In the name of God

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In the name of God
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Book oral reproduction of stories (2)

• Story Sredni vashtar
• Author H.H.Munro(saki)
• Student Narges Bourouni
• Master Mrs.Farzaneh

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SakiHector Hugh Munro(18 December 1870- 13
November 1916) , better known by the pen name
Saki , and also frequently as H.H.Munro , was a
British writer whose witty , mischievous and
sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian
society and culture . He is considered a master
of the short story , and often compared to
O.Henry and Dorothy Parker . Influenced by Oscar
Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling , he
himself influenced A.A.Milne, Noel Coward and
P.G.Wondehouse.
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SakiWriterHector Hugh Munro, better known by
the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H.
Munro, was a British writer whose witty,
mischievous and sometimes macabre stories
satirize Edwardian society and culture.
WikipediaBorn December 18, 1870, Sittwe,
Myanmar (Burma)Died November 13, 1916,
Beaumont-Hamel, FranceNickname H. H. MunroFull
name Hector Hugh MunroMovies Sredni Vashtar,
Conrad the Wise, Window
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Besides his short stories (which were first
published in newspapers , as was customary at the
time, and then collected into several volumes ) ,
he wrote a full-length play , The Watchard Pot ,
in collaboration with Charles Maude two one-act
plays a historical study, The Rise of the
Russian Empire , the only book published under
his own name a short novel, The Unbearable
Bassington the episodic The Wastminster Alice (a
parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland) and
When William Came , subtitled A story of London
Under the Hohenzollerns , a fantasy about a
future German invasion and occupation of Britain.
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is a short story written by Saki (Hector Hugh
Munro) between 1900 and 1914 and initially
published in his book Best and super-Beasts. It
has been adapted into a short film and a TV
drama. The story is about someones worship that
it contains Hindu elements.
Sredni Vashtar
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AdaptationsThe story was adapted by the Author
Richard Adams and the Composer Robert Steadman
into an opera. Surprisingly , this story inspired
film directors of the Republic three time. Vaclav
Bedrich made a cartoon film in 1980 . Martin
Faltyn made a graduating featuring movie in 1981
(graduating VGIK) and in 1995 also pavel Marek
made this story like a graduating film on FAMU.
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This story was also adapted to American
television and aired on a ghost anthology series
called Great Ghost tales in the summer of
1961.It was also adapted with two other Saki
stories in a 2007 broadcast on BBC4 titled who
killed Mrs. De Ropp?
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Sredni Vashtar in Hindi (Indian language spoken
by 500 million people) , Sherni means Tigers .
Vashtar is a region of india with hills and
forests. Sherni Vashtar in Hindi means The
Tigress of Vastar region. Sredni Vashtar is
probably a distorted spelling of Sherdni Vashtar.
Saki had strong connections with India.
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Summary

• This story concerns a 10 year old boy called
  Conradin , who lives with his strict cousin and
  guardian, Mrs .De Ropp. Conradin rebels against
  her and invents a new religion for himself ,
  which centres around idolisting a polecat-ferret
  he calls Sredni Vashtar a Vengeful , merciless
  God. Conradin keeps the polecat hidden in a cage
  in the garden shed , and worships the idol in
  secret . The story comes to a climax when his
  cousin sets out to discover his God.

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He would not live another 5 YEARS of his life
because he is sick. He creats a fantasy religious
cult in a garden shed , where his idols are a hen
and a ferret . He is a lonely and imaginative
young boy. One day he bought a polecat-ferret and
named it Sredni Vashtar . Conradin lived with
Mr.De Rope his guardian. She is the one who took
care of conradin and responsible to serve shelter
, food and clothes for conradin .
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Although they lived together , Mrs.De Ropp
dislikes conradin . She never shows her concern
toward conradin. In the story , conradin keeps
two animals in backyard shed which is a hen and a
ferret. But , Mrs.De Ropp discovers the hen and
told to Conradin that she has sold the hen to the
butcher . When his guardian gets rid of his hen ,
he prays to the ferret for revenge . sredni
vashtar is like a God for conradin .
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One day , Mrs.De Ropp realized that Conradin was
keeping something else from her in the shed where
Sredni Vashtar stayed. She goes to shed again .
At last she finds sredni vashtar while Conradin
prays to his God for safety of his ferret. She
went there to check it but she was been bitten in
the throat by the ferret , and died. sredni
vashtar bite her. The maid went to the shed and
shocked . She screamed out loudly as she
discovers the dead body of Mrs.De Ropp while
Conradin enjoys toast in the kitchen.
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Characters

• Conradin 10 year old- weary and
  bored alone obedient revengeful
  imaginative an inventor of new religious
• Mrs.De Ropp Conradins Cousin and
  guardian with necessary , disagreeable and real
  world in prepetual antagonism dictator
• Ceredni Vashtar God - strong
• The doctor not skillful and
  expert.
• The maid loyal and kind
• Protagonist Conradin
• Antagonism Mrs.De Ropp
• Narrator third person.

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Setting

• Place tools shed bedroom
• Time winter Cold afternoon
  dusk -

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Irony

1. Cheerless garden hopelessness or
   despair
2. Medicines were due become better and
   get more energy
3. The few fruit trees The only dim of
   hope that is difficult to catch.
4. dismal shrubbery sadness and sorrow
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5. Powdered nutmeg was strewn in front of his hutch
   victory.
6. The supply of nutmeg would have given out
   to gain a victory over and wish.

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• Darkness of his bedroom and evening of tool
  shed sadness of sunset
• Gardener manager lord.
• At the beginning of story Sredni
  Vashtar
  
  holly religious and God.
• At the end of the story His
  thoughts were red thoughts and his teeth were
  white
• ready to war and show the amour.

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Symbolsunset sadness and
disappoinment, The growth of nutmeg and every
other plant hope

• Climax
• The story comes to a climax when his cousin sets
  out to discovery his God.

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Moral points

1. Dont succumb to the mastering of every violence
   and force.
2. Hope o the thing that you believe . (God)
3. some times Gods will is against humans foresee
   and maybe a hopeless rescue from an illness so
   believe strongly.

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Idiom

• Flesh and blood alive
• With and injured air observing to speak
  allusively or sarcastically blow with a
  word.
• One day she made a further journey of inspection
  to consider and search a place or something.

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A proverb from gospel

• Ask, and it shall be given you
• Seek , and ye shall find
• Knock , and it shall be opened unto you.

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plot

• Mrs.De Ropp cause Conradin to be fearful,
  hopeless and disappointed against his illness ,
  but finally she died fearfully sooner and
  Conradin rescue from his illness.

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theme

• If you have God for a friend , you need no other
  .
• If you have strong belief of God , your prayer
  and wishes will be granted.

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conflict

• Internal Conradin takes
  vengeance on Mrs.De Ropp .
• He dislike his guardian .
• External conflict He is
  obedient in front of Mrs.De Ropp.

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For discussions

• Part 1
• All coradins shrine , for he was a God who laid
  some special on the fierce impatienet side of
  things , as apposed to the womans religion.
• Coradins afraid of the lithe sharp-fanged beast
  , but it was his most treasured possession .
• Your God is you most treasured possession.
• Part 2
• Strong belief of God cause every one to be calm.
• Please refer to the teqnic of litreture.

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New words
Word phonetic Definition
acute adj severe
antagonism n animosty
ajar Adj / adv Half open
pronounce v declare
silky adj Soft and smooth
endorse v confirm
succumb v surrender
rampant adj Beyond control
inmate n prisoners
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New words
Word phonetic Definition
wistful adj Sad and longing
lull v silence
ransack v search
peered v looked
dub v named
malady n illness
dashing adj depressing
outlet n store
pluck v remove
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New words
Word phonetic Definition
spur n pressure
perpetual adj Ever lasting
boon n favor
ejaculation n exclamation
blaze V / n shine
effet Adj / n weak
idol n Some one you admire very much
pester v annoying