The theme of the Second World War in the work The Fate of Man. “Publicism of the war years in the works of Sholokhov

Department of Literature and Teaching Methods

Research work:

"Military journalism

Sholokhova M. A.”

Introduction.
Military journalism in the works of Sholokhov M. A.

Journalism.
Articles and essays by Sholokhov during the Second World War.
Essays. General analysis of essays

Introduction.
To begin with, I would like to explain why I chose this particular topic for my research work. The reason is that at school there is not much time devoted to studying works about the Second World War, but this war is one of the most cruel and difficult for the Russian people. A lot of works were written by our writers of that time, and we studied so few of them at school. I read with pride about the exploits of our predecessors, and with tears in my eyes and sorrow in my heart about their deaths.
Sholokhov was also interesting to read because he wrote not just what he could hear, but what he himself went through and saw with his own eyes. Mikhail Alexandrovich himself took part in hostilities and therefore all his essays are so believable that they take your breath away. After getting acquainted with the works of Sholokhov M.A. on military topics, I became even more of a patriot of my Motherland.

1. In general, journalism during the war, diverse in form, individual in creative embodiment, was the focus of greatness, boundless courage and devotion of people to their Motherland. She had no equal in the entire history of the world.
From the first days of the war, genres designed to describe the lives of people at the front and in the rear, the world of their spiritual experiences and feelings, their attitude to various facts of the war, took a strong place on the pages of periodicals.
Sholokhov received Active participation in the fight against fascism, against the threat new war. He keenly felt its approach and could not hide his ardent hatred of fascism. Speaking at the XVIII Party Congress in March 1939, Sholokhov said excitedly:
“If the enemy attacks our country, we, Soviet writers, at the call of the party and government, will put down our pen and take up another weapon, so that in the salvo of the rifle corps our lead, heavy and hot, like our hatred of fascism, will fly and defeat the enemy! .. Having defeated our enemies, we will also write books about how we defeated these enemies. These books will serve our people and will remain as an edification to those of the invaders who accidentally find themselves undead..."
Preparing for military trials. Sholokhov was full of peaceful plans and plans. He is working on completing the second book of Virgin Soil Upturned and is planning new novel about the work of the collective farm intelligentsia and about the great changes in the countryside. The writer devotes a lot of energy to social activities. From distant steppe farms, from Don villages
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Walkers are drawn to their deputy in order to resolve pressing issues in their lives together with him. Together with the communists of the Vyoshensky district and the entire Rostov region, Sholokhov affirms the socialist newness in his native Don.
The enormous creative work of the writer and public figure was disrupted by the Great Patriotic War. The writer met the beginning of difficult trials for the Motherland in his native village, full, like all the people, of the determination to defend the independence of their Fatherland.
On July 23, 1941, a crowded meeting gathered in Vyoshenskaya, on the old village square. Residents of the village and surrounding villages came to see off the Cossacks leaving for the front. Sholokhov, speaking to fellow villagers, expressed confidence in the victory of our people over the Nazi invaders. “Fascist rulers,” he said, “who have thoroughly forgotten history, would do well to remember that in the past the Russian people more than once crushed the German hordes, mercilessly stopping their movements to the east, and that the keys to Berlin were already in the hands of Russian military leaders.”
On the same day, Sholokhov sent a telegram to Moscow in which he asked to be credited to the USSR Defense Fund for the award he had received. Stalin Prize first degree for the novel “Quiet Don” and expressed readiness at any moment “to join the ranks of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army and defend the socialist Motherland to the last drop of blood”

2. The very definition of journalism (from Latin Publicus - public) is a type of production dedicated to current problems and phenomena of the current life of society.
Journalism during the Second World War had no equal in all of world history. Writers, publicists, poets, journalists, playwrights stood up with the entire Soviet people to defend their Fatherland.
Sholokhov's work occupies a special place in military prose. And that's why. The writer found himself at the front in the very first days of the Great Patriotic War and, starting from 1941, his front-line essays were published one after another: “In the Cossack villages”, “On the way to the front”, “People of the Red Army”, “Prisoners of War”, Yuge" and others. The prophetic lines from the famous story “The Science of Hate” found the greatest response in the hearts of those who fought.
“The Science of Hate” is a story about fascist cannibals, about thoughtful routines in death camps, about the extreme brutality of thugs and hangers, who systematically, methodically accurately carried out the program of extermination and enslavement of peoples. All the more justified in the story is the hatred of the Soviet people, their powerful force of resistance,
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which was stronger than armored vehicles.
Immediately after the victory, summarizing the journalism of the war years, Sholokhov created the “Word about the Motherland.” This is both a hymn to the liberated land and a requiem to the dead. The position taken by the writer, assessing and comprehending the experience of formidable battles, is typical for the literature of the war and post-war years. This is a position of ardent intransigence towards the enemies of the Fatherland, grief over millions of victims, persistent optimism and confidence in future victories.
Here, for example, is the symbolic picture the author paints in “A Lay on the Motherland”: a half-filled trench, the skeleton of a killed Nazi, a shrapnel cut face and a mouth full of fertile black soil, from which a curly twig covered with flowers is already reaching towards the wall of the trench. “Yes, we have a lot of fertile land. And there will be more than enough of it to fill the mouths of everyone who decides to move from talking about all-out battles to action.”

The leading genre of artistic journalism during the Second World War was the essay - a genre that combines logical-rational and emotional-figurative ways of reflecting reality, presenting and analyzing real facts and phenomena public life accompanied by a direct interpretation of them by the author. The most common during the war were essays about events, portrait essays dedicated to war heroes, and the genre of sketch diary. The wartime essays were distinguished by their deep lyricism and selfless love for native land, and this could not but affect the reader. During the war years, the essay went through several stages - from the first days of the war, the days of retreat, when the word of the publicist united people to repel the enemy and called forward, to the victorious march of the Red Army through countries liberated from the fascist yoke. Sketches from the wartime presented us with a gallery of brightly individual heroes, awakening a feeling of hatred for the enemy and love for the Motherland.
The artistic originality of writers and journalists was convincingly demonstrated in the journalism of the Great Patriotic War. The peculiarity of journalism is that the pen of a master of words gave it the qualities of artistic prose. “In the days of war, a newspaper is air,” he wrote at the height of the Great Patriotic Ilya Ehrenburg. – People open a newspaper before opening a letter from a close friend. The newspaper is now a letter addressed to you personally. Your fate depends on what’s in the newspaper.” These words succinctly characterize the strength of the charge of optimism and confidence in victory that journalists and writers carried from the pages of newspapers and magazines, what role their speeches played in
education of patriotism.
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On July 4, 1941, the first military essay by M.A. appeared in Pravda. Sholokhov "On the Don". This is the story of how I met Soviet people the news of the war made him boil
noble rage, what a granite wall he stood up to defend the Fatherland. The writer draws portraits of his fellow countrymen, forces them to express their thoughts about the events that shook the world, to utter an excited word about the Motherland. The war destroyed
peaceful life brought grief to people.
“So they’re attacking us again. You, Fedya, look there, don’t let them down!” (volume 8), says a young dark woman, accompanying her husband to the front. And on the square, one after another, the villagers appeared, and there was not one who would falter, who would have a word of cowardice and confusion escape from his lips.
Excited calls, father's orders to his sons, parting speeches - “beat the enemy mercilessly, until complete destruction, both in the air and on the ground...”. This was the time when the military registration and enlistment offices received an endless stream of applications asking to be sent to the front... People looked up from the most urgent matters and took up the rifle.
The essay is extremely concise and laconic, but it widely reflects the breath of an alarming time, since what was said about the village was then in all corners of our country.
Sholokhov is restrained in expressing his own feelings; his essays do not contain pathetic words or exclamations. The power of their influence lies elsewhere... To hate the enemy, you need to look into his eyes, see the black darkness of his soul. The strength to defeat him is given not only by hatred, but also by contempt. The different faces look like they were Nazis who were captured. The writer talks about them in his essay “Prisoners of War”. Corporal Berkmann “considers himself a cultured, decent person and, of course, a resolute opponent of unnecessary cruelty” (Volume 8). His “culture” is just a mask that barely covers the grin of the beast.
Disgust and disgust are evoked by the images of Hitler’s thugs depicted in the essays “Prisoners of War”, “In the South”... Having been captured, hungry and ragged, they “like animals pounce on food and, getting burned, chomping, almost without chewing, swallow hastily, greedily... "(Volume 8). The writer does not resort to artistic tricks, showing the essence of those who imagine themselves superior race. They are brazen and self-confident as they torture unarmed civilians. "Captured by them external image changes dramatically” (Volume 8). The artist does not limit himself to pumping up details that enhance the repulsive impression.

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“This is what they look like here. But let’s give the floor to those who saw them in a different setting” (8
volume). The old collective farmer Kolesnichenko, who recently escaped from German captivity, talks about the monstrous atrocities committed by fascist beasts on Soviet soil. His speech is leisurely, but so much bitterness, hidden excitement and burning hatred,
breathless.
In Sholokhov's essays, the main, cherished idea - the idea of ​​the inevitability of the enemy's death - finds a unique artistic embodiment. Even the composition of his essays is dictated by it: the beginning and laconic ending, written in the form of the author’s thoughts or sketches of what he saw during his front-line wanderings, act as a kind of frame that gives completeness and completeness to the entire essay.
At the end of the essay is the image of a captured German, a peasant with large calloused hands, shocked by the terrible thought that “the entire German people will have to pay” for the atrocities inflicted on the people. Even more consistently and clearly the same artistic principle implemented in the essay “In the South.” “The owners of Donbass – that’s who we are, and we are going to put the exploded and flooded mines in order. It's clear?" (Volume 8) - this was the answer of a stocky, broad-shouldered man walking along the steppe road to the west in a column of people.
M.A. Sholokhov writes “The Lay of the Motherland.” This is a word of love and pride, anxious excitement and sad memories of the past: “Winter. Night. Stay a little in silence and solitude, my dear compatriot and friend, remember the recent past and in your mind’s eye you will see...” (Volume 8) - the writer addressed the people so soulfully and simply, as if together with them, surrendering to thoughts inspired by memories of the past. The writer entrusts to him, his compatriot and friend, his gift to take a mental look at the expanses of the Motherland and think about everything that now worries, excites, pleases and saddens millions of people in their native land. The lyrical image of the Motherland that appears at the beginning of the essay captivates. Quite recently, a military hurricane swept over Russian soil and left traces of destruction that have not yet been erased. However, not only this arouses heavy thoughts: “Remembering the past, you will involuntarily think, you cannot help but think about how many orphaned people are, how bitter a widow’s tear is, how painful the sigh of a child who did not live to see his father is, how tragic old age is in its inconsolable grief "
When in Sholokhov’s essay the image of the Motherland appears before your mind’s eye and portraits of those orphaned by the war emerge, you realize the humanistic legitimacy of the Soviet writer’s call to sacred hatred of the enemy: “My
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Mikhail Sholokhov said: “It is a sacred duty to love the country that gave us drink and nourished us, as birth mother" In times of disaster, every person involuntarily thinks about how important the Motherland is to him. For many people, this is not just a word. And to fight for the Motherland, to defend it, is not an empty duty to fulfill military duty. Wartime is serious test for a person. War brings blood, pain, tears, death.

In his works “Quiet Don” and “The Fate of Man,” Mikhail Sholokhov makes his heroes survive all the horrors of wartime. However, despite the obvious similarity of events, the war is presented here in a completely different form. What is the difference between the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War?

In the story “The Fate of Man,” Sholokhov reveals patriotism, true love people to their homeland. Sokolov is a driver, lost his family during the war, survived all the horrors of German captivity and the difficulties of military life. Despite all this, the hero managed to retain great tenderness and love for people. How does a hero perform in battle? During the rapid German offensive, part of our army was left without ammunition.

Sokolov was tasked with delivering the shells, while his path lay under direct German fire. Was the hero afraid? No. “And there was nothing to ask here. My comrades may be dying there, but I’ll be sick here?” Sokolov sacrificed himself to save his colleagues. Once captured, he does not lose faith. Every prisoner of war sincerely worries about the fate of his homeland. The author wanted to convey to us that the Great Patriotic War was a disaster that united every person who had only one goal in life: either to save, or to die saving.

In the epic novel “Quiet Don” the writer reveals to us the true face of the Civil War. What is its meaning? People do not fight to save the country and people. The front line is depicted as a complete hell. People do not care about their Motherland and about the actions of soldiers that cause enormous damage to it: “The ripened bread was trampled by the cavalry,” a hundred “crumpled the bread with iron horseshoes.” The writer emphasizes that for people in a civil war it is a real feat: to kill more opponents, to rob and loot: “And it was like this: people collided on the field of death..., they bumped into each other, were knocked down, struck blindly, mutilated themselves and their horses and fled, scared shot that killed a man, they left morally crippled. They called it a feat." People fight with each other, forgetting about morality and ethics, killing comrades, forgetting about family ties. Many people found it difficult to decide which side they should take. No one understood where the truth was? What to fight for?

Misha Koshevoy killed Pyotr Melekhov, Mitka Korshunov stabbed Koshevoy’s entire family, Grigory Melekhov hacked to death the captured sailors. The author shows us that the Civil War makes a person cruel, heartless, and forces him to kill loved ones. And all for what? Ideology adjusts them to suit itself.

"War is disgusting to the human mind and nature event." However, the Great Patriotic War tempers the soul of an honest, faithful and selfless person. The civil war is cruel and false. Sholokhov himself makes us think about the “monstrous absurdity of war.” IN " Quiet Don“The writer does not show a description of exploits, heroism, military courage, as in works about the Great Patriotic War, in which people did not fight for an ideology and did not destroy hundreds of lives to achieve their goal, to introduce everyone to a single faith. They only showed concern for the country that raised them.

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Regional budget educational institution

"Kursk Basic Medical College"

Academic subject:literature and Russian language

Speciality: Nursing

TsMK OOD, OGSE and EN

Individual project

Subject: « Military theme in the works of Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov»

Performed: student 1k. 2m/s

Yakubova Alina Dmitrievna

Checked: literature teacher

And Russian language

Milykh Tatyana Sergeevna

Date "___"_______________2017

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Introduction……………………………………………………………3-4

1. Main part……………………………………………………..5

1.1. Theoretical part……………………………………5-6

1.2. Practical part………………………………………………………7-10

Conclusion………………………………………………………11

References……………………………………………………………12

Applications…………………………………………………………………………………13-15

Introduction

"...Well, I had to take a sip of hot soup there, brother
up to the nostrils and above..."
"...Sometimes you don't sleep at night, you look into the darkness
empty eyes and you think:
“Why have you, life, maimed me so much?
Why did you distort it like that? "
I have no answer, neither in the dark nor in the clear
the sun...
No, I can’t wait!..”

M.A. Sholokhov “The Fate of Man.”

The epigraph of my project was a quote from M.A. Sholokhov’s story “The Fate of Man.” This quote contains makes a lot of sense. It talks about a person with a difficult fate.

Rationale for the topic:

More than 70 years have passed since the start of the Great Patriotic War, but the great feat of millions of soldiers is still alive in the memory of the people. This is largely due to the writers. The theme of war in Russian literature is the theme of the feat of the Russian people, because all wars in the history of the country, as a rule, were of a people's liberation nature. Among the books written on this topic, the works of Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov are especially close to me, such stories as “They Fought for the Motherland,”“The Fate of Man”, “The Word about the Motherland”.The heroes of his books are warm-hearted, sympathetic people with a pure soul. Some of them behave heroically on the battlefield, bravely fighting for their homeland.

Relevance of the topic:

To study the features of writing a military work by M.A. Sholokhov and their significance in literature.

Object of study:

The object of my research is the military theme in the story “The Fate of a Man” by M.A. Sholokhov.

Subject of study:

Military theme in the works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov.

Purpose of the study:

Show the contribution of the military creativity of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov.

Research objectives:

Study the biography of Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov;

Select one of the stories of Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov and analyze it;

Show the significance of military creativity in literature.

Theoretical part

Creative and life path M.A. Sholokhova.

On June 11 (May 24), 1905, Anastasia Danilovna Kuznetsova and Alexander Mikhailovich Sholokhov had a son, Mikhail. Mother is the daughter of a serf peasant who came to the Don from the Chernigov region. My father, a native of the Ryazan province, sowed grain on rented Cossack land and was a clerk managing a steam mill.

During the First World War, civil war(1914 – 1918) Sholokhov studied in Moscow, in the town of Boguchar, Voronezh province, in the village of Vyoshenskaya, and graduated from the 4th grade of the gymnasium. From 1920 to 1922 he lived with his family in the village of Karaginskaya, worked as a clerk, a teacher, and participated in the population census.

The influence of war on human destiny is a topic to which thousands of books are devoted. Everyone theoretically knows what war is. Those who felt its monstrous touch are much smaller. War is a constant companion human society. She contradicts everyone moral laws, but despite this, every year the number of people affected by it is growing.

The fate of a soldier

The image of a soldier has always inspired writers and filmmakers. In books and films, he evokes respect and admiration. In life - detached pity. The state needs soldiers as a nameless living force. His crippled fate can only worry those close to him. The influence of war on a person’s destiny is indelible, regardless of the reason for participating in it. And there can be many reasons. Starting from the desire to protect the homeland and ending with the desire to earn money. One way or another, it is impossible to win the war. Each participant is obviously defeated.

In 1929, a book was published, the author of which, fifteen years before this event, dreamed of getting to his homeland at all costs. Nothing excited his imagination. He wanted to see the war because he believed that only it could make him a real writer. His dream came true: he received many subjects, reflected them in his work and became known throughout the world. The book in question is A Farewell to Arms. Author - Ernest Hemingway.

The writer knew firsthand how war affects the destinies of people, how it kills and maims them. He divided people related to her into two categories. The first included those who fight on the front line. To the second - those who incite war. About the latest American classic judged unequivocally, believing that the instigators should be shot in the first days of hostilities. The influence of war on a person’s fate, according to Hemingway, is deadly. After all, it is nothing more than a “brazen, dirty crime.”

The illusion of immortality

Many young people begin to fight, subconsciously not realizing the possible outcome. Tragic end in their thoughts does not correspond with own destiny. The bullet will catch anyone, but not him. He will be able to bypass the mine safely. But the illusion of immortality and excitement dissipate like yesterday’s dream during the first military operations. And if the outcome is successful, another person returns home. He is not returning alone. There is a war with him, which becomes his companion until last days life.

Revenge

About the atrocities of Russian soldiers in last years began to speak almost openly. Books by German authors, eyewitnesses of the Red Army's march to Berlin, have been translated into Russian. The feeling of patriotism weakened for some time in Russia, which made it possible to write and talk about mass rapes and inhuman atrocities carried out by the victors on German territory in 1945. But what should be a person’s psychological reaction after an enemy appears in his native land and destroys his family and home? The influence of war on a person’s fate is impartial and does not depend on which camp he belongs to. Everyone becomes a victim. The true culprits of such crimes remain, as a rule, unpunished.

About responsibility

In 1945-1946, a trial was held in Nuremberg to try the leaders of Hitler's Germany. The convicts were sentenced to death penalty or long-term imprisonment. As a result of the titanic work of investigators and lawyers, sentences were handed down that corresponded to the gravity of the crime committed.

After 1945, wars continue throughout the world. But the people who unleash them are confident of their absolute impunity. More than half a million Soviet soldiers died during Afghan war. Approximately fourteen thousand Russian military personnel account for casualties in Chechen war. But no one was punished for the madness unleashed. None of the perpetrators of these crimes died. The influence of war on a person is even more terrible because in some, although in rare cases, it contributes to material enrichment and strengthening of power.

Is war a noble cause?

Five hundred years ago, the leader of the state personally led his subjects into an attack. He took the same risks as ordinary soldiers. Over the past two hundred years the picture has changed. The influence of war on people has become deeper because there is no justice and nobility in it. Military masterminds prefer to sit in the rear, hiding behind the backs of their soldiers.

Ordinary soldiers, finding themselves on the front line, are guided by a persistent desire to escape at any cost. There is a “shoot first” rule for this. The one who shoots second inevitably dies. And the soldier, when he pulls the trigger, no longer thinks about the fact that there is a person in front of him. A click occurs in the psyche, after which living among people who are not versed in the horrors of war is difficult, almost impossible.

More than twenty-five million people died in the Great Patriotic War. Each Soviet family knew grief. And this grief left a deep, painful imprint that was passed on even to descendants. A woman sniper with 309 lives to her credit commands respect. But in modern world the former soldier will not find understanding. Talking about his murders is more likely to cause alienation. How does war affect a person's destiny? modern society? The same as for a participant in the liberation of Soviet land from the German occupiers. The only difference is that the defender of his land was a hero, and whoever fought on the opposite side was a criminal. Today, the war is devoid of meaning and patriotism. Not even the fictitious idea for which it is kindled has been created.

Lost generation

Hemingway, Remarque and other authors of the 20th century wrote about how war affects the destinies of people. It is extremely difficult for an immature person to post-war years adapt to peaceful life. They have not yet had time to receive an education, their moral positions before appearing at the recruiting station they were not strong enough. The war destroyed in them what had not yet appeared. And after it - alcoholism, suicide, madness.

Nobody needs these people; they are lost to society. There is only one person who will accept the crippled fighter for who he has become, and will not turn away or abandon him. This person is his mother.

Woman at war

A mother who loses her son is unable to come to terms with it. No matter how heroically a soldier dies, the woman who gave birth to him will never be able to come to terms with his death. Patriotism and lofty words lose their meaning and become absurd next to her grief. The influence of war becomes unbearable when this person is a woman. AND we're talking about not only about soldiers’ mothers, but also about those who, like men, take up arms. A woman was created for the birth of a new life, but not for its destruction.

Children and war

What is war not worth? She's not worth it human life, maternal grief. And she is not able to justify a single child’s tears. But those who initiate this bloody crime are not touched even by the cry of a child. World history is full of terrible pages that tell of brutal crimes against children. Although history is a science, necessary for a person in order to avoid the mistakes of the past, people continue to repeat them.

Children not only die in war, they die after it. But not physically, but mentally. It was after the First World War that the term “child neglect” appeared. This social phenomenon has different prerequisites for its occurrence. But the most powerful of them is war.

In the twenties, orphaned children of war filled the cities. They had to learn to survive. They did this through begging and theft. The first steps into a life in which they were hated turned them into criminals and immoral beings. How does war affect the fate of a person who is just beginning to live? She is depriving him of his future. But only Lucky case and someone’s participation can turn a child who lost his parents in war into a full-fledged member of society. The impact of war on children is so profound that the country that was involved in it has to suffer its consequences for decades.

Fighters today are divided into “killers” and “heroes.” They are neither one nor the other. A soldier is someone who is twice unlucky. The first time was when he went to the front. The second time - when I returned from there. Murder depresses a person. Sometimes awareness comes not immediately, but much later. And then hatred and a desire for revenge settles in the soul, which makes not only the former soldier unhappy, but also his loved ones. And for this it is necessary to judge the organizers of the war, those who, according to Leo Tolstoy, being the lowest and most vicious people, received power and glory as a result of the implementation of their plans.

The Great Patriotic War passed through the destinies of millions of Soviet people, leaving behind a difficult memory: pain, anger, suffering, fear. During the war years, many lost their dearest and closest people, many experienced severe hardships. Rethinking of military events and human actions occurs later. Appear in the literature works of art, in which, through the prism of the author’s perception, an assessment of what is happening in difficult times is given war time.
Mikhail Sholokhov could not ignore the topic that concerned everyone and therefore wrote short story“The Fate of Man”, touching on the issue heroic epic. At the center of the story are wartime events that changed the life of Andrei Sokolov, the main character of the work. The writer does not describe military events in detail; this is not the author’s task. The writer's goal is to show key episodes that influenced the development of the hero’s personality. The most important event in the life of Andrei Sokolov there is captivity. It is in the hands of the fascists, in the face of mortal danger, that different sides the character of the character, it is here that the war appears to the reader without embellishment, revealing the essence of people: the vile, vile traitor Kryzhnev; real doctor, who “did his great work both in captivity and in the darkness”; “such a skinny, snub-nosed guy,” platoon commander. Andrei Sokolov had to endure inhuman torment in captivity, but the main thing is that he managed to preserve his honor and dignity. The climax The narrative is the scene at Commandant Muller's, where they brought the exhausted, hungry, tired hero, but even there he showed the enemy the strength of the Russian soldier. Andrei Sokolov’s action (he drank three glasses of vodka without a snack: he didn’t want to choke on a handout) surprised Muller: “That’s it, Sokolov, you are a real Russian soldier. You are a brave soldier." The war appears to the reader without embellishment: after escaping from captivity, already in the hospital, the hero receives terrible news from home about the death of his family: his wife and two daughters. The heavy war machine spares no one: neither women nor children. The final blow of fate was the death of Anatoly’s eldest son on May 9, Victory Day, at the hands of a German sniper.
War takes away the most precious things from people: family, loved ones. In parallel with the life of Andrei Sokolov, story line little boy Vanyusha, whom the war also made an orphan, depriving his relatives of his mother and father.
This is the assessment the writer gives to his two heroes: “Two orphaned people, two grains of sand, thrown into foreign lands by a military hurricane of unprecedented force...”. War condemns people to suffering, but it also develops will, character, when one wants to believe “that this Russian man, a man of unbending will, will endure, and near his father’s shoulder will grow one who, having matured, will be able to endure everything, overcome everything on his way , if his homeland calls for it.”

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5. Humanistic theme in M. Sholokhov's story The Fate of Man. Writers have always thought about humanism. In the 20th century, the humanistic theme was also heard in works dedicated to events Great Patriotic War. War is a tragedy. It brings destruction and sacrifice, separation and death. Read More......
6. The problem of a person’s moral choice has always been especially significant in Russian literature. Exactly at difficult situations doing this or that moral choice, a person truly reveals his true moral qualities, showing how worthy he is of the title of Man. The story of M. A. Sholokhov “The Fate of a Man” Read More ......
7. Without a doubt, the work of M. Sholokhov is known all over the world. His role in world literature is enormous, for this man in his works raised the most problematic issues surrounding reality. In my opinion, a feature of Sholokhov’s work is his objectivity and ability to convey events Read More......
8. Great Patriotic War left a deep mark on the history of our country. She showed all her cruelty and inhumanity. It is no coincidence that the theme of war is reflected in many works of our writers. With the power of their talent, they showed all the horror of military events, the difficulties that befell Read More......