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The Lumber Room Analysis

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Children are blessed with the colourful spirits of childhood living inside them that able to light up even the darkest day in this world. These spirits can be portrayed in various forms that accentuate the beauty of childhood even when care from a nurture adult is not present. From the story of Man of the House by Frank O’ Connor, it depicts the adult responsibilities that falls to the lap of Sullivan when his mother falls ill. As for The Lumber Room written by Saki, the story is about Nicholas whose childhood being dominated and controlled by his aunt. It is not necessary that the spirit and beauty of childhood will diminish if the care of adult is absence because the children in both stories are young at heart, natural explorers and able …show more content…

Similarly, although Sullivan skilfully able to escape the trip to Jagborough, but his childlike nature was visible as he puts the frog into his bread-and-milk without realizing that his action was unhygienic and could bring harm. This shows that children live with the spirits of childhood and it will not diminish regardless of the absence of care from adults. Imagination and thinking of a child is not dependant on adult. The beauty of childhood will not diminish if they are celebrated by children through imagination and imagination is a gift that nurtured independently even without the supervision of adult. For example, Nicholas in The Lumber Room has to live under his authoritarian aunt who impose strict rules to control Nicholas and his cousins. Thus, Nicholas never knew how the Lumber Room shall look like but he has been fantasizing about it before breaking into the room. It turned out that his imagination about the room meets his expectations. Sullivan imagination goes beyond the walls of his house as he tends to forget the reality of world if he goes far from the house as he will be exploring the glen below the house. Hence, in spite of the absence of care form both adults, Nicholas and Sullivan are free to imagine and feed their

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