During one of the battles at the front of the First World War, a mine exploded next to Hemingway, resulting in 227 injuries. To stand on his feet, he had to withstand 12 operations. However, the physical trauma was stronger than physical suffering, which had an effect throughout the life of the writer and developed … Read more
Like Robinson Crusoe, I love the sea, but I rarely see it. We live in a city far from the places where ships sail to distant lands, where gulls scream and smell of fish and seaweed. But I often imagine that, like Robinson Crusoe, I was on an uninhabited island… When I came to, the … Read more
Oblomov is a novel about the tragic fate of the Russian landowner. The main question the author poses in his novel is the question of what ruined Oblomov’s fate. What dashed this crystal-clear, clear, like a child’s soul, a loving heart, a mind full of lofty thoughts and not alien to the “universal human passions”? … Read more
PLAN 1. I’m invited for a birthday. 2. My story at the festive table. 3. I was in the spotlight. 4. My stories cause distrust. 5. Stories told by other guys: A) clay animals; B) a collision on a change. 6. With Baron Munchausen our life is more interesting. I was helped to find new … Read more
“Divine Comedy” Dante is a monumental monument of medieval culture, synthesizing its most important achievements, knowledge, ideas about the world and aesthetic experience. At the same time, it largely surpasses its era, reaching the level of “timeless”, “eternal” creations of world culture. The work is based on the story of “walking” in the afterlife widespread … Read more
It was perfect if the holidays were endless! But I’m trying to think about reality, so my ideal vacation would be in the summer. My family and I necessarily went to some hot country or to a tropical island, like Turkey, Egypt, Cyprus or even Madagascar. It would have happened in the month of June, … Read more
The development of society and the development of culture, including art, is possible because man and mankind retain in their memory what happened in past centuries, what is open, known, became known. Memory resists oblivion, destroying the power of time. Memory is a necessary condition for the self-awareness of the individual. A person is only … Read more
The subject of money in the novel, or rather, “damned passion to gold,” is explored by the writer in two main aspects: philosophical as the cause of the disintegration of natural “natural” links, when spiritual values are deliberately sacrificed for the sake of achieving material values, and social, when the human condition in society is … Read more
John Steinbeck is a famous American writer who left a rich artistic heritage. In his writings, he denounced the social plagues of American society, combining it with deep psychologism in the characters’ images. In 1962 Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize “for a realistic and poetic gift, combined with mild humor and an acute social … Read more
The area in which I live is quite young. We have many schools and kindergartens here. Many of the residents of the district take out their four-legged pupils for a walk. Look, someone is leading a thoroughbred dog in an exquisite collar on a leather leash, and someone is a little mongrel on a string, … Read more