Deception is part of human nature at best. Humans, deceive each other all the time for comedy or just to make people believe what they are saying is true. News Castors and politicians thrive on deception and try to get the public to believe what they are stating or implying is true to the core. Sadly, most of the time it is drastically beyond the boundaries of true and is significantly beyond the truth. The story of "Open Window" by Saki is the true meaning of deception and lying in a way. He uses characters personalities and actions to deceive other characters into believing what they say. Some of the ways Saki does this is by setting of the story, characters involved and using part of the truth to create deception.
First of all, the setting of the story creates a moody and gloomy array to setup for deceiving the poor Mr. Nuttel. It is in October during the time where the sun begins to set but is the last rays of the golden light before dark. In the short story Saki writes, ""You may wonder why we …show more content…
Mr. Framton seeming like an oddball already is gullible enough to believe the story from the young girl and does not question any further than he should. At the end of the girls story Framton says, "She has been very interesting," is all he says when the aunt walks in and no further questions arise to the aunt. Deception come naturally to the girl as she seems to have fully covered all aspects of the story leaving no mysterious parts to question on. Framton fully believes the girl and is shocked when the boys return from the hunting trip almost in a ghost like appearance. The girl after Framton hurries out of the house turns to the Aunt and replies, "He was once hunted into a cemetery somewhere on the banks of the Ganges by a pack of pariah dogs." She immediately turns around to her aunt and deceives her with a quick wit. This is the second reason for the theme of
First of all, the setting of the story creates a moody and gloomy array to setup for deceiving the poor Mr. Nuttel. It is in October during the time where the sun begins to set but is the last rays of the golden light before dark. In the short story Saki writes, ""You may wonder why we …show more content…
Mr. Framton seeming like an oddball already is gullible enough to believe the story from the young girl and does not question any further than he should. At the end of the girls story Framton says, "She has been very interesting," is all he says when the aunt walks in and no further questions arise to the aunt. Deception come naturally to the girl as she seems to have fully covered all aspects of the story leaving no mysterious parts to question on. Framton fully believes the girl and is shocked when the boys return from the hunting trip almost in a ghost like appearance. The girl after Framton hurries out of the house turns to the Aunt and replies, "He was once hunted into a cemetery somewhere on the banks of the Ganges by a pack of pariah dogs." She immediately turns around to her aunt and deceives her with a quick wit. This is the second reason for the theme of