Skills required for successful essay writing. OGE assignments based on A.S. Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin" material for preparing for the Unified State Exam (GIA) in literature (grade 9) on the topic But I recognize you, beginning
Read the passage below and complete task C1.
Yes, do you need a register of all these parasites? Well, as I knew, I wrote them all down on a special piece of paper so that when I first submitted the revision, I could cross them all out.
Plyushkin put on his glasses and began rummaging through the papers. Untying all sorts of ties, he treated his guest to such dust that he sneezed. Finally he pulled out a piece of paper, all covered with writing. Peasant names covered her closely, like midges. There were all kinds of people there: Paramonov, and Pimenov, and Panteleimonov, and even some Grigory looked out; There were more than a hundred and twenty in all. Chichikov smiled at the sight of such numbers. Having hidden it in his pocket, he noticed to Plyushkin that he would need to come to the city to complete the fortress.
In town? But how?.., but how to leave the house? After all, my people are either a thief or a swindler: they will steal so much in a day that they won’t have anything to hang their caftan on.
So don't you know anyone?
Who do you know? All my friends died or fell apart. Ah, fathers! how not to have, I have! - he screamed. - After all, the chairman himself is familiar, he even came to see me in the old years, how could he not know! We were teammates and climbed fences together! how can you not be familiar? so familiar! So shouldn't I write to him?
And of course, to him.
Why, so familiar! I had friends at school.
And on this wooden face suddenly some kind of warm ray slid, it was not a feeling that was expressed, but some kind of pale reflection of a feeling, a phenomenon similar to the unexpected appearance of a drowning person on the surface of the waters, which produced a joyful cry in the crowd that surrounded the shore. But in vain the overjoyed brothers and sisters throw a rope from the shore and wait to see if the back or arms tired from the struggle will flash again - this was the last appearance. Everything is silent, and after that the quiet surface of the unresponsive element becomes even more terrible and deserted. So Plyushkin’s face, following the feeling that instantly slid across it, became even more insensitive and even more vulgar.
“There was a quarter of blank paper lying on the table,” he said, “but I don’t know where it went: my people are so worthless!”
Then he began to look under and on the table, rummaged everywhere and finally shouted: “Mavra! and Mavra! A woman answered the call with a plate in her hands, on which lay a cracker, already familiar to the reader. And the following conversation took place between them:
Where are you going, robber, paper?
By God, master, haven’t you seen the small piece of cloth with which you deigned to cover the glass?
But I can see in my eyes that I’ve tinkered.
But what would I like? After all, I have no use with her; I don't know how to read and write.
You're lying, you demolished the sexton: he messes around, so you demolished it for him.
Yes, the sexton, if he wants, can get himself papers. He hasn't seen your scrap!
Just wait a minute: at the Last Judgment the devils will beat you up with iron slingshots for this! You'll see how they cook!
But why will they punish me if I didn’t even pick up a quarter? It’s more likely some other woman’s weakness, but no one has ever reproached me for theft.
But the devils will get you! They’ll say: “Here’s to you, you swindler, for deceiving the master!”, and they’ll give you a hot roast!
And I’ll say: you’re welcome! By God, no way, I didn’t take it... Yes, there she is lying on the table. You always reproach us unnecessarily!
Plyushkin saw, for sure, a four and stopped for a minute, chewed his lips and said: “Well, why did you disagree like that? What a pain! Tell her just one word, and she’ll answer with a dozen! Go and bring the light to seal the letter. Wait, you grab a tallow candle, tallow is a sticky business: it will burn - yes and no, only a loss; and bring me a splinter!”
Mavra left, and Plyushkin, sitting down in an armchair and taking a pen in his hand, spent a long time turning the four in all directions, wondering if it was possible to separate another eight from it, but finally became convinced that it was impossible; stuck the pen into an inkwell with some kind of moldy liquid and a lot of flies at the bottom and began to write, making letters that looked like musical notes, constantly holding his agility hand, which was jumping all over the paper, sparingly molding line after line, and not without regret, thinking about that there will still be a lot of blank space left.
N.V. Gogol, “Dead Souls”.
C1. How is Plyushkin’s character revealed in the above fragment?
Plyushkin is the last landowner to whom Chichikov comes to buy “dead souls.” How does Plyushkin appear in this episode? At first glance, he is rich, he has many peasants, but at the same time we see him as a bad owner: he even “treats” Chichikov with dust and cobwebs, everything is in disrepair. The landowner is so greedy and stingy that he condemns himself to a miserable existence. In this fragment, Gogol shows how Plyushkin asks for a “splinter” instead of a tallow candle, and is very worried about the fact that there are spaces between the lines on the tiny piece of paper. He is too distrustful of people: he is afraid to leave the house during a trip to the city, he reproaches Mavra for stealing a piece of paper. Everything has become dead in this landowner, and he, the owner of living souls, himself turns into a “dead soul.” At the same time, N. Gogol shows that a “warm ray” can slide across Plyushkin’s “wooden face” - at least a hint of some feeling, the hero has some memories of childhood, of a school friend, and this means that Plyushkin’s soul has not yet completely died.
Reva Tatyana, 11 A class of 2013
8. How is the image of Chichikov’s friend revealed in the above fragment and what means help to reveal this image?
In the given excerpt from the poem “Dead Souls,” the image of the protagonist’s friend Manilov is revealed as “neither this nor that, neither in the city of Bogdan nor in the village of Selifan, according to the proverb” (the method of using folklore wisdom greatly helps Nikolai Vasilyevich in the task at hand).
That is, the reader is presented with an image of a person who belongs to a certain middle stratum of society: “It is much easier to depict large characters... but these gentlemen are terribly difficult for portraits.” To portray a portrait, you need to try to find some “subtle, almost invisible features,” and to portray a character, you need to be a professional “excerpter.”
At the same time, the author introduces an equally significant feature into the description of Manilov - a “ingratiating and acquaintance-seeking” look. Through the technique of gradation (at first the hero will calm down on the interlocutor’s disposition, and then he needs acquaintance) the reader understands all this “saccharineness”, Manilov’s excessive obsession.
9. In what works of Russian literature are provincial landowners represented and in what ways can these characters be compared with Manilov?
1) A. S. Griboedov “Woe from Wit”
In this play, the reader is presented with the “Famusov” society, named after the main character Famusov, a landowner distinguished by his two-faced nature and hostility to education. What are the similarities between Manilov and Famusov? Yes, the fact is that both of them are simply lazy, ready to spend all their time at balls and at feasts, they are hypocritical, that is, in front of certain people - some, in front of others - respectively, others. But these heroes, in addition, have differences: if Famusov’s goal was achieved - rank and honor, then Manilov has no goal as such, and therefore there is nothing to achieve.
2) Goncharov “Oblomov”
In this work, the main character, after whose last name the work was named, Oblomov, appears to the readers as a lazy man (here are the similarities with Manilov!), who just barely calls his servant: “Za-aha-ar!” But if Manilov still gets acquainted with new visitors to the city-province, then Oblomov cannot even arrange his personal life.
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C2.
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C5.
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Why N.V. Does Gogol include “The Tale of Captain Kopeikin” in the text of the poem “Dead Souls”?
Why is Plyushkin the only one of all the landowner characters who has a backstory? (based on N.V. Gogol’s poem “Dead Souls”)?
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N.V. Gogol “The Overcoat” 1842
C1.
What role does a detailed description of the hero play in the composition of Gogol’s work?
Formulate the main idea of the fragment and briefly comment on the critic’s statement: “The famous Bashmachkin remained, in general, a mystery to the reader.”
C2.
In what works of Russian literature is the problem of human dignity expressed and what brings these works closer to Gogol’s “The Overcoat”?
What fantastic element does Gogol use in the story and for what purpose, and which of the Russian writers of the 19th-20th centuries resorted to fantasy in their work?
M.Yu. Lermontov “Hero of Our Time” 1840
C1.
What is the difference and what is the similarity in the explanations that Peorin and Maxim Maksimych give to the tragic events of the story?
Formulate the main theme of the fragment and briefly comment on the researcher’s statement: “Pechorin is not a cruel self-lover, but a thinking and suffering person, who is characterized by an intense spiritual life.”
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What assessment does the hero (and with him the author) give to his generation?
How does Lermontov define his main artistic task in the novel “A Hero of Our Time”?
In what ways are Pechorin and Werner similar and different?
C2.
What works of Russian writers present contradictory, restless heroes and what brings them together with the hero of Lermontov’s novel?
In which classic works of Russian literature does the theme of fate, predestination sound in one way or another, and how do these works relate to Lermontov’s novel “A Hero of Our Time”?
What are the main features of Lermontov’s psychologism and which of the writers can be called the successor of his traditions in depicting the “human soul”?
What are the main ways of depicting the character of the hero in the novel by M.Yu. Lermontov’s “Hero of Our Time” and which of the Russian writers of the 19th century continued this tradition?
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C5.
For what purpose did the author of the novel “A Hero of Our Time” violate the chronological order of its chapters?
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A.N. Ostrovsky, “Thunderstorm” 1859
C1.
For what purpose does A.N. Does Ostrovsky include in the text of the play “The Thunderstorm” Kuligin’s story about the city of Kalinov and its inhabitants?
How does this fragment reveal the dysfunction of family relations in the Kabanovs’ house?
How are Boris and Tikhon similar? Expand your position.
C2.
In the works of which Russian writers (poets, playwrights) does the theme of the city arise and in what ways are these works consonant with Ostrovsky’s play “The Thunderstorm”?
Which works of Russian classics, touching on the problems of relationships between generations, are close to the play by A.N. Ostrovsky and with what?
What caused Katerina’s protest in the drama “The Thunderstorm” and in what works of Russian literature of the 19th century are rebel heroes depicted?
What dramatic means and how do they help the author reveal the characters in the given fragment?
C5.
What ideological load do the final scenes of A.N.’s play carry? Ostrovsky's "Thunderstorm"?
Play by A.N. Ostrovsky's "The Thunderstorm" - the story of the tragic fate of a woman or a socio-political drama?
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Why did Ostrovsky introduce the last act into the play “The Thunderstorm”, and not end it with the scene of Katerina’s repentance?
Why is the play by A.N. Ostrovsky's "Thunderstorm" opens with a picture of the Volga landscape?
Katerina and Varvara: antipodes or “friends in misfortune”? (Based on the play “The Thunderstorm” by A.N. Ostrovsky).
I.A. Goncharov, “Oblomov” 1859
C1.
Why is the chapter “Oblomov’s Dream” included in the novel?
What is the difference, and what do you think are the similarities between the characters of the servant and the master?
Name the means of psychologism that Goncharov uses in the novel, and comment on the words of V.G. Korolenko, who claimed that the author “of course, mentally denied Oblomovism, but inwardly loved it unconsciously with deep love.”
What is the difference between the characters of the hero and heroine and how did it determine their future fate?
C2.
What is similar to the novel “Oblomov” in other works of Russian classics, in which the theme of “failed love” is heard? (when comparing, indicate works and authors)
What is similar to the novel “Oblomov” in other works of Russian classics, in which “paired” images of servant and master are found?
Tell us, what does Oblomov have in common with “extra people” (Onegin, Pechorin...)?
Which of the heroes of Russian classics is close to Oblomov and how can their commonality be explained?
C5.
How do you understand the phenomenon of “Oblomovism”? (Based on the novel by I.A. Goncharov “Oblomov”)
Do you think Oblomov’s image is a static or dynamic image? (Based on the novel of the same name by A.I. Goncharov).
Features of the genre and composition of the novel “Oblomov”.
Was Dobrolyubov right when he claimed that “a significant part of Oblomov resides in each of us” (based on Goncharov’s novel of the same name)?
Why does Oblomov, lying aimlessly on the sofa, call all his visitors “unhappy” people? (Based on the novel by I.A. Goncharov “Oblomov”)
How does Dead Souls reveal the problem of the relationship between the artist and the crowd?
At the beginning of the 7th chapter of the poem “Dead Souls” N.V. Gogol reflects on the relationship between the artist and the crowd.
The author compares two types of writers. One of them is a sublime romantic who passes by “boring, disgusting characters, striking with their sad reality” and never changes “the sublime structure of his lyre.” Such an artist is favored by the reading public, he has the great fame of “world poet”. But such is not the fate of the realist writer, the satirist, who dared to “call out” “all the terrible, stunning mud of little things that entangle our lives, all the depth of cold, fragmented, everyday characters.” This artist will not receive worldwide recognition, the public will not appreciate his creations, and will consider them “insignificant and low.” The author reflects with bitter feeling on the tragic fate of the realist satirist and his spiritual loneliness.
Of course, in this lyrical digression Gogol writes about himself. All these principles of reflecting reality are reflected in the poem “Dead Souls”, in which the writer deeply explores the characters and elements of Russian life. Gogol's authorial position is quite definite: emphasizing the typicality of the images he creates, he deeply and subtly explores the environment that gave birth to them. The writer gives us all the details of the characters' lives, scrupulously describes rooms, things, and everyday details. So, for example, he draws in detail a portrait of Manilov, his estate, landscape, lunch, and gives us details of his way of life. All this helps him to reveal the inner world of the hero, to most fully describe the character, to reproduce the type of an idle dreamer, an indefinite, inert person. And this is how the author explores almost each of the characters.
To a certain extent, these descriptions are predetermined by the genre originality of the work (Gogol called “Dead Souls” a poem, and the epic style was noted by many researchers). But the principles of realism that the author follows also play an important role. We can consider the poem “Dead Souls” to be a realistic work, since the writer follows the principle of historicism in it (the subject of research is modern life), typical characters are given in typical circumstances, and certain means of satirical typification are also used (referring to the hero’s past, author’s characteristics, hyperbole etc.). Hyperbole and grotesque are the most important elements of N.V.’s style. Gogol, often creating the effect of “twisted” reality. That is why some researchers call his style “fantastic realism.” However, the romantic current is also very noticeable in the poem “Dead Souls”. It makes its way through the author’s lyrical digressions and his thoughts about the future of Russia.
Question: What helps Raskolnikov rise to a “new life”?
Answer: The acceptance of Christian love helps Raskolnikov to be resurrected for a new life.
First answer
Raskolnikov is resurrected for a “new life” by Sonya’s love.
Second answer
Raskolnikov is resurrected for a new life, because his heart is filled with a new feeling. This is not a feeling of emptiness and loneliness. This bright feeling - love “contained endless sources of life for another.” Love gave Raskolnikov new strength to fight the cruel world, the hero acquired a “new” meaning in life.
Third answer
Raskolnikov created an inhuman theory of dividing people into “the mighty of this world” and “trembling creatures”, allowing “blood according to conscience”. Raskolnikov brings his theory to life by killing the old money-lender, but what he did torments him incredibly. He experiences pangs of conscience searing his soul, which suggests that morally he has not completely died. Raskolnikov managed to abandon such a cruel theory with the help of Sonya Marmeladova. Sonya is a bearer of Christian morality; she believes that you need to humble yourself, that you need to start changing the world for the better from yourself. Faced with such a worldview, Raskolnikov gradually changes and is resurrected for a “new life.”
Fourth answer
Raskolnikov is helped to resurrect to a new life by the love and devotion of Sonya Marmeladova, her conviction and unshakable confidence in the truth of Christian values: love for one’s neighbor, self-sacrifice for the sake of a loved one. The fact that Sonya goes to hard labor with him, shares with him all the difficulties and hardships of life in that harsh world, becomes the reason that Raskolnikov believed in the sincerity of her feelings. Moreover, he accepts her values and abandons the ideas that haunt him. It is through her actions and the strength of her feelings that Sonya helps Raskolnikov believe that it is Christian values that help a person survive in a harsh and cruel world.
Possible topics
· How is Plyushkin’s character revealed in the above fragment?
· How are Pechorin and Werner similar and different?
· Why didn’t Natalya Dmitrievna and her husband like Chatsky’s advice?
· How do the statements and behavior of the characters in this fragment help to understand the essence of their characters (the conversation between Bazarov and Arkady)?
· For what purpose does Sophia “invent” and tell her dream? (Griboedov, “Woe from Wit”)
· What are the paradoxes of Pechorin’s personality? (Based on the novel by M.Yu. Lermontov “Hero of Our Time”)
On the Kulikovo field
The river spread out. Flows, lazily sad
And washes the banks.
Above the meager clay of the yellow cliff
The haystacks are sad in the steppe.
Oh, my Rus'! My wife! To the point of pain
We have a long way to go!
Our path is an arrow of the ancient Tatar will
Pierced us through the chest.
Our path is steppe, our path is boundless melancholy,
In your melancholy, oh, Rus'!
And even the darkness - night and foreign -
I'm not afraid.
Let it be night. Let's get home. Let's light up the fires
The steppe distance.
The holy banner will flash in the steppe smoke
And the Khan's saber is steel...
And eternal battle! Rest only in our dreams
Through blood and dust...
The steppe mare flies, flies
And the feather grass crumples...
And there is no end! Miles and steep slopes flash by...
Stop it!
The frightened clouds are coming,
Sunset in the blood!
Sunset in the blood! Blood flows from the heart!
Cry, heart, cry...
There is no peace! Steppe mare
He's galloping!
Question:“How do you understand the problems of A.A.’s poem? Blok “The river spreads out. Flowing, lazily sad”?
Answer:
The poet depicted the historical path of Rus'. History is only a reason to talk about the present of the homeland, its fate. The poet understands that Russia faces numerous trials, but history cannot be stopped. The poet will always be with the Motherland throughout its entire journey.
First answer
Second answer
The poem from the cycle “On the Kulikovo Field” is dedicated to one of the most significant events in Russian history - the Battle of Kulikovo. For the poet, it had not so much military or political, but most of all spiritual significance. A.A. Blok foresaw the onset of a tragic time in Russia, so he turned to the Battle of Kulikovo. This poem is not only about the Battle of Kulikovo, but also about the fate of Russia. The present worries the poet and in the past he looks for answers to his questions.
Third answer
A. Blok’s poem is one of the poems in the cycle “On the Kulikovo Field” - not only about the Battle of Kulikovo, but also about the fate of Russia. Using the image of a galloping steppe mare, the poet depicted the historical path of Rus', in which the Battle of Kulikovo is only one of the great events of Russian history. There are no signs of a historical battle in this poem (although later Blok will name Nepryadva, Don, Mamaia), and this once again confirms that history is only a reason to talk about the present of the homeland, its fate: “And the eternal battle...”, “There is no peace ..." The “steppe mare”, crushing the feather grass, in the poem recalls Gogol’s Rus' – the “three bird”, also rushing to God knows where. The poet understands that numerous trials await Russia (“Frightened clouds are coming, frightened clouds are coming, // Sunset in the blood!”), but history cannot be stopped. The most important thing, it seems to me, is that the poet, for whom Rus' is “My wife!”, will always be with the Motherland along its entire path: “To the point of pain // The long path is clear to us!”
Possible topics
· How does the lyrical hero of V. Mayakovsky’s poem “Lilychka” appear?
· What is the internal state of the lyrical hero waiting for the Beautiful Lady?
· What feelings of the lyrical hero are reflected in A. Tvardovsky’s poem “In Memory of Mother”?
· Why do the poet’s thoughts about saying goodbye to youth, which sound so tragic in S. Yesenin’s poem “I don’t regret, I don’t call, I don’t cry,” end brightly and calmly?
Questions that the expert answers, checking the correctness of your answer (C1, C3)
· Does the graduate give a direct, coherent answer to the question posed?
· Does he formulate his reasonable point of view (if required by the task)?
· Does the graduate make convincing arguments? How deeply does he penetrate into the essence of the author's idea and know how to interpret it?
· Does he confirm his conclusions with the text, does he replace the analysis with a retelling of the text?
· Does it allow for factual errors?
· Does he make speech errors?
Tasks C2, C4 are assessed according to one criterion: “Inclusion of the work in the literary context and persuasiveness of the arguments.”
Response requirements
· Formulating a direct, coherent answer to a question based on the author’s position.
· Involvement of literary context, indicating two works and their authors (in one example, it is acceptable to refer to the work of the author who owns the original text. When indicating the authors, initials are necessary only to distinguish namesakes or relatives, if this is essential for adequate perception of the content of the answer).
· Justification for choosing these works for comparison.
· Convincing comparison of selected works with the proposed text in a given direction of analysis.
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Task C2.
Question. What does the story of the “son of an eagle” in M. Gorky’s story “Old Woman Izergil” make you think about, and which heroes of Russian literature had a sense of superiority over others?
First answer
The story of the eagle's son makes you think about how to love.
Second answer
The story of the “son of an eagle” in M. Gorky’s story makes us think about a person cut off from society, and Lyra turned into a shadow because of his selfishness and pride. The “son of an eagle” was doomed to death by his contempt for people, he put himself above other people and everything was allowed to him, only personal freedom was dear to him. It was an assertion of the right to dominance of the individual opposed to the masses. But free people rejected the individualist - the murderer was condemned to eternal loneliness.
Third answer
The story of the “Son of the Eagle” in M. Gorky’s story “Old Woman Izergil” makes the reader remember such vices inherent in man as pride, contempt, cruelty and individualism. To a certain extent, similar aspects of character can be seen by looking closely at Andrei Balkonsky from the epic novel “War and Peace,” or at Bazarov, the troublemaker in the novel “Fathers and Sons.”
Fourth answer
The legend of Larra from M. Gorky’s story “Old Woman Izergil” touches on the problem of human pride, a sense of superiority over others. The story of the “son of an eagle” encourages the reader to think about man’s place in the world, about man’s place among people. Of course, a person must love, respect himself, understand his own importance, but at the same time he must maintain respect and love for the people around him, for a person is a particle of the world, and not a being isolated from it. Rising above those around him, a person invariably dooms himself to loneliness, and this is the most terrible fate that can come his way. A sense of personal superiority was inherent in Raskolnikov (“Crime and Punishment” by F.M. Dostoevsky) and Pechorin (“Hero of Our Time” by M.Yu. Lermontov). The fates of these literary heroes were very tragic, which can largely be explained by their isolation from the world and individualism and arrogance.
Possible topics
· In what works of Russian literature are antipodean heroes depicted and in what ways can these heroes be compared with the participants in this scene of “Woe from Wit” (Chatsky - Platon Mikhailovich and Natalya Dmitrievna)?
· In what works of Russian writers of the 19th century do the characters argue with each other and in what ways can their disputes be compared with the dispute between Bazarov and Arkady?
· In what works of Russian literature are images of provincial landowners presented and in what ways can these characters be compared with Plyushkin?
· Which works of Russian classics depict heroes connected by friendly relations, and in what ways can these heroes be compared with Pechorin and Werner?
Task C4.
Question. In what works did Russian writers address the theme of the Motherland and in what ways are these works consonant with the poem by A. A. Blok?
First answer
A.S. repeatedly addressed the theme of the homeland in his work. Pushkin, N.A. Nekrasov, S.A. Yesenin.
Second answer
Many Russian poets addressed the topic of the past and present of Russia: M.Yu. Lermontov in the poems “Motherland” and “Borodino”, A.S. Pushkin in the poems “Poltava”, “The Bronze Horseman”, etc.
Third answer:
Historical events that became the fate of his native land are the themes of Lermontov’s poem “Borodino” and Tvardovsky’s poem “Vasily Terkin”, but the closest person to Blok is undoubtedly N.V. Gogol, who created the image of Rus' in the poem “Dead Souls” - a bird-three, which, like Blok’s “steppe mare,” “rushes at a gallop.”
· In which works of Russian poetry does the theme of love sound and in what ways are these works consonant with V. Mayakovsky’s poem “Lilychka”?
· In the works of which Russian poets were created ideal female images and in what ways are these images consonant with the image of Blok’s Beautiful Lady?
· In what works of Russian literature is the image of a mother created and in what ways are these works close to A. Tvardovsky’s poem “In Memory of the Mother”?
· In what works of Russian poets does the motif of the transience of life sound and in what ways are these works consonant with S. Yesenin’s poem “I don’t regret, I don’t call, I don’t cry...”
Questions that the expert answers to check the correctness of your answer
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