Reflecting on happiness, the hero of Chekhov's short story "Gooseberry" utters the following phrase: "It is necessary that someone should stand behind the door of every satisfied, happy person with a hammer and constantly remind them with a knock that there are unhappy people, that no matter how happy he is, life will sooner or later show him its claws, trouble will happen "illness, poverty, loss, and no one will see or hear him, just as now he does not see or hear others." "Someone with a hammer" is a conscience that does not allow a person to feel good when someone nearby is bad, does not allow them to exist, shutting themselves off from the world, not listening to other people's sufferings, not thinking about the problems of others. The idea of how to live in society often visits Chekhov's heroes. Even more often, the writer shows how you can not live, so as not to destroy the person in you. Vivid examples are the images of Ragin from "Chamber No. 6", Alexey Laptev from the story "Three Years", Ionich from the story of the same name. In modern Russian literature, V. S. Tokareva continues Chekhov's traditions. Questions about how to live and how not to live, perhaps, are the main ones for her. Of course, this does not mean that the author acts as a moralizer. In the stories and novels of the writer there is not even a hint of teaching. But she has an amazing gift: to convince that what is described is not a made-up story about a stranger, or even a story about a well-known person that arouses interest, and perhaps even sympathy, - all this is about himself, about the reader. It doesn't matter if it's a man or a woman, an old lady or a teenager. The reader knows that everything that is told is about himself, and therefore he cannot help but think and choose the right path of life together with the author and his characters. What are the ways to achieve intimacy of the work and at the same time increase its impact force? In the arsenal of copyright tools, you can fi ... Read more