As for me I have already heard about this author but haven’t read his works before/ And after reading this text I have become interested with his works.
So this text is about terrible feelings and fears which overtake the medical students during the final examination within the rules of educational system which seems to be convenient for the students for the first sight. So here the question arises why do the students have such inner state? And here I can guess about the problem to be the imperfection of the educational system.
The main characters of the text are the narrator called Richard Gordon who is rather serious and responsible young man, his friend Grymsdyke who is light-minded unlike Richard. The friends are medical students/ There are also minor characters, they are the examiners? Secretary of the Committee and his porters.
From the first person narration, which makes the text more emotional and subjunctive we lear the final examination for medical students to be displeasing event to be faced sooner or later. Though the authorities considered the exam to be a check of man’s knowledge conducted in fair and convenient way for both sides (students and examiners) the examination was a struggle for students where the were to be professionals.
Such bright epithets as unpleasant inevitability, fighting spirit, similar examinations are like death, like a prize-fighter, metaphor straight contest prove the exams to be the worst and the most awful things which a student could have. But why was such students’ attitude? To