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Longren, a closed and unsociable person, lived by making and selling models of sailing ships and steamships. The fellow countrymen were not very kind to the former sailor, especially after one incident.
Once, during a severe storm, the shopkeeper and innkeeper Menners was carried away in his boat far out to sea. The only witness to what was happening was Longren. He calmly smoked his pipe, watching how Menners called to him in vain. Only when it became obvious that he could no longer be saved, Longren shouted to him that in the same way his Mary asked a fellow villager for help, but did not receive it.
On the sixth day, the shopkeeper was picked up among the waves by a steamer, and before his death he spoke about the culprit of his death.
The only thing he didn’t talk about was how five years ago Longren’s wife approached him with a request to lend him some money. She had just given birth to baby Assol, the birth was not easy, and almost all her money was spent on treatment, and her husband had not yet returned from the voyage. Menners advised not to be hard to touch, then he is ready to help. The unfortunate woman went to the city in bad weather to pawn a ring, caught a cold and died of pneumonia. So Longren remained a widower with his daughter in his arms and could no longer go to sea.
Whatever it was, the news of such demonstrative inaction by Longren struck the villagers more powerfully than if he with my own hands drowned a man. The ill will turned almost into hatred and also turned on the innocent Assol, who grew up alone with her fantasies and dreams and seemed to need neither peers nor friends. Her father replaced her mother, her friends, and her fellow countrymen.
One day, when Assol was eight years old, he sent her to the city with new toys, among which was a miniature yacht with scarlet silk sails. The girl lowered the boat into the stream. The stream carried him and carried him to the mouth, where she saw a stranger holding her boat in his hands. It was old Aigle, a collector of legends and fairy tales. He gave the toy to Assol and told her that years would pass and a prince would come for her on the same ship under scarlet sails and take her to a distant country.
The girl told her father about this. Unfortunately, a beggar who accidentally heard her story spread rumors about the ship and the overseas prince throughout Kaperna. Now the children shouted after her: “Hey, hanged man! Red sails are sailing! So she became known as crazy.
Arthur Gray, the only son of a noble and wealthy family, grew up not in a hut, but in a family castle, in an atmosphere of predetermination of every present and future step. This, however, was a boy with a very lively soul, ready to make his own life purpose. He was decisive and fearless.
The keeper of their wine cellar, Poldishok, told him that two barrels of Alicante from the time of Cromwell were buried in one place and its color was darker than cherry, and it was thick, like good cream. The barrels are made of ebony, and have double copper hoops on them, on which is written: “Gray will drink me when he is in heaven.” No one has tried this wine and no one will try it. “I’ll drink it,” Gray said, stamping his foot and clenching his hand into a fist: “Paradise?” He is here!.."
For all that, he was extremely responsive to the misfortune of others, and his sympathy always resulted in real help.
In the castle library, he was struck by a painting by some famous marine painter. She helped him understand himself. Gray secretly left home and joined the schooner Anselm. Captain Gop was kind person, but a stern sailor. Having appreciated the intelligence, perseverance and love of the sea of the young sailor, Gop decided to “make a captain out of the puppy”: introduce him to navigation, maritime law, pilotage and accounting. At the age of twenty, Gray bought the three-masted galliot Secret and sailed on it for four years. Fate brought him to Liss, an hour and a half walk from which was Caperna.
With the onset of darkness, together with the sailor Letika Gray, taking fishing rods, sailed on a boat in search of something suitable for fish

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Recently, I read Alexander Green’s romantic story “ Scarlet Sails" A. Green lived a very hard life. He was in prison and exiled, but escaped from there. It was then that A. Green began writing the story “Scarlet Sails,” and in 1920 he finished it. This is the most famous work of A. Green. The writer defined the genre of his work as “extravaganza.” The story begins like many others literary works, with the characteristics of the main characters, but after reading just a little, I realized that this book was special.
In the story “Scarlet Sails,” Green tells the story of the girl Assol, who lost her mother early and grew up with her father, they lived on the fact that he made children’s toys-ships. Longren, Assol's father, took on all the housework; daughter and father loved each other very much. But still, Assol was unhappy, since none of the village children communicated with her. And she lived with one single dream, which was given to her by Egle, a famous collector of songs, legends, stories and fairy tales. He told her that someday a prince would come for her on a ship with scarlet sails, and from then on Assol looked hopefully at the horizon of the sea, waiting for a ship with scarlet sails.
The second main character in the story is Arthur Gray, who, on the contrary, was born in rich family, and he also had his own dream - to become a captain and he became one. At the age of 15, he went on board a ship as a simple sailor and during the voyage, the captain of the ship taught Arthur various marine sciences. After four years of sailing, returning home, Arthur took a large sum of money from his parents to purchase his own ship. And from that moment on, he sailed the seas and oceans as a captain. And one day, during his next trip, Arthur met Assol, whom he really liked. And having learned about her dream, he decided and fulfilled it.
I believe that main idea The author of the story is that a person needs to have the most cherished dream in his life, believe and strive for it, and only then will it come true. After all, Alexander Greene did not write this work in better times his life, and, probably, in my opinion, he wanted to create an example of dreams, faith, hope.
Assol is the main character of the romantic story, a reserved and beautiful girl who loved her father very much, trusted only him and lived the dream that the storyteller gave her. Arthur Gray is a freedom-loving person, a leader by character, respecting the opinions of others, educated and understanding, and purposefully pursuing his goals. All these qualities made him famous person. Longren is Assol's father, her life mentor, and loving father. In it, the author tried to show an example of what a father should be. In the story “Scarlet Sails” Alexander Green often uses nature to express the mood, feelings and spiritual mood of the characters.
I believe that Greene first of all wanted to tell the reader that at any time in your life you need to live in a world of reality and dreams.

Alexander Stepanovich Green

"Scarlet Sails"

Longren, a closed and unsociable person, lived by making and selling models of sailing ships and steamships. The fellow countrymen were not very kind to the former sailor, especially after one incident.

Once, during a severe storm, the shopkeeper and innkeeper Menners was carried away in his boat far out to sea. The only witness to what was happening was Longren. He calmly smoked his pipe, watching how Menners called to him in vain. Only when it became obvious that he could no longer be saved, Longren shouted to him that in the same way his Mary asked a fellow villager for help, but did not receive it.

On the sixth day, the shopkeeper was picked up among the waves by a steamer, and before his death he spoke about the culprit of his death.

The only thing he didn’t talk about was how five years ago Longren’s wife approached him with a request to lend him some money. She had just given birth to baby Assol, the birth was not easy, and almost all her money was spent on treatment, and her husband had not yet returned from the voyage. Menners advised not to be hard to touch, then he is ready to help. The unfortunate woman went to the city in bad weather to pawn a ring, caught a cold and died of pneumonia. So Longren remained a widower with his daughter in his arms and could no longer go to sea.

Whatever it was, the news of such demonstrative inaction by Longren shocked the villagers more than if he had drowned a man with his own hands. The ill will turned almost into hatred and also turned on the innocent Assol, who grew up alone with her fantasies and dreams and seemed to need neither peers nor friends. Her father replaced her mother, her friends, and her fellow countrymen.

One day, when Assol was eight years old, he sent her to the city with new toys, among which was a miniature yacht with scarlet silk sails. The girl lowered the boat into the stream. The stream carried him and carried him to the mouth, where she saw a stranger holding her boat in his hands. It was old Aigle, a collector of legends and fairy tales. He gave the toy to Assol and told her that years would pass and a prince would come for her on the same ship under scarlet sails and take her to a distant country.

The girl told her father about this. Unfortunately, a beggar who accidentally heard her story spread rumors about the ship and the overseas prince throughout Kaperna. Now the children shouted after her: “Hey, hanged man! Red sails are sailing! So she became known as crazy.

Arthur Gray, the only son of a noble and wealthy family, grew up not in a hut, but in a family castle, in an atmosphere of predetermination of every present and future step. This, however, was a boy with a very lively soul, ready to fulfill his own destiny in life. He was decisive and fearless.

The keeper of their wine cellar, Poldishok, told him that two barrels of Alicante from the time of Cromwell were buried in one place and its color was darker than cherry, and it was thick, like good cream. The barrels are made of ebony, and have double copper hoops on them, on which is written: “Gray will drink me when he is in heaven.” No one has tried this wine and no one will try it. “I’ll drink it,” Gray said, stamping his foot and clenching his hand into a fist: “Heaven?” He is here!.."

Despite all this, he was extremely responsive to the misfortune of others, and his sympathy always resulted in real help.

In the castle library, he was struck by a painting by some famous marine painter. She helped him understand himself. Gray secretly left home and joined the schooner Anselm. Captain Gop was a kind man, but a harsh sailor. Having appreciated the intelligence, perseverance and love of the sea of the young sailor, Gop decided to “make a captain out of the puppy”: introduce him to navigation, maritime law, pilotage and accounting. At the age of twenty, Gray bought the three-masted galliot Secret and sailed on it for four years. Fate brought him to Liss, an hour and a half walk from which was Caperna.

With the onset of darkness, together with the sailor Letika Gray, taking fishing rods, sailed on a boat in search of a suitable place for fishing. They left the boat under the cliff behind Kaperna and lit a fire. Letika went fishing, and Gray lay down by the fire. In the morning he went for a wander, when suddenly he saw Assol sleeping in the thickets. He looked at the girl who amazed him for a long time, and when leaving, he took off the old ring from his finger and put it on her little finger.

Then he and Letika walked to Menners's tavern, where young Hin Menners was now in charge. He said that Assol was crazy, dreaming of a prince and a ship with scarlet sails, that her father was the culprit in the death of the elder Menners and a terrible person. Doubts about the veracity of this information intensified when a drunken coal miner assured that the innkeeper was lying. Gray, even without outside help, managed to understand something about this extraordinary girl. She knew life within the limits of her experience, but beyond that she saw in phenomena a meaning of a different order, making many subtle discoveries that were incomprehensible and unnecessary to the inhabitants of Kaperna.

The captain was in many ways the same himself, a little out of this world. He went to Liss and found scarlet silk in one of the shops. In the city, he met an old acquaintance - the traveling musician Zimmer - and asked him to come to the Secret with his orchestra in the evening.

The scarlet sails bewildered the team, as did the order to advance to Kaperna. Nevertheless, in the morning the Secret set out under scarlet sails and by noon was already in sight of Kaperna.

Assol was shocked by the sight of a white ship with scarlet sails, from the deck of which music flowed. She rushed to the sea, where the inhabitants of Kaperna had already gathered. When Assol appeared, everyone fell silent and parted. The boat in which Gray was standing separated from the ship and headed towards the shore. After some time, Assol was already in the cabin. Everything happened as the old man predicted.

On the same day, they opened a barrel of hundred-year-old wine, which no one had ever drunk before, and the next morning the ship was already far from Kaperna, carrying away the crew defeated by Gray’s extraordinary wine. Only Zimmer was awake. He played his cello quietly and thought about happiness.

Former sailor Longren made his living by making and selling boat models. He left the maritime business when he became a widower with his daughter Assol in his arms. Longren's wife died of severe pneumonia. Longren had not yet returned from his next voyage, baby Assol had just been born, and a lot of money was needed for treatment after a difficult birth. Mother Assol turned to the shopkeeper Menners for help. He did not help her, and she went into the city to pawn her ring. The weather was inclement, the woman caught a cold and soon died.

Countrymen did not favor Longren after one incident. During a storm, the innkeeper Menners was carried out on a boat into the open sea. Longren was the only witness to this, but did not help him, but only reminded him that his wife Mary also asked for help and did not receive it.

Five days later, Meners was picked up by a ship and before his death he said that Longren was to blame for his death. The shopkeeper kept silent about the fact that Mary died because of him.

Longren's demonstrative inaction aroused the hatred of his fellow villagers. The neighbors also treated little Assol unkindly. She had no girlfriends or friends; her peers did not want to communicate with her. The father was both a parent and a friend for the girl.

Father sent little Assol to the city. She had to take new toys to the store. Among them was a yacht with bright scarlet sails. Assol lowered this miniature yacht into the stream, the fast flow carried it to the mouth, and there the girl saw a stranger. It turned out to be old man Egle. He told Assol that many years later a handsome prince would sail for her on exactly the same ship.

When the girl told her father about this, a random passer-by overheard and spread it throughout Kaperna. The children began to tease the girl: “Hey, gallows! Red sails are sailing!

Arthur Gray grew up in the ancestral castle of a wealthy family. The boy had a very alive soul, and he was ready to fulfill his life's destiny. Arthur was fearless and determined. He sympathized with everyone and provided, where he could, real help to those in need.

In the library of the family castle, Arthur was delighted by a painting by one of the famous marine painters. Thanks to her, he realized his calling. The young man left home and became a sailor on the schooner Anselm. There he learned seamanship and at the age of twenty bought his own ship - the three-masted galliot "Secret". Four years later, fate brought him to Liss near Kaperna.

At sunset, Gray and a sailor set sail from the Secret in search of good place for fishing. They left the boat under a cliff behind Kaperna and lit a fire. The sailor went fishing, and Gray fell asleep by the fire. In the morning, having gone to wander around the surrounding area, he saw Assol sleeping in the thickets. He looked at the girl intently, and then took the ring off his finger and put it on her little finger.

In the tavern of old Menners, where his son Khin was now in charge, Arthur heard a story about the crazy Assol, waiting for her prince on a ship with scarlet sails. Gray found scarlet silk for the Secret's sails in Liss's shop. And he asked an old acquaintance of the musician to arrive on his ship in the evening along with the orchestra. The scarlet sails surprised the crew no less than the captain’s order to continue on to Kaperna.

The ship with scarlet sails, from the deck of which music could be heard, was already in Caperna by noon. Assol rushed to the sea. Gray swam to the shore in a boat and took Assol. Everything happened exactly as old Egle predicted.

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How do I imagine the collector of fairy tales Egle (based on the book by A. Green “Scarlet Sails”) and the performer of the role of Alexei Kolgan

Longren was an unsociable and reserved person; he was engaged in the manufacture and sale of models of steamships and sailing ships. The former sailor was not too favored by his fellow countrymen, especially after one incident.

One day, during a strong storm, Menners, who was a shopkeeper and innkeeper, was carried far out to sea in his boat. Longren was the only one who saw what was happening. He calmly watched, smoking a pipe, as Menners asked to be saved.

When it became clear that he would not be saved, Longren shouted to him that his Mary had once cried out to a fellow villager for help, but did not receive it.

On the sixth day, the shopkeeper was picked up by a steamer, and before his death he told about the culprit of his death.

He only hid the fact that Longren’s wife five years ago asked him to borrow some money.

She had just given birth to little Assol, the birth was very difficult, almost all the money was spent on treatment, and her husband was still at sea. Menners gave her advice not to be hard to touch, and then he would help her. The unfortunate woman had to go to the city in bad weather to pawn the ring. She caught a cold, contracted pneumonia and died.

Longren was left a widower with a little daughter in his arms; he could no longer go to sea.

However, with all this, the news of Longren’s behavior outraged the villagers even more than if he himself had drowned the man. The villagers treated Longren so unkindly that it resembled hatred and turned to Assol, an innocent girl who seemed to not need peers, she was fine with her dreams and fantasies. Her father was for her at the same time a mother, a friend, and fellow countrymen.

One day, when Assol was an eight-year-old girl, her father sent her to the city to bring new toys, among which was a small yacht with scarlet silk sails. Assol lowered the boat into the stream. He was carried away by the stream, the girl ran after the boat and ran to the mouth, where she met a stranger who was holding her boat in his hands. The stranger was old Aigle, a collector of fairy tales and legends. He returned the toy to Assol and talked about how someday a prince would sail for her on the same ship with scarlet sails and take her to a distant country.

Assol told her father about this meeting. Unfortunately, a beggar accidentally heard her story and spread rumors throughout Kaperna about an overseas prince and a ship with scarlet sails. The children now shouted after her: “Hey, gallows! Red sails are sailing! Assol began to be considered crazy.

Arthur Gray was the only heir to a rich and noble family; his childhood was spent not in a hut, but in a castle. His every present and future step was predetermined. But Arthur was a boy with a very lively soul, he was ready to fulfill his life's destiny. He was distinguished by determination and fearlessness.

Poldishok, the keeper of their wine cellar, told the young man that there was a place where two barrels of Alicante were buried from the time of Cromwell, it was thick, like good cream, and its color was darker than cherry. The barrels are made of ebony, they are surrounded by double copper hoops, and there are inscriptions on them: “Gray will drink me when he is in heaven.” No one has tried this wine and no one can try it. Gray stamped his foot and declared that he would drink this wine. Then, clenching his fist, he added that heaven was here.

At the same time, Arthur was very responsive, he always helped those who needed help.

In the library of the family castle, he saw a painting by a famous marine painter, which amazed him. This picture helped him understand himself. Gray secretly left home and entered service on the schooner Anselm. The captain was Gop - a kind but stern sailor. Gop appreciated the intelligence, stubbornness and love of the sea that the young sailor experienced, and decided to “make a captain out of a puppy.” He trained Gray in navigation, pilotage, maritime law and accounting. When Arthur was twenty years old, he purchased the three-masted galliot "Secret", on which he sailed for four years. One day, fate threw him to Liss, which was an hour and a half walk from Caperna.

As night approached, Gray and the sailor Letika, taking fishing rods, set off on a boat to fish. They left the boat under the cliff behind Kaperna and lit a fire. Gray lay down by the fire, and Letika began to fish. In the morning, Arthur went for a wander and saw Assol sleeping in the thickets. He looked for a long time at the girl who amazed him, then he took off the old family ring from his finger and put it on the girl’s little finger.

On the way back, Gray and Letika reached Menners' tavern. Now the owner there was young Hin Menners, who said that everyone considers Assol crazy because she dreams of a ship with scarlet sails and a prince, and her father is to blame for the death of the elder Menners and in general he is a terrible person. Gray doubted the veracity of these words, and his doubts became even stronger when the drunken coal miner said that the innkeeper was lying. Arthur could understand a lot about this amazing girl even without outside help. Life was known to her within the limits of her experience, but she knew how to see a different meaning in phenomena, which was incomprehensible and unnecessary to the inhabitants of Kaperna.

In many ways, the captain himself was like that - out of this world. Going to Liss, he bought scarlet silk in one of the shops. Having met an old acquaintance of Zimmer, a traveling musician, in the city, he asked him to arrive in the evening with his orchestra for “The Secret.”

The crew was surprised by the scarlet sails, as well as by the captain's order to advance to Kaperna. But still, by noon, the “Secret”, under scarlet sails, was approaching Kaperna.

Assol was amazed to see a white ship with scarlet sails and hear music flowing from its deck. The girl rushed to the sea; the residents of Kaperna were already on the shore. Seeing Assol, they fell silent and parted. Everyone watched the boat, which separated from the ship and headed towards the shore. Gray stood in it. Some time later, Assol was already in the cabin. Everything happened as old Aigle predicted.

According to one version, the idea for the story “Scarlet Sails” arose during Alexander Green’s walk along the Neva embankment in St. Petersburg. Walking past one of the shops, the writer saw an incredibly beautiful girl. He looked at her for a long time, but did not dare to meet her. The beauty of the stranger so excited the writer that after some time he began writing the story.

A closed, gloomy man named Longren lives a solitary life with his daughter Assol. Longren makes models of sailing ships for sale. For a small family this is the only way to make ends meet. Fellow countrymen hate Longren because of one incident that happened in the distant past.

Longren was once a sailor and went sailing for a long time. Returning from a voyage once again, he learned that his wife was no longer alive. Having given birth to a child, Mary had to spend all the money on medicine for herself: the birth was very difficult, and the woman needed urgent treatment.

Mary did not know when her husband would return and, left without a means of subsistence, went to the innkeeper Menners to borrow money. The innkeeper made an indecent proposal to Mary in exchange for help. The honest woman refused and went to the city to pawn the ring. On the way, the woman caught a cold and subsequently died of pneumonia.

Longren was forced to raise his daughter on his own and could no longer work on the ship. The former sea knew who destroyed it family happiness.

One day he had a chance to take revenge. During a storm, Menners was carried out to sea by boat. The only witness to what happened was Longren. The innkeeper cried out in vain for help. The former sailor stood calmly on the shore and smoked a pipe.

When Menners was already far enough from the shore, Longren reminded him of what he had done to Mary. A few days later the innkeeper was found. Dying, he managed to tell who was “guilty” of his death. Fellow villagers, many of whom did not know what Menners really was, condemned Longren for his inaction. The former sailor and his daughter became outcasts.

When Assol was 8 years old, she accidentally met a collector of fairy tales, Egle, who predicted to the girl that years later she would meet her love. Her lover will arrive on a ship with scarlet sails. At home, the girl told her father about the strange prediction. A beggar overheard their conversation. He retells what Longren’s fellow countrymen heard. Since then, Assol has become an object of ridicule.

The noble origin of the young man

Arthur Gray, unlike Assol, grew up not in a miserable hut, but in a castle and came from a rich and noble family. The boy's future was predetermined: he would live the same prim life as his parents. However, Gray has other plans. He dreams of being a brave sailor. The young man secretly left home and entered the schooner Anselm, where he went through a very harsh school. Captain Gop, noticing in young man good inclinations, I decided to make him a real sailor. At the age of 20, Gray bought the three-masted galliot Secret, which he became captain of.

After 4 years, Gray accidentally finds himself in the vicinity of Liss, a few kilometers from which was Kaperna, where Longren lived with his daughter. By chance, Gray meets Assol, sleeping in the thickets.

The girl’s beauty struck him so much that he took the old ring off his finger and put it on Assol. Then Gray heads to Kaperna, where he tries to find out at least something about the unusual girl. The captain wandered into Menners's tavern, where his son was now in charge. Hin Menners told Gray that Assol’s father was a murderer, and the girl herself was crazy. She dreams of a prince who will sail to her on a ship with scarlet sails. The captain doesn't trust Menners too much. His doubts were finally dispelled by a drunken coal miner, who said that Assol was indeed a very unusual girl, but not crazy. Gray decided to make someone else's dream come true.

Meanwhile, old Longren decides to return to his previous occupation. While he is alive, his daughter will not work. Longren set sail for the first time in many years. Assol was left alone. One fine day she notices a ship with scarlet sails on the horizon and realizes that it has sailed for her...

Characteristics

Assol is the main character of the story. In early childhood, the girl is left alone because of the hatred of others towards her father. But loneliness is familiar to Assol, it does not depress or frighten her.

She lives in her own fictional world, where the cruelty and cynicism of the surrounding reality does not penetrate.

At the age of eight, a beautiful legend comes into the world of Assol, in which she believed with all her heart. The life of a little girl takes on new meaning. She begins to wait.

Years go by, but Assol remains the same. Ridicule, offensive nicknames and hatred of her fellow villagers towards her family did not embitter the young dreamer. Assol is still naive, open to the world and believes in prophecy.

The only son of noble parents grew up in luxury and prosperity. Arthur Gray is a hereditary aristocrat. However, aristocracy is completely alien to him.

Even as a child, Gray was distinguished by his courage, audacity and desire for absolute independence. He knows that he can truly prove himself only in the fight against the elements.

Arthur is not attracted high society. Social events and dinner parties are not for him. The painting hanging in the library decides the fate of the young man. He leaves home and, after passing severe trials, becomes the captain of the ship. Boldness and courage, reaching the point of recklessness, do not prevent the young captain from remaining a kind and sympathetic person.

Probably, among the girls of the society in which Gray was born, there would not have been a single one capable of captivating his heart. He doesn’t need prim ladies with refined manners and brilliant education. Gray doesn't look for love, she finds it herself. Assol is a very unusual girl with an unusual dream. Arthur sees before him a beautiful, brave and pure soul, similar to his own soul.

At the end of the story, the reader has a feeling of a miracle accomplished, a dream come true. Despite all the originality of what is happening, the plot of the story is not fantastic. There are no wizards, fairies, or elves in Scarlet Sails. The reader is presented with a completely ordinary, unadorned reality: poor people forced to fight for their existence, injustice and meanness. Nevertheless, it is precisely its realism and lack of fantasy that makes this work so attractive.

The author makes it clear that a person himself creates his dreams, he himself believes in them and he himself makes them come true. There is no point in waiting for the intervention of some otherworldly forces - fairies, wizards, etc. To understand that a dream belongs only to a person and only a person decides how to use it, you need to trace the entire chain of creation and implementation of a dream.

Old Aigle created a beautiful legend, obviously to please the little girl. Assol believed in this legend and cannot even imagine that the prophecy will not come true. Gray, having fallen in love with a beautiful stranger, makes her dream come true. As a result, an absurd fantasy, divorced from life, becomes part of reality. And they realized this fantasy not endowed supernatural powers creatures, and the most ordinary people.

Faith in miracles
A dream, according to the author, is the meaning of life. Only she can save a person from the everyday gray routine. But a dream can become a big disappointment for someone who is inactive and for someone who is waiting for the embodiment of their fantasies from the outside, because help “from above” may never arrive.

Gray would never have become a captain if he had remained in his parents' castle. The dream must turn into a goal, and the goal, in turn, into energetic action. Assol did not have the opportunity to take any action to achieve her goal. But she had the most important thing, that maybe more important than action- faith.

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“Scarlet Sails” by A. Green is a wonderful and amazing work of the writer. Showing the images of two young heroes, we see that even the most unrealizable dreams come true.

A very brief summary of the story Scarlet Sails

The action takes place in the fictional small town of Caperne. From the very first lines we see how the writer shows the image of one of Longren’s main characters, a gloomy, taciturn man who lives in complete solitude with his daughter. This gloomy man is making various models sailboats, which he then sells. This kind of work helps him somehow survive. The townspeople don't like him because of an incident that happened many years ago.

Longren once swam at sea, and his wife always patiently waited for him from a long voyage. And one day, returning home, he learns that his wife has died. The woman, having spent all her savings on her treatment due to a difficult birth, was forced to turn to the innkeeper for help. But Menners, instead of helping the unfortunate petitioner, made her an indecent proposal. Having refused the unscrupulous man, Mary went to the city to sell the last jewel.

Having caught a cold on the road, she contracts pneumonia. The poor woman quickly faded away, since she had no money at all. Longren had to raise his daughter alone; hatred for the innkeeper burned in his soul. And now an opportunity came up to take revenge on him. One day a strong storm arose, and suddenly huge wave overwhelmed Menners and began to carry him out to sea. But Longren, despite the pleas for help, stood silently and did not even try to pull him out of the water. A few days later, fellow villagers rescued the innkeeper, and before his death he spoke about this episode.

After what happened, everyone in the city began to avoid this family. So they lived quietly and unnoticed by everyone. Assol was considered a crazy girl because in childhood one storyteller told her that she would meet her lover in the form of a captain who would appear in front of her on a ship with scarlet sails. Everyone laughed at her, but the prophecy came true. And one day a handsome young man named Gray sails to their city. Despite the evil slander against the girl and her father, he falls in love with her and decides to make Assol’s dream come true.

The author with his work wanted to convey to us that boundless love and faith in good people, who lived in the heart of Assol. Green, in the image of a sweet girl, showed faith in making an unfulfilled dream come true. After all, when you believe very strongly, all your wishes will definitely come true.

Chapter 1. "Prediction"

Reading the first pages of the story, we meet the sailor Longren, where we learn sad moments from the story of life. For a long time, sailing the seas, the man had no idea how hard it was for his wife. Having barely recovered from childbirth, she falls ill. No one can help the unfortunate woman, and Mary goes to the innkeeper. But Menners, taking advantage of her position, invites her to enter into an intimate relationship with him. But the decent woman refuses. She has to go to the city to sell something dear to her - a ring. On the way, she catches a cold and catches pneumonia. Without medicine and in need, Longren's wife dies, leaving him with a little daughter to raise.

Since then, he began to think every day about how to take revenge on the innkeeper. And then, one day, a storm carried the boat along with Menners into the open sea. The embittered sailor never helped him, despite requests for help. Six days later, the boat with the dying innkeeper is pulled ashore and the residents learn about Longren’s indifference. Then the villagers stopped communicating with Assol and her father.

One fine day, the girl was sailing toy boats along the stream, and saw a storyteller who predicted that in the future she would meet a beautiful young man who sailed on a yacht with scarlet sails. Having overheard the conversation, the tramp told the townspeople of Kapern about this. And the girl began to be considered simply crazy, naively believing in fairy tales.

Chapter 2. "Gray"

Following further events, we meet another hero of the story - Gray. A smart, weather-resistant boy who grew up in a wealthy family, from childhood he wanted to become a captain. A merry fellow by nature and simply a very kind child, he was raised without much parental involvement. After all, his mother and father, being aristocrats, devoted their entire lives to collecting portraits of their ancestors. They raised their son the same way. Arthur learned about life from the conversations of servants and literature. At the age of twelve, he was shocked by a painting that depicted a ship proudly rising on the crest of sea waves. And the boy realized that he would devote his future life to the sea. His passion for distant countries captivated him so much that at the age of 15 he ran away from home. The persistent young man had to endure many trials before he became captain. At that time, his father was no longer alive, his mother, very old, who did not at all expect that Gray would go on long voyages, was proud of him.

Chapter 3. "Dawn"

Next we find ourselves off the coast of Kaperna, where a ship stopped to unload goods. The agonizing wait forces the young man to go fishing with one of the sailors. Early in the morning, Gray discovers a sleeping girl who struck him with her beauty. Some incomprehensible feeling took possession of the young captain, and he decides to leave her a beautiful ring.

The desire to find out about her does not leave the young man, and he and Letik go to Kapern, where they find the tavern of the deceased Menners. His son, according to the description, begins to tell Gray all sorts of incredible things about the girl. He also poured a lot of dirt on the late Longren. And perhaps he would have believed this gossip, if not for the girl’s pure and bright gaze, which so touched Gray’s heart. And then Arthur decided to find out the whole truth about this beauty.

Chapter 4. “The Eve”

The narrative of the next chapter introduces the events that happened to Assol before meeting her future lover. It says that toy boats stopped selling because other interesting things appeared, and Longren had to set off on a long voyage again. But he was afraid to leave his daughter alone, because she could captivate anyone with her beauty. Any dress looked like a princess on her. The girl’s father forbade her to work, but she, trying to help, did sewing. Walking through the forest, admiring nature, she unexpectedly lay down on the grass and fell asleep. Having discovered a ring on her hand a little later, Assol did not say anything about the unusual find.

Chapter 5. Combat preparations

Wanting to fulfill the girl’s beautiful dream, the young captain goes to the city and buys two thousand meters of red silk. He returns to his ship and decides to sew scarlet sails from the purchased material. On the way, he meets a traveling musician and invites him to join him on his ship with his orchestra.

Chapter 6. “Loneliness of Assol”

The girl, returning home from a walk, meets an old coal miner and his two comrades on the road. Radiant and inspired, she tells everyone that she will soon set off on a long journey. But, considering Assol a little strange, they simply did not pay attention to her phrase.

Chapter 7. “Scarlet Sails”

And in the final lines of the story, we see how the ship, led by Captain Arthur Gray, rushes towards Kapern with all its red sails. The young man eagerly wants to see the girl quickly and reveal his feelings to her. When the ship approached the shore, Assol was keen on reading. All the residents, seeing such beauty, were amazed. Assol, having come running along with everyone else, was impatiently waiting for the yacht to approach.

A handsome young man, sailing up on a boat, asked her if the girl remembered Gray. And having received an affirmative answer, the young man’s heart became even more inflamed. more love to this beauty. Music was playing all around. In honor of this event, the sailors drank wine. And only the old sailor played his instrument and indulged in thoughts about happiness.