Green's creations running on waves. The novel "Running on the waves

/ / "Running on the waves"

Date of creation: 1928.

Genre: novel.

Theme: the ratio of the higher and material worlds, the ratio of good and evil.

Idea: it is important to keep the dream in this controversial world and go to it to the end.

Problems. Through trial and error, man becomes happy.

Main characters: Thomas Garvey, Biche Seniel, Geuze, Daisy, Frezi Grant.

Plot. Harvey had to spend a long time in Lisse due to illness. Once at a party during a card game at a friend Steers he suddenly heard a voice. It was a woman's voice that clearly said, "Running on the waves." The rest of those present did not hear anything of the kind. The day before, Harvey had seen a girl disembarking from the ship, who struck him with her demeanor. It seemed that there was something in her that could influence both people and circumstances.

The hero managed to find out the place of stay and the name of the stranger who impressed him. This is Biche Seniel. Thomas saw a connection between this girl and the voice he heard. His conviction was strengthened at the sight of the ship, the name of which repeated what the voice had said. Harvey realized that his destiny was to be on this ship.

Having overcome the resistance of the unfriendly captain Gez, he got on a promising ship, the crew of which resembled a gang of robbers. Already during the voyage, the hero learned that this ship was built by Ned Seniel, Biche's father. He sold his ship to Gezu after being ruined.

On this ship, Harvey got into trouble. In the captain's cabin, merriment reigned with the three arriving women. Harvey was in his cabin when a noise came to his ears: a woman was screaming, and the drunken captain threatened her. Thomas in a gentlemanly way defended the "lady" and in a fight he knocked her abuser down. Geuze became furious and, in revenge, provided Harvey with a boat, sent him to his fate on the high seas. Suddenly, an unknown lady, completely covered by her clothes, easily jumped over to Thomas in a boat moving away from the side. Showered with ambiguous jokes, they fled from the ship. The girl spoke, and Thomas recognized her voice. That was what he heard at that party. The stranger called herself Frezi Grant and advised Harvey to row south. In this direction he will meet a ship that will pick him up. Having received a promise from Thomas to keep silent about her, even from Biche Seniel, the mysterious girl stepped overboard and easily rushed along the waves, disappearing into the distance.

As Frezi Grant predicted, the hero met the Dive ship, which had picked him up. Here Harvey learned the legend of Frezi Grant, who rescues those who perish in a shipwreck. Once, in complete calm, a wave came from nowhere and brought the frigate belonging to her father to the island of fabulous beauty. It was not possible to get close to him, but Frezi demanded. One lieutenant joked about Frezi's ability to run on water at the expense of his lightness. The girl immediately jumped down and hurried along the waves with ease. At this time, the impending fog covered everything, and when it disappeared, both the island and the girl disappeared.

Daisy, the captain's niece, noticed with what interest Harvey listened to the legend.

The ship approached the port of Gel-Gyu, where the carnival reigned. In the midst of the noisy celebration, Thomas suddenly saw a statue, at the bottom of which was inscribed: "Running on the waves." This city was founded by a man who was shipwrecked and saved by Frezi Grant.

Daisy arranged a meeting with Harvey, but he mistook her for Biche, which upset the girl. She quickly left. The hero met Biche Seniel here. She had things to do: Biche was looking for Captain Gez to buy the ship from him. Harvey found out where to find Gez, and with the mate went to him.

They found Geza killed. People gathered. Unexpectedly, Biche Seniel was brought here as a suspect. Her behavior looked suspicious. She came to him in the morning, and then a shot rang out. Biche was stopped on the stairs. However, Butler, the captain's mate, confesses to killing Gez. It turns out that Opium was transported on the "Running on the Waves", butler was entitled to a good share of the broth from this enterprise, but Gez cheated, and Butler received nothing. Having come to the captain's room, the assistant did not find him. Soon Gez came with the girl, and Butler disappeared into the closet. Gez began to behave ugly, and the girl was forced to jump out the window overlooking the stairs. When the assistant emerged from the closet, Gez attacked him, Butler fired.

A bad story with the ship prompted Bice to auction the Runner up. Parting with the girl, Harvey told her about how he met Frezi Grant. Suddenly Bice began to persist in the fact that this was only a legend. And with distress Thomas remembered Daisy, who would have unconditionally accepted his story, but she, alas, is engaged.

A little time passed, and he met Daisy and learned that she had said goodbye to her fiancé and did not regret him at all. Soon, Thomas Garvey and Daisy got married. They lived in a house on the seaside. Once they were visited by Doctor Filatr, who was treating Harvey in Lisse. From him Thomas learned about the "Wave Runner" corble. Its dilapidated hull was found next to a desert island. Why the crew left the ship remains unknown.

Filatr also met Biche Seniel, he gave Harvey a short letter from her, which contained a wish for his happiness. She herself was already married. Daisy hoped for Biche's recognition in the letter that Thomas had the right to see what he wanted. But alas ... Then Daisy herself, on behalf of everyone, spoke about the correctness of Thomas Harvey in his story about Frezi Grant. And she turned to Frezi herself with a request to respond. And from the sea they heard her voice. Frezi Grant hurried to her friends.

Review of the work. Very realistic description is combined with surreal. Romance and prose of life. A very special impression, as well as from all of Green's works. This is his special world, and he is amazing.

In the evening, they played cards at Steers. Among those gathered was Thomas Harvey, a young man stranded in Lisse due to a serious illness. During the game, Harvey heard a woman's voice, clearly saying: "Running on the waves." And the rest of the players did not hear anything.

The day before, Harvey watched from the tavern window as a girl stepped off the steamer, behaving as if she had been gifted secretly to subjugate circumstances and people. The next morning, Thomas went to find out where the stranger who struck him was staying, and learned that her name was Biche Seniel.

For some reason, he saw a connection between the stranger and yesterday's incident behind the cards. This guess was strengthened when in the port he saw a ship with light contours and on its side the inscription: "Running on the waves."

Captain Gueuze, an unfriendly and harsh 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 Sinkright and Butler, who made a good impression, unlike the rest of the crew, which looked more like rabble than sailors.

While sailing, 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. Gueuze bought the ship when Ned went broke.

In Dagon, three women boarded. Harvey did not want to take part in the fun that had begun with the captain, and he stayed with him. After a while, hearing the screams of one of the women and the threats of the drunken captain, Garvey intervened and, in defense, knocked the captain down with a blow to the jaw.

In a rage, Gueuze 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 heard at Steers's party. The girl named herself Frezi Grant and told Harvey to head south. There he will be picked up by a ship going to Gel-Gyu. Taking from him the word not to tell anyone about her, including Biche Seniel, Frezi Grant went down on the water and was carried off into the distance along the waves. By noon, Harvey actually met a Dive heading for Gel-Gyu. Here on the ship, Harvey heard about Frezi Grant again. Once, in a completely calm sea, 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 on water. In response, she jumped into the water and ran easily over the waves. Here the fog fell, and when it cleared, neither the island nor the girl was visible. They say she began to appear shipwrecked.

Harvey listened to the legend with particular attention, but this was noticed only by Daisy, Proctor's niece. Finally, "Dive" approached Gel-Gyu. The city was in the grip of a carnival. Harvey walked 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 Hobs, who was wrecked a hundred years ago in the surrounding waters. And Frezi Grant saved him, who came running along the waves and named the course that brought Hobs to the then deserted coast, where he settled.

Then a woman called Harvey and said that a person in a yellow dress with brown fringe was waiting for him at the theater. No doubt that it was Biche Seniel, Harvey hurried to the theater. But the woman who was said to be dressed was Daisy. She was disappointed that Harvey named her by Biche and quickly left. A minute later, Harvey saw Biche Seniel. She had brought the money and was now looking for a meeting with Gueuze to redeem the ship. Harvey managed to find out in which hotel Gueuze was staying. The next morning he went there with Butler. They went up to the captain. Gueuze lay with a bullet in his head.

The people came running. Suddenly Biche 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 Gueuze.

He had his own account with the scammer. It turns out that the Wave Runner was carrying a cargo of opium, and Butler owed a significant part of the income, but the captain deceived him.

He did not find Gueuze 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 Gueuze, 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.

After learning the truth about the ship, Biche ordered to sell the defiled ship at auction. Before breaking up, Harvey told Beach about his meeting with Frezi Grant. Biche suddenly began to insist that his story was a legend. Harvey thought that Daisy would have taken his story with complete confidence, and with regret he remembered that Daisy was engaged.

Some time passed. Once in Lega, Garvey met Daisy. She parted with her fiancé, and there was no regret in her story about it. Harvey and Daisy soon got married. Doctor Filatr visited their home by the sea.

He spoke about the fate of the Wave Runner, whose dilapidated hull he had found near a deserted island. How and under what circumstances the crew left the ship remained a mystery.

I saw Filatr and Biche Seniel. She was already married and gave Harvey a short letter of happiness.

Daisy, she said, expected the letter to recognize Harvey's right to see what he wants. Daisy Garvey speaks on behalf of everyone: “Thomas Garvey, you are right. Everything was as you told. Frezi Grant! You exist! Answer me! "

"Good evening friends! - we heard from the sea. - I'm in a hurry, I'm running ... "

Running on the waves

In the evening, they played cards at Steers. Among those gathered was Thomas Harvey, a young man who had been stuck in Lisse 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.

Captain Geuze, an unfriendly and harsh man, refused to take Harvey as a passenger without the permission of the owner, a certain Brown.

While sailing, 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. Guez bought the ship when Ned went broke.

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 heard at Steers's party. The girl named herself Frezi Grant and told Harvey to head south. There he will be picked up by a ship going to Gel-Gyu. Taking from him the word not to tell anyone about her, including Biche Seniel, Frezi Grant went down on the water and was carried off into the distance along the waves. By noon, Harvey actually met a "Dive" going to Gel-Gyu. Here on the ship, Harvey heard about Frezi Grant again. Once, in a completely calm sea, 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 on water. In response, she jumped into the water and ran easily over the waves. Here the fog fell, and when it cleared, neither the island nor the girl was visible. They say she began to appear shipwrecked.

Harvey listened to the legend with particular attention, but this was noticed only by Daisy, Proctor's niece. Finally "Dive" approached Gel-Gyu. The city was in the grip of a carnival. Harvey walked with the motley crowd and found himself near a marble figure, on the pedestal of which was the inscription: "Running on the waves"

Then a woman called Harvey and said that a person in a yellow dress with brown fringes was waiting for him at the theater. No doubt that it was Biche Seniel, Harvey hurried to the theater. But the woman who was said to be dressed was Daisy. She was disappointed that Harvey named her by Biche and quickly left. A minute later, Harvey saw Biche Seniel. She had brought the money and was now looking for a meeting with Guez to buy back the ship. Harvey managed to find out which hotel Geuze was staying at. The next morning he went there with Butler. They went up to the captain. Gez lay with a bullet in his head.

He had his account with a scammer. It turns out that the Wave Runner was carrying a cargo of opium, and Butler owed a significant part of the income, but the captain deceived him.

He did not find Geza 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, Biche ordered to auction the defiled ship. Before breaking up, Harvey told Beach about his meeting with Frezi Grant. Biche suddenly began to insist that his story was a legend. Harvey thought that Daisy would have taken his story with complete confidence, and with regret he remembered that Daisy was engaged.

He spoke about the fate of the Wave Runner, whose dilapidated hull he found near a deserted island. How and under what circumstances the crew left the ship remained a mystery.

I saw Filatr and Biche Seniel. She was already married and gave Harvey a short letter of happiness.

Daisy, she said, expected the letter to recognize Harvey's right to see what he wants. Daisy Garvey says from everyone: "Thomas Garvey, you are right. Everything was as you told. Frezi Grant! You exist! Answer me!"

"Good evening, friends! - we heard from the sea. - I'm in a hurry, I'm running ..."

Alexander Green

Running on the waves

I was told that I ended up in Lisse thanks to one of those severe illnesses that come on suddenly. It happened on the way. I was removed from the train with unconsciousness, high temperature and admitted to the hospital.

When the danger had passed, Doctor Filatr, who had amiably entertained me all the last time before I left the ward, took care to look for an apartment for me and even found a woman for services. I was very grateful to him, especially since the windows of this apartment overlooked the sea.

Once Filatr said:

- Dear Harvey, it seems to me that I unwittingly keep you in our city. You could leave when you are well, without any embarrassment because I rented an apartment for you. Nevertheless, before traveling further, you need some comfort - a stop within yourself.

He was clearly hinting, and I remembered my conversations with him about power Unfulfilled... This power was somewhat weakened thanks to an acute illness, but I still heard sometimes, in my soul, its steel movement, which did not promise to disappear.

Moving from city to city, from country to country, I obeyed a force more imperative than passion or mania.

Sooner or later, in old age or in the prime of years, the Unfulfilled is calling us, and we look around, trying to understand where the call came from. Then, waking up in the middle of our world, painfully recollecting and dear every day, we peer into life, trying with all our being to see if the Unfulfilled is not beginning to come true? Is his image not clear? Isn't it necessary now only to reach out to grab and hold his faintly flickering features?

Meanwhile, time passes, and we sail past the high, foggy shores of the Unfulfilled, talking about the affairs of the day.

I have spoken to Filat on this topic many times. But this handsome man was not yet moved by the farewell hand of the Unfulfilled One, and therefore my explanations did not bother him. He asked me about all this and listened rather calmly, but with deep attention, acknowledging my anxiety and trying to internalize it.

I almost recovered, but experienced a reaction caused by a break in movement and found Filatr's advice useful; therefore, upon leaving the hospital, I settled in the apartment of the right-hand corner building of Amilego Street, one of the most beautiful streets of Lisse. The house stood at the lower end of the street, near the harbor, behind the dock, - a place of ship's junk and silence, broken, not too intrusively, softened, in distance, by the language of the port day.

I occupied two large rooms: one with a huge window overlooking the sea; the second was twice more than the first. In the third, where the stairs led down, there was a servant. The old, prim and clean furniture, the old house and the whimsical arrangement of the apartment corresponded to the relative silence of this part of the city. From the rooms, located at an angle to the east and south, the sun's rays did not leave all day, which is why this Old Testament peace was full of bright reconciliation of the years gone by with the inexhaustible, forever new solar pulse.

I saw the owner only once when I paid the money. He was an overweight man with the face of a cavalryman and quiet blue eyes pushed out to the interlocutor. When he went in to receive his payment, he showed neither curiosity nor excitement, as if he saw me every day.

The servant, a woman of about thirty-five, slow and alert, brought me lunches and dinners from the restaurant, cleaned the rooms and went to her room, knowing already that I would not ask for anything special and would not enter into conversations, which are mostly undertaken only in order to, chatting and picking my teeth, surrender to the scattered flow of thoughts.

So I started living there; and I lived only twenty-six days; Dr. Filatr came several times.

The more I talked to him about life, spleen, travel and impressions, the more I understood the essence and type of my Unfulfilled. I will not deny that it was enormous and — perhaps — that is why it was so persistent. Its slenderness, its almost architectural acuteness, grew out of the shades of parallelism. This is what I call the double game we play with the phenomena of everyday life and feelings. On the one hand, they are naturally tolerant of necessity: conventionally tolerant, like a banknote for which one should receive in gold, but there is no agreement with them, since we see and feel their possible transformation. Pictures, music, books have long established this peculiarity, and although the example is old, I take it for lack of a better one. All the longing of the world is hidden in his wrinkles. Such is the nervousness of the idealist, who is often forced by despair to sink lower than he stood - solely out of a passion for emotion.

Among the ugly reflections of the law of life and its litigation with my spirit, I was looking, myself for a long time without suspecting it, - a sudden, distinct creation: a drawing or a wreath of events, naturally coiled and just as invulnerable to the suspicious glance of spiritual jealousy, as the four lines of our favorite poem that most deeply struck us ... There are always only four such lines.

Of course, I recognized my desires gradually and often did not notice them, thereby missing the time to pull out the roots of these dangerous plants. They grew and hid me under their shady foliage. It happened more than once that my meetings, my positions sounded like a deceptive beginning of a melody that is so typical for a person to want to listen to before he closes his eyes. Cities and countries from time to time brought the light of a strange, distant transparency, already beginning to admire, to my pupils, already beginning to delight, but all this developed into nothing; tearing like rotten yarn pulled by a swift shuttle. The unfulfilled, to which I stretched out my hands, could only rise up on its own, otherwise I would not have recognized it and, acting on an exemplary model, would certainly risk creating soulless scenery. In a different way, but absolutely sure, you can see this in artificial parks, in comparison with random forest visions, as if carefully taken out by the sun from a precious box.

Thus, I understood my Unfulfilled and submitted to it.

About all this and much more - on the topic of human desires in general - my conversations with Filatr proceeded, if he touched on this issue.

As I noticed, he never ceased to be interested in my latent excitement directed at objects of imagination. I was like a scent of tulip to him, and if such a comparison may seem vain, it is still essentially true.

Green's novel Runner on the Waves was written in 1928. This is a touching, romantic story about how important it is to follow your dreams, not 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 Guez - the captain of the ship "Running on the Waves", a sharp, unfriendly, mean man.

Butler - Captain's mate Geza.

Frezi 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 Lisse due to a sudden illness that literally knocked him down. After leaving the hospital, he rented a small apartment for himself in order to finally improve his health.

While dining in the harbor tavern, Thomas noticed a girl descending from the steamer's gangplank. She was slender, pretty and regal calm amid the chaos of the seaport that surrounded her. The next morning Thomas learned the name of the beautiful stranger - Biche Seniel.

Through his treating doctor Filatr, Thomas Garvey got to know the local community. Once, while playing cards, the young man “heard a special female voice that said with emphasis:“ ... Running on the waves ””. He found out that none of those present, except him alone, had heard this strange phrase. Thomas felt a kind of connection between the woman's voice he had heard and the beautiful stranger.

In the port, the young man found a ship with the inscription "Running on the waves". He went on deck, and, having met the sharp in communication of the ship's captain - William Gez, asked to take him on board the ship as a passenger.

Geuze was opposed to the passenger on the cargo ship, because "this always comes with some kind of trouble or trouble." Thomas was forced to go 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 agitated sailor", from whom he learned "that Gez is a devil." Their conversation was heard by another sailor, who said that "Captain Gez, firstly, a real sailor, and secondly, a very excellent and kind-hearted man."

Having received a note from Brown with permission to travel on the sailing ship "Running on the Waves," Thomas handed it to Gez, and he became more friendly with the young man. He said that, besides him, there would be more ladies on board.

The captain introduced the new passenger to his assistants, Sinkright and Butler, who seemed to the young man quite decent people. The rest of the team was more like a motley rabble.

Chapters 13-17

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 Geza, and then it passed to Brown. In the captain's cabin there 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. Realizing for what purposes the ladies were on the ship, Thomas "established his intention to completely retire."

Suddenly “I heard crying, fuss; then a terrible, hysterical cry. " Thomas tried to protect the woman from the harassment of a drunken Gez, and knocked the captain down with a hard 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, by unknown means, found herself on the ship. Her name was Frezi Grant, and Thomas sounded very familiar with her voice. Suddenly he remembered under what circumstances he had heard him - it was the same voice that had uttered the phrase "Running on the waves" when the young man was playing cards.

Frezi Grant advised Thomas to head south and row as quickly 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 Biche Seniel, but asked not to tell her about this meeting.

Then Frezi stepped over the side of the boat, and Thomas managed to notice "how quickly and easily she runs away" along the water surface.

Chapters 18-20

The next morning, Thomas was rescued by the crew of the Dive ship, which was en route to the port of Gel-Gyu. "The skipper, who is also the owner of the ship, Phineas Proctor" listened attentively to the story of the young man, and lamented what a villain Gez was. He even agreed to testify if Thomas decided 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 suggested telling Harvey the story of the mysterious Frezi Grant.

It was "one hundred and fifty years ago." General Grant and his daughter Frezi were aboard the ship bound for India. In India there was a girl's fiancé, a military man, to whom she was in a hurry. Suddenly, a hundred-meter wave appeared on the way of the vessel, which lowered the frigate not far from the picturesque coast of the island, "which was not listed on any maps."

There was no way to moor to this island. However, Frezi pestered the captain with requests to take a closer look at the island that one young lieutenant, unable to bear it, suggested that the fragile girl run to the shore along the waves. Unexpectedly for everyone, she jumped overboard and "stopped on the 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 fell, and when it cleared, neither the island nor Frezi was visible.

Chapters 21-24

Gel-Gyu greeted the "Dive" frigate 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 out to him. From them, the young man learned that about a hundred years ago, Frezi Grant saved the founder of Gel-Gyu, William Hobs, from certain death. He was shipwrecked, and only thanks to a girl running on the waves, who showed him the right way to salvation, he ended up on this shore.

Thomas was informed that a certain person was waiting for him at the theater, who can be recognized by "a yellow dress with brown fringe." The young man had no doubt that he would meet Biche, but Daisy turned out to be a stranger. Unable to contain the "noticeable chagrin", she left Thomas.

At the same moment the young man saw Biche Seniel. She said that she intends to buy the ship "Waves Runner", which rightfully belongs to her father. "Guez had misappropriated him with a fraudulent trick," and Biche was now looking for a captain to make the deal.

Chapters 25-29

The next morning Thomas met Butler, and together they went to the hotel where Geuze was staying. In the hotel room, they found the captain dead. "A crowd of women and men" immediately gathered, among whom was Biche Saniel. She was detained on suspicion of the murder of Gez - the boy noticed how an elegant young lady came down the stairs from Gez's room, and now everyone knew who his killer was.

During interrogations, Butler could not stand it and confessed to the crime. He said that Guez was going to trade in opium - he "promised to buy cheap, sell high." Butler agreed to participate in the transaction, 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 enter the room with Biche Saniel and immediately began to pester her. However, Biche managed to jump out the window and go down the stairs, where she was detained. Coming out of his hiding place, Butler without hesitation shot Gez.

Chapters 30-35

Upon meeting with Biche, 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, finding herself 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 happens."

Thomas Biche tells the story with Frezi Grant, but the girl doesn't believe him. Returning home, Harvey met Daisy, who confessed her love for him. Suddenly, the young man realized that they always "spoke the same language," and love for Daisy always "followed another love that was experienced and ended." Soon the young people got married.

Conclusion

The main theme of the novel is the search for one's dream, a lofty ideal. Not finding him in the sober and practical Beach, the main character saw him in Daisy, who was able to fully appreciate the spiritual wealth of his personality.

A short retelling of "Waves Runner" will be useful for the reader's diary and preparation for the literature lesson.

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