With the Photographer — Chapter Summary
ICSE · Class 10 · English Literature-Treasure Chest ( Poems and Short Stories)
Summary of With the Photographer for ICSE Class 10 English Literature-Treasure Chest. Part of the ICSE Class 10 English Literature-Treasure Chest syllabus.
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Stephen Leacock’s "With the Photographer" is a humorous satirical sketch about a narrator who visits a photographer’s studio for a simple portrait and ends up being completely transformed by retouching. The story builds comedy through the photographer’s pompous confidence, his criticism of the narra
Key Concepts
The narrator is self
The narrator is self-deprecating, mild-mannered, and ordinary. He goes to the studio for a simple portrait but becomes increasingly upset as the photo
The photographer treats his work as
The photographer treats his work as high art and speaks with great self-importance. He finds faults in the narrator’s ears, eyes, mouth, and nose, the
The photographer values an idealised image
The photographer values an idealised image more than actual resemblance. His famous defence, 'Which would you rather have — a good photograph or a goo
The story becomes funnier as
The story becomes funnier as the criticism and retouching increase. Each stage is more extreme than the previous one, until the narrator sees a strang
The final photograph is polished
The final photograph is polished and handsome, but it is not a photograph of the narrator. The narrator says, 'That’s not me,' and realises there is n
Learning Objectives
- To understand the central idea of humour mixed with satire
- To identify how the photographer’s behaviour creates comic effect
- To analyse the contrast between a good photograph and a true likeness
- To understand the narrator’s distress and the irony of the ending
- To recognise Leacock’s style of gentle, good-natured humour
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