The Lumber Room

• The Lumber Room is a classical short story about a child who is tactful and clever in imagination.

• It is about a mischievous boy ,Nicholas who always misleads his aunt , so he can get access to the lumber room with its hidden treasures and curiosity.

• This short story discussed about mischief of a boy child, his imaginative power , the authoritative nature of the elders and defiance.

• This story portrays the relationship between those in power and those subjugated to power.

• Also it conveys to the reader that, authority and power does not make a person worthy of that power.

Plot

• Nicholas finds a frog from the garden and puts it into his basin of bread and milk which was for his breakfast.

• When the little boy ells about what he did with the frog to the elders, they rejects it saying Nicholas is telling nonsense.

• Ignorance of the aunt towards little one's saying implies elder's nature of underestimating and ignoring children.

• Nicholas 's definition on his companions ' quite uninteresting younger brother " implies that they are subjugated and not as smart as Nicholas.

• Aunt and other elders were recognized as " older and wiser and better people". It portrays that children area always subjected to underestimation by adult society.

• Aunt sends other three children to Jag borough sands as a gift for being subjugated and prohibits Nicholas to step out because he is in disgrace.

• She uses this trick with the intention of discourage Nicholas, hurt hi nd make him remorseful.

• The unfortunate accident happen to the children before begin the travel causes to make Nicholas happy.

• Nicholas sarcastically smiles at the ones who accepts the orders of the aunt nd make it an opportunity to make aunt shy.

• "You often don't listen when we tell you important things. implies hat elders do not care about the needs of the children.

• Aunt prohibits Nicholas to enter the Gooseberry garden with the intention of getting the revenge from Nichols for being disobedient and with the eager to change the topic.

• She misuses the child democracy and try to control child's behavior as well as his freedom of talking.

• Aunt suspects Nicholas entering into the Gooseberry garden even though she prohibited him to do so.

• Elders re aware of the likes and dislikes of the children but, they blindly chooses the decision which made children unhappy.

• Aunt waits inside the Gooseberry garden to catch Nicholas red handed.

• "She was a woman of few ideas" implies that aunt s not as smart as Nicholas because Nicholas is and combination of wonderful thoughts.

• After Conforming that aunt's presence in the Gooseberry garden ,Nicholas turns on his plan to enter the Lumber room.

• Elders always think that their guessing is correct but Nichols highlights he wrongness of that intention.

• With the practice of turning keys in the school room ,Nicholas opens the door of Lumber room.

• The marvelous things appears in the lumber room increases Nicholas astonishment and he argues with himself about aunt's inability to see that elegance.

• Child defines elders as a set of people who think that things spoil by use and consign them to dust and damp y ay of preserving them.

• A tapestry picture attracts Nicholas eye among the thousand and one things appeared in the room. and he lived in that living and breathing story ,imagining many more things.

• Children possess a powerful imagination and it it blooms when it et acceptance. But majority of the elders persuade children to be subjugated and mechanical.

• While Nicholas seek pleasure from the limitless treasures of lumber room, Aunt suspects about his sudden disappearance and calls Nicholas by his name.

• Nicholas smiles in the lumber room with the joy of misleading aunt.

• The climax of the story can be seen in the scene of rain water tank. Aunt shrieks to Nicholas loudly for help.

• Nicholas acts like he can't recognize aunt's voice and reject to obey her orders using some ironical utterances.

• The ones who expects to hurt someone should expect a hurt for themselves. and a sin one has engaged have boomeranged nature.

• A sudden change in the aunt's behavior takes place when she falls into a difficulty. Even a powerful can have a moment to depend on the help of powerless.

• Lumber room is a place which symbolizes imagination.

• Aunt's character symbolizes elders affinity to property and their orderliness.