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    John Galsworthy is a prominent English novelist, playwright and short-story writer, came from an upper middle-class family. He was edu¬cated at Harrow and Oxford and was called to the Bar. His first novel (From the Four Winds) was published in 1897, but it was The Man of Property that won him fame. Among his numerous novels The Forsyte Saga and A Modern Comedy are the most prominent. The Apple-Tree is one of the most popular long short stories written by John Galsworthy.

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    John Galsworthy is a prominent English novelist, playwright and short-story writer, came from an upper middle-class family. He was edu¬cated at Harrow and Oxford and was called to the Bar. His first novel (From the Four Winds) was published in 1897, but it was The Man of Property that won him fame. Among his numerous novels The Forsyte Saga and A Modern Comedy are the most prominent. The Apple-Tree is one of the most popular long short stories written by John Galsworthy.

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    THE APPLE-TREE

    John Galsworthy is a prominent English novelist, playwright and short-story


    writer, came from an upper middle-class family. He was educated at Harrow and
    Oxford and was called to the Bar. His first novel (From the Four Winds) was
    published in 1897, but it was The Man of Property that won him fame. Among his
    numerous novels The Forsyte Saga and A Modern Comedy are the most
    prominent. The Apple-Tree  is one of the most popular long short stories written by
    John Galsworthy.

    The whole novel can be divided into three parts:

    The first part is the introduction, when the author presents us the description
    of their appearance at the point of their journey.

    The author tells us about two young guys, Frank Ashurst and Robert Garton, who
    after their last year together at college were on a tramp.
    As their journey was too long and Ashurst’s  football knee had given out, they
    decided to find some place to put up, but there were no people and farms round
    them.

    The second part is the development, when they met a girl and she invites them
    to her farm.
    While they were sitting near the river and taking rest, a young girl was passing
    through the forest and invited them to her farm.
    Her image has stuck in the Ashurst’s mind so deep, that even when he took a rest
    on her farm, she still was in his memory.
    For the first sight we will not be able to find out some extraordinary problem or
    main line of this novel, but we all know that the most difficult things are the easiest
    to be founded or not be founded.
    Two close friends and very different in characters are regard the world in different
    ways. Ashurst idealistic and romantic, Robert –a practical man.
    They have a different picture of university, life and happy in their mind. The
    author shows this idea in the dialog when Ashurst asks a young girl about
    everything and Robert asks two simple and important questions: her name and if
    she can to shelter them.
    The difference between two friends is shown in the description of their
    appearance: Ashurst is pale, idealistic, full of absence; Garton is round-the-corner,
    knotted, curly, like some primeval beast. Both had a literary bent; neither wore a
    hat. Ashurst's hair was smooth, pale, wavy; and had a way of rising on either side
    of his brow, as if always being flung back; Garton's was a kind of dark un-
    fathomed mop.

    And the third part is the outcome , when Ashurst lies on the bank and thinks
    about different things.

    Besides, in order to reveal Ashurst’s feelings and meditation at the end of extract,
    the author uses enumeration of things which belong to different spheres: "He
    thought of Theocritus, and the river Cherwell, of the moon, and the maiden with
    dewy eyes".

    The author uses stylistic devices. First, there are a number of epithets in
    descriptions ("crisp voice", "round-the-corner", "dewy eyes"), idioms ("talking
    through his hat"), metaphors ("haven't met a soul for miles"), trite and genuine
    ("thin as rails", "like some primeval beast"). All these devices are used to create the
    atmosphere, to make the descriptions more artistic and underline the characters'
    peculiarities in a more accurate way. There are also some poetic words ("maiden").

    There is also a symbol in this story — the apple tree . In Celtic culture, the apple
    tree deals with love, truth, beauty, remembrance, purity. These meanings are only
    hinted at in this extract, but we can see them fully in the whole story.

    The message of the novel «The apple-tree» is to enjoy the things which you have.

    I was impressed by this novel because it makes me think about the important
    things that we have. We need to appreciate it. This novel inspired me for this
    stylistic devices.

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