Konstantin Paustovsky. "Warm bread" - an instructive and kind fairy tale

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Conceived by Konstantin Paustovsky "Warm Bread" as a small fairy tale, but it contains eternal values. History makes you empathize, teaches kindness, diligence, respect for the native land. Konstantin Georgievich was very fond of nature. Therefore, in many of his works there are colorful descriptions of her. Whether Paustovsky created the stories “Warm Bread”, “Farewell to Summer”, “Hare Paws” or the collection “Golden Rose”, all these and other works of his are written in simple language and saturated with love for their native land.

The main characters of the story

"Warm Bread" begins with a story about a horse that was wounded by a shell outside the village of Berezhki. The Red Army did not take the wounded horse, but left it to the miller Pankrat. He left the animal, and the horse did a simple job - he carried poles, clay, manure.

The boy Filka lived in the same village. He was given the nickname "Yes, you" because the child often repeated these words. He spoke like this, for example, to his grandmother, with whom he lived. He uttered the same words when a friend suggested that he play, wander on stilts. This is how Konstantin Paustovsky talks about the main characters."Warm Bread" continues with the weather story.

Winter that year was warm, there was almost no snow. However, everything changed drastically due to Fili's transgression.

Filka's indifference and callousness

Pankrat could not feed the horse, and he began to go around the yards for food. Compassionate people took out the remnants of food to the horse, so it was fed. Once a horse came to the yard of Filka and his grandmother. The old woman was not at home, the grandson opened it and expressed dissatisfaction with the appearance of an uninvited guest. However, the horse was hungry. Filka at that time was holding bread and s alt in his hand. He did not feed the horse, but said angrily: “Yes, you!”, And hit the horse on the lips because the hungry animal held them out to the bread. Then the boy threw this piece, telling the horse to dig with its muzzle in the snow if it needed a chunk. The horse cried. This is the plot invented by Konstantin Paustovsky. "Warm bread" is unlikely to leave anyone indifferent. After all, these lines cannot be read without a feeling of compassion for the horse.

Payback

After that, a blizzard suddenly rose sharply and it got very cold. A grandmother who came from a neighbor said that now the wells and the river will freeze. There will be no water, the mill will not be able to work and grind bread. She told that there was already such a case in their village. One soldier on a wooden prosthesis passed through Berezhki and asked for food. The owner of the house threw him a moldy crust. The frost that broke out that day lasted for a long time, and after that, for 10 years, flowers and trees did not grow in the village and around it. The offender soon died. Filka was scaredgrandmother's story.

Atonement

However, in the second half of the tale, Paustovsky gives the boy a chance to improve. "Warm bread" continues with the fact that the child goes to Pankrat at night and offers to correct the situation. From a severe frost, all the water around the mill turned into ice, so it was impossible to grind flour. The boy said that he would bring friends, and together they would break through the thickness of the ice with axes and crowbars to the water. So the guys and the old people did. The mill started working, the housewives baked bread.

K. G. Paustovsky teaches good with his fairy tale. "Warm Bread" ends on a good note. The horse and the child reconciled when he brought the animal a whole loaf of warm fresh bread with s alt.