How to distinguish dreams from desires?

(446 words) It is unlikely that there is a person on Earth who has never dreamed. A dream is a door to another world where everything corresponds to the ideal, where all wishes are fulfilled. Yes, I know that many people consider the words “dream” and “desire” to be synonyms, but this is not so. Dreaming, a person creates in his imagination

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Juvenile sea

Five days a man goes deep into the southeastern steppe of the Soviet Union. On the way, he imagines himself either as a steam engine driver, or as a geologist-prospector, or “another organized professional being - just to occupy his head with an uninterrupted thought and distract the longing from his heart” and reflects on the reconstruction ...

Black monk

Andrei Vasilievich Kovrin, master, gets nerve disorder. On the advice of a friend, the doctor decides to go to the village. This decision coincides with an invitation to visit a childhood friend Tanya Pesotskaya, who lives with her father, Yegor Semenych, on the estate of Borisovka. April. Description of the huge collapsing ...

Composition by Shirokov’s painting “Friends” (Grade 7)

(203 words) The past centuries have left us many different paintings. Some are very beautiful, others with meaning, but the most prominent of them just touch the soul. One of these paintings is “Friends” by Shirokov. It depicts a beautiful dumb friendship between man and dog. The artist painted ...

Pensne

: The narrator believes that small things can travel independently. An example of this is the case with pince-nez, which “left” the narrator, but when he returned, could not endure the punishment and crashed. According to the narrator, “things live their own special lives” - they feel, think, talk and mimic ...

Dan Brown Book List

Dan Brown’s ornate and unpredictable stories force the reader to question their own knowledge and lead him to discussions and “decoding” of subsequent books. Of course, the writer has only 7 novels, but he has already established himself in the world of elite prose. Each of them has become a bestseller, ...

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Why do people stop dreaming?

(358 words) The average person returns to his thoughts about a dream twice in his life. The first is in childhood, when adults ask a child about his plans for life. And the second, when the same but already matured forty-year-old child was asked by his own children: “And who did you dream of being in ...

Ada, or Passion

“Hell” is a grandiose parody of various literary genres: from Leo Tolstoy’s novels through Marcel Proust’s cycle “In Search of Lost Time” to fiction in the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut. The novel takes place in a country that arose from the assumption that the Battle of Kulikovo (1380) ended in victory ...

New suffering of young V.

The story begins with several obituary notices of the death of a current of seventeen-year-old Edgar Vibo. Then follows the dialogue of the mother and father of the deceased youth. The two broke up when their son was only five years old. Since then, his father never saw him, except for one case when his son came ...

Renee, or Consequences of Passion

Rene, a young man of a noble family, settles in a French colony in the wilds of Louisiana, among the Native American tribe. His past is shrouded in mystery. Renee's penchant for melancholy makes him shun society. The only exceptions are his adoptive father, the blind elder Shaktas, and the missionary ...

All Chekhov's stories for children in one collection

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is one of the most popular Russian authors abroad. He received the greatest fame as a playwright. His plays Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, are undoubtedly classics of world literature. However, this is far from the only facet of his talent....

Stone Flower

Lived in one of the Ural factories master Prokopyich, the first malachite in those places. The master was already elderly, so the master also ordered a student to be assigned to him. Prokopyich’s science didn’t go, “everything is jerky, but with a jab.” He will teach the little boy cones all over his head, he will cut off his ears, and he will send him back - ...

US Literature

Horses, horses

America, Texas, 1946. His thirty-six-year-old daughter intends to sell the land - it does not generate income, and life on the outskirts definitely does not suit the heiress. Sixteen-year-old John Grady is trying to persuade his mother not to sell the ranch, on which representatives of this family worked for many years. Himself ...

Soviet literature

Already written by Werther

... He is sleeping, and he sees that he is at the cottage stop and he needs to cross the canvas on which the train stopped. You need to get up, go through the vestibule, and you will find yourself on the other side. However, he discovers that there is no other door, and the train is moving off and picking up speed, to jump late, and the train carries it all ...

British literature

King Henry IV

Part One The source of the plot was several anonymous plays and chronicles of Holinshed, with whom, however, Shakespeare treated very freely. The plays about the reign of Henry IV comprise, as it were, the middle part of the tetralogy, the beginning of which is Richard II and the end is Henry V. They are all connected by sequence. ...