The story under the title "My watch" by Mark Twain tells us about one man, whose watch broke at once and how he gave it to different watchmakers and had no success. He suffered very much, as he believed his watch very much and he appeared out of time, he was usually late or too early and his life became a complete trouble. Finally he understood that the best thing was to get rid of this watch, because it "ran away once".
The main idea of this story is that we shouldn’t try to repair or return that was once lost for us, and this idea repeats in uncle William’s words, that a good horse was a good horse until it had run away once. The message of the author is to make us think about the choices and decisions we make in our life and what we prefer: to look forth or back, to choose something new or not let go something old.
The culminating point is the murder of the last watchmaker who appeared to be just a steamboat engineer of other days. At the moment main hero’s vicious reached its culmination and he couldn’t keep calm.
The moral of the story is not to trust unknown people too much and not to entrust our precious things to others.
Mark Twain uses different stylistic devices to describe the hero and his watch. First of all, there are a lot of similes, such as "it ticked like a tolling bell", "it kicked back like a musket", "shut together like a pair of scissors" , "seemed a delicate spider’s web over the face of the watch" and some other.
All of them show us how terribly the watch worked and that they worked in the most inappropriate way for watch, as watch should have nothing in common with a musket or a tolling bell. Secondly, there are several epithets like "beautiful new watch", "fair and square average", "plain truth". They help us imagine the whole situation, items and what happened to them.
Finally, there are many personifications and metaphors, there are few of them: "it sickened to a raging fever, and its pulse went up to a hundred and fifty in the shade", "it was a recognized messenger and forerunner of calamity", "I danced around him in anguish, and implored him to let the watch alone".
The first two let us compare the life of the watch with human life, as this watch really was something alive for the hero. The last one also is some kind of irony.
As for me, I liked this story, as it’s short, but very substantial. It gives us a chance to think about our actions and our values.
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The first two let us compare the life of the watch with human life, as this watch really was something alive for the hero. The last one also is some kind of irony.
As for me, I liked this story, as it’s short, but very substantial. It gives us a chance to think about our actions and our values.
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