The Inheritance
Meros
Sarlavha va pastdagi so‘zlarga qarang. Matn nima haqida bo‘lishi mumkin? Bir daqiqa o‘ylab ko‘ring — bu miyani o‘qishga tayyorlaydi.
Aka-ukalarning otasidan qolgan eski uyni sotish yoki saqlab qolish haqidagi bahsi.
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Bu so‘zlar matnda uchraydi va matnda ajratib ko‘rsatiladi. Bosing — talaffuzini eshitasiz.
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Their father had been dead for forty days when the three siblings finally sat down together in the house where they had grown up. It was an old house in the mahalla behind the bazaar, built around a courtyard with a vine-covered trellis and a pomegranate tree that their grandfather had planted. Behind the courtyard, separated by a crumbling wall, lay the small workshop where their father had repaired clocks for half a century.
Otalari vafot etganiga qirq kun bo‘lganida, uch aka-uka va opa-singil nihoyat o‘zlari ulg‘aygan uyda birga o‘tirishdi. Bu bozor ortidagi mahalladagi, tok ishkomi va bobosi ekkan anor daraxti bo‘lgan hovli atrofida qurilgan eski uy edi. Hovli ortida, nurab borayotgan devor bilan ajratilgan holda, otasi yarim asr davomida soat ta’mirlagan kichik ustaxona joylashgan edi.
Bobur, the eldest, had flown in from Moscow, where he had lived for twenty years and run a successful construction business. He spoke first, as he always had. A developer had offered a generous price for the house, he explained; the whole block was to be replaced with modern apartments. Split three ways, the money would allow each of them to buy a flat outright, or to pay for their children’s education. “Father would have wanted us to be practical,” he concluded. “He was always practical.”
To‘ng‘ich Bobur yigirma yil yashab, muvaffaqiyatli qurilish biznesini yuritgan Moskvadan uchib kelgan edi. U har doimgidek birinchi bo‘lib gapirdi. U tushuntirdiki, bir quruvchi kompaniya uy uchun saxiy narx taklif qilgan; butun mavze zamonaviy kvartiralar bilan almashtirilishi kerak edi. Uchga bo‘linganda, pul har biriga to‘liq kvartira sotib olish yoki farzandlarining o‘qishiga to‘lash imkonini berardi. “Otamiz amaliy bo‘lishimizni xohlagan bo‘lardi, — deb xulosa qildi u. — U doim amaliy edi.”
Shahnoza, the youngest, who had stayed in the city and cared for their father through his last illness, said nothing for a long time. Then she said, quietly, that she did not think their father had been practical at all. “He kept that workshop open for thirty years after anyone could make money from repairing clocks,” she said. “He fixed old men’s watches for nothing because they had belonged to their fathers. Does that sound practical to you?”
Shaharda qolib, otasini so‘nggi kasalligi davomida parvarish qilgan kenja Shahnoza uzoq vaqt hech narsa demadi. Keyin u otalari umuman amaliy bo‘lmagan deb o‘ylashini ohista aytdi. “U soat ta’mirlashdan hech kim pul topa olmay qolganidan keyin ham o‘sha ustaxonani o‘ttiz yil ochiq tutdi, — dedi u. — U keksa odamlarning soatlarini otalariga tegishli bo‘lgani uchun tekinga tuzatardi. Bu senga amaliy tuyuladimi?”
The middle sibling, Jahongir, a schoolteacher with three children and a mortgage he could barely afford, looked from one to the other and felt the familiar discomfort of being caught between them. He needed the money more than either of them, and both of them knew it. Yet when he looked out at the pomegranate tree, he remembered climbing it as a boy, and his father calling up from below, not angry but laughing, telling him to bring down the ripest fruit for his mother.
O‘rtancha Jahongir — uch farzandli va zo‘rg‘a to‘lay oladigan ipotekasi bor maktab o‘qituvchisi — birinchisidan ikkinchisiga qarab, ular o‘rtasida qolib ketishdan tanish noqulaylikni his qildi. Unga pul ikkalasidan ham ko‘proq kerak edi va buni ikkalasi ham bilardi. Biroq anor daraxtiga qaraganida, bolaligida unga chiqqanini, otasi pastdan jahl bilan emas, kulib, onasiga eng pishgan mevani olib tushishini aytib chaqirganini esladi.
The argument continued for several evenings, growing more bitter each time. Old grievances surfaced: Bobur’s long absences, Shahnoza’s sense that her years of caring had been taken for granted, Jahongir’s habit of agreeing with whoever had spoken last. It was during one of these evenings, while searching the workshop for a document the lawyer had requested, that Jahongir found the box.
Bahs bir necha oqshom davom etdi va har safar achchiqroq tus oldi. Eski gina-kudratlar yuzaga chiqdi: Boburning uzoq vaqt yo‘qligi, Shahnozaning yillar davomidagi g‘amxo‘rligi o‘z-o‘zidan tushunarli deb qabul qilinganini his qilishi, Jahongirning oxirgi gapirgan kishiga qo‘shilish odati. Shunday oqshomlarning birida, advokat so‘ragan hujjatni ustaxonadan qidirayotganda, Jahongir qutini topdi.
It was a plain wooden box, and inside were three envelopes, one with each of their names. In each envelope was a watch, carefully cleaned and repaired, and a short note in their father’s small, precise handwriting. Bobur’s watch had belonged to their grandfather; the note said: “You always wanted to build things that last. So did he.” Shahnoza’s was their mother’s; the note said simply: “Thank you. I noticed everything.” Jahongir’s was a cheap child’s watch with a cracked face, the one he had lost at the age of nine and wept over for days. “I found it in the garden the next spring,” the note said. “I kept it for when you would understand that nothing important is ever really lost.”
Bu oddiy yog‘och quti edi va ichida har birining ismi yozilgan uchta konvert bor edi. Har bir konvertda ehtiyotkorlik bilan tozalangan va ta’mirlangan soat va otalarining mayda, aniq dastxatida yozilgan qisqa xat bor edi. Boburning soati bobolariga tegishli edi; xatda: “Sen doim uzoq yashaydigan narsalar qurishni xohlarding. U ham shunday edi”, deyilgan edi. Shahnozaniki onalariniki edi; xatda shunchaki: “Rahmat. Men hammasini ko‘rib turdim”, deyilgan edi. Jahongirniki yorilgan siferblatli arzon bolalar soati edi — u to‘qqiz yoshida yo‘qotib, kunlab yig‘lagan soat. “Uni keyingi bahorda bog‘dan topdim, — deyilgan edi xatda. — Muhim narsa hech qachon chinakamiga yo‘qolmasligini tushunadigan kuning uchun saqlab qo‘ydim.”
They sold the house in the end; there was no real alternative. But they sold it together, without lawyers, and they agreed to divide the money not in three equal parts but according to what each of them needed. Bobur took the smallest share. Before the bulldozers arrived, the three of them dug up a young shoot from the base of the pomegranate tree and planted it in the courtyard of Jahongir’s apartment building, where, the following autumn, it produced a single small fruit.
Oxir-oqibat ular uyni sotishdi; haqiqiy muqobil yo‘q edi. Lekin ular uni advokatlarsiz, birgalikda sotishdi va pulni uchta teng qismga emas, balki har birining ehtiyojiga qarab bo‘lishga kelishishdi. Bobur eng kichik ulushni oldi. Buldozerlar kelishidan oldin uchalasi anor daraxti tagidagi yosh nihoni kovlab olib, Jahongirning ko‘p qavatli uyi hovlisiga ekishdi va u yerda keyingi kuzda u bitta kichkina meva berdi.
Tushundingizmi?
Javob topa olmasangiz, «O‘qish» bosqichiga qaytib, matnga qarang — bu ham mashq.
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Asosiy g‘oya
1 What is the central theme of the story?
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2 Why did Bobur want to sell the house?
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3 Why did Shahnoza disagree that their father had been “practical”?
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4 What was special about Jahongir’s watch?
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5 How did the siblings finally divide the money?
True / False / Not Given
True — matnda aynan shunday deyilgan. False — matn aksini aytadi. Not Given — matnda bu haqda ma’lumot yo‘q.
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1 Bobur had lived in Moscow for ten years.
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2 The lawyer advised the siblings not to sell the house.
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3 Bobur’s construction company built the new apartments.
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4 The siblings met forty days after their father’s death.
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5 Jahongir tended to agree with whoever had spoken last.
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6 Jahongir’s children helped plant the pomegranate shoot.
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7 The box contained a watch and a note for each sibling.
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8 Shahnoza’s watch had belonged to their grandfather.
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9 Shahnoza cared for her father during his last illness.
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10 Jahongir needed the money less than his siblings.
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11 The siblings sold the house without lawyers in the end.
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12 The pomegranate tree had been planted by their grandfather.
So‘zni ma’nosi bilan juftlang
Chapdan so‘zni, o‘ngdan uning ma’nosini tanlang. Hammasi juftlansa, natija chiqadi.