“Old genius” composition
Reading the story of Nikolai Leskov “The Old Genius”, I thought: nothing has changed in Russia in two hundred years. How the rich offended the poor, and offended. How to live in luxury impudent “majors”, and live. How grandmothers went to officials a hundred times, so they go. And as the police said: “look for it yourself” and now says.
The plot of the story is completely unhappy, although the author writes very funny and ironic. The rich dandy deceived the old woman by laying her house. Now she and her family are being thrown out into the street, and he has misappropriated money. The debtor has great connections. Although the old woman is right by law, an “insurmountable obstacle” arises where one simply needs to find an abuser and hand him a judicial paper. Such absurdity!
Officials must protect it, but instead “console”: “Why did you give him money? You are not the first, you are not the last. Walk yourself
When the old woman is completely in despair, a certain Ivan Ivanych appears. This is a “dark horse,” as they say. He for a considerable percentage undertakes to solve the matter not in a very lawful way. What can he do in five minutes!
The idea of N. Leskov’s story “The Old Genius” is the helplessness of a weak man before the rich and powerful in a bureaucratic state. Also, the idea of the story is Leskov’s idea that if the law does not protect citizens, the law is violated. Here and there are such “geniuses”.
The author creates a riddle of Ivan Ivanych’s “mysterious plan for the genius of thought.” I myself read and thought: What kind of clever plan? And he was ridiculously simple. It was necessary to drag the debtor into the police in any way, so that they handed the paper there at the same time. To this end, the Serbian soldier started a scandal and a fight with him in a public place. Yes, even with his rich mistress, who did not want to be involved in the scandal.
The image of the “old genius”: this is an intelligent and experienced person, a former official. Of course, he is not really a genius. He can be considered a genius only for such simple-minded old ladies. This cunning just thought of what you can catch scammers. The image of Ivan Ivanych in the story is positive, because only he managed to save the old woman and her family.
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