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    Does a person understand whether he managed to realize himself or not? How do our desires and realized opportunities compare? These are the questions that arise when reading the text of D. Granin.

    Revealing the problem of a person's awareness of his realization in life, the correlation of his desires and possibilities, the author relies on his own reasoning and personal experience, gives many striking examples. If L.N. Tolstoy believed that a person has a numerator and a denominator, where the numerator is what he really is, and the denominator is what he imagines about himself, then D.

    Granin gives his own formula. According to the writer, in the numerator a person has what he managed to accomplish, and in the denominator what he failed to accomplish. A person consists of many unfulfilled, unfulfilled people and is always more than life.

    The author brings the readers to the following conclusion: a person cannot always realize whether he has succeeded in realizing himself, to understand how his desires and realized possibilities correlate. A person is not only who he has become in life, but also who he imagines himself, who he would like to become.

    The position of the author is close to me. Undoubtedly, often, especially in adolescence, we make grandiose plans, dream of great achievements, but life makes its own adjustments to our plans, and therefore we are what we have achieved in life and what we have been striving for.

    Let's try to prove this idea by contacting fiction... In the novel

    M. Yu. Lermontova "Hero of Our Time" St. Petersburg aristocrat Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin is endowed by nature with excellent opportunities: he is smart, perceptive, decisive, strong and courageous, knows how to achieve his goal. But all his abilities turn out to be unrealized in life, he wastes himself on trifles, not finding a lofty goal. Active by nature, the hero eagerly strives for activity, but all his spiritual forces are spent on actions unworthy of him. Having fallen in love with the daughter of the peaceful prince Belu, Pechorin steals her with the help of Azamat, persistently achieves the love of a proud mountain woman and achieves success, but then he becomes bored, he grows cold towards her and becomes the involuntary culprit of the death of the girl, whom Kazbich stabbed out of revenge. The tragedy of Pechorin is that he does not know how to think about other people, doing actions, does not think how his actions will affect those around him.

    Let's turn to another literary argument. In the novel by I. S. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons" the protagonist Yevgeny Bazarov thought "to break off a lot of things," but the only thing that remains for him in the finale of the novel is to die with dignity. The nihilist set himself the daunting task of destroying old world, "Clear the ground" so that others can already build a new, more just society. Dying of typhus, delirious, Bazarov whispers words about whether Russia needs him or not. Not agreeing with the theory of nihilism, I can say that people like Bazarov are needed by Russia - they are honest, decent workers who strive to benefit their country.

    Summarize. We have proved the idea that a person really consists of realized and unrealized possibilities. Those life tasks that people set for themselves give them a vivid characteristic. We must set ourselves lofty and noble goals and strive to bring them to life.

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    Option 19. Tasks for the exam 2018. Russian language. I.P. Tsybulko. 36 variants

    Read the text and complete assignments 1 - 3

    Cinematography - special kind art that emerged from cinematography. (2) literary or theatrical creation, cinematography has a free choice of the plan associated with the optical nature of the cinema image, and the possibility of editing. (3) The richness and variety of artistic means of cinematography allow it to broadly, in an extremely concrete, visual form to reflect reality.

    1. Indicate two sentences in which the MAIN information contained in the text is correctly conveyed. Write down the numbers of these sentences.

    1) Cinematography served as the foundation for the creation of a special kind of art - cinematography, which is different from literature.

    2) Possibility of editing, free choice of plan, wide display of reality in an extremely concrete, visual form makes cinematography a special kind of art.

    3) Cinematography is rich and diverse technical means that allow it to display reality with the utmost precision.

    4) The richness and variety of artistic means that allow cinematography to broadly reflect reality, make it a kind of art close to literary and theatrical creativity.

    5) Cinematography is a special kind of art, characterized by the possibility of editing, free choice of plan, and a broad display of reality in an extremely concrete, visual form.

    2. Which of the following words (word combinations) should be in place of the gap in the second (2) sentence of the text? Write down this word (combination of words).

    As a consequence

    During

    Unlike

    Throughout

    Beginning with

    3. Read the fragment of the dictionary entry that describes the meanings of the word MEAN. Determine the meaning in which this word is used in the third (3) sentence of the text. Write down the number corresponding to this value in the given fragment of the dictionary entry.

    MEANS, -a, cf.

    1) Reception, method of action to achieve something. Simple s. By all means to achieve something. All means are good for smb. (no one disdains anything to achieve his goals, success; disapproved).

    2) A tool (object, set of devices) for the implementation of some kind. activities. Means of transport. Remedies.

    3) A medicine, an item required for treatment, as well as a cosmetic item. Medicines... C. for cough. Dressings. Cosmetical tools.

    4) Money, loans. Working capital... To release funds for what n.

    5) Capital, state. Man of means. Living beyond your means (spending more than your income and wealth allow).

    4. In one of the words below, a mistake was made in the formulation of stress: the letter denoting a stressed vowel sound is WRONGLY highlighted. Write this word down.

    pamper

    bent

    5. One of the sentences below uses the highlighted word WRONG. Correct the lexical error by matching the selected word with a paronym. Write down the chosen word.

    Scientific discoveries and TECHNICAL achievements should be used for peaceful purposes.

    Nikolai turned out to be a complete ignoramus in matters of nuclear physics.

    Your behavior seems to me not entirely ETHICAL.

    A BUSINESS lunch can be thought of as an option for working communication, provided that you did not come to this lunch to satisfy your hunger or thirst.

    The professor received a document confirming PAYMENT for his business trip.

    6. In one of the words highlighted below, a mistake was made in the formation of the word form. Correct the mistake and spell the word correctly.

    about SEMISOT of photos

    WATCHES THE HOUSE

    a few pins

    MOST relevant

    thanks to them

    7. Establish a correspondence between grammatical errors and sentences in which they are allowed: for each position of the first column, select the corresponding position from the second column.

    GRAMMATICAL ERRORS

    A) incorrect construction of a sentence with an adverbial turnover

    B) an error in the construction of a complex sentence

    B) violation in the construction of a sentence with an inconsistent application

    D) violation of the connection between the subject and the predicate

    E) incorrect use of the case form of a noun with a preposition

    SUGGESTIONS

    1) In their classic book "A Course in Theoretical Physics" LD Landau and EM Livshits outlined the fundamental laws of all areas of this science: from magnetism to quantum electrodynamics.

    2) In the plot of "Fathers and Sons" important place are occupied by ideological disputes between representatives of different social forces.

    3) Lovely snowdrops bloom in early spring that you will not see in any other corner of the Earth.

    4) Standing on the pier, we looked after the sailing ship with a slight sadness.

    5) Sports titles are not given for the duration of a career, they are awarded only upon achieving certain high results.

    6) Only after seeing the Kon-Tiki raft, one can appreciate the heroism of those who dared to sail on it on the ocean.

    7) Everyone who wrote an excellent review, gave a deep analysis of the work and substantiated their point of view.

    8) Considering the rock carvings of the Stone Age era, the drawings can be understood by people of different nationalities.

    9) When I. S. Turgenev began to write the novel Fathers and Sons, his conflict with Sovremennik was in full swing, which was reflected in the idea of ​​a new work.

    8. Determine the word in which the unstressed unchecked vowel of the root is missing. Write this word by inserting the missing letter.

    doubt ... doubt

    Losovoy

    pris..gat (Motherland)

    k..reeurist

    look

    9. Identify the row in which the same letter is missing in both words. Write these words by inserting the missing letter.

    do not ... bend, be ... clothes

    cinema ... shooting, sub..ect

    oh..throw, on..write

    pr..run, pr..success

    pr .. funny, pr .. led

    10. Write down the word in which the letter E is written at the place of the pass.

    flinch

    nazoil .. out

    bow down ... bow down

    smile .. out

    exhausted ... (from fatigue)

    11. Write down the word in which the letter I is written at the place of the pass.

    go ... you go

    taken out

    highlighted ... you

    touch ... clean

    comprehend ... you

    12. Define a sentence in which NOT with a word is written LITTLE. Expand the parentheses and write this word out.

    (NOT) MANAGED to realize himself in life, Bazarov shows his best qualities in the face of death.

    The keys are still (NOT) FOUND.

    The ship was (NOT) SICK, but reliable and comfortable.

    The brother (NOT) ENJOYED him even with a reproach.

    Before the eyes of tourists, a far (NOT) HABITAL picture opened up.

    13. Define a sentence in which both selected words are written LITTLE. Expand the brackets and write out these two words.

    You are wrong, (BY) HOW MUCH it is impossible to condemn a person only (FOR) the fact that you do not share his beliefs.

    (FROM) what the grandfather said, it was clear that he was pleased with Vitka, and (FROM) THIS felt good in his soul.

    He is a hard worker and (FOR) THIS is successful, (FOR) THAT is overly ambitious.

    The water in the gulf is distinguished by extreme salinity, and ALSO (SAME) density, BECAUSE (THEN) the blows of the waves are much more crushing here than in the sea.

    (AT) THE END the meeting took place, SO (WHAT) all problems were resolved.

    14. Indicate the number (s) in the place of which (s) is written НН.

    The sun gilded in the east, behind the dark blue (1) blue of the distant (2) forests, behind the white snowy lowland (3) awn, which the ancient Russian city was looking at from the low coast.

    15. Arrange punctuation marks. Indicate two sentences in which you need to put ONE comma. Write down the numbers of these sentences.

    1) Modern publicists and writers have written and are writing about the place of the dog in human life.

    2) In summer, flowers bloom on the forest edges and strawberries appear.

    3) The sea is incessantly rustling and splashing.

    4) The sound of axes and hammers was heard in the street, the screeching of saws and planes.

    5) Armfuls of white lilacs lay on both the table and the piano.

    16. Arrange all punctuation marks: write the number (s), in the place of which (s) should be (s) comma (s).

    One by one, the horses approached the fire (1) slowly fading into the night (2) and stood motionless (3) looking at us (4) with clever eyes.

    17. Arrange all punctuation marks: write the number (s), in the place of which (s) should be a comma (s).

    To the surprise (1) of everyone present (2), fear was added. At that moment, everyone (3) probably (4) remembered their home and their loved ones.

    18. Arrange all punctuation marks: indicate the number (s), in the place of which (s) should be (s) the comma (s).

    At a very early age (1) A.T. Tvardovsky absorbed love and respect for the land, hard work on it and blacksmithing (2) whose master (3) (4) was his father.

    19. Arrange all punctuation marks: list all numbers, in their place should be commas.

    I thought about people (1) whose life (2) was connected with this story (3) and I wanted to know (4) what became of them.

    20. Edit the sentence: correct the lexical error by excluding the extra word. Write this word down.

    The model of the country's economic growth, taking into account the current real realities, should ensure the solution of the most important social problems.

    Read the text and complete assignments 21 - 26

    1) I don't think I understood myself. (2) Man is more than his life. (3) Sometimes much more. (4) A person consists of omissions, unfulfilled desires and aspirations, opportunities. (5) What is accomplished is life. (6) But a huge part of man is unfulfilled.

    (7) Tolstoy once said that a person has a numerator and a denominator. (8) The numerator is what he really is, and the denominator is what he imagines of himself. (9) And I think that yes, it is a fraction, but the numerator is what he managed to accomplish, and the denominator is what he failed to accomplish. (10) That is what he was. (11) The numerator is what he has become.

    (12) Every person probably has this ratio, when he himself is much larger than his life. (13) Therefore, it is impossible to say whether he understood himself or not. (14) I can't.

    (15) I could become both the one and the other, and the third. (16) I lost a lot, failed, or did not, or did not want to then, and then I could not. (17) That is, I consist of many unfulfilled, unfulfilled people. (18) And I do not know which of them would be more important to me, more dear, which of them would have achieved more. (19) I don’t know and I can’t even imagine it.

    (20) Therefore, I cannot answer the question: did I understand myself? (21) I can only say that I did not understand myself in many ways.

    (22) Now I do not understand what I was afraid of, for example, in the fifties? (23) What was I afraid of? (24) Fears have taken a lot from us. (25) I did not understand why I loved so primitively, and rudely, and incompletely? (26) Now only I understood how I did not understand myself.

    (27) As a result of life, a negative value is always obtained, because, as I said, a person is always larger than life. (28) Perhaps there are some cases of happier fractions.

    (29) And what about geniuses? (30) Do they have the values ​​of the numerator and denominator as close as possible? (31) Difficult to say. (32) It is generally believed, and probably not without reason, that a genius manages to fulfill himself completely. (ЗЗ) What is intended for him, he manages to do. (34) Perhaps this is so. (35) But there are geniuses who have outlived themselves. (36) Well, let's say Rossini or Arthur Rimbaud. (37) He wrote, wrote, stopped writing, became a merchant. (38) He carried out what he had programmed, carried out his ingenious, or genius program, and then left - that's all. (39) There are probably more such examples, I just don't remember now. (40) So it's difficult with geniuses.

    (41) A genius has prophetic traits, but there are failures and failures, (42) Nobody understands this. (43) Here is Pushkin. (44) Born into an ordinary family. (45) I speak rudely, but in principle so. (46) He was not understood. (47) His uncle is a banal poet. (48) Why does something incredible suddenly appear in this environment? (49) And disappears, without repeating, forever. (50) What is Mozart? (51) Something divine also appeared and disappeared. (52) Where from? (53) Why? (54) What, a combination of genes? (55) This is a helpless explanation.

    (56) These are very strange things, but very important. (57) Because life without geniuses would be uninteresting. (58) Genius is not an example for life, it cannot be followed. (59) The talent can still be followed somehow. (60) A genius ...

    (61) First, there is no relationship between the life of a genius and his creations. (62) This does not correlate in any way. (bZ) A genius can be a prankster, a rake, a vagabond, a libertine, a boor, and so on. (64) And at the same time creates ingenious things. (65) But a genius can also be an exemplary person, a pedant. (66) Goethe, for example. (67) Privy Counselor, decent German way of life.

    (68) I will not dare to say anything definite about a genius. (69) Everything that Mozart did is so beautiful and so great that it is shameless to think that he could write much more. (70) Maybe. (71) It seems that if Pushkin had still lived, he would have written more than one wonderful thing. (72) Or not? (73) These are mysterious things that are a sin to touch.

    (According to D. A. Granin)

    21. Which of the statements correspond to the content of the text? Enter the answer numbers.

    1) The life of each person is probably much larger than himself.

    2) Each person consists of many unfulfilled plans and missed opportunities, in other words, unfulfilled lives.

    3) For geniuses with prophetic traits, there are no failures and failures.

    4) There is an obvious connection between the life of a genius and his creations, because they are directly related to each other.

    5) Our life without geniuses would be uninteresting.

    22. Which of the following statements are erroneous? Enter the answer numbers.

    1) Sentences 4-6 provide a description.

    2) Sentence 8 explains, discloses the content of sentence 7.

    3) Sentences 36-38 illustrate what Sentence 35 says.

    4) Sentences 32-36 are narrative.

    5) Proposals 43-49 contain reasoning.

    23. From sentences 1-5 write out synonyms (synonymous pair).

    24. Among sentences 29-37, find the one (s) that is (s) connected with the previous one using a personal pronoun. Write the number (s) of this offer (s).

    25. “D. A. Granin discusses difficult moral and philosophical problems. To express his own position, the author uses various pictorial and expressive linguistic means, including the technique - (A) ___ (sentences 41, 63-65) and the lexical means - (B) ___ (in sentence 63). The syntactic means - (C) ___ (sentences 12, 36, 39) and the technique - (D) ____ (sentences 48-49, 56-57) create a special confidence tone in the author's reasoning ”.

    List of terms:

    1) hyperbole

    2) metonymy

    3) epithets

    4) introductory words

    5) interrogative sentences

    6) parceling

    7) contrast

    8) colloquial and vernacular vocabulary

    9) book vocabulary

    26. Write an essay.

    Option 19

    Job number

    Answer

    Job number

    Answer

    therefore

    Unlike

    123 or any combination of these numbers

    technical

    most

    134 or any combination of these numbers

    careerist

    valid

    filming

    exhaustion

    highlight

    desires aspirations

    small

    3033 or 3330

    Problem

    1. The problem of a person's awareness of his realization in life, the ratio of his desires and capabilities. (Does a person understand whether he has succeeded in realizing himself in life or not? How do his desires and realized opportunities correlate?)

    2. The problem of understanding the nature of genius and genius itself. (What is the nature of genius? How are geniuses different from ordinary people?)

    1. A person does not always succeed in realizing whether he has managed to realize himself, to understand how his desires and realized possibilities correlate. A person is bigger than his life: he is not only who he has become in life, but also who he imagines himself, who he would like to become.

    2. The nature of genius is difficult to explain: outstanding person can appear in the most ordinary family. The genius manages to realize himself as fully as possible.

    Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger de Saint-Exupery(1900, Lyon, France - July 31, 1944) - a famous French writer, poet and professional pilot.

    A. de Saint-Exupery "The Little Prince". Old Fox taught the Little Prince to comprehend the wisdom of human relationships. To understand a person, you need to learn to peer into him, to forgive minor shortcomings. After all, the most important thing is always hidden inside, and you cannot immediately see it.

    This is the story of the accidental landing of the writer himself and his mechanic Prevost in the desert.
    The symbol of life is water, it quenches the thirst of people lost in the sands, the source of everything that exists on earth, the food and flesh of everyone, that substance that gives the possibility of rebirth.
    The dehydrated desert is a symbol of a world devastated by war, chaos, destruction, human callousness, envy and selfishness. This is a world in which a person dies of spiritual thirst.

    Rose is a symbol of love, beauty, feminine... The little prince did not immediately discern the true inner essence of beauty. But after a conversation with Fox, the truth was revealed to him - beauty only becomes beautiful when it is filled with meaning, content.

    “To love does not mean looking at each other, it means looking in one direction” - this thought determines the ideological concept of the story-tale.

    He considers the theme of Evil in two aspects: on the one hand, it is a “micro-evil”, that is, evil inside a single person. This is the deadness and inner emptiness of the inhabitants of the planets, who personify all human vices. And it is no coincidence that the inhabitants of the planet Earth are characterized through the inhabitants of the planets seen by the Little Prince. With this, the author emphasizes how petty and dramatic the world of his day is. He believes that humanity, like the Little Prince, will comprehend the mystery of being, and each person will find his own guiding star that will illuminate him life path... The second aspect of the theme of evil can be tentatively titled “macro-evil”. Baobabs are a spiritualized image of evil in general. One of the interpretations of this metaphorical image is associated with fascism. Saint-Exupery wanted people to carefully uproot the evil "baobabs" that threatened to tear the planet apart. "Beware of the baobabs!" - the writer conjures.

    Saint-Exupery urges us to treat everything beautiful as carefully as possible and try not to lose the beauty within ourselves on the difficult path of life - the beauty of the soul and heart.
    The most important thing about the beautiful little prince learns from the Fox. Outwardly beautiful, but empty inside roses do not evoke any feelings in the contemplative child. They are dead to him. The main character reveals the truth for himself, the author and readers - only that which is filled with content and deep meaning is beautiful.

    Misunderstanding, alienation of people is another important philosophical topic. The morbidity of the human soul leads to loneliness. A person judges others only by the “outer shell”, not seeing the main thing in a person - his inner moral beauty: “When you say to adults:“ I saw beautiful house made of pink brick, there are geraniums in the windows, and pigeons on the roofs ”, they cannot imagine this house. They have to say: "I saw a house for a hundred thousand francs," and then they exclaim: "What a beauty!"
    People should take care of the purity and beauty of their planet, jointly protect and decorate it, and prevent all living things from perishing. So, gradually, unobtrusively, another important theme arises in the fairy tale - the ecological one, which is very relevant for our time. The journey of the Little Prince from star to star brings us closer to today's vision of cosmic distances, where the Earth, through the carelessness of people, can disappear almost imperceptibly.
    Love And one more secret the Fox reveals to the baby: “Only the heart is sharp-sighted. You will not see the most important thing with your eyes ... Your Rose is so dear to you because you gave her all your soul ... People have forgotten this truth, but do not forget: you are forever responsible for everyone you tamed ”. To tame means to bind yourself to another creature with tenderness, love, a sense of responsibility. To tame means to destroy the facelessness and indifference to all living things. To tame means to make the world significant and generous, for everything in it reminds of a loved one. The narrator also comprehends this truth, and the stars come to life for him, and he hears the ringing of silver bells in the sky, reminiscent of the laughter of the Little Prince. The theme of "expanding the soul" through love runs through the whole tale.

    Only friendship can melt the ice of loneliness and alienation, since it is based on mutual understanding, mutual trust and mutual assistance.
    “It's sad when friends are forgotten. Not everyone has a friend, ”says the hero of the tale. At the beginning of the tale, the Little Prince leaves his only Rose, then he leaves his new friend Fox on Earth. “There is no perfection in the world,” says the Fox. But on the other hand, there is harmony, there is humanity, there is a person's responsibility for the task entrusted to him, for a person close to him, there is also responsibility for his planet, for everything that happens on it.
    Exupery wants to say that each person has his own planet, his own island and his own guiding star, which a person should not forget about. “I wonder why the stars shine,” said the little prince thoughtfully. - Probably, so that sooner or later everyone could find their own again.

    Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy ---1828 --- 1910 The novel "War and Peace"

    Pierre (Tolstoy "V. and the World") was helped to survive in captivity by the wisdom of Platon Karataev, who taught him to live simply and appreciate what you have: the sun is shining, it is raining - everything is good. There is no need to rush, rush in search of happiness - live and be happy, be happy that you are living. He found a common language with everyone, even with the French.

    On the example of Pierre Bezukhov and Platon Karataev L. N. Tolstoy showed two perfectly different types Russian characters, two different social heroes.
    The first of them is a count who was captured by the French as an "arsonist" and, by a miracle, escaped execution. The second is a simple, experienced, patient soldier. Nevertheless, the soldier Platon Karataev was able to play an extremely important role in the life of Pierre Bezukhov.
    After the shooting of the "arsonists", which Pierre witnessed, "it was as if the spring on which everything was held was pulled out in his soul, and everything fell into a heap of senseless rubbish. human soul, and into God. "
    The meeting in the booth with Platon Karataev helped Pierre's spiritual revival: "He felt that the previously destroyed world was now with new beauty, on some new and unshakable foundations, was being erected in his soul." Karataev made a huge impression on Pierre with his behavior, common sense, the expediency of actions, the ability to "do everything not very well, but not bad either." For Pierre, he became "an incomprehensible, round and eternal personification of the spirit of simplicity and truth."
    Bezukhov, who endured severe suffering and fear of death, finds himself in another world. He sees how Karataev neatly arranged all his "household" in the corner, how a dog ran up to him and began to caress. The soldier started talking about something very simple, began muttering prayers. All these everyday words and deeds in those conditions seemed to Pierre a miracle, a great discovery of the truth of life. Pierre felt the new beauty of the recently destroyed world, received "calmness and contentment with himself": Karataev ".
    Karataev feels himself to be a part of the people: ordinary soldiers, the peasantry. His wisdom is contained in numerous proverbs and sayings, each of which guesses an episode in Plato's life. For example, "where there is judgment, there is also untruth." He suffered an unfair trial and is forced to serve in the army. However, Plato takes any turns of fate calmly, he is ready to sacrifice himself for the welfare of the family. Karataev loves every person, every Living being: he is affectionate with an ordinary stray dog, helps other prisoners, sews shirts for the French and sincerely admires his work.
    Platon Karataev becomes for Pierre an example of the perception of another world, where simplicity and truth prevail, love for humanity.
    The relationship between Platon Karataev and Pierre Bezukhov developed in the novel for a very short time. Due to the aggravated illness, Karataev was shot by the French.
    The soldier quietly passed away, and Pierre took Karataev's death calmly, for granted.
    Plato appeared next to Pierre, as a savior, at the most difficult moment of his life and left casually. But, despite this, his personality is so outstanding and the influence on the fate of Pierre is so great that Karataev cannot be counted simply as episodic heroes of the novel.
    It was not without reason that Pierre often remembered him years later, thinking about what Plato would say about this or that event, "would he approve or not approve." The meeting of these two heroes largely determined the further fate of Count Pierre Bezukhov and showed the greatest wisdom of the Russian people, embodied in the guise of the soldier Platon Karataev

    The problem of human self-realization, arguments from the works for C1 in the exam in Russian

    And A. Goncharov "Oblomov"

    A good, kind, talented person, Ilya Oblomov, could not overcome himself, his laziness and licentiousness, did not reveal his best features. The absence of a high purpose in life leads to moral death. Even love could not save Oblomov.

    US Maugham "Razor's Edge"

    In his later novel, The Razor's Edge, W.S. Maugham depicts the life of a young American, Larry, who has spent half of his life reading books, and the other half of his life in travel, work, search and self-improvement. His image stands out clearly against the background of young people of his circle, who waste their lives and outstanding abilities in vain on the fulfillment of fleeting whims, on entertainment, on a carefree existence in luxury and idleness. Larry chose his own path and, not paying attention to the misunderstanding and censure of loved ones, he was looking for the meaning of life in hardships, wanderings and wanderings around the world. He completely surrendered himself to the spiritual principle in order to achieve enlightenment of the mind, purification of the spirit, to discover the meaning of the universe.

    D. London "Martin Eden"

    The protagonist of the novel of the same name by American writer Jack London Martin Eden - a working guy, a sailor, a native of the lower classes, about 21 years old, meets Ruth Morse, a girl from a wealthy bourgeois family. Ruth begins teaching semi-literate Martin the correct pronunciation English words and awakens in him an interest in literature. Martin finds out that magazines pay decent royalties to the authors who are published in them, and firmly decides to make a career as a writer, earn money and become worthy of his new acquaintance, with whom he managed to fall in love. Martin composes a self-improvement program, works on his language and pronunciation, reads a lot of books. Iron health and unbending will moves him towards the goal. In the end, after going a long and thorny path, after numerous refusals and disappointments, he becomes a famous writer. (Then he becomes disillusioned with literature, his beloved, people in general and life, loses interest in everything and commits suicide. This is so, just in case. An argument in favor of the fact that fulfilling a dream does not always bring happiness)

    Scientific facts

    A shark, if it stops moving its fins, will sink to the bottom like a stone, the bird, if it stops flapping its wings, will fall to the ground. So a person, if aspirations, desires, goals fade away in him, will collapse to the bottom of life, he will be sucked in by a thick quagmire of gray everyday life. A river that stops flowing turns into a fetid swamp. Likewise, a person who ceases to seek, think, strive, loses "beautiful impulses of souls", gradually degrades, his life becomes aimless, miserable vegetation.