BITTER TRUTH UNDER BITTER LAUGHTER

Through this article, we will learn about the facts that led to the writing of the Uzbek poet Gafur Ghulam’s work "Shum bola", its place in Uzbek literature as well as the social, cultural and political system of the country at that time. Moreover, the miserable lives of the people in the country are widely covered. This article analyzes twentieth-century Uzbek stories from the perspective of word psychology. The article shows general conclusions about the author and the protagonist’s mental world through a study of psychological imagery and word psychology.