Hector Hugh Munro's The Open Window

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The Open Window Hector Hugh Munro wrote a funny short story called “The Open Window” where everything spins around the Vera’s stories. This short story has character development in three main characters Vera, Framtom Nuttel, and Mrs. Sappleton. Furthermore, the symbolism is present in Y elements; for instance, the season, the large French window and also the bog. Likewise the point of view is in third person omniscient in the hole story, and also in the Vera’s story about their relatives, but in the last one the point of view is different.. The reader may find the use of character development, symbolism and point of view to contribute with the comprehension of the text. The first part of the analysis is about the characters in the short story. According to Pacheco and Meyers in “The Telling and The Tale” the characters may be classified as round (multidimensional) or flat (one …show more content…

According to Foster in his book “How to Read Literature like a Professor” a symbol stands for just one meaning and an allegory stands for two or more meanings. When Vera talks to Mr, Nuttel about “the tragedy” she is very emphatic about the window, she wants to make Mr. Nuttel to believe that the open window is a memorial of their relatives, and the window also means hope because according to Vera’s history her aunt thinks that they relatives will return. In the Vera’s story, she says that everything happened in an October afternoon, according to Foster when the events happened in the winter, most of the time characters die, because winter is cold and you may find ice and snow that sometimes may be related with dead. In addition according to Foster when characters are close of a river, in this case a bog, and they get in and they can go out it is like a baptism, but if characters cannot get out probably they drown, according to the Vera’s story they never came back. The bog is a symbol of dead in the Vera’s story about their

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