5 books from the school curriculum that men will understand only after 30 years old

The list of literature in middle and high school is often filled with authors with very controversial works. In them, writers not only teach, educate, familiarize with the beauty of language, images, but also raise philosophical questions. To get answers to them is difficult even for an adult. To understand the depth of the problems of the work, the actions of the characters, their vicissitudes is difficult for a teenager without experience and the weight of lived years.

Of course, you can write essays according to prepared templates and based on the assessment of literary critics. But, rather, such works will resemble not a personal opinion about the read, and the desire to please the teacher. To understand the motives behind the actions of heroes, their tragedy independently is easier in adulthood, having been in similar situations. Hence there are reviews that works from the school program only after 30 years became a revelation and really interesting.

“Oblomov”, Ivan Goncharov

Encyclopedia of the Russian soul tells about the problems of society and the tragedy of man. Critics clearly give the answer that laziness, unwillingness to do something – a national misfortune, which is characteristic of the nobility of the time.

But if you take apart the behavior of the protagonist, taking into account modern realities – the possibility of undergoing psychotherapy, Oblomov ceases to be in our eyes “chickenshit”. We can see him as a victim of circumstances. Understand that all the problems of his behavior lie in the traumatic events of childhood, for example. Hyperprotection, excessive care led to infantilism and the inability to grow up as a full-fledged person.

Reread the novel, and perhaps you will change your opinion about the protagonist.

“Oblomov”

“Crime and Punishment,” Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Arguments that the works of Fyodor Mikhailovich are difficult for schoolchildren to understand, have been going for a long time and do not subside until now. Multifaceted characters, tragic fates, cruel life circumstances do not always resonate even with adult readers. It is impossible to run through and delve into every line of Dostoevsky’s novels.

Raskolnikov’s mental torment, motives for his actions, philosophical reasoning are available only to people who have already learned to distinguish shades of character and not to divide life into black and white, bad and good. The main character of “Crime and Punishment” also has strengths and determination.

Try to find light in gray and gloomy St. Petersburg with depressed and oppressed heroes now.

“Crime and Punishment”

“Taras Bulba,” Nikolai Gogol.

The powerful line from the story “I begot you, I will kill you!” brings up many conflicting opinions. The ability to reflect, to understand the motives of the hero’s actions, the whole tragedy is possible only by becoming parents. So powerful was the writer’s image.

But will be able to fully understand it only beginning to live a child? Even the teachers themselves note that it would be good to start studying the story in grades 10-11, not in the seventh grade. Reading the story as an adult will reveal new meanings to you.

“Taras Bulba”

“The Quiet Don,” Mikhail Sholokhov.

No, not because the novel is too big and voluminous, we advise you to reread it again. After all, for sure in school years many chapters you were missed.

The life of the main character – Grigory Melekhov – the image of the Cossacks during the Civil War. Complicated mental metamorphosis, relationships with women, the cruelty of manners of that time schoolchildren will not be able to feel fully. Try to rediscover the pages of the novel and delve into the problems described by Sholokhov.

“Quiet Don”

“Fathers and Children,” Ivan Turgenev

The novel is liked by schoolchildren for its dynamic slogan and progressive ideas. The clash of views of the older and younger generations is still relevant today. But not always students are ready to read behind the ideas of nihilism other thoughts of Turgenev.

In the novel, the author shows the tragedy of Bazarov and his aspirations for change. But the meanings that Turgenev conveyed about preserving family life sometimes go unrecognized. Reread the novel and be philosophers who already understand how to perceive their parents with their attitudes and patterns.

“Fathers and Children”