Many parents with children know how hard it is to travel on long trips with them. In the short story “The Story Teller” by Saki, an aunt was traveling with 3 little children. When the tries to get the children’s attention, the children don’t respond to her and continue to disobey her. When a bachelor that was traveling in the same carriage as them starts to tell the offspring’s a story, the children, with hesitation at first, start to listen to him with excitement. The bachelor seemed to know what story the children will like and what type of tone and language the story had to be told to get the children’s attention.
In the first part of the story, the author presents a scene in which 3 children, their aunt and a bachelor were traveling all in the same carriage on a train. The children don’t seem to want to listen to their aunt and do what they please to do. The a
There are a couple humorous moments that could be seen in this story. The first humorous part of this story is when the aunt, who is a relative of the kids, couldn’t get the children to be quiet, while a total stranger got them to be quiet in a matter of minutes. Another humorous moment in this story is the story that was told by the bachelor, when the Prince in his garden has pigs and not flowers. In my opinion these were the humorous parts of the story.
When you are a parent and you are raising children, you try to not only be patient with the child, but also make their world funny and interesting. The aunt couldn’t keep the children calm while a stranger kept them not only quiet but entertained also. This story shows us that children don’t like to be told what the dull stories but want an assortment of enjoyable stories.
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