Title of the work: Scarlet Sails
Alexander Stepanovich Green
Year of writing: 1916-1922
Genre of the work: extravaganza story
Main characters: Assol- young dreamer, sailor Longren- Father Assol, Arthur Gray- captain of the ship.

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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 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 sail 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 Caperna. Now the children shouted after her: “Hey, gallows! 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." This wine is

no one has tried and no one will try. “I’ll drink it,” Gray said, stamping his foot and clenching his hand into a fist: “Paradise? It’s 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 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 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 it off his finger. antique ring 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.

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The story “Scarlet Sails” was first published in 1923. The author sought to show in his work the possibility of the victory of dreams over everyday life. Alexander Green's story "Scarlet Sails" tells about the girl Assol, her loyalty to her dream and desire for it. Main conflict The story “Scarlet Sails” is a confrontation between dreams and reality.

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Main characters

Assol- a poor girl living with her father. One day, the old collector of legends Egle said that a prince would sail for her under scarlet sails. The girl believed with all her heart and waited for her prince.

Arthur Gray- the only heir of a noble rich family, searching for himself and his place in the world. At the age of fifteen he left his home and went sailing.

Other characters

Longren- an old sailor who lives with his daughter Assol. His wife died, he is raising his daughter himself and makes a living by creating wooden ship models.

Aigle- collector of fairy tales and legends. One day in the forest he sees Assol with a toy yacht on scarlet sails, and tells the girl that the same ship will come for her one day.

Hin Menners- the son of the deceased tavern owner Menners. He hates Assol's father and the girl herself, because Longren did not help his father when his boat was drifting into the open sea.

Residents of Kaperna– down-to-earth, cynical people. They don’t like Longren, and they think Assol is crazy. The story about the scarlet sails becomes another reason for them to ridicule the girl.

Chapter 1. Prediction

Longren, a sailor who went to sea on the brig Orion, after ten years of sailing, leaves his service and returns home. He is forced to do this because, once returning to the small village of Kaperna, he learned that he had an eight-month-old daughter, and his beloved wife Mary had died of double pneumonia.

The birth was difficult; almost all the savings in the house were spent on recovery. The poor woman had to go into the city in cold weather to lay wedding ring- the only value - and buy bread. After a three-hour journey, Mary fell ill and soon died.

A widow neighbor moved into the empty house. She raised little Assol. Longren also learned that his wife asked to lend her money from the wealthy tavern owner Menners. He “agreed to give money, but demanded love for it.”

After the death of his beloved wife, the sailor became even more unsociable; he lived raising a girl and making a living from wooden toys in the form of ships and boats.

When Assol turned five years old, “an event occurred, the shadow of which, falling on the father, also covered the daughter.” In terrible bad weather, Longren was standing at the pier and smoking when he saw Menners in his boat being carried far out to sea. Menners asked to help him, but Longren just stood there and was silent, and when the boat was almost out of sight, he shouted: “She also asked you! Think about this while you’re still alive...” Returning home at night, he told the awakened Assol that he “made a black toy.”

Six days later, Menners was found; he was picked up by a ship, but he was in a dying state. The residents of Kaperna learned from him how Longren silently watched his impending death. After this, he completely became an outcast in the villages. Subsequently, Assol also lost friends. The children didn't want to play with her. She was feared and pushed away. At first the girl tried to establish communication with them, but this ended in bruises and tears. She soon learned to play alone.

IN good weather Longren let the girl go to the city. One day, eight-year-old Assol saw a beautiful white yacht in a basket, and its sails were made of scarlet silk. The girl could not resist the temptation to play with an unusual boat, and let it swim in a forest stream. But there was a strong current that quickly carried her down. Running for the toy. Assol found herself deep in the forest and saw Egle, an old collector of songs and fairy tales.

“I don’t know how many years will pass, but in Kaperna a fairy tale will bloom, memorable for a long time. One morning, in the distance of the sea, a scarlet sail will sparkle under the sun... You will see a brave, handsome prince... I have come to take you forever to my kingdom, he will say...”

The joyful girl returned to her father and told him this story. He, not wanting to disappoint his daughter, supported her. A beggar passed nearby, heard everything and told it in the tavern. After this incident, the children began to tease Assol even more, calling her a princess and shouting that “her red sails” had come for her. The girl began to be considered insane.

Chapter 2. Gray

Arthur Gray was a descendant of a respected family and lived on a wealthy family estate. The boy was uncomfortable within the framework of family etiquette and a boring home.

Once a boy painted the hands of the crucified Christ in a picture, explaining his action by not wanting “to have blood flowing in his house.” At the age of eight, he began to explore the back streets of the castle and went into the wine cellar, where wine was stored, with the ominous inscription “Gray will drink me when he is in Paradise.” Young Arthur was indignant at the illogicality of the inscription, and said that he would drink it someday.

Arthur grew up an unusual child. There were no more children in the castle, and he played alone, often in the backyards of the castle. In thickets of weeds and old defensive ditches.

When the boy was twelve, he wandered into a dusty library and saw a picture that depicted a ship in a storm, with the captain standing at the bow. The picture, and especially the figure of the captain, struck Gray. From that moment on, the sea became the meaning of life for him, a dream that he could only study from books.

At the age of fifteen, Arthur ran away from the estate and went to sea as a cabin boy on the schooner Anselm, on which Captain Gop first took him out of interest and a desire to show the pampered boy the real sea and the life of sailors. But during the voyage Arthur turned from little prince into a real strong sailor, with past life he saved only his free, soaring soul. The captain, seeing how the boy had changed, once told him “Victory is on your side, rogue.” From that moment on, Gop began to teach Gray everything he knew.

In Vancouver, Gray received a letter from his mother, she asked him to return home, but Arthur replied that she also needed to understand him, he could not imagine his life without the sea.

After five years of sailing, Gray came to visit the castle. Here he learned that his old father had died. A week later, from a large sum he met with Captain Gop, to whom he informed that he would now be the captain of his own ship. At first, Gop pushed young Arthur away and wanted to leave, but he caught up and sincerely hugged him, after which he invited the captain and crew to the nearest tavern, where they feasted all night.

Soon, the Secret, Gray’s huge three-masted ship, stood in the port of Dubelt.

He sailed on it for about three years, engaged in merchant affairs, until, by the will of fate, he ended up in Lys.

Chapter 3. Dawn

On the twelfth day of his stay in Lys, Gray became sad and went to inspect the ship before departure. He wanted to go fishing. With the sailor Letika, they sailed in a boat along the night shore. So slowly they reached Caperna and stopped there.

Wandering through the forest at night, he saw Assol sleeping on the grass. The girl slept in a sweet, serene sleep and seemed to Arthur the embodiment of beauty and tenderness. Without realizing why he was doing this, Gray put his family ring on her little finger.

Afterwards, in Menners' tavern, the captain began asking Hin Menners about the girl he had seen. He said that this was apparently “Ship Assol,” a crazy girl who was waiting for the prince under scarlet sails. The story of the sails was distorted and told in a way of ridicule and irony, but its innermost essence “remained untouched” and struck Gray to the core.

Khin also spoke about the girl's father, calling him a killer. The drunken coal miner who was sitting next to him suddenly sobered up and called Menners a liar. He said that he knows Assol, he has brought her to the city many times in his cart, and the girl is absolutely healthy and sweet. While they were talking, Assol went about her business past the tavern window. One glance at the girl’s concentrated face and serious eyes, in which a sharp, lively mind was read, was enough for Gray to be convinced of Assol’s mental health.

Chapter 4. The day before

Seven years have passed since Assol and Egle met. For the first time in these years, the girl returned home very upset and with a basket full of unsold toys. She told Loughren that the owner of the shop no longer wanted to buy their crafts. They also did not want to accept them in other stores that the girl visited, citing the fact that modern mechanical toys are now more valued than Longren’s “wooden trinkets.” The old sailor decides to go to sea again to earn a living for himself and his daughter, although he does not want to leave his daughter alone.

Upset and thoughtful, Assol went for a wander along the evening shore of Kaperna, and fell asleep in the forest, waking up with Gray’s ring on her finger. At first it seemed like someone's joke to her. Having thought well, the girl hid it and did not even tell her father about the strange find.

Chapter 5. Combat preparations

Returning to the ship, Gray gave orders that surprised his assistant and went to the city stores in search of scarlet silk. Gray's assistant, Panten, was so surprised by the captain's behavior that he believed that he had decided to engage in the transportation of contraband.

Having finally found the right shade, Arthur bought two thousand meters of the fabric he needed, which surprised the owner, who quoted an exorbitant price for his product.

On the street, Gray saw Zimmer, a wandering musician whom he knew before, and asked him to gather fellow musicians to serve with Gray. Zimmer happily agreed and after a while came to the port with a crowd of street musicians.

Chapter 6. Assol is left alone

After spending the night in his boat at sea, Londgren returned home and told Assol that he was going on a long voyage. He left his daughter a gun for protection. Longren did not want to leave and was afraid to leave his daughter for a long time, but he had no choice.

Assol was troubled by strange premonitions. Everything in her such a dear and close home began to seem alien. Having met the coal miner Philip, the girl said goodbye to him, saying that she would soon leave, but where she did not yet know.

Chapter 7. Scarlet “Secret”

The “Secret”, under scarlet sails, followed the river bed. Arthur reassured his assistant Paten by revealing to him the reason for such unusual behavior. He told him that he saw a miracle in Assol’s image, and now he must become a real miracle for the girl. This is why he needs scarlet sails.

Assol was home alone. She read interesting book, and an annoying bug was crawling along the leaves and lines, which she kept brushing down. Once again the insect climbed onto the book and stopped at the word “Look.” The girl, sighing, raised her head, and suddenly in the opening between the roofs of the houses she saw the sea, and on it - a ship under scarlet sails. Not believing her eyes, she ran to the pier, where all of Kaperna had already gathered, perplexed and making noise. There was a silent question on the faces of the men, and undisguised anger on the faces of the women. “Never before has a large ship approached this shore; the ship had those same sails whose name sounded like a mockery.”

When Assol found herself on the shore, there was already a huge crowd screaming, asking, hissing with anger and surprise. Assol ran into the thick of it, and people moved away from her, as if afraid.
A boat with strong oarsmen separated from the ship, among whom was “the one... whom she knew, vaguely remembered from childhood.” Assol rushed into the water, where Gray took her into his boat.
“Assol closed her eyes; then, quickly opening her eyes, she boldly smiled at his shining face and, out of breath, said: “Absolutely like that.”

Once on the ship, the girl asked if Gray would take old Longren. He answered “Yes” and kissed the happy Assol. The holiday was celebrated with the same wine from Gray's cellars.

Conclusion

The story is multifaceted and reveals many important problems, so after reading the brief retelling of “Scarlet Sails”, we recommend reading full version story.

In the foreground is the problem of confronting dreams with everyday life. Kaperna and its inhabitants act as antipodes to Assol and Gray. Assol is waiting for his fairytale dream to come true, and Gray is making his dream come true by decorating his ship with sails made of scarlet silk.

The color of the sail is symbolic. Scarlet is a symbol of victory and rejoicing. The village of Kaperna is depicted in gray tones; against the backdrop of its dirty roofs, the “Secret” under the scarlet sails seems like a miracle. This color is completely alien here, like Assol and Gray, so they sail away from here at the end of the story.

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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 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 sail 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 Caperna. 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: “Paradise?” 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 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.

Option 2

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, together with a sailor, sailed on a boat from the “Secret” in search of good place for fishing. They left the boat under the 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 sails of the Secret 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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He learns that the girl's name is Assol and that she is waiting for the prince on a ship with scarlet sails. To understand the essence of the extravaganza, you can study its summary (“Scarlet Sails”) chapter by chapter. A brief summary (“Scarlet Sails”, Green A.) will help reveal the main theme of the extravaganza. The chapter summary begins with the chapter “Prediction,” which immediately intrigues the young reader. This is why he needs scarlet sails.

He told Assol that one day a real ship with the same scarlet sails would sail for her, and on it would be a brave prince who would take her to his kingdom. Assol is a poor girl living with her father. One day, the old collector of legends Egle said that a prince would sail for her under scarlet sails. The story about the scarlet sails becomes another reason for them to ridicule the girl.

Chapter 4. The day before

He said that this was apparently “Ship Assol,” a crazy girl who was waiting for the prince under scarlet sails. The girl, sighing, raised her head, and suddenly in the opening between the roofs of the houses she saw the sea, and on it - a ship under scarlet sails. Egle promises the girl that one day a prince will come to her on a yacht with scarlet sails.

Chapter 7. Scarlet “Secret”

One day in the forest, little Assol meets the wizard Egle. The old man predicts to the girl that one day a brave, handsome prince will sail for her on a ship with scarlet sails and take her to a wonderful country. Gray's ship sails near the village of Assol and stops near the city of Lissa. In Lissa, Gray buys 2000 meters of scarlet silk and orders sails for the ship. Seeing scarlet sails through the window, Assol runs to the sea. Villagers gather on the shore, unable to believe their eyes.

Along the way, she encountered a traveling collector of fairy tales and legends named Egle. He introduced himself as a wizard and returned her a ship with scarlet sails that sailed to him, and composed a fairy tale as he went. From the thickets she saw an approaching ship, which shimmered like a scarlet rose under the wonderful play of light. Then the girl stretched out on the sleepy grass and fell asleep. The report said everything that was already known from the first chapter. Gray was once again convinced of the correctness of his actions.

Chapter 5. Combat preparations

Meanwhile, the “Secret” was floating out of the river bed at full speed. A musician played drawn out on the deck, and scarlet sails covered the entire mast. The onshore wind pushed the ship and gave necessary forms sails Alexander Green's story "Scarlet Sails" tells about the girl Assol, her loyalty to her dream and desire for it. The main conflict of the story “Scarlet Sails” is the confrontation between dreams and reality. Subsequently, Assol also lost friends.

The Secret" walked along the riverbed under scarlet sails. Arthur reassured his assistant Paten by revealing to him the reason for such unusual behavior. The story is multifaceted and reveals many important problems, so after reading the brief retelling of “Scarlet Sails”, we recommend reading the full version of the story. The color of the sail is symbolic. Scarlet is a symbol of victory and rejoicing. Assol to the city with goods. One sunny day, a girl is playing alone in the forest, launching into the stream a boat with scarlet sails, which her father had made the day before. The toy is picked up by an old wandering storyteller.

The captain has noticed more than once how the broad-shouldered, tanned guy deftly ties the sails. Then he goes to the city and selects the best scarlet silk from the shop. Traveling musicians perform nearby. Craftsmen were also invited there to sew new sails. Longren sails all night, thinking intensely about the future. Gray was interested in ships, yachts and everything connected with it.

At the age of 14, Gray leaves home and becomes a cabin boy on a ship. Longren is leaving for 10 days on a voyage. Assol is left alone and takes care of the housework. Famous work Alexander Green's Scarlet Sails has turned several generations of readers into good romantics. There are only 7 chapters in this work. The first contains the plot of the whole story and introduction to the main character.

Longren was a sailor on the huge brig Orion, on which he served for ten years. Soon he was forced to leave, as his wife Mary died, and there was no one to raise their little daughter Assol. The weather that evening was rainy and cold, and she contracted double pneumonia.

Being closed and uncommunicative by nature, after the death of his wife he became even more isolated, lived his own life, and devoted all his time to Assol. I always bought groceries in the city and never from Menners. One day, during a cold season, a sharp coastal storm arose. Menners was unable to control his boat and found himself in the destructive expanse of the sea. The only person who saw this was Longren.

Chapter 6. Assol is left alone

When Assol was eight years old, her father began taking her with him to the city to deliver goods to stores. Curiosity took over, and Assol lowered the toy boat into the water near the shore to watch it float. Having run home, Assol told her father about her adventure. He was glad that his daughter was safe and sound, and good wizard remembered with a good word. Longren thought to himself that the girl would grow up and quickly forget about this fairy tale.

VII SCARLET "SECRET"

At this time, a tramp passed near the house. After four years of sailing, fate brought Gray's ship to the city of Liss, not far from which Caperna was located. In the evening, Gray took his fishing rods, called the sailor Letika with him, and they went fishing. On the way, the captain was silent and Letika knew that it was better not to break this silence. In the thick grass he saw a sleeping girl. Unable to restrain himself, he put his old ring on her little finger and admired the sleeping miracle for a long time. Letika found him in this state of mind.

In Alexander Green's work "Scarlet Sails" we are shown a picture of innocent childish love that touches the soul like an adult. At this time, Assol was sitting at home and reading a book. Seeing a huge ship with scarlet sails, she, not remembering herself, ran to the shore.