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![]() At the age of 18 he took the literary name, Molnár. ![]() He was born as Ferenc Neumann into an upper middle class Jewish family. His mates do not understand him, push him aside, put him to shame and realize his human greatness only after his death.įerenc Molnár, writer, playwright, journalist is a most significant dramatists and novelists of Hungarian bourgeois literature. Nemecsek is the symbol of self-sacrifice and heroic courage of ordinary people taking responsibility for homeland. It is him, the smallest and the weakest of the boys who decides the “battle”. Yet he feels he has to go as the ground is not a simple playground for him, but HOMELAND. On the day of the battle he lies at home, has a high temperature. During the adventures in the botanical gardens he gets into water three times and goes down with pneumonia. ![]() When the flag of the ground is stolen he decides to get it back. His mates falsely accuse him of being a traitor and put him to shame when they enter his name into the report in small letters: ernő nemecsek, traitor. Our hero is the only private in the Paul Street gang. The ground is a timber yard with huge piles of wood surrounded by blocks of flats at the corner of Paul Street. Two rival gangs of boys fight for their playground in Budapest at the end of the 19 th century: the ones in red shirts and the boys from Paul Street. ![]() Ernő Nemecsek is a skinny, blond boy in the Paul Street gang. ![]()
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