Perhaps, no less than Gray, Assol inspires faith in success and brings the glow of good luck. Two people coexisted in Gray's soul. And in Assol’s soul there lived two Assols, “mixed in a wonderful, beautiful irregularity.” One was the daughter of a sailor, an artisan, who knew how to make toys, diligently sew, cook, and wash floors. The other, the one that Green called a living poem “with all the wonders of its consonances and images,” was itself the embodiment of poetry. Trembling and worrying, Assol lived in anticipation of a miracle. And in this reciprocity of shadows and light, in this beautiful irregularity, like Gray, there was a correctness of its own, there was a high art inherent in both of them to transform the world, with inspiration to make many amazing discoveries “ethereal-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 unusual to the ear as the tender name Suok in “Three Fat Men,” foreshadowed a meeting with a creature unlike the others. Aigle, for example, likes that the name is so strange, so monotonous, musical, like the whistle of an arrow or the noise of a sea shell. “What would I do,” he says thoughtfully to Assol, “if you were called one of those euphonious, but unbearably familiar names that are alien to the Beautiful Unknown? Moreover, I don’t want to know who you are, who your parents are and how you live. Why break the spell?
What is the source of Assol's charm? Greene is not going to ask us any riddles about this. 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 enthusiastically promises his friend, the coal miner Philip, that one day, when Philip fills his basket with coal, it will turn into a fragrant bush. And Philip really begins to imagine that buds are creeping out of the old twigs and leaves are splashing across the basket. Trembling and worrying, Assol goes to the seashore, intensely looking for a white ship with a scarlet sail on the horizon. And we, too, not believing that we believe, are waiting for his appearance.
“These minutes were happiness for her,” Green wrote about his heroine, “it’s difficult for us to escape into a fairy tale, 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 fancy, does the author of the book experience together with his heroes, when, in front of the shocked residents of Kaperna, a ship suddenly appears with the very sails whose name is still for a time it sounded like mockery.
The heroine of “Scarlet Sails” at one time seemed to some critics of the book to be a character, although poetic, but passive and inactive. This reproach was addressed to Green more than once. Is he really that fair? Gray was given the strength, opportunity, and desire to make Assol’s dream come true. But let us remember that it was none other than Assol who inspired Gray to do his act! Assol helped Gray understand one simple truth.
Olya inspired Gray to do his act! Assol helped Gray understand one simple truth. Understand and have confidence in it: you need to do so-called miracles with your own hands. And maybe that’s why Gray didn’t want anyone else but Assol.
Here, it turns out, how in Green’s extravaganza, fate, will and character traits are ultimately happily, almost fabulously, and at the same time irreversibly, inevitably intertwined. The meeting of the storyteller Egle with Assol determines the purpose of her existence. The painting depicting a ship rising on the crest of a sea wall, which Gray loved 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.” A huge sea gradually settled inside the little boy. He got along with it...
But isn't that fleeting vision of a miniature boat that Greene once saw in a toy store window somewhere in the same category? This insignificant impression turned out to be very necessary and very important for the writer.
« Scarlet Sails"Alexander Green's books captivate the reader not only with their romantic and fairy-tale plot, but also with their main characters. The image of Assol in the story embodies a bright faith in dreams and fairy tales, kindness and tenderness, meekness and love.
Childhood Assol
Assol was born into the family of a sailor Longren. The girl's mother died when she was not even a year old. Assol was raised by his father. The girl helped him in everything, was obedient and kind, and learned everything quickly. A characterization of Assol from the work “Scarlet Sails” is impossible without mentioning some moments of her life in Kapern.
In his early childhood The heroine suffered because other children, on the instructions of their parents, were afraid of her and did not play with her, because they considered the girl’s father a murderer. Soon, having cried a sea of tears and overcome resentment, the girl learned to play herself, living in her mysterious world of fantasy and dreams. In her own world, completely different from reality, Assol did not lose the ability to rejoice and love. Her love and kindness extend to nature and the only person, besides her father, who understands her in Caperne - the coal miner Philip.
The girl is kind, she does not remember the insults and malice with which the inhabitants of Kaperna shower her, she is smart and hardworking, never despairs, and also knows how to truly dream - this is the characteristic of Assol from “Scarlet Sails”.
Meeting with a storyteller
Assol often helped her father; she took toys to the city for sale and bought the necessary products. One day, while walking through the forest, the girl met an old collector of legends, Egl, who told her about how a ship with scarlet sails would sail to Kaperna and take her away from here forever.
“One morning a scarlet sail will sparkle in the distance of the sea... Then you will see a brave and handsome prince; he will stand and stretch out his hands to you.” So said the old storyteller, and Assol began to wait for the scarlet sails, believing the prediction with all her heart. Old Longren decided not to deprive the girl of such a gift, thinking that she would grow up and forget about this strange meeting in the forest.
Dream and Kaperna
Unfortunately, Assol lives in a very mundane place. It is very difficult for her here, because both she and those around her are aware of her alienation and peculiarity.
“But you don’t tell fairy tales... don’t sing songs. And if they tell and sing, then these are stories about cunning men and soldiers, dirty as unwashed feet... quatrains.” - this is what Aigle says about Caperne.
It would seem that in such a place it is impossible for Assol’s fragile dream to survive, but the girl carefully carries it through dirty ridicule and insults. And it doesn’t matter that she is considered crazy and is evilly called “the ship’s Assol”; Gray only needs one look at her to understand that all the stories are vile fiction.
The characteristics of Assol and Gray are completely different from the characteristics of the inhabitants of the town, both of them are from a completely different world. There is no place for them in Kaperna.
Scarlet Sails
Little Assol, like an insanely expensive toy, keeps the prediction of an old collector of legends. And even though they laugh at her and consider her crazy, the girl does not despair.
When Assol wakes up one day with Gray's ring on her finger, she realizes that her Scarlet Sails are already on their way.
The main idea of the work is that you need to be able to dream, not forget and not betray your dream, and then it will definitely come true. The description of Assol from the story “Scarlet Sails” confirms this.
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Perhaps, no less than Gray, Assol inspires faith in success and brings the glow of good luck. Two people coexisted in Gray's soul. And in Assol’s soul there lived two Assols, “mixed in a wonderful, beautiful irregularity.” One was the daughter of a sailor, an artisan, who knew how to make toys, diligently sew, cook, and wash floors. The other, the one that Green called a living poem “with all the wonders of its consonances and images,” was itself the embodiment of poetry. Trembling and worrying, Assol lived in anticipation of a miracle. And in this reciprocity of shadows and light, in this beautiful irregularity, like Gray, there was a correctness of its own, there was a high art inherent in both of them to transform the world, with inspiration to make many amazing discoveries “ethereal-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 unusual to the ear as the tender name Suok in “Three Fat Men,” foreshadowed a meeting with a creature unlike the others. Aigle, for example, likes that the name is so strange, so monotonous, musical, like the whistle of an arrow or the noise of a sea shell. “What would I do,” he says thoughtfully to Assol, “if you were called one of those euphonious, but unbearably familiar names that are alien to the Beautiful Unknown? Moreover, I don’t want to know who you are, who your parents are and how you live. Why break the spell?
What is the source of Assol's charm? Greene is not going to ask us any riddles about this. 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 enthusiastically promises his friend, the coal miner Philip, that one day, when Philip fills his basket with coal, it will turn into a fragrant bush. And Philip really begins to imagine that buds are creeping out of the old twigs and leaves are splashing across the basket. Trembling and worrying, Assol goes to the seashore, intensely looking for a white ship with a scarlet sail on the horizon. And we, too, not believing that we believe, are waiting for his appearance.
“These minutes were happiness for her,” Green wrote about his heroine, “it’s difficult for us to escape into a fairy tale, 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 fancy, does the author of the book experience together with his heroes, when, in front of the shocked residents of Kaperna, a ship suddenly appears with the very sails whose name is still for a time it sounded like mockery.
The heroine of “Scarlet Sails” at one time seemed to some critics of the book to be a character, although poetic, but passive and inactive. This reproach was addressed to Green more than once. Is he really that fair? Gray was given the strength, opportunity, and desire to make Assol’s dream come true. But let us remember that it was none other than Assol who inspired Gray to do his act! Assol helped Gray understand one simple truth. Understand and have confidence in it: you need to do so-called miracles with your own hands. And maybe that’s why Gray didn’t want anyone else but Assol.
Here, it turns out, how in Green’s extravaganza, fate, will and character traits are ultimately happily, almost fabulously, and at the same time irreversibly, inevitably intertwined. The meeting of the storyteller Egle with Assol determines the purpose of her existence. The painting depicting a ship rising on the crest of a sea wall, which Gray loved 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.” A huge sea gradually settled inside the little boy. He got along with it...
But isn't that fleeting vision of a miniature boat that Greene once saw in a toy store window somewhere in the same category? This insignificant impression turned out to be very necessary and very important for the writer.
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Before characterizing Assol ("Scarlet Sails" by A. Green), it is worth introducing you to the main storylines. From the extravaganza we learn the story of the girl Assol, who lost her mother at the age of 8 months. Together with her father, sailor Longren, she lives in the village of Kaperna. Her father was unsociable and reserved; he made and sold toys in the form of sailboats and steamships. This is how he earned a living for himself and his little daughter.
When Assol was 8 years old, the song collector Egle gave her a small sailboat and said that someday a prince would come for her on a ship with scarlet sails and take her to a distant country. Since then, she had a dream about an overseas prince. Because of this, everyone considered the girl crazy.
On the other hand, the author shows us Gray. He was the scion of a noble and wealthy family, had living soul, strived for achievements. One day he went fishing by boat and stopped for the night near Kaperna. In the morning, in the thickets, he came across a sleeping Assol. He really liked this extraordinary girl.
Being a little “out of this world,” Gray goes to the shop to buy scarlet silk and make sails from it. Gray on his sailboat sailed to the shore where Assol was, and music was playing on the ship. All the villagers ran to the sea. Gray swam up to the girl in a boat and took her with him, as the storyteller had predicted.
The charm of the heroine
At the beginning of the extravaganza, the writer shows Assol as an eight-month-old baby, left without a mother, who was looked after by a kind old neighbor for three months while her father was swimming. At the end of the story we see a seventeen-year-old girl whose dream came true after meeting Gray.
At the age of five, Assol was distinguished by a kind, nervous face, which her father really liked. At 12 years old, she was a thin, tanned girl. She had thick dark hair, expressive eyes, small mouth with a gentle smile. The girl was so pure and expressive that she was compared to a swallow in flight.
At the age of 17, all her features were amazingly attractive: dark brown, short in stature. Her long eyelashes cast shadows on her cheeks, and anyone passing by tried to take in her delicate contours.
Assol's characterization proves that at any age she was charming (despite her poor and cheap clothes). Assol was even noticed in such outfits. Green uses a very subtle detail to describe the girl - a scarf, under which the girl’s thick locks and her gaze are hidden.
In Kaperna they did not really admire the appearance of the charming modest woman; the inhabitants were frightened by her wildness and intelligence hiding in her deep dark eyes. This is not at all the girl from the market with rough hands and loose speech.
Assol's childhood years
The girl's father was a sailor. Assol quickly learned everything, helped her parent, obeyed, showed kindness and affection. The girl suffered because of the attitude of other children, whose parents frightened her with her evil father and called him a murderer. Assol cried a lot, was offended, and then began to play by herself and not pay attention to anyone.
The young heroine lived in her dreams and fantasies. Her world was completely different from the real one. The girl continued to love life and enjoy it. She especially loved the nature around her and treated with kindness the person in the village who understood her - the coal miner Philip. kind soul The heroine never accumulated resentment and anger (unlike other inhabitants of Kaperna). Smart and hardworking Assol truly knew how to dream and never despaired. Over time, she began going to the city to put her father’s handicrafts up for sale. Although her childhood was spent in poverty, it was filled with love.
Character traits of the heroine
The girl's character developed in solitude. When she was bored, she went to her only friend - nature. Out of melancholy, she turned into a timid and suffering girl, only occasionally her face would come to life. But the heroine found a deep soul that subtly felt everything around. She lends a helping hand to anyone she meets. Her most important character traits are:
- Very economical. Knows how to sew, cook, clean, and save money.
- Individual personality. Others, however, call her touched or crazy.
- Loves nature. All living things were her true friend: trees, birds, the sea.
- An educated girl. She read a lot of books and worried about their characters.
A dream comes true
Throughout her childhood and adolescence, Assol carried a fairy tale about a ship with red sails, which was told to her by the storyteller Egl. The girl believes in her and does not give up on her dream. Often she looked at the sea and looked out at the treasured ship in the depths of the sea. And one day her dream came true! Gray appeared in her life. The book ends so optimistically that you want to believe in the joyful future life of the young beauty.
The main idea of the work
The “Scarlet Sails” extravaganza is a beautiful example of a dream that comes true thanks to the faith and hope of the charming Assol. Green teaches people to believe in dreams and miracles. Life is completely empty without cherished dreams. You need to strive for them, then they will definitely come true. You need to go boldly towards your future!
Comparative characteristics of Assol and Gray
Assol was the daughter of a poor toy maker, a former sailor. Gray was born into a wealthy family and was given an excellent education and upbringing. He experienced love and respect from childhood. Mother and father tried to give the boy the best. The girl had a difficult childhood, all the children refused to be friends with her, her only friends were her father and God. She addressed him with requests very often and talked to him. The heroine did not receive an education, but she read a lot of books.
Gray had a good inheritance, thanks to which he could not work. But he persists, studies maritime affairs and runs away from home. Assol's father makes toys and fishes. This is how they live, barely making ends meet.
What Assol and Gray have in common is that they were both romantics and dreamers. Gray makes his dreams of the sea come true himself, and Assol lives in a world of dreams and fairy tales. The young man became an excellent captain, and the girl waited for her prince on a ship with scarlet sails. Both heroes are honest and decent, they believe in love.
In addition to romance and determination, Gray has nobility, courage and determination. He became a kind wizard for the dreamy Assol. The girl charmed the young man with her pure and sincere beauty. Having given Assol a dream, Gray himself became bright and sincere. He simply and truly performed a miracle on another person.
The image of Assol in cinema and art
Imbued with the spirit of the romantic times, "Scarlet Sails" is liked by our contemporaries. The story is very reminiscent good fairy tale. In 1961, director Alexander Ptushko made the film "Scarlet Sails". The role of Assol in the fairy tale film was played by the magnificent Anastasia Vertinskaya, and the role of Gray was famous Vasily Lanovoy. You can see some shots from this wonderful film in the photo.
Dozens of productions have been staged in many theaters, musical performances based on the extravaganza "Scarlet Sails". Composers also did not stand aside and composed many songs on this topic. Contemporaries especially like the song by Tatyana Snezhina, the rock group "Marshal", and Alexey Sviridov - "Assol". Many people know the musical of the same name by Maxim Dunaevsky. Monuments have also been erected to the main character in several Russian cities: Kirov, Gelendzhik, Khanty-Mansiysk, Cherepovets.
“Scarlet Sails” by Alexander Green captivates the reader not only with its romantic and fairy-tale plot, but also with its main characters. The image of Assol in the story embodies a bright faith in dreams and fairy tales, kindness and tenderness, meekness and love.
Childhood Assol
Assol was born into the family of a sailor Longren. The girl's mother died when she was not even a year old. Assol was raised by his father. The girl helped him in everything, was obedient and kind, and learned everything quickly. A characterization of Assol from the work “Scarlet Sails” is impossible without mentioning some moments of her life in Kapern.
In her early childhood, the heroine suffered because other children, on the instructions of their parents, were afraid of her and did not play with her, because they considered the girl’s father a murderer. Soon, having cried a sea of tears and overcome resentment, the girl learned to play herself, living in her mysterious world of fantasy and dreams. In her own world, completely different from reality, Assol did not lose the ability to rejoice and love. Her love and kindness extend to nature and the only person, besides her father, who understands her in Caperne - the coal miner Philip.
The girl is kind, she does not remember the insults and malice with which the inhabitants of Kaperna shower her, she is smart and hardworking, never despairs, and also knows how to truly dream - this is the characteristic of Assol from “Scarlet Sails”.
Meeting with a storyteller
Assol often helped her father; she took toys to the city for sale and bought the necessary products. One day, while walking through the forest, the girl met an old collector of legends, Egl, who told her about how a ship with scarlet sails would sail to Kaperna and take her away from here forever.
“One morning a scarlet sail will sparkle in the distance of the sea... Then you will see a brave and handsome prince; he will stand and stretch out his hands to you.” So said the old storyteller, and Assol began to wait for the scarlet sails, believing the prediction with all her heart. Old Longren decided not to deprive the girl of such a gift, thinking that she would grow up and forget about this strange meeting in the forest.
Dream and Kaperna
Unfortunately, Assol lives in a very mundane place. It is very difficult for her here, because both she and those around her are aware of her alienation and peculiarity.
“But you don’t tell fairy tales... don’t sing songs. And if they tell and sing, then these are stories about cunning men and soldiers, dirty as unwashed feet... quatrains.” - this is what Aigle says about Caperne.
It would seem that in such a place it is impossible for Assol’s fragile dream to survive, but the girl carefully carries it through dirty ridicule and insults. And it doesn’t matter that she is considered crazy and is evilly called “the ship’s Assol”; Gray only needs one look at her to understand that all the stories are vile fiction.
The characteristics of Assol and Gray are completely different from the characteristics of the inhabitants of the town, both of them are from a completely different world. There is no place for them in Kaperna.
Scarlet Sails
Little Assol, like an insanely expensive toy, keeps the prediction of an old collector of legends. And even though they laugh at her and consider her crazy, the girl does not despair.
When Assol wakes up one day with Gray's ring on her finger, she realizes that her Scarlet Sails are already on their way.
The main idea of the work is that you need to be able to dream, not forget and not betray your dream, and then it will definitely come true. The description of Assol from the story “Scarlet Sails” confirms this.
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