Assol - main character story " Scarlet Sails". Assol is a girl whose dream came true. Assol lost her mother early, and she was raised by her father, the stern and withdrawn Longren. The villagers shunned them, because according to the owner of the tavern, Longren was a cruel and heartless person. He did not save him when he was carried out to sea. And the fact that Mary, Assol's mother, died because of him, the owner of the tavern kept silent. Since then, Assol and her father were disliked in the village, they were avoided. In addition, Assol was considered crazy after her story of a meeting with a wizard who promised that a brave prince would one day come for her on a ship with scarlet sails. For this, she was called none other than "ship Assol."

By nature, this was a girl with a sensitive imagination and a kind heart. She could speak to trees and bushes as if they were alive, take care of her younger brothers, and sincerely dream. When she grew up, she became a real beauty. Everything Assol put on seemed new and charming. Her face was childlike and radiant. She never for a moment forgot about her dream and vividly represented it. Even Longren thought that time would pass and she would forget the words of the storyteller Egl.

The ability to selflessly dream and ignore the evil ridicule of others benefited the girl. In fact, someone special appeared in her life, putting a ring on her finger while she slept. After that, she became even more confident that "he" would soon appear in her life. Soon, the same ship with scarlet sails appeared in the village of Kaperna, and with it Arthur Gray - the captain of the ship, a brave sailor, a noble man who heard the story about Assol and made it a reality.

Presentation of the heroine. My own composition, including, of course, quotes from the one and only work of A. Green "Scarlet Sails". I apologize for speech, spelling and punctuation errors and inaccuracies, this is an unedited text ...
Assol is the main character in Alexander Grin's story Scarlet Sails. We know the whole story of her life. Assol's mother died when she was still a baby, so the girl lived with her father Longren in Kapern. He tried in every possible way to protect the sensitive, impressionable girl from the influence of the rude inhabitants of this city. They did not love either father or daughter, remembering how Longren left the drowning Menners to die when he could help him. But he had his own reasons for that, which the inhabitants of Caperna could not understand.
Well, the girl had no friends. “One after another, her naive attempts at rapprochement ended in bitter crying, bruises, scratches and other manifestations of public opinion.”
But the father, who was always reserved and taciturn, loved his little Assol very much. Therefore, in the evenings, she climbed into his lap and listened to the stories and fables of the old sailor. “All this was listened to by the girl more attentively than, perhaps, the story of Columbus about the new continent was listened to for the first time.” What wonderful pictures, probably, Assol painted her childish imagination!
One day, on the way to Liss (a city neighboring Kaperna), the girl met Egle / I / - a traveling "collector of songs, legends, traditions and fairy tales." He, fascinated by a cute girl, told Assol that a wonderful future awaits her, that one day, when she grows up, a ship with Scarlet sails will sail for her, a prince will meet her on board, who will take her to his kingdom. Of course, Aigle was telling a lie. He hoped that Assol would soon forget his words. But this fairy tale settled so deeply in her imagination that the girl believed and never forgot that someday this would happen.

Assol grew up. Now it was
"Short little girl. The half-childish face, in a light tan, was mobile and expressive; beautiful eyes, somewhat serious for her age, looked with the timid concentration of deep souls. Her irregular face could touch with the subtle purity of its outlines; every curve, every bulge of this face, of course, would have found a place in a multitude of female appearances, but their totality, style was completely original - originally cute; this is where we will stop. The rest is not subject to words, except for the word "charm".
Even seven years after Egl told Assol an amazing story, she continued to believe in her. She knew for sure that the ship would come for her and take her away from these evil people who insulted her, called her "touched", "out of her mind." Assol was sure that the prince whom she had so often imagined would still come.
“More than once, worried and shy, she went to the seashore at night, where, after waiting for the dawn, she seriously examined the ship with Scarlet sails. These moments were happiness for her; it is difficult for us to go into a fairy tale like that, it would be no less difficult for her to get out of her power and charm.
Assol believed that the fairy tale would certainly happen. And when one day she found a ring on her finger that Gray put on her in a dream, she was not at all surprised, she felt that the dream was beginning to come true. “There were no explanations for what happened, but without words and thoughts she found them in her strange feeling, and the ring became close to her.”
Her fairy tale came true. And when Assol boarded the long-awaited ship,
she was happy. The same prince Aigle had told her about was waiting for her. Everything was so magical that she was afraid that everything would disappear like a dream. But it wasn't a dream, it was the truth.

Assol always dreamed, despite the ridicule and insults of her neighbors. Believing in magic as a child, she did not doubt its existence. She lived a dream and believed in the inevitability of what would happen to her someday. And the ship with Scarlet sails found her, because Assol believed in a dream, and dreams, as you know, come true.

The romantic story "Scarlet Sails" became calling card its author. The heroine of this work is a girl who lost her mother. She lives with her father, but honest and kind. Her whole world is fantasies and dreams, once inspired by the prediction of a song collector. The embodiment of a dream that will come true, you just have to believe in it, has become such a romantic image as Assol. The characterization of the heroine is the topic of this article.

Extravaganza

The authors literary works sometimes they use various elements of a fairy tale in their work. This technique allows you to reveal the plot, characters, give the work a lyrical or philosophical meaning. Fairy called his story In this work, realism is combined with magic, and fantasy - with reality. And perhaps through the use of such artistic means became the most touching and sublime image of a girl named Assol in Russian literature.

The characterization of this heroine once seemed consonant with the adherents of the socialist idea with their main postulates. That is why the work of Green in the Soviet Union was widely popular. Today, passions for the "Scarlet Sails" have subsided. And the image of the main character of this story took its rightful place in literature. But what inspired the author to write such a romantic story?

Creating the image of Assol

The characteristic of this character includes features that were characteristic of its author. Since childhood, Alexander Grinevsky dreamed of the seas and distant lands. But the romantic personality was increasingly faced with harsh reality. In his dreams he saw beautiful things in reality - a coaster. Grinevsky strove for lofty friendship, but experienced only contempt and ridicule from professional sailors. The desire to defeat rudeness and skepticism was born in the soul of a romantic man, but outwardly resembling the hero of his main book - Longren, Assol's father.

The characteristic of an unsuccessful sailor, but a talented writer, according to the memoirs of contemporaries, is the following description: rather gloomy, ugly person, unable to win over the interlocutor at the first meeting. The fate of the writer was also unlike a fairy tale. But it is known that it was precisely in the years when he had nowhere to lay his head that he created one of the most famous literary heroines - the girl Assol.

"Scarlet Sails" wrote Green at a time when all the foundations of life were collapsing around. The writer sometimes even starved, because creativity did not bring him any income. But he carried with him everywhere the manuscript, which later became one of greatest works in domestic literature. In the plot of this story, he put all his aspirations and hopes and believed, like Assol: “Scarlet Sails” would someday see Petrograd. It was during the period of revolutionary events, but the color of the flag on the cherished ship had nothing to do with the red rebel banner. It was only his Scarlet Sails. The characteristic of Assol echoed the properties of the mental warehouse of the author himself. And with them it was extremely difficult to exist in the world of ordinary people and skeptics.

Are there scarlet sails?

Assol's characteristic is used by the author only to the extent necessary. main theme in the story is hope. The character of the main character does not matter. It is known that she is a closed, modest and dreamy girl. She lost her mother very early, and since her father lost his job, the only source of food in their family was the sale of wooden toys.

The girl was lonely, although her father loved her dearly. Once she met the storyteller Egl, who predicted to her the arrival of a magical ship with sails. There will be a prince on board, and he will certainly take Assol with him.

The girl believed in a fairy tale, but those around her laughed at her and considered her crazy. And yet the dream came true. Once Assol saw scarlet sails.

Characteristics of the heroine from a romantic fairy tale

There is an artistic direction in literature, which is characterized by the assertion of spiritual and almost unattainable values. It's called romanticism. In the works of this direction there are fabulous and mythological motifs. And their heroes are in constant search for some ideal. German romantics dreamed of a blue flower. Scarlet sails became a similar ideal for Assol. The characterization of the heroine of Alexander Grin in this respect includes typical

Arthur Gray image

The prince, whose appearance was predicted by the storyteller, was an ordinary young man, although from a wealthy family. Since childhood, like the author of the story, he dreamed of becoming a captain. An irresistible desire to comprehend the wisdom of marine science prompted him to leave his home. At first he was a simple sailor, but years later his dream came true. Gray purchased his ship and became a captain. And once he heard stories about the crazy dreams of a girl who is waiting for the prince on a fairy-tale ship. He was touched by Assol's dream, and he decided to make it come true.

Dreams Come True…

The captain ordered the scarlet sails to be raised. The ship entered the port, and a girl was waiting for him on the shore. Everything happened just as the good Aigle had predicted. And it does not matter that Assol Gray learned about the dream in advance. The main thing is faith and hope. After all, they can save a person even in the most difficult times. The characterization of Assol and Gray was compiled by the author on the basis of his personal worldview and life experience. The main feature of these characters is the ability to believe in a dream. And this, perhaps, saved the writer when he was in exile. A. Green's life was rather difficult, but he always found a place for a miracle in his heart. Even when others did not understand and condemned him.

The appearance of the heroine

Not of paramount importance in the story are the appearance and character of a girl with nice name Assol. The characterization of the heroine, as already mentioned, is less significant than her ability to believe in a dream. But still, a little should be said about the appearance of this character.

Assol is presented in the story as the owner of a thick mop of hair, taken into a scarf. Her smile was meek, and her eyes seemed to contain some sad question. The figure of the heroine is depicted by A. Green as fragile and thin. The girl worked diligently, helping her father create miniature ships from wood.

Assol is the personification of gentle beauty, spiritual meekness and diligence. And this is not surprising, because this is exactly the typical heroine of many well-known romantic fairy tales, who has been waiting for a handsome prince for a long time. As it should be according to the laws of the genre, at the end of a magical story, all Assol's dreams come true.

Alexander Grin created "Scarlet Sails" in those years when the world order was collapsing around. He wrote a fairy tale about a poor, offended and seemingly homeless girl, when he himself was almost poor and hungry.

The writer carried a notebook with the manuscript of this book with him to the front, when he, a thirty-nine-year-old, sick, exhausted man, was called to the war against the White Poles (1919). He carried the treasured notebook with him around hospitals and typhoid barracks. And in spite of everything, he believed that the "Scarlet Sails" would take place. This belief pervades the story itself.

Her idea was born back in 1916, seemingly by accident. From a childhood dream (the sea) and an accidental impression (a toy boat with a sail seen in a shop window), Green gave birth to the main images of the story, which he called "extravaganza". This is usually called a theatrical performance of fairy-tale content. But "Scarlet Sails" is not a play or a fairy tale, but the real truth. After all, it is not at all uncommon for villages like Kaperna. The heroes of the story do not look like fairy tales, even such as Egl, only little Assol could take him for a magician. And yet, despite the realism of the characters and paintings, "Scarlet Sails" is an extravaganza.

The image of Assol in the story "Scarlet Sails"

The main characters are Assol and Gray. First, the author introduces Assol. The unusualness of the girl is indicated by her name - Assol. It has no "literal meaning". But “it’s good that it’s so strange,” says Aigle.

Assol's "strangeness" is not only in the name, but also in words and behavior. This is especially noticeable against the background of the inhabitants of Caperna. They lived ordinary life- traded, fished, delivered coal, slandered, drank. But, as Egle remarked, they "do not tell tales ... do not sing songs." "Scarlet sails" were mentioned by them only as a "mockery" of the one who believed in them. And when they saw real scarlet sails, they looked at them “with nervous and gloomy anxiety, with vicious fright”, “stupefied women flashed like a snake hiss”, they “poison climbed into their heads”. It is noteworthy that not only adults became embittered, but also children ... This means that anger, cruelty are not traits of individual people, but a disease that has struck everyone, regardless of age.

Assol was completely different ... She is a stranger in Kapern. The girl could go to the seashore at night, "where ... she looked out for a ship with scarlet sails." She felt at home in nature.

And she was filled with love. “I would love him,” said little Assol to Egl, who predicted to her scarlet sails and a prince. She loves her father and comforts him with her feelings. Love separated her from the inhabitants of Caperna, united by malice and poverty of soul.

The image of Gray in the story "Scarlet Sails"

Gray's story also begins in childhood. His entourage is his parents and ancestors, who are present, however, only in portraits. Gray was supposed to live according to a "prearranged plan." The logic and course of his life were predetermined by the family. Actually, like the life of Assol. The only difference is that he was ordered to flourish, and she was to vegetate in an atmosphere of rejection and even hatred of the surrounding people. But the program of life drawn up for Gray failed very early. It did not take into account his lively and independent character.

It all started with the fact that Gray wanted to choose the role of "knight", "seeker" and "miracle worker" in life. In childhood, this role manifested itself in a childish way. Gray smeared nails on the picture depicting the crucified Christ. Then, in order to feel the pain of the maid who scalded her hand, he also scalded his own hand. He slipped her his piggy bank, supposedly from Robin Hood, so that she could get married. A picture on the library wall and a rich imagination helped Gray decide on the future. He decided that he should become a captain. Green gave Gray his dream.

Thus, both Assol and Gray saw their future in childhood. Only Assol just waited patiently, and Gray immediately began to act. At the age of fifteen, he secretly leaves home and enters the unknown life of a sailor. The contrast between domestic and marine life is striking. There is mother's love, indulgence to all his whims, but here rudeness, physical activity. But Gray "silently endured ridicule, bullying and inevitable abuse until he became a captain."

This hero is subtle nature. He is able to understand the signs of fate. When he first saw Assol sleeping, "everything shook, everything smiled in him." And he put the ring on the finger of the sleeping Assol.

After hearing her story, Gray already knew what he would do. Green in the most detailed way describes how he chooses silk for sails to show how important it is to him what he is about to do.

Why did Assol and Gray, so distant from each other both by distance and position, still manage to meet? Fate? Yes, definitely. And Gray admits this: "How closely fate, will and character traits are intertwined here." "Fate" he put in the first place. But there are patterns in their history. All Gray's actions after he learned about the prediction for Assol are absolutely in his character: “I understood one simple truth. It is to do so-called miracles with your own hands.”

Of course, A. Green embellished life. He showed what I would like to see in her, and not what is. But his tale supports our belief in miracles that happen in life. And already for many people.

Scarlet sails are a symbol of hope that started it all...

The main features of the story "Scarlet Sails":

  • genre: fairy tale;
  • plot: prediction and its fulfillment;
  • the contrast of "worlds": the "shining world" of Assol and Gray and the everyday world of Kaperna and sailors;
  • the ideal hero at the center of the story;
  • the presence of symbols;
  • the concept of a "miracle" created by one's own hands;
  • the meeting of two spiritually close people as the semantic center of extravaganza.

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Perhaps, no less than Gray, Assol inspires faith in success, carries the burning of good luck. There were two people in Gray's soul. And in Assol's soul lived two Assols, "mixed in a wonderful beautiful irregularity." One was the daughter of a sailor, a craftsman, who knew how to make toys, diligently sew, cook, wash floors. The other, the one that Green called a living poem "with all the wonders of its consonances and images," was itself the epitome of poetry. Trembling and worrying, Assol lived in anticipation of a miracle. And in this reciprocity of shadows and light, in this beautiful irregularity, there was, like Gray, its own correctness, there was something inherent in both of them. high art transform the world, inspire to make many amazing discoveries “ethereally subtle”, “inexpressible”, “but important, like cleanliness and warmth”.
Everything that Assol saw around her, everything that she lived with, became “a lace of secrets in the image of everyday life”. The very sound of her name, as strange and unaccustomed to hearing as the gentle name Suok in The Three Fat Men, foreshadowed an encounter with a creature unlike any other. Agle, for example, likes that the name is so strange, so monotonous, musical, like the whistle of an arrow or the sound of a seashell. “What would I do,” he says thoughtfully to Assol, “if you called yourself one of those euphonious, but unbearably familiar names that are alien to the Beautiful Unknown? Moreover, I do not want to know who you are, who your parents are and how you live. Why break the charm?
What is the source of Assol's charm? Green is not going to ask us riddles on this score. There is so much purity, spontaneity, naturalness in her soul, such a readiness to see the world with eyes in which nothing adult remains, - the big eyes of a child, that together with her we are imbued with the expectation of the Beautiful Unknown. Assol inspiredly promises to his friend, the coal miner Philip, that one day, when Philip fills up his basket with coal, it will turn into a fragrant bush. And Philip really begins to imagine that buds have crawled out of the old twigs and leaves have splashed over the basket. Trembling and agitated, Assol leaves for the seashore, intensely looking out on the horizon for a white ship with a scarlet sail. And we, too, not believing that we believe, are waiting for his appearance.
“These moments were happiness for her,” Greene wrote about his heroine, “it’s hard for us to go into a fairy tale like that, it would be no less difficult for her to get out of her power and charm.” And what a triumph over the prosaic, rough, one-dimensional, flat and philistine idea of ​​life, devoid of any flight of fantasy, the author of the book experiences together with his heroes, when, in front of the shocked inhabitants of Kaperna, a ship suddenly appears with the very sails, whose name is still it sounded like a mockery.
The heroine of "Scarlet Sails" at one time seemed to some critics of the book a character, although poetic, but passive, inactive. Such a reproach to Green was addressed more than once. Is he really that fair? Gray was given strength, opportunities, a desire to make Assol's dream come true. But remember that none other than Assol inspired Gray to his act! Assol helped Gray understand one simple truth. To understand and to be convinced of it: one must do the so-called miracles with one's own hands. And maybe that's why Gray didn't want anyone else but Assol.
Here, it turns out, how in the final analysis happily, almost like a fairy tale, and at the same time irreversibly, inevitably, fates, will and character traits are intertwined in Green's extravaganza. The meeting of the storyteller Egl with Assol determines the purpose of her existence. The picture depicting a ship rising on the crest of a sea rampart, which Gray liked to look at for a long time as a child, became for him “that necessary word in the conversation of the soul with life, without which it would be difficult for him to understand himself.” In a small boy, a huge sea gradually fit in. He got along with it...
Isn't the glimpse of the miniature boat that Green once saw in the window of a toy store somewhere in the same row? This insignificant impression turned out to be very necessary and very important for the writer.

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