Curious, he opened his laptop. With a few clicks, he found it: GDZ for Literature, 6th Grade.

Maxim realized that the GDZ wasn't a "cheat code" to skip the work—it was a to help him understand. He still used it when he got stuck, but he always made sure his own heart was the one doing the writing.

He realized that if he just copied the GDZ, he wasn't actually learning how to think; he was just learning how to trace. Elena Petrovna wouldn't see Maxim’s ideas; she would see a ghost of an answer.