Clear, convincing in its simplicity and harsh truth, the work of M. Sholokhov still makes the reader resent and shudder, passionately love and hate sharply.
Before us is an unforgettable image of an ordinary Soviet soldier- Andrey Sokolov. A man who endured everything, overcame everything ... Sholokhov's art of portrait modeling is great: it is fresh, compressed to the limit and expressive. From two or three phrases dropped by the author as if in passing, we learn that Sokolov is "tall, round-shouldered", that his hand is "big, callous", and he speaks in a "muffled bass". And only after the narrator uttered the first phrase of his story: “Well, I had to take a sip of goryushka up to the nostrils and higher there, brother,” his portrait immediately appears before us, painted with one or two unforgettable features.
Just as briefly and to the point of physical tangibility, the portrait of the second character in the story, the commandant of the camp, Müller, is vividly molded.
And the image of the cordial, intelligent wife of Andrei Sokolov, the orphan Irinka, who grew up in an orphanage. With your devotion, saint sacrificial love she reminds beautiful images Nekrasov Russian women. And again, he is molded so plastically visibly, and not only outwardly, but also in the most complex spiritual movements. The author achieves special strength in the scene of farewell at the station in the first days of the war.
The volume of the story is striking: and whole life family, and, and captivity. Even more amazing is the disclosure of the image of Andrei Sokolov. On a small "platform" of the story, a person is shown in joy, and in trouble, and in hatred, and in love, and in peaceful labor, and in war. Behind this image is a multi-million, great, kind, patient people-workers. And how this peaceful people is transformed in the years of military disasters!
Russian soldier! What historian, artist has fully depicted, glorified his valor?! This is a sublime and complex image. Much is fused, intertwined in him such that made him "not only invincible, but also a great martyr, almost a saint - features that consisted of an ingenuous, naive faith, a clear, good-natured cheerful outlook on life, cold and businesslike courage, humility in the face of death, pity for the vanquished, endless patience and amazing physical and moral endurance” (A. Kuprin).
Typical features for a Russian soldier are embodied in the image of Andrei Sokolov. Unbelievable stamina, stamina, high moral qualities in the most difficult moments of the war, captivity, post-war life of this person cause a feeling of admiration. “... And I began to gather my courage to look into the hole of the pistol fearlessly, as befits a soldier, so that the enemies would not see at my last minute that it’s still difficult for me to part with my life ...” - says Sokolov. The noble pride of a soldier who does not want to show the enemy the fear of death because shame is worse than death.
Even in cruel enemies, in whom fascism has burned out everything human, the dignity and self-control of the Russian soldier inspires respect. “That's what, Sokolov, you are a real Russian soldier. You are a brave soldier. I am also a soldier and respect worthy opponents. I won't shoot you. In addition, today our valiant troops reached the Volga and completely captured Stalingrad, ”says Muller.
The ability to bring the breadth of the display of life to an epic sound is characteristic only great talent. Carefully reading the construction of the story, one cannot fail to notice the tale device used by the author, showing the single combat of the Lagerführer and “Russ Ivan”: as in epics and ancient tales that have come down to us from the depths of the people, M. Sholokhov uses the technique of triple amplification. The soldier drank the first glass, preparing for death, and did not have a bite. He drank the second glass and again refused the snack. And only after the third glass of schnapps drunk “stretched out” did he “bite off a small piece of bread, put the rest on the table.”
This is a traditional-fantastic increase in the drama of the action in time. It is used by the writer quite naturally, and this technique of storytellers harmoniously merges with his contemporary story. The work of M. Sholokhov is national in language. The writer reveals the typical image of the Russian soldier Andrei Sokolov in the structure of thought and speech, saturated with well-aimed, original words and folk sayings.
But not only in the marked external signs, as a technique of triple amplification and saturation of the language with vivid expressions and proverbs, and, as Belinsky said, in the very "fold of the Russian mind, in the Russian way of looking at things" the writer's nationality is manifested. A sensitive artist, M. Sholokhov, with all his life, with all his thoughts, was connected with the life of his people, with their thoughts and hopes. His creativity was nourished by life-giving springs folk wisdom, her great truth and beauty. This determined the fidelity of every detail, every intonation of it. The main advantage of the story, probably, is that it is built on the correct disclosure of the deepest movements of the human soul.
It would seem that the strength of Andrei Sokolov, mercilessly beaten by life, is about to run out. But no! Hidden in his soul inexhaustible source love. And this love, this good beginning in a person guides all his actions.
Finishing the story, M. Sholokhov did not put a plot point. The writer leaves his heroes in the spring field: a former front-line soldier and a child adopted by him, connected great power love, go the way, dear, and in front of them big life. And we believe that these people will not disappear, they will find their happiness...
No one is able to read without excitement the following monologue by Andrey Sokolov at the beginning of the story: “Sometimes you don’t sleep at night, you look into the darkness with empty eyes and think:“ Why did you, life, cripple me like that? Why did you distort it like that?" There is no answer for me either in the darkness or in the clear sun... No, and I won’t wait!”
Millions of Sokolov's peers, who did not return from the battlefields, who died of wounds and premature illnesses already in peacetime, after the Victory, will never wait for a painful answer to this question.
Only very recently have we begun to talk openly about the huge, often completely unnecessary victims of the Second World War; that it might not exist at all, if Stalin's policy towards Germany had been more far-sighted; about our completely immoral attitude towards our compatriots who have been in German captivity... But after all, the fate of a person can no longer be reversed, not altered!
And at first, Sokolov's life developed like that of many of his peers. "IN civil war was in the Red Army ... In the hungry twenty-second, he went to the Kuban, to kill the fists, and therefore survived. Fate generously rewarded Sokolov for his ordeals, giving him such a wife as his Irinka: “Affectionate, quiet, does not know where to seat you, fights to prepare sweet kvass for you even with a small income.” Maybe Irinka was like that because she was brought up in an orphanage and all the unspent affection fell on her husband and children?
But a person often does not appreciate what he has. Underestimated, it seems to me, his wife before leaving for the front. “Other women are talking to their husbands, talking to their sons, but mine clung to me like a leaf to a branch, and only trembles all over ... She says, and sobs behind every word: “My dear ... Andryusha ... we won’t see you again ... we are with you ... more ... in this ... world ... "Andrey Sokolov appreciated those farewell words much later, after the news of the death of his wife along with her daughters:" Until my death, until my last hour, I’ll die, and I won’t forgive myself for pushing her away then! .. "
The rest of his actions during the war and after the Victory were worthy, masculine. Real men, according to Sokolov, are at the front. He “could not stand such slobbering people, who every day, to the point and not to the point, wrote to wives and sweethearts, smeared snot on paper. It's hard, they say, it's hard for him, and look, they'll kill him. And here he is, a bitch in his pants, complaining, looking for sympathy, salivating, but he doesn’t want to understand that these unfortunate women and kids were no sweeter than ours in the rear.
It was not sweet at the front for Sokolov himself. Provo-shaft it less than a year. After two minor wounds - a severe shell shock and captivity, which was considered a disgrace in the official Soviet propaganda of that time. However, Sholokhov successfully circumvents the pitfalls of this problem: he simply does not touch it, which is not surprising if you remember the time when the story was written - 1956. But on the other hand, Sholokhov measured out Sokolov in full for trials behind enemy lines. The first test is the murder of the traitor Kryzhnev. Not every one of us decides to help a completely unfamiliar person. And Sokolov helped. Maybe he did this because shortly before that, a completely unfamiliar military officer helped Sokolov? He fixed his dislocated arm. There is the humanism and nobility of one and the meanness and cowardice of the other.
Sokolov himself cannot be denied courage. The second test is an attempt to escape. Andrei took advantage of the oversight of the guards, fled, went for forty kilometers, but he was caught, the dogs were let loose ... He survived, did not bend, did not keep silent, "criticized" the regime in the concentration camp, although he knew that for this - certain death. Sholokhov masterfully describes the scene of confrontation between the Russian soldier Sokolov and the commandant of the concentration camp Müller. And it is decided in favor of the Russian soldier. Even a great connoisseur of the Russian soul, who spoke Russian no worse than us, Muller was forced to admit: “Here you are, Sokolov, you are a real Russian soldier. You are a brave soldier. I am also a soldier and respect worthy opponents. I shoot you I won't."
Sokolov repaid Muller and all enemies for the gift of life in full, having carried out a successful escape from captivity and grabbing an invaluable language - his major builder. It seemed that fate should have mercy on Sokolov, but no ... Frost passes through the skin when you learn about two more blows that befell the hero: the death of his wife and daughters under the bombing in June 1942 and his son on Victory Day.
What kind of soul Sokolov had to be, so as not to break after all the tragedies, and even adopt Vanyushka! “Two orphaned people, two grains of sand, thrown into foreign lands by a military hurricane of unprecedented strength ... Is something waiting for them ahead?” - asks Sholokhov at the end of the story.
Over 60. I so want Ivan's generation to endure all the hardships of the present time. Such is the fate of the Russian people!
The pathetic one who is under the hammer of fate
Ponik - frightened - without a fight:
A worthy husband withdraws from the struggle
In the radiance of proud peace,
And he lives again - without bowing his head ...
N. Ogarev
Sholokhov's story "The Fate of a Man" became a milestone in the disclosure military theme. Sholokhov repeatedly addressed the idea of price great victory about the terrible losses suffered by the country. Picture in full height tragic fate an ordinary soldier who bore the brunt of the war became main task story.
Who is he - a hero "without fear and reproach"? This question could have remained unanswered if it were not for “The Fate of a Man” by M. Sholokhov, which shows a modest ordinary participant in the war, a hard worker, an unremarkable person Andrei Sokolov.
It is to him that the author dedicates a talented work, admires his feat, sees in him a faithful son of the fatherland. The story can be called heroic song in honor of the Russian soldier and share with the author his delight, admiration for the courage of the hero, the inflexibility of his will, a sense of compassion. The work is penetratingly, extremely sincerely written, built as a story in a story (a skillful author's technique to achieve the greatest reliability in the presentation of the events that are being talked about). The author shows not only historical moment, he depicts specific person at war with his thoughts, feelings, experiences.
The story begins with a description of the "first post-war spring", "friendly and assertive". Spring is always a rebirth to life, finding hope, the rise of all the best both in all nature and in human heart, and Sholokhov begins with a light chord, but immediately warns: "... in this bad time of impassability." After all, these broken, hard roads of war, the roads of fate, are the heroes that come to us: Vanyushka and Andrey Sokolov.
By mentioning off-road, Sholokhov wants to prepare the reader for something disturbing (a bitter story about the suffering and hardships of the hero), as well as kind and sincere (about rebirth, finding the happiness of lost fatherhood).
His main character, Andrey Sokolov, is both a narrator and actor. In the description of the portrait of the hero, “eyes filled with inescapable mortal anguish” are most striking. These “as if sprinkled with ashes” eyes, as in a mirror, reflected his whole life, full of unbearable torments and irreparable losses.
Andrew starts sad story about himself like this: “At first, my life was ordinary.” And indeed, there is nothing unusual in her: Andrei is proud of his clever wife and children. It is not for nothing that he speaks in such detail about his pre-war life: “Children eat porridge with milk, they have a roof over their heads, they are dressed, shod, so everything is in order,” as if trying to fix every day, every hour, every moment.
And this well-established, well-organized, family happiness is cut off, as it is cut off tightly stretched string: "And here it is, the war." This phrase symbolizes the abrupt transition from peace to war, from happiness to sorrow, from life to death. How hard it was for the hero to part with his relatives, his “heart was torn to pieces” at the sight of heartbroken wives, crying children. The scene is so shocking that tears involuntarily well up in my eyes, and it is at this moment that the author cuts off Andrei's story: “Don't, friend, don't remember!”
Reading, you catch yourself thinking: if it’s hard to even listen, what was it like to go through! You follow with participation the beginning of the trials - the first terrible round of the fate of the prisoner. Further, events develop in a spiral, like a snowball, they are overgrown with new, more and more heavy blows.
Not on the battlefield, but in the conditions of fascist captivity, Andrey accomplishes his feat, he endures terrible beatings, inhuman bullying, humiliation. The hero fearlessly looks death in the eye, courageously endures the horrors of the concentration camp. And no one, under any circumstances, can kill, crush the strength of the spirit of a Russian person in him, bring him to his knees: “I have my own, Russian dignity and pride, and that they did not turn me into cattle, no matter how hard they tried.”
The hero, having overcome, it would seem, all the trials, returns home, but in place of the house ... a funnel. A funnel in Andrey’s soul, there was nothing left for him (“everything collapsed in a single moment”), except last resort- eldest son. How proud the father is of the fighting prowess of the young commander, with what trepidation he is waiting for a meeting with his blood.
And here fate should dispose differently: the son is killed almost a day before the victory. From this blow, the heart of the hero is twisted by mortal anguish and dull hopelessness, for him, it would seem, life has lost its meaning, he was left alone in the whole wide world. “I buried my son,” says Sokolov, “and it was as if something broke in me, and my unshed tears in my heart dried up ...” Neither the war nor personal losses broke Andrei, he did not harden his heart, did not withdraw into himself. The hero also accomplished a great civil and humanistic feat - he adopted a "little ragamuffin", an orphan boy: "It will not happen that we disappear separately."
The theme of overcoming tragic, undeserved loneliness in Sholokhov is connected with the image of the enormous power of life itself. Having adopted a boy who no one needs, but in whose soul there was hope for a "good share", Sokolov himself becomes a "representative" of the indestructible humanity of the world. This is how the chain of "good for good" stretches, expressing the people's view of the ethical meaning of life.
With what love and affection Andrei brings up his son, with what tenderness he looks at his blue "little eyes". The only thing that worries my father: “My heart is shaking, the piston needs to be changed”; he is afraid that he will not make it, will not see how Vanyushka will live and grow. But the author leaves the reader hope that Andrei Sokolov will be able to raise his son, to make him a real person.
The hero of the story is a collective image, despite real prototype. This is not just a life story of a soldier, but the fate of a man who embodied the very type of Russian national character.
The fate of the protagonist attracts my attention because, without being outstanding personality, he shows moral restraint and firmness in the most dramatic circumstances. Sholokhov thus proves the greatness of a Russian person, able to endure any difficulties, show mercy and mental stamina. “The Fate of a Man” by M. Sholokhov is not just a story about the difficult fate of a person in a war - it is a laudatory song for strong people.
A similar solemn motif sounds in many works dedicated to the war, such as Ales Adamovich's "Khatyn Tale", V. Bykov's "Survive Until Dawn", in the verses of K. Simonov.
The theme of a feat in all its heroic power is expressed, cried out in the story of M. Sholokhov "The Fate of a Man". It shows a Russian soldier who went through the hell of war, who, in spite of everything, strives for happiness, love, which is not just a symbol of the stamina and courage of a person from the people, but also a symbol of humanism. “And I would like to think that this Russian man, a man of unbending will, will survive and grow up near his father’s shoulder, one who, having matured, will be able to endure everything, overcome everything in his path, if his Motherland calls him to this.”
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov is a writer whose work reflects the life of his native people at the frontiers that become historical milestones. One of the brightest chapters in the life of the Russian people is associated with the years of the Great Patriotic War.
At the beginning of the war, Sholokhov was drafted into the ranks Soviet army as a reserve commissar, where he became a war correspondent for Pravda and Krasnaya Zvezda. From the first days of the war, Sholokhov devoted his work to serving the people, who entered into a deadly battle with the Nazis. Therefore deeply patriotic theme- a feat of man in the Great Patriotic War - hushed up on for a long time the main place in the works of the writer. During these years, he creates the works "The Fate of a Man" and "They Fought for the Motherland."
Russian literature of the 20th century is characterized by close attention To inner world person. M.A. Sholokhov is one of those masters of the word who, showing the spiritual beauty of their heroes, reveal the essence of the human personality.
war, the writer with amazing skill depicted “the main thing that is commonly called moral character people, their national character.
In the story "The Fate of a Man", published in 1956, a Russian man is drawn with great love.
In The Fate of a Man, Sholokhov reminds the reader of the disasters that the Great Patriotic War brought to the Russian people, of the stamina of a man who endured all the torment and did not break. Sholokhov's story is permeated with boundless faith in the spiritual strength of the Russian people.
The plot is based on vivid psychological episodes. Seeing off to the front, captivity, an attempt to escape, a second escape, news of the family.
Such rich material would be enough for a whole novel, but Sholokhov managed to fit it into a short story.
The plot was based on Sholokhov real story, told to the author in the first postwar year, a simple driver who had just returned from the war. There are two voices in the story: Andrey Sokolov, the main character, “leads”. The second voice is the voice of the author, listener, random interlocutor
In the first post-war spring, two strangers met on the Upper Don land.
The tragedy and life circumstances of one man stirred up the soul of another, who also knew firsthand the price of suffering.
Andrei Sokolov mistakenly mistook a man standing near an old car for a driver and felt special confidence in the stranger.
He lets his adopted son Vanya play near the water, and word by word he told the story of his own ordeals.
In addition, Sokolov saw that his interlocutor was dressed in "soldiers' cotton trousers and a quilted jacket", which means he fought. Front-line soldiers always feel their inner kinship and communicate like close people. 
Having told about his pre-war life, the hero “resurrected” the images of people dear to him: his wife Irina, two daughters and a son. Ten years family life, according to Sokolov, raced like one day. “I made good money, and we didn’t live worse than people. And the children made us happy: all three of them studied “excellently” ... they have a roof over their heads, they are dressed, shod, so everything is in order, ”says the hero-narrator. Such a peaceful happiness of millions was destroyed in one day by the war.
Andrey Sokolov perceives the perfidious attack of the enemy both as his own misfortune and as a tragedy for the whole people. From the very beginning of the war, Sokolov was in the ranks of the Red Army, at the forefront. No matter how bravely the Russian soldiers fought, they still had to retreat in the first months of the battles.
Sholokhov emphasizes the similarity military biography his hero with the fate of thousands of soldiers. Being wounded, Andrey Sokolov gets into fascist captivity. Staying in captivity while the enemy is trampling native land, destroys everything that is dear to the heart of a Russian person, becomes a difficult moral test for the hero. “Oh, brother, this is not an easy thing to understand that you are not in captivity of your own free will.
Whoever has not experienced this in their own skin, you will not immediately enter into the soul, so that it comes to him as a human being what this thing means, ”Andrei Sokolov said bitterly.
M.A. Sholokhov, having made the main character a man who had been in captivity, rehabilitated the good name of those who, against their will, ended up in German camps and continued to fight against the hated enemy there. The Russian national character of Andrei Sokolov manifested itself primarily in the fact that the Nazis could not break his will, failed to change his mind, did not incline him to betrayal.
Thousands of prisoners of war, despite physical torture, did not submit to the enemy. This is the historical truth.
The writer, through the mouth of the hero-narrator, conveys the terrible and bitter truth. It is difficult for Sokolov to remember the captivity, but for the sake of the memory of the soldiers who died in the fascist dungeons, he continues his scary story. Sokolov emphasizes that in comrades in misfortune he always found moral and physical support. If he talks about his stay in captivity, as if apologizing to someone, then the story of a military doctor who was captured, but who provided assistance to wounded compatriots, is colored with an intonation of admiration: “This is what it means real doctor! He did his great work both in captivity and in the dark. Betrayal among Russian soldiers is an extremely rare case. That is why Sokolov strangled Private Kryzhnev, who, in order to save his own skin, planned to betray his platoon leader. And this, it seems, manifested the Russian national character of the hero, who destroyed the one who, in his opinion, dishonors the title of Russian soldier.
Sokolov survived in captivity only because he dreamed of breaking free, joining the Red Army and mercilessly beating the enemy who desecrated the Russian land.
The first attempt ended in failure. Mutilated by dogs and beaten by the Nazis, Andrei Sokolov is put in a punishment cell.
Having reached this episode in his military biography, the hero interrupts the story. He does not want to talk about himself, because he believed that others were even worse in Nazi captivity. Turning to the interlocutor, he frankly says: “It’s hard for me, brother, to remember ... when you remember all the friends and comrades who were tortured there in the camp, the heart is no longer in the chest, but in the throat beats, and it becomes difficult to breathe .. ."
The words about the torture to which the Germans subjected people were uttered with bitterness. In such a simple form, the hero of the story outlined the essence of fascism - an anti-human system, a death machine.
It was the Russian people who destroyed the "brown plague of the 20th century", because we are a spiritually strong nation.
The psychological duel between Andrei Sokolov and Lagerführer Müller is evidence of the greatness of the Russian people. The hero was summoned to the head of the camp for reprisals. The Nazis loved to demonstrate their power over a person, they knew how to mock prisoners in a sadistic way.
Sokolov rejected the offer to "drink to the victory of German weapons", but agreed to drink "to his death." The prisoner proudly refused snacks. He explained to his new acquaintance: “I wanted to show them, damned, that although I’m dying of hunger, I’m not going to choke on their sop, that I also have my own, Russian dignity and pride, and that they didn’t turn me into cattle, no matter how hard you try."
And yet the hero carried out cherished dream cherished by two terrible years. He managed to escape from captivity and move to his own, to the active army.
The joy of liberation was overshadowed by the most terrible news that a person can receive: "... back in June of the forty-second year" during the German bombing, his wife and daughters were killed. The voice of the hero-narrator trembles, "suffocation crushes" him.
Through the eyes of the author we see spring nature: “In the forest flooded with hollow water, a woodpecker tapped loudly ... everything was the same ... clouds floated in the cherry blue, but in these moments of mournful silence the boundless world seemed to me different, preparing for the great accomplishments of spring, for the eternal affirmation of the living in life ".
This changed face of the world confirms the truth: Russian people are able to perceive someone else's pain as their own. Death has been reaping a bloody harvest for four years, and the post-war spring so insistently affirms the triumph of life.
From the story of Andrei Sokolov, we learned about the last terrible loss: on Victory Day, his eldest son dies in Berlin. Everything that was dear to the hero-narrator was carried away by the war.
The story of M. A. Sholokhov “The Fate of Man” was created in 1956, a decade after the Great Patriotic War, during the Khrushchev thaw. It was then that the need arose to sum up the results of the past war, to comprehend the fate of the people and the fate of individual, reveal the origins of the feat.
The protagonist of the story - Andrei Sokolov - is the same age as the century.
The history of his life is the history of the country. At first glance, before us is an ordinary person, the same as everyone else, a simple person from the people, and his fate is inseparable from the fate of his homeland. A native of the Voronezh province, during the civil war he was in the Red Army. In the hungry twenty-second year he worked for the kulaks and thus saved himself from starvation. He worked in a factory, married an orphan.
Sholokhov does not idealize his hero. Returning from work tired and angry, sometimes he rudely addressed his wife, it happened that he drank. But he got his wife - gold, quiet, affectionate, meek and patient. Thanks to her kindness, there was peace in the family, Andrey had peace in his soul.
Exploring the character of his hero, Sholokhov is trying to understand how a simple and inconspicuous driver - a hard worker turns out to be capable of heroic deeds during the war years.
From the very beginning of the war, Andrei Sokolov showed strength of character, steadfastness, and courage. In letters to his wife, he never complained about the difficulties, realizing that it was not easy for women in the rear either.
Performing a dangerous task - it was necessary to smuggle shells to the battery - Sokolov came under shelling and lost consciousness. So Andrew was captured.
He had to endure a lot: bullying, and beatings of the Germans, and hunger, and hard work, but the soldier did not lose his human dignity, retained his fortitude. His duel with the commandant of the camp, Muller, ended in a moral victory for a simple Russian soldier. Going to the commandant's office, Sokolov prepared for death, but managed to gather his courage "to look into the hole of the pistol fearlessly, as befits a soldier, so that the enemies do not see at the last ... minute" that it is difficult for him to part with life.
Muller appreciated the bravery of the Russian soldier and gave him life.
Andrei Sokolov not only managed to escape from captivity, but also delivered an important German general to our unit.
But the main test awaited a simple Russian soldier after the war. An aerial bomb hit Sokolov's house, his wife and daughters were killed. Anatoly's son was killed by a German sniper on Victory Day. How to live when there are no relatives and relatives?
The heart of the soldier did not harden, retained the ability to love, mercy, compassion. Andrei adopted a boy - an orphan Vanyushka with eyes as clear as stars. The heart of a person thaws near the child, with eyes “as if sprinkled with ashes, filled with such inescapable longing that it is difficult to look into them.”
And there is no higher spiritual, moral feat when a person, "distorted by the war", retained a living soul in himself and gives the warmth of his heart to the one who needs it most - a child orphaned during the war.
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The Patriotic War ended 55 years ago, but the memory of it is alive and will live forever, because it was in
this war revealed best features Russian national character: his courage, fortitude, mass heroism
and patriotism. Our people broke the back of the fascist beast, under whose feet Europe fell submissively. Yes, we
won, but this victory was too expensive. The war became not only the triumph of the people, but its greatest
tragedy. She left ruined cities, extinct villages. She brought death to a whole generation of young
healthy, talented people. The color of the nation was destroyed. How many of them, the great defenders of the motherland, died in
air battles, burned down in tanks, killed in infantry?! M.A. clearly saw both the heroic and the tragic in the war.
Sholokhov and captured in the story "The Fate of Man". This is a story about common man on big war. Russian
a person went through all the horrors of the war imposed on him and at the cost of enormous, irreparable personal losses and
tragic hardships defended his homeland, affirming the great right to life, freedom and independence of his homeland.
the story raises the problem of the psychology of a Russian soldier - a man who embodied the typical features
national character. The reader is presented with a life story ordinary person. humble worker,
the father of the family lived and was happy in his own way. And suddenly the war ... Andrey Sokolov went to the front to defend his homeland.
Like thousands of others just like him. The war tore him away home, from the family, from peaceful labor. And all
his life seemed to go downhill. All the troubles of the war time fell upon the soldier, life suddenly began for nothing
beat and whip him with all his might. The feat of a person appears in the story of Sholokhov, mainly not on the battlefield and
not on the labor front, but in the conditions of fascist captivity, behind the barbed wire of a concentration camp. In the spiritual
single combat with fascism reveals the character of Andrei Sokolov, his courage. Away from the front, the soldier survived
all the hardships of the war, the inhuman bullying of the Nazis. Andrey had to endure many terrible torments in two
years of captivity. After the Germans poisoned him with dogs, so much so that the skin and meat flew to shreds, and then
kept in a punishment cell for a month for escaping, beaten with fists, rubber sticks and all kinds of iron, trampled under foot, while
This was almost not fed and forced to work hard. And more than once death looked into his eyes, each time he found
courage and, in spite of everything, remained a man. He refused to drink on the orders of Muller for the victory
German weapons, although he knew that he could be shot for this. But not only in a collision with the enemy sees
Sholokhov is a manifestation of a heroic person in nature. Not less than serious trials become his loss.
The terrible grief of a soldier deprived of loved ones and shelter, his loneliness. After all, Andrei Sokolov, who came out of the war
the winner, who returned peace and tranquility to people, he himself lost everything that he had in life, love, happiness ... A harsh fate
did not leave the soldier even a haven on earth. In the place where the house built by his hands stood, a funnel darkened.
from a German bomb. Andrei Sokolov, after all that he had experienced, it seemed that he could become embittered,
harden, break down, but he does not grumble at the world, does not close himself in his grief, but goes to people. Left alone for
In the white world, this man gave all the warmth that was preserved in his heart to the orphan Vanyusha, replacing his father. And again
life gets high human sense: to grow a man out of this ragamuffin, out of this orphan. With all logic
In his story, M. A. Sholokhov proved that his hero is in no way broken and cannot be broken by life.
Having gone through difficult trials, he retained the main thing: his human dignity, love of life,
humanity, helping to live and work. Andrey remained kind and trusting to people. I believe that in "Destiny
of man” sounds an appeal to the whole world. To every person. Stop for a minute. Think about what it brings
war, what can it bring. The end of the story is preceded by a leisurely author's reflection, a lot of reflection
who has seen and knows in the life of a person. In this meditation is the affirmation of the greatness and beauty of the truly human.
Glorification of courage, steadfastness, glorification of a man who withstood the blows of a military storm, endured
impossible. Two themes - tragic and heroic, feat and suffering - are intertwined all the time in the story
Sholokhov, forming a single whole. The suffering and deeds of Sokolov are not an episode associated with the fate of one
man, this is the fate of Russia, the fate of millions of people who participated in the cruel and bloody struggle against
fascism, but in spite of everything they won, and at the same time remained people. This is the main point
story "The fate of man." The story "The Fate of a Man" is addressed to our days, to the future, reminds us that
what a person should be, reminds of those moral principles, without which life itself loses its meaning and
to which we must be faithful in all circumstances.
