Read the excerpt from "the storyteller." the frown on the bachelor's face was deepening to a scowl. he was a hard, unsympathetic man, the aunt decided in her mind. she was utterly unable to come to any satisfactory decision about the grass in the other field. how does the characterization of the aunt contribute to the satire? she tries hard to others. she observes the people around her. she misinterprets the reactions of others. she pays too much attention to others’ opinions.

The answer is: she misinterprets the reactions of others.

The aunt, accompanied by three small kids - her nephew and two nieces - is riding the train on the same carriage as the bachelor. While observing the man, she decides in her mind that he is hard and unsympathetic due to his scowling.

The aunt is judging the bachelor’s reaction and, at the same time, she is afraid that he might be judging her and the children. She’s concerned that the man thinks her nephew and nieces are impolite children and that their aunt doesn’t educate them properly.

The bachelor is, however, merely astounded by her inefficiency when it comes to answering the children’s constant questions about everything they see in an interesting enough way to keep them quiet and focused.

When he finally voices his opinion, the aunt invites him to tell the children a story, which she has just tried to do, but unsuccessfully. He does so and is deeply appreciated by the children, for his story does not intend to teach them some moral lesson – like the aunt’s did- but only to keep them entertained.

she misinterprets the reactions of others

Explanation:

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

i hope to be of

teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.

citizens are given 25 years of life to prove their worth to society; if they fail to do great things