The Lumber Room

The ‘Lumber Room’ is  a fine short story written by Saki a famous writer reveals his great knowledge of man’s inner world. He is known for featuring children in his story and makes the stories came alive. There for Hector Hugh Munro who’s pen name Saki is widely acclaimed for his short stories. 

There are two main characters in the prose. One is the Aunt who represents adult’s world. Another one is the little orphan Nicholas who was trusted to his tyrannical and dull-witted aunt. He duped his Aunt as he was in disgrace. He made her believe that he was somehow trying to get into the gooseberry garden.

The Nightingale & the Rose

In this story too young male student became smitten by the daughter of a professor who would only dance with him if he brought her a red rose. The cries of the young man are heard by a Nightingale who thought that finally, he has met a true lover.Nightingale who thought that finally, he has met a true lover.by the daughter of a professor who would only dance with him if he brought her a red rose. The cries of the young man are heard by a Nightingale who thought that finally, he has met a true lover.

“Here, at last, is the true lover”

Hence the bird sacrifices herself by pressing the heart against a thorn of a rose tree. It is symbolically wild paradigm that love must be sacrificial.

The Lahore Attack

‘The Lahore Attack’ comes under the prose passage is an extract from Kumar Sangakkara’s Colin Cowdrey Lecture delivered on 5th of July 2011 at lords. As a Sri Lankan cricketer he had the right to deliver his lecture at this event touching on history, culture and opportunities for Sri Lanka as well as a moving recounting of the terrorist attack on their team, in a bus in Lahore-Pakistan. Being multilingual and a fluent speaker of English, Sanga’s speech was a very eloquent speech packed with emotionally charged expressions. He has delivered his ideas about his role as a cricketer, his patriotism towards his native land, his relationship with his team members and others. It is a unique and genuine expression of Kumar about the responsibility as a leader, a leader in the cricket. Moreover, it brings out the qualities of Sangakkara as a great Sri Lankan and a great humanist to the world.