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Write about a selection of Saki's stories. What impression do they create of the world of adult-child relationships? In order to answer this question I am going to be focusing on three of Saki's stories; the story-teller, the lumber room and the open window. Children at the time Hector Munro (Saki) was writing these stories would have had very vivid imagination; this is shown in Saki's story "The Open Window" when the niece makes up the saga of Mr Sappleton's death, illustrates how imaginative children can be, and that adults are very easily fooled. Fooling adults is a key theme in Saki's stories; another time when it occurs is in the story "The Lumber Room" when Nicholas dupes his aunt into believing that he is somehow trying to get into the gooseberry garden, but instead has no intention of doing so but does sneak into the Lumber Room. Another key theme that...

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