Why do you think that the author of the lumber room Hector hugh Monroe use his wit and distinct style in the story?
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The humor of "The Lumber Room" arises from the perceptions of a humorless, single-minded, imperious aunt set against the free-spirited, imaginative and impish mind of the boy Nicholas. His aunt, a woman of ungovernable temper, imperious, a moral coward, possessing no brains worth speaking of, and a primitive disposition.
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Only that morning he had refused to eat his wholesome bread-and-milk on the seemingly frivolous ground that there was a frog in it. Older and wiser and better people had told him that there could not possibly be a frog in his bread-and-milk and that he was not to talk nonsense; he continued, nevertheless, to talk what seemed the veriest nonsense, and described with much detail the coloration and markings of the alleged frog. The dramatic part of the incident was that there really was a frog in Nicholas’s basin of bread-and-milk; he had put it there himself, so he felt entitled to know something about it. The sin of taking a frog from the garden and putting it into a bowl of wholesome bread-and-milk was enlarged on at great length, but the fact that stood out clearest in the whole affair, as it presented itself to the mind of Nicholas, was that the older, wiser, and better people had been proved to be profoundly in error in matters about which they had expressed the utmost assurance.
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