Jerome K. Jerome “A Victim to One Hundred and Seven Fatal Maladies”

The text is pen by an English generator and humorist Jerome K. Jerome, best known for the comic travelogue Three work force in a Boat. The drool is most iodin untried healthy men who thought he became a victim to whizz hundred and s yet fatal maladies. The story is written by a humorist, thats why it contains a lot of different unmated moments and excess stylistic devises. The first one we met al seey in the name of the story A victim to one hundred and seven fatal maladies. This dialect has an ironical tone. We understand that one cosmos cant confine one hundred and seven fatal maladies at once.The title let us to understand that something will be wrong with the main feature, unless probably the author will just ridicule certain grapheme of people. So, one humans after discipline some medical books obdurate that he had all of fatal diseases at once, and came to the doctor to state approximately his trouble. The doctor said nothing but wrote a prescription, which helped the tolerant to recover, condescension it didnt contain any medicaments. The story can be split into 3 logical parts story proper, climax and mischance.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 unanimous information about the central character of the story. Generally, the text is built roughly such human character trait as hypochondria. The author chose an elicit way to describe this mental instability the square text is written with irony. We can feel it already in the beginning of the story I sat for a while frozen with horror and than in hopelessness I again turned over the pages.I came to typhoid fever read the symptoms discovered that I had typhoid fever began to get interested in my case, and so killed alphabetically and the only disease I had not got was wet nurses knee. After these words we understand wha t kind of man is the main person and may be smb. found himself in it. Its very funny story to read about the man who thought he had all the diseases of the world, but honestly speaking if I was on his bottom I would be scary because of all these diseases.The main person strike me because in spite of such number of diseases he didnt cry, ejaculate or go into hysteric, conversely he apples to himself with irony. We can feel it in his thoughts and statements I sat and thought what an interesting case I must(prenominal) be from a medical point of view. Students would have no lack to walk the hospitals if they had me. I was a hospital in myself. All they convey do would be to walk round me, and, after that, start out their parchment or during the conversation with the doctor I will not take up your cartridge holder, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me.Life is short and you might mutter away forwards I had finished. But I will tell you what is not the matter with me. Everything else, however, I have got. I remember that hypochondria of the main personage is in a bad case, because he had not only all the symptoms of the diseases he had read in the book, but even thought up several complications. To describe this the author used antithesis I tried to examine myself. I tangle 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 made it a 100 and 47 to the minute. I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. It had stopped beating. The climax of irony and self-irony of the story, I hypothesise, is in these 2 phrases I had walked into the reading-room a quick, healthy man. I crawled out a miserable wreck. Its very funny and very dismal simultaneous, because we understand that the only disease this man had was his mental instability.And the main character itself understood that he was absolutely happy and healthy man before he read about the disea ses, 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 visiting of the doctor through the situation in the chemists up to recovery of the main person. The key lineament 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 funny prescription, because he knew that suspicious people like to treat themselves and he knew that the patient would follow each 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 spot at 11 every night, and, lo and behold, I followed the directions with the happy result that my brio was preserved and is still goi ng on.Happy end ? So, the story is over, but I think it is the end only for one part of the whole story, I mean the story of the personages life. I think it is not the end, because the question 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 claver not with subject matter experts but with mental specialists, and only in this case they will have chance to become really happy and healthy.