Patrick Chen HSE2H: Satire in “The Storyteller”.
The Storyteller by H.H. Munro (SAKI) It was a hot afternoon, and the railway carriage was correspondingly sultry, and the next stop was at Templecombe, nearly an hour ahead. The occupants of the carriage were a small girl, and a smaller girl, and a small boy. An aunt belonging to the children occupied one corner seat, and the further corner.
The Storyteller (Saki) by H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) Approximate Word Count: 2109 I t was a hot afternoon, and the railway carriage was correspondingly sultry, and the next stop was at Templecombe, nearly an hour ahead. The occupants of the carriage were a small girl, and a smaller girl, and a small boy.
Although Saki wrote many different stories, sometimes using multiple genres, there is no question that the many world events that occurred during Saki’s lifetime greatly influenced Saki’s writing. Saki has often been called a “master of the short story”(Hitchens). Aside from this title, Saki was also a master of satire.
In this lesson, we'll take a look at 'The Storyteller,' a short story by Saki. Specifically, you'll see a story within a story and find a summary of the tale and the settings within it.
Saki is the literary love child of Oscar Wilde and Roald Dahl. His short stories are penned not with ink, but with pure, delicious malice. This one has to be my favorite - it's inspired me to collect antique school prizes for obedience, attendance, merit, scripture knowledge, etc, and to make them into a necklace, so that I can clink like the horribly good little girl in the storyteller's tale.
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here. 'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples' Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypoc.
Saki does deserve credit for some recognition of his skills in the art of satire, but after writing so many stories under this genre, it would only be expected that he would learn to use it well. One of Saki’s major problems is that the satire gets boring after about the first hundred pages.