In the evening they played cards at Sters's. Among those gathered was Thomas Harvey, a young man stuck in Lissa due to a serious illness. During the game, Harvey heard a woman's voice clearly say: "Running on the waves." And the rest of the players did not hear anything. The day before, from the window of the tavern, Harvey had watched a girl step off the steamer, carrying herself as if she had been gifted with the secret to subjugate circumstances and people. The next morning, Thomas went to find out where the stranger who struck him was staying, and found out that her name was Bice Seniel. For some reason, he saw a connection between the stranger and yesterday's incident behind the cards. This conjecture was strengthened when in the port he saw a vessel with light contours and on board its inscription: "Running on the waves." Captain Ghez, a surly and blunt man, refused to take Harvey as a passenger without the permission of the owner, a certain Brown. With Brown's note, the captain received Harvey almost kindly, introduced him to his assistants, Sincrite and Butler, who made a good impression, unlike the rest of the crew, who looked more like rabble than sailors. During the voyage, Thomas learned that the ship was built by Ned Seniel. The portrait of his daughter Biche Seniel Harvey had already seen on the table in the captain's cabin. Gez bought the ship when Ned went bankrupt. In Dagon, three women boarded. Harvey did not want to take part in the captain's fun, and he remained at his place. After a while, having heard the screams of one of the women and the threats of the drunken captain, Harvey intervened and, defending himself, knocked the captain down with a blow to the jaw. In a rage, Gez ordered to put him in a boat and put it into the open sea. When the boat was already being carried away from the side, the woman wrapped up from head to toe deftly jumped to Harvey. Under a hail of ridicule, they set sail from the ship. When the stranger spoke, Harvey realized that this was the voice he had heard at Sters's party. The girl called herself Fresy Grant and told Harvey to head south. There he will be picked up by a ship going to Gel-Gyu. Having taken his word from him not to tell anyone about her, including Bice Seniel, Fresy Grant stepped into the water and flew away along the waves. By noon, Harvey actually met the "Dive" going to Gel-Gyu. Here, on the ship, Harvey heard about Fresy Grant again. One day, when the sea was completely calm, a rising wave lowered her father's frigate near the extraordinary beauty of the island, to which it was not possible to moor. Frezi, however, insisted, and then the young lieutenant casually noticed that the girl was so thin and light that she could run through the water. In response, she jumped onto the water and ran lightly over the waves. Then a fog descended, and when it cleared, neither the island nor the girl could be seen. It is said that she began to appear to the shipwrecked. Harvey listened to the legend with particular attention, but only Daisy, Proctor's niece, noticed. Finally, the "Dive" approached Gel-Gyu. The city was dominated by the carnival. Harvey went along with the motley crowd and found himself near a marble figure, on the pedestal of which was the inscription: "Running on the waves." The city, it turns out, was founded by Williams Hobbes, who was wrecked a hundred years ago in the surrounding waters. And Fresy Grant saved him, running along the waves and naming the course that led Hobbes to the then deserted shore, where he settled. Then a woman called to Harvey and said that a person in a yellow dress with brown fringe was waiting for him in the theater. Not doubting that it was Bice Seniel, Harvey hurried to the theatre. But the woman dressed as they said was Daisy. She was disappointed that Harvey called her by the name Beeche and quickly left. A minute later Harvey saw Bice Seniel. She had brought the money and was now looking for a meeting with Gez in order to buy the ship. Harvey managed to find out in which hotel Gez was staying. The next morning he went there with Butler. They went up to the captain. Gez lay with a bullet in his head. The people fled. Suddenly Bice Seniel was brought in. It turned out that the day before the captain was very drunk. In the morning a young lady came to him, and then a shot rang out. The girl was detained on the stairs. But then Butler spoke up and admitted that it was he who killed Gez. He had his own account with a scammer. It turns out that the Wave Runner was carrying a cargo of opium, and Butler was due a significant part of the income, but the captain deceived him. He did not find Gez in the room, and when he appeared with the lady, Butler hid in the closet. But the meeting ended in an ugly scene, and in order to get rid of Gez, the girl jumped out of the window onto the landing, where she was later detained. When Butler got out of the closet, the captain pounced on him, and Butler had no choice but to kill him. Upon learning the truth about the ship, Bice ordered the desecrated ship to be auctioned off. Before parting, Harvey told Beach about his meeting with Fresy Grant. Bice suddenly began to insist that his story was a legend. Harvey, however, thought that Daisy would have taken his story with complete confidence, and remembered with regret that Daisy was engaged. Some time has passed. One day at Lega, Harvey met Daisy. She broke up with her fiancé, and in her story about this there was no regret. Harvey and Daisy soon got married. Their house on the seashore was visited by Dr. Filatr. He spoke about the fate of the ship "Running on the Waves", whose dilapidated hull he discovered near a deserted island. How and under what circumstances the crew left the ship remained a mystery. I saw Filatra and Bice Seniel. She was already married and gave Harvey a short letter wishing him happiness. Daisy, she said, expected the letter to acknowledge Harvey's right to see what he wanted. Daisy Harvey speaks for everyone: “Thomas Harvey, you are right. Everything was as you said. Freezy Grant! You exist! Respond!" "Good evening friends! - we heard from the sea. "I'm in a hurry, I'm running..."
Green's novel The Wave Runner was written in 1928. This is a touching, romantic story about how important it is to follow your dreams without giving up and not paying attention to various life obstacles.
Main characters
Thomas Harvey- a young man, sublime, romantic, deeply decent.
Other characters
Filatr- a doctor, a close friend of Thomas.
William Gez- the captain of the ship "Running on the Waves", a sharp, unfriendly, vile person.
Butler- Captain Geza's assistant.
Freesy Grant- a beautiful young girl, a vision that saved people on the high seas.
Biche Seniel- a nineteen-year-old girl, practical and purposeful.
Phineas Proctor- the owner of the ship "Dive", who saved Thomas.
Daisy- Proctor's niece, an emotional, lively girl.
Chapters 1-6
Thomas Harvey was forced to make a stop in Lissa due to a sudden illness that literally knocked him off his feet. After leaving the hospital, he rented a small apartment for himself in order to finally improve his health.
While dining at a port tavern, Thomas noticed a girl descending from the ship's ladder. She was slender, pretty, and regally calm amid the chaos of the seaport that surrounded her. The next morning, Thomas learned the name of a beautiful stranger - Bice Seniel.
Thanks to the attending doctor Filatra, Thomas Harvey got acquainted with the local society. One day, while playing cards, a young man "heard a special female voice saying with emphasis:" ... Running on the waves "". He found out that none of those present, except for him alone, heard this strange phrase. Thomas felt a certain connection between the woman's voice he heard and the beautiful stranger.
In the port, a young man found a ship with the inscription "Running on the waves." He went up on deck, and, having met the captain of the ship, William Gez, who was sharp in communication, asked to take him as a passenger on board the ship.
Ghez was opposed to having a passenger on a cargo ship, as "it always comes with some trouble or trouble." Thomas was forced to apply directly to the owner of the vessel to obtain permission.
Chapters 7-12
In Brown's office "Armator and Cargo", among the visitors, Thomas noticed an "excited sailor", from whom he learned "that Gez is a real devil." Their conversation was overheard by another sailor, who reported that “Captain Gez, firstly, is a real sailor, and secondly, a very excellent and kind-hearted person.”
Having received a note from Brown with permission to travel on the Wave Runner sailboat, Thomas gave it to Gez, who became more friendly with the young man. He said that, in addition to him, there would be more ladies on board.
The captain introduced the new passenger to his assistants, Sincrite and Butler, who seemed to the young man to be quite decent people. The rest of the team was more like a motley rabble.
Chapters 13-17
Already on the high seas, Thomas learned that "the ship was built by Ned Seniel fourteen years ago." Hearing the familiar surname, the young man began to listen to the story of "Running on the Waves" with much more attention.
It turned out that a few years ago, Ned Seniel went bankrupt, and was forced to sell the ship to Gez, and then it passed to Brown. In the captain's cabin was a portrait of Seniel's daughter, Biche.
Soon “The Wave Runner dropped anchor” in the port of Dagon, where three young women boarded the ship: a redhead, a blonde and a black-haired one. Realizing for what purpose the ladies were on the ship, Thomas "reaffirmed his intention to completely retire."
Suddenly, “crying, fuss was heard; then a terrible, hysterical scream." Thomas tried to protect the woman from the drunken Gez's harassment, and knocked the captain down with a strong blow to the jaw.
Unable to endure such humiliation, the captain landed Thomas Harvey in the boat and pushed it into the open sea. At the last moment, he was joined by a girl who somehow ended up on the ship. Her name was Fresy Grant, and her voice sounded very familiar to Thomas. Suddenly he remembered under what circumstances he heard him - it was the same voice that said the phrase "Running on the waves" when the young man was playing cards.
Frazi Grant advised Thomas to head south and row as fast as possible. At dawn, he must meet the ship that will take him on board. The girl also said that he would definitely meet with Bice Seniel, but asked not to tell her about this meeting.
Then Fresy stepped over the side of the boat, and Thomas had time to notice "how quickly and easily she runs away" across the water surface.
Chapters 18-20
The next morning, Thomas was rescued by the crew of the ship "Dive", which was on its way to the port of Gel-Gyu. "Skipper, he is the owner of the ship, Phineas Proctor" Listened carefully to the story of the young man, and lamented what a scoundrel Gez turned out to be. He even agreed to testify if Thomas decides to sue the captain.
On the ship, Thomas noticed a black-haired girl who turned out to be Proctor's niece, Daisy. It was she who offered to tell Harvey the story of the mysterious Fresy Grant.
It was "a hundred and fifty years ago". On board the ship bound for India was General Grant with his daughter Frezi. In India, there was a fiance of a girl, a military man, to whom she was in a hurry. Suddenly, a hundred-meter wave arose on the ship's path, lowering the frigate not far from the picturesque coast of the island, "which did not appear on any maps."
There was no way to moor to this island. However, Frezi pestered the captain so much with requests to take a closer look at the island that one young lieutenant, unable to stand it, suggested that the fragile girl run to the shore along the waves. Unexpectedly for everyone, she jumped overboard and "stopped on a wave like a flower." Frezi said goodbye to her father, and rushed to the shore on the water. Immediately after her disappearance, a thick fog descended, and when it cleared, neither the island nor Frezi could be seen.
Chapters 21-24
Gel-Gyu greeted the frigate "Dive" with loud music and enchanting illumination - a carnival was raging in the city. The crew members decided to join in the fun.
A spontaneously moving crowd carried Thomas to a marble pedestal with a female figure, on which he read the inscription "Running on the waves." He "stood at the monument, as if on a date, not looking up and contemplating" for about an hour, until the locals called him. From them, the young man learned that about a hundred years ago, Freezy Grant saved the founder of Gel-Gyu, William Hobbes, from certain death. He was shipwrecked, and only thanks to the girl running on the waves, who showed him the right path to salvation, he ended up on this shore.
Thomas was informed that a certain person was waiting for him at the theater, who could be recognized "by a yellow dress with brown fringe." The young man had no doubt that he would meet Beeche, but Daisy turned out to be a stranger. Unable to contain her "visible chagrin", she left Thomas.
At the same moment the young man saw Bice Seniel. She said that she intended to buy the ship "Running on the Waves", which rightfully belongs to her father. "Gez stole it with a fraudulent ploy," and now Bice was looking for a captain to make a deal.
Chapters 25-29
The next morning, Thomas met Butler, and together they went to the hotel where Guez was staying. In the hotel room, they found the captain dead. Immediately, a "crowd of women and men" gathered, among which was Bice Seniel. She was detained on suspicion of killing Gez - the boy noticed how a smart young lady came down the stairs from Gez's room, and now it became clear to everyone who was his killer.
During interrogations, Butler could not stand it, and confessed to the crime. He said that Gez was going to trade in opium - he "promised to buy low, sell high." Butler agreed to participate in the deal, and contributed all of his savings. However, the captain broke his promise and did not pay Butler the due part of the money.
When Butler entered Gez's room, there was no one there, and he hid in the closet. He saw the captain with Biche Seniel enter the room, and immediately began to pester her. However, Bice managed to jump out the window and go down the stairs, where she was detained. Coming out of his hiding place, Butler shot Gez without hesitation.
Chapters 30-35
When meeting with Bice, Thomas learned that all suspicions were officially cleared from her. The girl was eager to board the Wave Runner, with which she had many childhood memories. But, once on the schooner, she did not feel joy - it seemed to her that she was walking, "like in someone else's house". She decided to sell "this ship at auction or whatever."
Thomas told Beeche the story of Freesy Grant, but the girl did not believe him. Returning home, Harvey met Daisy, who confessed her love to him. Suddenly, the young man realized that they always "spoke the same language", and love for Daisy always "went after another love that was experienced and ended." Soon the young people got married.
Conclusion
main topic novel - the search for your dream, a lofty ideal. Not finding him in a sober and practical Beach, the main character saw him in Daisy, who was able to fully appreciate the spiritual richness of his personality.
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The famous novel by Alexander Grin, written in 1928. The work belongs to the fantasy genre. It has both romance and drama. The protagonist is a young man, Thomas Harvey, trying to find his dream, making mistakes, falling in love fleetingly. Somehow it reminds the author himself.
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Main characters
- Thomas Harvey - looking for his dream, striving for the ideal.
- Captain Gez - an unpleasant person, landed Harvey on the high seas.
- Butler - a sailor on the ship "Running on the Waves".
- Filatr is a friend of Thomas and Desi.
- Bice Senuel is Harvey's fleeting love.
- Desi is the future wife of Thomas Harvey.
- Freesy Grant is a girl who saved sailors.
A young man named Thomas Harvey was forced to stay in the city of Lisse due to a serious illness. . One evening Harvey went to his friend Sters to have a little fun and play cards. During the game, he heard the soft voice of a woman who said the phrase: "Running on the waves." Apart from him, no one heard the voice. Before this event, Harvey saw an extraordinary girl get off the ship in the port. She carried herself with such dignity and grandeur that it seemed that she could subjugate the whole world around her. Thomas tried to find out who this charming stranger was. He managed to find out her name - Biche Seniel.
Harvey was worried that no one but him heard the mysterious voice again. It seemed to him that there was some connection between the girl who got off the ship and the incident at the game of cards. In the evening, walking in the port, Thomas saw a ship with a name similar to the novel and his doubts were only confirmed.
The young man decided to go on this ship, but Captain Ghez refused to take him on board the ship without the permission of the owner. Harvey managed to get permission and got on board. The team of sailors made an unpleasant impression on him, they did not look like seafarers.
During a sea voyage, Harvey found out that the first owner of the ship was Ned Seniel, Bice's father. After the ruin of Ned, Captain Gez bought the ship from him for pennies.
At the next stop three women boarded. Sitting in his cabin, Thomas heard the drunken captain threatening one of them. The young man intervened in the quarrel, and a fight broke out between him and Gez. The captain was furious and ordered to put Harvey in a boat and let her go to the open sea, dooming him to certain death. Under the ridicule of the team, a girl jumped into the boat to Harvey.
Having sailed out to sea, the girl spoke, and Thomas realized that it was her voice he heard at the game at Sters. She gave her name as Freezy Grant and asked Harvey to sail south where another ship would see him. Harvey promised not to tell anyone about meeting her, after which Frezi jumped out of the boat and ran over the waves. A few hours later, Thomas was actually picked up by a ship. On it, he heard the legend of the beautiful girl Frezi, who is all shipwrecked. On the ship, a young man meets Daisy.
When the ship reached Gel Gyu, Thomas Harvey went ashore and found himself in the middle of a great feast. Mixing with the crowd, he did not notice how he approached the monument, on which he saw the inscription "Running on the waves". As it turned out, the founder of the city was the navigator Williams Hobbes, who was shipwrecked in these places. Then Fresy Grant helped him, she brought him to the shore, later he founded a settlement there.
Near the monument, Harvey was called by an unfamiliar woman and said that a stranger was waiting for him. Thomas had no doubt that it was Bice Seniel, and he hurried to meet her. But it was Desi. Frustrated that Thomas called her by her first name Beeche, she left. A few minutes later Bice herself suddenly appeared. The purpose of her arrival is to buy the ship from Captain Gez.
The next day, Harvey went to the captain, along with a member of his team, Butler. Rising to his hotel room, they found that the captain was dead. All suspicions fell on Biche Seniel, but Butler confessed to the murder. As it turned out, the captain was transporting opium on the ship, and Butler came to him for his share of the profits. But in the room I witnessed an unpleasant scene. The captain came with the young lady, there was a quarrel between them, and the girl jumped out into the opening onto the stairs. In a fit of rage, Gez attacked Butler, who killed him.
Bice did not want to keep the ship with a tarnished reputation and sold it at auction. Harvey told her the story of meeting Freesy Grant, but Beeche didn't believe him. Thomas, on the other hand, thought that Desi would have reacted differently to this story, but she was engaged and there was no point in looking for a meeting with her.
Time has passed, Harvey and Desi met by chance. Soon they got married and began to live in a house on the shore.
Once Dr. Filatr came to visit them and told the continuation of the story.
For unknown reasons, the ship with a mysterious name was abandoned by all the crew members, and now the ship is rusting on the shore of a deserted island. Bice Senuel is happily married.
At the end of the book, Desi confesses that she always believed in the existence of Fresy Grant and in response hears a voice from the sea.
Such is Green "Running on the Waves" summary.
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In the evening they played cards at Sters's. Among those gathered was Thomas Harvey, a young man stranded in Lissa due to a serious illness. During the game, Harvey heard a woman's voice clearly say: "Running on the waves." And the rest of the players did not hear anything.
The day before, from the window of the tavern, Harvey had watched a girl step off the steamer, carrying herself as if she was gifted with the secret to subjugate circumstances and people. The next morning, Thomas went to find out where the stranger who struck him was staying, and found out that her name was Bice Seniel.
For some reason, he saw a connection between the stranger and yesterday's incident behind the cards. This conjecture was strengthened when in the port he saw a ship with light lines and on board its inscription: "Running on the waves."
Captain Guez, a surly and blunt man, refused to take Harvey as a passenger without the permission of the owner, a certain Brown.
With Brown's note, the captain received Harvey almost kindly, introduced him to his assistants, Sincrite and Butler, who made a good impression, unlike the rest of the crew, who looked more like rabble than sailors.
During the voyage, Thomas learned that the ship was built by Ned Seniel. The portrait of his daughter Biche Seniel Harvey had already seen on the table in the captain's cabin. Gez bought the ship when Ned went bankrupt.
In Dagon, three women boarded. Harvey did not want to take part in the captain's fun, and he remained at his place. After a while, having heard the screams of one of the women and the threats of the drunken captain, Harvey intervened and, defending himself, knocked the captain down with a blow to the jaw.
In a rage, Gyoz ordered to put him in a boat and put it into the open sea. When the boat was already being carried away from the side, the woman wrapped up from head to toe deftly jumped to Harvey. Under a hail of ridicule, they set sail from the ship.
When the stranger spoke, Harvey realized that this was the voice he had heard at Sters's party. The girl called herself Fresy Grant and told Harvey to head south. There he will be picked up by a ship going to Gel-Gyu. Having taken his word from him not to tell anyone about her, including Bice Seniel, Fresy Grant stepped into the water and flew away along the waves. By noon, Harvey actually met the "Dive" going to Gel-Gyu. Here, on the ship, Harvey heard about Fresy Grant again. One day, when the sea was completely calm, a rising wave lowered her father's frigate near the extraordinary beauty of the island, to which it was not possible to moor. Frezi, however, insisted, and then the young lieutenant casually noticed that the girl was so thin and light that she could run through the water. In response, she jumped onto the water and ran lightly over the waves. Then a fog descended, and when it cleared, neither the island nor the girl could be seen. It is said that she began to appear to the shipwrecked.
Harvey listened to the legend with particular attention, but only Daisy, Proctor's niece, noticed. Finally, the Dive approached Gel-Gyu. The city was dominated by the carnival. Harvey went along with the motley crowd and ended up near a marble figure, on the pedestal of which was the inscription: "Running on the waves."
The city, it turns out, was founded by Williams Hobbes, who was wrecked a hundred years ago in the surrounding waters. And Fresy Grant saved him, running along the waves and naming the course that led Hobbes to the then deserted shore, where he settled.
Then a woman called to Harvey and said that a person in a yellow dress with brown fringe was waiting for him in the theater. Not doubting that it was Bice Seniel, Harvey hurried to the theatre. But the woman dressed as they said was Daisy. She was disappointed that Harvey called her by the name Beeche and quickly left. A minute later Harvey saw Bice Seniel. She brought the money and was now looking for a meeting with Goz to buy the ship. Harvey managed to find out in which hotel Guez was staying. The next morning he went there with Butler. They went up to the captain. Gyoz was lying with a bullet in his head.
The people fled. Suddenly Bice Seniel was brought in. It turned out that the day before the captain was very drunk. In the morning a young lady came to him, and then a shot rang out. The girl was detained on the stairs. But then Butler spoke up and admitted that it was he who killed Gyoza.
He had his own account with a scammer. It turns out that the Wave Runner was carrying a cargo of opium, and Butler was due a significant part of the income, but the captain deceived him.
He did not find Gyoza in the room, and when he appeared with the lady, Butler hid in the closet. But the meeting ended in an ugly scene, and in order to get rid of Gyoza, the girl jumped out of the window onto the landing, where she was later detained. When Butler got out of the closet, the captain pounced on him, and Butler had no choice but to kill him.
Upon learning the truth about the ship, Bice ordered the desecrated ship to be auctioned off. Before parting, Harvey told Beach about his meeting with Fresy Grant. Bice suddenly began to insist that his story was a legend. Harvey, however, thought that Daisy would have taken his story with complete confidence, and remembered with regret that Daisy was engaged.
Some time has passed. One day at Lega, Harvey met Daisy. She broke up with her fiancé, and in her story about this there was no regret. Harvey and Daisy soon got married. Their house on the seashore was visited by Dr. Filatr.
He spoke about the fate of the ship "Running on the Waves", whose dilapidated hull he discovered near a deserted island. How and under what circumstances the crew left the ship remained a mystery.
I saw Filatra and Bice Seniel. She was already married and gave Harvey a short letter wishing him happiness.
Daisy, she said, expected the letter to acknowledge Harvey's right to see what he wanted. Daisy Harvey speaks for everyone: “Thomas Harvey, you are right. Everything was as you said. Freezy Grant! You exist! Respond!"
"Good evening friends! - we heard from the sea. "I'm in a hurry, I'm running..."
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The novel "Running on the Waves" was written in 1928. This is a touching, romantic story about how important it is to follow your dreams without giving up and not paying attention to various life obstacles. We recommend reading the summary of "Running on the Waves" chapter by chapter. A retelling of the book can be used in preparation for a literature lesson.
The main characters of the novel
Main characters:
- Thomas Harvey is a young man, sublime, romantic, deeply decent.
Other characters:
- Philatrus is a doctor, a close friend of Thomas.
- William Gez - the captain of the ship "Running on the Waves", a sharp, unfriendly, mean person.
- Butler is Captain Gez's assistant.
- Freesy Grant is a beautiful young girl, a vision that saved people on the high seas.
- Biche Seniel is a nineteen-year-old girl, practical and purposeful.
- Phineas Proctor is the owner of the ship "Dive", who saved Thomas.
- Daisy is Proctor's niece, an emotional, lively girl.
Green "Running on the Waves" very briefly
Thomas Harvey is stuck in Lissa due to a serious illness. Almost recovered, he whiled away the time playing cards with Sters. It was on this evening that Thomas first heard an unfamiliar disembodied voice, quietly but clearly uttering the phrase "Running on the waves."
Harvey recalled how, shortly before, he had seen a girl getting off the ship. Something about her appearance and bearing attracted him, and he decided that he must find out who this mysterious person was. After a short investigation, he found out that her name was Biche Saniel. After Thomas figured out her name, he saw a ship named Wave Runner. Harvey felt that the voice he had heard the day before, Beeche and this ship were somehow connected.
Harvey decided that he needed to get on this ship. His commander, Captain Gez, turned out to be a rude and unpleasant person, and agreed to accept Thomas as a passenger only after he brought him a note from the owner of the ship, Mr. Brown.
Already on board, Thomas found out that the ship was built by Ned Saiel, the father of the same Bice, whom the protagonist had recently seen from afar. The owner went bankrupt, and then Gez bought the Runner
During a stop, three girls entered the ship, who went to have fun with the captain. After a while, Thomas frightened exclamations of one of them and Gez's severe threats. Harvey stood up for the girl and got involved and beat the captain.
Gez decided to get rid of Harvey for this and sent him to the open sea in a boat. When Thomas was already sailing, one of the ladies jumped into his boat, and they sailed away.
This girl's name is Fresy Grant, and Harvey immediately recognized her voice: it was this voice that he heard then, while playing cards. Frezi asked Harvey to sail south, promising that there he would meet a ship bound for Gel-Gyu. Also, Freesy Grant asked him never to tell anyone about her, and after that she got out of the boat and went away, stepping straight on the waves of the sea.
Harvey was left alone, and soon he was actually picked up by a ship that was traveling along the course indicated by Frezi. The ship's crew told Thomas a beautiful tale about Freesy Grant. The superstitious claim that she comes to those who are wrecked at sea. There was a girl Daisy on the ship, and only she noticed how attentively the protagonist listened to the story.
Soon the ship arrived at the appointed city, where at that time a carnival full of colors and fun was taking place. This city was built by Captain William Hobbes, who, according to legend, was saved from certain death during the crash of Fresy Grant.
Soon here he met Bice, who was suspected of killing Captain Gez. However, the investigation revealed that it was not her. Bice had long wanted to take the ship away from him. However, when, after his death, she learned that opium was being transported on it, she refused to buy it.
Thomas decided to tell her that he had met Wave Runner, but she did not believe him. After a long time, Harvey married Daisy, who, on the contrary, believed Thomas's stories and made contact in Fresy Grant.
You can read the chapters and descriptions of the characters on our website. The author sought to show in his work the possibility of the victory of dreams over everyday life. The story of Alexander Grin "Scarlet Sails" tells about the girl Assol, about her fidelity to a dream and striving for it. The main conflict of the story "Scarlet Sails" is the confrontation between dreams and reality.
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Green Wave Runner summary:
In the evening they played cards at Sters's. Among those gathered was Thomas Harvey, a young man stranded in Lissa due to a serious illness. During the game, Harvey heard a woman's voice clearly say: "Running on the waves." And the rest of the players did not hear anything.
The day before, from the window of the tavern, Harvey had watched a girl step off the steamer, carrying herself as if she was gifted with the secret to subjugate circumstances and people. The next morning, Thomas went to find out where the stranger who struck him was staying, and found out that her name was Bice Seniel.
For some reason, he saw a connection between the stranger and yesterday's incident behind the cards. This conjecture was strengthened when in the port he saw a ship with light lines and on board its inscription: "Running on the waves."
Captain Guez, a surly and blunt man, refused to take Harvey as a passenger without the permission of the owner, a certain Brown.
With Brown's note, the captain received Harvey almost kindly, introduced him to his assistants, Sincrite and Butler, who made a good impression, unlike the rest of the crew, who looked more like rabble than sailors.
During the voyage, Thomas learned that the ship was built by Ned Seniel. The portrait of his daughter Biche Seniel Harvey had already seen on the table in the captain's cabin. Gez bought the ship when Ned went bankrupt.
In Dagon, three women boarded. Harvey did not want to take part in the captain's fun, and he remained at his place. After a while, having heard the screams of one of the women and the threats of the drunken captain, Harvey intervened and, defending himself, knocked the captain down with a blow to the jaw.
In a rage, Gyoz ordered to put him in a boat and put it into the open sea. When the boat was already being carried away from the side, the woman wrapped up from head to toe deftly jumped to Harvey. Under a hail of ridicule, they set sail from the ship.
When the stranger spoke, Harvey realized that this was the voice he had heard at Sters's party. The girl called herself Fresy Grant and told Harvey to head south. There he will be picked up by a ship going to Gel-Gyu. Having taken his word from him not to tell anyone about her, including Bice Seniel, Fresy Grant stepped into the water and flew away along the waves. By noon, Harvey actually met the "Dive" going to Gel-Gyu. Here, on the ship, Harvey heard about Fresy Grant again.
One day, when the sea was completely calm, a rising wave lowered her father's frigate near the extraordinary beauty of the island, to which it was not possible to moor. Frezi, however, insisted, and then the young lieutenant casually noticed that the girl was so thin and light that she could run through the water. In response, she jumped onto the water and ran lightly over the waves. Then a fog descended, and when it cleared, neither the island nor the girl could be seen. It is said that she began to appear to the shipwrecked.
Harvey listened to the legend with particular attention, but only Daisy, Proctor's niece, noticed. Finally, the Dive approached Gel-Gyu. The city was dominated by the carnival. Harvey went along with the motley crowd and ended up near a marble figure, on the pedestal of which was the inscription: "Running on the waves."
The city, it turns out, was founded by Williams Hobbes, who was wrecked a hundred years ago in the surrounding waters. And Fresy Grant saved him, running along the waves and naming the course that led Hobbes to the then deserted shore, where he settled.
Then a woman called to Harvey and said that a person in a yellow dress with brown fringe was waiting for him in the theater. Not doubting that it was Bice Seniel, Harvey hurried to the theatre. But the woman dressed as they said was Daisy. She was disappointed that Harvey called her by the name Beeche and quickly left.
A minute later Harvey saw Bice Seniel. She brought the money and was now looking for a meeting with Goz to buy the ship. Harvey managed to find out in which hotel Guez was staying. The next morning he went there with Butler. They went up to the captain. Gyoz was lying with a bullet in his head.
The people fled. Suddenly Bice Seniel was brought in. It turned out that the day before the captain was very drunk. In the morning a young lady came to him, and then a shot rang out. The girl was detained on the stairs. But then Butler spoke up and admitted that it was he who killed Gyoza.
He had his own account with a scammer. It turns out that the Wave Runner was carrying a cargo of opium, and Butler was due a significant part of the income, but the captain deceived him.
He did not find Gyoza in the room, and when he appeared with the lady, Butler hid in the closet. But the meeting ended in an ugly scene, and in order to get rid of Gyoza, the girl jumped out of the window onto the landing, where she was later detained. When Butler got out of the closet, the captain pounced on him, and Butler had no choice but to kill him.
Upon learning the truth about the ship, Bice ordered the desecrated ship to be auctioned off. Before parting, Harvey told Beach about his meeting with Fresy Grant. Bice suddenly began to insist that his story was a legend. Harvey, however, thought that Daisy would have taken his story with complete confidence, and remembered with regret that Daisy was engaged.
Some time has passed. One day at Lega, Harvey met Daisy. She broke up with her fiancé, and in her story about this there was no regret. Harvey and Daisy soon got married. Their house on the seashore was visited by Dr. Filatr.
He spoke about the fate of the ship "Running on the Waves", whose dilapidated hull he discovered near a deserted island. How and under what circumstances the crew left the ship remained a mystery.
I saw Filatra and Bice Seniel. She was already married and gave Harvey a short letter wishing him happiness.
Daisy, she said, expected the letter to acknowledge Harvey's right to see what he wanted. Daisy Harvey speaks for everyone: “Thomas Harvey, you are right. Everything was as you said. Freezy Grant! You exist! Respond!"
"Good evening friends! - we heard from the sea. - I'm in a hurry, I'm running ... ".
The content of the novel "Running on the Waves" by chapter
A. Green Running on the waves summary:
Chapters 1–6
Thomas Harvey was forced to make a stop in Lissa due to a sudden illness that literally knocked him off his feet. After leaving the hospital, he rented a small apartment for himself in order to finally improve his health.
While dining at a port tavern, Thomas noticed a girl descending from the ship's ladder. She was slender, pretty, and regally calm amid the chaos of the seaport that surrounded her. The next morning, Thomas learned the name of a beautiful stranger - Bice Seniel.
Thanks to the attending doctor Filatra, Thomas Harvey got acquainted with the local society. One day, while playing cards, a young man “heard a special female voice saying with emphasis: “... Running on the waves””. He found out that none of those present, except for him alone, heard this strange phrase. Thomas felt a certain connection between the woman's voice he heard and the beautiful stranger.
In the port, a young man found a ship with the inscription "Running on the waves." He went up on deck, and, having met the captain of the ship, William Gez, who was sharp in communication, asked to take him as a passenger on board the ship.
Ghez was opposed to having a passenger on a cargo ship, because "it always comes with some kind of trouble or trouble." Thomas was forced to apply directly to the owner of the vessel to obtain permission.
Chapters 7–12
In Brown's Armator and Cargo office, among the visitors, Thomas noticed an "excited sailor", from whom he learned "that Gez is a real devil." Their conversation was heard by another sailor, who reported that "Captain Gez, firstly, is a real sailor, and secondly, a very excellent and kind-hearted person."
Having received a note from Brown with permission to travel on the Wave Runner sailboat, Thomas gave it to Gez, who became more friendly with the young man. He said that, in addition to him, there would be more ladies on board.
The captain introduced the new passenger to his assistants, Sincrite and Butler, who seemed to the young man to be quite decent people. The rest of the team was more like a motley rabble.
Chapters 13–17
Already on the high seas, Thomas learned that "the ship was built by Ned Seniel fourteen years ago." Hearing the familiar surname, the young man began to listen to the story of "Running on the Waves" with much more attention.
It turned out that a few years ago, Ned Seniel went bankrupt, and was forced to sell the ship to Gez, and then it passed to Brown. In the captain's cabin was a portrait of Seniel's daughter, Biche.
Soon, "The Wave Runner dropped anchor" in the port of Dagon, where three young women boarded the ship: a redhead, a blonde, and a black-haired one. Realizing the purpose for which the ladies were on the ship, Thomas "confirmed his intention to completely retire."
Suddenly, “crying, fuss was heard; then a terrible, hysterical scream." Thomas tried to protect the woman from the drunken Gez's harassment, and knocked the captain down with a strong blow to the jaw.
Unable to endure such humiliation, the captain landed Thomas Harvey in the boat and pushed it into the open sea. At the last moment, he was joined by a girl who somehow ended up on the ship. Her name was Fresy Grant, and her voice sounded very familiar to Thomas. Suddenly he remembered under what circumstances he heard him - it was the same voice that said the phrase "Running on the waves" when the young man was playing cards.
Frazi Grant advised Thomas to head south and row as fast as possible. At dawn, he must meet the ship that will take him on board. The girl also said that he would definitely meet with Bice Seniel, but asked not to tell her about this meeting.
Then Fresy stepped over the side of the boat, and Thomas had time to notice "how quickly and easily she runs away" across the surface of the water.
Chapters 18–20
The next morning, Thomas was rescued by the crew of the ship "Dive", which was on its way to the port of Gel-Gyu. “The skipper, he is the owner of the ship, Phineas Proctor” carefully listened to the story of the young man, and lamented what a scoundrel Gez turned out to be. He even agreed to testify if Thomas decides to sue the captain.
On the ship, Thomas noticed a black-haired girl who turned out to be Proctor's niece, Daisy. It was she who offered to tell Harvey the story of the mysterious Fresy Grant.
It was "a hundred and fifty years ago." On board the ship bound for India was General Grant with his daughter Frezi. In India, there was a fiance of a girl, a military man, to whom she was in a hurry. Suddenly, a hundred-meter wave appeared on the ship's path, lowering the frigate not far from the picturesque coast of the island, "which did not appear on any maps."
There was no way to moor to this island. However, Frezi pestered the captain so much with requests to take a closer look at the island that one young lieutenant, unable to stand it, suggested that the fragile girl run to the shore along the waves. Unexpectedly for everyone, she jumped overboard and "stopped on a wave like a flower." Frezi said goodbye to her father, and rushed to the shore on the water. Immediately after her disappearance, a thick fog descended, and when it cleared, neither the island nor Frezi could be seen.
Chapters 21–24
Gel-Gyu greeted the frigate "Dive" with loud music and enchanting illumination - a carnival was raging in the city. The crew members decided to join in the fun.
A spontaneously moving crowd carried Thomas to a marble pedestal with a female figure, on which he read the inscription "Running on the waves." He "stood at the monument, as if on a date, not looking up and contemplating" for about an hour, until the locals called him. From them, the young man learned that about a hundred years ago, Freezy Grant saved the founder of Gel-Gyu, William Hobbes, from certain death. He was shipwrecked, and only thanks to the girl running on the waves, who showed him the right path to salvation, he ended up on this shore.
Thomas was informed that a certain person was waiting for him at the theater, who could be recognized "by a yellow dress with brown fringe." The young man had no doubt that he would meet Beeche, but Daisy turned out to be a stranger. Unable to contain her "visible distress", she left Thomas.
At the same moment the young man saw Bice Seniel. She said that she intended to buy the ship "Running on the Waves", which rightfully belongs to her father. "Gez stole it with a fraudulent prank," and now Bice was looking for a captain to make a deal.
Chapters 25–29
The next morning, Thomas met Butler, and together they went to the hotel where Guez was staying. In the hotel room, they found the captain dead. Immediately, a “crowd of women and men” gathered, among which was Bice Seniel. She was detained on suspicion of killing Gez - the boy noticed how a smart young lady came down the stairs from Gez's room, and now it became clear to everyone who was his killer.
During interrogations, Butler could not stand it, and confessed to the crime. He said that Ghez was going to trade in opium - he "promised to buy low, sell high." Butler agreed to participate in the deal, and contributed all of his savings. However, the captain broke his promise and did not pay Butler the due part of the money.
When Butler entered Gez's room, there was no one there, and he hid in the closet. He saw the captain with Biche Seniel enter the room, and immediately began to pester her. However, Bice managed to jump out the window and go down the stairs, where she was detained. Coming out of his hiding place, Butler shot Gez without hesitation.
Chapters 30–35
When meeting with Bice, Thomas learned that all suspicions were officially cleared from her. The girl was eager to board the Wave Runner, with which she had many childhood memories. But, once on the schooner, she did not feel joy - it seemed to her that she was walking, "like in someone else's house." She decided to sell "this ship at auction or whatever."
Thomas told Beeche the story of Freesy Grant, but the girl did not believe him. Returning home, Harvey met Daisy, who confessed her love to him. Suddenly, the young man realized that they always "spoke the same language", and love for Daisy always "went after another love that was experienced and ended." Soon the young people got married.
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