Comparing Like The Sun And The Open Window

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"Like the Sun" and "The Open Window" are compelling short stories in different ways, but they hold more similarities than you may realize. "Like the Sun" is a short story based around a teacher named Sekhar who tells only the truth for a day and faces the consequences of it. "The Open Window" is a short story about a man named Framton Nuttel who goes to the countryside in order to calm his nerves and receives a frighting ghost tale instead. "Like the Sun" and "The Open Window" are both short stories that have similarities and differences in the ways that they deal with truth and deception. One similarity between "Like the Sun" and "The Open Window" is that both Sekhar's and Vera's results are negative. "'You gave me ten days, sir, for…show more content…
"She rattled on cheerfully about the shooting and scarcity of birds, and the prospects for duck in the winter. To Framton, it was all purely horrible." (Saki 87) Vera told Framton that the her uncle, brothers, and dog died three years ago while hunting, so when Mrs. Sappleton starts talking about the hunting season and her husband hunting, Framton becomes terrified. Another similarity between the two short stories is that other characters react strongly to the voice of what they believe is true. "At home his wife served him with a sullen face. He knew she was still angry with him for his remark of the morning." ( Narayan 84) Sekhar told his wife that morning that her cooking was terrible instead of telling her that he wasn't hungry like he usually did." Framton grabbed wildly at his stick and hat; the hall door, the gravel drive, and the front gate were dimly noted stages in his headlong retreat." ( Saki 88) Framton saw them walking home from hunting and thought it was the ghosts Vera told him
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