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The Open Window Open Window - Story Elements To understand what the characters are like a story, pay attention to their **dialogue**-what they say-and to their **actions** and how other character feel about them. The plot of the story is often made up of the characters' actions.



Short stories are amazing in their ;variety. Yet eery short story has the same basic elements: character, setting and plot.  **Characters** are the people or animals in a story. Most short stories focus on one or two main characters. Sometimes, minor characters are used to help the story along. In //The Open Window// for instance, the main characters are Mrs. Sappleton, Vera and Mr. Nuttel, because the action revolves around them. The lost husband and two brothers function as minor characters; the reader does not get to know them well. Saki, the writer, concentrates on the relationship that develops between the three main characters.  How does Vera show confidence?  **Setting** is the time and place in a story happens. In //The Open Window// the story takes place in a British country house during the early part of the twentieth century. There is always a good reason for the setting a writer chooses - where the people are affects what they say and do. The house with the open window creates a sense of mystery that Saki wanted to achieve.  **Plot** is the story plan. It is the action or sequence of events and contains the conflict or problem to be solved. Mr. Nuttel for example wants a room in a quiet retreat; the lost shows what happens to him. Man plots consist of a begging a middle and an end. First the writer begins by introducing the setting. the conflict and the characters. Then in the middle of the story, the actions build to a climax. or turning point. In the Open Window, the turn point comes when Mr. Nuttel runs from the house in terror. In the ;end the writer resole the problem and ties up loose sends. Saki end the Open wind by revealing that Vera with her vivid imagination probably make up the whole story..  **Characters' Dialogue and Actions** || Framton || ** Vera  || <span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">* ||  ||   || <span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">***** ||  ||   || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">**Describe** in you own words what happen from the time Framton come into the Sappleton household, with particular attention to why things happen as they do.
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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">What is the climax of the story, and at what point does the reader understand what the niece is really like? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">What do you think influenced Vera to do it?