The Open Window is about a fifteen-year-old girl called Vera, who enjoyed inventing stories and telling them to the people around her. * Setting
The story takes place in a house situated on a farm, in October (the city or country where the action develops is not specified). * Characters
Main characters: Vera and Mr. Framton Nuttel. Vera was a self-possesed lady of fifteen and a big liar. Mr Nuttel, a polite gentleman, was temporarily in the countryside to recover from a nervous breakdown.
Secondary characters: Mrs Sappleton (Vera’s aunt), Ronnie (Mrs Sappleton’s youngest brother), Bertie and Mr Sappleton.
2. Focus on the reconstruction of the storyline
* Summary
The Open Window is about a fifteen-year-old girl, Vera, who used to tell lies and invent stories. One day Mr Framton Nuttel, who suffered from stress, moved to the countryside to relax. His sister, who had been living there for some time, had given him some letters of introduction so that he could visit some people. When he went to the Sappletons’ house, he was welcomed by Vera, who told him that her aunt, Mrs Sappleton, would arrive pretty soon. While they waited in the living-room, Framton noticed that there was a big window open on ac October afternoon. Vera explained that a tragedy had struck her aunt: three years before her two brothers, her husband and a spaniel had gone hunting and they had never returned. This was the