Texto de TanyaDudkina -
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friend in need
- The author's communicative aim is to make us reconsider our attitude to our close surrounding, he means our friends.
- The theme of this story is friendship.
- The authors raises different acute problems between friends: a problem of wrong in others, a problem of misunderstanding, a poblem of belive and inbelieve and so on.
- The title of this story is symbolic.
- It shows us excerpt from proverb: a friend in need is a friend indeed.
- At the beginning of this story the author describes his thoughts about the fact that the 1st impression of a man is always deceptive.
- In this he found in his personal life experiences.
- It's an exposition.
- The action takes place in Kobe.
- In the plot of this story the author talks us how he remembers one of the stories connected with his friend, who is named Edward Hyde Burton.
- Burton is a pleasant man with good manners as he always considers.
- The authors shows him indirectly.The author thinks that he is a gentle, kind and not conflict person.
- Also he has a very friendly family who looks like as a united and loving one.
- Burton tells Maugham story of his namesake - Lenny Burton who is a remarkable player of 35 years old. and doesn't have money to pay his hotel bill and in need of money and work.
- During their conversation his friend knows that this player in yputh is not a bad swimmer, but over the years has lost skills.
- At this moment Burton has the idea to invite him to a dispute that his namesake lose.
- It's the climacs of this story.
- The out come of this story is the last Burton's actions in which he shows the essence of a cynical and cowardly man.
- TanyaDudkina
September 2015
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