Analysis of the “Chinor” novella and Said Ahmad

After the event Akbarali withdraws from his friends, speaks little, gives himself to drink and cannot tell his pain to anyone. Drunk, he tells his mother Sharofat xola “I caused a man’s death”; the mother advises him to go to the people of Shodasoy and admit his guilt, and before her death she asks to be laid in Shodasoy beside their ancestors. In Shodasoy, in the cemetery, Akbarali comes across a bronze statue bearing his own name: the plaque says that he died heroically saving his miner friends, because Bektemir had Akbarali’s document in his pocket, and the settlement was also named “Akbarobod”. The living Akbarali thinks of himself as a “coward” and nobody recognizes him; Ochil bobo says “a person who died for people is always alive”, while Akbarali disappears the next day and the novella ends in tragedy. The textbook calls him not a bad person but a decent young man: he did not kill Bektemir, yet because of a moment’s fear he did not go to help. The author’s idea: being good and well-mannered is not enough; in life’s test courage is needed too.