Topic: A. Platonov “Multi-colored butterfly”
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TEST HOME TASK.
A.P. Platonov "Multi-colored butterfly"
Determine the genre of the work. Prove your point.
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On what territory of Russia does the work take place?
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Where did Anisya work before retirement? What did she think about her life?
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What is the name of the main character?
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After what events did the boy say the following words: “I accidentally,” he said. Why are you all dying from me?
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For what reason did Timosha not return home?
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For what reason did Timosha go blind?
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What helped Timosha stay alive and break through the mountain?
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How many years did mother wait for Timosha?
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How did Timosha become small again?
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Restore the sequence of events.
The mother sank to the stone ground and pressed her face to it.
His mother pressed him to her chest; she wanted all the breath of her life to pass to her son and for her love to become his strength and life.
The butterfly rose from the stone and flew over the path up the mountain. Timosha ran after her to look at her again, because he hadn’t seen enough.
He sat down under the stone wall of the mountain and began to scratch it with his nails.
Grandfather Ulyan came once a year to visit Anisya
“And I’ll grab the star!” thought Timosha. “The star is even better, but now I don’t need the butterfly.”
Every morning he ran away from home to the mountains to play there, talk to the stones of the mountains that responded to his voice, and catch colorful butterflies.
The old mother breathed her last happy breath, left her son and died.
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What is the conclusion in this legend? What does she teach?
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13. Compose a syncwine.
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"parable main thought"
Reading lesson based on the work
A. P. Platonova
"Colorful Butterfly"
GBOU, School No. 590, Yukhova E.E.
The name of the legend is the phrase the main word, which will be, you will recognize its noun by guessing the riddle:
The flower is fragrant A flying flower sat down.
What kind of butterfly is there?
Legend is a poetic story about an event.
The butterfly was the reason for his son leaving home.
Timosha went after her, as if after his dream.
Choose the statement that you think
opinion can determine the main
legend's thought:
A - about the separation of mother and son B - about eternal maternal love IN - about the dream that took the son away from his mother G - about the epiphany of a son who appreciated strength
mother's love
R. Gamzatov Don't leave mothers alone They grow old from loneliness. Among worries, love and books Don't forget to be kind to them.
OPEN LESSON IN LITERARY READING GRADE 3
TOPIC: Andrey Andreevich Platonov “Multi-colored butterfly”
GOAL: To introduce students to the author Andrei Andreevich Platonov and his work “The Multi-Colored Butterfly”
TASKS:
Educational: introduce the main idea of A.P.’s work. Platonov “Multi-colored butterfly”;
Developmental: develop the ability to express your thoughts and feelings, attention;
Educational: cultivate a sense of duty to family and friends.
Cognitive UUD
1. Convert information from one form to another: retell short texts.2. Draw conclusions as a result of joint work between the class and the teacher.3. Find answers to questions in the text and illustrations.
Communicative UUD1. We develop the ability to listen and understand the speech of others.2. Read and retell the text expressively.3. Express your thoughts orally and in writing.4. Ability to work in groups. Regulatory UUD1. Determine and formulate the purpose of the activity in the lesson with the help of the teacher.2. Explain the sequence of actions in the lesson.3. Learn to express your assumption (version) based on working with textbook illustrations.4. Learn to work according to the plan proposed by the teacher. Personal results 1. We develop the ability to show our attitude towards the characters and express emotions.2. Evaluate actions in accordance with a specific situation. 3. We form motivation for learning and purposeful cognitive activity.
TYPE OF LESSON: Learning new knowledge.
TYPE OF LESSON: New approaches to learning new knowledge: social interaction of students in the lesson
TEACHING METHODS:
- according to the source of acquired knowledge: verbal, visual.
- according to the method of organizing cognitive activity:
partially search, explanatory and illustrative.
FORM OF TRAINING: individual, group.
DURING THE CLASSES
Lesson stages, time Teacher activities Student activities
Org. Moment
Creating a comfortable atmosphere
Psychological mood Greeting
Hello palms - clap, clap.
Hello legs - top, top.
Hello my nose - beep, beep.
Hello everyone.
We sit down quietly. Execute
Creating a problematic situation
Solving a problem situation
Formulation of the lesson topic
Work with text
Work in groups on the text read
Forecasting
House. Exercise
Reflection
Lesson summary
Today, we continue to work with the section “He who honors his parents never perishes.” WE WILL WORK IN GROUPS.
Can anyone remind me of the rules for working in a group?
- work amicably and actively; - be able to listen to each other; - respect each other; - listen to the answers of the other group.
Today's lesson motto:
Together it’s not difficult, together it’s not cramped, together it’s easy and always interesting!
Today we will work with a new piece. But who wrote it, try to decipher it yourself in groups.
In front of you are the syllables (WHITE COLOR), you need to arrange them in such an order to get the author's surname.
SO WHOSE WORK WILL YOU AND I BE READING?
Well done!
Indeed, today we will read the work of A.P. PLATOnov
A story about Andrei Platonovich Platonov. A.P. Platonov (Klimentov) was born in 1899 in the settlement (village, suburb) Yamskaya near Voronezh. He studied at a parish school, then at a city school. Upon completion, I began work. Life, like creative destiny, was difficult. But it strengthened his character. He loved books very much. I read and wrote about everything.
- Today we will get acquainted with one of the works.
And you will find out what it is called if you guess the riddle.
It flutters and dances over the flower, waving its patterned fan. (Butterfly)
Try to formulate the topic of the lesson
Let's open the textbook on page 117 and look at this work.
Read
What goals do you think we should achieve today?
That's right, and also you and me
What do you think a legend is?
Let's check our assumption with the textbook
And what do you think
1 PART
Place the text in front of you and carefully monitor which words you do not understand, underline with a simple pencil.
READING BY TEACHER
STOP
What words were unclear?
(HUT, THIN, TILES, ANGRY)
Let's see what they mean.
Conversation
1.Where did Anisya live?
2.Where did she work?
3.Is it working now?
4. What kind of grief happened to Anisya?
Anisya, MOTHER, she had a son, but one day he left home and did not return. But she was still waiting for him. Mom hopes and waits for her son to return to her.
PART 2
We continue to work with the text.
AUDIO RECORDING
STOP
Conversation, selective reading
1. Why did Timoshka run away from home? (Play, talk with stones, catch butterflies) 2. How did he behave after the walks? (I was sad that the butterfly couldn’t fly.) 3. What did your mother say and advise? Read it. (- She won’t die and won’t live, - said the mother. - She needs to fly in order to live, but you caught her and took her in your hands, wiped her wings, and she became sick... Don’t catch them!) 4. Who paved a path up the mountain? Read it. (- Paved by an unknown man who went along it to heaven through the highest mountain - he left and never returned; he was childless, did not love anyone in the world, the earth was not dear to him, and everyone forgot about him;).
This is a warning for Timosha, but neither he nor his mother understood this.
PHYSICAL MINUTE (BUTTERFLY)
PART 3
I'll start, and who will continue. We're watching.
1. Who did Timosha meet in the mountains? (With a butterfly). 3. What was unusual about her? Read it. (She was big, like a bird, and her wings were in colors that Timosha had never seen. From the trembling of her wings, it seemed to the boy that the light was leaving her and sounded like a quiet voice calling him.) 4. How did events develop further? (I wanted to catch a butterfly, but it didn’t work out.) 5. What desire turned out to be stronger than the desire to return home to the mother’s voice? (Catch only one butterfly, the best, the last) 6. How does this characterize the hero? (Stubborn, disobedient, purposeful) 7. What did Timosha see at the end of the path? (The whole sky, and close to it a big kind squinting star was shining)
8. What happened to TIMOSHIA? (fell into the abyss)
EXERCISE MINUTE FOR THE EYES
We have read 3 parts of the work, let's now work with them in a group.
Take yellow leaves.
Each group has its own task (YELLOW). Read it carefully.
And do it.
And we'll check it later.
Sinkwine on the theme MOM
Sinkwine on the theme of TIMOSH
Sinkwine based on the theme BUTTERFLY
Passport of the hero of the work
Passport of the hero of the work
Well done!
AND NOW LET'S REMEMBER AGAIN WHAT HAPPENED TO TIMOSHA.
Take a green leaf.
Now let's think about what will happen next. Each group has its own piece of paper with a number (GREEN). We need to fill out a piece of paper answering the question.
1.What will happen to TIMOSHIA next?
2. Will the mother wait for her son?
One person from the group reads it and hangs it on a tree.
And what actually happened next, we will find out in the next lesson. At home, you will need to read the work to the end, and then you and I will find out whether we correctly predicted the fate of the boy and mother.
Guys, there are butterflies in front of you, let us, together with you, distribute them to the stars that we have on the board.
REFLECTION
1 – It was difficult, I couldn’t complete and understand everything.
2 – I managed almost everything myself, but there is still something to work on!
3 – I’m great! Everything worked out for me, I understood everything and it worked perfectly!
Well done. I really liked the way you worked. Did you like the lesson, if yes, clap your hands, if not, stomp your feet, if you don’t know yet, just sit down nicely. Listening
Read in chorus
Execute
Answer
Listening
Guessing
Formulate
Reading
Children follow the text and underline unclear words.
Word parsing
Answer questions
Reading
Selectively read the text
Answer
Listening
Answer
Group work
Read the result
Answer questions
Sections: Primary School
Two hours are allotted for studying the work on calendar planning. The lessons are built using the technology of forming the type of correct reading activity, developed by Professor N.N. Svetlovskaya.
The first lesson involved working with the text before reading. Using a computer presentation, students got acquainted with the author A.P. Platonov, based on the keywords and illustrations of the textbook, made an assumption about the characters, theme and content of the text. At the stage of working with the text while reading, students read the text in parts with comments and answered questions aimed at understanding the text. At the end of the first lesson, students compared the content of the text with their assumptions. The students were given a task to take home - prepare a role-based reading of the last part of the text and think about the answers to the questions: do you think this is a fairy tale or a story? What is real here and what is fiction?
Target:
- create conditions for achieving an understanding of the text of the legend “The Multi-Colored Butterfly” at the semantic level;
- develop the ability to analyze, generalize, draw conclusions, express your thoughts and feelings;
- cultivate moral qualities - respect and love for the mother, kindness, responsiveness, attention to others.
During the classes
1. Organizational stage. Greeting, organization of attention.
2. Working with text while reading.
Preparing students for active and conscious mastery of a new topic.
a) Conversation about the work of A.P. Platonov.
What work did we learn about in the last lesson? Name its author.
What can you tell us about Andrei Platonovich Platonov?
Student answers.
Did you like Platonov's work? How?
What do you remember most?
Generalization.
b) Reading the final part of the work by role.
The “Great Answer” technique is used:
Reading the final part by role - p. 127-128. Evaluating student responses.
Why do you think the work ended so sadly?
Discussion of answers.
3. Work with the work after reading.
a) Determination of the genre of the work.
What do you think is real and what is fiction?
How would you define the genre of this work, what is it: a fairy tale, a story...
Working with the educational dictionary of the Russian language by V.V. Repkin - finding the meaning of a word.
(Legend is a legend about some feat, hero).
Why is this a legend?
Draw children's attention to the fact that a legend is characterized by the word tradition.
Working with a dictionary.
Find the meaning of the word “tradition”.
(Tradition is a story about the past, passed down from generation to generation).
Why do you need to keep this legend in your memory for so long? What does she teach us?
Summarizing student responses.
b) compilation of characteristics of the main characters of the legend.
Name the main characters of the legend. (Mom Anisya, Timosha)
Now we will make a cluster about the main characters.
Groups choose a hero to form a cluster about. The “Magnet” strategy is used.
Just as a magnet attracts metal objects, so you, like a magnet, will “attract” everything that the narrator tells us about his main characters, their actions, feelings, thoughts.
The work is done on large sheets.
Discussion of completed work. Generalization.
c) drawing up an associative map.
Are there any other heroes in the legend?
Let's return to the name of the legend.
There is a colored drawing of a butterfly on the board. Collective work - drawing up an associative map.
What can the image of a butterfly symbolize? What is it pointing to?
Draw three arrows from the butterfly drawing and write the word “fate” on the right.
How do you understand the meaning of the word “fate”.
Working with the dictionary – “fate - coincidence”.
What important event changed the life of Timosha and his mother? (meeting with a butterfly)
How has their life changed?
An association card is filled out on the board: under the word “fate” - mom is waiting, Timosha destroys mountains, goes to mom.
The word “dream” is signed on the left arrow from the picture.
What is a dream?
Working with a dictionary – “a dream is what a person strives for.”
What does mom strive for? Timosha?
There is a note on the board: under the word “dream” - mother: to meet her son, Timosha: to catch a butterfly, to reach his mother.
We have the third arrow left blank. Think about what sentence contains the idea of the entire legend. Take your time and discuss. (“Her life passed on to her son through love”).
Under the third arrow there is a signature - Mother's love.
What is mother's love?
Discussion.
There is one wonderful parable about maternal love. One mother was asked which of her children she loves best? To which she replied: “The one who is sick until he is cured. The one who left until he returns. Little, until he grew up. And everyone until I die...”
What does mom mean to you?
Discussion.
4. Doing creative work - draw a butterfly on sheets of paper, write: mom - ...
5. The stage of informing students about the remote work and instructing them on its implementation.
DZ- finish creative work.
Literature:
- Repkin V.V. Educational dictionary of the Russian language. Textbook for grades 2-5 (Developmental education program). – Peleng Publishing House, Tomsk, 1993.
- Materials from the site “First of September”
Target: Engage intellectual and emotional forces to reflect on the relationship between mother and child.
Tasks:
Educational:
- Improve reading skills.
- Form correct, conscious reading.
- Actively develop students’ speech skills.
- Teach children not only to read, but also to think.
Educational:
- To develop in children the ability to fully perceive a work of art and to respond emotionally to what they read.
- Develop the skills to predict, analyze, generalize, draw conclusions, express your thoughts and feelings.
- Develop skills in working with information.
Educational:
- Cultivate respect and love for mother
- To cultivate moral qualities: kindness, responsiveness, sensitivity, attention to others
- To develop students’ communication skills (work in pairs)
- Create emotionally favorable conditions in the classroom.
Lesson type: generalization of material
Equipment: portrait of A.P. Platonov, presentation, text, pictures “Butterflies”.
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Summary of a literary reading lesson in grade 3-B
UMK "Harmony"
Subject:
A.P. Platonov
"Colorful Butterfly"
Lesson developed
primary school teacher
GBOU secondary school No. 29
Yakimenko T.D.
(teacher of the highest category)
Technologies used:
- problem-based learning technology;
- information and communication technologies;
- gaming technologies;
- health-saving technologies.
Forms of work:
- individual;
- group.
Sevastopol
2014 – 2015 academic year G.
Topic: A.P. Platonov "Multi-colored butterfly"
Target: Engage intellectual and emotional forces to reflect on the relationship between mother and child.
Tasks:
Educational:
- Improve reading skills.
- Form correct, conscious reading.
- Actively develop students’ speech skills.
- Teach children not only to read, but also to think.
Educational:
- To develop in children the ability to fully perceive a work of art and to respond emotionally to what they read.
- Develop the skills to predict, analyze, generalize, draw conclusions, express your thoughts and feelings.
- Develop skills in working with information.
Educational:
- Cultivate respect and love for mother
- To cultivate moral qualities: kindness, responsiveness, sensitivity, attention to others
- To develop students’ communication skills (work in pairs)
- Create emotionally favorable conditions in the classroom.
Lesson type: generalization of material
Equipment: portrait of A.P. Platonov, presentation, text, pictures “Butterflies”.
During the classes
I. Organizational moment.
People stop thinking when they stop reading.
Only those who don’t read anything think about nothing.
Denis Diderot
How do you understand this statement?
In order for our lesson to be useful for you, we need to remember the “golden rules of the lesson”
1. Be active!
2. Express your opinion!
3. Listen to the opinions of others!
5. Be careful!
II.Motivation of educational activities.
What do we learn in reading lessons?
In reading lessons we learn to speak, read, and retell beautifully.
Therefore, the first place is given to the ability to breathe evenly and deeply - to control your breathing and the ability to speak loudly, loudly, but without shouting.
Speech warm-up
- Tongue exercises:“Roll the ball in your mouth,” “Play the clatter of hooves.”
- Breathing exercises:“Like a ball letting out air.”
- Working on expressive reading(to myself, out loud).
It was quiet in the house in the morning,
I wrote my mother’s name on my palm.
Not in a notebook, on a piece of paper,
Not on a stone wall,
I wrote my mother's name on my hand.
It was quiet in the house in the morning,
It became noisy during the day.
“What did you hide in your palm?” -
They started asking me.
I unclenched my palm, I held happiness.
(Agniya Barto)
III.Updating knowledge.
What work did we learn about in the last lesson?
What is the genre this work? (Legend)
Remember the meaning of the word legend.
Legend - a fantastic story, a poetic legend about an event or person.
Which section is included in the work of A.P. Platonov? (He who honors his parents never perishes.)
What is the legend about? Name topic this work.
What do you think the writer wanted to tell us? What is the main idea ( idea) this work? (Children's statements)
Can you answer this question now? (No)
What needs to be done for this? (Analyze the legend)
IV.Message of the topic of the lesson. Setting a learning task.
Today we will continue to work on the legend of A.P. Platonov “The Multi-Colored Butterfly”.
What learning task will we set for ourselves in the lesson? (Analyze the work of A.P. Platonov “The Multi-Colored Butterfly” and formulate the idea).
At home you read the legend to the end. What thoughts and feelings did you have while reading?
Name the main characters of the legend? (Mother, Timosha, butterfly)
V. Solving a problematic problem. Working with a cluster (characteristics of heroes)
- To solve the problem, I propose to characterize the characters and fill out the cluster.
1. Characteristics of Timosha.
Where did Timosha and his mother live? (On the Black Sea coast in a stone hut)
- What happened to the boy? (Ran away from home and never returned)
- Why did Timosha run away from home? (Play, talk to stones, catch butterflies)
How does this characterize him? (He was curious )
- How did he behave after the walks? (I was sad that the butterfly couldn’t fly.)
What qualities does this indicate? (Pity, compassion)
- What did his mother advise him? Read it. (“She won’t die and won’t live,” said the mother. “She needs to fly in order to live, but you caught her and took her in your hands, wiped her wings, and she became sick... Don’t catch them!”
- Who paved the path up the mountain? Read. (Paved by an unknown man who went along it to heaven through the highest mountain - he left and never returned; he was childless, did not love anyone in the world, the earth was not dear to him, and everyone forgot about him;).
This is a warning for Timosha, but neither he nor his mother understood this.
What did Timosha see when returning home one evening? (A drop of dew fell on a blade of grass).
What conclusion did Timosha make? (This is a good drop!) Why is she kind?
What feature characterizes Timosha in this situation? ( Observant )
- Who was your next meeting? (With a butterfly).
-What was unusual about her? Read. (She was big, like a bird, and her wings were in colors that Timosha had never seen. From the trembling of her wings, it seemed to the boy that the light was leaving her and sounded like a quiet voice calling him.)
- Why did Timosha decide that the butterfly was evil? (Didn't speak, didn't look at him.)
- What desire was stronger than the desire to return home to your mother’s voice? (Catch only one butterfly, the best one, the last one)
- How does this characterize the hero? (Stubborn, naughty, purposeful)
- What did Timosha see at the end of the path? (The whole sky, and close to it a big kind squinting star was shining)
Where did Timosha end up? (At the bottom of the abyss)
Read the description of the abyss in which the boy found himself.
-Why did he cry? (From separation from mother)
What does this mean? (About repentance, about love for mother)
- What did Timosha do to return to his mother? (He scratched the wall with his nails; he beat and crushed the mountain, making his way)
- How does this characterize him? ( Hardworking )
Physical exercise.
In the morning the butterfly woke up
She smiled and stretched.
She washed herself with dew,
Two-twirled gracefully,
Three-quietly sat down,
Flew off at four.
2. Characteristics of the mother.
How did the mother live all this time? (Waiting for her son, she counted the time, looked into the starry sky, it seemed to her that she saw her son running in the Milky Way, she asked to return, saying: “No need, let everything be, then you will be too”)
How can you characterize it? (Loving, believes that her son is alive, waiting to meet)
How did the meeting happen? (Timosha heard a bucket rattling from inside the stone mountain. By the sound he recognized that it was his mother’s bucket and screamed).
What did Timosha say? Read it. (Mom, I forgot who I am)
- Why didn’t Timosha see his mother? (Blinded)
- What did the mother do when she saw her son? Read it. (The mother pressed him to her breast; she wanted all the breath of her life to pass to her son and for her love to become his strength and life)
- What words are spoken aboutmother's eternal love? Read it. (Her life passed on to her son with love)
- How to characterize the act of sacrificing one’s life in the name of a loved one? (Self-sacrifice)
3.Characteristics of the butterfly.
What role did the image of a butterfly play in the legend? (This is a symbol)
What does the butterfly symbolize in this work?(Dream)
What kind of butterfly was it? (Big, beautiful, colorful, fluttering). Does it look like a dream?
Has Timosha achieved this big dream? Why?
So can we say that the butterfly symbolizes a dream?
VI. Generalization of what has been learned.
1. Compiling a syncwine. (Work in groups)
And now I suggest you work in groups and compose a syncway. What is syncwine?
Sinkwine is an unusual poem consisting of 5 lines.
Each group has its own task. Read it carefully and follow it.
And we'll check it later.
- group - cinquain on the theme MOM
- group - syncwine on the theme of TIMOSH
- group - cinquain on the theme BUTTERFLY
For example:
1. MOTHER
2. Kind, affectionate.
3. Loves, hopes, grows old.
4. Will always forgive his children.
5. Love.
1.TIMOSHA
2. Tenacious, inquisitive.
3. Runs away, catches, hammers.
4. Passionate about your dream.
5. Fate.
1. BUTTERFLY
2. Beautiful, colorful.
3. Flies, flutters, glows.
4. One of the most beautiful creatures.
5. Dream.
2. Conclusion.
Can we now answer the question posed to us at the beginning of the lesson?
- What do you think the writer wanted to tell us?
- About the separation of mother and son?
- About a ghostly dream that takes a son away from his mother?
- About mother's eternal love?
- About the epiphany of a son who appreciated the power of his mother’s love?
A. Platanov tried to find the answer to the question: what is most important for a person, what is the basis of life, its meaning. The main idea of the legend: any creature, be it a person, a plant or an animal, fights for life, life on earth is sometimes difficult, joyless, but dear to any living creature.
VII. Lesson summary.
In life, each of you will have a dream, like that colorful butterfly that captivated Timosha. Whatever your dream, do not forget that there is nothing on earth stronger and more devoted than maternal love.No one can love as devotedly and forgivingly as a mother.
R. Gamzatov.
Don't leave mothers alone
They grow old from loneliness.
Among worries, falling in love and books
Don't forget to be kind to them.
I would like to end the lesson with these beautiful words. Thank you all very much for your work and activity.
VSH. Reflection.
The boy didn’t catch his butterfly, and I suggest you draw a sword butterfly, colorful and unusual. It will be yours and will definitely bring you good luck.
Children draw butterflies, cut them out and attach them to the board (for those who find it difficult to draw, butterfly templates and coloring pages should be prepared)
A calm melody accompanies the children's work.
IX. Homework.
To choose from:
- write a fairy tale or story about the power of mother's love;
- draw an illustration for the work;
- choose proverbs about mother.
Eternal questions about the meaning of life, about achieving dreams permeated many of Andrei Platonov’s works. The summary of “The Multi-Colored Butterfly” (one of the writer’s stories), as well as its full version, includes reflections on this topic. Such “eternal” questions were very relevant during the heyday of the writer’s work. They are also reflected in the legend “The Multi-Colored Butterfly”. Although the story is quite short, you can refer to the summary of “The Multi-Colored Butterfly” by Platonov.
Path into the unknown
At the beginning of the story we learn about the life of the old woman Anisya. Like the legend itself, the summary of Platonov’s “The Many-Colored Butterfly” tells about her long and lonely life. But she was not always alone: her son Timosha grew up, a very restless boy. They lived in the Caucasus, near the seashore. There were mountains nearby, and every day he ran there to play and catch butterflies. And when I brought them home, I always wondered: why don’t they fly into the air anymore? To this, his mother replied that for a butterfly to live, it needs to fly, but now it cannot do this - the boy wiped the pollen from its wings.
Every day Timosha ran off for a walk in the mountains along the same path. It was laid by one unknown person: he had no tender feelings for anyone, he had no children. Earthly existence weighed heavily on him, and he walked along this path through the highest mountain into the sky and did not return from there.
Unbridled Desire
In the second part of the summary of “The Multi-Colored Butterfly” by Platonov, we learn how Anisya’s son left. One day he saw an unusual butterfly the size of a bird. Her wings were strewn with flowers, completely new to the boy. It seemed to Timosha that someone was calling him, and the voice was coming precisely from the wings of this creature.
Of course, the boy really wanted to catch it, but the butterfly flew further and further away from him. She did not pay any attention to him, did not answer him. But still Timosha really wanted to catch her, the biggest, the very last. His desire to catch a butterfly turned out to be stronger than his desire to return home to his mother. At the end of the path the boy saw the largest star, the most beautiful, and behind it the whole sky. Stepping a little more, he found himself at the bottom of the abyss.
The road to returning home
In the next part of the summary of “The Multi-Colored Butterfly” by Platonov, we will find out where the boy Timosha ended up. And he found himself at the bottom of the abyss. There were a lot of butterflies there, similar to the one he was running after. But they ceased to interest him. He became bored looking at them. Timosha really wanted to return to his mother, but to do this he needed to pave the way through the mountain from which he fell. Without ceasing, he hit stones with stones, day and night, without even going out to those alluring butterflies. Timosha heard his mother’s voice less and less, and this made his desire to return home grow.
At the same time, Anisya was waiting for her son every day. Looking at the stars in the evenings, she quietly called him, saying: “Don’t, let everything be, then you will be too.”
The power of a mother's love
In the last part of the summary of “The Multi-Colored Butterfly” by Platonov, the reader learns how Timosha returned to his mother. He was blinded by the darkness in the cave, but he still heard his mother’s voice deep inside him. He never rested for a day, he kept working, until one day he heard the familiar sound of a bucket. Timosha realized that Anisya had thrown him into the well and shouted to her, but she did not recognize her son’s voice. Many years have passed, her once small and mischievous boy has turned into a real old man. Having hugged him, her whole life passed to him with love - Timosha again became the same little boy. Feeling the last notes of happiness, Anisya died.
The end of the summary of “The Multi-Colored Butterfly” by A.P. Platonov clearly demonstrates the power of maternal love and teaches that, no matter what goal a person sets for himself, it is important to remember that maternal love is the strongest in the world.
