"Crushed Sugar" - a summary of the story. What did Paustovsky want to say?

Konstantin Paustovsky is an incorrigible romantic. Any trifling occupation of his color and plays a variety of shades of colors and odors. Here is the short story "Chopped Sugar", a brief summary of which will be given below, as if it were surreal in the light of the white nights.

Northern summer

A tireless traveler, the author arrived in the summer at midnight in a small town of Ascension. A fantastic moon stood over the lake, but its white light was not needed. Day and night mixed in these summer twilight. And the birches have already faded.

Northern summer is unreliable and untrue. From him you can always expect a dirty trick, because the winter does not seem to go away forever, and the smell of snow is felt everywhere. The soft sun shining the lake turned his still water into a radiant mirror.

On the landing stage were sitting blond little boys and a policeman. They all got a fish-smelt, talking quietly.

Search for accommodation

The traveler did not linger on the pier-he had to find shelter for the night, and after him, like a shadow, a man with a briefcase full of boring papers as bored as he himself went. A small story, "Crushed Sugar," a summary of which is set forth, will show his "ink soul."

In the town were only boardwalks, which gave him an inexplicable charm. The bird-cherry blossomed. Near one of the log houses on the bench sat a little girl with a simple homemade doll. The author asked if they could spend the night. The little girl nodded and led the guest upstairs to the upper room, and a fat, tedious man followed them. In the upper room were two - an old woman with knitting in her hands and a thin old man. "Spend the night here," the old woman said, bowing to the waist, "only you'll have to sleep on the floor."

Conversation

A tedious man with a briefcase began to interrogatively interrogate the old man, who he was and where, and what he was doing. With dignity the slender old man answered that he had sown bread in his youth, and now - words. So the story "Crushed Sugar" continues. The summary will tell you about what kind of meanness a fat man with a portfolio will now do. As a born bureaucrat, he asked the old man for documents. When he proudly refused to show them to anyone, the fat man went after the policeman.

Conversation with the policeman

After the fat man's departure, the old woman set up the samovar, lamenting that there was no sugar in the house. But on the table was laid a clean tablecloth, smelling of rye.

A nasty fat man led the policeman after all - he really wanted to ruin it all for a quiet evening. Read further the continuation of the story "Chopped Sugar", a brief summary of which will now briefly talk about the conversation between the old man and the policeman.

Dedok, not hurrying to show documents, weaved a story-song about his grandfather-coachman-a wonderful songwriter. This grandfather, working on the Pskov tract, drove Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin and sang him long iamschitskie songs. Several years passed, and the old coachman again met with the poet. Gendarmes in the winter in the middle of the night woke the coachman and showed him a sleigh with a coffin tied with ropes. The coachman asked the gendarmes whom he would have to lead. "Pushkin" - was a short answer. All the heavy frosty night coachman sang the poet songs and forever in the cold ripped off his voice. This is told the story of "Chopped Sugar", a summary of which is presented to you.

This story impressed the policeman. He said that the man was singing in all sincerity, and left without asking for documents, although the old man was ready to show them. And afterwards, through the little girl, she handed over the hotel-crushed sugar and bagels.

That's all the summary of "chopped sugar." Paustovsky wrote an amazing and instructive story about how to be able to trust people.