Apr 5, 2018 - From: 'Ragtime' by E.L.Doctorow. 104 • Conversation and Discussion: • Man and Music. 121 • Unit Five • Text. From: 'The Lumber-Room'.

The text under analysis is written by an outstanding British novelist and short story writer Hector Munro. Hector Hugh Munro (, ', ', better nown by the *ai, was a writer, whose witty and sometimes stories satiri+ed society and culture.

He is considered a master o- the and is o-ten com)ared to. His tales -eature delicately drawn characters and -inely 0udged narratives.

*ais world contrasts the e--ete conventions and hy)ocrisies o- dwardian ngland with the ruthless but straight-orward li-e2and2death struggles o- nature. #ature generally wins in the end. The text tells us a story about a small boy #icholas, who was brought u) by his tyrannical and ungoverned aunt 3ugusta. He was 4in disgrace4 as he had re-used to eat his wholesome bread2and2 mil that morning. 5hen children were taen to 6ag borough sands #icholas made some attem)ts to get into the gooseberry garden.

3s a matter o- -act, he had no intention o- trying to get into the gooseberry garden, but it was extremely convenient -or him that his aunt should believe that he had unsym)athetic. *oon his aunt tried to loo -or the boy and sli))ed into the rain2water tan. *he ased #icholas to -etch a ladder but the boy )retended not to understand her, he said that she was the vil ne. 3-ter this accident they both e)t silent and everyone has been shi))ed in their thoughts. The ind o- the story is the narration, in that story we see descri)tion o- one lumber room. Download quickbooks pro 2008 serial key free. 7n the story we meet #icholas, the boy who have a big imagination . 9 The climax o- the text.

5hile the boy was admiring the colouring o- a mandarin duc, the voice o- his aunt came -rom the gooseberry garden. *he got sli))ed into the rain2water tan and couldn:t go out.

*he demanded -rom the boy to bring her a ladder, but he said her voice didn:t sound lie his aunt:s.; ou may be the vil ne tem)ting me to b e disobedient. 6ustice must be done. The 3unt tasted the -ruit o- her own )unishment on the children. *he is accused o- -alling -rom grace, o- lying to #icholas about 0am and thus termed the vil ne.

*he -eels what it is lie to be condemned. The denouncement.

The 3unt is -urious and en-orces in the house. *he maintained the -ro+en muteness o- one who has su--ered undigni-ied and unmerited detention in a rain2water tan -or thirty2-ive minutes.

#icholas was also silent, in the absor)tion o- an enchanting )icture o- a hunter and a stag. The ending o- the story reveals the author:s social comment about the di--erences between the world o- the child and adult. Though the 3unt is -urious, #icholas is thining about the hunter tricing the hounds by using the stag as a bait. 7t is a re)resentative o- his own li-e, he is lie a hunter able to.