- Identify 3 literary devices in the short story and their significant.
- Where is the climax in the short story? How is this achieved?
- Describe the setting of the short story?
- What is the lesson that you can learned in this short story?
- In the short story, does Vera shows hospitality to Frampton Nuttel? If Vera were Malaysia, would she have in like manner?
- If you were Nuttel, would you trust every word Vera said? Why?
1.
The first literary device that can be found is symbolism. The
symbol in “The Open Window” is the open window itself. When Mrs. Sappleton’s
niece, tells Mr. Nuttel the story of the lost hunters, the open window
comes to symbolize Mrs. Sappleton’s anguish and heartbreak at the loss of her
husband and younger brother. When the truth is later revealed, the open window
no longer symbolizes anguish but the very deceit itself. Saki uses the symbol ironically
by having the open window, an object one might expect would imply honesty, as a
symbol of deceit. The next literary device is irony. Mr Nuttel first came
to Mrs. Sappleton’s house was to find “peace” or to find cure for his. However,
instead of finding cure, his condition got worse when he was deceived by
Vera that her aunt is grieving over her
dead husband and younger brothers. That she still leaves the window open so
that they may walk back through it. Mrs. Sappleton then arrives and introduces
herself and tells Mr. Nuttel that she is waiting for her husband and brothers.
Mr. Nuttel looks through the window and comes to find that there are three men
walking towards that window, looking exactly how the neice described them. A
voice from one of the men yells out to Mrs. Sappleton and Mr. Nuttel rushes out
of the house. The final literary device is personification.
The personification is defined as a representation of a non-living things or
objects which have human’s attributes or qualities. The personification in this
short story is foundin paragraph 14, the
phrase "a treacherous piece of bog". A bog is defined as a soft,
wet ground. And in this short story, the bog is called as treacherous because
it is where Mrs Sappleton husband and brothers were missing and can never be
found as it has “engulfed” them.
2.
The climax of this short story is where Mrs Sappleton’s husband and her
two brothers came back, along with the dog. This climax is achieved by the used
of suspense. When Mrs Sappleton’s husband and her two brothers came back, along
with the dog, readers can feel the suspense when Mrs. Sappleton keep on looking
at them and the horrified Mr Nuttle. The suspense increases when Mr Nuttle
looked at the terrifying looked from Vera’s eyes.
3.
We can describe the setting of the short story the Open Window into 3
parts which are time, place and society. In this novel, there is no specific dates are mentioned in the story. However,
it is assumed to take place in the early twentieth century, most likely during
the reign of King Edward VII. While for the place, most of the plot
is set entirely in one room of an English country home belonging to Mr. and
Mrs. Sappleton. Finally, the setting of society in the novel the Open
Window is describes as the upper class of English society.
4.
The lesson that we can learned in this short story
is we must check the validity of a story before we trust it completely. Even
the person who tells us about the story itself is a teenager like Vera, but we
cannot assume that they will tell us the truth. Maybe their body is small and
younger than us, but who knows what they have in mind. So, no matter wherever
we are and whoever the person or society that we lived in, we must ensure the
truth of a story before we believe them and make our own about opinion the
story.
5.
After a period of hard time doing research on “The Open Window”, by the
well-known “Saki”, we discovered the answer of this question. It was long
night. For us, we absolutely come with one opinion. We believe Vera was not giving
our protagonist, Frampton Nuttel, hospitality. Based from the “Oxford Advanced
Learner’s Dictionary”, hospitality is “friendly and generous behavior towards
guest”. Telling lie is obviously is not a type of hospitality and that what we
learned in school. Vera told lie and make Mr. Nuttel flee away. As the host of
the house, she should not do that. She supposed to serve him better and let the
man of the house talk. Of course, that is not Malaysian style. Not even the
Singaporean. We Malaysian, we serve our guest the best. Mr. Nuttel came here
for peace. But instead of peace, he found chaos. “What an ironic moment!” said
Wandi. We will serve our guest better than any services that provided by the
any 5 stars hotel around Bukit Bintang. In fact, not only as Malaysian, but as
anyone from anywhere all around the world, we must show our guest a great
hospitality. Umofian also taught their people to serve their guest even their
guess come only to collect debt. Simply, no matter where you come from,
Malaysian or Singaporean, or anywhere across the map, we must honor our guest,
show the best hospitality and don’t tell lies. Even if you were came from Venus.
6.
Based from “The Open Window”, by the great Saki, we finally come out
with this. After a long thrilling discussion; we all agree not to believe in
Vera. “Why must we believe in 15 years old girl? We don’t even believe to 40
years old politician. Bribing is anywhere”, said Joe. People started to lie at
their beginning of life. Teenagers nowadays mostly influenced to do negative
activities and practicing bad habit mostly from the mass media. Based from the
short story, Vera also told lie to Mrs. Sappleton at the end of the story, so
obviously that she often lie in her daily life. Besides, as Mr. Nuttel, you should
not believe in anyone because you just arrived and met them. You should be more
careful and aware because you don’t know who you are talking with. She can be
an American most wanted, or a 15 years old serial murderer. Maybe they are
small, young, innocent and a girl, but your life is more important as a guest.
By the end of the day, you are the one that suffered.
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