Анализ "The Passionate Year"

The genre of the story is novel. The text has a closed plot structure. In the exposition the author describes the scene of action - the Big Hall of Millstead Boarding School for boys (it is very important fact); the behavior of the pupils before the lesson and at its beginning; the inner state of the young master at the time. The story starts with indication of the beginning of the collision - a banging of desk-lids at the far end of the Hall. The episodes that follow: the young master's discovery of the mischief-maker's name; his doubts regarding the way the name should be pronounced; his decision to say two variants of pronouncing the name lead to the climax of the plot.