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The Open Window by Saki
• Reading Notes
• Theme• Plot• Characters• Irony• Foreshadowing• Setting
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Saki•Pen Name (What’s another
word for a pen name?)•Pseudonym•Author’s real name is H.H.
Munro
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Theme• What is the theme: the message of the
story/main point the author is making?• More than one answer.• People make assumptions based on first
impressions• Vera and Frampton Nuttel (What are their
impressions?)• Vera seems trustworthy/innocent• Nuttel seems anxious/nervous/weak
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Theme Continued• Vera seems concerned and
informative in a helpful way, but she is only setting up Nuttel to be a fool.
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Verbal Irony in the NamesVera•Veri means truth but she doesn’t tell the truth•Verbal: fools everyone through stories
Frampton Nuttel•Nuts •Framed by Vera (Frame is the window frame)•Open window is his escape
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What’s in a Name?Mrs. Sappleton•Sap•Wholesome like an apple
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Exposition• background, time, place (setting), characters
• Background: Sister is a minor character helps set up the story’s setting
• Setting: October; one day; 1900s; English countryside; wealthy estate of the Sappletons; moors surround property
• Characters: We meet Nuttel and Vera; Vera questions Nuttel’s knowledge of the area and family
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ConflictExternal:•Vera tells Nuttel about the tragedy that happened three years ago•Nuttel believes Vera’s lies because she appears innocent•The men come home from hunting just as Vera had planned in order to trick NuttelInternal: •Nuttel’s anxiety at the arrival of the hunters makes him believe fiction as truth
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Complication• Vera admits that Mrs. Sappleton is in
denial of the family’s loss• Vera gives details of the tragedy on the
basis of the day: (knew her uncle was wearing a white McIntosh) which could like a ghost
• Mrs. Sappleton says the men will be home proving to Nuttel that she is in denial
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Climax
•The hunters come home and Nuttel runs away
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Resolution• The reader knows that
Vera lies to Mr. and Mrs. Sappleton and her brothers about Nuttel’s fear of dogs
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Vera• Malicious (intends to hurt another)• 15 years old• Romance was her specialty• (in this case these stories are LIES)• Not honest (LIAR)• Self possessed (composed and in control)• Good actress
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Frampton Nuttel• Nervous• Anxious• Gullible• Imagination leads him to believe
fiction over the truth• Impulsive
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Ironic Moments…don’t you think?Verbal “You must try to put up with me.” “Frampton doubted more than ever these formal visits on a succession of total strangers would do much toward helping the nerve cure.”“I hope Vera has been amusing you.”
SituationalMrs. Sappleton was preparing for her husband to come home from hunting while Frampton thought she was in denial
DramaticWe know that Vera tells the Mr. and Mrs. Sappleton and Mrs. Sappleton’s brothers a lie about Frampton’s fear of dogs
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Mrs. Sappleton•Kind•Welcoming•Family oriented
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Foreshadowing• The room seemed to suggest
masculine habitation• He made the last statement in a
tone of distinct regret. When asked if he knows anyone, he replies, “Hardly a soul.”
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Foreshadowing• Little brown spaniel lost/ Spaniel comes home
later with the hunters; Vera uses this “fear” of dogs for her next lie
• White Mackintosh described/ Mr. Sappelton had it draped over his arm easily noticed as a ghostly color