Alan Marshall: Lessons of Courage

Alan Marshall was born, like every child, to run, jump, fun to play with peers. And it turned out differently. Life has developed in such a way that every movement was a conquest and a feat. And he never interfered with his suffering to others. On the contrary, all his life gave lessons of courage and fortitude Alan Marshall. His biography is the history of a man with an honest, courageous view of reality and a sense of the joy of being.

Childhood

It is described in the most famous book, which is called "I can jump over puddles". The boy hurried to appear in the light. He almost overtook the midwife who arrived at the last moment. Everyone was waiting for him: two sisters, mother and father. This happened on May 2, 1902 in Australia, in the Western District of Victoria, in Nurata. The father, seeing his son, immediately said that it would be a runner and a rider, because his legs are strong. Alan Marshall himself thought as long as he was a baby, that he would ride a horse and cope with any horse.

School and disease

Soon after the child started going to school, a polio epidemic broke out. It is now for all children to make him vaccinated. Then they simply did not exist. Alan Marshall fell ill at 6 years old and was never able to recover physically from him. After spending eighteen months in the hospital, he became an invalid, whose destiny - bed and crutches. While he was recovering, he recited adventure books and comic books. He rejected all attempts to patronize him and aspired to do as much as possible himself. Father and mother encouraged all the aspirations of the child, especially that he wanted to share all the activities and activities of his classmates. Alan, with his healthy boyish perception of the world, did not have the feeling that he was exceptional, that he was a small cripple. With the school enemy, he fought on sticks, climbed into the crater of an extinct volcano, learned to swim and ride. Before you are stubborn stubborn Alan Marshall (biography). The photo below presents our attention to him with the horse he learned to manage. His illiterate father had an exceptional pedagogical talent. Parents did not seek consolation in religion and did not obey the "will of God." The father taught his little son to be involved in everything, which, it would seem, was denied him by destiny, and also to empathize and benefit. Alan and the driver, who took him on a long trip to the lumberjacks, did not offend Alan's pity. His friend Joe's mother also did not notice Alan's crutches. Do not groan over the crippled and wandering seasonal workers, swags. Everything in the people's environment taught Alan to rely on everything in himself and be able to reach out to someone who is in trouble.

Becoming

The young man dreamed of becoming a writer, but the knowledge that he got in a rural school and business college was not enough. And nobody wanted to take Marshall's work with paralyzed legs. Therefore, he was glad to become a clerk in the municipality with beggarly earnings, and an accountant at a shoe factory, and a night watchman. But everything that he saw and heard, as well as his reflections, Alan Marshall wrote down in notebooks. Over time, they accumulated about a hundred. In the thirties, a wave of crisis swept the country, mass layoffs took place, and the unemployed were imprisoned. Newspapers that came out daily did not publish Alan's reports about the disadvantaged. "Pictures from the life of the proletarian" was placed by himself only one newspaper where the journalist wrote about the sweatshop system at the factories "General Motors", as well as articles against war and fascism and in support of the republic in Spain. At thirty-seven, Marshall becomes editor in a small magazine with an anti-fascist orientation, and then he is elected chairman of the League of Writers.

Marriage

Met Olivia Dixon in 1937 Alan Marshall. Personal life was gradually arranged. They were married on May 30, 1941 in Melbourne. There were two daughters in this marriage. His wife hardly understood his energetic activity. Alan drove on the roads of Australia first in a covered cart, which was harnessed by horses, and in the mid-forties in a car that was equipped with elaborate belts for control. The upper half of the body was athletic, but they brought absolutely withered legs. The right had to be amputated. In 1957, after the publication of his best novel about childhood, his wife broke up with him shortly before her death. Then Alan lived alone and wrote in newspapers (he had his own column) for women whose lives were broken by their drinking husbands.

Conclusion

Marshall believed that all our positive qualities stem from the ills that have happened to us. All his life he saw him consisting of peaks and plains, and the writer's task was to show that the peaks are attainable. He was an ardent defender of the disabled. He wrote thousands of letters to disabled children, encouraging them to follow their dreams and not give up. In 1972, he received the Order of Britain for his services to disabled people, in 1981 he was awarded the Order of Australia for his services in literature. In 1964, Marshall first visited our country, and later became president of the society "Australia-USSR".

Alan Marshall's life-loving work proves to everyone that a person has no right to bow under the blows of fate. The writer died in 1984, when he turned 81 years old.