Experienced people admire us all, but the question is how to define them. We suggest calling the person who went through the fire, water and copper pipes, "shredded kalach." Today we will consider the meaning of phraseology through the prism of a textbook example of grated kalach in literature, Martin Eden, but first about the origin.
Origin
We are interested in phraseological units of everyday origin, namely, kitchen. Any housewife knows: in order to make some kind of baking, you need to properly prepare the dough.
Bread dough is thoroughly kneaded. Previously, wives and mothers did this manually, now cars do it in factories, but nevertheless this does not negate the "misadventures" of the test - it is crumpled and tormented. And only then, when the dough has reached the standard, the moment comes immediately baking bread. Thus, the phraseology “grated kalach” as a characteristic suits a person who thoroughly shook, “crushed” life and “baked” something worthwhile from it.
None of the readers will argue that it is more pleasant to watch and listen to a person who knows the value of the word, ruble and reasoned with knowledge of the matter, and does not sing from someone else's voice, does not broadcast book truths that are not saturated with his own sweat. We pass to examples. We will consider the textbook image of grated kalach in the literature.
Martin Eden as an example of "grated kalacha"
Of course, there is no need to retell the whole plot of Jack London’s masterpiece, but it’s important to understand: at the beginning of the novel, Martin Eden, although already quite an experienced sailor, is a completely naive person. Why is that? Because his soul has not yet come into contact with either true love or genuine intellectual knowledge. Having met Ruth in her beautiful house, full of books, Goes began the path to his true "I".
We can say that at the very moment when a simple guy Martin recognized the girl Ruth, life began to cut out from the protagonist of the London novel a real living experienced person who saw not only the shell. We remind you that it is precisely such a representative of the human race that can be defined by the expression “grated kalach” (the meaning was revealed a little earlier, in addition, it is clear from the context).
Further, as you know, Eden's pursuit of the dream of becoming a writer began. He did not do literary day laborer (journalism), fearing that such work would ruin his style. In fairness, real writers, such as Ernest Hemingway and Sergey Dovlatov, verbally, in writing, and in their life practice refuted Martin Eden's thesis that journalism harms a literary gift. However, we were distracted.
Growing Up Giving Up Illusions
So, the hard work of the hero of London allowed him to mature inwardly and see the limitations of his love. On the one hand, Martin Eden was disappointed in life without love, but on the other hand, full growth is impossible without parting with illusions, empty hopes and pink dreams. It can be said that London provides a universal recipe for the stages of human maturation that everyone goes through. True, not everything always ends as sadly as it did with the hero of an American writer.
Is it possible to avoid the fate of grated kalacha? Moral phraseology
Of course, many can say that there is nothing good in the life of Martin Eden. Yes it is. He, of course, is a grated kalach, but what price did he pay for his experience? But the tragedy of life is that it is impossible to avoid the fate of grated kalach.
There are lucky ones who were born in wealthy families. Such children were blocked by their parents from the sorrows of life, but even Buddha, the son of a very rich man, rejected the deception that had for a long time fettered his true knowledge of life, and threw himself into the arms of the world, passing through several hypostases of man. He was a rich man, an ascetic, and a teacher of wisdom.
"Fading" is acquired only in the process of passing through spontaneously arising life situations, which in themselves may no longer be repeated, but each of them must teach something, opens a door.