Our world has existed for several million years. Each era has its own distinctive features, including the "hero of his time". Such a person always stands out from the crowd, he is remembered due to his outstanding character or some feats. For example, Grigory Pechorin from famous novel Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov is such because of his life principles and values. However, this was all in the 19th century. Who is the "hero" of the 20th century? Some readers nominate Vasily Terkin, the hero of the poem of the same name by Alexander Tvardovsky. Can we consider him a "hero of his time"? Let's try to figure it out.
To answer the question posed, it is worth first analyzing the character and actions of Terkin.
Let's start with the fact that the hero is a participant in the Great Patriotic War, for whom it is important to be brave, courageous and hardy. Terkin fits this description perfectly. In the chapter "Crossing" the hero does a worthy thing: he swims across an incredibly cold river in winter to report on the circumstances on the other side. Having overcome such a difficult path, Terkin is still able to joke: when he receives a refusal about the second glass of alcohol, to the colonel's dictum: "Well done, but there will be a lot - two at once," he replies: "So there are two ends". Also in the chapter "Two Soldiers" the hero behaves like a real man: helps old people with the housework, without demanding anything in return, so they decide to treat him: "He ate a lot, but not greedily, saluted the appetizer". Leaving the hut, to the question of the old man, they will beat the laziness of the German, Terkin replies: "We will beat, father ...", that is, he acts when a worthy soldier who, in spite of everything, believes in victory. In the chapter "Duel", being exhausted, he continues to fight the enemy, because people like him always go to the end. The chapter "Death and the Warrior" gives the main argument that Terkin is a hero. Dying, the soldier asks the "oblique" for one day to resurrect in order to rejoice at the victory. Having been refused, Terkin gathers all his strength into a fist and defeats death.
Thus, after analyzing the character and actions of the character, we can conclude that he is a "hero of his time". As mentioned earlier, in those years, stamina, courage, and patience were considered important features. Terkin certainly possessed them. In addition, he had a lot of other, no less remarkable qualities. Vasily Terkin is a man who can rightfully be called a "hero of his time".
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He goes, saint and sinner,
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Prankster, prankster. In short: a liar, talker and laughter ... Take a break from this.
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In order to understand and appreciate the true extent of the artist’s talent, his contribution to literature, one must proceed from what he said about life and man, how his vision of the world correlates with the moral and aesthetic ideals, ideas and tastes of the people. Tvardovsky never aspired to be original. Every pose, every artificiality is alien to him:
Here are the verses, and everything is clear.
Everything is in Russian.
Throughout the war, while at the front, Tvardovsky worked on the poem "Vasily Terkin" - a work that was both a true chronicle of the war, an inspiring propaganda word, and a deep understanding heroic deed people. The poem reflects the main stages of the Great Patriotic War, from its first days to the complete victory over the enemy. This is how the poem develops, this is how it is built:
These lines and pages
Days and miles a special account,
Like from the western border
To my native capital,
And from that native capital
Back to the western border
And from the western border
Down to the enemy capital
We made our trip.
The fight is holy and right
Mortal combat is not for glory,
For life on earth.
“Vasily Terkin” is a “book about a fighter”. Terkin appears on the first pages of the work as an unpretentious joker soldier who knows how to amuse and amuse the fighters on a campaign and at a halt, ingenuously chuckling at the missteps of his comrades. But his joke always contains a deep and serious thought: the hero reflects on cowardice and courage, loyalty and generosity, great love and hatred. However, the poet saw his task not only in truthfully drawing the image of one of the millions of people who took on their shoulders the brunt of the fight against the enemy. Gradually, the image of Terkin more and more acquires generalized, almost symbolic features. The hero personifies the people:
Into battle, forward, into pitch fire
He goes, saint and sinner,
Russian miracle man.
The high skill of the poet was manifested in the fact that he managed, without embellishing, but not “grounding” the hero, to embody in him the fundamental moral qualities of the Russian people: patriotism, consciousness of responsibility for the fate of the Motherland, readiness for self-destruction.
Answer from Sveta Svitlana[guru]
In order to understand and appreciate the true extent of the artist’s talent, his contribution to literature, one must proceed from what he said about life and man, how his vision of the world correlates with the moral and aesthetic ideals, ideas and tastes of the people. Tvardovsky never aspired to be original. Every pose, every artificiality is alien to him.
Brilliant craftsmanship, folk creativity of Alexander Trifonovich are visible in the principles artistic comprehension our lives, and in creating national characters era, updating poetic genres. V. Soloukhin said very rightly: “Tvardovsky is the largest Russian Soviet poet of the thirties, forties and fifties because the most important, most decisive events in the life of the country and people were best reflected in his poetry.”
Throughout the war, while at the front, Tvardovsky worked on the poem "Vasily Terkin" - a work that was both a true chronicle of the war, an inspiring propaganda word, and a deep understanding of the heroic feat of the people. The poem reflects the main stages of the Great Patriotic War, from its first days to the complete victory over the enemy. This is how the poem develops, this is how it is built.
The depiction of the war presented considerable difficulties for writers. Here one could stray into embellished reports in the spirit of superficial cheer-optimism, or fall into despair and present the war as a continuous hopeless horror. In the introduction to "Vasily Terkin" Tvardovsky defined his approach to the theme of war as a desire to show the "existing truth", "no matter how bitter". War is drawn by the poet without any embellishment. The anguish of retreat, painful anxiety for the fate of the Motherland, the pain of separation from loved ones, hard military labors and sacrifices, the ruin of the country, severe cold - all this is shown in "Terkin" as the truth requires, no matter how it hits the soul. But the poem does not leave a depressing impression at all, does not plunge into despondency. The poem is dominated by faith in the victory of good over evil, light over darkness. And in the war, as Tvardovsky shows it, in the respite between battles, people rejoice and laugh, sing and dream, take a steam bath with pleasure and dance in the cold. To overcome the difficult trials of the war, the author of the poem and its hero are helped by their boundless love for the Motherland and understanding of the just nature of the struggle against fascism. The refrain runs throughout the poem:
The fight is holy and right
Mortal combat is not for glory,
For life on earth.
“Vasily Terkin” is a “book about a fighter”. Terkin appears on the first pages of the work as an unpretentious joker soldier who knows how to amuse and amuse the fighters on a campaign and at a halt, ingenuously chuckling at the missteps of his comrades. But his joke always contains a deep and serious thought: the hero reflects on cowardice and courage, loyalty and generosity, great love and hatred. However, the poet saw his task not only in truthfully drawing the image of one of the millions of people who took on their shoulders the brunt of the fight against the enemy. Gradually, the image of Terkin more and more acquires generalized, almost symbolic features. The hero represents the people.
The high skill of the poet was manifested in the fact that he managed, without embellishing, but not “grounding” the hero, to embody in him the fundamental moral qualities of the Russian people: patriotism, awareness of responsibility for the fate of the Motherland, readiness for selfless deed, love for work. Created by Tvardovsky image folk hero Vasily Terkin personifies the inflexible character of a soldier, his courage and stamina, humor and resourcefulness.
Tvardovsky's poem is an outstanding, truly innovative work. Both the content and its form are truly folk. Therefore, it became the most significant poetic work about the Great Patriotic war, fell in love with millions of readers and, in turn, gave birth to hundreds of imitations and “continuations” among the people.
Vasya Terkin - real hero. I know that he was and still is loved by many. It can be mistaken for a real person, and not for a fictional character. He still evokes sympathy, even admiration.
Not only did he manage to shoot down a German plane, while Vasya was in the infantry, which he adores ... He twisted the German with his bare hands. Although the fight scene shows how difficult it all was. The German is fat, sleek, strong. And Vasya has grown thin, tired. Of course, he jokingly asks for supplements from a local chef. And in general he gets it, but the cook is not very pleased - there are probably few products. And he even makes a remark to Terkin: “Why don’t you go to the fleet, such a glutton.” But Terkin, which is his remarkable quality, is not offended. He laughs it off, it's hard to hurt him.
But he (such a merry fellow) is experiencing negativity. For example, when his small homeland is belittled. This is when in the hospital the young hero was offended that Terkin mistook him for a fellow countryman. Why is Smolensk land worse?! And for her sake, Terkin is ready to perform feats. Il when a colleague laments that he has lost his pouch, Terkin freaks out in the end. He said to the bewildered once with a smile, twice with a joke, but he still does not let up. But it is clear that this was the last straw for the one who lost. He even complains that he lost his family, home, and now that pouch. But Terkin generously gives his own, saying, they say, the main thing is not to lose the Motherland. And what is needed for this? Cheer up, first of all!
That is, Vasily is an optimist, he is generous and courageous. He respects civilians: children, old people... By the way, the authorities too. Here he was talking about the general - how smart he should be. But this experience is also because when the soldier was still in the cradle, the future general was already at war.
I remember the scene with the awarding of the order. When they called Terkin to that same general, and the soldier’s things were wet - only washed. And Vasya is in no hurry to see the general, although he was given “two minutes” time, because it is impossible in wet pants. He understands that there are certain boundaries that cannot be violated.
While I see some pluses in Vasya. Laziness is also not about him. He would not be able to sit out in the rear or in the hospital when the war ... The only thing that would give me a headache from him. There are way too many jokes.
But in the terrible time of the war it was necessary, I think.
Option 2
Vasily Terkin is a collective image of a Russian soldier. Where did he come from? Soldiers from all fronts wrote to Tvardovsky and told their stories. It was some of them that formed the basis of the exploits of Terkin. Therefore, it is so recognizable, so popular. Yes, in the next company there, Vanya or Petya did exactly the same as Terkin.
A cheerful, resilient joker who knows how to make everything with his own hands.
He served in the "queen of the fields" - mother infantry, which marched all the way to Berlin across Europe. Vasily managed to shoot down a German plane. And in a hand-to-hand fight, he defeated a healthy Fritz. And when the cook asks for supplements, but it is not provided - there is not enough food, he grumbles and sends him to the fleet. The naval at that time were fed better than the infantry.
Turkin is a collective character, and each soldier recognized familiar features in him. Each chapter is a separate story about the next feat of Vasily. Tvardovsky wrote the poem not after the war, but during the fighting, in the intervals between battles. He was a front correspondent.
Terkin was as alive. He communicated with the soldiers on an equal footing, gave good advice. The soldiers were looking forward to the release of each new chapter in the front-line newspaper. Terkin was a friend and comrade for everyone. He was one of them. If Terkin could do such a thing, then every soldier could do exactly that. The soldiers enjoyed reading about his exploits and adventures.
Tvardovsky specially invented his Terkin so that he would help the soldiers morally. Supported their fighting spirit. Terkin means "gritty".
Here it is melted down to the opposite shore under enemy fire. Alive, swam, and it was late autumn. The water in the river is cold. But it was necessary to personally deliver a report to someone, because. there was no connection.
The other messengers did not make it to shore. And Vasya swam. At stake was the life of many soldiers and officers who melted down from one shore to another and came under fire from the Nazis.
And for his feat does not require anything. You don't even need an order. He agrees to a medal. And the medal "For Courage" was considered a soldier's order. Well, another hundred grams of alcohol inside to keep warm. Why waste everything on skin? He also has the strength to joke around.
Composition Image of Vasily Terkin image with a description with examples and quotes from the text
Tvardovsky wrote his poem not after the war in the quiet of offices, but practically on it, in the intervals between hostilities. The chapter just written was immediately published in the front-line newspaper. And the soldiers were already waiting for her, everyone was interested in the further adventures of Terkin. Tvardovsky received hundreds of letters from all fronts from soldiers like Vasily Terkin.
They told him interesting stories about the exploits of their fellow soldiers. Some episodes Tvardovsky then "attributed" to his hero. That is why it turned out to be so recognizable and popular.
Didn't exist real person with the same first and last name. This image is collective. It contains all the best that is inherent in the Russian soldier. Therefore, everyone could recognize himself in it. Tvardovsky specially invented it so that in a difficult moment, as if alive, real man helped the soldiers morally. Everyone and everyone was best friend. Each company and platoon had its own Vasily Terkin.
Where did Tvardovsky get such a surname from? "Torkin" means a grated roll, beaten by life. A Russian person can endure everything, survive, grind, get used to everything.
From the poem, you can learn a little about the biography of Terkin. He comes from the Smolensk region, was a peasant. A good-natured Russian guy, easy to talk to, likes to tell all sorts of stories, a joker and a merry fellow. At the front from the first days of the war. Was injured.
Brave, courageous, fearless. At the right moment, he took command of the platoon. It was he who was sent across the river with a report that the platoon was entrenched on the opposite bank. Those who sent it understood that he had little chance of getting it. But he got there. Alone, swimming, in the icy November water.
Like all Russian peasants, Terkin is a jack of all trades. What he just didn’t do was fix the clock, sharpen the saw, and even play the harmonica. He must have been the first guy in the village. Modest "... why do I need an order, I agree to a medal ..."
He lay in the cold trenches under heavy fire from the Nazis. In the face of death, he did not get scared, but asked her for a respite for one day to see victory and salute. And death receded.
Initially, Tvardovsky planned Terkin as a feuilleton image in order to entertain the soldiers and raise their morale. But he did not notice how he himself fell in love with his hero, and decided to make his image real, not caricatured. To endow him with the best human traits - resourcefulness, courage, patriotism, humanism, a sense of military duty.
The author compares his favorite hero with the hero of Russian folk tales, a soldier who managed to cook soup from an axe. Those. he is resourceful and savvy, can find a way out of any seemingly hopeless situation. "Russian miracle man". On people like Terkin, all of Russia rests.
The poem is written in simple language, easy and long remembered.
Essay 4
Vasya Terkin, of course, is a well-known character and even beloved by everyone. However, I have a slightly different opinion.
I think he is a character, not a real hero. That is, it is clear that such a person does not exist, cannot actually exist. He is too cheerful, optimistic, so joyful ... He would, frankly, annoy me. I'm surprised no one hit him from the soldiers. That is, raising morale is, of course, good, but playing tricks when there is a war around ...
For example, in the scene with the lost pouch. A fighter who has lost an expensive thing is clearly not in the mood for jokes. From the outside it may seem that the pouch is nonsense. But it is clear that for a fighter this loss was the last straw, as they say. He held on when he lost his home, his family, but he held on with the last of his strength. And here is the pouch...
And our "hero" Vasya does not understand the suffering of a soldier. Laughing, mocking, shaming! To something he says that losing the Motherland is scary. But it is understandable, compared: the pouch and the Motherland.
So, Terkin is too positive. I'm not sure that such a person (with such dashing manners) could hold out on a real front.
But of course, Tvardovsky tried to invest a lot good qualities into your hero. And he boldly fights the Germans, and he cannot be kept in the hospital ... However, what unprecedented luck Vasily must still have in order to shoot down a German plane with a gun! It looks more like a soldier's bike! However, here he is Terkin - lucky. In fact, he was also lucky in hand-to-hand combat with the German, although the Fritz was well-fed and strong. It was lucky when our tankers picked him up in the wounded hut, took him to the doctor - they saved him.
I think that at that time the front-line needed such a hero. He is almost a hero, almost Ivan the Fool. He gives readers confidence in victory. The poet repeats through his lips that we will not lose in this war. Fortunately, these words have come true.
And yet, for me, this character is too simple. But that's just my personal opinion.
Option 5
Alexander Trofimovich Tvardovsky - the author of the unforgettable work "Vasily Terkin" Being himself in the thick of things, since he himself fought at the front and went through the whole war as a war correspondent, he talked a lot with soldiers, and he himself more than once got into various difficult situations. Everything that he describes in his book, he heard from ordinary fighters, foot soldiers. During the Great Patriotic War, the infantry played a crucial role in the history of the war, and mainly it was to her that the main merit in the victory belongs. That's main character The author's story belonged to the infantry.
The image turned out to be collective and averaged. He is an ordinary guy who dreams of love, happiness, family and peaceful life. One participant in the war wrote: The Germans loved, knew how and wanted to fight, but we fought out of necessity. Turki also fought out of necessity. A cruel enemy attacked his beloved land. His serene happy life on the collective farm was cruelly cut short by a formidable misfortune, and the war became work for him, like a hot suffering on the collective farm when the rains broke out. The whole country turned into a single military camp, and even in the rear, the fascist could not sleep peacefully. Terkin endlessly loves his homeland, calling the earth "mother". His cheerfulness, courage and kindness permeate every chapter of the book. The cheerful and kind-hearted Terkin does not burn in fire and does not sink in water. Because his will to defeat the Nazis is very great in order to free mother earth from the damned invader. He is savvy, as he masterfully gets out of all the troubles in which the author puts him. In addition, he has a great sense of humor, which helps to endure the hardships and difficulties of the front with ease, tipsy, and, not least, helps the reader to follow the adventures of our hero with bated breath and worry about him.
At the front, all the soldiers were looking forward to the release of each new chapter about Terkin. They loved him as a brother and as a friend. And everyone found in themselves and in their comrades something from their favorite hero. The author is trying to show through his Terkin what the Russian people should be like. Only great courage, selflessness and kindness could lead the country to victory. And we won because the Russian engineers were more talented, the technologists were more brilliant, and our twelve- and fourteen-year-old boys, who got up to the machines instead of their fathers who had gone to the front, turned out to be more skillful and hardy than overgrown German soldiers. And about each of them we can say that his name was Vasily Terkin. Soldiers fought and died not because their commanders sent them to their deaths, but because they fought for their homeland!!! This feat was, is and will always be, this is a feature of the Russian soldier - to sacrifice himself: the Brest fortress held out until November, everyone died for their homeland! And there are tens of thousands of such examples!
"Vasily Terkin" can be called the bestseller of that time. Glory to the Russian soldier!
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- Can Vasily Terkin be called a "hero of his time"?
Any artistic image possesses not only individualistic, personal traits, but also carries something collective, general, is a spokesman, a characteristic hero of his time. On the one hand, Vasily Terkin is not like the rest of the soldiers in the company: he is a merry fellow, he is distinguished by a peculiar sense of humor, he is not afraid of danger, but at the same time, Tvardovsky, creating his hero, did not take any particular person as a model, so the writer turned out to be a collective image of a soldier, a defender of the Russian land, ready at any moment to repel enemy attacks.
Terkin is brave, courageous, he is not afraid of bullets, enemy bombing, or ice water. In any situation, the hero knows how to stand up for himself and not let others down. The character of the hero is woven from dozens and hundreds of characters of ordinary Russian soldiers, endowed with universal human traits: kindness, respect for people, decency.
A.T. Tvardovsky endows his hero speaking surname: Terkin, it is not for nothing that the most common phrase of the poem is: “We will endure. Let's grind." The strength of the Russian spirit is such that a person can endure everything, but this does not make him angrier, more impatient, but on the contrary, he seeks to help people, makes them believe in themselves. Terkin is savvy and resourceful not only in war, but also in everyday life. Thus, peaceful and military life merge into one. The hero lives in war, constantly dreaming of victory, of a simple village work. The writer Vasily Terkin calls differently in the poem, then he is an “ordinary guy”, with weaknesses inherent in any person, then a hero.
Gradually, the image of the hero grows from an individual personality to the level of a literary generalization. A.T. Tvardovsky speaks of a direct connection between people during the war years, that everyone strives for a peaceful life.
Therefore, the poem by A.T. Tvardovsky "Vasily Terkin" is still so popular, because its main character looks like the most ordinary person, although in fact, he is the hero of that time.
Vasily Terkin. This name has long been a household name for a Russian soldier. This hero can rightfully be called epic, since his image is large-scale, large and comprehensive.
In the course of the poem, Terkin's character changes and develops. At first, he is just a cheerful, simple-hearted, lucky, energetic, cheerful and resourceful person. This was Tvardovsky's original idea. He wanted to collect in the image of Terkin character traits Russian private. Gradually, the character of Terkin goes beyond the author's intention. He becomes literally an epic personality. However, it should immediately be noted that he is distinguished from the traditional epic hero by the combination of everyday and heroic, comic and serious. Heroism is complemented by humor, something lyrical, songful, and all together represents an attractive image of a Soviet man in the war.
Terkin went through the entire war from beginning to end. He absorbed all the bitter experience that a person can have in a war. He fought in a swamp, crossed rivers, entered into hand-to-hand combat, knocked out an enemy aircraft, was wounded more than once, faced death, lay in hospitals. The author left him alone to experience all the hardships and hardships of the war. Tvardovsky could not do otherwise, pity his hero, because Terkin is not a person who can be pitied, but a portrait of the whole people. Like all people, he had to experience the yoke of war. Maybe he went through something that others did not go through, but it was this that gave him the opportunity to understand what a national tragedy is. Therefore, this character is so unexpectedly revealed when Terkin recalls his native Smolensk region with the words:
Mother Earth is my own,All Smolensk relatives,
Forgive me for what - I do not know
Only you forgive me.
The tears of a soldier are worth a lot. He does not know why to forgive him, and does not know why he is crying. But his soldier's tears are a reaction to that terrible misfortune that he had seen in front of him for so long. This scene reveals the depth of Vasily Terkin's character and his spiritual growth. The meaning of these lines is vague, the author does not explain them, but gives the reader a full opportunity to think.
And Terkin's unexpected moods can be seen in him a deep sense of responsibility of everyone for everything experienced by the country, for its pain and suffering. The earth did not deserve this pain, but it endured it and remained the same as it was.
The feeling of guilt of Vasily Terkin can be explained in the same way as the guilt of the survivors before those who died. And many died, perhaps not having lived just a few weeks or even days before the victory. Your friend is dead. He has relatives on earth. And you are alive. This motive sounds more than once in Tvardovsky. Who knows if Vasily Terkin considered himself responsible for those who did not see the spring of 1945? Here Terkin again appears as an epic hero, as he, as it were, takes the blame for all the dead on himself, becoming the people's conscience. The word "Guilty!" - the last thing Terkin says. Further, he will not be directly present in the poem.
Finally, Terkin also embodies that supreme sadness, without which there is no joy, which came at such a high price. It's about about the fate of the "orphan soldier". Not a word mentions that it is Terkin. The author only gives a slight hint of this, mentioning that the land on which everything happens is the Smolensk region. Terkin was just from Smolensk. And here it is, people's grief, embodied in an ordinary soldier:
Wept, maybe for a son,About the wife, about anything else,
About myself that I knew: from now on
There is no one to cry about him.
This is not about one soldier - about all those who did not spare themselves for the good of the Motherland, about those who returned to their home and found out that this one, drunk at night, is no longer at home. This is a story about those who lived throughout the war with the dream of meeting their relatives and in one terrible moment found out that he had no relatives.
Terkin also appears at the end of the poem, but already invisible, as if behind the scenes. Here Terkin is present both as a generalized image of a Russian soldier and as a specific person, but it is no longer clear whether this is Vasily himself or someone who simply called himself a famous name. The fact is that Terkin is not alone. He found his embodiment in literally every soldier. If earlier he had one double - Ivan Terkin - now there are a great many of these doubles - the whole country.
In the final chapter, Terkin is presented as a collective image of the entire soldier's partnership. It's about the chapter "In the bath". The unknown soldier, as the author emphasizes, "is the same as Terkin." The final dissolution of Terkin in the mass of soldiers emphasizes his origin from the popular element. Therefore, they call the figure of Vasily Terkin epic. The author managed to reveal the richness of the unique personality of the hero of the poem, emphasizing that this is not a person, but a whole people, individualized solely so that the poem does not become a boring chronology of the war, but is figurative and understandable to anyone.
