'A victim to one hundred and seven fatal maladies\r'

'A dupe to oneness speed of light and vii smutty maladies”. The text is written by an English writer and humorist Jerome K. Jerome, best cognize for the comic travelogue â€Å"Three Men in a Boat”. The written report is ab bulge one young healthy men who concept he became â€Å"a victim to one hundred and s charge fatal maladies”. The yarn is written by a humorist, thats why it contains a lot of different laughable moments and special stylistic devises. The first one we met already in the name of the invoice â€Å"A victim to one hundred and seven fatal maladies”. This joint has an ironical tone.We insure that one populace croupet nominate one hundred and seven fatal maladies at once. The utle let us to understand that several(prenominal)thing impart be wrong with the main character, nevertheless probably the precedent will Just ridicule certain fiber of people. So, one musical composition after instruction some medical books decided t hat he had either of fatal affections at once, and came to the ready to aver ab turn out his trouble. The doctor said nonhing solely wrote a prescription, which helped the diligent to recover, despite it didnt contain both medicaments. The story give notice be dlvlded Into 3 logical parts †story proper, climax and denouement.The story has no exposition, because it begins directly with activity of the main character, who was sitting in the library and reading a book about diseases. In the story proper we knew the whole Information about the aboriginal character of the story. Generally, the text is built around such human character trait as hypochondria. The former chose an Interesting way to describe this mental derangement †the whole text is written with Irony, We can intent it already In the beginning of the story: â€Å"l sat for a while frozen with inconsistency; and than in despair I again move over the pages.I came to typhoid fever ” read the sy mptoms †iscovered that I had typhoid fever †began to get interested in my case, and so started alphabetically… and the but disease I had not got was housemaids knee”. After these words we understand what kind of man is the main person and may be smb. found himself in it. Its very idiotic to read about the man who thought he had all the diseases of the world, but honestly speaking if I was on his place I would be shuddery because of all these diseases.The main person impressed me because in spite of such number of diseases he didnt cry, jest at or go Into hysteric, conversely he apples to himself with irony. We can olfactory perception it in his thoughts and statements: â€Å"l sat and thought what an interesting case I mustiness be from a medical point of view. Students would have no need to â€Å" walkway the hospitals” if they had me. was a hospital in myself. All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma† or during the conversation with the doctor â€Å"l will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the issuance with me.Life is short and you might pass away ahead I had finished. But I will tell you what is not the proceeds with me. Everything else, however, I have got”. say that hypochondria of the main personage is in a bad ase, because he had not only all the symptoms of the diseases he had read in the t Of2 000K, out even tnougnt up several compllcatlons. 10 aescrlDe tnls tne autnor usea antithesis: â€Å"l tried to examine myself. I felt my pulse. I could not at first feel any pulse at all.Then, all of sudden, it seemed to start off. I pulled out my watch and timed it. I do ita 100 and 47 to the minute. I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. It had stopped flogging”. The climax of irony and self-irony of the story, I estimate, is in these 2 phrases †â€Å"l had walked into the reading-room a halcyon, healthy man. I raw led out a miserable wreck”. Its very extraordinary and very sad simultaneous, because we understand that the only disease this man had was his mental instability.And the main character itself mum that he was absolutely clever and healthy man before he read about the diseases, but after it he felt totally ill, even though he understood nothing in medicine and he could not determine if he had those symptoms or not. The denouement of the story comes gradually from the visit of the doctor through the situation in the apothecarys shop up to recovery of the main person. The key image here played the doctor. He knew our personage for a long time and was his old chum, that is why he immediately understood what was going on and what was the matter with the patient.The doctor knew an approach to this person. He wrote such a queer prescription, because he knew that suspicious people the likes of to treat themselves and he knew that the patient would follow apiece word he wrote in the prescription. And the focus succeeded †the man ate 1 pound beefsteak and drank 1 pint bear every 6 hours, made 1 ten-mile walk every morning, and took 1 bed at 11 every night, and, 10 and behold, †â€Å"l followed the directions with the happy result that y life was preserved and is unchanging going on”.Happy end 0 So, the story is over, but I think it is the end only for one part of the whole story, I think up the story of the personages life. I think it is not the end, because the doubt is the difficult mental trouble and one funny prescription cant solve this seriously problem. I think that man would be happy and healthy until he read one more book or article or watched a TV-show about a new fatal disease. People with such problems must consult not with subject matter experts but with mental specialists, and only in this case they will have chance to become really happy and healthy.\r\n'