Garshin, "The Tale of a Toad and a Rose": a brief summary, the main characters. Proverb to "The Tale of a Toad and a Rose"

It is not often that the author can combine, on the one hand, a small amount, and on the other hand, a deep meaning. Not all stories correspond to two of these parameters at once. In this sense, a special pleasure is the reading of fairy tales, for example, Andersen or Garshin. "The Tale of the Toad and the Rose" attracted our attention today. About it and talk.

Rose among the common desolation

The fairy tale immediately begins as a parable. In the small flower garden in front of the village house blossomed a beautiful Rose. It was amazing also because no one had been engaged in a flower garden for a long time. And no one expected such an unexpected appearance of such a beautiful plant.

One of the main characters of the work "The Tale of a Toad and a Rose" was born in May. The desire to live overwhelmed her, and if a newcomer to the world could somehow show her feelings, she would cry from the fullness and joy of being.

Of course, no heart-moving history can not do without some opposition to good and evil. In our fairy tale, good is Rose, and evil is Toad.

The toad notices Rosa

Let's return to the plot. Of course, as we know, there are a lot of abominations in the places of desolation. Here, too, the rose was not left alone by the author. A toad (or antipara) was her. Some time in the work "The Tale of a Toad and a Rose" a nasty animal does not notice a beautiful flower, and everyone lives well. But here the Toad saw Rose and ... fell in love. And in her most delicate voice she said: "I'll eat you." This she thus showed to the object of her adoration the ultimate degree of love and devotion. Rosa, of course, did not know how deep the feelings of Toad, and therefore was frightened that she really would be eaten and she disappeared just like that.

Attempts to Toad the Flower

For Toad, possession of a beautiful creature became a real fix. She was trying to get to Rosa. Fortunately, the plant, in addition to the flower, had sharp spikes, which served as a "security system." They also threw off a filthy creature from the beautiful creation of God. But Toad did not give up trying, she just hid for a while and decided to get the flower in another way.

Those who read the work of Garshin ("The Tale of a Toad and a Rose" is meant), they will say: "And where is the boy? Was there a boy? ". Yes, that is right. We turn to him, especially since this is a very important part of the narrative.

Boy and flower garden

The flower garden was not always so hopelessly lonely and abandoned. Last year he was visited by a boy, sat there and read a book, enjoying the wonderful society of plants and insects. One day a hedgehog wandered into the flower garden. At first he was afraid of the boy, but then he got used to his company and even drank milk from the master saucer. The young man was very glad that the thorny beast had accepted him as his brother. In general, the boy considered the flower garden belonging to him, because he no longer needed anyone.

When Sister Masha asked her brother to play with the ball, instead of reading books in the flower garden, he told her that he would be better off here. And now, a year later, he was lying in bed seriously ill. According to the doctors' forecasts, he did not have much time left. Now the sister was reading a book aloud to him when he was not sleeping. Another girl was crying softly about the fate of her unhappy younger brother, when the boy did not see her. Such a story was written by V.М. Garshin. "The Tale of a Toad and a Rose" was a very sad piece of work.

The toad remains out of work, and Rosa fulfills a great mission

If the reader remembers, then we left the Toad when she, all wounded after another attempt to reach the flower, fell to the ground. The fierce beast did not give up and decided to get to a beautiful creature on other, nearby plants. At the same time, Rosa, who was slightly naive and frivolous, thought that Zhaba was behind her, and completely forgot about her.

However, one fine sunny day, when the charm of Rosa was almost blinding, she saw on the next branch of the Toad. The persistent beast had to be given a hand (that is, a paw) to the coveted beauty. Here, of course, Garshin's work "The Tale of a Toad and a Rose" makes the reader nervous and wonder: "Does evil really win and the Toad succeed?". Calm down, dear reader, remember the genre of the work and do not worry. In the real world, evil can be conquered, and in a fairy tale - never!

When Toad was ready to make the last jump, the boy suddenly woke up and called the girl Masha:

"Sister, you said that the roses blossomed." Can I have one?

"Of course, my dear, of course," said the young woman.

Masha looked out the window and saw a wonderful rose in the flower garden. Armed with scissors, the girl went into the street. Approaching the flower, she quickly discovered the toad, shook it to the ground and kicked it with the toe of the shoe. I would like to say that Toad, like evil in general, flew to another galaxy, but this did not happen. She flew far enough away to forget about her again. The rose, in turn, was cut off and served a good cause: when the boy saw her, he smiled sincerely for the last time, and then fell silent forever.

At the funeral of the sufferer, there were many flowers, but the general attention was drawn only to the rose from the flower garden. It was she who was sprinkled with tears by the sister of the deceased. And the flower, even though cut off, felt more beautiful than ever.

Further, the author reports that the plant was kept in a thick book, and then the rose was presented to him. That's how he recognized the whole story. This is a fairy tale about a toad and a rose. The summary was presented to the reader. Now it remains for us to analyze it properly. Let's start, perhaps, with the characters.

Major and minor heroes

The main intrigue of the work is twisted in the space between the toad and the rose. May readers forgive us, but we immediately, in order not to waste time, rush into the abyss of the analysis of the work.

Rose means in the fairy tale a light triad of Good-Beauty-Truth. A toad is a personified evil. A boy is the will to live or the will of life. And Sister Masha is destiny. Thus, if we translate the text into the language of symbols, it will come out that it fits the battle between good and evil in his work. Garshin. "The Tale of a Toad and a Rose" (a summary also confirms this idea) tells us something like the following. Despite the fact that the evil is better equipped in the world, it has more perfect adaptations, good all the same wins. And this is amazing, because he has nothing but beauty. In fact, good wins also because on its side the Higher Power (God, Destiny) and the life itself are fighting.

If we consider the work through the prism of this interpretation, we get the following: the main characters here are Zhaba and Rosa, and the secondary characters are sick, but a good boy and his sister Masha. It is important that the interpretations may be different, but the heroes of "Tales of the Toad and the Rose" will remain the same.

Folk wisdom and the works of Garshin

In fact, like in any fairy tale, there is a perfect space for the imagination of the one who reads. Therefore, each arsenal of proverbs can be different. But few of the readers will argue that when watching the main character's confrontation, the proverb immediately comes to mind (to the "Tale of the Toad and the Rose") "Not according to Senka's cap". It means that a person gets involved in something other than himself, starts something, not having this special ability.

For example, say, Toad really loved with all his heart Rosa. The reader sees that nothing good comes of it. All because Jaba (in Garshin's work) does not have a heart, she only has a stomach. She can only "eat", but do not fall in love.

"Do not dig another pit"

It can not be said that such a scenario is impossible in life. For example, a person wants to "drown" the other with all his might, but in the end he falls into his own trap. Then people say: "Do not dig another pit." So it happened with the long-suffering evil Toad in the composition of Garshin. She climbed and climbed to Rosa. Spines cut it to blood, but she still wanted to "break" the flower, by all means. Then Masha came and kicked her with a shoe very far. If someone asks what morality can be learned and what proverb to "The Tale of a Toad and Rose" best illustrates the moral message of history, he will reply: "Do not dig another pit!"

"Where I was born, it came in handy"

Leave for a while the poor evil uneducated Toad in peace and talk about Rose. When the main character of the fairy tale was born in such an unpresentable place, she had little hope that she could achieve something in life. But at the behest of fate Rosa made a dizzying career, although the reason, I must admit, was quite sad. In addition, this very "career" helped the flower not to disappear in the mouth of a gluttonous toad.

People say "Where I was born, it was useful" with different intonations. Now, when it is necessary to be "mobile" and "effective", this folk wisdom is perceived, rather, negatively than positive, although there is nothing wrong with it. She simply states the fact that a person found a job for himself in the place in which he was lucky enough to be born. The same thing happened with Rosa, about which Garshin wrote ("The Tale of a Toad and a Rose"). The proverb we quoted earlier seems to fully reflect some sense of the composition of the Russian classic. We pass to the recall to the fairy tale.

Feedback

Reviews can be varied in content and meaning. Their filling depends on the level of preparation of the writer. For example, if a child writes a review of a fairy tale (from 7 to 13 years old), then he will see in it only the opposition of good and evil, how beautiful the first and disgustingly second. Perhaps he will also record that good is protected by fate and life.

Accordingly, we can say that the fairy tale liked it, because good is triumphant in it, and evil "falls on the belly and flies to the far corner of the garden." For example, the teacher asks the question: "What does this fairy tale teach us?". One can answer that she teaches us to be kind and not only to strive for goodness, truth and beauty, but also to protect them from all abominations of the world.

As we can see, there can be positive feedback. Garshin ("The Tale of a Toad and a Rose," including it shows) is a very sad writer. He looked first and foremost deeply into the essence of life, and there, as you know, lies a tragedy, for none of the people is eternal, and there is still no decent, effective antidote for longing for immortality.

If the high school student writes, almost an entrant, then he, having already tasted the tragedy of the love relationship, can look at the fairy tale from an unexpected side and say, for example: "Garshin's composition about the injustice of unrequited love."

The toad is an ugly wicked evil, but she loves Rosa! If our student is bold enough and clever, then he will fearlessly move further in his thinking. The road will lead him to the fact that now, in our days, "roses" are not at all afraid of "toads", even on the contrary. Beautiful "roses" want to be seized by nasty "toad-fat toad", if only they provided them with an adequate standard of living.

In other words, it is possible to unfold the problems of the work and saturate the symbols of the "toad" and "roses" not with moral content (evil and good) or aesthetic (ugly and beautiful), but also social (rich and poor) or gender (man and woman). For a good review of the essay it is important to understand which main theme is "Tales of a Toad and a Rose." Here are two points: on the one hand, the author's idea is a confrontation of evil and good, beauty and disgrace, and on the other hand, the personal awareness of the reader, what exactly he understood from the fairy tale. Therefore, you need to very carefully get acquainted with the work and listen to yourself.

It is worth reading only the full version of the fairy tale Garshin, because the short content is difficult to write something worthwhile. If the reader gets acquainted with the composition in full (a fairy tale of only 10 pages), then he will increase his chances of writing an excellent review! Yes, quite a difficult "Tale of a Toad and a Rose." The feedback on it should also not be easy.

A kaleidoscope of thoughts in the VM. Garshina

In the creation of V.M. Garshin is not one thought, but a whole kaleidoscope of them. It is difficult to single out one thing. The fairy tale is very symbolic and full of content. Perhaps the main idea of "Tales of a Toad and a Rose" is that everyone has his own.

A toad must love a toad, not a flower. In turn, the rose should delight the eyes of people and is in a suitable society for it. The battle between good and evil or the beautiful and ugly is just an illustration for the general disharmony of the world, when someone breaks the natural order of things.

Can you say that the product of VM. Garshina is somehow connected with Dostoevsky's famous thesis "Beauty will save the world"? Hard to say. More likely no than yes. After all, Rosa does not save anyone, on the contrary, they save her. Besides, no matter how beautiful Rosa is, her charm is fleeting. The author himself says that the life of the flower of the day is three. Such beauty hardly can save someone.

Attitude to the tale of a toad and a rose is very ambiguous. Usually, when we talk about fairy tales, something very bright and kind appears in the mind's eye. Of course, we can say that there are not very good traditions in the world. Yes, it is, but now it's not about them.

So, in the VM. Garshin is nothing light. He, like Andersen's fairy tales, is all very truthful and vital. On the one hand, it seems that it is impossible to read such tales to children until a certain age, because they break the faith of a man into good and bright. And on the other hand, it all depends on parents' choice of the method of education. If they want, for example, that their offspring do not have illusions, then the creative legacy of V.M. Garshin and Andersen is just right for this purpose. Without exerting any pressure on the reader, we hope that he will make the right choice. In the formation of man there are no trifles, everything affects its development, even the tales read in childhood.