Анализ текста "The Passionate Year"

The text under interpretation is the extract from novel “The Passionate Year” by James Hilton. First of all let me start with some words about the author. So James Hilton was an outstanding and best -selling English writer of the 20th century. He made a great contribution to the world literature. And the facts that his novel “Good bye Mr Chips was dramatized and filmed, and more over his novel “Lost Horizon “ was awarded the Hawrthornden Prize prove his contribution. Besides these two novels James Hilton was famous for such his works as “We are not alone”, “Random Harvest”, “Nothing so strange”, “Time and Time again” etc.

So, the main characters of the text, whose dispositions and behaviours arebrightly disclosed with the help of mixed type of character drawing, are Kenneth Speed, a young Master at a Millstead Boarding School for boys, sweet-faced but impudent pupils Worsley and Naylor. The minor characters are other pupils in the class and Clanwell.

The author with the help of third person narration with the elements of description an dialogue told about the trials which a young teacher Speed had to suffer and overcome during the first night he took prep. Including only few hours of Speed’s workday the text touches upon the problem of such challenge for a teacher as gaining a firm standing from the very beginning. This text impressed me greatly.First of all I liked the plot of the text. It was very interesting for me as for a future teacher by training to watch (follow) Speed's behaviour in difficult situations. I also admired Hilton’s skill to convey atmosphere of what was going and to hold reader’s attention.

The author informed us that preparation for the whole school was held in Millstead Big Hall in which desks were ranged in long rows and where Master in charge sat at a desk on raised dais. And it was Speed’s turn to be a Master in charge. It is necessary to mention that it was his first experience. And Speed was warned that he might be ragged by