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Transcript of English 102 H. H. Munro Saki
H. H. Munro
or
“Saki’
Quick Facts
NAME: Hector Hugh Munro OCCUPATION: Author BIRTH: December 18, 1870 DEATH: Nov. 14, 1916 PLACE OF BIRTH: Akyab, Myanmar PLACE OF DEATH: France
AKA: Saki
Birthplace Burma
Birthplace: Akyab, Myanmar
Burma
Consulted Sources:
Source #1: http://www.biography.com/people/hh-munro-Source #2: http://www.online-literature.com/hh-munro/Source #3: http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-Source #4: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/saki.htmSource #5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki
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Personal Details
Father Military Police OfficerMother Educated home maker
died young: miscarriage
Hector 2 yearsGrew up: Grandmother and Aunt
Puritanical strict
Careerspoliceman political satirist foreign
correspondent full-time writer London
Careers (con’t)
military service: British Armycavalry and infantry = WW Irefused commissionsWorld War I German sniper
Last words: "Put that bloody cigarette out.”
Origin of Name: "Saki,"
Cupbearer in “The Rubayat “
(ancient Persian Poem)
by Omar Khayyam
Writings
primarily short stories
whimsical humor
odd and eerie
hypocrisy and banality
Saki’s characters :capriciousnesseccentric behaviorodd situations quick wits
Saki’s style: clever remarkscynical and satirical
views artificiality of Edwardian
societysurprise endingsfeaturing children
Edwardian Society 1901- 1910
Edwardian Society 1901- 1910
Queen Victoria’s son Edward reins
fashionable elite style
influenced by art and fashions of Europe
Travels widely
Political changes
laborers and women politicized
power and influence
Saki’s best-known short story
Plot: drawing-room of upper-class village house
girl of fifteen
eerie family tragedy tale
highly strung visitor shocked
“a master of the short story”
Compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker
Influenced by
Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling
He influencedA. A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
Noël Coward
P. G. Wodehouse