Lumber-Room Essay

lumber-room The invoice under analysis was written by Hector Munro, a British novelist and a short- myth writer. After his parents death he was brought up by a grandmother and two auntyyieies, one of them was a woman of ungovernable temper, of fierce likes and dislikes, disdainful and a moral coward. She was the last person who should have been in weigh down of children. The character of the aunt in The Lumber-Room is Aunt Augusta to the life. The story is nearly a little boy Nikolas who lives with his cruel aunt, brother and cousins.One day he commits the offence so bringing the punishment upon himself, only hes not upset as he is intended to sneak into the lumber-room. He plays trick with his aunt and finally take downs into the forbidden paradise. The main idea of this story is the conflict between unchangeable conventional reality and poetry and intelligent freedom, between dogmatic, pedantic, philistine mind and poetic imagination. The story is a 3-person autobiog raphy interlaced with inner thoughts and descriptive passages. The prevailing mood is rather positive, juiceless and highly emotional.The text under study can be shared out into 4 logically complete parts. The first part can be authorise the 1 part of the plan. Nickolas is not going with his midget brother and his cousins to the Jagborough sands as his aunt has punished him for his disgraceful gestate at breakfast when he refused to eat his wholesome bread-and milk on the seemingly frivolous ground that there was a frog in it. The germs attitude to the aunt is revealed with the help of the antonomasia older and wiser and unwrap people and the high-flown adjectives wholesome and frivolous.Nickolas is shown as a precise wise and clever boy for his age. In the following paragraph the author resorts to some bookish words such as alleged, pro set in moti lone(prenominal) in error, utmost assurance and long sentences to make the commentator feel the style of aunts thoughts and haughty treatment of the children. apart from Nickolas his aunt is described rather directly shes shown as confident and self-righteous person who can never admit her mistake. Her false pietism is depicted by ironical use of religious words, such as sin and depravity.Judicial and military terminology such as purely debarred, skilled tactician conveys the tense atmosphere in the aunt and boys relations. At the date of childrens departure N drops a few decent tears. But he isnt upset as this is further a part of his plan. The second part can be authorise as the 2 part of the plan. N is forbidden to go into the gooseberry bush garden as hes in disgrace. And his aunt is going to keep an eye on it. But N himself feels abruptly capable of being in disgrace and in the gooseberry garden at the aforementioned(prenominal) time. And with the help of the zeugma the author contributes humorous effect in the text.The reader can trace the resistivity between the aunt and the boy, which i s over again reproduced by the military terms, such as sorties, operations, sentry-duty, unauthorized infraction. This idea also appears in the different attitude to the gooseberry garden. For aunt it is a forbidden paradise and for N its just a mere material pleasure. The descriptive passage of the aunt shows her as a woman of few ideas, with immense power of concentration. So, during Ns aunt duty, the boy gets the key, which opens the door of the lumber-room. The third part can be entitled in the lumber-room.N gets into the lumber-room and everything is new for him. In the first paragraph we see the repeating of the word it, which presents Nikolass strong desire to get into the lumber-room. It was carefully certain(p) but this fact just stirred his curiosity. With the help of the metaphor incredible treasure and description of the lumber-room (it was dimly lit), the author creates the mysterious atmosphere. Nicholass aunt is shown as rather conservative and mean as she prefer to saddle things to spatter and damp to preserve them and not to spoil.The metaphorical epithet vivacious breathing story is used to show that Nickolas was impressionable, imaginative, full of creative ideas with poetic nature. It is understood indirectly through Nicholass attitude to the tapestry picture, which he sees for the first time but creates a vivid fairytale with a great number of small details. And the questions used in this paragraph indicate the dynamically developing plot of the fairytale in the Ns mind. The metaphorical epithet golden minutes is used to show that the time Nickolas spends in the lumber-room is very precious.When N finishes with the picture he notices other objects of channelize and interest. The great number of epithets used in this part such as objects of delight, (claiming his) instant attention, quaint candlesticks, undreamed-of creatures and the metaphorical expression for the eyes to feast on emphasizes the fact that N isnt used to such unus ual things and it makes the opposition to the things in the house, which are bare and cheerless, dull and shapeless. The use of the emphasized marks shows highly emotional state of the boy.Suddenly, the scream and then cry (out) of the aunt come from the gooseberry garden. But N smiles as he feels his victory in the war. Being skilled tactician he restores things to their places, shakes some dust on them, creeps from the room, locks the door and replaces the key exactly where he had found it. He saunters into the garden considering himself the winner of the battle. The 4th part can be entitled as The rebellion. Nickolas hears his aunts voice from the gooseberry garden where she gets into the rain-water tank while searching for him and she cant get out as the sides are slippery.She asks him to help but he says that he isnt to go into the garden and suspects her being the Evil One that tempts him to be disobedient. We see now that Nickolas pronounces the aunts usual phrase and thus f ights her with her own weapon. This idea is proved with the using the metaphor the prisoner in the tank. So, the person who rescues the aunt is a kitchemaid. During the tear downing tea there is fearsome silence. The children are disappointed with the trip as there was the soar and there was no sands to play on and the metaphor penitentiary expedition contributes the state of the children.The aunt suffers the situation in the tank and only Nickolas, who is to be in disgrace is satisfied and thinks about the continuation of the story pictured in his mind while watching tapestry in the lumber-room. The story ends again with the antithesis of unchangeable conventional reality and poetry and keen freedom. On the whole this text appeals to me as it shows the problems of human nature and children up-bringing. The aunt is a conventional person who tries to keep everything as it is, without any change.She has no joy in her life and she brings up the children in the way that leads them t o the same attitude to the world. But in spite of this, N, a young but extremely wise and clever boy, sees the things from the different side. He is very risible he enjoys the world and tries to broaden his horizon. This problem of upbringing is still kinda acute and the story helps to see it from another side. Moreover, the author makes an abundant enjoyment of different stylistic devices which produce ironical and humorous effect and helps to banter such way of up-bringing through the character of the aunt and this makes the story even more vivid.