I have read an extract from the book under the title “A friend in need” by William Somerset Maugham. To start with I"d like to draw your attention to the author of this story. William Somerset Maugham is an outstanding English writer. He is best known by his short stories: "The man with scar", "Louisa", "Home", "A Woman of Fifty" and many others. The story is a relationship type with some psychological elements. It is a drama story. The tone of the story is tragic with melancholic and emotional slant. The extract is written in a matter of fact way. The subject matter of the story is drawn from life and deals with the problem of true friendship. To my mind, the title of the story is an allusion to a well-known “a friend in need is a friend indeed” and the author dropped the second parts of this proverb on purpose. The scene is laid on the island near the creek of Tarumi. The story touches upon the problem of relationship between people, namely it presents a broad panorama of the friendship between two men. The story under consideration presents a third person narration. Summary. This story is about the man who has had bad luck at cards. He doesn’t have any many and he is in a bad condition because has been drink a lot. He comes to his successful and prosperous friend and asks him for a job. But he can’t do anything except swimming. The friend agrees to give him a job on condition that he swims round the beacon, which he knows is impossible to do in such a bad condition. The young man has nothing to do but agree. He gets drown, but his friend doesn’t express any regret. It turns out that he just hasn’t got a vacancy in his office. The text falls into 3 logically connected parts. The first part is the exposition, the second part is rising action and the last part is climax followed by denouement. The author begins his story by describing the appearance and personality one of the friends. The author creates the atmosphere of hidden envy, hate, taunt and lies on the part of Burton to his friend who has careless lifestyle, catches admiring glances of women and has prosperity of money. The second part tells presents the conversation between two friends one of which is in a difficult situation and another has a chance to help him. The author describes the situation in a sarcastic way. Burton tries humiliate his friend and mocked in every possible way. The climax lies in the sentence ““Done”, he said. We shook hands. I wish him good luck and he left me" and is followed by denouement. To make the story more realistic and vivid the author employs different stylistic devices: "Epithets": “well-dressed”, “smart-looking”, “pink-and white cheeks” (to describe the appearance of the young man); “kindly little chuckle” (to show Burton’s manner to his friend); “pretty good swimmer” (to describe the character when he was young); “trifle shocked” (to show emotional states of Burton after the accident); “kind and candid blue eyes” (to describe Burton’s appearance). “Special choice of words”: “be down and out”, “be all to pieces” (to show the internal emotional state of the man) "Syntactic parallelism alongside with repetition": "He didn"t move. He went rather pale. He hesitated for a moment and then told me that he had had bad luck at cards for some time. He hadn"t been willing to stick to bridge, he"d been playing poker, and he"d got trimmed. He hadn"t a penny. He"d pawned everything he had. He couldn"t pay his hotel bill and they wouldn"t give him any more credit. He was down and out. If he couldn"t get something to do he"d have to commit suicide." (to show how desperate the situation was). The protagonist of the story is one of the friends described by the author both directly and indirectly through his appearance and the actions when he was young. (/He wasn"t a bad chap. I liked him. He was always well-dressed and smart-looking. He was handsome in a way, with curly hair and pink-and white cheeks. Women thought a lot of him. There was no harm in him, you know, he was only wild. Of course he drank too much. Those sort of fellows always do. A bit of money used to come in for him once a quarter and he made a bit more by card-playing. He won a good deal of mine, I know that/) So, we see the man as an avid gamer, lascivious and outgoing guy who doesn’t know the price of money. The antagonist of the story is Burton. The author describes him both directly and indirectly through his attitude to his friend. (/ I suppose that is why he came to me when he went broke, that and the fact that he was a namesake of mine. He came to see me in my office one day and asked me for a job. I was rather surprised. He told me that there was no more money coming from home and he wanted to work. I asked him how old he was/). This person makes an impression of envious, slippery and false man. The main idea of the extract is to show that not every friend is a true friend. A True friend will be with you when you have a problem, he\she will always help you. This story teaches us to be tolerant to each other, to help our friends in every way, because we can also find ourselves in difficult situation.
Lenkova Katerina, 221 group Text analysis A FRIEND IN NEED by William Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was an English playwright, writer and author of many books including A Friend In Need. His popularity lies in the fact that by early 1930"s he had become the highest paid author of his era. During the peak of his popularity, Maugham also earned praise as one of the most significant travel writers. During his life he went through World War I and I I. For half a decade, Maugham studied medicine. Though, the experience would continue to influence his writing for the rest of his life. He achieved a great success as a novelist with such novels as «Of Human Bondage», «The Razor`s Edge » a dramatist with his plays «Our Betters», «The Circle», but he is best known by his short stories. They are cool and pessimistic but always fascinating. When Maugham described people and places in his stories, he did it mostly from his personal experience. The title of this story is the beginning of a well-known proverb: «A friend in need is a friend indeed». On the one hand, we can expect that the story is about friendship, for example, one friend has a problem and the other helps him to solve it. But, on the other hand, the title makes us think why the author gives only the first part of the proverb. In title the story seems to end positive, with happy end whereas the events of the story are tragic. This text tells us about two men who are namesakes. The action takes place in some office, where Burton the Elder is a prosperous businessman. Burton the Young, the poor card-player, asks him for help as he gets into trouble: he is down and out and close to commit suicide. That is why, he asks for a job. He is given a job but on an unusual condition wherefore Burton the Young dies. In my opinion, the problem of this story is both the appearance and manner of one person give the impression of a very different man. We should not draw a conclusion from the growth, from the look in the eyes, from the shape of the jaw, mouth of the person we meet. We should not consider first impressions of a person are always right. The second problem, as far as I am concerned, is everyone must strive for a good life by way of a healthy living, good breeding, job stability and hope only on yourself. No one is obliged to do something for someone. (Никто никому ничего не должен). The main idea is every person must shape his own future. Everything is depended on the person himself. Everyone must rely upon himself, because «Self-help is the best help». The story is first person narration with descriptive passages, portrayals of the characters (He was always well-dressed and smart-looking. He was handsome in a way, with curly hair and pink-white cheeks), and dialogues of the characters («I can swim, » he said. «Swim! ») The prevailing tone is dramatic, tragic, emotional, and pessimistic. The author underlines the matter-of-fact mood of Burton the Elder. He sends his fellow to his death on purpose. He doesn`t plan to employ his, because he even hasn`t a vacancy in his office. His actions are followed by complete indifference towards Burton the Young. (« I didn’t say anything, I shrugged my shoulders, he looked at me for a moment and then he nodded; I didn`t say anything for a moment or two, I was a trifle shocked; He gave a little mild chuckle and he looked at me with those kind blue eyes of his). He doesn’t confess his guilt. This story may be divided into the following four parts. The exposition presents appearance of one of the main characters in this story. All the details of his appearance speak of Burton the Young’s nature and lifestyle. (There was no harm in him…he drank too much…he was a card-player). The development of the plot is presented by the actions in the office. The climax is at the end of the story as « Done,-he said», it is the highest, the most dramatic point of the action that has the event of greatest interest and intensity. After climax we found the outcome of the story as « We shook hands. I wished him good luck and he left me… The currents round the beacon were more than he could manage. » Everything is made clear after these words. In the first part of the story there is litotes: «He wasn"t a bad chap. » this means an intentional use of understatement that renders an ironical effect. The author uses also an irony. Such as « Come back and see me in another 35 years and I’ll see what I can do». This is words of Burton the Elder. This phrase is full of mockery. There are quite a lot of epithets in the story (a kindly little chuckle, an insane answer, a pretty good swimmer). It helps in making the characteristics of a person, thing or place more prominent than they actually are. The author uses ellipsis («Swim! », «Done, » he said.) to allow the reader to understand an appropriate utterance, intonation by using their imagination. A metaphor is used in the story: « He rubbed his chin with his hand» - it means that he thought with some doubt. The grammatical peculiarities are expressed by a lot of short and elliptical sentences. For example: «Thirty five, » he said. «Swim! », «Done, » he said. The lexical peculiarities of the text are expressed by colloquial words (done, chap, fellow), bookish (hitherto, dissipation). The use of colloquial English helps to make the story more vivid. And, may be, the author uses bookish words in speech of Burton the Elder for showing his education to Burton the Young. It was not difficult for me to read this story, because its language is very emotional and at the same time is rather simple. The story doesn`t contain any special terms or complex structures. I liked the plot as it contains a great deal of the burning issues of those times when William Somerset Maugham lived and at the same time it deals with the problems nowadays. So it gives the readers food for thoughts making us analyze situations from everyday life.
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The author of the text is Maugham William Somerset, an English writer. He is best known by his short stories. The text under analysis is titled «A Friend In Need»
The subject of the extract is drown from life and deals with problems true friendship. The story has a narrative presentation with elements of dialog.
There are no the secondary characters. The main characters are 2 men.
This story is about one of them, the man who had had bad luck at cards. He was down and out and because of it he drunk a lot. He came to his namesake and asked him for a job. But he can’t do anything except swim. And Burton told him, if he swam round the beacon and landed at the creek of Tarumi he would give him a job. And despite of his bad condition after alcohol the hero agreed to do it. He was drowned, but Burton didn’t express any regret about him. He only rubbed his chin and say that he hadn’t got a vacancy in his office at that moment.
The text can be divided into 2 parts.
At the first part the scene ordinary laid at the Barton’s office. And in the second part author tells us of the death of the main character.
To support the emotional impact of the passage the author uses such colorful expression as (down and out, he was all to pieces, kindly little chuckle).
It was not difficult to read this story, because its language is very emotional and expressive and at the same time is rather simple. It doesn’t contain any special terms or complex constructions. And all this makes the story interesting to read. The story is rather instructive. The writer draws our attention to be tolerant of each other, to help our friends in any way, because we also can be in some hard situation.
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