Doctor in the House by R. Gordon.

The story under analyzes, “Doctor in the House” written by R. Gordon. He has been an anesthetist at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, a ship's surgeon and an assistant editor of the British Medical Journal. He left medical practice in 1952 and started writing his "Doctor" series.

The basic theme is how it hard for students to take exams. The main idea conveyed by the author may be expressed as: the final examinations are reason for a great psychological pressure and a real challenge for the students.

From the point of view of the manner of presentation it is written in the 1st person narration with lines of dialogs.

The composition of this text consists of the following components: exposition, when the author gives the concept of an examination, it begins with “To a medical student the final examinations are something like death…” and ends with “… and ran a final breathless sprint down the well-trodden paths of medicine.” Narration, when the author describes passing the examinations, an interesting story about passing an examination at Cambridge, this part of the text stretches from “The examination began with the written papers”.  The climax, when the author shows the examination results, “The world stood still. The traffic stopped, the plants ceased growing, men were paralyzed, the clouds hung in the air, the winds dropped, and the tides disappeared, the sun halted in the sky. "Pass," he muttered.”   And the denouement of the text is the untying of the knot of this story a kind of liberation and the ending of suffering, “Blindly, like a man just hit by a blackjack, I stumbled upstairs.”

The text is devoted to the final examinations at the medical institutions and tells us about the condition of students before, during and after exams. The author gives the description of preparation for the examinations. Then the narrator depicts the procedure of the exams which consists of two parts:  written papers, after which one of the students gives a very specific theory, and the oral examination, before which he characterizes different types of candidates’ behavior anticipating it. After that the reader gets know about the process of announcing of the results. The story ends with the detailed description of the emotional state of the author before the very moment of his success. At the end learn that he passed the exams.