Target: show students how the problem of childhood is solved in Pavel Sanaev's story.
During the classes
1. A short message from a student about Pavel Sanaev.
2. Question to the class: What is this story about? (About childhood).
3. Remember which of the Russian writers addressed this topic. S.T. Aksakov, N.G. Garin-Mikhailovsky, L.N. Tolstoy, A.M. Bitter).
4. Teacher.
- Childhood is the happiest time in a person's life and very important. I asked you to find the statements of famous people confirming this idea.
- Childhood is that magnificent time of life when the foundation is laid for the whole future of a moral person. (Sheldunov N.A.)
- Children should live in a world of beauty, games, fairy tales, music, creativity, fantasy. (V.A. Sukhomlinsky).
5. Question to the class: Can we say that the hero of the story had a happy childhood? (You can hardly say that.)
6. Question to the class: Why can't we say that the hero had a happy childhood? (Separated from his mother, heavy atmosphere in the family).
7. Question to the class: What is the reason for the difficult atmosphere in the family? The difficult atmosphere in the family is connected with the difficult character of the grandmother and her unbalanced mental state.
8. Question to the class: How can you determine the relationship of a grandmother to her grandson? (She loves him, but with a strange love. Her love combines rudeness, harshness, swearing with kindness and care).
9. Assignment to the class: Give examples showing the different attitudes of a grandmother towards her grandson. (A rough, harsh manner of communication: “I wish they all died and you along with them”; “Oh, cattle. I nailed all my coats. They would have nailed your soul like that,” etc. Painful concern for the health of the grandson. The story with the tape recorder speaks of that the grandmother is trying to bring joy to her grandson.)
10. Question to the class: Why is my grandmother such a difficult and mentally unstable character. What is it connected with? (This is related to the grandmother's past.)
11. Question to the class: What can you say about your grandmother's past? ( She dreamed of becoming an actress, but became a secretary, and then a housewife.)
War. Evacuation. Death of a young son.
The birth of a daughter after the war. The daughter was constantly ill, and the grandmother was very afraid of losing her. A neighbor in the apartment wrote denunciations about everyone, and my grandmother was afraid that she would be arrested. Psychiatric hospital: they decided that my grandmother had a persecution mania. She returned from the hospital, in her words, “crippled mentally deranged.
Chapter "Quarrel" With. 177–183
12. Question to the class: How such a character of the grandmother affected the grandson. Prove it. (Trying to adjust to life with grandma.)
13. Question to the class: And how did grandfather treat grandmother? (Grandfather was not easy with his wife, but he understood the reasons for such a state of his wife).
Chapter "Quarrel", With. 190
14. Question to the class: What choice did the grandmother give her daughter? (The grandmother put her daughter before a choice: a child or a beloved man. The grandmother did not love her daughter's husband and could not forgive her for exchanging her child for a dwarf.)
Chapter "The Plague", With. 246.
15. Question to the class: Which of the heroines of Russian classical literature faced the same choice? (Anna Karenina).
16. Question to the class: What can you say about the mother of Sasha Savelyev, the main character? (She loves her son very much. But she has a weak character.)
17. Question to the class: What is the weakness of the mother's character? (She cannot stand up to her mother and take her son with her.)
18. Question to the class: How does the hero feel about his mother? (He loves her very much. The happiest moments for a boy are when his mother comes to him and he can play with her, talk to her. Sasha called his mother lovingly Plague.)
Chapter "The Plague", With. 206.
19. Question to the class: After Sasha realized that he would forever live with Plague, the following conversation took place between him and his mother.
“Mom,” I asked. – Were you offended when I said that I wanted to live with my grandmother?
- What you! I understand that you said this for me so that we would not swear.
- I didn't say it for you. I said because you would have left and I would have stayed. I'm sorry.
How can you explain these words of Sasha? (Living with his grandmother, Sasha learned to adapt and say things that are not what he thinks).
20. Question to the class: What is the tragedy of the grandmother? (A serious conflict with her daughter, whom she, one might say, hates. Grandfather does not communicate with her much, Sasha does not love her, and, as it turns out at the end, she understands this, Grandmother is a lonely and sick person).
21. Question to the class: What, from your point of view, is the most tragic scene in the story? (The most tragic scene is when a grandmother stands at the door of her daughter’s apartment and does not ask, but begs to return her grandson. Her words sound tragic: “Do you think I don’t see which of us he loves? If only he looked at me like at you looks, if only once he hugged me like that. It won't happen to me, it's not meant to be! And how can I come to terms with this when I myself love him) ”
Chapter "The Plague", With. 266.
22. Question to the class: It was not easy for everyone with their grandmother. But did everyone cry when they buried her? Why? (Grandmother was a part of the life of all the heroes of the story. Maybe each of the heroes believed that he was to blame for something before his grandmother.)
23. Question to the class: How do you understand the meaning of the title of the story? (Sasha could never be with his mother as much as he wanted. He could not communicate with her when he wanted. He, living with his grandmother, was always afraid of losing his mother. The expression “Bury me behind the baseboard” is metaphorical. It means, it seems to me , the desire of the child to always be near the mother, always feel her love.)
24. The final word of the teacher.
Sasha often asked himself why, left alone with life, he should be at one with it; why life forbids loving mother... why grandmother is life, and mother is a rare happiness.
“There was life next to me both in the morning and before going to bed, and happiness could only wait and touch it.”
When his mother takes Sasha home at the end of the story, he cannot believe that now happiness can become life.
I wish you that your happiness always coincides with life.
Pages are cited according to the text: Pavel Sanaev "Bury me behind the plinth." LLC Astrel Publishing House 2007.
Do you want to look at the world through the eyes of a cunning and lively little boy who lives in the strict rules of his grandmother? Read the extraordinary story of Pavel Sanaev "Bury me behind the plinth". Isn't it a tempting name? This book was nominated for the Booker Prize. The book market just exploded with the advent of this story. A summary of "Bury me behind the plinth" will show you how difficult it is with loved ones. Adults do not think about their words, actions that affect the state of mind and the formation of the character of the child.
Autobiographical book
The story "Bury me behind the plinth" Sanaev wrote for a reason. It tells the story of his childhood. Mother and father divorced, Pavel had to live with his grandmother Lida. Mom at that time was trying to establish a life with a new man, who turned out to be the famous director and actor Rolan Bykov.
The grandmother had a very imperious character, in every possible way prevented her grandson from meeting with his mother and stepfather. The tyrannical upbringing was unbearable. Once, a mother accidentally ran to her son when he was alone at home, and took him to her. All this month in the family of his mother and stepfather, Pavel was simply happy. But his grandmother brought him back by force. The boy had to live with her for another four long years. Rolan Bykov greatly influenced the formation of the character of Pavel, so Sanaev dedicated his book to him.
Main characters
Sanaev's book "Bury me behind the plinth" had many theatrical performances and adaptations. The main characters of the story are associated with real people. Meet the main characters:
- eight-year-old boy Sasha Savelyev;
- Olga - Sasha's mother;
- Nina Antonovna - the boy's grandmother;
- Semyon Mikhailovich - Sasha's grandfather;
- uncle Tolya - stepfather.
Summary of "Bury me behind the plinth"
The story is told from the perspective of a little boy Sasha Savelyev. He lives with his grandmother and grandfather, an actor. The grandmother protects the boy from his mother, whom she considers frivolous. Sasha's mother lives with another man. Nina Antonovna sets her grandson against her mother and stepfather in every possible way in order to completely subjugate him.
Sasha in the book "Bury me behind the plinth" Sanaev shows a cunning and cheerful boy, but a little frail. Grandma is overprotective. One of the chapters of the story is called "Bathing", where a whole ceremony of grandmother's care unfolds. Sasha is afraid of his grandmother and constantly runs away to the construction site. This is his quietest place.
Nina Antonovna did not stand on ceremony with expressions, calling her grandson offensive words. Often he had to hear that he was an idiot or a bastard. There was a very rough relationship between the grandson and the grandmother. The boy was very afraid of his grandmother's curses and dreamed of escaping from this place. Hence the name of the story - "Bury me behind the plinth." The summary of the book cannot convey the full depth of the world of a frightened child who is confused in his feelings.
images of grandparents
The life drama is shown by Sanaev with humor in the book "Bury me behind the plinth". The brief content only superficially touches on the problems of the story. In the image of Sasha's grandmother, Sanaev showed an underdeveloped personality who cannot make his life and those around him happy. Psychological and other problems in the family were solved through the grandson.
Nina Antonovna and Semyon Mikhailovich married without love. She dreamed of being an actress, but her father forbade her - she became a prosecutor. During the war, she had to bury her son Alyosha, this left an imprint on her character. The woman poured out her unrealized temperament on her family and acquaintances. The atmosphere of verbal sadism reigned in the house.
Grandfather did not have such a temperament, so this marriage lasted for so many years. Semyon Mikhailovich resigned himself and went with the flow. Often his patience ended, and there were scandals in the house.
Little Sasha Saveliev and his mother
Sasha's mother, Olga, got married for the first time in order to escape from an unbearable home environment, to escape from control. Olya did not have the will to resist the temperament of her mother. Then she met Anatoly, her mother condemned her for this and took her grandson by force. Nina Antonovna tells her daughter that she has no right to raise a child.
Since then, the grandmother has brought down all her ardor on her grandson. Her love for her child can only be compared to emotional vampirism. Sasha became intimidated, development slowed down. The boy has weakened, he is tormented by fears of death and the loss of his mother. Sasha does not love his grandmother. Meetings with the mother were a real inspiration for the child. How many times Olga tried to return her son, so many times he was taken away from her (rudely and stubbornly). Dating with his mother became a path for Sasha, leading him out of fear into love.
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At first there was a TV show "Dom" (simply "Dom", then "Dom-2" appeared), and so many watched it, and sometimes the line-up was also changed there. The newcomer who came began another "love story", and the journalists interviewed his former girlfriend. It turns out that he didn’t tell her anything about leaving for television, and she was outraged by his silent flight and such depraved behavior, she told him so throughout the country:
"You lowered me below the plinth!"
This phrase about the baseboard was picked up and became popular.
And soon the story of P. Sanaev "Bury me behind the plinth" was published. Apparently, this phrase also influenced the name.
There, according to the plot, an imperious grandmother took away her grandson from her weak-willed daughter (who she herself crushed with her authority) and ran with him to all the doctors of the city, looking for non-existent diseases and showing her weak-willed husband, all relatives and acquaintances, and above all to herself, what she is irreplaceable, as she loves her grandson, that without her care and care he would have already died. Only she did it so fanatically, constantly demanding something from the child, torturing his entire psyche, that her departure was simply unbearable for the boy.
Every morning began with grandmother grumbling at grandfather that there was a rustle somewhere at night, and that grandfather would catch a mouse, otherwise it would die and stink behind the baseboard. Then everything turned to the grandson, how he should value her, and hate his mother, that he lives only due to the fact that his grandmother does not rest, but takes care of him all day long, pills, injections, ointments, causing a 7-year-old the boy's constant feeling of guilt that he torments his grandmother, that he does not die only thanks to the cares of his grandmother.
And when the grandfather finally caught a mouse with a mousetrap, the sight of a dead mouse and pity for him makes the child hysterical, he starts screaming that he doesn’t want to live like that anymore either, all his classmates laugh at him, and let them better bury him behind the plinth! (The child simply does not yet know anything about the cemetery).
So the meaning of this phrase is that death is better than mental violence.
The story of Pavel Sanaev(1994)does not leave indifferent any reader who has touched it. This is a work about the fate of a child who is divided between his relatives. The story is told from the perspective of a second-grader Sasha Savelyev, who frankly talks about the complex relationship between his grandmother Nina and mother Olya. In the work, all events are given in the perception of the child, but in his statements, expressions of adults constantly sound, seeking to form their own concept of events: "My name is Saveliev Sasha. I am in second grade and live with my grandparents. My mother traded me for a blood-drinking dwarf and hung me like a heavy cross on my grandmother's neck. So I've been hanging since I was four years old."In this quote, the first two sentences are the remarks of Sasha himself, the second two are the statements of the grandmother, constantly repeated in her apartment in the presence of the child.
The little hero understands everything not like a child, comments on events, expresses his attitude towards the participants in the drama: "You will probably find it strange why he did not wash himself. The thing is, a bastard like me can't do anything on his own. The mother abandoned this bastard, and the bastard also rots constantly, and that's how it happened. Of course, you have already guessed that this explanation is based on the words of the grandmother.
The work consists of several chapters: "Bathing", "Morning", "Cement", "White Ceiling", "Salmon", "Park of Culture", "Birthday", "Zheleznovodsk", "Bury me behind the plinth", "Quarrel "," Plague. In the strong position of the text, at the end there is a chapter, in the title of which is the nickname of the mother, given by Sasha himself: "My grandmother and I used to call my mother a chumochka. Or rather, my grandmother called her bubonic plague, but I remade this nickname in my own way, and it turned out Plague. (...) I loved Plague, loved her alone and no one but her. If she were gone, I would irrevocably part with this feeling, and if she were not there, then I would not know at all what it is ... "
This is realistic prose, where the tragedy of more than one family is reproduced in artistic form: the situation of the conflict between "fathers and children" is depicted in such a convincing and detailed way, in which the child becomes a bargaining chip.
I was struck by the title of the work, the deep meaning of which can be comprehended only by reading the last lines. This is a declaration of the boy's love for his mother, who, in spite of everything, is the closest and dearest creature for the little hero.
"— Mother!— I huddled in fear.— Promise me one thing. Promise that if I suddenly die, you will bury me at home behind the plinth.
— What?— Bury me behind the baseboard in your room. I want to see you always. I'm afraid of the cemetery! You promise?"
Confessions of the love of the boy Sasha for his mother are scattered throughout the pages of the whole story: "I remembered how I ran at night to his screams, and suddenly imagined what would happen if my mother had hurt herself the same way. The thought tightened my throat. I was always ready to cry if I imagined that something bad happened to my mother. And then grandfather's words sounded in my memory that I love not him, but his gifts. Is it really so?! I thought about it and decided that, of course, I love not gifts, but grandfather, but just much less than my mother. Would I love my mother if she didn't give me anything?
Almost everything I had was given to me by my mother. But I did not love her for these things, but I loved these things because they were from her. Every thing my mother gave me was like a piece of my Plague, and I was very afraid of losing or breaking any of her gifts. Having accidentally broken one of the parts of the building kit she had donated, I felt as if I had hurt my mother, and I was killing myself all day, although the part was not important and even often remained superfluous. "In fact, the title of the story is a kind of cry:" Give me to be with your mom!"
The author managed to show how difficult it is for a small person to figure out the intricacies of intrigue, how difficult it is to save his soul in a situation where you need to adapt to the oddities of your grandmother's character and just survive.
The work is a mosaic of episodes in the life of a little hero who is deprived of joy and freedom: a despotic grandmother, suffering from the fact that she could not realize herself in life as a professional, as an actress, plays out a story of sacrificial love in front of her grandson. Naturally, in her own way she loves Sasha, but her feeling is distorted by selfishness and a thirst for power, this is a vivid image of a family despot who seeks to dominate at least at home.
The conflict in the work is the clash between grandmother Nina Antonovna and the mother of the hero Olya, the confrontation between defenselessness and despotism. This is at the same time the opposition of the child to the grandmother-usurper, which is expressed in the violation of prohibitions (chapter "Cement"). This external conflict gives rise to an internal protest in the soul of the child, which he is simply afraid to express: he is entirely dependent on the whims of a kind of grandmother. In the work, the image of this heroine is ambiguous: it would seem that it should only cause a negative assessment, but it was Nina Antonovna who took care of the child during the difficult period of her daughter’s life, she took care of her grandson as best she could. But, of course, her rudeness and cruelty towards Sasha, on whom she splashes out her hatred towards her daughter, cannot be justified. In the work, the reasons for such an attitude of the heroine towards Olya are not entirely clear. Is it really worth taking revenge for the fact that the child did not live up to the hopes that were once placed on him?
From the memoirs of the heroes, we learn that Nina Antonovna has always been cruel to her daughter: "I didn't break your legs! I hit you because you started to harass me! We walk with her along Gorky Street, ”grandmother began to tell me, funny showing how capricious my mother was,“ we pass by shop windows, some mannequins are standing. So this one will drag on the whole street: "Koo-upi! Ku-upi!" I told her: “Olenka, we don’t have enough money now. Daddy will come, we will buy you a doll, and a dress, and whatever you want ...” “Koo-upi!” Then I kicked her in the leg. And she didn’t hit, but only shoved her so that she would shut up.(Ch. "The Plague").
This is a story about the growing up of a little person, about the relativity of any assessments, about the complexity of the relationship between parents and children.
In the situation depicted in the story, everyone suffers: grandmother and grandfather, their daughter Olya, her son Sasha, Olya's new husband. But it is precisely this kind of universal suffering that satisfies Nina Antonovna, so she is not ready for discussion and dialogue: " I am ugly in this love, but whatever it is, let me live some more. Let there be more air for me. Let him look at me once more with relief, maybe the "grandmother" will still say ... Open to me. Let him…"
The purpose of Pavel Sanaev's work "Bury Me Behind the Plinth" is to remind parents and grandmothers: love not your love for the child, but him himself, do not force the little person to suffer because of his mistakes and ambitions.
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Quoting from http://www.litmir.net/br/?b=266
© Elena Isaeva
- At home, my grandmother said that only a cretin like my grandfather could bring back a Moscow souvenir from Zheleznovodsk.
- To develop independence is possible only with complete material independence.
- Wherever effort was required, desire died.
- - How not?! I yelled, opening the refrigerator door wide open. - A salmon?! How many caviar!
- ..I always thought that a birthday is such a holiday, and age has nothing to do with it. It turned out, on the contrary, that a holiday has nothing to do with a birthday.
- Children pay for the sins of their parents.
- All my life on the principle: shit, but a lot!
- I wrote, looking longingly at the column of sentences, and recalled how a couple of days ago I wrote that “the road is good.” Grandmother scraped out the erroneous “and”, I entered the letter “e” in the empty space, but it turned out that the “fast road” was also not good. Wishing that there was only one road for me - to the grave, my grandmother began to scrape in the same place, scraped through the sheet and made me rewrite the entire notebook again. Okay, I just started it.
- Why do we need a homeopath? I asked. - so as not to die! Don't ask stupid questions.
- I also failed to get into the chain carousel. According to my grandmother, I could slip out from under the belts and fly away to some mother. To which, I did not understand, but not to my own - that's for sure.
- May you be cursed by heaven, God, earth, birds, fish, people, seas, air! - It was my grandmother's favorite curse. - So that only misfortunes fall on your head! So that you see nothing but retribution!
- "You see a boy here, dried up like that, in a red cap and a gray coat ... kill him."
- You can't become someone without trying to become someone.
- “I will ask my mother to bury me at home behind the baseboard,” I once thought. - There will be no worms, there will be no darkness. Mom will walk by, I will look at her from the crack, and I will not be as scared as if I were buried in a cemetery.
- I have a doctor's note that I am mentally ill. I can kill and get nothing for it.
- “Now we’re measuring the tutulki,” said the grandmother, finally setting the thermometer as she wanted. “When you were little, you used to say “tutulki.” You also said "didivot" instead of "idiot". You sit in the playpen, it used to be all pissed. You wave your hands and shout: “I'm a divot! I'm a divot! I'll come over and change your sheets. I’ll correct it affectionately: “Not a divot, Sashenka, but an idiot.” And you again: “Didivot! Didivot! So cute
- Grandmother lifted the lid, found a moldy mass in the teapot instead of a healing broth, and began to shout that her grandfather had turned her once brilliant brain into the same mass.
- - Where are you, brute? If she were in the village, eyewitnesses might think that a goat ran away from her, but in the city ...
- What was broken could be repaired, what was lost could be found, what was thrown into the garbage chute could only be remembered or forgotten.
- I hated tights. My grandmother did not allow me to take them off even at night, and all the time I felt how they pulled me together. If, by some chance, I found myself in bed without them, my legs seemed to plunge into a pleasant coolness, I dangled them under the covers and imagined that I was swimming.
- I was very envious and terribly envious of those who can do what I can't. Since I did not know how to do anything, there were many reasons for envy.
