Recently I was able to read Paustovsky’s story Warm Bread. As it turned out, this is a wonderful work by a Soviet humanist writer who preferred to write about ordinary people. His works have been translated into many languages. All his heroes are similar to boys and girls like us, so his stories, such as Paustovsky’s fairy tale Warm Bread for a Reader’s Diary, are very close and understandable to everyone.
Paustovsky Warm bread
The story takes the reader in wartime to a simple village where a soldier passed by with a wounded horse. He left the animal, and Pankrat, a local miller, took care of it. And after that, all the residents tried to feed the horse, which visited every courtyard and was a public one.
One day a horse came into the yard where the aggressive Filka lived. At that moment the boy was eating bread and thereby attracted the hungry horse to him. However, he did not share it with the horse, and instead, he threw away the bread and hit the horse. With his callousness, Filka almost caused a disaster, because a harsh winter with severe frosts fell on the village. All the water froze, but the mill stopped working. The grandmother told her grandson that this had already happened many years ago, when an old wounded soldier was offended. Apparently, even now there is an evil person in the village, because this happens from people’s anger.
Filka realized his mistake, went to the miller and made every effort to fix everything, including making peace with the horse, treating him to fresh warm bread.
Main characters
The central character of Paustovsky's fairy tale was a boy from the village who lived with his grandmother. He was an angry, callous and distrustful boy, constantly refusing to help his acquaintances and friends. There was no warmth or love in his heart for living beings, so he easily offended the horse, not realizing how cruelly he was treating the horse. Only after a conversation with her grandmother does Filka realize her mistake and quickly corrects everything. And here we see other features that were revealed by the end of Paustovsky’s fairy tale Warm Bread. We saw Filka as hardworking, smart, and possessing organizational skills. They saw a hero who managed to see and admit a mistake, who managed to earn the horse’s trust and forgiveness.
Another hero I would like to highlight is Pankrat. He was a miller and took in a wounded animal. This is a reasonable hero, with life experience behind him, wise and sympathetic. He does not deny the boy the opportunity to fix everything and gives the opportunity to show that even in such hooligans there is something human and good.
the main idea
In the work Warm Bread, the author’s main idea is the desire to show readers how important it is to be responsive, generous and kind. After all, kindness is the most valuable human quality, and all good deeds will respond to the kindness of other people. But callousness and indifference lead to trouble. At the same time, the writer says that each of us can be an evil Filka, but the main thing is to realize the mistake in time and repent, becoming more merciful, responsive and kind.
Lesson topic: " K. Paustovsky “Warm Bread”
The purpose of the lesson:
Tasks:
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Equipment:
Textbook:
During the classes:
I. Organizing time.
II Checking notes.
III Introduction.
Motivation.
The old man smiled and answered:
What is good? Draw his verbal portrait. (Good is the sun, light, smiles, warmth, bread) Let me add some more words to the string of words you mentioned: good is joy, peace.
Studying the material.
Clarify your answer to the question: “Why was Filka nicknamed “Well, you”?” - What bad deed does Filka commit? Does the boy realize that he did something wrong? - Was it a coincidence that the wind howled immediately after the inhumane act of the protagonist? What does the boy hear in this howl? - When did Filka realize that he had committed a bad act? - How did the attitude of Pankrat and other heroes of the work towards Filka help him understand himself? - How do we see Filka at the end of the work? Find the last phrase with his favorite expression. What changes in Filka’s soul do we learn about through the intonation with which the boy pronounces this expression? - Why doesn’t Filka say this phrase at the end of the fairy tale? - Why did the horse forgive Filka?
Analysis of the description of nature.- Please note that not only people, but also nature help the boy understand himself. She plays a very important role in this work of art. Which one? Let's figure it out. - How did the weather change during the events taking place in the fairy tale? - What paths did the author use in describing nature? (Individual assignment) - Why does the author, after talking about Filka’s heartless act, then paint a fairy-tale landscape?
The beginning of a snowstorm is the response of the magical forces of nature to Filka’s act. - What happened in nature after people broke the ice? Is this a fairytale or realistic landscape? (Individual assignment) - Draw a conclusion about the role played by the landscape in the fairy tale.
IV. Consolidation of what has been learned. Activation of basic knowledge in the theory of literature, work on the concept of “epithet”, definition of the lexical meaning of the word “warm” - Yes, in Paustovsky’s work there is both the real and the fantastic. This once again proves that “Warm Bread” is a fairy tale. Determine which events and characters are real and which are fabulous.
Of course, in the fairy tale by K.G. Paustovsky showed a lot of magic. But writers do not always come up with plots; they often find them in life itself. And who knows, maybe this story actually happened, because many people commit evil. Do you agree with me? - That's right, this fairy tale is about you and me, about the fact that people often make mistakes. What else is the fairy tale about? To answer this question, let’s think about why Konstantin Georgievich called the fairy tale “Warm Bread”. Several lexical meanings of a given word are written on the board. Frost-free, southern. Has heating. - In what lexical meaning is the word used? warm in a phrase warm bread? - What trope does the title of the fairy tale contain? Why did the author call bread baked by people also wonderful? - So, what is the meaning of the title of the fairy tale? It is no coincidence that Paustovsky calls this tale “Warm Bread”. Warm means kind, made with love. This is exactly what Paustovsky wants to emphasize in the title of his fairy tale. The bread, warmed by the warmth of Filka’s melted heart, is a kind of atonement for the boy’s guilt.
What new things did you discover during the lesson? - Are you interested in the issues raised? - Did our conversation make you think about your actions? Not only people helped Filka realize his guilt, but nature with its laws showed what act the boy committed. Nature is changing all the time. How does it change? By what means is this achieved? The author gives a sound and color perception of the landscape in the story. Let's find it in the text.
V. Summing up. Generalization.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
3) The best thing about good deeds is the desire to conceal them.
Blaise Pascal
VI. Homework:
Group work.
Group 1 - Sounds (cawed, howled, whistled, broke birdhouses, slammed shutters, rushed, rustled, a blizzard roared, the grove rustled, icicles crashed with a ringing sound, etc.).
Group 2 - Color (black water, the sky has turned green, the vault of heaven, black willows, turned gray from the cold, the sun rises crimson, on gray willows).
Group 3 - Movement (snow melted and fell, crows pushed, ice floes swirled, snow blew up, got powdery in the throat, frozen straw flew, the frost passed, etc.).
Conclusion: nature is also an image. She “takes revenge” for evil deeds in her own way, gets angry at people and rejoices with them. She lives her own life, helps people understand the beauty and harmony on Earth. Nature is like a magician. And there is also a lot of magic in Paustovsky’s fairy tale.
Group 1 - What do you think is real in a fairy tale?
Group 2 - What do you think is fabulous?
What decision does Filka make? (He decides to invent a method of “universal salvation”. First of all, he himself does not want to die, and secondly, he must save the entire village from inevitable death).
Reading a passage.
tear of happiness)
Test
A) He was wounded.
B) Pankrat wanted it that way.
A) “I don’t know anything.”
B) “Fuck you!”
C) “You are all smart.”
A) A snowstorm has begun.
B) There was a flood.
B) There was an earthquake.
A) He didn’t want to change.
B) He fed everyone.
A) human malice
B) popular hatred
B) human rudeness
A) Asked him for forgiveness.
B) He fed him carrots.
Key: 1A, 2B, 3B, 4A, 5B, 6A, 7B.
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"TO. Paustovsky “Warm Bread”
Lesson topic: " K. Paustovsky “Warm Bread”
The purpose of the lesson: using the example of the fairy tale “Warm Bread” by K.G. Paustovsky to show students that a person’s happiness lies in kindness, good deeds, and mutual assistance;
Tasks:
- test students' knowledge of the material;
- repetition of the theme "artistic means of language",
Fostering love for nature and loved ones.
Equipment: illustrations, “All World and Russian Literature”
Textbook:“Russian Literature” 5th grade, ed. Chaplyshkina;
During the classes:
I. Organizing time. Greeting, checking readiness for the lesson. Setting goals and objectives for the lesson.
II. Checking homework. Checking notes.
III. Posting new material. Introduction.
Motivation.
- I want to start our lesson with an eastern parable.
Once upon a time, an old man revealed one vital truth to his grandson:
There is a struggle in every person, very similar to the struggle of two wolves. One wolf represents evil: envy, jealousy, regret, selfishness, ambition, lies. The other wolf represents goodness: peace, love, hope, truth, kindness and loyalty.
The grandson, touched to the depths of his soul by his grandfather’s words, thought for a moment, and then asked:
Which wolf wins in the end?
The old man smiled and answered:
The wolf you feed always wins.
How did you understand what this parable was about? Why did I start our communication with these words?
Using your experience and parable, guess what evil is? Where does it come from? Who is the main carrier of evil? Who does it come from? (From people).
Choose an antonym for the word evil. (Good)
What is good? Draw his verbal portrait. (Good is the sun, light, smiles, warmth, bread) Let me add some more words to the string of words you mentioned: good is joy, peace.
What actions can goodness be expressed in?
Studying the material.
Which wolf do you think is easier to feed: the one that represents good or evil? (I will assume the answer is that it is easier to feed evil) An evil act does not make a person beautiful, but what influence does it have? Can I conclude that by committing an evil act, a person “falls low.”
You have read the text of the fairy tale “Warm Bread”. Is this a folk or literary fairy tale? Prove that “Warm Bread” is a literary fairy tale.
Let's test your basic knowledge. I give you 2 minutes to complete the test task.
Well, now I propose that you and I follow the path to good, the path of overcoming evil as an individual, the hero of the fairy tale-parable “Warm Bread,” Filka.
How did you see the boy at the beginning of the fairy tale? What does the author say about him? Choose those words and phrases that most vividly depict it. Bring them to our dungeon.
Clarify your answer to the question: “Why was Filka nicknamed “Well, you”?”
(This is the formula of his life. He doesn’t love anyone, he wants to brush everyone aside.)
- What bad deed does Filka commit? Does the boy realize that he did something wrong?
(“Fuck you! Devil!” Filka shouted and hit the horse in the mouth with a backhand.”
“Filka finally jumped into the hut, locked the door, and said: “Fuck you!” - and listened.”
"Yah you! Damned,” he shouted at the mice, but the mice kept climbing out of the underground.)
- Was it a coincidence that the wind howled immediately after the inhumane act of the protagonist? What does the boy hear in this howl?
- When did Filka realize that he had committed a bad act?
Not when he offended the wounded horse, but later, when he cried over his grandmother’s story.
- How did the attitude of Pankrat and other heroes of the work towards Filka help him understand himself?
(Filka realized that something irreparable could have happened if Pankrat and other villagers had brushed him off. It turns out that you can’t live by the rule “Screw you!”
- How do we see Filka at the end of the work? Find the last phrase with his favorite expression. What changes in Filka’s soul do we learn about through the intonation with which the boy pronounces this expression? (“- Come on!” said Filka. “We, guys, will break through this kind of ice!”
- Why doesn’t Filka say this phrase at the end of the fairy tale?
- Why did the horse forgive Filka?
(Children, old people and even magpies helped Filka correct the “villainy”, but he took the first step himself: he got through the terrible frost to the mill, where he told everything to Pankrat, invented salvation from the cold. He became better, his heart was now filled with love for his neighbors and gratitude to those who had already forgiven him, therefore the horse also forgave him.)
Analysis of the description of nature.
- Please note that not only people, but also nature help the boy understand himself. She plays a very important role in this work of art. Which one? Let's figure it out.
- How did the weather change during the events taking place in the fairy tale?
At the beginning of the tale it says: “The winter was warm this year.” When Filka offended the horse, “a piercing wind whistled” and a blizzard arose. When the snowstorm subsided, “a prickly frost spread through the village.”
People began to chisel the ice near the mill, and by noon a “smooth and warm wind” began to blow. “Every hour it got warmer.” This is how the weather changed throughout the events taking place in the fairy tale.
- What paths did the author use in describing nature? (Individual assignment)
- Why does the author, after talking about Filka’s heartless act, then paint a fairy-tale landscape?
The beginning of a snowstorm is the response of the magical forces of nature to Filka’s act.
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What happened in nature after people broke the ice? Is this a fairytale or realistic landscape? (Individual assignment)
This is already a realistic landscape. The author combines fairy tale and reality in the work, because he shows the result of human actions and nature’s response to the unity of people.
- Draw a conclusion about the role played by the landscape in the fairy tale.
IV. Consolidation of what has been learned. Activation of basic knowledge in literary theory, work on the concept of “epithet”, definition of the lexical meaning of the word “warm”
- Yes, Paustovsky’s work contains both the real and the fantastic. This once again proves that “Warm Bread” is a fairy tale. Determine which events and characters are real and which are fabulous.
Of course, in the fairy tale by K.G. Paustovsky showed a lot of magic. But writers do not always come up with plots; they often find them in life itself. And who knows, maybe this story actually happened, because many people commit evil. Do you agree with me?
- That's right, this fairy tale is about you and me, about the fact that people often make mistakes. What else is the fairy tale about? To answer this question, let’s think about why Konstantin Georgievich called the fairy tale “Warm Bread”.
Work on the lexical meaning of the word “warm”. Several lexical meanings of a given word are written on the board.
Heated, giving or containing heat.
Frost-free, southern.
Well protects the body from the cold.
Has heating.
Characterized by inner warmth, warming the soul, affectionate, friendly
- In what lexical meaning is the word used? warm in a phrase warm bread?
- What trope does the title of the fairy tale contain? Why did the author call bread baked by people also wonderful?
- So, what is the meaning of the title of the fairy tale?
It is no coincidence that Paustovsky calls this tale “Warm Bread”. Warm means kind, made with love. This is exactly what Paustovsky wants to emphasize in the title of his fairy tale. The bread, warmed by the warmth of Filka’s melted heart, is a kind of atonement for the boy’s guilt.
What new things did you discover during the lesson?
- Are you interested in the issues raised?
- Did our conversation make you think about your actions?
Not only people helped Filka realize his guilt, but nature with its laws showed what act the boy committed. Nature is changing all the time. How does it change? By what means is this achieved? The author gives a sound and color perception of the landscape in the story. Let's find it in the text.
V. Summarizing.Generalization.
It's time to return to the epigraph and correlate the meaning of the proverb with the fairy tale-parable of K.G. Paustovsky
What thoughts do you have on this matter? (It was warm in the village, which means good people lived there. But Filka disrupted the order. Because of his anger, everything changed. Frost reigned. He walked around the village, but no one saw him. But still, Filka’s heart thawed, he also became kind. And everything around became warm again.)
I believe that Paustovsky’s work did not leave any of you indifferent. You have a long life ahead, each of you will enter it along your chosen path, climbing up, each on your own ladder, while doing, I hope, only good deeds. Let some of your guides be the statements of great people. Please open the envelopes lying on your desks. Let's read some statements.
1) The good that you do from the heart, you always do to yourself.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
2) To believe in goodness, you need to start doing it.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
3) The best thing about good deeds is the desire to conceal them.
Blaise Pascal
Group work. Assessment.
VI. Homework: analysis of the work “Warm Bread”
Group work.
Group 1 - Sounds (cawed, howled, whistled, birdhouses were broken, shutters slammed, rushed, rustled, a blizzard roared, the grove rustled, icicles crashed with a ringing sound, etc.).
Group 2 - Color (black water, the sky has turned green, the vault of heaven, black willows, turned gray from the cold, the sun rises crimson, on gray willows).
Group 3 - Movement (snow melted and fell, crows pushed, ice floes swirled, snow blew up, it made my throat powdery, frozen straw flew, the frost passed, etc.).
(Excerpts: 1) “A tear rolled down... they crackled, burst”
2) “On frosty days... with dark water.”
Conclusion: nature is also an image. She “takes revenge” for evil deeds in her own way, gets angry at people and rejoices with them. She lives her own life, helps people understand the beauty and harmony on Earth. Nature is like a magician. And there is also a lot of magic in Paustovsky’s fairy tale.
IV. The real and the magical in a fairy tale. Group work.
Group 1 - What do you think is real in a fairy tale?
Group 2 - What do you think is fabulous?
I suggest reading an episode of a fairy tale.
“The winter this year was warm. Smoke hung in the air. Snow fell and immediately melted. Wet crows sat on the chimneys to dry out, pushed each other, and croaked at each other. The water near the mill flume did not freeze, but stood black, quiet, and ice floes swirled in it.”
How does this description of nature make you feel? (Joy, fun, some kind of enthusiasm, kindness, peace).
I propose to glue the first petal to our flower of goodness.
Each of us does more than just good deeds. But, having done something bad, a person rethinks what he has done, regrets, worries, and repents.
“...And after this malicious shout, those amazing things happened in Berezhki...”
How can you evaluate his action? I suggest you fill out the table with new characteristics. You may have already written down some of the words. Don't be afraid if the words are repeated. This will only show that you are already aware of the problem.
So what kind of wolf is Filka feeding? Remember the parable. Guess if Filka had a choice? (He could have acted like everyone else, without refusing the horse)
- Let's read it. Literary reading of a passage.
“A tear rolled down from the horse’s eyes. The horse neighed pitifully, protractedly, waved his tail, and immediately a piercing wind howled and whistled in the bare trees, in the hedges and chimneys, the snow blew up, and powdered Filka’s throat. Filka rushed back into the house, but could not find the porch - the snow was already so shallow all around and it was getting in his eyes. Frozen straw from the roofs flew in the wind, birdhouses broke, torn shutters slammed. And columns of snow dust rose higher and higher from the surrounding fields, rushing towards the village, rustling, spinning, overtaking each other.
The snowstorm began to subside in the evening, and only then was Filka’s grandmother able to get to her hut from her neighbor. And by night the sky turned green like ice, the stars froze to the vault of heaven, and a prickly frost passed through the village. No one saw him, but everyone heard the creak of his felt boots on the hard snow, heard how the frost, mischievously, squeezed the thick logs in the walls, and they cracked and burst.”
Why has everything changed around? (It’s all Filka’s fault. He treated the horse rudely, which everyone in the village considered it their duty to feed. Because of him, the wind rose in the village and frost hit.) Let’s fill in the table with words and phrases that characterize evil in nature. (Blizzard, frost, tears of resentment, piercing wind).
Let's imagine that we don't know the ending of the fairy tale. What wins at the end of every fairy tale? Of course, good always triumphs over evil.
Who is helping Filka correct the current situation? (Pankrat, grandma.)
What is their help? (The grandmother tells a parable about a similar case and says that only Pankrat can help. Pankrat agrees to help.)
Who remembers the parable told by the grandmother? Why did the hero of this parable die? (He died from a cold heart). His heart froze and became moldy, just like the bread he threw to the wounded soldier.
What decision does Filka make? (He decides to invent a method of “universal salvation”. First of all, he himself does not want to die, and secondly, he must save the entire village from inevitable death).
Why didn’t anyone in the village refuse to help Filka, since he offended everyone and responded rudely to everyone? (Because only in unity, only all together can people defeat evil.)
While listening to the next episode of the fairy tale, choose words for our flower.
Reading a passage.
“On frosty days the sun rises crimson, covered in heavy smoke. And this morning such a sun rose over Berezhki. The frequent clatter of crowbars could be heard on the river. The fires were crackling. The guys and old people worked from dawn, chipping ice at the mill. And no one rashly noticed that in the afternoon the sky was covered with low clouds, and a smooth and warm wind blew through the gray willows. And when they noticed that the weather had changed, the willow branches had already thawed, and the wet birch grove across the river began to rustle cheerfully and loudly. The air smelled of spring and manure. The wind was blowing from the south. It was getting warmer every hour. Icicles fell from the roofs and broke with a ringing sound.”
How does nature change after rethinking an action? Add to the image of goodness the feelings-petals that cause new changes in you.
What was the result of the common cause, common labor? (Warm bread, which helped Filka reconcile with the horse). Why does the author call bread wonderful?
For what purpose did Filka go to the horse? How did his face change? (There was a smile on his face, but at the same time tears of joy were rolling down). I propose to attach another petal to our flower of goodness ( tear of happiness)
Do you know what Filka's full name is? After all, this form is used only in common speech. (Philip)
Did you know that Philip comes from the Greek for “lover of horses”?
Guess for what purpose Paustovsky calls the hero by this name in his fairy tale? (He anticipated a good ending in advance)
Listen to the words of A. Solzhenitsyn, the great Russian writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1970), about repentance: “Repentance is the first sure inch under the foot, from which only one can move forward not to new hatred, but to agreement. Only with repentance can spiritual growth begin.”
Which wolf still won in Filka? Was his path difficult? What steps did Filka overcome on the path of his spiritual growth? Let's follow his path together.
Test
Choose one of the answer options in the proposed tasks.
1) Why did the horse stay in the village?
A) He was wounded.
B) Pankrat wanted it that way.
2) What was Filka’s nickname?
A) “I don’t know anything.”
B) “Fuck you!”
C) “You are all smart.”
3) What story did Grandma Filke tell?
A) About how she once offended a soldier.
B) About how a man from the village offended an old soldier.
B) About how the war ended.
4) What happened when Filka threw bread into the snow for the horse?
A) A snowstorm has begun.
B) There was a flood.
B) There was an earthquake.
5) How did Filka atone for his guilt?
A) He didn’t want to change.
B) He fed everyone.
B) I was chopping ice with the guys at the mill.
6) Filka’s grandmother believed that the cause of the severe frost a hundred years ago was:
A) human malice
B) popular hatred
B) human rudeness
7) How did Filka make peace with the horse?
A) Asked him for forgiveness.
B) He brought him fresh bread and salt.
B) He fed him carrots.
Key: 1A, 2B, 3B, 4A, 5B, 6A, 7B.
In winter, cavalrymen passed by a village and left behind a war horse wounded in the leg. Miller Pankrat is an animal, and the horse, in gratitude, helped him repair the mill dam - the winter was harsh, and people were running out of flour. The village was threatened by famine. One day the horse reached out to Filka, who was eating a piece of bread, but the boy shouted at him and threw the bread far into the snow. At that moment, a terrible blizzard hit the village, which subsided only in the evening, leaving behind a river frozen to the very bottom.
The frozen river threatened the villagers with starvation - after all, without water, the mill could not work and grind flour.
Realizing the consequences of his action, Filka ran to repent to his grandmother, who told him about an incident a hundred years ago, when a similar situation occurred in the village after a local rude person offended an old cripple. As a result, the earth became a desert - the gardens stopped blooming, the forests dried up, and animals and birds fled in all directions. Filka decided to correct his mistake and went to Pankrat, who was known as a cunning and learned man.
The denouement of Paustovsky's tale
The miller Pankrat advised Filka to invent an escape from the severe cold, making amends to the horse. Filka thought for a long time and finally came up with an idea - he spoke to the villagers and asked them for help in breaking up the frozen river. Work began to boil, and as a result of their efforts, people managed to get to the water and turn the mill wheel. Pankrat was able to start grinding flour, and the village was saved from severe famine. However, Filka was still tormented by guilt in front of the unfairly offended horse.
In the evening, all the villagers rejoiced in baking sweet, fragrant, ruddy bread, which Filka took to the horse. Having broken the loaf, he handed it to the animal, but it backed away from the offender. The boy was afraid that he would not receive forgiveness and cried bitterly, but the miller Pankrat calmed the horse and explained to him that Filka was not evil and understood a lot. The horse accepted the bread from the hands of the offender, and the boy turned from a callous man into a man with a kind heart.
This fairy tale teaches people to be responsive, kind and able to step over their pride in order to ask for forgiveness.
The fairy tale “Warm Bread” intertwines the relationships of people who must be able to take responsibility for their actions, correcting the evil they have caused. Everything is in our world, so in order not to have to untie the tightly twisted knots later, you need to have the courage to pull the thread at the very beginning and dissolve the still small tangle of grievances.
The work “Warm Bread” was written by Konstantin Paustovsky in 1954, when 9 years had already passed since the war ended. This amazing story, where good opposes evil, really appealed to young readers, and adults, of course, too. The famous magazine "Murzilka" published the work, and almost twenty years later, television viewers could enjoy a short cartoon based on the fairy tale. An analysis of the work “Warm Bread” will also be useful for you if you are planning to write an essay on this topic in grade 5.
What is the short story “Warm Bread” about?
First, we will briefly discuss what topic Konstantin Paustovsky raises and what he encourages readers to think about, then we will look at the plot and the main characters, and we will also see how Filka offends the horse. The story “Warm Bread” reveals the theme of love and generosity, while at the same time drawing attention to an indifferent person. Is it possible to eliminate the consequences of the evil committed, show mercy and forgive from the heart? Events of the present and past are connected by a single thread, the author writes about people and animals, about guilt and redemption.
An analysis of the story “Warm Bread” would be incomplete without considering the plot. Paustovsky paints a simple village during the war. There is a catastrophic shortage of food, the peasants have a hard life, they have to work very hard, not sparing themselves. The old miller Pankrat had the opportunity to shelter a crippled animal. It was a horse that accidentally ended up in Berezhki, and now it was necessary to somehow support it, but Pankrat already did not have enough food.
Heroes of the story "Warm Bread"
When preparing an essay for grade 5 based on the story “Warm Bread” by Paustovsky, pay attention to the image of Filka. This is a teenager who lives with his grandmother, and he is very heartless, full of anger, mistrust and callousness. When friends turn to him for help, he refuses them, and he does not like either people or animals.
When his grandmother talks to Filka, he suddenly realizes how cruelly he acted and what the consequences may now be. After reflection, he finds the best way out of the situation and admits his mistake. Now we see a different side to this character: he is hardworking, smart, organized and ready to correct the consequences of his rash actions for the benefit of others. You can already trust Filka.
However, an analysis of the story “Warm Bread” also shows the image of another character, which we have already mentioned. This is the old miller Pankrat. His image is mysterious, because he not only cured the horse, but also showed amazing qualities. When Filka goes to atone for his guilt, Pankrat does not interfere with him and does not hold a grudge against him, realizing that each person has his own positive qualities, and one must believe in a person.
Other analysis details
The events in the story “Warm Bread” strictly follow one another; Paustovsky, as it were, guides the reader, gradually revealing the characters’ characters, and shows what motivates them. Of course, the story contains fairy-tale motifs that are skillfully intertwined with real events. This creates a unified composition. It is interesting that with the help of outdated figures of speech and folklore expressions the narrative takes on special colors and looks very unique.
In our analysis of “Warm Bread” we will definitely emphasize the essence of the author’s idea. A person is characterized by spiritual generosity, compassion and responsiveness. When a person acts kindly, kindness returns to him, and an indifferent attitude towards others entails troubles and evil. In addition, if you realize your mistake in time and are ready to correct yourself, this will definitely change the situation and find a response in the hearts of others.
We hope that the analysis of the story “Warm Bread” will be useful to you. We looked at the summary of the work, the image of the main characters and the author’s idea that he wanted to convey to readers. If you write an essay on the story “Warm Bread” by Paustovsky, be sure to include these thoughts.
“Warm Bread” is very little like a fairy tale, because the village of Berezhki, and the main character - the boy Filka, and the wise old miller Pankrat could exist in reality. And the terrible snowstorm and bitter frost, caused by Filka’s rude and thoughtless act, could well have turned out to be an ordinary coincidence. Ordinary - but not quite.
What is this strange tale about? The old miller Pankrat cured a war horse wounded in the leg, which was left in the village by passing cavalrymen. The horse, in turn, patiently helped the miller repair the dam - it was winter, people were running out of flour, so it was necessary to repair the mill as soon as possible.
Filka’s grandmother told the quiet and frightened boy that the same severe frost fell on the village a hundred years ago, when an evil man undeservedly and bitterly offended an old crippled soldier. After that frost, the earth turned into a desert for ten years - the gardens did not bloom, the forests dried up, animals and birds hid and fled. And the evil man died “from a cold heart.”
Filka’s heart ached from the consciousness of his guilt, the boy realized that only he could correct the mistake he had made, but he did not know how. Grandmother was sure that Pankrat should know about this, because “he is a cunning old man, a scientist.”
At night, not afraid of the biting frost, Filka ran to the miller, and he advised him to “invent salvation from the cold.” Then the guilt both before the horse and before the people will be smoothed over, and Filka will again become a “pure person.” The boy thought and thought and came up with the idea of gathering guys from all over the village with axes and crowbars the next morning to break the ice on the river near the mill until water appears. That's what they did. At dawn, people from all over the village gathered to help the guys, Filka apologized to them as best he could, and everyone got to work. Soon it became warmer, things began to move faster, and people reached the water. The wheel of the mill turned, the women brought unmilled grain, and hot flour poured out from under the millstone. Everyone was happy, and Filka most of all. But he still had one more thing to do; a thorn of guilt in front of the undeservedly offended horse sat deep in his heart. Material from the site
Throughout the village that evening, fragrant sweet bread with a golden brown crust was baked. The next morning Filka took a loaf of warm bread, grabbed his friends for support and went to the horse to make peace. He broke the loaf, salted a chunk heavily and handed it to the horse. But the horse, remembering the unfair words, did not take the bread and backed away. Filka was afraid that the horse would not forgive him and began to cry. The kind Pankrat calmed the horse and explained that “the boy Filka is not an evil person.” So a solemn truce was concluded, the horse ate the bread, and the forgiven boy was happy.
It seems to me that Paustovsky was able to tell a lot about the relationships between people, about their responsibility for their words and actions. Everything in the world is interconnected, and the consequences of Filka’s actions at the beginning of the fairy tale had to be corrected, attracting the help of people from the entire village. The story teaches us to be kind, sympathetic and not be afraid to ask for forgiveness for the offenses caused to others.
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