Alexander Tvardovsky saw the war and the battlefield with his own eyes, as he worked as a war correspondent, so he managed to very accurately bring his work closer to the people and the feelings that engulfed the country at that time.
The poem "Vasily Terkin" Tvardovsky began to write during a military campaign, then the idea of \u200b\u200bthe work arose. The first chapters were published in 1942, at the height of hostilities. After the appearance of the first part, the poem becomes the main work at the front. The work was greeted with approval, the image of the hero-soldier Vasily Terkin was liked by the people and was close to them. Tvardovsky carefully worked on each chapter, trying to create finished parts that "could be read from any open page." Alexander Trifonovich tried to write in an easy, understandable language for people: “I rewrote each chapter many times, checking for slugs, worked for a long time on any one stanza or line.”
Vasily Terkin is a collective image that absorbed the characteristics and features of the Russian people in wartime. Terkin is also the image of a Soviet hero, ready to fight to the death and defend the Motherland.
The protagonist of the poem, a simple Russian soldier, has a wide range of positive traits, but does not stand out in appearance.
Vasily is brave, courageous, confident, modest, simple, honest, brave, noble, kind, is the image of a sincere person who is welcome anywhere and who can join any team.
There is also unshakable faith and hope in Turkin. In the chapter "On the Reward" he talks about the world after the war:
Here I came from the station
To your native village council.
I came, and here is a party.
No party? Okay, no.
He dreams of meeting a girl:
And I would joke with everyone
And there would be one among them ...
His dreams are interrupted by a colleague:
Where are the girls, where are the parties?
…….Visit your native village
Despite this, Vasily does not lose faith and continues to hope. In the same chapter, we learn that Terkin is not proud and does not fight for the sake of awards and titles:
No guys, I'm not proud.
Without looking into the distance
So I will say: why do I need an order?
I agree to a medal.
The hero never loses heart, and even on the verge of death, he is able to laugh it off and not give up to the end. In the chapter "Death and the Warrior" one can see his great love for life.
Fulfillment of duty to the Motherland for Vasily is in the first place. In the "Crossing" part, he swam to deliver the order that he could save the platoon. The chapter "Who shot" shows how Terkin makes a brave and courageous act. He shoots down an enemy plane, possibly saving many lives. Such a heroic deed requires the greatest willpower and great courage, which Vasily shows. This shows the courage of Russian soldiers, who are ready to lay their chest on the embrasure for the sake of the Motherland.
Front-line everyday life is undoubtedly difficult, and it is necessary to have incredible fortitude in order to fight and hold on to the end, fight and live. From the chapter "Two Soldiers" we can feel the heaviness and mood of everyday days in the war.
In the field of a blizzard-zaviruha,
Three miles away, war is buzzing.
Turkin is at war again
Respect for the dead, the general spirit and attitude is shown by the chapter "Accordion". From the dialogue of the soldiers, we understand the severity of the war days and the sadness at the loss of a comrade. Simple, human things, the atmosphere and the general spiritual cohesion make the soldiers closer and during the cold, snowy winter it suddenly becomes warmer.
And from that old harmonica,
Who was left an orphan
It suddenly got warmer
On the front road.
Vasily Terkin was close to the soldiers of the Second World War, in him they saw their features, the features of their comrades, in his image there is something native, pleasant and sincere, which reminds of home. Terkin could inspire, support, amuse. Vasily is a separate person, but at the same time an extensive collective image. This is a man of great faith and heroism, this is a Russian man, he does not surrender, neither to the enemy, nor to death:
I will cry, howl in pain,
Dying in the field without a trace
But you are willing
In the midst of the Great Patriotic War, when our entire country was defending our homeland, the first chapters of A.T. Tvardovsky "Vasily Terkin", where a simple Russian soldier, "an ordinary guy" is displayed in the image of the main character.
The writer himself recalled that the beginning of work on "Vasily Terkin" was accompanied by difficulties: it was not easy to find the required art form, to determine the composition, and it was especially difficult to choose a main character who would be understandable not only to the wartime reader, but would also remain modern for many years. Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky found his hero - Vasily Terkin, whose image helped both the soldiers at the front and their wives and children in the rear, and is also interesting to the modern reader. What made the literary image of Terkin so popular for so many years?
Any artistic image has not only individualistic, personal features, but also carries something collective, general, is a spokesman, a characteristic hero of its time. On the one hand, Vasily Terkin is not like the rest of the soldiers in the company: he is a merry fellow, he is distinguished by a peculiar sense of humor, he is not afraid of danger, but at the same time, Tvardovsky, creating his hero, did not take any particular person as a model, so the writer turned out to be a collective image of a soldier, the defender of the Russian land, ready at any moment to repel the attacks of the enemy:
However, what is there to think, brothers,
We must hurry to beat the German.
That's all Terkin in a nutshell
You have to report.
Terkin is brave, courageous, he is not afraid of bullets, enemy bombing, or ice water. In any situation, the hero knows how to stand up for himself and not let others down. Terkin is a friend to a fighter at a halt, a son to an old man and an old woman in a dilapidated hut, a brother to a young woman who sent all her loved ones to the front. The character of the hero is woven from dozens and hundreds of characters of ordinary Russian soldiers, endowed with universal human traits: kindness, respect for people, decency.
A.T. Tvardovsky endows his hero with a telling surname: Terkin, not without reason the most common phrase of the poem: “We will endure. Let's grind." The strength of the Russian spirit is such that a person can endure everything, can survive a lot, but this does not make him angrier, intolerant, but, on the contrary, seeks to help people, tries to make them believe in their own strength:
He sighed at the door
And said:
Let's go, father...
Savvy and resourceful Terkin not only in the war, during the battle, but also in everyday life. Thus, peaceful and military life merge into one. The hero, as it were, lives in the war, constantly dreaming of victory, of simple village work.
The writer Vasily Terkin calls differently in the poem, then he is an “ordinary guy”, with weaknesses inherent in any person, then a hero.
Gradually, the image of the hero grows from an individual personality to the level of a literary generalization:
Serious, funny
No matter what rain, what snow, -
Into battle, forward, into pitch fire
He goes, saint and sinner,
Russian miracle man...
The fact that the writer does not separate Terkin from himself is also important. In the chapter "About Me" he writes:
I am responsible for everything around
And notice, if you haven't noticed,
Like Terkin, my hero,
Sometimes speaks for me.
Bringing the hero closer to himself, making Vasily Terkin his countryman, A.T. Tvardovsky speaks of a direct connection between people during the war years, that everyone strives for a peaceful life, for returning to their home.
Therefore, the poem by A.T. Tvardovsky "Vasily Terkin" is still so popular, because its main character looks like the most ordinary person.
Tvardovsky Alexander Trifonovich (1910 - 1971) - Russian poet, editor-in-chief of the Novy Mir magazine (1950 - 54, 1958 - 70). The poem "Vasily Terkin" (1941-45) is a vivid embodiment of the Russian character and popular feelings of the era of the Great Patriotic War. In the poem "For the distance - the distance" (1953 - 60, Lenin Prize, 1961) and lyrics (book "From the lyrics of these years. 1959 - 67)", 1967) - reflections on the movement of time, the artist's duty, about life and death . In the poem "Terkin in the Other World" (1963) - a satirical image of the bureaucratic deadening of life. In the final poem-confession "By the Right of Memory" (published in 1987) - the pathos of the uncompromising truth about the time of Stalinism, about the tragic inconsistency of the spiritual world of a person of this time. The poems "Country Ant" (1936), "House by the road" (1946); prose, critical articles. Tvardovsky's lyrical epic enriched and actualized the traditions of Russian classical poetry. State Prizes of the USSR (1941, 1946, 1947, 1971).
Tvardovsky was always interested in the fate of his country at turning points in history. History and people are its main theme. During the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) A. T. Tvardovsky wrote the poem "Vasily Terkin" about the Great Patriotic War. The fate of the people was decided. The poem is dedicated to the life of the people in the war.
Large-scale, capacious, collective images are created in “Country of Ants”, “Vasily Terkin”: events are enclosed in very broad plot frames, the poet turns to hyperbole and other means of fabulous convention. In the center of the poem is the image of Terkin, which unites the composition of the work into a single whole. Terkin Vasily Ivanovich - the protagonist of the poem, an ordinary infantryman from Smolensk peasants. Terkin embodies the best features of the Russian soldier and the people as a whole. The poem is built as a chain of episodes from the military life of the protagonist, which do not always have a direct event connection with each other. Terkin tells young soldiers about the everyday life of the war with humor; says that he has been fighting since the very beginning of the war, he was surrounded three times, was wounded. The fate of an ordinary soldier, one of those who bore the brunt of the war on his shoulders, becomes the personification of the national fortitude, the will to live. Terkin swims across the icy river twice to re-establish contact with advancing units; Terkin occupies a German dugout alone, but comes under fire from his own artillery; on the way to the front, Terkin finds himself in the house of old peasants, helping them with the housework; Terkin steps into hand-to-hand combat with the German and, with difficulty, overcoming, takes him prisoner. Unexpectedly for himself, Terkin shoots down a German attack aircraft from a rifle; envying him sergeant Terkin reassures: not the last. Terkin takes over command of the platoon when the commander is killed and breaks into the village first; however, the hero is again seriously wounded. Lying wounded in the field, Terkin converses with Death, who persuades him not to cling to life; in the end, the fighters discover him, and he tells them: “Remove this woman, I am a soldier still alive.” The image of Vasily Terkin combines the best moral qualities of the Russian people: patriotism, readiness for heroism, love for work. The character traits of the hero are interpreted by the poet as traits of the collective image: Terkin is inseparable and inseparable from the militant people. The author also emphasizes the patriotism and collectivism of the hero in a negative way: he emphasizes the absence in Terkin of the features of individualism, selfishness, and concern for his person. Terkin is characterized by respect and careful attitude of the master to the thing, as to the fruit of labor. It is not for nothing that he takes away the saw from his grandfather, which he mangles, not being able to sharpen it. Returning the finished saw to the owner, Vasily says: Come on, grandfather, take it, look. It will cut better than a new one, In vain do not measles tool. Terkin loves work and is not afraid of it. The simplicity of the hero is usually a synonym for his mass character, the absence of features of exclusivity in him. But this simplicity has another meaning in the poem: the transparent symbolism of the hero's surname, Terkin's “tolerate-tolerate” sets off his ability to overcome difficulties simply, easily. Such is his behavior even when he swims across an icy river or sleeps under a pine tree, completely content with an uncomfortable bed, and so on. In this simplicity of the hero, his calmness, sober outlook on life, important features of the national character are expressed. In the field of view of A. T. Tvardovsky in the poem “Vasily Terkin” is not only the front, but also those who work in the rear for the sake of victory: women and the elderly. The characters of the poem not only fight - they laugh, love, talk with each other, and most importantly - dream of a peaceful life. The reality of war is united by what is usually incompatible: tragedy and humor, courage and fear, life and death. The chapter “From the Author” depicts the process of “mythologization” of the main character of the poem. Terkin is called by the author "a holy and sinful Russian miracle man." The name of Vasily Terkin has become legendary and a household name.
The poem "Vasily Terkin" is distinguished by a kind of historicism. Conventionally, it can be divided into three parts, coinciding with the beginning, middle and end of the war. The poetic comprehension of the stages of the war creates a lyrical chronicle of events from the chronicle. A feeling of bitterness and sorrow fills the first part, faith in victory - the second, the joy of the liberation of the Fatherland becomes the leitmotif of the third part of the poem. This is explained by the fact that A. T. Tvardovsky created the poem gradually, throughout the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
The composition of the poem is also original. Not only individual chapters, but also periods, stanzas within chapters are distinguished by their completeness. This is due to the fact that the poem was printed in parts. And it should be accessible to the reader from “anywhere”.
The poet emphasized the veracity and reliability of broad pictures of life by calling Vasily Terkin not a poem, but a “book about a fighter”. The word “book” in this popular sense sounds somehow special in a significant way, like an object “serious, reliable, unconditional,” says Tvardovsky. Like all the heroes of the world epic, Terkin was granted immortality (it is no coincidence that in the poem of 1954 Terkin in the next world he finds himself in the afterlife, reminiscent of Soviet reality with his carrion) and at the same time - a lively optimism that makes him the personification of the national spirit. The poem was a huge hit with readers. Vasily Terkin became a folklore character, about which Tvardovsky remarked: "Where he came from, he goes there." The book received both official recognition (State Prize, 1946) and high praise from contemporaries.
In the infantry company - a new guy, Vasily Terkin. He is fighting for the second time in his life (the first war was Finnish). Vasily does not go into his pocket for a word, he is a good eater. In general, "a guy anywhere."
Terkin recalls how, in a detachment of ten people, during the retreat, he made his way from the western, "German" side to the east, to the front. On the way there was the native village of the commander, and the detachment went to his house. The wife fed the fighters and put them to bed. The next morning the soldiers left, leaving the village in German captivity. Terkin would like to go into this hut on the way back to bow to the "good simple woman."
There is a river crossing. The platoons are loaded onto the pontoons. Enemy fire breaks the crossing, but the first platoon managed to get over to the right bank. Those who remained on the left are waiting for the dawn, they do not know what to do next. Terkin sails from the right bank (winter, icy water). He reports that the first platoon is able to ensure the crossing if it is supported by fire.
Turkin makes contact. A shell explodes nearby. Seeing the German "cellar", Terkin occupies it. There, in ambush, waiting for the enemy. Kills a German officer, but he manages to wound him. On the "cellar" ours begin to beat. And Terkin is discovered by tankers and taken to the medical battalion ...
Terkin jokingly argues that it would be nice to get a medal and come with it after the war to a party in the village council.
Leaving the hospital, Terkin catches up with his company. They take him in a truck. Ahead is a stopped column of transport. Freezing. And there is only one accordion - for tankers. It belonged to their fallen commander. The tankers give the accordion to Terkin. He plays at first a sad melody, then a cheerful one, and the dance begins. The tankers remember that it was they who delivered the wounded Terkin to the medical battalion, and give him an accordion.
In the hut - grandfather (old soldier) and grandmother. Terkin comes to them. He fixes saws and watches for old people. He guesses that the grandmother has a hidden fat ... The grandmother treats Terkin. And the grandfather asks: “Will we beat the German?” Terkin answers, already leaving, from the threshold: “We will beat you, father.”
The bearded fighter lost his pouch. Terkin recalls that when he was wounded, he lost his hat, and the nurse girl gave him hers. He keeps this hat to this day. Terkin gives the bearded man his pouch, explains: in the war you can lose anything (even life and family), but not Russia.
Terkin hand-to-hand fights with the German. Wins. Returns from reconnaissance, leads with a "language".
At the front - spring. The buzzing of the cockchafer is replaced by the hum of a bomber. The soldiers lie face down. Only Terkin gets up, shoots at the plane from a rifle and shoots it down. Terkin is given an order.
Terkin recalls how he met a boy in the hospital who had already become a hero. He proudly emphasized that he was from near Tambov. And the native Smolensk region seemed to Terkin an "orphan". That's why he wanted to be a hero.
The general lets Terkin go home for a week. But the Germans still have his village ... And the general advises to wait for a vacation: "We are on the way with you."
Fight in the swamp for the small village of Borki, of which nothing remains. Terkin encourages comrades.
Terkin is sent to rest for a week. This is a "paradise" - a hut where you can eat four times a day and sleep as much as you like, on the bed, in the bed. At the end of the first day, Terkin thinks ... catches a passing truck and goes to his native company.
The platoon is under fire Going to take the village. the "dapper" lieutenant leads everyone. They kill him. Then Terkin understands that it is "to lead his turn." The village has been taken. And Terkin himself was seriously wounded. Terkin lies on the snow. Death persuades him to submit to her. But Vasily does not agree. People from the funeral team find him, carry him to the sanitary battalion.
After the hospital, Terkin returns to his company, and there everything is already different, the people are different. There… a new Turkin appeared. Only not Vasily, but Ivan. They argue who is the real Turkin? We are ready to cede this honor to each other. But the foreman announces that each company "will be given its own Terkin."
The village where Terkin repaired the saw and clock is under the Germans. The German took the watch from his grandfather and grandmother. The front line ran through the village. The old people had to move to the cellar. Our scouts come to them, among them - Terkin. He's already an officer. Terkin promises to bring a new watch from Berlin.
With the onset, Terkin passes by his native Smolensk village. Others take it. There is a crossing across the Dnieper. Terkin says goodbye to his native side, which is no longer in captivity, but in the rear.
Vasily talks about an orphan soldier who came on vacation to his native village, and there was nothing left there, the whole family died. A soldier needs to keep fighting. And we need to remember him, his grief. Don't forget about it when victory comes.
Road to Berlin. Grandma returns home from captivity. The soldiers give her a horse, a wagon, things ... "Tell me, they say, what Vasily Terkin supplied."
Bath in the depths of Germany, in some German house. Soldiers are steaming. Among them is one - there are a lot of scars on him from wounds, he knows how to bathe great, he doesn’t climb into his pocket for a word, he dresses - on the tunic of the order, medals. The soldiers say about him: "It's like Terkin."
"Vasily Terkin" was written throughout the Great Patriotic War - from 1941 to 1945. But the idea for the work arose much earlier, during the Finnish campaign of 1939-1940. A hero named Vasily Terkin first appears in the poetic feuilletons of the Tvardov period of the Soviet-Finnish war. Some chapters, which later became part of the poem "Vasily Terkin", were created long before the work took shape in its final form ("On a Halt", "Accordion", "Crossing"). After the end of the Finnish war, work on "Vasily Terkin" became the main business of Tvardovsky. It was during the Great Patriotic War that the text known to us under this name was created.
The first chapters of the poem "Vasily Terkin" were published in the front press in 1942. In addition, starting from the same year, the poem was published in separate editions.
Genre
Traditionally, the genre of "Vasily Terkin" is usually referred to as a poem. Such a genre definition is quite natural, since this work combines the lyrical and epic principles.
However, the author himself called "Vasily Terkin" "A book about a fighter." Tvardovsky explained this as follows: “The genre designation of The Book about a Fighter, which I settled on, was not the result of a desire to simply avoid the designation “poem”, “story”, etc. This coincided with the decision to write not a poem, not a story or a novel in verse, that is, not something that has its legalized and, to a certain extent, obligatory plot, compositional and other features.
These signs did not come out of me, but something still came out, and I designated this something as the “Book about a fighter.”
Plot
« Crossing". There is a river crossing. The platoons are loaded onto the pontoons. Enemy fire breaks the crossing, but the first platoon managed to get over to the right bank. Those who remained on the left are waiting for dawn, not knowing what to do next. Terkin sails from the right bank (winter, icy water). He reports that the first platoon is able to ensure the crossing if it is supported by fire.
« two soldiers". In the hut - grandfather (old soldier) and grandmother. Terkin comes to them. He fixes old men's saws and watches. The hero guesses that the grandmother has hidden fat and persuades him to treat him. Grandfather asks Terkin: “Shall we beat the German?” He answers, already leaving, from the threshold: “We will beat you, father.”
« Duel". Terkin fights hand-to-hand with the German and wins. Returns from reconnaissance, leads with a "language".
« death and warrior". Terkin is seriously wounded and lies in the snow. Death comes to him and persuades him to submit to her. Turkin disagrees. People from the funeral team find him and carry him to the medical battalion.
Composition
Conventionally, the poem "Vasily Terkin" can be divided into three parts: the first tells about the beginning of the war, the second is dedicated to the middle, and the third - to the end of the war.
A feeling of bitterness and sorrow fills the first part, faith in victory - the second, the joy of the liberation of the Fatherland becomes the leitmotif of the third part of the poem.
This is explained by the fact that Tvardovsky created the poem gradually, throughout the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
This is due to the originality of the composition.
The poem is built as a chain of episodes from the military life of the protagonist, which do not always have a direct event connection with each other.
Each next chapter of the poem is a description of one front-line episode.
Not only individual chapters, but also periods, stanzas within chapters are distinguished by their completeness. This is due to the fact that the poem was printed in parts, which means that it should be available to the reader from "anywhere".
It is no coincidence that Tvardovsky's work begins and ends with lyrical digressions. An open conversation with the reader brings the work closer to the inner world, creates an atmosphere of common involvement in the events.
The poem ends with a dedication to the fallen.
Subject
The central theme of the work is the life of the people in the war.
Despite the humor that permeates the poem from beginning to end, Tvardovsky portrays the war as a severe and tragic test of the vitality of the people, country, every person:
The howl goes holy and right.
Mortal combat is not for glory.
For life on earth.
And put a pillar of water
Suddenly a projectile. Pontoons in a row
There were a lot of people there -
Our haircut guys...
And saw for the first time
It will not be forgotten:
people are warm and lively
Going down, down, down...
Tvardovsky shows the victories, but also the drama of the retreat of the Soviet army, the life of a soldier, the fear of death, all the hardships and bitterness of war.
The war in "Vasily Terkin" is primarily blood, pain and loss. Thus, the author describes the grief of a fighter who hurries to his newly liberated native village and finds out that he no longer has a home or relatives.
... homeless and rootless,
Back in the battalion
The soldier ate his cold soup
After all, and he cried.
On the edge of a dry ditch
With a bitter, childish trembling of the mouth,
I cried, sitting with a spoon in my right,
With bread in the left, - an orphan.
The fighters start talking not at all about “high” topics - for example, about the advantage of a boot over a felt boot. And they end their “war-work” not under the columns of the Reichstag, not at a festive parade, but where any suffering usually ends in Russia - in a bathhouse.
But in "Vasily Terkin" we are talking not only about the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, which took millions of lives, but also about the war in general.
Philosophical problems of life and death, war and peace are raised here.
Tvardovsky comprehends the war through the prism of peace, through the image of eternal human values that are destroyed by the war.
The writer affirms the greatness and value of life through the denial of war and the death that it brings.
The image of Vasily Terkin
In the center of the poem is the image of Terkin, uniting the composition of the work into a single whole. Terkin Vasily Ivanovich - the protagonist of the poem, an ordinary infantryman from Smolensk peasants. He embodies the best features of the Russian soldier and the people as a whole.
Terkin tells young soldiers about the everyday life of the war with humor; says that he has been fighting since the very beginning of the war, he was surrounded three times, was wounded.
The fate of the protagonist, an ordinary soldier, one of those who bore the brunt of the war on his shoulders, becomes the personification of the national fortitude, the will to live.
It is no coincidence that the hero's surname is consonant with the word "rub": Terkin is an experienced soldier, a participant in the war with Finland. In the Great Patriotic War, he participates from the first days: "in service since June, in battle since July."
Terkin is the embodiment of the Russian character. He is distinguished neither by outstanding mental abilities, nor by outward perfection:
Let's be frank:
Just a guy himself
He is ordinary.
However, the guy though where.
Guy like that
In each company there is always
Yes, and in every platoon.
The image of Vasily Terkin embodies the best features of the people: courage, courage, love of work, modesty, simplicity, sense of humor.
Cheerfulness and natural humor help Terkin cope with fear and defeat death itself. Turkin often risks his own life. For example, he crosses the river in icy water and establishes communication, ensuring a favorable outcome of the battle (“Crossing”).
When the frozen Terkin receives medical attention, he jokes:
Rubbed, rubbed...
Suddenly he says, as in a dream: -
Doctor, doctor, can't you
Should I warm up from the inside?
Vasily Terkin is shown not only as a soldier, he is also a jack of all trades. In harsh military conditions, he did not lose his taste for peaceful work: he knows how to fix watches and sharpen an old saw (“Two Soldiers”). In addition, Terkin is also a master at playing the harmonica.
In a word, Terkin, the one who
A dashing soldier in the war
At the party, the guest is not superfluous,
At work, anywhere.
The prototype of Vasily Terkin was the entire Russian people.
It is no coincidence that in the chapter "Torkin - Terkin" we meet another fighter with the same surname and the same name, and he is also a hero.
Terkin speaks of himself in the plural, thus showing that he is a collective image.
Perhaps the most terrifying passage in The Book of the Fighter is the Death and the Warrior chapter. It tells about how death came to the hero, who "was lying unselected". Death persuaded him to surrender to her, but Terkin courageously refused, although it cost him a lot of effort. Death does not want to lose its prey so easily and does not leave the wounded. Finally, when Terkin began to lose strength, he set a condition for Death:
I'm not the worst and I'm not the best
That I will die in the war.
But at the end of it, listen
Will you give me a day off?
Will you give me the last day,
On the holiday of world glory,
Hear the victorious salute
What will be heard over Moscow?
From these words of the soldier it becomes clear that he is ready to part with his life, but to see the victory of his people. In a difficult struggle, the front-line brotherhood helps the protagonist. Even Death is surprised at this friendship and retreats.
Vasily Terkin is a generalized and at the same time deeply individualized image.
He is perceived as a completely real hero - dexterous, savvy, witty. Terkin is inseparable from the warring people.
The book is "inhabited" by many episodic persons: a grandfather, a soldier who fought during the First World War, and a grandmother, his wife, tankers in battle and on the march, a girl, a nurse in a hospital, a soldier's mother returning from captivity, a soldier who lost all his relatives , etc.
Almost all of these heroes are nameless, which, of course, is not accidental. This helps the author create a unified image of the Soviet people defending their land.
Vasily Terkin is the main character of the poem of the same name. In his image, the author put the features of the real Russian spirit and heroism. Even the surname makes sense: “grated kalach” is a person who has gone through many hardships, a real warrior. Vasily is a true fighter, which is clearly seen in his image.
A young man who, at the age of twenty-five, has already experienced “everything bad”, while retaining the desire to fight and fighting spirit. Each new test seems to harden him and make him more cheerful. Terkin is not just a soldier, the image of a peasant is read in him
- a man, direct and honest, strong, skillful and generous.
At the same time, Vasily perceives military reality very realistically, without romanticizing it. He sees pain, death, hunger, he knows the measure of human hardships and troubles. But at the same time, Terkin does not lose heart, he believes in his innocence and defends his native land. This helps the hero in any situation to maintain humanity and courage.
The image of Vasily Terkin is a bit reminiscent of folklore characters - ancient Russian heroes. He also combines militancy and heroism with innocence, even a touch of tomfoolery. At the same time, the description of the appearance of the hero
- not at all heroic: he is both small in stature and light in body. And his character is not so wonderful and fabulous, he is a real person, with his weaknesses, ordinary. A real Russian soldier - that's what Vasily looks like in the eyes of his comrades.
In conditions of war, the character of the hero reveals love for his native land and a willingness to stand up for it. He "doesn't care about rain or snow" - Vasily is ready to rush into battle at any time and protect his homeland from enemies.
In addition to courage and patriotism, Terkin also personifies diligence, he is a real craftsman. And with a saw, he is easily controlled, and he knows how to fix watches. With his unpretentious jokes, the ability to maintain the morale of his comrades and his broad soul, the hero immediately wins the sympathy of readers. Yes, and the author in the work repeatedly expresses his personal opinion about Terkin through his characteristics: “Russian miracle man”, “in war - a dashing soldier, at a party - a guest is not superfluous, at work - no matter where.”
Through the image of Vasily Terkin, Tvardovsky showed the reader how brave, courageous a working Soviet person can be. If in calm times he is a joker and a worker, then during the war all his fighting qualities are exposed, and Terkin is ready to rush into battle for his homeland without hesitation. It was thanks to such a “miracle man” that our great country did not fall before the enemies, it survived, because there were not so few such “Terkins” in the war.
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- Gorky's great work, which became known to the whole world, was created in 1902. Many have suffered with thoughts of human existence...
- Many wartime poets were destined to become front-line correspondents. “With a Watering Can and a Notebook” went from Khalkhin Gol to Germany and ...
- Karl Bryullov is a true master of the portrait genre, who was very attentive to the choice of the heroes of his paintings. In his paintings, he...
