Stylistic Analysis Of The Text A Friend In Need By Maugham W

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A Friend In Need.

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.
And if you like such kind of stories I advice you to read it and don’t make such mistakes in life.