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The poem "Vasily Terkin" was written by Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky during the Great Patriotic War and was published chapter by chapter in various newspapers. This work supported the fighting spirit of the soldiers, gave them hope, inspired and, most importantly, it could be read from any chapter. This is due to the fact that each chapter in the poem is a separate story, which is full of deep patriotism, optimism, faith in the future.

The image of the main character Vasily Terkin, a simple Russian soldier, is an example of human dignity, courage, love for the Motherland, honesty and selflessness. All these qualities of the hero are revealed in each chapter of the work, but, of course, only the study and analysis of the entire poem as a whole can give a complete picture of the character of the hero, of all his virtues.

Since the work was written during the war, it goes without saying that the main qualities of the hero, on which the author focuses, are selfless courage, heroism, a sense of duty and responsibility.

In the chapter “Crossing”, Vasily Terkin bravely agrees to swim across the icy river, and when he finds himself on the opposite bank, frozen and tired, he immediately begins to report, showing his responsibility and sense of duty:

Allow me to report...

The platoon on the right bank is alive and well

To spite the enemy!

In the chapter "Who shot?" the protagonist, instead of hiding in a trench like everyone else, bravely shoots down an enemy plane from a rifle, risking his life in the process.

The image of Vasily Terkin is multifaceted, he is not only a courageous soldier, but also a wonderful worker-craftsman. And we find confirmation of this in the chapter "Two Soldiers".

Terkin got up:

Or maybe, grandfather, she does not have a divorce?

He takes the saw himself - Come on ...

And in his hands she drank, for sure

Raised pike, Sharp back led.

The same thing happens with the clock, which stood for many years, and in the hands of Vasily it went again. To the old people, in whose house the hero manifests himself as a "jack of all trades", he has deep respect and reverence.

Vasily arouses great sympathy for the people around him also because he has a kind, cheerful disposition, his jokes are witty, they defuse the tense atmosphere, raise the morale of his colleagues, his funny stories distract the soldiers from gloomy thoughts. Terkin has amazing artistic abilities, he plays, sings, dances.

Another important feature of the hero is his spiritual tact, sensitivity and delicacy. When, after being wounded, Vasily was catching up with his detachment, he met tankers on the way. They had an accordion that belonged to a recently killed commander. The hero was imbued with sympathy for the soldiers and immediately gave up the desire to play on it, but the soldiers allowed him to do this and were fascinated by his game.

Throughout the work, Tvardovsky gives characteristics to his hero, expresses a personal attitude to his actions. He does this most openly in the last chapter, and it is this phrase that can be considered one of the main characteristics of Vasily Terkin.

The Great Patriotic War is one of those events in the history of the country that remain in the memory of the people for a long time. Such events largely change people's ideas about life and art. The war caused an unprecedented surge in literature, music, painting, and cinema. But, perhaps, there has not been and will not be a more popular work about the war than the poem by Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky "Vasily Terkin".
A. T. Tvardovsky wrote firsthand about the war. At the very beginning of the war, he, like many other writers and poets, goes to the front. And passing along the roads of war, the poet creates an amazing monument to the Russian soldier, his feat. The hero of the “Book about a fighter”, as the author himself defined the genre of his work, is Vasily Terkin, who is a collective image of a Russian soldier. But there is another hero in the book - the author himself. We cannot even say that it is always Tvardovsky himself. Rather, we are talking about the generalized image of the author-narrator, which is present in "Eugene Onegin", "A Hero of Our Time" and other works that form the basis of the Russian literary tradition. Although some facts from the poem coincide with the real biography of A. T. Tvardovsky, the author is clearly endowed with many features of Terkin, they are constantly together (“Terkin - further. The author - after”). This allows us to say that the author in the poem is also a man of the people, a Russian soldier, who differs from Terkin, in fact, only in that “the course passed in the capital”. A. T. Tvardovsky makes Terkin his countryman. And therefore the words

I tremble with sharp pain,
Malice bitter and holy.
Mother, father, siblings
I have beyond that line -

become the words of both the author and his hero. Amazing lyricism colors those lines of the poem that speak of the “small homeland” that each of the soldiers who took part in the war had. The author loves his hero, admires his actions. They are always unanimous:

And I'll tell you, I won't hide,
In this book, here and there,
What to say to the hero,
I speak personally.
I am responsible for everything around
And notice, if you haven't noticed,
Like Terkin, my hero,
Sometimes speaks for me.

The author in the poem is an intermediary between the hero and the reader. A confidential conversation is constantly conducted with the reader, the author respects the “friend-reader”, and therefore seeks to convey to him the “real truth” about the war. The author feels his responsibility to the readers, he understands how important it was not only to tell about the war, but also to instill in the readers (and we remember that “Vasily Terkin” was published in separate chapters during the war, and the idea goes back to the time of the Finnish war) faith in the invincibility of the spirit of the Russian soldier, optimism. Sometimes the author, as it were, invites the reader to check the truth of his judgments and observations. Such direct contact with the reader greatly contributes to the fact that the poem becomes understandable to a large circle of people.
The poem constantly shows subtle author's humor. At the very beginning of the poem, the author calls a joke the most necessary thing in a soldier's life:

You can live without food for days
You can do more, but sometimes
In a one minute war
Can't live without a joke
Jokes of the most unwise.

The text of the poem is filled with jokes, sayings, sayings, and it is impossible to determine who their author is: the author of the poem, the hero of the poem Terkin, or the people in general.
The author's powers of observation, the vigilance of his gaze and the skill of conveying the details of front-line life are striking. The book becomes a kind of "encyclopedia" of the war, written "from nature", in a field situation. The author is faithful not only to details. He felt the psychology of a man in the war, felt the same fear, hunger, cold, just rejoiced and grieved... the author to tell his contemporaries and descendants about the war in which “the battle is holy and right. Mortal combat is not for the sake of glory, for the sake of life on earth.

Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky was born in 1910 on one of the farms in the Smolensk region, into a peasant family. For the formation of the personality of the future poet, the relative erudition of his father, love for the book, which he brought up in his children, also mattered. “Entire winter evenings,” writes Tvardovsky in his autobiography, “we often devoted ourselves to reading a book aloud. My first acquaintance with "Poltava" and "Dubrovsky" by Pushkin, "Taras Bulba" by Gogol, the most popular poems by Lermontov, Nekrasov, A.K. Tolstoy, Nikitin happened exactly in this way.

In 1938, an important event took place in the life of Tvardovsky - he joined the ranks of the Communist Party. In the autumn of 1939, immediately after graduating from the Moscow Institute of History, Philosophy and Literature (IFLI), the poet participated in the liberation campaign of the Soviet Army in Western Belarus (as a special correspondent for a military newspaper). The first meeting with the heroic people in a military situation was of great importance for the poet. According to Tvardovsky, the impressions received then anticipated those deeper and stronger ones that flooded over him during the Second World War. Artists drew amusing pictures depicting the unusual front-line adventures of an experienced soldier Vasya Terkin, and poets composed text for these pictures. Vasya Terkin is a popular popular character who performed supernatural, dizzying feats: he got a tongue, pretending to be a snowball, covered his enemies with empty barrels and lit up, sitting on one of them, “he takes the enemy with a bayonet, like sheaves with a pitchfork.” This Terkin and his namesake - the hero of the poem of the same name by Tvardovsky, who gained nationwide fame - are incomparable.
For some slow-witted readers, Tvardovsky will subsequently specifically hint at the deep difference that exists between a genuine hero and his namesake:
Can't you conclude now?
What, they say, grief does not matter,
What the guys got up, took
Tree without difficulty?
What about constant luck
Terkin accomplished a feat:
Russian wooden spoon
Eight Fritz laid down!

Such lubok heroism was in the spirit of Vasya Terkin, the hero of the humorous page of the newspaper On Guard for the Motherland.
However, the captions to the drawings helped Tvardovsky achieve ease of colloquial speech. These forms are preserved in the "real" "Vasily Terkin", having improved significantly, expressing a deep life content.
The first plans to create a serious poem about the hero of the people's war date back to the period 1939-1940. But these plans changed significantly later under the influence of new, formidable and great events.
Tvardovsky was always interested in the fate of his country at turning points in history. History and people are its main theme. Back in the early 1930s, he created a poetic picture of the complex era of collectivization in the poem "Country Ant". During the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) A..T. Tvardovsky writes the poem "Vasily Terkin" about the Great Patriotic War. The fate of the people was decided. The poem is dedicated to the life of the people in the war.
Tvardovsky is a poet who deeply understood and appreciated the beauty of the national character. Large-scale, capacious, collective images are created in “The Land of the Ant”, “Vasily Terkin”: the events are enclosed in a very broad plot framework, the poet turns to hyperbole and other means of fabulous convention. In the center of the poem is the image of Terkin, which unites the composition of the work into a single whole. Terkin Vasily Ivanovich - the protagonist of the poem, an ordinary infantryman from Smolensk peasants.

"Just a guy himself
He is ordinary"

Terkin embodies the best features of the Russian soldier and the people as a whole. A hero named Vasily Terkin first appears in the poetic feuilletons of the Tvardov period of the Soviet-Finnish war (1939-1940). The words of the hero of the poem:

"I am the second, brother, war
I'm fighting for the ages"

The poem is built as a chain of episodes from the military life of the protagonist, which do not always have a direct event connection with each other. Terkin tells young soldiers about the everyday life of the war with humor; says that he has been fighting since the very beginning of the war, he was surrounded three times, was wounded. The fate of an ordinary soldier, one of those who bore the brunt of the war on his shoulders, becomes the personification of the national fortitude, the will to live. Terkin swims across the icy river twice to re-establish contact with advancing units; Terkin occupies a German dugout alone, but comes under fire from his own artillery; on the way to the front, Terkin finds himself in the house of old peasants, helping them with the housework; Terkin steps into hand-to-hand combat with the German and, with difficulty, overcoming, takes him prisoner. Unexpectedly for himself, Terkin shoots down a German attack aircraft from a rifle; Terkin reassures the envious sergeant:
“Do not worry, the German has this
Not the last plane

Terkin takes over command of the platoon when the commander is killed and breaks into the village first; however, the hero is again seriously wounded. Lying wounded in the field, Terkin converses with Death, who persuades him not to cling to life; in the end, he is discovered by the fighters, and he tells them:

"Remove this woman,
I am a soldier still alive

In the image of Vasily Terkin, the best moral qualities of the Russian people are combined: patriotism, readiness for a feat, love for work.
The character traits of the hero are interpreted by the poet as traits of the collective image: Terkin is inseparable and inseparable from the militant people. It is interesting that all fighters - regardless of their age, tastes, military experience - feel good with Vasily; wherever he appears - in battle, on vacation, on the way - contact, friendliness, mutual disposition are instantly established between him and the fighters. Literally every scene is about it. The fighters listen to Terkin's playful bickering with the cook at the first appearance of the hero:
And sitting under a pine tree,
He eats porridge, hunched over.
"Mine?" - fighters among themselves, -
"Mine!" - exchanged glances.

I do not need, brothers, orders,
I don't need fame.

Terkin is characterized by respect and careful attitude of the master to the thing, as to the fruit of labor. It is not for nothing that he takes away the saw from his grandfather, which he mangles, not being able to sharpen it. Returning the finished saw to the owner, Vasily says:

On-ko, grandfather, take it, look.
Will cut better than new
In vain do not measles the tool.

Terkin loves work and is not afraid of it (from the hero's conversation with death):

I am an employee
I would go into business at home.
- The house is destroyed.
- I'm a carpenter.
- There is no stove.
And the baker...

a hero is usually a synonym for his mass character, the absence of features of exclusivity in him. But this simplicity has another meaning in the poem: the transparent symbolism of the hero's surname, Terkin's “tolerate-tolerate” sets off his ability to overcome difficulties simply, easily. Such is his behavior even when he swims across an icy river or sleeps under a pine tree, completely content with an uncomfortable bed, and so on. In this simplicity of the hero, his calmness, sober outlook on life, important features of the national character are expressed.

In the field of view of A.T. Tvardovsky in the poem "Vasily Terkin" is not only the front, but also those who work in the rear for the sake of victory: women and the elderly. The characters of the poem not only fight - they laugh, love, talk with each other, and most importantly - dream of a peaceful life. The reality of war is united by what is usually incompatible: tragedy and humor, courage and fear, life and death.
The chapter "From the Author" depicts the process of "mythologization" of the main character of the poem. Terkin is called by the author "a holy and sinful Russian miracle man." The name of Vasily Terkin has become legendary and a household name.
The poem "Vasily Terkin" is distinguished by a kind of historicism. Conventionally, it can be divided into three parts, coinciding with the beginning, middle and end of the war. The poetic comprehension of the stages of the war creates a lyrical chronicle of events from the chronicle. A feeling of bitterness and sorrow fills the first part, faith in victory - the second, the joy of the liberation of the Fatherland becomes the leitmotif of the third part of the poem. This is explained by the fact that A.T. Tvardovsky created the poem gradually, throughout the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
The composition of the poem is also original. Not only individual chapters, but also periods, stanzas within chapters are distinguished by their completeness. This is due to the fact that the poem was printed in parts. And it should be accessible to the reader from "any place".
The poem has 30 chapters. Twenty-five of them fully, comprehensively reveals the hero, who finds himself in a wide variety of military situations. In the last chapters, Terkin does not appear at all (“About an Orphan Soldier”, “On the Road to Berlin”). The poet has said everything about the hero and does not want to repeat himself, to make the image illustrative.
It is no coincidence that Tvardovsky's work begins and ends with lyrical digressions. An open conversation with the reader brings the work closer to the inner world, creates an atmosphere of common involvement in the events. The poem ends with a dedication to the fallen.
Tvardovsky talks about the reasons that pushed him to such a construction of the poem:
“I did not long languish with doubts and fears about the uncertainty of the genre, the lack of an initial plan that embraces the whole work in advance, the weak plot connection of the chapters with each other. Not a poem - well, let yourself not a poem, - I decided; there is no single plot - let yourself not, do not; there is no very beginning of a thing - there is no time to invent it; the culmination and completion of the whole story is not planned - let it be written about what is burning, not waiting ... ”
Of course, the plot in the work is necessary. Tvardovsky knew and knows this very well, but in an effort to convey to the reader the "real truth" of the war, he polemically declared his rejection of the plot in the usual sense of the word.

There is no plot in war...
................
However, the truth does not hurt.

The poet emphasized the veracity and reliability of broad pictures of life by calling Vasily Terkin not a poem, but a “book about a fighter.” The word "book" in this popular sense sounds somehow special in a significant way, as a subject "serious, reliable, unconditional," says Tvardovsky.
The poem "Vasily Terkin" is an epic canvas. But lyrical motifs also sound powerful in it. Tvardovsky could call (and called) the poem "Vasily Terkin" his lyrics, because in this work for the first time the appearance of the poet himself, the features of his personality, were so vividly, diversely and strongly expressed.

Literature work. A.T. Tvardovsky "Vasily Terkin".

1. What does the poem "Vasily Terkin" tell the reader about?

A.T. Tvardovsky during the Great Patriotic War becomes the spokesman for the spirit of the soldiers, the common people. His poem "Vasily Terkin" helps people survive a terrible time, to believe in themselves, because the poem was created in the war chapter by chapter. "Vasily Terkin" - "a book about a fighter." The poem was written about the war, but the main thing for Alexander Tvardovsky was to show the reader how to live in the years of difficult trials. Therefore, the main character, Vasya Terkin, dances, plays a musical instrument, cooks dinner, jokes. The hero lives in the war, and for the writer this is very important, because in order to survive, any person needs to love life very much.

2. What is the main idea of ​​the chapter "Crossing"?

The chapter "Crossing" describes how Terkin accomplished the feat when, once on the right bank, he returned by swimming to the left to ask for support. The crossing is dangerous both for Vasily Terkin's comrades and for himself:

people are warm and lively
Going down, down, down...

Vasily Terkin bravely agrees to swim across the icy river, and when he finds himself on the opposite bank, frozen and tired, he immediately begins to report, showing his responsibility and sense of duty:

Allow me to report...
The platoon on the right bank is alive and well

to spite the enemy!

The title of the chapter "About the Reward" reflects the event being described.

About the modesty of Terkin, the poet says in this chapter:

- No, guys, I'm not proud.
Without looking into the distance
So I will say: why do I need an order?
I agree to a medal.

In the chapter "On the Reward", Terkin comically talks about how he would behave if he returned from the war to his native village; says that for representativeness he absolutely needs a medal. Terkin's dream of an award ("I agree to a medal") is not a vain desire to become famous or stand out. In fact, this is a desire to see native lands and native people free.

4. In the chapter "On a halt" the poet talks about Sabantuy. What it is?

Terkin himself answers this question:

And who among you knows

What is Sabantuy?

- Sabantuy - some kind of holiday?

Or what is there - Sabantuy?

- Sabantuy is different,

And if you don't know, don't interpret

Here under the first bombardment

Lie down from the hunt in bed,

He remained alive - do not grieve:

- This is a small sabantuy.

Relax, eat hard

Light up and don't blow your mouth.

Worse, brother, like a mortar

Suddenly, the sabantuy starts.

He will penetrate you deeper, -

Kiss mother earth.

But keep in mind, my dear,

This is an average Sabantuy.

Sabantuy - science for you,

The enemy is fierce - he is fierce.

But it's a completely different thing.

This is the main sabantuy.

5. It is known that many soldiers considered Vasily Terkin to be their fellow soldiers and never parted with the book. How can this be explained?

The poem "Vasily Terkin"Was written by Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky during the Great Patriotic War and was published chapter by chapter in various newspapers. This work supported the fighting spirit of the soldiers, gave them hope, inspired and, most importantly, it could be read from any chapter. This is due to the fact that each chapter in the poem is a separate story, which is full of deep patriotism, optimism, faith in the future.

The image of the Soviet soldier Vasily Terkin was conceived as a feuilleton image, designed to make the soldiers at the front laugh, to raise their morale.

Throughout the Great Patriotic War, the image of Vasya Terkin remained the most beloved among the fighters. This phenomenon can be explained by the fact that this hero captivated the hearts of readers with his reality and authenticity.

6. Characteristics of Vasily Terkin.

The image of the main character Vasily Terkin, a simple Russian soldier, is an example of human dignity, courage, love for the Motherland, honesty and selflessness. All these qualities of the hero are revealed in each chapter of the work.

Since the work was written during the war, it goes without saying that the main qualities of the hero, on which the author focuses, are selfless courage, heroism, a sense of duty and responsibility.

He is a symbolic image, a man-people, a collective Russian type. It is no coincidence that nothing is said about his personal biography. He is "a great hunter to live up to ninety years", a peaceful, civil man, a soldier by necessity. His usual life on the collective farm was interrupted by the war. War for him is a natural disaster, hot work. The whole poem is permeated with the dream of a peaceful life.

Already at the first mention, the surname Terkin outlines the boundaries of character: Terkin means an experienced, grated person, "grated kalach", or, as it is said in the poem, "a grated person".

The world heard through a terrible thunder,

Vasily Terkin repeated:

- We'll endure. Let's grind...

Terkin - who is he?

Let's be frank:

Just a guy himself

He is ordinary.

The image of Terkin is a generalized image, for all its realism and ordinariness. Tvardovsky endows his hero with an "all-Russian" appearance, avoiding portrait signs.

("Beauty endowed / He was not excellent. / Not tall, not that small, / But a hero-hero.") Terkin is a bright, unique personality, and at the same time he includes the features of many people, he is like would be repeated many times in others.

It is important that Terkin belongs to the most massive branch of the military - the infantry. The hero is an infantryman. "In it - the pathos of the infantry, the troops closest to the earth, to the cold, to fire and death," Tvardovsky wrote at the very beginning of his plan. Terkin is one of the laborers of the war, on whom the country rests, who bore the brunt of the war on their shoulders.

7. What brings Vasily Terkin closer to the heroes of folk tales, Russian heroes Ilya Muromets, Alyosha Popovich, and others?

The image of Terkin has folklore roots, it is “a hero, a fathom in his shoulders”, “a merry fellow”, “an experienced person”. Behind the illusion of rusticity, jokes, mischief, there is a moral sensitivity and an inherent sense of filial duty to the Motherland, the ability to accomplish a feat at any moment without phrase and pose.

In the image of Terkin, Tvardovsky portrays the best qualities of the Russian character - courage, perseverance, resourcefulness, optimism and great devotion to his native land.

Mother Earth is yours,
In days of trouble and in days of victory
You are not brighter and more beautiful,
And there is no more desirable heart ...

It is in the defense of the Motherland, life on earth that the justice of the people's Patriotic War lies (“The battle is on, holy and right, a mortal battle is not for the sake of glory, for the sake of life on earth ...”).

Terkin lives, as it were, in two dimensions: on the one hand, he is a very real soldier, a staunch fighter of the Soviet Army. On the other hand, this is a Russian fairy-tale warrior-hero who does not burn in fire and does not sink in water.

The hero is not the same as in a fairy tale -
carefree giant,
And in a hiking belt.
A simple sourdough man...
Hard in torment and proud in grief
Terkin is alive and cheerful, damn it!

Terkin enters into single combat with a strong, physically superior opponent. On the one hand, the author enlarges this episode:

Like an ancient battlefield Chest to chest, like a shield to a shield, - Instead of thousands, two fight As if a fight would solve everything.

Tvardovsky writes at the intersection of pathos and irony, epic scope and sober reality.

Terkin in the book is not only an epic, nationwide type, but also a personality. Folk heroes in epics remain the same from the beginning to the end of the story. The image of Terkin is given in evolution: the closer to the end of the work, the more sad thoughts appear in the poem. In the first chapters, the hero is a joker, cheerful, but not careless, not lost in any circumstances, and this was very important in the difficult days of the war. At the end of the chapter "On the Dnieper", Terkin silently smokes aside from his rejoicing comrades, and the last lines of the chapter show him from an unexpected side:

- What are you, brother, Vasily Terkin, Are you crying like... - Guilty...

The problems raised by the writer in this work also help to reveal the military theme of the poem: the attitude towards death, the ability to stand up for oneself and others, a sense of responsibility and duty to the motherland, the relationship between people at critical moments in life. Tvardovsky talks with the reader about the sore, uses a special artistic character - the image of the author. Chapters "About myself" appear in the poem. So the writer brings his main character closer to his own worldview. Together with his character, the author empathizes, sympathizes, feels satisfaction or resents:

From the first days of the bitter year,

In the difficult hour of the native land,

Not joking, Vasily Terkin,

We made friends with you ...

The war is depicted by Tvardovsky in blood, labor and deprivation. Endless night, frost. But a bit of a soldier's dream, not even a dream, but heavy oblivion, whimsically mixed with reality. In the minds of those who remained on this, the left bank, there are pictures of the death of comrades. Their possible death is depicted in mundane - but all the more terrible - details. Reflections on the soldiers who died at the crossing, and not only about these soldiers, the poet ends with pathetic lines.

The dead are immortal, and the land where their traces “frozen forever” becomes a monument of soldier's glory.

The war described by Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky in the poem does not seem to the reader to be a universal catastrophe, an inexpressible horror. Since the main character of the work - Vasya Terkin - is always able to survive in difficult conditions, laugh at himself, support a friend, and this is especially important for the reader - it means that there will be a different life, people will start laughing heartily, singing songs loudly, joking - peacetime will come . The poem "Vasily Terkin" is full of optimism, faith in a better future.

A. Tvardovsky's poem "Vasily Terkin" helps to understand the true measure of the human casualties and losses that were suffered in the war and which were said in full voice only decades after the Great Victory. But the book was written in the midst of the war, when victory was far away, and the daily problem of the struggle for survival was on the agenda for readers and heroes of the work. That is why the author endows his main character with immortality and the best folk qualities, emphasizing that he is one of many, the same as the rest of the heroes of this cruel war.

Each of the fighters on the front line, reading or listening to the fate of Vasily Terkin, was imbued with his love of life and vitality, which, in the first place, were faith in victory, in the immortality and invincibility of the people. Each fighter worthily on his shoulders bore the burden of great responsibility, proclaimed by the hero Terkin:

* The year has come, the turn has come,
*Today we are responsible
* For Russia, for the people
* And for everything in the world.

In the adventures of Terkin there is fiction, standing somewhere on the border of a half-fairy-half-fact. And characterizing the truth of the stories of Terkin himself, Tvardovsky more than once returns to a playful doubt - whether it is true, or not in them, in these soldiers' stories. This technique allows the author to create the image of a soldier in which each reader could recognize himself. The image “guns go backwards to battle”, repeated in the poem, persistently points the reader to the allegorical meaning of the figurative system of the work, recalls the need to think on the lines of this story, which the author himself defines as “unusual, it may turn out; strange, maybe sometimes ", revealing the author's subtext of a fantastic plot and imagery:

* The point is not that heaven and hell,
* Damn it, the devil - it doesn't matter ...
* Cannons go backwards to battle
* This has been said for a long time.

Writing a book about a war during a war is an ordeal, but the author clearly expresses the goal of writing a book "about a fighter with no beginning, no end, no special plot":

* Let me come back from the war
* When defeating an enemy.

Who is he, this hero, who does not lose heart in the war, who accompanies difficult life trials with jokes and laughter? Just a guy by itself, there is always one in every company, every platoon. Not marked by special beauty, not tall and not small, but "a hero is a hero." His law is to serve to term, his service is work. In war, he does not live a day or an hour without an order: the rise - he jumped up like a nail, there is a signal forward - he will go forward, but if there is an order to die - he will die. He worthily goes through all those difficult trials that the war carried. He is ready to defend his homeland in the face of mortal danger. Even feeling the superiority of the enemy, the soldier engages in hand-to-hand combat: "Terkin knew that in this fight he was weaker: not those grubs." The German was strong and agile, “well-cut, well-tailored”, well-fed, shaved, well-groomed, and slept well. Blow for blow: “even though the face burns with fire, the German is also decorated with a red skirt like an egg.” Terkin spits blood, chokes on the stinking breath of the enemy, but does not give up. The brave boy fights to the death.

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The poem by Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky was of great importance for the Soviet people, fighting for the existence of their homeland. The characterization of Vasily Terkin combined the best qualities of the Russian people: courage, fortitude and fearlessness.

Personal traits

The character of Vasily Terkin in Tvardovsky's poem is the personification of all the best that belonged to the Russian people. The writer emphasizes closeness with the people by the fact that Terkin is an “ordinary” guy, that is, no different from others.

Terkin knew how to talk with other soldiers, for them he becomes a ringleader. The rumor about the main character spread throughout the army, he was known everywhere, he was "a favorite of the platoon".

But despite this, Terkin is not a proud person. Neither orders nor glory are important to him, because the main thing for the hero is the Motherland, which he tries to protect with all his might. It is not for nothing that the phrase sounds like a refrain in the narrative: “Mortal combat is not for the sake of glory,
For life on earth."

All traits of Terkin's character are connected with his honor. He is ready to fight for his Motherland only in an honest way. The hero acts as a brave and fearless person, always ready to stand up for his Fatherland.

deeds

The protagonist speaks about himself independently - by his actions.

If you look at the chapters, they are all devoted to the actions of Vasily Terkin, which in one way or another contribute to the preservation of the Motherland. The hero either directly participates in hostilities, or maintains the morale of the soldiers, which is also important in such difficult times.

In the "Crossing" chapter, the hero managed to swim across the icy river to report the request of the soldiers on the right bank. Other soldiers were surprised that the man managed to survive the crossing at all.

Vasily Terkin emphasizes his love for life. When faced with death, he is not ready to give himself up to it without a fight. So the hero urges readers to never give up and fight both for their lives and for the life of their Fatherland.

Terkin can lead people. In On the Offensive, he takes on the responsibility of commanding an entire platoon. When he sees that the commander is killed, the hero, without hesitation, understands that "to lead his turn."

Terkin was not afraid and led the people, and this battle was successful.

In addition to teamwork, the hero is also independent. In the chapter "Duel" Terkin enters into battle with the German, whom he hates with all his heart because he set foot on Russian soil.

Terkin receives an award for shooting down an enemy plane with a rifle. He is the only one who dared to do this: "Who did not hide in the trench,
Remembering all relatives. Vasily Terkin is able to repel any enemy strike at any time.

All actions of the hero are filled with heroism and valor. He is not afraid of his own death, the main thing is to save the life of the Fatherland. Patriotism is in Terkin's blood.

Author's attitude

Vasya Terkin was born in the Smolensk region. This place was the birthplace of A. T. Tvardovsky himself. The author correlates his hero with his life, makes him his countryman, which already shows the attitude of the writer to Terkin.

"Terkin, my hero, sometimes speaks for me." The thoughts of the author are put into the mouth of his hero. Vasily's feelings are both the feelings of the writer himself and the feelings of the whole people.

The characterization of Vasily Terkin with quotes will most fully reveal the author's position regarding the hero. A. T. Tvardovsky calls the hero "a good fellow." For the author, the character of the poem is a true friend and even brother. A. T. Tvardovsky respects the entire Russian people, whose personification is Vasily Terkin, for his fortitude and courage.

This article, which will help write the essay “Characteristics of Vasily Terkin”, will consider the image of the main character, who is distinguished by his courage and valor and is collective, through his character and actions, and will also show how the author himself treated his character.

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