The Pupil

The pupil is a story by Henry James who is an American novelist, literary critic, playwright and essayist. And the essence of the novel identified by James is the choice and reproduction of the representative life impression. Life is the source of novel creation, experience constitutes the material of the novel, which is James' realism. This story centers around a young man, Pemberton, who is a penniless Oxford graduate takes on a job tutoring Morgan Moreen who has a heart attack and is out of character with the rest of the family. As he spends more time with the brilliant eleven-year-old, he becomes very fond of him. Morgan wants to live with his tutor forever, but it backfires. Morgan's family doesn't pay Pemberton for his tutoring, and what's worse, they don't pay their hotel bills either. Pemberton has to take another tutoring job to pay his bills. He must decide whether to save Morgan from his ill-fated family or leave Morgan in order to have a stable and easy life.