The role of the family in the story of the fate of man. The theme of human fate in the story "the fate of man" by Sholokhov

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Goals:

• consider the texts of M. Sholokhov's stories "The Mole" and "The Family Man" in order to form the cognitive competence of students;
• consolidate the skills of information technology and communication competencies;
• educate the competence of social interaction and personal self-development.

Lesson type: learning a new topic.

Conduct forms: individual, collective and group.

Methods: problem presentation, partially exploratory.

Equipment: texts of works, schemes: principles of plot construction, plot and composition.

Lesson plan.

I stage. Introduction to the topic:

1. Organizational moment.

2. Setting goals.

3. Understanding the epigraph for the lesson.

II stage. The study of the topic.

1. Work according to the schemes of literary analysis of the work.

2. Compilation of clusters based on the images of literary characters.

III stage. Summarizing.

1. Conclusions on the problem of the lesson.

2. The results of the lesson.

3. Homework.

Preparatory work for the lesson: prepare a message “Attitude

M. Sholokhov to the Cossacks”; read “Don stories” by M. Sholokhov; pay special attention to the stories “Birthmark”, “Family Man”, make clusters according to the images of Nikolka Koshevoy, ataman, Mikishara. (In a “weak” class, these tasks can be given individually)

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Topic: The impact of the civil war on the fate of people.

(Comparative analysis of M.A. Sholokhov’s stories “The Mole” and “The Family Man”)

Problem: How did the civil war affect the fate of people?

Twenties in the picture
Sholokhov is time, irreversible
split the Russian world; this
the era of great grief of the people.
T.R. Gavrish

Plan.

1. The plot and composition of the stories "Birthmark", "Family Man".

2. Dramatic split of the Cossack world based on the images of Nikolka Koshevoy, Ataman and Mikishara.

I stage. Introduction to the topic.

1. Organizing moment.

2. Setting goals. In a “strong” class, students deduce the objectives of the lesson with the help of the teacher. In a “weak” class, the teacher himself sets goals:

Reveal Sholokhov's concept of a civil war;

To consolidate the skills of analyzing a prose work;

Cultivate a sense of compassion, kindness and attention to others.

3. Comprehension of the epigraph. Statement of the problematic question: how do you understand the words of the epigraph? What does T.R. Gavrish write about?

II stage. The study of the topic.

1. Message “M. Sholokhov about the life of the Cossacks in the Don stories”

Teacher - Sincere experience for the fate of the Cossacks M. Sholokhov outlined in many of his works, including in the "Don stories". We will consider these feelings, based on the stories “The Mole” and “The Family Man”. Let's compare the plots of these works. Please describe the plot of the story "Birthmark". (The story uses temporary

(chronicle) principle of plot construction, with digressions into the past (retrospectives). First, we see Nikolka Koshevoy, the squadron commander, who dreams of studying. Then the author shows a small retrospective of Nikolka's childhood, from which we learn about his father, who disappeared during the German war. The storyline is continued by the arrival of a courier who brought a package with a request from the chairman for help and protection from the gang ... etc. The story is told from the perspective of the author.

Why is the story called "The Mole"?

What is the composition of the story? (linear)

And now introduce us to the plot of the story "Family Man".

(The narrator tells about the events that took place during the years of the civil war. His image plays a big role in assessing the image of Mikishara. The plot is based on the temporal principle, characterized by constant flashbacks to the past, as well as a direct chronological sequence of events. We see the hero of the story working on the ferry, a demobilized (narrator) approaches him, with whom Mikishara opened up and spoke about the pain that lies on his soul ... etc.) The composition is linear.

Let's summarize our work.

Output: Although the stories in the structural construction have slight differences, however, they are subject to a common theme: the image of a person in a civil war, the impact of war on relationships between loved ones.

And now let's turn to the story "The Mole" and make clusters according to the images of Nikolka and the chieftain.

When compiling clusters, the following questions are used:

What do Nikolka and his father have in common?

Can we call them “strong personalities”? Why?

What happens when strong personalities collide?

• Nikolka = chieftain
• in a collision, equivalent natures
• destroy each other

Could it have happened differently with Nikolka and the ataman? Let's find the episode of their collision. (The ataman turned his horse ... leaning from the saddle, waved his saber, for a moment felt how the body went limp under the blow and obediently slid to the ground) The father, like the son, was not used to retreating.

And if the chieftain recognized his son? (He would not have killed Nikolka.) Prove it. (- Sonny! .. Nikolushka! .. Dear! .. My little blood ...

Blackened, shouted:

Yes, just say a word! How is it, huh?

He fell, looking into the fading eyes; his eyelids, covered with blood, lifted his limp, supple body, shaking... But Nikolka firmly bit the blue tip of his tongue, as if he was afraid to let it slip about something immeasurably large and important.

Pressing to his chest, the ataman kissed his son's freezing hands and, clenching his teeth

steamed Mauser steel, shot himself in the mouth ...)

Why does Mikishara, unlike the ataman, kill his beloved sons? To answer this question, let's make a cluster in the image of Mikishara.

Why did Mikishara open his soul to a stranger? (You are not your own person, an outsider)

How did Mikishara end up at the front? (Refused to go with his sons, but could not resist strangers at the gathering)

Why is he killing Danilka? Does he feel sorry for his son? (Yes. Telling, he worries. The ellipsis is a sign of restlessness of the soul. But he worries more about himself. After all, “I understood here: if I don’t hit him, then their own farms will kill me, little children will remain bitter orphans ...”)

What reward did Mikishara receive for killing his son? (I was promoted to senior officer for this case)

How did Mikishara feel about the murder of his second son? (... slanting eyes looked hard and impenitently ... If I had let you in, the Cossacks would have killed me, children around the world would have gone to Christ ...)

How do others feel about his victim? (“Too bad with you, dad, sit at the same table!” - says daughter Natasha)

How does the narrator feel about Mikishara? (The narrator rejects Mikishara’s “arithmetic”. “Hanging his head, the ferryman Mikishara looks at me with a heavy, standing look; a muddy dawn curls behind him.” Mikishara has no remorse, for there is no awareness of sin. The hero makes his choice, based on reason, approaching to human lives with quantitative measurements, rejecting God, despising the Christian commandment of love for one's neighbor, drowning out the voice of one's heart.)

What is common and what is the difference between the ataman from the story "The Mole" and Mikishara? (Both are strong, courageous. Getting into the whirlwind of civil war, they kill their children. But if the ataman kills his son out of ignorance, kills him as an enemy on the battlefield, then Mikishara kills his sons purposefully, having come up with an justifying “arithmetic” - “A there are seven of me on benches". Ataman, recognizing a son in the man he killed, repents and pronounces a sentence on himself - death. Mikishara, having killed his sons, lives, works, slightly worries, remembering the past, but does not repent of his deed)

III stage. Summarizing.

And if there had been no civil war, what would have been the fate of the heroes?

Let's answer the problematic question of our lesson: how did the civil war affect the fate of people? (Acute class struggle demarcated not only the Don, the village, the farm, but also the Cossack families. Father and son find themselves on opposite sides of the barricade. Thus, the conflict between red and white more and more gives way to another, more important conflict - between the centuries-old norms of human life and the inhumanity of fratricidal war. The civil war for M. Sholokhov is a catastrophe in which human ties collapse. There are no right and wrong, and therefore there can be no winners )

Lesson results.

Homework: level 3-4 students write a mini-essay on the topic “If there had been no war in the life of Nikolka Koshevoy”; Level 1-2 students describe the image they like.

Sample text of the message “M. Sholokhov about the life of the Cossacks in the Don Stories”

No one conveyed the life of the Cossacks so wonderfully as the great Russian writer Mikhail Sholokhov in his immortal works "Quiet Don", "Virgin Soil Upturned", as well as in "Don Stories". Mikhail Sholokhov himself is a hereditary Cossack, so he was able to preserve the brightness of their speech, imagery, traditions, and wisdom of the people. Mikhail Alexandrovich managed to describe the customs and manners of the Cossacks with maximum accuracy and incredible interest. It is very painful to read about what happened to the Cossacks after the revolution, when continuous destruction of the way of life begins, both from whites and from reds. Human destinies are collapsing, people are dying, the quiet Don begins to split. Some from the neighborhood go for the reds, others for the whites. The unity of the Cossacks is breaking down and it is very disappointing to watch all this, because this rift has hooked their souls.

The young writer Mikhail Sholokhov began his work on Don Stories in 1923. And already at the end of this year, his first stories are published, in which an acute tragedy is outlined, while his stories were not devoid of melodramatic elements. Most of these stories (nineteen in total) were included in the collection "Don Stories", which was published in 1926, and the collection "Azure Steppe", which was an addition to the first collection, was also released in 1926. There were only three stories in this collection: “A Family Man”, “Azure Steppe” and “Alien Blood”. Ultimately, the cycle consisted of 27 stories.

In the Don stories of M. Sholokhov there is no poetization of death, which is typical for romantic poems about the heroes of the revolution. In Sholokhov, people die ugly simply. The heroes of the Don stories do not indulge in sublime thoughts, they talk about their own - sometimes everyday and completely unpoetic. Such is life, but it is precisely such that it is beautiful for Sholokhov. He could repeat the words of L. Tolstoy: "The hero of my story ... who has always been, is and will be beautiful is true."

His first story "The Mole" was published in 1924 in the magazine "Young Leninist". He represented a kind of figurative epigraph to the entire cycle of his stories. In his stories, Sholokhov tries to describe the pre-war life of the Don Cossacks. At that time, few people understood what they were, the Cossacks. The writer decided to show everyone the whole world of special habits, norms of behavior and psychology, the world of the most complex human relationships. "Don stories" - the dramatic fate of the Don Cossacks during the First World War and the Civil War. All stories are united by the place of action - the events unfold in the open spaces of the Don. The pages of the works are thickly saturated with blood, and the blood of the closest relatives: “Brother against brother”, “son against father”, “father against son” rise up in the most literal sense. Many of the heroes of the stories are real people, mostly residents of the Kargina farm. But Sholokhov sharpens all the events, exaggerates: death, blood, torment, hunger, torture is presented in an exclusively naturalistic way.

Very accurately, sociologically, Sholokhov draws two main types of people into which the Cossacks, reflected in his stories, were divided at that time. The first type represents the majority and is most often the fathers, rooted in tradition, in the meager economy acquired by generations, serving, first of all, for the well-being of their family and the continuation of the clan, work and tradition. These are vigorous and indigenous Cossacks, such as the father of the food commissar Bodyagin (“Food commissar”), who drove his fourteen-year-old son out of the house after being shot with the consent of his father. There are many such hosts, unrestrained in anger, who are ready to wash away the insult with blood for an encroachment on their way of life and values.

If for the elders their traditions and the age-old father-grandfather way of life are sacred, then the young oppose all this, try to break and destroy this way of life. These are orphans or younger sons who take the side of the Bolsheviks. They stop going to church, being baptized into icons before eating, and instead run to the club, to Komsomol meetings. This is represented by the twenty-year-old Fyodor (“Bakhchevnik”), who dreams of universal equality. The fight against the younger and disobedient generation can be carried out only with the help of one method: strictly - "Chop the sick branch without regret." And it was under this slogan that bloody crimes were committed against the younger generation.

The heroes of the "Don Stories" do not indulge in lofty dreams, their language is quite simple everyday and not at all poetic. Also in these stories there are no doubting heroes, those who have chosen the “third way”. The writer draws his pictures only in black and white, soaked in red blood, and there can be no intertones.

Human fate can be quite difficult, this is clearly evidenced by the story written by Mikhail Sholokhov “The Fate of a Man”.

It seems that nothing boded trouble for Andrei Sokolov, the protagonist of the work. He lived, like, indeed, all people in the pre-war period, got a family, built housing, worked, when suddenly all these peaceful phenomena of his life collapsed in an instant with the outbreak of war.

Parting with his wife and children, he did not yet know what a hellish stage of life was prepared for him. When Sokolov was captured, he faced human heartlessness, in the form of fascist soldiers, humanity, but in the form of a military doctor, betrayal, in the form of Kryzhnev, gratitude, in the form of a platoon. Having given tests in difficult conditions, fate tempered the character and will of the protagonist. He was several times on the verge of death, but still survived, experienced unbearable suffering from the loss of his entire family, and still retained his strength and kindness, because he was looking forward to taking care of an orphaned boy.

The story describes how strong the spirit of the Soviet soldier was. During the entire time he was in Nazi captivity, he dreamed of only one thing: to escape from this hell as soon as possible. Despite the fact that the first escape was unsuccessful, the spirit of Andrei Sokolov did not break, although he was severely beaten by the Germans, and also beaten by dogs. The spirit of the Russian hero did not break even before the execution, when the commandant of the camp Muller wanted to shoot him because Sokolov dared to speak out about too hard work. The fascist wanted to humiliate the fighter of the Soviet army, offering Andrei to drink vodka for a quick victory for Germany. But when Sokolov refused, he offered him an "alternative option": to drink to his own death. The behavior of the Soviet soldier impressed the commandant, he let him live and gave him food, which Andrei Sokolov hurried to share with other prisoners of war.

The thought of his family: his wife, son and daughters never left him, it was she who made him not lose heart in the most difficult periods of his life. Once on the territory of Germany, he carried out his plan and fled, reaching the Soviet military along with the "language". Now, a meeting with his beloved and children was supposed to happen, but fate again turned out to be merciless: Sokolov's wife and daughters died during the bombing, and his son went to fight at the front. Despite such sad news, Andrei's soul remained hopeful of meeting Anatoly, but his son also died tragically at the front.

From such events, any person can go crazy with grief, it could have happened with Sokolov, he began to drink. However, the meeting with the little boy Vanyushka changed his life dramatically. Noticing a lonely child, Sokolov could not stand it, he hurried to get acquainted with the baby. Upon learning that the child is an orphan, Andrei introduced himself as his father. How much courage it took to take such a step! It already seemed to Andrei that his life was over, he was only eking out a miserable existence: his family had died, there were no relatives ... And then suddenly there was such a sharp turn in fate. From now on, he has a new meaning of life, a little man, for whom he is now responsible.

The story makes you think that the spirit of a person is the most important and strongest component of his personality, it is he who keeps a person in all the sad vicissitudes of fate.

The peculiarity of M. Sholokhov is that his books are firmly embedded in the memory, they are not forgotten, no matter what situation you are in, no matter what you think about, no matter how hard or easy it is for you.

Y. Bondarev

Mikhail Sholokhov is one of the few Russian writers whose work still attracts the attention of millions of different people, causing controversy both in literary and philistine circles. As a simple reader, I would probably explain this by the fact that M. Sholokhov raised too large layers of life in his works, posed and resolved serious philosophical and moral problems. In all the works of this writer, in one context or another, the interweaving of two main themes is traced: the theme of man and the theme of war.

In The Fate of a Man, M. Sholokhov again and again reminds the reader of the innumerable disasters that the Great Patriotic War brought to the Russian people, of the resilience of the Soviet man, who withstood all the torments - physical and spiritual - and did not break. The story "The Fate of a Man" appeared at the end of 1956.

Russian literature has not known such a rare phenomenon for a long time, when a relatively small work becomes an event. Readers' letters flowed in. Sholokhov's story about irreparable losses, about terrible grief was permeated with boundless faith in life, faith in the spiritual strength of the Russian people. In The Destiny of Man, with the utmost clarity, truth, and genuine depth, the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe feat of arms of the people is embodied, admiration for the courage of ordinary people, whose moral foundations became the backbone of the country during the years of difficult trials, is expressed.

The story "The Fate of a Man" is written in the usual Sholokhov manner: the plot is based on vivid psychological episodes. Seeing off to the front, captivity, first meeting with the Germans on the road, an attempt to escape, explanations with Muller, a second escape, news of the family, news of the son. Such rich material would be enough for a whole novel, but Sholokhov managed to fit it into a short story. "The Fate of a Man" was the discovery of that genre form, which could conditionally be called "story-epopee".

The plot of "The Fate of a Man" by M. Sholokhov was based on a real story told to the author in the first post-war year, on the day of a big spring flood, by a simple driver who had just returned from the war. There are two voices in the story: Andrey Sokolov is “leading” - the main character, he talks about his life. The second voice is the voice of the author, listener, random interlocutor.

Andrei Sokolov's voice in the story is a frank confession. He told a stranger about his whole life, threw out everything that he had kept in his soul for years. Surprisingly unmistakably found landscape background for the story of Andrei Sokolov. The junction of winter and spring. When it's still cold and already warm. And it seems that only here, only in such circumstances, the story of the life of a Russian soldier could sound with breathtaking frankness of confession.

This man had a hard time in life. First, he goes to the front, leaving his wife and children at home, then he is captured by the Nazis with inhuman conditions of existence.

How many humiliations, insults, beatings Andrei Sokolov had to experience in captivity. But he had a choice, he could have secured a more tolerable life for himself by agreeing to serve German officers, to inform on his own comrades. But this did not happen, Andrei Sokolov remained true to himself, did not drop the honor and dignity of the Russian soldier, became a model of stamina and courage in the terrible years of the war.

Once, while working in a quarry, Andrey Sokolov inadvertently spoke about the Germans. He knew that someone would definitely inform, betray him. His statement cannot be called just a reckless remark thrown at the enemy, it was a cry from the heart: “Yes, one square meter of these stone slabs is even a lot for the grave of each of us.”

A well-deserved reward for such fortitude of the soul was the opportunity to see the family in Voronezh. But, having arrived home, Andrey Sokolov learns that his family has died, and in the place where his native house stood, there is a deep pit filled with rusty water and overgrown with weeds. That, it would seem, is all that remains in the life of Andrei Sokolov - weeds and rusty water, but he learns from neighbors that his son is fighting at the front. But here, too, fate did not spare the grief-stricken man: Andrei's son dies in the last days of the war, when the long-awaited victory was within easy reach.

The second voice of Sholokhov's story - the voice of the author - helps us not only to experience, but also to comprehend a separate human life as a phenomenon of an entire era, to see in it the universal content and meaning. But in Sholokhov's story, another voice sounded - a sonorous, clear childish voice, which seemed not to know the full measure of all the troubles and misfortunes that fall to the human lot. Appearing at the beginning of the story so carefree-voiced, he then leaves, this boy, in order to become a direct participant in the final scenes, the protagonist of a high human tragedy.

The meaning of the story "The fate of man" is enormous. M. Sholokhov never forgot what wars cost and what indelible marks they leave in the souls of people. In The Destiny of a Man, the humanistic condemnation of the war, of the fascist regime, resounds not only in the history of Andrei Sokolov. With no less force of the curse, it is heard in the story of Vanyusha.

The war ended, Andrei Sokolov continued to travel on the roads. All that remains in the life of this man are memories of the family and a long, endless road. Fate is sometimes very unfair, a person lives, and his only dream is simple human happiness, happiness in the circle of loved ones. But life cannot consist of only black stripes. The fate of Andrei Sokolov brought him together with a cheerful little boy of six years old, as lonely as himself, the same grain of sand, abandoned by the hurricane of war to the land of loneliness and sorrow.

No one needed a grubby boy Vanyatka covered in dust from head to toe. Only Andrei Sokolov took pity on the orphan, adopted Vanyusha, gave him all his unspent father's love. In the image of M. Sholokhov, this episode seems especially touching, the words of Vanyatka, addressed to Sokolov, forever sunk into my soul: “Who are you?”. Amazed Andrei Sokolov, without thinking twice, answered: “I, and I, Vanya, are your father!”

And what an indestructible force of good, the beauty of the soul is revealed to us in Andrei Sokolov, in the way he treated the orphan. He returned joy to Vanyushka, defended him from pain, suffering and sorrow.

It was a feat, a feat not only in the moral sense of the word, but also in the heroic one. It was here, in Andrei Sokolov's attitude to childhood, to Vanyusha, that humanism won its greatest victory. He triumphed over the anti-humanity of fascism, over destruction and loss - the inevitable companions of war. He conquered death itself!

You read M. Sholokhov's story "The Fate of a Man" and as if you see how a man in soldier's boots, awkwardly mended, burnt out protective trousers, in a soldier's padded jacket that has burnt out in several places, rises above the world. In each part of the story, the author allows the reader to especially clearly see more and more new sides of Andrei Sokolov's character. We get to know a person in various spheres of life: family, soldier, front-line, in relations with comrades, in captivity, etc.

M. Sholokhov focuses the reader's attention not only on the episode of Sokolov's meeting with the orphan Vanya. The scene in the church is also very colorful. The cruel Germans shot a man only because he asked to go out into the street so as not to desecrate the shrine, God's temple.

In the same church, Andrey Sokolov kills a man. But not in the way that real cold-blooded killers do - he saved another person from the inevitable execution (the Germans killed all communists and Jews). Sokolov killed a coward who, for the sake of his own peace of mind, was ready to betray his immediate commander.

Andrey Sokolov endured so much in his life, but he was not broken, he did not become embittered at fate, at people, at himself, he remained a man with a kind soul, a sensitive heart, capable of pitying, loving and compassionate. Fortitude, tenacity in the struggle for life, the spirit of courage and camaraderie - all these qualities not only remained unchanged in the character of Andrei Sokolov, but also multiplied.

M. Sholokhov teaches humanism. This concept cannot be turned into a beautiful word. Indeed, even the most sophisticated critics, speaking on the topic of humanism in the story "The Fate of a Man", speak of a great moral feat, of the greatness of the human soul. Joining the opinion of critics, I would like to add one thing: you need to be a great personality, a real person, in order to be able to endure all the grief, misfortune, tears, separation, death of relatives, the pain of humiliation and insults and not become after that a beast with a predatory look and an eternally embittered soul, but to remain a person with an open mind and a kind heart.

The family occupies an important place in the life of every person, but it is of particular importance for those people who lost their loved ones early, know what it means to remain orphans, and therefore strive at all costs to create their own corner of love and comfort on earth. It was precisely this meaning that the family had for Andrei Sokolov, the protagonist of Mikhail Sholokhov's story "The Fate of a Man" (1956).

This man lost his relatives early: the mother, father and sister of the hero died of starvation even when Andrei was very young. Returning from the Kuban, where he "stuck on his fists", the man soon married the same "orphan", like himself, Irina. He got a good wife: "... meek, cheerful, obsequious and clever ...".

Irina was really very wise, since she knew from childhood “how much a pound is worth,” since she was brought up in an orphanage. The girl always treated her husband affectionately, never scolded or reproached him. That is why Andrei Sokolov was very fond of his "Irinka" and for him there was no woman in the world "more beautiful and desirable than her."

Soon the young couple had children: first the eldest son, and then two daughters. Andrey had a good job, so he and his wife built a nice house and got a farm. The kids grew up and then went to school. This period was the happiest in the life of Andrei Sokolov, but then the war began.

Soon the man received a summons from the draft board, and it was time to go to the front. It was hard for Andrei to part with his beloved family. His heart was breaking with pity for his wife, who said goodbye to him as if seeing her husband for the last time. He looked with bitterness at his "orphaned", huddled together children.

Being at the front, and then in German captivity, the hero did not forget about his family for a moment. In his thoughts, he talked all the time with his wife and children, and this is what gave him the strength to survive and go through all the hell of the fascist camps.

Returning to his homeland, the first thing a man does while in the hospital is writing a letter to his wife, but he has to wait a very long time for an answer to this message. The hero is so worried that he cannot even eat or sleep: he feels trouble in his heart.

And indeed, a terrible tragedy happened to the family of Andrei Sokolov: a bomb fell on the house where Irina and her daughters were. When the hero finds out about this, his eyes darken, and his heart shrinks into a ball. The man cannot even finish reading the letter with the terrible news to the end, and simply “rests” on the bed.

All hopes and dreams of a happy, calm future with a wife and children for the hero collapse in one moment. Even many years after the tragedy, it is so difficult for Andrei Sokolov to remember this event that he interrupts his story, and then in a completely “different, intermittent and quiet” voice asks the author to “smoke” with him.

A person must have amazing courage in order to find the strength to survive the death of loved ones and not become isolated in his grief, and Andrei Sokolov manages to cope with himself. Soon he learns that his son Anatoly, who went to the front, is alive and well. Joyful "old man's dreams" immediately awaken in the hero.

But life again prepares a new blow for Andrey Sokolov: Anatoly "accurate" on Victory Day is killed by a German sniper. It is difficult to describe in words what the hero could feel when he buried “his last joy and hope in a foreign, German land.”

It seems that after such a blow, the man will definitely not be able to recover, but the hero still manages to find a new meaning for himself: he takes the orphaned boy Vanya "to his children". Thus, Andrey Sokolov regains his family, and this allows him to remember what love is, and to feel that he is not alone in this world.

The main storyline of the story is the military and post-war life of Andrei Sokolov. But the author gives an important role to the family theme.

V. A. Sukhomlinsky, a Soviet innovative teacher, said that family life, perhaps, is never a continuous holiday. Know how to share not only joys, but also grief, misfortune, misfortune.

Andrei Sokolov begins his story from the moment he met the girl who became his first and only wife.

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He talks a little about her external data, but this phrase alone is enough to understand his tender, reverent attitude towards the chosen one. “Looking from the side - she was not so prominent from herself, (100) but I didn’t look at her from the side, but point-blank.” He himself realizes and without concealment admits that meeting such a girl is a great success: “A meek, cheerful, obsequious and clever, not like me.” In a surge of feelings, overflowing with sweet memories, he even reveals to the author a little personal, domestic life of his spouse. And from the story it is clear that Irina had to see Andrei different, but she remained faithful to him alone, which is a clear proof of devoted love.

"Soon we had children." And in the life of the protagonist, a new stage begins, the stage of taking decisive steps, taking responsibility into one's own hands. There were three children in the family, but even here the author pays more attention to the eldest, Anatoly. And for good reason: after all, it is he who will still appear in the fate of Andrei during the war.

One of the most touching scenes of the story, like the lives of those people, is the farewell to the front. With the main character, his whole family comes to the station. The situation is more than heavy, sad. The author shows, but does not focus on the feelings of children: “... the daughters - not without that, tears sparkled. Anatoly only twitched his shoulders, as if from cold ... ”But a whole scene unfolds between husband and wife, filled with tragedy and bitterness. The pity of disappointment, pain, tenderness - everything is mixed up in Andrei's soul, and in this confusion he does something for which he will reproach himself for the rest of his life. "Why did I push her away? The heart is still, as I remember, as if they are cut with a blunt knife ... ". And for a long time the family for the protagonist remains only in letters and memoirs.

The war has passed, but Andrei Sokolov does not share the happiness of the peace that has come. All his relatives, all those whom he loved and appreciated, died. Having completely lost the meaning of life, he drearily spends his everyday life at work, living only with thoughts about the past. Well, fate is not indifferent to Andrey: it presents him with a new chance, a chance to open a new leaf and start again. He meets Vanyushka, a small, deeply lonely boy. And they find in each other a reflection of themselves. Andrey becomes a father for him not only because of pity, but also because this boy, like an angel descended from heaven, helped him cleanse his soul and begin to live a full life.

Updated: 2017-11-09

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