The author immerses the reader in the outskirts of Kyrgyzstan and immediately introduces the main character - a boy without a name and a past, with a dubious future, lives on the jaeger cordon, near the shores of a forest lake. With him live his own aunt with her husband, the gamekeeper Orozkul. They are not at all involved in raising the boy, thereby leaving him to himself. The only person who at least somehow participates in the fate of the guy is grandfather Momun, the assistant huntsman.
The story shows us, through comparisons of fictional life in fairy tales and its real side, that good does not always prevail over evil. The eternal struggle between white and black, justice over unfairness, as a result, may end with a not fabulous cliché: "they lived happily ever after."
Read a summary of the stories of Aitmatov White steamer
Nobody and nothing pleases the boy. He has no friends and those with whom he can spend time in conversation. His constant companions and interlocutors are the stones surrounding the place where he lives, binoculars from the time of the war, in which he examined the horizons of the lake and a briefcase donated by grandfather Momun. In order to get away from real life misfortunes, the boy creates two fictional stories around him, in which he begins to faithfully believe and play with them.
The first story is that his father, whom the boy never knew, is a sailor and he serves on a large white steamer, and from time to time the ship appears and gracefully sways on the surface of the lake. The boy plays up all this in his imagination, often peers through binoculars in search of a steamer. Imagine how he becomes a small fish, dives into the lake and swims to meet the ship. And climbed aboard, he hugs and greets his father.
The second story in which the boy believes is the tale of the mother deer. Belief says that in the past, many years ago, a tribe lived near the banks of the river, which was attacked by enemies and killed all but two children, a boy and a girl. The leader of the attacking tribe handed the children over to the old woman and ordered to get rid of them. She led them to the river bank, and when she was ready to obey the order of the leader, the mother deer came up to them. She began to ask not to kill the children and give them back. To which the old woman said: “These are young people, you cannot cope with them, and when they grow up, they will want to kill your deer. After all, people are very cruel creatures and they kill not only animals, but also each other. " The deer mother insisted that the children stay with her anyway.
At the time of the boy, red deer become the target of poachers. The huntsman contributes to the development of poaching on a huge scale. First, for a generous reward, Orozkul allows the cutting of relict pines. Further developments take on a cruel color. One cool evening, the insidious Orozkul, with no less insidious plans, decides to gain the support of the wise grandfather Momun. Having failed to achieve a result in the negotiations, he decides to give his grandfather vodka to drink and, for greater effect, threatens him with dismissal. Thus, he achieves what he wants and makes Momun go to kill the female deer.
It was a dark evening, white fire smoke and the sweet smell of grilled meat. A company of three people by the fire: Orozkul, Momun and a visiting guest. Deer meat was fried over the fire. The boy did not want to believe in the cruelty of people and in the fact that it was in fact a killed deer, until he saw the remains of a poor animal behind the barn. The boy lost hope in a second, disappointment sagged his legs and weakness pressed his chest. Tears flowed in a stream, he did not want to accept the cruelty of reality, the cruelty of those people who surround him.
Deciding to escape this sight, he runs to the lake. A place that always fueled hope in him when he looked at the horizon through binoculars and saw the outlines of a white steamer.
The tragic end of the story makes the reader truly feel the pain of a boy who has lived all his life by faith in good and light. And at one point this faith is taken away from him. The boy again imagines, closing his eyes, that he is a small fish that jumps into the water and swims away to the far ends of the lake in search of his father, a sailor.
The fire is burning, the meat is roasting, the three men are still sitting in the same positions. They did not hear the splash of water and they did not notice the quiet disappearance of the boy.
Picture or drawing White steamer
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West Kazakhstan region Bokeyordinsky district, Khan Orda village, Zhangirkhan Gaisin Gulzada Miramovna
The theme "Moral lessons of the story" The White Steamer "by Ch. Aitmatov
- consider the moral problems of the story; show how the character of a person is revealed through the relationship of the image-character to the world; to reveal the positive and negative traits of the characters of the heroes; explain the meaning of the real and mythological in the story for understanding the idea of the work;
- development of literary text analysis skills; understanding the connections and relationships underlying the work; development of skills to classify facts, draw generalizing conclusions; development of the communicative properties of speech: the ability to competently and reasonably express thoughts, express your point of view;
- education of moral qualities of students: kindness, compassion, mercy, responsibility for their actions; respect for the surrounding world.
Lesson type: lesson in generalization and systematization of knowledge and methods of activity
Teaching methods:
Creative reading method
Techniques: a conversation that activates the impression of the text.
Heuristic
Techniques: selection of material from a literary text to answer a question; selective retelling; analysis of the hero's image; attraction of related arts (episodes from the film of the same name).
Research method
Techniques: design work.
Reproductive method: the word of the teacher.
Formation of key competencies:
- mastering, through the subject of literature, ideas about the world that contribute to the successful social adaptation of students, language competence, reading competence, problem-solving competence, information competence.
Equipment: interactive whiteboard, slide illustrations
During the classes
- Organizational stage (slide)
- Hello guys! Let's welcome our guests. Sit down.
- Updating
- Teacher's word
For today's lesson, I want to start with a legend. And it sounds like this.
The Athenians asked the philosopher:
- What are you looking for, philosopher, during the day with fire?
“I'm looking for a man,” he replied.
- Whom? Me? His?
“I'm looking for a man,” the sage repeated.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, a classic of Russian literature of the 19th century, wrote: “Man is a mystery. I am engaged in this secret, because I want to be human. "
Modern writers, poets, artists are also trying to unravel the mystery of the human soul, explore the contradictions of our society, look for ways to combat evil and lack of spirituality.
Lesson objectives
Today we will also talk about a person, about what should be valuable in life and what should not. Let's consider the moral problems of Ch.Aitmatov's story "The White Steamer". Let's trace how the author portrays positive and negative characters; explain the meaning of the real and the fabulous in the story for understanding the idea of the work; Let's get acquainted with the material of the design work and, I hope, look at ourselves from the outside: are we kind, are we responsible for our actions, are we caring for the world around us.
Open notebooks, write down the topic "Moral lessons of Ch.Aitmatov's story" The White Steamer "
The epigraphs of today's lesson will be the words ancestor of Tajik classical poetry, poetIX century Abul Hasan Rudaki and a writer of the 20th century, author of the story "The White Steamer".
Life is the sea!
Do you want to swim?
Build a ship out of good deeds ... -
advised by Abul Hasan Rudaki
And Ch.Aitmatov, realizing that good comes from childhood, argued:
A child's conscience in a person is like a germ in a grain,
without the embryo, the grain does not germinate.
Ch.Aitmatov, "White Steamer"
A man with his own inner world is the main figure in literature.
- What do you mean by the concept of "person"? What does it take to be human?
- Reading written answers (homework) Nazymgul and Nadezhda
- Teacher's word (slide)
It was nice to hear your reasoning. The main thing is that your words do not remain words on paper.
“Literature,” said Chingiz Aitmatov, “must selflessly bear its cross, intrude into the complexities of life so that a person knows, loves, worries about his good, the best, worthy in himself, in people, in society. In this I see the true purpose of art. " The writer stayed true to his word ... Let's listen to a short message.
- Individual task (student) Nadezhda
Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov (1928 - 2008) was born in a mountain village of Kyrgyzstan. Difficulties did not pass him by. In 1937, his father, a prominent party leader, was illegally repressed. The Great Coming Soon Patriotic War also left its mark on the fate of a teenager. The theme of orphanhood is the writer's persistent pain, so he often referred to it in his works: "The First Teacher", "Early Cranes", "After the Tale" or "White Steamer".
The White Steamer is a tragic story about a childhood destroyed by the cruelty of adults. This is one of the author's best stories, written in 1970. In all his works, Ch. Aitmatov raises moral problems, and for the story "The White Steamer", in particular, the theme of good and evil is characteristic as the central theme of the writer's work.
- Creative work "My associations" (slide)
Work in a notebook.
Write down associations for a word
- Morality is ... (students' answers) honesty, kindness, justice
Morality - internal, spiritual qualities that guide a person, ethical standards; rules of conduct determined by these qualities. The basic concept of morality is good, the main contradiction is evil. (Explanatory dictionary of S.I. Ozhegov and N.Yu.Shvedova)
- Teacher's word
- The problem of good and evil is one of the eternal themes. It sounds in the works of world literature. This theme is the basis of many tales and legends. The story "White Steamer" is interesting in that it simultaneously coexists and modern life, and an ancient legend, and the problem of good and evil is solved differently from the usual outcome.
So, the story has been read.
III. Formation of new concepts and methods of activity.
- Conversation on the content of the story Let's talk
- What is it about?(Aitmatov created a story, the main content of which was the fate of a teenager).
- In a few sentences, tell us about the fate of the boy.(The boy lives in the care of his grandfather. Both his father and his mother already have other families. The boy lives with his grandfather Momun in a distant forest cordon, where their relative Orozkul constantly oppresses and humiliates them. The grandfather cannot protect his grandson from the cruelties and injustices of the world. The boy lives with two fairy tales - his own and the one told by his grandfather. The grandfather destroys his own fairy tale: he kills the returning maral. The boy swims away with a fish to his fairy tale - a white steamer.)
- Who is the closest person to a boy?(The closest person and friend who understands him is the grandfather, who is doing his best to make his grandson happy.)
- What do you think is the main tragedy of the child?(Nobody needs him.)
- Who destroys the boy's fairy-tale world? (The grandfather, who has lived so many years in the world, who has retained his faith in the tale of the mother deer, who also instilled it in the boy, cuts everything off at once, killing the maral.)
- List the main characters of the story.
- Application. Skills and Skills Formation Introducing Project Work
- Project work
"The system of character images of the story" The White Steamer "by Ch. Aitmatov
A) Literary character image
B) The system of images of the work
C) Images of the main characters
The image of the Boy Bakhytzhai
The protagonist of the story is a seven-year-old boy who lives with his relatives in a distant forest cordon. The image of the boy is revealed by the author-narrator gradually. It should be noted that the boy has no name. It seems to us that this is not accidental. The boy is a symbol of purity and a childish, open attitude to the world. Ch.Aitmatov gives his portrait as follows: "The boy had protruding ears, a thin neck and a large, round head ...", "... skinny hips ..." "Alone, without friends, the boy lived in a circle of those simple things that surrounded him, and unless the shop could make him forget about everything and run headlong after her. What can I say, the shop is not stones or herbs. What is not there, in the shop! ” He fills the emptiness of loneliness with his images, he develops his own imaginary world. Artistic details found in the text of the story help to reveal the inner world of the hero of the work. The boy loves the world that surrounds him, loves nature, animates it: he turns to stones, herbs, talks to them. His interlocutors are stones with fictitious names, loyal friends - binoculars and a briefcase, to which he entrusts his secret thoughts and dreams. Each object that the boy communicates with represents good or evil for him: “Among the plants are“ loved ones, ”“ brave, ”“ fearful, ”“ evil, ”and all sorts of others. A prickly thistle, for example, is the “main enemy”. "Shiraljins are good friends who can hide when they feel bad and want to cry." A child finds a common language with some, and fights with others.
The boy was left by his parents in the care of Momun's grandfather. Grandfather is the closest person and friend who understands him, striving with all his might to make his grandson happy. It is he who inspires the child with faith in the old fairy tale about the Horned Mother Deer, which the boy lives with. The boy had two fairy tales. One was told by Momun's grandfather. She is about the Horned Mother Deer. It was based on the legend about the beginning of the Kirghiz clan, which still exists in the Issyk-Kul mountains. The grandfather's legend is a world of goodness and justice, it is a set of rules: how to live. This is what the boy hears from his grandfather, this is what he believes.
Hope
The Legend of the Horned Mother Deer
In ancient times, one Kyrgyz tribe lived on the banks of the large and cold river Enesay. Now this river is called the Yenisei. On that day, the Kyrgyz tribe buried their old leader. All the tribesmen were in great sorrow. No matter how the Enesai were at enmity with each other, it was not customary to go to war against the neighbors on the days of the leader's funeral. And then the unexpected happened. Hordes of enemies rushed out of cover, so that no one could take up arms. And an unprecedented battle began. They killed everyone. It takes a long time to give birth and raise a person, but to kill is most likely. Many were already lying chopped up, drowning in pools of blood, many rushed into the river and drowned in the waves of Enesai. No one managed to escape, no one was left alive. The enemies left with rich booty and did not notice how two children returned from the forest - a boy and a girl. The children saw hoofed dust and set off in pursuit. Children ran after the fierce enemies, crying and screaming. Only children could do that. Instead of hiding from the assassins, they set off to catch up with them. The children of the murderers of their parents caught up, and the conqueror Khan sent the Pockmarked Lame Old Woman to take the children into the taiga and destroy them. The old woman took the children to the highest steep of Enesai and turned to the river: "Take them, Great Enesai!" The boy and the girl are crying, crying. And a voice is heard nearby: "Wait, wise woman, do not destroy innocent children!" The Old Woman turned around, looked - she was amazed, there was a deer in front of her, a maral's mother.
- I am a mother deer. Let the children go, big wise woman. Give them to me. People killed my twins, two deer. I'm looking for children.
- Did you think well? These are children of men. They will grow up and kill your deer.
- I'll be their mother. Are they going to kill their brothers and sisters? I will take them to a distant land where no one will find them.
The Horned Mother Deer brought her children to Issyk-Kul. So a boy and a girl, the last of the Kyrgyz tribe, found a new homeland for themselves on the blessed Issyk-Kul. Time passed quickly. They got married, became husband and wife, father and mother. They named their first-born Bugubai. When he grew up, he married a beautiful woman from the Kipchak tribe and the Bugin clan began to multiply. Residents of Bugin honored the Horned Mother Deer. This was until one rich man died. His sons wanted to show an unheard-of honor to their father, they sent hunters, killed those maral, cut off his horns and ordered the craftsmen to install the horns on the tomb. From that and went. Great misfortune fell on the offspring of the Horned Mother Deer. There was no mercy for marals. They fled to inaccessible mountains, but even there they got them. And there were no deer. The mountains were empty. And the Horned Mother Deer was deeply offended by the people. She climbed the highest mountain peak, said goodbye to Issyk-Kul and took her last children to another land, to other mountains. And when she left, she said that she would not return ...
It was a grandfather's tale.
Boy's tale Is a fairy tale about a white steamer. Here's how he tells it ...
Aidana (the boy tells his tale)
In it, the boy's fabulous dream is to turn into a fish and sail to Issyk-Kul, to the white steamer on which his father is a sailor. In it, he imagines himself as a fish swimming down the river to a new life, to a parental caress. The boy calls them fairy tales because there is a miracle in them, as in fairy tale: the miracle of the Horned Mother Deer and the miracle of the transformation of a boy into a fish. And, as in any fairy tale, the magical world into which the boy plunges is beautiful and fair. Here, good always triumphs over evil, every atrocity is punished, beauty and harmony reign here, which the boy lacks in real life. Legends are the only thing that helps the boy to live, to remain a kind, unspoiled child, who believes in goodness and that it will win. The inner world protects the child's pure soul from the evil of the outer, surrounding world. But these worlds always collide. There is a conflict in the family. “The boy became so scared, so anxious that the food did not go down his throat. There is no worse, when at dinner people are silent and think about something of their own, unkind and suspicious. "
The boy, piously believing in the fairy tale told by his grandfather, asks the deer-mother to bring a cradle for Orozkul and aunt Bekey. Then everything will be fine. "He fell asleep troubled sleep and falling asleep begged Horned mother deer bring birch beshik for Orozkul and Aunt Bekey. Let them have children! "
Grandfather wants to resolve the conflict peacefully, but his attempt does not lead to anything good. Grandfather Momun interrupts the tale himself. Fearing the wrath of Orozkul, he kills the maral for the sake of his daughter, grandson. "Boy with fear looked at this terrible picture. He couldn't believe his eyes. Before him lay the head of the Horned Mother Deer. "
But by this he kills the child, inflicting severe mental trauma on him. The boy often asks questions to which he cannot find the answer: “Why do people live like this? Why are some evil, others good? Why are there happy and unhappy people? Why are there those that everyone is afraid of, and those that no one is afraid of? Why do some have children, while others do not? Why can some people refuse to pay out salaries to others? Probably the most the best people those that receive the highest salary. But the grandfather receives little, and everyone offends him. Oh, how to make grandfather get a bigger salary too! Maybe then Orozkul would have begun to respect his grandfather. ”As a result, the boy has only one tale left - the tale about the white steamer. In the tragic finale, the boy remains completely alone in this world: his grandfather betrayed him, the Horned mother - the deer left, and the boy swims away as a fish, rejecting not people, but evil, cruelty in them. “No, I I'd rather be a fish... I will sail away from here. "
(the boy swims away with a fish)
All his dreams and hopes were instantly destroyed, and the cruelty of the world, from which he had been hiding for a long time, appeared before him in all its guise. Having sailed down the river as a fish, he "rejected what his childish soul could not put up with." But he retained faith in goodness, because he did not die, but left reality in his fairy tale world, he did not commit suicide, but “sailed away like a fish on the river.
Nazimgul Image of grandfather Momun
Grandpa Momun is the closest person to the boy. We learn about him and the history of his life from the first pages of the story. Before us is a portrait of an unremarkable elderly man: “Momun's appearance was not aksakal. Small in stature. The nose is soft, duck; there are two or three reddish hairs on a bare chin - that's the whole beard. " "Many-wise people called their grandfather Quick Momun." "He earned such a nickname for his unchanging friendliness and willingness to always serve." « He was invariably friendly to everyone he knew even the slightest bit.». « Everyone in the neighborhood knew my grandfather, and he knew everyone. " “Nobody treated Momun with the respect that people of his age enjoy. He was an eccentric and was treated like an eccentric. "
In the story, as often in life, it turns out that the best people are poor, unhappy, humiliated by those who have power and strength. So, Momun's grandfather “I have lived all my life from morning till night at work, in troubles, but I haven’t learned to make me respect myself”. He knew how to work. He did everything quickly and easily, and most importantly, he did not shirk like the others. He was a carpenter, he played some saddlery, he was a rickety man; on the kolkhoz he set up ricks; he was a labor army officer during the war; I cut down houses on the cordon, I was busy with the forest; I went for cattle and kept an apiary. At the cordon, he was listed as an auxiliary worker, and did the work of Orozkul while he walked and visited the shepherds.
Grandpa Momun is the best grandfather, but he is not at all cunning, and therefore everyone laughs at him. And he had his own troubles and sorrows, from which he suffered, cried at night. The boy knows about these troubles: the grandfather worries about him, the grandson, worries about the "most unfortunate" daughter - Aunt Bekey. It is a pity to see the boy's grandfather, who, crying, turns to God. “Take me, take me, wretched! - said the old man, falling to his knees and raising his hands to the sky. "
Momun's grandfather helped create the world of legend for the boy by telling him about the Horned Mother Deer; taught to read the laws of ancestors , brought up respect for man, compassion, instilled love for nature. Momun wisely and unobtrusively teaches his grandson: "Eh, my son, it's bad when people do not shine with their intelligence, but with wealth!"
“Uh, my son, it’s bad when singers compete in praise, they turn from singers into enemies of the song!”
"Uh, my son, even in ancient times people said that wealth gives rise to pride, pride - recklessness."
"Uh, my son, and where money is, there is no place for a good word, there is no place for beauty."
But a grandfather cannot protect his grandson from the cruelties and injustices of the world, because he himself is weak. Orozkul constantly shouts at him! The only time Momun's grandfather raised his voice to Orozkul was when it was necessary to take the boy out of school, and Orozkul, obliged to repay the debt, hit the old man in the face. “- Scoundrel! - said Momun, who never contradicted anyone, turned blue from the cold. " And yet Momun cannot resist Orozkul, he kills the maral, doing evil in the name of good for the sake of his "unfortunate daughter", for the sake of his grandson. But his philosophy of evil in the name of good has failed. “The old man threw a distant, strange, wild look at the boy. His face was hot and red; it burst into flaming paint and immediately turned pale. " A grandfather cannot look his grandson in the eye. This is how the boy sees his grandfather for the last time: "The face of a drunken old man, stained with dirt and dust, with a pitiful beard, turned to him." After killing the deer, Momun dooms the boy to death, destroys the wonderful world of the legend that the grandson lives in. "And now, overwhelmed by grief and shame, the old man lay face down on the ground." Many questions remain unanswered in the story, in particular Momun's question: “And why are people like that? Are you good for him - is he bad for you? "
Zhihaz Image of Orozkul
Orozkul is grandfather Momun's son-in-law, vengeful and spiritually limited, the master of the cordon. Most of his life he “travels to visit”, and grandfather Momun, although he is listed as an auxiliary worker, watches over the forest. "Only when the authorities appear - then Orozkul himself will show the forest and arrange the hunt." Orozkul is offended at his fate: "God did not give him his own son, his own blood", "self-pity and anger" boil in his soul, therefore, returning home, "clenching fleshy fists" he knows in advance that he will beat his wife, " stupefying with grief and anger. " The author, giving a portrait characterization of Orozkul, points to the details of his portrait: "a bull-like man", with a "gloomy, frowning look", "well-fed and drunk." Orozkul can be relatively called an unhappy person. Relatively, because for Orozkul there is a concept of happiness - this is wealth, honor, respect, admiration for him. The boy sees how “Orozkul was crying and could not stop sobbing. He cried because it was not his son who ran out to meet him, and because he did not find something in himself that was necessary to say at least a few human words to this boy with a briefcase ”. He constantly oppresses, humiliates his relatives. Momun's grandfather, for the sake of his daughter, was also in his power. He hoped that Orozkul would become kind if he had children, if he knew what he would leave behind offspring. But at the same time, it is clear that if there was even a drop of kindness in Orozkul, he would give his warmth to the boy, as the Horned Mother Deer did in the legend. The boy knows that his uncle is actually filled with only evil, he is subconsciously afraid of Orozkul, like Momun's grandfather. Orozkul causes dislike and disgust when we read an episode about how Orozkul “should pay for his boasting, for the shepherds' treats” and it was necessary to give the promised log. "Orozkul tore off Momun's shoulder the old tarpaulin boots, which were thrown over the tops, and backhand hit his father-in-law twice on the head and face."
Orozkul does not respect people who are nearby, disdainfully treats those whom he considers below himself. “Who is this teacher? Five years in one coat. Would a decent teacher go to such a school? " or "I'll beat the old fool and that's it."
Orozkul dreams of city life and blames himself: “I hurried, but I was drawn to the position. Although small, but a position. After the foresters' courses, I had to go to the technical school. " Let's listen to his monologue.
(Orozkul's monologue)
It is Orozkul who makes grandfather Momun kill the deer and encroach on what he believed in all his life, “in memory of the ancestors,” on the moral laws of the Bugin people. And there are no moral laws for Orozkul.
(Orozkul chops off the horns of a maral)
“Orozkul began to hack the horns out of the skull.
- Oh, yes horns! This is us for your grandfather. As he dies, we will put him on his grave. Now let him say that we do not respect him. Much more! It's not a sin to die for such horns even today! " “Orozkul continued to quarrel the head of the Horned Mother Deer with drunken stubbornness:
- Oh, you bastard! I can smash heads like that! - growled Orozkul in a fit of wild anger and hatred. ... Those were the very horns on which the Horned Mother Deer was supposed to bring the magic cradle to Orozkul and Aunt Bekey with the prayers of the boy.
In the description of Orozkul, the author's attitude to him is clearly traced. It is not by chance that after the deed the author writes about him: "... Orozkul appeared, stubborn and red, like an inflamed udder." We do not feel anything but hostility and aversion to this image.
Conclusion on work
In carrying out design work, we have learned
- work with text;
- on the basis of quotations, they learned to give detailed characteristics of character images;
- also were able to understand the structure of the research work.
- Teacher's word
- Thank you for your work. Through the attitude of the heroes to the world and people, we understand the position of the author, but not only. The composition of the work plays an important role - the story in the story. It is no coincidence that the legend is given in the story. Let's remember the definition.
Legend is a folk legend about an outstanding event or deed of a person, based on a miracle, a fantastic image.
- Conversation
- What is the plot role of the legend of the Horned Mother Deer, introduced into the text of the story? (The legend is the basis of the story. It explains the origin of the Bugu tribe, it embodies popular ideas about good and evil, and predicts the tragic ending of the work.)
Teacher's word
- The tale of the Horned Mother - a deer still lives in the memory of the Kyrgyz. The ornament on the festive felt felts covering the yurts conveys the pattern of maral horns, and the high headdress bushnok - chelek - still keeps the memory of them. Once, the legend says, a man hid the horns of the Mother Deer under him. Ch. Aitmatov put this legend as the basis of his legend about marals, gave it a second life.
- Why does the boy admire the mother deer? (kindness towards people, forgiveness, compassion, love for the world)
- Is it only the mother deer that we see through the eyes of a boy?
- How do we assess all the heroes of the story? Who gives moral judgment? (Through the perception of the boy, we see all the heroes of the story. He gives a moral assessment to each character: this is the peculiarity of this work of the author).
- For a boy, good and evil are concrete. Good is the mother deer and grandfather Momun, evil is Orozkul. But life poses an insoluble task for the child: why does grandfather Momun, who gave him a wonderful fairy tale and taught him to believe in goodness, retreats before Orozkul and helps him to destroy the beautiful deer?
- Textbook (read text, end)
- Why such a tragic end? (real life is cruel, and it is difficult for a child to cope with those who are older, more mature, have power)
- Teacher's word
There is such a law of world art - to send their best heroes to death and torment in order to stir up the souls of the living, to urge them to do good. The story was originally conceived as a short story. Aitmatov wanted to write an elegiac story, to remember his youth and those people whom he knew and who have been gone for a long time. This is how the writer himself recalls it:
- Individually student. Arman
“I wanted to write about what I saw - how I was driving, meeting trucks and talking to an old man. I wanted to describe how upset the old man was by the death of the maral, he tried to dissuade people from shooting at the maral. It was in this area that the Bugu tribe lived, which revered the deer as a sacred animal. But when I started writing, I felt that there was something more important behind this episode. The image of a boy appeared. Yes, I remember the boy was running there too. The old man said that he takes him to school. I asked where the school was, and he answered - far, beyond the forest. Every day he took him there and took him away. So my story was based on real people and events. But literature must process real facts. When half of the story had already been written, I still did not know how the boy would behave at the end.
At the beginning of my work, I had a different idea of the ending of the story. Maral is killed, and the boy is very sorry for him. Early in the morning he gets up, sees the snow falling. Grandfather puts him on a horse and goes with him to school. But then he decided to make this ending different, symbolic: the boy floats away to the white steamer, his ideal ... "
- Teacher's word. Conversation.
- The story has 2 titles "After the Tale" and "White Steamer". It is clear that the former sounds more tragic. The second inspires optimism: if a person does not accept vice, he will remain pure, like a small seven-year-old child.
- What is the main idea of the piece? (The idea of the story lies in the clash of opposing concepts of “nature” and “civilization” in society, the eternal theme of “good” and “evil.” This theme of good and evil is the basis of many fairy tales and legends. But if in fairy tales, good almost always triumphs, but evil is punished, then in reality this is not always the case.)
Vii. Lesson summary
Having closed the book, we, the readers, feel responsible for the death of the child. The writer himself said this about himself: "The day when I stop worrying and suffering, seeking and worrying, will be the most difficult day in my life." The story seems unfinished because many questions remain unanswered.
It is not written in the story why, as in fairy tales, good did not triumph over evil. The right to find answers to them is left to the reader.
VIII. Reflection stage
(text on chalkboard)
Our life is changeable. Each generation decides for itself what is transitory and what is eternal. Eternal is the problem of everyone's responsibility for the life of society, the problem of moral choice in conditions of broken traditions. Honor, conscience, human decency are eternal. For those who have their own moral "core", no trials are terrible. But only time can put everything in its place.
Children only then acquire maturity and become moral people when:
- when they absorb the experience of the fathers;
- when they are filled with gratitude for the feat of self-sacrifice of adults;
- when they take on a duty to everyone who came before them;
- when they feel their responsibility to preserve, enrich and pass on what the older generation left them.)
- IX. Homework
Come up with your own ending for the story "White Steamer"
X. Commenting on the marks
In this article we will describe the story "The White Steamer". Summary this work will be presented in it. The story was written in 1970 by Chingiz Aitmatov.
The "White Steamer" begins (summary) as follows. A boy and his grandfather lived in the forest cordon. There were three women here: the grandmother, the wife of the patrolman Orozkul, the main man in the cordon, and the grandfather's daughter, Aunt Bekey. There was also Seidakhmat's wife, Aunt Bekey, a woman who is the most unhappy since she has no children. Orozkul drunk beats her for this. These are the main characters of the story, which was written by Chingiz Aitmatov.
"White Steamer". Grandfather Momun
The agile Momun was nicknamed grandfather Momun. He received such a nickname for his constant friendliness, as well as his willingness to serve. He knew how to work. And Orozkul, his son-in-law, although he was considered the boss, mostly traveled to the guests. Momun kept an apiary, went after livestock. Chingiz Aitmatov notes that he was all at work from morning to evening, all his life, but he never learned to make himself respect.
Boy's dream
The boy did not remember either mother or father. He did not see them even once, but he knew that his father served in Issyk-Kul as a sailor, and his mother left for some distant city after the divorce.
The boy loved to climb the neighboring mountain and look at Issyk-Kul through his grandfathers binoculars. On the lake in the late afternoon a white steamer was shown.
Handsome, powerful, long, with pipes in a row. Aitmatov's story "The White Steamer" is named in the ship. The boy wanted to turn into a fish, with only one of his own on a thin neck, with protruding ears. He dreamed that he would swim to his father and tell him that he was his son. The boy wanted to tell how he lived with Momun. This grandfather is the best, but not at all cunning, which is why everyone laughs at him. And Orozkul often shouts.
The tale told by Momun
Grandfather told his grandson a fairy tale in the evenings. Describing it continues the work "White Steamer".
In ancient times, the Kyrgyz tribe lived on the banks of the Enesai River. Enemies attacked him and killed everyone, only a girl and a boy remained. However, then the children were in the hands of enemies. The pockmarked Lame Old Woman gave them to the Khan and ordered to end these Kirghiz. But when she had already brought the children to the bank of the river Enesai Ragged Lame Old Woman, the maral womb came out of the forest and asked to give her the children. The old woman warned that these are human children who will kill her deer when they grow up. After all, people do not even feel sorry for each other, let alone animals. However, the deer mother nevertheless begged the old woman, and brought the children to Issyk-Kul.
They got married when they grew up. The woman began childbirth, she suffered. The man got scared and began to call the mother deer. Then an iridescent ringing was heard from afar. The horned mother brought a baby cradle on her horns - beshik. The silver bell on its bow rang. A woman was immediately born. The firstborn was named Bugubai, in honor of the deer. Rod Bugu went from him.
Then one rich man died, and his children decided to install the deer horns on the tomb. Since then, marals have not had mercy in the forests, and they were gone. The mountains were empty. When the mother deer left, she said that she would never return. This is how the description of the fairy tale of Aitmatov ends. The "White Steamer" continues with a story about further events at the forest cordon.
Orozkul works with Momun
Autumn has come again in the mountains. For Orozkul, along with the summer, the time for visits to the herders and shepherds departed - the time had come to pay for the offerings. Together with Momun, they dragged two pine logs through the mountains, and therefore Orozkul was angry with the whole world. He wanted to settle down in a city where people are respected, cultured people live. There you do not have to carry the logs afterwards for receiving a gift. And the state farm is visited by the inspection, the police - they suddenly ask where the forest is from. Anger boiled up in Orozkul at this thought. He wanted to beat his wife, but the house was far away. In addition, the grandfather noticed the marals and almost came to tears, as if he had met his brothers.
Quarrel between Orozkul and Momun
The "White Steamer", the summary of which we are describing, continues with a quarrel between Orozkul and Momun. Finally, Orozkul quarreled with the old man when it was very close to the cordon. He kept asking for time off in order to pick up his grandson from school. It got to the point that he threw the stuck logs in the river and went after the boy. Orozkul hit him several times on the head, but it did not help - the old man broke free and left.
When the boy and his grandfather returned, they learned that Orozkul had beaten her up. He said he was firing his grandfather. Bekey cursed her father, howled, and the grandmother was itching that it was necessary for Orozkul to submit, to ask for forgiveness from him, otherwise there would be nowhere to go in his old age.
The boy wanted to tell his grandfather that he met red deer in the forest - they returned. But the old man was not up to it. The boy again left for an imaginary world, began to beg the deer-mother to bring the cradle on the horns to Orozkul and Bekey.
People came for the forest
Meanwhile, people came to the cordon behind the forest. While they were pulling the log out, Momun's grandfather followed Orozkul like a loyal dog. The arrivals also noticed these, apparently, were from the reserve, not frightened.
Momun kills mother deer
In the evening, the boy saw a cauldron boiling on a fire in the courtyard, from where the meat spirit emanated. The grandfather was standing by the fire. He was drunk. The boy had never seen him like this. One of the newcomers, as well as a drunken Orozkul, were sharing a pile of fresh meat, squatting by the barn. The boy saw a deer head under the wall of the barn. He tried to run, but his legs did not obey him - he just stood and looked at the head of the one who had been the mother deer yesterday.
The boy goes to the river
They all soon sat down at the table. The boy was nauseating all the time. He heard drunken people sniffing, gnawing, chomping, devouring the mother deer. Saydakhmat later told how he made her grandfather shoot her: he intimidated that he would be kicked out by Orozkul if he did not.
The boy decided to become a fish and never return to the mountains. He went to the river and stepped into the water.
This is how the story "The White Steamer" ends, the summary of which we have described. In 2013, this work was included in the list of "100 books for schoolchildren", recommended for independent reading by the Ministry of Education and Science.
LESSON PLAN
Subject name: Russian literature
Class: 7 "B" Teacher:A.A. Gorbicheva
№ Lesson: 46 Date: 02/25/2017
Lesson type : gaining new knowledge
Theme:
"Real and Mythological in the Novel of Ch.Aitmatov" The White Steamer "".
Purpose: compilation, defense of literature projects; comprehension of the moral position of Ch.Aitmatov.
Tasks:
educational: to show how, through the relationship of a person to the natural world, his character is revealed; to reveal how the four artistic worlds relate in the story: natural, lifelike, mythological and fabulous.
developing: the development of coherent oral and written speech; thinking, memory; analytical skills; the ability to work with text, highlight the main thing; carry out ontological analysis of the text; ability to work in a team.
educational: to form interest in moral issues, "eternal" problems, to learn to feel the word.
Lesson type: learning new material
Lesson form: lesson-protection of creative projects
A person must be, first of all, a person,
he must live in harmony with people like him,
in harmony with nature, it should be
bearer of lofty ideals ...
Ch.Aitmatov
During the classes
I. Organizational moment. 1 minute
II. Introductory part. 2 minutes
1. Word of the teacher. Today we have an unusual lesson with you. A lesson-defense of creative projects based on the story of Ch.Aitmatov "The White Steamer". It can be noted that it was in this genre that the writer was able to express the entire diverse spectrum of human feelings and thoughts. According to the writer, "a person must be, first of all, a man, he must live in harmony with people like him, in harmony with nature, he must be the bearer of high ideals."
Ch.Aitmatov in his work does not break away from the roots that nurtured his talent, from Kyrgyz folklore, on the contrary, he rethought and reincarnated the images created by folk art. The writer allows himself to outline for the reader the time perspective "present-future" and always leaves the latter the right to make his own moral choice. According to Ch. Aitmatov, “art should call for joy, life affirmation, optimism. But it is also true that art should plunge a person into deep thoughts and shocks, evoke in him useful feelings of compassion, protest against evil, give him a reason to grieve, grieve and thirst to restore, defend the best in life that turned out to be ruined ... "
Before starting work, let's get acquainted with the main stages of the creative path of Ch.Aitmatov.
2.
Student short message
about the life and work of Ch. Aitmatov
3. Referring to the topic of the lesson. Goal setting. 1 minute
During the lesson you have to fill them out and answer the question:
Why Ch.Aitmatov pays special attention to myths and legends? To do this, we need to consider how the 3 artistic worlds of the work relate to each other in the work: life-like, fairy-tale and mythological.
You have been divided into groups. Each group worked on their own project.
4. Protection of projects of creative groups.
1 group "Fairy world" 10-12 min
“He had two fairy tales. One of his own, about which no one knew. Another one that my grandfather told. Then not one was left. This is what we are talking about. " This is how Ch.Aitmatov's story "The White Steamer" begins. Living in a complex reality, the protagonist of the story, a seven-year-old boy, divides his world into three dimensions: the real world, the mythological world and the world of a fairy tale, goodness and justice, which, as it were, compensates for the injustices of reality, and there are many of them.
The cruelty and indifference of adults could not serve as support, help and consolation for the boy. And then he creates his own fairy tale. In this fairy tale, the boy also has faithful friends - stones, plants, binoculars and a briefcase, to which he confides his secret thoughts and dreams.
The hero of the story is a boy, naively pure and dreamy, open-minded and disinterested.
He has an amazing ability of imagination, moral purity, the ability to live by fiction. His inner, intimate roommates are all the grace of being: mountains, forest, space, lakes, seasons. And against the background of an ideal family, like the one that appeared to him on the other side of the river in the vision of three marals, the disgrace of this artificial congregation of people in the forest cordon, supposedly forming a family, appears especially pitiful. They are all strangers to each other. And according to the grandmother: “A stranger is always a stranger, no matter how much you feed him, no matter how much you follow him,” - they are all brought together, and in fear of life they are afraid of tearing themselves apart - to break out into another life, free, with open possibilities ... The space of the cordon is closed, cramped for the boy. Even the dam that his grandfather made keeps the boy in this confined space. Around the mountain, forest, steppe open spaces calling for freedom and true life, and here people are suffocating, afraid to go beyond the borders. Therefore, the boy goes to Karaulnaya Mountain. In this he is helped by his friend - binoculars. With his help, the boy can, at least for a while, escape from this place with cruel people. Somewhere there is life, where there are good people. And most importantly, there you can see a white steamer, a symbol of hope. In the magical world of a fairy tale, a boy meets his father. He dreams of turning into a fish and getting along Issyk-Kul to the white steamer, where his father is a sailor. The boy comes to look at the white steamer with his friend - a briefcase that Momun's grandfather gave him so that the boy could go to school with him. We can compare the portfolio with the boy himself - the space of the portfolio is as closed as the boy himself. He tries to close himself off from the injustice and evil of the real world: "The boy's heart rolled on the floor, climbed onto the windowsill, closer to the briefcase, and whispered with him."
In addition to strong physical vision, the boy is endowed with even stronger, more powerful - inner vision. He sees a new and untested world, where life is so serene, full of established harmony, there is eternal bliss in the arms of fabulous beauty. Only in nature does a boy feel in his environment. That is why the boy creates his own fairy tale.
Artistic details in Ch. Aitmatov's story make a very strong impression on us by the fact that they are also included in the problem of good and evil. These are stones, herbs, plants with which the boy talks. The boy has a very delicate soul. So, in the episode, when the car shop arrived, the boy is in a hurry, but does not step on a single stone, carefully runs around them. After all, stones are the main friends.
Stone "Camel": "Red hunchbacked granite, chest-deep in the ground. Usually the boy did not pass without patting his camel on the hump. "
Saddle Boulder: "Half white, half black, piebald stone with a saddle, where you could sit astride a horse."
Stone "Wolf": "Very similar to a wolf, brown, with gray hair, with powerful and heavy forehead. He was getting close to him and taking aim. "
Stone "Tank": "His favorite stone. An indestructible block near the river on a washed-out bank. So wait, the tank will rush from the shore and go. "
We set ourselves a goal: to figure out why the boy gave exactly such names to his stone friends. To do this, we turned to symbol dictionaries.
"Camel": A symbol of endurance and power, independence and dignity, the sacred animal of Allah.
"Saddle": Symbol of family life, peace. Placed on the graves of shamans.
"Wolf": A symbol of courage, victory, fearlessness, caring for the family.
"Tank": A symbol of combat power.
Thus, every artistic detail is included in the problem of good and evil in the work. The boy is endowed with powerful inner vision. He is very sensitive to nature.
Each object personifies good or evil for him: “Among the plants are“ loved ones ”,“ brave ”,“ fearful ”,“ evil ”and all sorts of others.
So, "thistle" - among the people "thistle". This is not a simple plant with interesting legends and history. Thistle is a thorny herb, a weed that is constantly fought. They say that behind its thorns is a vulnerable soul, capable of self-sacrifice and mutual assistance. We believe that the boy was associated with Orozkul. The boy fights with Orozkul, hopes that he can become kind if he has children. But that doesn't happen. Although, somewhere in the depths of his soul, Orozkul had something human. One can recall the episode when the drunk Orozkul cries because he cannot find a single friendly word for the boy. But as with a thug, “the boy hacked him dozens of times a day. But the end of this war was not visible - the thug grew and multiplied ... ”, and so Orozkul got away with everything.
"Bindweed" - "The smartest and funniest flowers. They are best greeted by the sun in the morning. Other herbs do not understand anything - that morning, that evening, everything is smooth for them. And the bindweed, just warm the rays, open their eyes, laugh. First, one eye, and then the second, and then one by one all the swirls of flowers bloom on the bindweed. White, light blue, lilac, different ... ". These unpretentious flowers, whose stems do not stretch upward, as usual, but spread or entwine, like small vines, any support. They are a symbol of humility and obedience. We believe that the boy associates the bindweed with his grandfather Momun. He is the only person who takes care of the boy. But who, unfortunately, by his age did not force anyone to respect himself: “Both the old and the little one were with him, you could play a trick on him - the old man is harmless; it was possible not to reckon with him - an unrequited old man ... ".
"Feathers" - "They are eccentrics - feathers!" Windy heads. Their soft, silky panicles cannot live without wind. They just wait - wherever it blows, there they lean. If there were legs, they would probably run away wherever their eyes look ... But they are pretending to be. " They are a symbol of the steppes, magical purification, silvery "waves" of feather grass are associated with the endless sea. We also correlate the feathers with the image of Momun's grandfather, who "was an eccentric, and treated him like an eccentric ...".
“The Shiraljins are loyal friends. Especially if there is some kind of insult and you want to cry so that no one sees, it is best to hide in shiraljins. They smell like a pine forest at the edge. Hot and quiet in the shiraljins. And most importantly, they do not obscure the sky. You have to lie on your back and look at the sky. At first, through tears, almost nothing is discerned. And then the clouds will come and will make up everything that you conceive above. The clouds know that you are not very well, that you want to go somewhere or fly away ... "
As in any fairy tale, the magical world into which the boy plunges is beautiful and fair. Here, good always triumphs over evil, here beauty and harmony reign, which the boy so lacks in real life. His fairy tales are the only thing that helped the boy to live, to remain a kind, unspoiled child, believing in goodness and that it will win. That inner world protected the child's pure soul from the evil of the outer, surrounding world. But the boy's inner world collided with the outer world, in which evil opposed good.
Having sailed down the river as a fish, he rejected what his childish soul could not put up with. But he retained faith in goodness, because he did not die, but left the reality in his fairy tale world, he did not commit suicide, but “swam away like a fish on the river”.
2 group "Mythological world" 5-7 min
This is how the myth sounds in the story (a short retelling of the legend according to the diagram on the slide).
“… It happened a long time ago. A Kyrgyz tribe lived on the banks of the Enesai River. The tribe was attacked by enemies and killed. Only the boy and the girl remained. But then the children fell into the hands of enemies. The Khan gave them to Pockmarked Lame Old Woman and ordered to put an end to the Kirghiz. But when the Pockmarked Lame Old Woman had already brought them to the banks of the Enesai, a maral's mother came out of the forest and began to ask for the children. “People killed my deer at me,” she said. - And my udder is overflowing, asks for children! The Pockmarked Lame Old Woman warned: “These are children of men. They will grow up and kill your deer. After all, people are not like animals, they do not spare each other either. " But the deer mother begged the Pockmarked Lame Old Woman, and brought her children, now her own, to Issyk-Kul.
The children grew up and got married. The woman's childbirth began, she suffered. The man got scared, began to call the mother deer. And then an iridescent ringing was heard from afar. The horned mother deer brought a baby cradle on her horns - beshik. And on the bow of the beshik, a silver bell rang. And immediately a woman was born. They named their firstborn in honor of the deer mother - Bugubai. The clan Bugu went from him.
Then one rich man died, and his children decided to install deer horns on the tomb. Since then, there has been no mercy for marals in the Issyk-Kul forests. And there were no deer. The mountains were empty. And when the Horned Mother Deer left, she said she would never return
In the story, we see a complex structure of the text: the introduced text about the Horned Mother Deer illuminates the events going in parallel with the main ones (text in the text). The legend of the mother deer is presented by the author as a very real story. In the ideological and semantic plane, the legend turns out to be the leading one, it psychologically and philosophically illuminates the events of real life.
In our project, we decided to find out why the maral womb is the progenitor of the genus for the Kyrgyz. For this, we decided to consider the symbolism of the deer. So the deer is:
- A symbol of repeated creation and rebirth;
- the path of solitude and purity;
- a symbol of nobility and greatness;
- A symbol of the beginning, opposing evil.
We were also interested in the fact that the story indicates the presence of horns in the name of the maral - the Horned Mother Deer. What do the horns symbolize:
- force;
- power;
- power;
- Mystical rebirth;
- courage;
- nobility.
Thus, the myth that is present in the work performs a double function: ideological and aesthetic and national. The myth of the Horned Mother Deer in the story is the link between the present and the past. For Aitmatov, the myth is a "clot of wisdom" of the ancients, a proven experience for generations. The myth simulates the artistic picture of the world, becomes a tool for revealing topical problems of our time and penetrating into the depths of public reason. By analogy with the myth, the artist depicts social relations, philosophically comprehending them. Those. the mythological world, we believe, helps to better examine the life-like, real world. Momun, like the Horned Mother Deer, takes care of a boy and a girl, brings up her abandoned grandson. The deer, according to Eastern mythology, is the king's prey, and therefore he is likened to the king; his killing in a hunt is identified with the death of the hero himself.
Thus, having killed the Horned Mother Deer, Momun “kills” himself: “... struck with grief and shame, the old man lay, as if killed, face down, not responding to the boy’s voice.”
Aitmatov refers to myth as a metaphor, reflecting through age-old wisdom the problems of our time, which still remain relevant today, such as the connection between generations and the transfer of spiritual experience.
3 group "Life-like world". 5-7 min
The story takes place on a small cordon. There are only three families in the cordon: grandfather Momun with Babka, aunt Bekey - “the most unfortunate of all women” because she cannot have children, for which she is systematically beaten by her husband Orozkul, the chief of the cordon, and the worker Seidakhmat lives here with his wife Guldzhamal ... And "the only boy in all three yards." The boy was left by his parents in the care of his grandfather. Both the father and the mother already have different families. A boy lives with his grandfather Momun, where their relative Orozkul constantly oppresses and humiliates them. The grandfather could not protect his grandson from the cruelties and injustices of this world, for he himself was weak. In the story, as, alas, in life, it turns out that the best people are poor, unhappy, humiliated by those who have power and strength. So, Momun's grandfather “spent his whole life from morning till night at work, in chores, but he didn’t learn to make himself respect” and found himself in the power of a vengeful and limited relative - Orozkul.
And the boy sees this life full of injustices. In the real world itself, we would emphasize the presence of a separate problem of the collision of good and evil, thereby highlighting two separate thematic lines in the story: the boy's inner world against the outside world and Momun against Orozkul in the outer world itself.
Good and evil are two mutually exclusive concepts. And in his dreams, the boy tried to make the real world kinder by "re-educating" evil. He hoped that Orozkul would become kind if he had children, if he knew what he would leave behind offspring. But at the same time, it is clear that if there was even a drop of kindness in Orozkul, he would give his warmth to the boy, as the Horned Mother Deer did in the legend. And, knowing that his uncle is actually filled with only evil, the boy often saw in his dreams a picture of retribution. The boy, like the reader, subconsciously understood that good and evil cannot coexist, something must be exterminated. Orozkul forced grandfather Momun to break his moral laws, to trample on what he and the boy had believed in for so long. Orozkul compelled him not only to kill the deer, but to encroach on what he believed in all his life, “in memory of his ancestors, on his conscience and covenants,” on the moral laws of the Bugin people. Momun did evil in the name of good, for the sake of his "unfortunate daughter", for the sake of his grandson. But his philosophy of evil in the name of good has failed. Having killed the deer, he dooms the boy to death. Momun himself helped create the world of legend for his grandson, telling about the Horned Mother Deer, but he himself destroyed this world. "And now, overwhelmed by grief and shame, the old man lay face down on the ground." And the boy was left completely alone in this world. All his dreams and hopes were instantly destroyed, the cruelty of the world, from which he had been hiding for a long time, appeared before him in all its guise.
But we still do not believe that evil has won. No, it lost in a duel with a seven-year-old child who will come to these people for the rest of their lives, both in dreams and in reality. You cannot destroy everything in your path with impunity. And no one will ever love Orozkul, because he only sows fear and pain. And everyone who indulged this evil with their indifference will never be happy, because in every drop of rain they will see a silver fish with the eyes of a boy. Good is stronger than evil. There are more kind people. Not like Momun, who do not know how to fight for good, but those who come to the rescue in difficult times. The boy did not remain rude and weak, but sailed away to the good, strong, went swimming to his white steamer, to his dream.
5. Generalization.
- I ask you to answer the question posed at the beginning of the lesson: why does Aitmatov pay special attention to myths and legends, and how do the worlds of the work relate to each other?
- Student's answer: Aitmatov introduced into modern realistic prose that which is the heritage of the past culture: myth, legend, tradition. Elements of the mythological consciousness of the world can be adapted to the modern way of thinking. So the topic of memory is important in many ways. We must realize what it is historical memory... People should remember everything. As the master of the word himself said: “Someone will rightly notice: it's hard for someone who remembers everything. So, let it be hard for us, but we must not forget the lessons of the past. And let these lessons influence us in everything: our behavior, our consciousness, actions. "
6. Reflection with realization. 5 minutes
1. Word of the teacher.
The parable of good and evil
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Let's try to compose tips to help you avoid evil. Everyone writes on a piece of paper the most important, in his opinion, advice. Then you will read them.
2. Students read and reinforce their advice.
Advice:
1. Do not wish others harm, do good, and the world will become a better place.
2 Do not anger others, and do not be angry yourself.
3. Do not keep anger, hatred, rudeness in your heart
4. Kindness will save the world!
5. Do not do to others what you do not wish for yourself.
6. Always help people who need our help;
7. As often as possible, just smile at each other and say warm, affectionate words.
3. Word of the teacher.
But you swam away. Did you know that you will never turn into a fish. That you will not reach Issyk-Kul, you will not see a white steamer and say to him: "Hello, white steamer, it's me!" … And the fact is that a child's conscience in a person is like an embryo in a grain, without an embryo the grain does not germinate. And whatever awaits us in the world, the truth will last forever, while people are born and die ... Saying goodbye to you, I repeat your words, boy: "Hello, white ship, it's me!"
I ... Introductory part
Student short message
about the life and work of Ch. Aitmatov
2.
Referring to a writer's statement
(read by the teacher).
“Art should call for joy, life affirmation, optimism. But it is also true that art should plunge a person into deep thoughts and shocks, evoke in him useful feelings of compassion, protest against evil, give him a reason to grieve, grieve and yearn to restore, defend the best in life that has been trampled upon, ruined ... "
3. Referring to the topic of the lesson
What do you think is the main thing in human life?(Be kind. Love people and your homeland. Live honestly. Protect nature, etc.)
Now let's see how the heroes of the story understand this.
PROJECT PROTECTION
Group work
II
... Comparative characteristics of Momun Orazkul
Ch.Aitmatov in many of his works resorts to sharp oppositions of heroes. This technique allows you to draw the characters brighter. Are there such heroes in the story?
Momun Orozkul
2. Conversation
Momun is called "smart" people. What does this word mean?
Is there some kind of mockery in this nickname? Is this true of Momun?
Why do people perceive the kindness of an old man as eccentric, and maybe even stupid?
When reading the story, did you have a moment when you sympathized even with such a hero as Orozkul, saw in him a glimpse of something human?
Analytical conversation
He had two fairy tales. One of his own, about which no one knew. Another one that my grandfather told. Then not one was left. This is what we are talking about
How does a boy live among adults? Why does he so often want to "go somewhere or fly away"?
What questions do the boy care about? What is he trying to understand?
What is the essence of the boy's dream of the White Steamer?
What definitions would you choose to characterize this hero?
What made the boy become a fish and swim away? WORDS ON THE BOARD
ROLE-PLAYING GAMES
IV ... Comprehension of the final words of the story.
Why, despite the tragic end of the story, a bright feeling is born in our souls?
The parable of good and evil
Once upon a time, an old man revealed to his grandson one life truth:
- In every person there is a struggle, very similar to the struggle of two wolves. One wolf represents evil: envy, jealousy, regret, selfishness, ambition, lies. Another wolf represents goodness: peace, love, hope, truth, kindness, and loyalty. The grandson, moved to the depths of his soul by the words of his grandfather, pondered, and then asked:
- Which wolf wins in the end? The old man smiled and replied:
- The wolf you feed always wins.
REFLECTION
But you swam away. Did you know that you will never turn into a fish. That you will not reach Issyk-Kul, you will not see a white steamer and say to him: "Hello, white steamer, it's me!" … And the fact is that a child's conscience in a person is like an embryo in a grain, without an embryo the grain does not germinate. And whatever awaits us in the world, the truth will last forever, while people are born and die ... Saying goodbye to you, I repeat your words, boy: "Hello, white ship, it's me!"
The article contains a summary of the work "White Steamer" by Chingiz Aitmatov. It was first published in 1970 in the literary magazine Novy Mir. Later included in the collection "Stories and Stories". Aitmatov in "White Steamer" told a sad story about loneliness, misunderstanding, cruelty. This is one of his best works.
about the author
In 2013, a list of "100 books for schoolchildren" was compiled. This list includes the story "The White Steamer" by Aitmatov, a summary of which is presented below. This writer has been awarded state prizes more than once, but his talent, of course, is expressed primarily in the love of his readers, whose number has not diminished over the years.
He entered literature thanks to such works as "The First Teacher", "Mother's Field", "Camel's Eye". He became famous in the early sixties. More than one film was shot based on the works of Chingiz Aitmatov. The film "The White Steamer" was released in 1975. Other well-known works by Aitmatov: "Mother's Field", "Storm Station", "Early Cranes", "Ploha", "And the Day Lasts More Than a Century".
"White steamer": a summary
Chingiz Aitmatov had a special artistic style. Therefore, retelling his works is not easy. The writer was very fond of his native land. Most of his heroes live in a remote village, somewhere near the border of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. He harmoniously intertwined ancient traditions and legends into the plot. An ancient Kyrgyz legend is also found in the story of Chingiz Aitmatov "The White Steamer".
It is not recommended to read a summary of the works of the classics. But if there is no time, but you need to find out the plot of a famous book, you can neglect such recommendations. In addition, the summary of the story of "The White Steamer" can inspire to read the original.
Below is a detailed summary. The tale consists of five chapters. A summary of Aitmatov's "White Steamer" will be presented according to the following plan:
- Car shop.
- Flowers and stones.
- Old Man Momun.
- Seidakhmat.
- White steamer.
- Orozkul.
- Binoculars.
- Dam.
- Father.
- Mother.
- Momun's riot.
The protagonist of the novel "The White Steamer" by Chingiz Aitmatov is a seven-year-old boy. The author does not name his name. It is only said that he was the only boy "for three houses." The heroes of the story "The White Steamer" by Aitmatov live in a remote village located near the border, where a car shop occasionally calls in. The nearest school is a few kilometers away.
Shop
The appearance of a shop on wheels is a real event in this godforsaken village. The boy has a habit of swimming in the dam built by his grandfather. If not for this dam, he probably would have drowned long ago. The river, as his grandmother said, would have carried his bones straight to Issyk-Kul long ago. Hardly anyone would have rushed to save him. The boy's grandmother was not native.
And then one day, when the boy was swimming in his dam, he saw a caravan approaching the aul. Dust swirled behind the mobile shop that descended from the mountain. The boy was delighted - he hoped that they would buy him a portfolio. He jumped out of the cold water, hastily dressed and ran to announce the arrival of the caravan. He ran, running around boulders and jumping over bushes, did not stop anywhere for a second.
Flowers and stones
It is worth making some digression here. The boy ran without stopping, without saying a word to the stones that lay on the ground. He gave each of them a name long ago. The hero of the story "The White Steamer" has neither friends nor relatives. He has no one to talk to. Children tend to make fictional friends for themselves. The interlocutors of the protagonist of Aitmatov's story "The White Steamer" were inanimate objects - stones, binoculars, and then a brand new briefcase bought in a shop.
Camel, Saddle, Tank - these are the names of the cobblestones with which a lonely seven-year-old boy communicates. The boy has little joy in life. In the movies, he rarely happens - several times his grandfather took him to a neighboring tract. One day the boy watched a war film and learned about what a tank is. Hence the name of one of the "friends".
The hero of the story "The White Steamer" Aitmatov has an unusual attitude towards plants. There are favorites and enemies among them. The prickly thistle is the main enemy. The boy fought with him more than once. But the thug is growing rapidly, and the end of this war is not in sight. The boy's favorite plants are field bindweed. These flowers are especially beautiful in the morning.
The boy loves to climb into the shiraljin thickets. They are his most loyal friends. Here he hides from his grandmother when he wants to cry. He lies down on his back and looks at the sky, which becomes almost indistinguishable due to tears. At such moments he wants to become a fish and swim far, far away, so that others ask: "Where is the boy? Where has he disappeared?"
The hero of the story "The White Steamer" by Chingiz Aitmatov lives alone, without friends, and only the shop makes him forget about the stones, flowers and thickets of shiraljins.
The boy ran to the aul, which consisted of only three houses, and happily announced the arrival of the caravan. The men had already dispersed by that time. There were only women left, and there were only three of them: grandmother, aunt Bekey (the boy's mother's sister, the wife of the most important person in the cordon) and a neighbor. The women hurriedly ran to the van. The boy was glad that he brought good news to the village.
Even the stern grandmother praised her grandson, as if he had brought the little shop here on wheels. But attention quickly shifted to the goods brought by the owner of the camper van. Despite the fact that there were only three women, they managed to make a commotion next to the makeshift shop. But their fuse dried up very quickly, which made the seller a lot upset.
The grandmother began to complain about the lack of money. The neighbor did not find anything interesting among the goods. Only Aunt Bekey bought two bottles of vodka, which, according to the grandmother, brought trouble to her head. The sister of the mother of the protagonist was the most unhappy woman in the world - she had no children, for which she was periodically beaten by her husband.
Old Man Momun
The women bought goods “for a penny” and dispersed. Only the boy remained. The seller was annoyed at collecting the goods. The boy would have been left without a portfolio that day if old Momun had not arrived in time. This is the grandfather of the protagonist of Chingiz Aitmatov's story "The White Steamer". The only person who loved the boy who talked with stones.
Old Man Momun was a very kind person. He readily helped everyone. However, few people appreciated Momun's kindness, just as people would not appreciate gold if suddenly it was handed out for free. Whatever was entrusted to the old man, he did easily and quickly. No one took the harmless Momun seriously, everyone was ready to play a trick on him. But the old man was never offended. He continued to help everyone, for which he received the nickname "Quick Momun".
The grandfather's appearance was by no means aksakal. There was neither importance, nor gravity, nor severity in him - nothing that is inherent in the Kyrgyz old people. But at first glance it became clear that a man of rare kindness. He also had an amazing independence from the opinions of others. Momun was never afraid to say, answer, smile the wrong way. In this sense, he was an absolutely happy person. The old man also had bitterness. He often cried at night. But only those close to him knew what was in old Momun's soul.
Yet it was not in vain that the merchant went so far. Old Momun bought a portfolio for his grandson - after all, soon to school. The boy did not even think that his happiness would be so great. This day, perhaps, was the happiest in his short life. From that moment on, he did not part with the portfolio.
Seidakhmat
This is the name of another hero of Ch. Aitmatov's story "The White Steamer". Seidakhmat is a young forester, one who is considered an important person in the cordon. After the boy got a portfolio, he went around the whole village, boasting about the purchase. He showed a gift from his grandfather and Seidakhmat. However, he did not appreciate it.
The school was located five kilometers from the house where the boy lived. Grandfather promised to take him there to school on a horse. But to fellow villagers it seemed stupidity, nonsense. Nobody was happy for the boy. No one was impressed by the brand new portfolio. And school attendance seemed dubious to the poorly educated residents of the cordon.
It is not surprising that the boy loved to talk with stones and flowers. They, unlike people, never laughed at him or at his ridiculous grandfather. Now the boy has another inanimate friend - a briefcase. He happily told him about old Momun - a kind, ingenuous man, at whom the inhabitants of the cordon laugh in vain.
White steamer
The boy, like other residents of the aul, had his own duties: he had to look after the calf. But he did not always succeed in performing them properly. The boy had binoculars, with which he liked to look into the distance, to where a white steamer sometimes sailed along the river.
Ch. Aitmatov in the story masterfully conveys the inner world of a lonely child. His hero is constantly talking with an inanimate object, for him a portfolio is not a new thing, but a new friend. The white steamer is the main character in the story of Ch. T. Aitmatov. We will tell you a little later about what connected the boy with the distant ship.
Orozkul
The husband of the aunt of the protagonist of "White Steamer" Aitmatov was an evil and cruel man. And very unhappy. But his fellow villagers respected him, tried in every possible way to please him. The fact is that Orozkul could help with the construction of the house. He was the senior racer of the protected forest. An important person. Orozkul could help with the delivery of the logs. And, on the contrary, he could have made the house stand unfinished for years. The boy did not understand this, and therefore wondered why everyone loved his aunt's husband. After all, he is evil, cruel. These should be thrown into the river. The boy did not like Orozkul.
Anger and self-pity choke Orozkul. He goes home and knows that he will beat his wife today. He always does that. After all, it is Bekey who is to blame for all his sorrows. She has not been able to give birth for many years now.
Orozkul jumped off his horse and went to the river, where he washed himself with cold water. The boy thought he had a headache. In reality, Orozkul was crying. He cried because it was not his son who ran out to meet him, because he could not say a single kind word to this child with the briefcase.
Binoculars
The boy got this item from his grandfather. The old man himself did not use binoculars, he said that he could see everything perfectly well without him. A seven-year-old child enjoyed looking at the mountains, the pine forest and, of course, the white steamer. True, the latter was rarely seen.
Thanks to binoculars, the boy saw Lake Issyk-Kul, which was located far from his home. Now the boy was sharing his impressions with a wordless briefcase. At first he waited for the appearance of the white steamer, which he told his "friend", then admired the school.
Dam
Through binoculars, the place where the boy usually bathed was clearly visible. The dam was made by my grandfather. The old man dragged a lot of stones, chose those that were larger. The current in this place was very strong. The river could easily carry the boy, about which the grumpy grandmother told Momun more than once. At the same time, she added: "If he will sink - I won't lift a finger!" The old man was busy with the dam all day. He tried to lay the stones on top of each other so that the water between them came in and out freely.
On the day when the boy got a portfolio, an unpleasant incident happened. He gazed at the white steamer and completely forgot about his duties. The calf, meanwhile, began to chew on the linen that the old woman had hung out. The boy saw it from afar. At first Bekey tried to calm the old woman, but she, as usual, began to accuse her stepdaughter of sterility. A scandal began. They all quarreled. When the boy returned home, there was a suspicious silence.
The heroes of Aitmatov's story "The White Steamer" are unhappy people. Bekey is unhappy to be regularly beaten by her husband. But with her husband she is united by a common grief - the absence of children. Momun grieves, because the eldest son was killed in the war, and the daughters did not find happiness from family life. The old woman, the wife of the boy's grandfather, remembers the deceased children and the deceased husband. She appeared in this house not so long ago - after the death of the protagonist's own grandmother.
Father
The hero of Aitmatov's story "The White Steamer" talked not only with stones, flowers and a brand new briefcase. He often in his thoughts turned to his father, whom he did not remember at all. Once the boy heard that he would be a sailor. Since then, looking at the ship through binoculars, he imagined that somewhere there, on the deck, was his father.
The boy dreamed of becoming a fish, sailing to the white steamer and meeting this man. He would certainly tell him about old Momun, a kind person whom no one appreciates. The boy would tell his father about the evil old woman who came to their house after the death of his own grandmother. He would tell him about all the inhabitants of the cordon, even about Orozkul - an evil man who must certainly be thrown into the cold river.
Mother
The boy grew up an orphan, but his parents were alive. The sailor father had a new family long ago. The boy even heard once that on deck, when he returned on his white steamer, he was always greeted by his wife and two children. Mother left for a big city a long time ago and also got a new family. One day Momun went to her, and her daughter promised him that she would take the boy when she got to her feet. But when this will happen is unknown. However, the old man then said to her: "As long as I live, I will take care of the boy."
Aitmatov included several legends in the story "The White Steamer". These are old legends that Momun tells to his grandson. The boy imagines that someday he will tell their father. One of the legends told by the old man is the legend of the Horned Mother Deer. Below is a summary of its content. In The White Steamer, Chingiz Aitmatov devoted a whole chapter to this legend.
The Legend of the Horned Mother Deer
This story happened a long time ago, when the Kyrgyz tribe was surrounded by many enemies. And the Kyrgyz themselves often attacked their neighbors. People then lived by robberies. The one who knew how to catch the enemy by surprise, to seize the wealth of the enemy was considered to be smart. People were killing each other, blood was pouring incessantly.
Once the enemies attacked the Kyrgyz tribe, killed almost everyone. Only a boy and a girl remained, who on the day of the raid had gone far to the river. When they returned, they saw the ashes, the mutilated bodies of their loved ones. Oddly enough, the children went to the aul where the people who killed their relatives lived. Khan ordered to destroy the "unfinished enemy seed." A deer saved from the death of children. She fed them, warmed them, raised them. When the boy and girl grew up, they got married and had children. But the descendants of those rescued by the deer began to kill their brothers - the marals.
The Kyrgyz now decorated the graves of their relatives with the horns of a noble animal. The mountains were empty. There were no deer. People were born who had never seen this graceful animal in their entire life. The deer mother was offended by people. She climbed the highest mountain peak, said goodbye to Lake Issyk-Kul and went far, far away.
Momun's riot
Autumn has come. Momun, as promised, took his grandson to school every day. And then he helped his son-in-law - Orozkul often promised building material to the residents of the cordon, and in return he accepted offerings. In the fall, I had to climb far into the mountains in order to cut down a pine tree. They needed real mountain wood. Once Orozkul did not keep his promise: he took a lamb, but did not cut down a pine tree, after which he almost lost his position as a patrolman of the protected forest. The deceived fellow villager wrote a slander against him, in which there was both truth and a lie. But that was long before the story told in the novel "White Passage" by Chingiz Aitmatov happened. The summary will continue with the description of the climax scene.
In September, the berries ripened, the lambs grew. The women prepared dried cheese and hid it in winter sacks. Men, having agreed with Orozkul, more and more often reminded him of the promised forest. It upset him a lot. If there was a way to return his promises, he would certainly use it. But such a method does not exist, and therefore Orozkul had to climb the mountains with Momun, and upon his return he grew cold with fear: at any moment the forest ranger could be suspected of theft. In one of these campaigns, he almost died. Momun, a lover of fairy tales, having witnessed this incident, believed that his son-in-law owed his salvation to the marals, who returned to the Kyrgyz land several centuries later.
Orozkul's heart did not soften even after he nearly died. On that day, he and Momun had to cut down a few pines. When the old man told him that he needed to pick up his grandson from school, and therefore postpone work until evening, he became furious. He did not let Momun go, besides, he attacked his father-in-law with ridiculous accusations (the main one was, as always, the daughter's sterility). The good old man could not disobey his son-in-law. He worked in silence, and his heart was breaking. Momun imagined his grandson standing, lonely, abandoned by everyone, near the school, when the other children had long since fled to their homes. The old man had never been late before.
The boy loved to go to school. The briefcase, which now contained notebooks and textbooks, he carefully laid next to the pillow when he went to bed. This annoyed the grandmother, but the boy ignored her stinging words. Momun was happy for the boy. He was a man, as already mentioned, harmless. But not on the day when his little grandson stood alone at the walls of the school. The old man suddenly became furious and called his son-in-law "a scoundrel." Orozkul pounced on his father-in-law with fists, but he, despite the threats, mounted his horse and rode towards the school. It would have been the revolt of the Agile Momun - an act for which he later had to pay.
The boy cried, took offense at his grandfather, who did not pick him up from school on time. On the way home, they were silent for a long time. But suddenly the old man remembered the returning marals and, in order to calm the child, began to tell him the already well-known tale about the Horned Mother Deer. And meanwhile he thought about what he and his daughter would have to go through. After all, Orozkul is vindictive, he will not forgive the old man that, although for the first time in his life, he disobeyed him.
Momun's son-in-law, returning home, as always, took out his anger on his wife - beat her, and then kicked her out of the house. She went to the neighbors. Bekey did not blame her dissolute husband for her misfortunes, but her father. However, it was customary to hang all the dogs on the unfortunate old man. Having learned from a neighbor that his daughter did not want to talk to him, Momun became even more upset.
It was part of Orozkul's vengeful plan to turn Bekey against his father. Returning from the forest that evening, he beat his wife for a long time, while repeating that Momun was to blame for all the troubles. Orozkul announced his dismissal to the old man (the boy's grandfather had worked for him for a long time and received a tiny salary).
The next day the boy did not go to school - he developed a fever. The old woman reproached her husband for a long time, wondering how this humble, quiet man, who had not offended a fly in his entire life, suddenly dared to contradict Orozkul. She made the old man go to work and thus beg forgiveness from her son-in-law.
Orozkul was very power-hungry. He took pleasure in watching the humiliation of the old man, who, drooping his head, followed him towards the forest. A familiar Orozkul came to pick up the logs. The old man helped to load the forest, showing great zeal - the old woman watched him, more than once in the morning repeating the phrase: "You are nobody without a salary!" Orozkul did not seem to see his father-in-law's efforts.
And suddenly people who came to the forest for firewood saw an extraordinary picture: several marals were standing by the river. They slowly, with dignity, drank the water. And then we went towards the forest. Then Orozkul, who knew about Momun's love for the tales of the Horned Mother Deer, came up with another plan of revenge. A plan whose implementation will kill the old man.
The boy, meanwhile, lay in his bed and dreamed of how someday people would tame red deer. By the way, on the eve, on that evening, when a scandal broke out in the house caused by the unexpected disobedience of Momun, the main character saw these animals. He ran to the river, to his favorite stones, and suddenly he saw marals. The boy was sure that the largest of them was the same Horned Mother Deer. In his thoughts, he asked her for a long time to send a child to Aunt Bekey. Orozkul will then stop beating her, Momun will not grieve, and peace will reign in their family. He thought about this even when he lay sick in his bed.
Suddenly a drunken Seidakhmat burst into the house. He dragged the boy out into the street, despite the protests and the words: "Grandfather did not tell me to get up." There were strangers in the yard. The boy did not immediately find his grandfather, but when he saw him, he was very surprised. Momun was drunk. He knelt and lit a fire for meat. And not far from him, to the side, lay a maral's head. It was the head of the Horned Mother Deer, the boy decided.
He wanted to run away, but his legs did not obey him. He watched in horror as the drunken Orozkul tried to chop off the horns from the head of the dead mother deer. And then he lay in a fever again and heard how people, puffing and munching, ate maral meat.
On that terrible evening, the boy especially wanted to turn into a fish and swim away from this house. He got up, went to the river, undressed and went into the cold water. The boy never turned into a fish, he never made it to the white steamer ...
You rejected what your baby soul did not put up with.
The boy's soul did not put up with the harshness of the world, and he left it. This is, in short, the text of The White Steamer.
Aitmatov wrote in two languages: Kyrgyz and Russian. He became the pride of his small, but once very warlike people. Moreover, his works are included in the lists of the best works of Russian literature.
Analysis of Aitmatov's "White Steamer"
In his work, the writer told the ancient legend of good and evil. But neither in the legend of the Horned Mother Deer, nor in the main storyline, good wins.
The protagonist of the novel "The White Steamer" by Ch. T. Aitmatov divides the world into two dimensions: the fantastic and the real. Good is only in the fictional. But Chingiz Aitmatov in The White Steamer did not create strictly negative or positive images. He showed life as it is.
Orozkul undoubtedly evokes negative emotions in the reader. Every person has an inner craving for good. Selfishness and self-pity are too strong in Orozkul. This quality is killing everything human and good in him. The author, conveying his inner world, says:
A sense of shame burned through him.
This happened to Orozkul when he was rude to old Momunu again. Another scene shows this seemingly cruel and heartless man crying:
He could not find a single kind word for this boy with a briefcase.
But every time good thoughts appear in Orozkul's soul, he suppresses them with self-pity.
Orozkul Momun opposed. The old man, despite all the hardships, has not lost the ability to love and understand loved ones. He meekly does hard work, hears insults. But he indulges the whims of his son-in-law not because of weakness - for the sake of his daughter and grandson. For their happiness, he is ready to make any sacrifices, even to kill marals. After all, it is the old man who shoots the deer on the orders of his son-in-law. And then he gets drunk for the first time in his life.
Each of the heroes has his own grief. Momun's wife often thinks about her former family. All her children, and she had five of them, died. The woman's heart hardened. But she is not as angry as the boy appears to be. And in her soul there is a place for compassion.
The world is shown through the eyes of a child in Aitmatov's "White Steamer". The summary, of course, does not convey this unusual artistic view of reality. The boy does not understand why everyone fears and respects the cruel Orozkul. In his mind, he often envisions the day when justice will prevail. He believes in the legend of the Horned Mother Deer, and this belief gives him strength.
The boy hopes that someday the Horned Mother Deer will help him and his beloved grandfather. He furiously asks her in her thoughts that she should send a child to Aunt Bekey. After all, then the husband will stop beating her, and the unfortunate old man will not cry at night. And now the boy sees the head of a dead deer. His notions of justice and goodness are crumbling. He leaves this cruel world, believing until the last minutes of his life that he will really turn into a fish and swim to the white steamer. But the miracle does not happen. The boy dies.
Screen adaptation
There are no negative reviews about Aitmatov's "White Steamer". No one is left indifferent by the story of an old man and a boy fleeing from rough reality in the world of fairy tales and legends. In 1976 Bolotbek Shamshiev directed the film "The White Steamer". Aitmatov wrote the script for this film. The painting was awarded several awards, including the State Prize.