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    The document summarizes a short story called "Doctor in the House" by Richard Gordon about his experience taking his final medical examinations. It describes the exams as being like a death sentence for students and a contest between the students and examiners. The story is divided into parts that describe the students' preparation, the written and oral exam process, the anxiety of waiting for results, and the relief of passing. The climax comes when the main character's name is called to learn his results, and the story ends with him receiving the single word "Pass."

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    The document summarizes a short story called "Doctor in the House" by Richard Gordon about his experience taking his final medical examinations. It describes the exams as being like a death sentence for students and a contest between the students and examiners. The story is divided into parts that describe the students' preparation, the written and oral exam process, the anxiety of waiting for results, and the relief of passing. The climax comes when the main character's name is called to learn his results, and the story ends with him receiving the single word "Pass."

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    The document summarizes a short story called "Doctor in the House" by Richard Gordon about his experience taking his final medical examinations. It describes the exams as being like a death sentence for students and a contest between the students and examiners. The story is divided into parts that describe the students' preparation, the written and oral exam process, the anxiety of waiting for results, and the relief of passing. The climax comes when the main character's name is called to learn his results, and the story ends with him receiving the single word "Pass."

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    S.

    Komashko 403

    Analysis of the text “Doctor in the House”


    The text under analysis is named “Doctor in the House” and written by a famous
    English writer Richard Gordon, whose real name is Gordon Stanley Benton.
    Speaking about general characteristics of an extract, it is a 1 st-person narration with
    the descriptive elements and dialogues. An account of events interwoven with a
    humorous and ironical description of such an important thing in students’ life as
    final exams.
    The text is about the author’s experience in passing his final medical examinations,
    comprising it with death, about his methods of preparation for it. Also the author
    describes the different attitudes of students to the event, showing various types of
    examinees, and the procedure of the exams itself, which consists of two parts:
    written papers and the viva, the most unpopular part. At the end of the text Richard
    Gordon gives a detailed description of his state and thoughts waiting for the
    announcing of the results and finally gets through.
    The text “Doctor in the House” can be divided into some logical parts.
     The story begins with the exposition were the author shows students’
    attitude to the exam, comprising it with death and a straight contest between
    students and examiners: “To a medical student the final examinations are
    something like death: an unpleasant inevitability to be faced sooner or
    later…”; “…they are a straight contest between himself and the
    examiners…”. Also in this part the description of the preparation for the
    event is given: “Meanwhile, we despondently ticked the days off the
    calendar, swotted up the spot questions, and ran a final breathless sprint
    down the well -trodden paths of medicine”.
     The second part of the text is devoted to the description of the prosses of
    passing the exams, consisting of written papers and an oral exam, the second
    part of the event: “The examination began with the written papers”; “The
    unpopular oral examination was held a week after the papers. A single
    invigilator sat in his gown and hood on a raised platform to keep an eye
    open for flagrant cheating.”; “But the viva is judgment day.”
    In this portion of the text Richard Gordon describes also student’s feeling
    after the exams, especially his thoughts and emotions, gives us a general
    picture of the candidates and tells about students’ expectation for the results:
    “I walked down the stairs feeling as if I had just finished an eight-round
    fight.”; “The days after the viva were black ones. It was like having a severe
    accident. For the first few hours I was numbed, unable to realize what had
    hit me. Then I began to wonder if I would ever make a recovery and win
    through.” The examination results were to be published at noon.”; One
    minute to twelve. The room had suddenly come to a frightening, unexpected
    silence and stillness, like an un-exploded bomb.”; “My palms were as wet
    as sponges.”
    S. Komashko 403

    The climax of the story begins with the moment when the porter call
    Richard Gordon out and he goes to the Secretary: “I jumped and struggled
    my way to the front of the restless crowd. My pulse shot in my ears.”; “The
    world stood still. The traffic stopped, the plants ceased growing, men were
    paralysed, the clouds hung in the air, the winds dropped, the tides
    disappeared, the sun halted in the sky.”
     The denouement is quit elliptical and comes with the word “Pass”. This word
    stunnes Richard and puts an end to his experiences . “Blindly, like a man just
    hit by blackjack, I stumbled upstairs.”

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