The story “Honor,” written in 1937, is considered by some critics as a kind of narrative about the childhood and youth of the author himself. True, Makarenko gave some features of his parents to the heroes of the story - father and mother Teplov. Makarenko set himself a different goal: he wanted to show how the problem of honor was understood before the revolution and in the first post-revolutionary years, how different classes related to this moral category.