The Lumber Room

The Lumber room is the text for analysis, which represents an ironical story written by a well-known British novelist and short story writer Hector Munro. The whole novel can be divided into two parts: Child’s world and Adult’s world. Adulthood causes one to lose all sense of fun, imagination. Nicholas imagines the whole story behind the tapestry while the Aunt comes out with boring stories and ideas like going to the beach. The Lumber room is a symbol of fun and imagination of the child’s world which is definitely lacking in the adult world.

The text can be divided into several parts: In exposition we learn about little Nicholas, his cousins and his strict aunt. Nicholas got into his aunt’s disgrace. So his cousins were to be taken to Jagborough sands that afternoon and he was to stay at home. The Aunt was absolutely sure that the boy was determined to get into the gooseberry garden because I have told him he is not to.

In increase which is ended by the climax of the story Nicholas got into an unknown land of lumber-room. Forbidden fruit is sweet and truly the lumber-room is described as a storehouse of unimagined treasure.

The climax of the text. While the boy was admiring the colouring of a mandarin duck, the voice of his aunt came from the gooseberry garden. She got slipped into the rain-water tank and couldn’t go out. She demanded from the boy to bring her a ladder, but he said her voice didn’t sound like his aunt’s. You may be the Evil One tempting me to be disobedient. Justice must be done. The Aunt tasted the fruit of her own punishment on the children. She feels what it is like to be condemned.

The ending of the story reveals the author’s social comment about the differences between the world of the child and adult. Though the Aunt is furious, Nicholas is thinking about the hunter tricking the hounds by using the stag as a bait. It shows a great gap of indifference between the Aunt and Nicolas.

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