Saki’s Purpose

In Saki's story The Storyteller the aunt tells the children an rather boring and meaningless story to try to calm them down. By the end of the story the children only got more feisty and started to ask more questions regarding the story. In the story their aunt told them a good kind girl was saved from mad bulls by a number of rescuers because of her good heart. The children began to ask if she would have been saved even if she wasn't good. This caused a larger discussion on the matter and the carriage became more chaotic. Then when the Bachelor told the children his story, the children actually liked it and this made the aunt angry. The aunt was angry at how the Bachelor told a unusual and improper story, which had a better effect than the one that the aunt told. The aunt's story was all happy ending and normal nothing different form any other stories the kids have already heard. However because the Bachelor's story was different and surprising ending the children admired it and called it the best story, and it also kept them quiet for 10 minutes. In the both stories the kids ask questions to the events that happen or details they just heard. The aunt would just use the "because because" why to answer which kept the children annoyed by the detail and on the other hand the Bachelor answered the children with reasonable answers that the children agreed to. Therefore the children didn't complain and loved his story.

Saki being a child during the time similar to which the story was set in his guardians were strict about what he does and also about what he hears or sees. This relates to his story The Storyteller because it shows how the teachings were like back then and also how he would have liked it to be or how it has changed.