Green wrote a work where the little outcast Assol was ready for a miracle, and the miracle found her. Assol was raised by a kind and loving father, Longren. The girl lost her mother very early, and her father began to earn a living by making and selling toys. The world of toys in which Assol lived, naturally, formed her rather weak character, although in life she had to deal with gossip and evil. The world she had to face frightened her. Running away from all problems, Assol tried to keep in her heart a beautiful fairy tale about scarlet sails, which a kind person told her. I was sincerely sorry for Assol, because she was an outcast. No one understood her rich inner world, her magical dream. Children called her a village fool, and adults avoided her. I think that all these people are deeply unhappy. A person who has no heart, no soul, cannot dream. And it is not their crime, but the misfortune that these people have become hardened in soul, and do not see and do not notice the beautiful in thoughts and feelings. One day, little Assol began to understand that one cannot live with dreams alone and that reality is more important than dreams. Very often, life and circumstances break the dreams of fragile and weak people, but Assol did not break.
Where is our hero? And is he a hero, Arthur Gray, who lives not in a hut, but in a family castle, in luxury and full prosperity, the only offspring of a noble and wealthy family? With bated breath, I flip through page after page. It turns out that he is also a dreamer. What's so amazing about that?! After all, the main thing in a person is the inner world, his soul. You can hide behind money, they are needed, in the modern world they play a significant role, but when a person has something high in his soul, money, wealth is not the goal of life.
The boy dreams of sunset, of the sea, of ships, he was born a captain, his parents supported his aspirations in every possible way. Communication with people?! Gray in this regard was easier than Assol. He was not an outcast, but his thoughts were full of fantasy and imagination. Most likely, this is what helped them find each other.
It is so wonderful to realize that there is another person in the world who thinks the same way as you. The acquaintance of two people was destined by fate. Once, by chance, the ship was washed ashore near the village where Assol lived. Walking through the forest, the young man saw a sleeping girl, and she immediately aroused exciting feelings in his soul. He looked at her not only with his eyes, but also with his heart, waiting for love: "Everything was shaken, everything smiled in him." Later, in a tavern, he asked who this girl was, and he was told with mockery the story of a mad woman who was waiting for the prince on a ship with scarlet sails. What happened next? “It's like two strings sounded together. The young man decided that the dream of a beautiful stranger must certainly come true. And he must help it. In addition, he had already decided for himself that this girl would certainly become his wife. Gray had sails made of scarlet silk for his ship. In addition, he gathered musicians who could play in a way that would make hearts cry. After all, "the sea and love do not tolerate pedants." And when everything was ready, he went to meet his dream.
Meanwhile, the unsuspecting Assol looked at the sea, circled with a golden thread on the horizon and throwing scarlet reflections at the girl's feet. There, at the end of the world, what she had dreamed of for so long was happening. And now that morning had already come when a beautiful ship approached the shore with sails blazing with crimson fire. And there was he - the one she had been waiting for a long time. “He looked at her with a smile that warmed and hurried,” my heart is ready to jump out, so I worry about my heroes. And Assol, shouting: “I'm here! I'm here! It's me! ”, - rushed to him right on the water. So in the morning of a summer day Gray and Assol found each other. So the magical power of a dream made two kind and loving people happy.
What a pity that the story of love ended so quickly and that even the most unrealizable dreams can become a reality. I highly recommend reading this story about honor and dishonor, cowardice and courage, about achieving a goal, to everyone who knows how to dream, who has faith in goodness in his heart. This romantic story works wonders with the souls of people, after which you want to believe in a miracle. The realism of the work allows you to see the beautiful world around us. And no matter how bad it is in the soul, in life, no matter what the surrounding people are, faith in something bright saves. And this is only one side. The other side contains good human relations, a feeling of love, hope for the future. "Scarlet Sails" is a romantic world of human happiness, cordial attitude, compassion, and most importantly - the boundless love of two people. And if you still believe in a dream, look beyond the horizon line at dawn, maybe a handsome ship with scarlet sails is already standing there. You only believe! Each of you is waiting for your own Scarlet sails.
According to one version, the idea of the story "Scarlet Sails" arose during Alexander Grin's walk along the Neva embankment in St. Petersburg. Passing by 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 to create a story.
An introverted, gloomy man named Longren lives a solitary life with his daughter Assol. Longren makes model sailboats for sale. For a small family, this is the only way to make ends meet. Countrymen hate Longren because of one incident that happened in the distant past.
Once Longren was a sailor and went on a voyage for a long time. Returning once again from swimming, he learned that his wife was no longer alive. Having given birth to a child, Mary had to spend all the money on medicines 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 livelihood, went to the innkeeper Menners to borrow money. The innkeeper made an obscene offer to Mary in exchange for help. The honest woman refused and went into town 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 his family happiness.
One day he had a chance to take revenge. During a storm, Menners was swept out to sea on a boat. Longren was the only witness to what happened. The innkeeper called in vain for help. The former sailor stood calmly on the shore and smoked a pipe.
When Menners was already far enough from the coast, Longren reminded him of what he had done with 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 the collector of fairy tales Egl, who predicted the girl that years later she would meet her love. Her lover will sail on a ship with scarlet sails. At home, the girl told her father about the strange prediction. Their conversation was overheard by a beggar. He is a retelling of what Longren's countrymen heard. Since then, Assol has become the object of ridicule.
Arthur Gray, unlike Assol, did not grow up 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 Anselm schooner, where he went through a very harsh school. Captain Gop, noticing good inclinations in the young man, decided to make a real sailor out of him. At the age of 20, Gray bought a three-masted galliot "Secret", on which he became the captain.
After 4 years, Gray accidentally finds himself in the vicinity of Liss, a few kilometers from which was Caperna, where Longren lived with his daughter. By chance, Gray meets Assol, sleeping in the thickets.
The beauty of the girl impressed him so much that he took off the old ring from his finger and put it on Assol. Then Gray heads to Kaperna, where he tries to find out at least something about an unusual girl. The captain wandered into the Menners tavern, where his son was now in charge. Hin Menners told Gray that Assol's father is a murderer, and the girl herself is 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 drunk 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 former occupation. As long as 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 he has sailed for her...
Assol is the main character of the story. In early childhood, the girl is left alone because of the hatred of others for her father. But loneliness is habitual for Assol, it does not depress and does not frighten her.
She lives in her own fictional world, where the cruelty and cynicism of the surrounding reality do 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 a new meaning. She starts to wait.
Years go by, but Assol remains the same. Ridicule, offensive nicknames and hatred of fellow villagers for 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 courage, audacity and the desire for absolute independence. He knows that he can truly prove himself only in the fight against the elements.
Arthur is not attracted to high society. Social events and dinner parties are not for him. The picture hanging in the library decides the fate of the young man. He leaves home and, having passed the ordeal, becomes the captain of the ship. Audacity and courage, reaching 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 does not need stiff ladies with refined manners and a brilliant education. Gray is not looking for love, she finds it herself. Assol is a very unusual girl with an unusual dream. Arthur sees before him a beautiful, bold and pure soul, similar to his own soul.
At the end of the story, the reader has a feeling of a miracle, 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 for its realism and lack of fantasy that this work is so attractive.
The author makes it clear that a person himself creates his dreams, he believes in them and he himself embodies them into reality. It makes no sense to wait 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 dispose of it, you need to trace the entire chain of creating and implementing a dream.
Old Egle created a beautiful legend, apparently to please a little girl. Assol believed in this legend and cannot even imagine that the prophecy will not come true. Gray, falling in love with a beautiful stranger, makes her dream come true. As a result, an absurd, divorced from life fantasy becomes part of reality. And this fantasy was embodied not by creatures endowed with supernatural abilities, but by the most ordinary people.
Faith in a miracle
A dream, according to the author, is the meaning of life. Only she is able to save a person from the daily 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 outside, because help from “above” can never be expected.
Gray would never have become a captain by staying in his parent's 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 his goal. But she had the most important thing, something that, perhaps, is more important than action - faith.
The fairy tale "Scarlet Sails" is the brightest, life-affirming work of the famous Russian writer A. S. Green. The idea of the story arose from the author on the basis of the real story about red sails known to him, which, according to him, he followed with enthusiasm. As the writer himself admitted, he “was captivated by the idea of intervening in this story, so that it would end as if written by me, and then, then I would describe it ...”.
Confidence in the need to create such a work was strengthened when one day, passing by showcases with toys, Green saw a beautiful ship there, which stood out against the background of other objects with its sails, which seemed bright red under the rays of sunlight. The story was not created immediately. The author postponed his book for a while, as he thought over for a long time "unusual circumstances in which something decisive had to happen", arising from "some long-term misfortune or expectation, resolved by a ship with red sails." But over time, all the circumstances were thought out, and the real story turned into a wonderful fairy tale, affirming the power of pure love and faith in a dream.
According to the original plan of A. S. Green, the action was to take place during the revolution in cold and hungry Petrograd. And he called his story "Red Sails": after all, red is a traditional symbol of revolution. But later, reality and fantasy changed places, the action was transferred to the invented Caperna (a name consonant with the New Testament Capernaum), symbolizing human emptiness, stupidity and lack of spirituality. The author came up with ports and seas and put a NEW meaning into his work. Now it was called "Scarlet Sails", the writer excluded from it the political meaning of red. Instead, scarlet appeared - "the color of wine, roses, dawn, ruby, healthy lips, blood and small tangerines, the skin of which smells so seductively of pungent volatile oil, this color - in its many shades - is always cheerful and accurate." As you can see, A. Green's favorite color was not chosen by chance: “False or vague interpretations will not stick to him. The feeling of joy it evokes is like a full breath in the midst of a lush garden.”
The very name of the story "Scarlet Sails", thus, has become deeply symbolic. The first thing we imagine when we hear it is the approach, the announcement of something joyful, magical, beautiful. We begin to firmly believe in this magic, in this inevitable happiness. And the plot of the work with each page convinces us more and more of the truth of this faith. We see that everything fabulous, lofty, beautiful, bright, everything that sometimes seems unrealizable, “essentially is just as feasible and possible as a country walk.” Realizing this, Green himself wrote: “I understood one truth. It is to do miracles with your own hands...” Having decorated reality with his fantasies, bringing it closer to a fairy tale, the author, nevertheless, left it extraordinarily real, thereby urging readers to always believe in scarlet sails.
And readers believed: scarlet sails became a symbol, an anthem of the generation of the 60-70s of the XX century. On long voyages, near forest fires, in geologists' tents, in student groups, they composed and sang songs with familiar names and names of cities. Today's readers also believe, because, having become acquainted with this work and its heroes, it is impossible not to be imbued with bright and good hopes.
Thus, having created his story and giving it such a bright name, Alexander Grin created an undying symbol that lives in the minds of people and will probably continue to live for many more centuries. Because, no matter how the world changes, people are so arranged that they must believe in a dream - bright, pure, beautiful - believe that, no matter how unrealistic their desires may seem, they will certainly come true. “You write in such a way that everything is visible,” said M. Slonimsky, to whom A. S. Grin was the first to read his story. And indeed, in the work everything is so obvious and real that we see, feel, feel everything that happens to its heroine. Perhaps that is why every girl is waiting for her handsome prince, who will certainly sail for her on a ship with scarlet sails. And on this ship her true happiness will sail to her. Of course, the ship, the sails, and the prince are figurative symbols. Perhaps the handsome prince is walking down the street next to us - it is only important that we meet him so that he sees us. And loved. And he wanted, like Gray, to fulfill our dream.
The writing
“When the days start gathering dust and the colors fade, I take Green. I open it on any page, so in the spring they wipe the windows in the house. Everything becomes light, bright, everything mysteriously excites again, as in childhood. Greene is one of the few who should be in the first aid kit against heart fat and fatigue. With him you can go to the Arctic and virgin lands, go on a date. He is poetic, he is courageous." This is how the writer Daniil Granin expressed the beneficial power of Green's influence on the reader.
Thinking about Alexander Grin, we, first of all, remember his fairy tale story "Scarlet Sails". This fabulous extravaganza has become a symbol of his work. She absorbed all the best that is in other works of Green: a beautiful dream and a true reality, love for a person and faith in his strength, hope for the best and love for the beautiful.
The title of the story is ambiguous. In order for a sailing ship to move, its sails must be filled with wind. And a person's life should be filled with deep content, then it makes sense. If life is boring and bleak, its meaning becomes a dream. A dream can remain a beautiful, unfulfilled fairy tale. But it can come true.
Green's "Scarlet Sails" is a symbol of a dream that has become a reality. Assol's dream "came to life" because the girl "knew how to love," as her father taught, knew how to "wait in spite of everything." And she was able to maintain her faith in beauty, living among people who "did not know how to tell fairy tales and sing songs."
The scarlet color of silk, chosen by Gray for the sails of the Secret, became the color of joy and beauty, which was so lacking in Caperna.
A white sailboat under scarlet sails is a symbol of love and new life for Assol, who waited for her happiness.
Green's "Scarlet Sails" is also a statement of the right way to achieve happiness: "do miracles with your own hands." So thought Captain Gray, who fulfilled the dream of a girl he did not know. So thought the sailor Longren, who once made a toy yacht with scarlet sails, which brought happiness to his daughter.
What is the meaning of Alexander Grin's Scarlet Sails? and got the best answer
Answer from Portasja[guru]
The point is that everything in life is predestined, that dreams sometimes come true, that Cinderellas slip through the Earth once every 100 years, that everyone has a second half, that love at first sight exists, that there is love, that even beggars are people. -)) And to believe in it or not is our own business.
Answer from Girlfriend[guru]
If something sacred to believe. it will definitely happen.)
Answer from Lera Shakhovtseva[guru]
I don’t remember exactly, but there is something about the fact that one must believe in a miracle. If you don’t understand, read the criticism and roll from there, I always did that.
Answer from Nata[newbie]
In my opinion, the meaning of this work is that a person must believe in his dream and not give it up (like Asol). How strong his faith is, so this dream is feasible. Miracles happen and sometimes they are created by the hands of ordinary people (Grey fulfilled Asol's dream and sailed to her on a ship with scarlet sails).
Answer from Imma Ivashkina[guru]
Agree with the previous answer. The fairy tale teaches us to never lose hope and faith in the best, the bright. After all, thought is material. Sooner or later everything comes true
Answer from KRISTINA.[guru]
NEVER DEPRESS, dreaming even if you have nothing at all is wonderful and helps to live and always remember that life without HOPE is a miserable existence
Green is a romantic writer, apparently because his own life was terrible and tragic, look for it, you won't regret it!
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MEANING: TO EXTRACT THE DREAM OF HUMAN HAPPINESS FROM THE TRAGIC REALITY. Fictional cities called it GREENland.
Answer from Natalia Medvedeva[guru]
If a person has a dream, even the most unattainable one, and the whole world laughs at it, and no matter what, he believes in it and strives for it, then he will definitely come true. And this weight will not be a fairy tale, but a reality.
Answer from Irina Danilyuk[master]
Greene himself believed that we can work miracles with our own hands. and, first of all, it's just about Greya, and not about Assol. the point is, if you can do a miracle, then do it!
Answer from Olga Zhigulskaya[newbie]
The main idea of the author of the story is that a person in his life needs to have the most cherished dream, believe and strive for it, and only then will it come true. After all, Alexander Grin wrote this work not at the best times of his life, and, probably, in my opinion, he wanted to create an example of a dream, faith, and hope.
