The story of the life of grandfather Kashirin - we repeat the classics

Gorky's novel "Childhood" refers to the best examples of Russian prose. It tells not only about the "leaden abominations" of the Russian life of the provincial philistinism, the simple people - semi-literate, but because of the wild, spiritually meager, bitter and oskotinivshegosya in every minute struggle for a "penny". The author focuses on the pure child's soul of the protagonist, passing through the cruel stages of becoming, as well as the bright and kind characters of those heroes who have brightened up the painful moments of resentment and injustice that he saw in his grandfather's house.

Prehistory

The story of Kashirin's grandfather's life is entertaining and instructive at the same time. However, we will not start with it, but how Alesha Peshkov found himself in a squat, dirty ocher-colored one-story house of the Kashirins. His mother married without the blessing of her parents. Then Alyosha was born. They lived amicably and cheerfully, until his father died, and his mother nearly lost her mind from grief. Then grandmother Akulina Ivanovna came to them to take the orphaned family to their ancestral nest - Nizhny Novgorod. It is from this moment on, both to readers and to the main character, the story of Kashirin's grandfather's life becomes interesting.

Head of the family

Vasily Vasilyevich Kashirin, as the author calls it, looks absolutely unimportant, rather comical. It's a small, thin old man with a sharp, golden-red beard, fussy, with green eyes and a birdish hooked nose. Personality is quite colorful, but especially its absurdity catches the eye next to a large, even large and too complete, but somehow smooth-steppe wife Akulina Ivanovna. However, the history of the life of grandfather Kashirin clearly shows that the fate of a person depends not on appearance, but on the traits of his character. And from the circumstances in which he lived.

Main events

With his sensitive little heart, Alyosha soon realizes that all members of a large family share one common feeling. No, not love, as it should be between relatives, but hatred, multiplied by anger and envy. And the reason for everything is money. The story of Kashirin's grandfather's life is like a mirror reflecting the destinies of his offspring. When old Kashirin first smears of Alexei for a fault, then later, in a fit of pity and remorse, confesses: "Do you think they did not beat me? .." It turns out that his grandfather in childhood was flogged so that "and in a terrible dream" not to see. And so offended that, probably, the "Lord God looked and cried" from pity! So, not by itself, by nature, evil and cruel grandfather! The environment in which he grew up, spoiled and embittered his character, suggested that it is on such conditions that the order in the house and the authority of the elders are kept. At the same time, the grandson learned how unhappy the fate of Grandfather Kashirin was. Before he started painting, he bawled for many years on the Volga, dragged along with his comrades on his own unbearable barges, tore himself up, suffering mockery from his masters. The spooky ghost of poverty made him spend his whole life, like Chichikov, collect and save a penny, shaking at every ruble.

Head of a large family

When Gorky wrote Childhood, the description of his grandfather played an important role in the realization of the idea and idea of the work. On his example, he showed how terribly and hopelessly cripple outstanding Russian characters in the medium, if they do not have sufficient internal forces to resist. Koda Vassily Vasilyevich got a family, got rich, opened a dye-house, he mercilessly exploits workers and his own, domestic. He does not want to separate the adult married sons, so that they do not have to give them a part of the property due. Daughter Varvara Kashirin deprived the dowry for the fact that she illegally married. Alyoshin Uncle mercilessly fight among themselves, but his grandfather does not stop. And only after drinking a lot, drunk, he sadly confesses to himself in which "gadyushnik" he lives. And the family, in the end, breaks up. The universal favorite of the Gipsies is dying. A terrible fire destroys the lion's share of property. The uncles are resettled, but they also drink and come to beat the windows in the new father's house. Disappointed, poor and even more "drying up" the soul of the grandfather. A miserable begging beggar, a starving grandmother and grandson, he appears before us at the end of the story. And a desperately-aching note in vain for life is heard in his ears, his melancholy "Eh, you-and-and ..."