Bone's story about a mermaid? (Bezhin Meadow) Briefly and got the best answer
Answer from Nadiezhda[guru]
Then the mermaid stopped laughing and began to cry. When the carpenter asked the reason for the tears, she replied that it would be better if he lived with her until the end of his days in “merriment,” but now he crossed himself, and this became impossible. That's why she cries and is killed. However, now he too is destined to be sad until the end of his days. Since then, the carpenter Gavrila has not laughed or even smiled.
Answer from Vlad Agapov[newbie]
He went once, my father said, - he went, my brothers, into the forest for his nuts. So he went into the forest for nuts, and got lost; went - God knows where he went. He walked and walked, my brothers - no! can't find the way; and it’s night outside. So he sat down under a tree; “Come on, I’ll wait until morning,” he sat down and dozed off. He fell asleep and suddenly heard someone calling him. He looks - no one. He dozed off again - they called him again. He looks again, looks: and in front of him on a branch the mermaid sits, sways and calls him to her, and she herself is dying of laughter, laughing... And the month is shining strongly, so strongly, the month is shining clearly - that’s it, my brothers, it is seen. So she calls him, and all bright and white herself sits on a branch, like some kind of little fish or a minnow - and then there’s the crucian carp that’s so whitish, silver... Gavrila the carpenter just died, my brothers, and she knows he laughs and keeps calling him over with his hand. Gavrila stood up and listened to the mermaid, my brothers, yes, you know, the Lord advised him: he laid the cross on himself... And how difficult it was for him to lay the cross, my brothers; he says, the hand is just like a stone, it doesn’t move... Oh, you’re so, eh! .That’s how he laid down the cross, my brothers, the little mermaid stopped laughing, and suddenly she started crying... She was crying, my brothers, wiping her eyes with her hair, and her hair was as green as your hemp. So Gavrila looked, looked at her, and began to ask her: “Why are you, forest potion, crying?” And the mermaid said to him: “You shouldn’t be baptized,” he says, “man, you should live with me in joy until the end of days; but I cry, I am killed because you were baptized; but I will not be killed alone: you too will be killed until the end of days.” Then she, my brothers, disappeared, and Gavrila immediately understood how he could get out of the forest, that is, get out... But since then he has been walking around sadly.
Answer from Dima Konovalov[newbie]
Kostya tells the story of a suburban carpenter known for his gloominess. His gloomy disposition is explained by an incident that happened to him during a trip to the forest for nuts. The carpenter got lost and fell asleep under a tree towards nightfall. Hearing through a dream that someone was calling him, he got up and saw a mermaid. Having taken a few steps towards her, he came to his senses and crossed himself.
Then the mermaid stopped laughing and began to cry. When the carpenter asked the reason for the tears, she replied that it would be better if he lived with her until the end of his days in “merriment,” but now he crossed himself, and this became impossible. That's why she cries and is killed. However, now he too is destined to be sad until the end of his days. Since then, the carpenter Gavrila has not laughed or even smiled.
In the description of this ten-year-old boy Kostya in the story “Bezhin Meadow,” the writer notes his thoughtful and sad look. He, drooping, constantly looked somewhere into the distance. He had a thin face covered with freckles, on which his black, large and always sad eyes stood out, his sharp chin, like a squirrel’s. It seemed that he wanted to say something, but he did not have enough words for it. Kostya is two whole years younger than Pavlusha. The thin boy dressed as poorly as everyone else. Some kind of tiredness, not childish, was visible on his face, which had a painful expression.
The scary stories told by other village children make a very strong impression on this boy. He found himself in the forest at night with them, and, just like them, he was afraid of the barking of dogs that sensed someone else. Kostya, of course, did not think about the goblin, he was just very scared in the dark. He, like the boys, begins to retell his stories to them: about the mermaid, about Vasya and the voice that came from the boom, which he heard from his father. All these guys, like Kostya, were very superstitious and illiterate, which is why they believed all these horror stories. Kostya was a boy who could describe nature very beautifully and colorfully in his stories. His speech is filled with dreaminess and poetry; he saw something in the nature around him that the other guys did not see. He always dreamed of something fabulous.
The village children were not very educated, but they worked very hard: both in the field and at home, they picked mushrooms and berries for the winter, and went to the “night”. Boys are real helpers for their parents from a very early age.
Illustration by P. Sokolov
Very briefly
A lost hunter in the night comes across peasant children who are sitting by the fire, guarding horses and telling each other scary stories about goblin, mermaids, brownies and other evil spirits.
The action takes place in the Russian Empire, in the Chernsky district of the Tula province. The narration is told in the first person. The division of the retelling into chapters is conditional.
"Beautiful July Day"
Summer days, when the weather settles, are beautiful. The morning is clear and radiant. By noon, the sky is covered with light golden-gray clouds, from which a small warm rain occasionally falls. Before the evening dawn, the clouds disappear, and the sun sets as calmly as it rose in the sky.
The hunter got lost
It was on such a day that the narrator was hunting black grouse.
Narrator - a man with a gun, a game bag and a dog; his name is not mentioned in the story
In the evening he was returning home and suddenly got lost.
“Where am I?” - I repeated again out loud, stopped for the third time and looked questioningly at my English yellow-piebald dog Dianka.
Climbing a high, sharply sloping hill, he saw below him a huge plain, surrounded by a wide river. The narrator finally recognized the area - in the area it was called Bezhin Meadow.
By the fire at night
Right under the cliff, two fires were burning in the darkness, where five peasant children with two dogs were guarding the horses. During the day, the heat and flies with gadflies did not give the horses any rest, so in the summer they were grazed at night.
Driving out the herd before the evening and bringing in the herd at dawn is a big holiday for peasant boys.
The tired hunter went down to the fires, said that he was lost and asked to spend the night. He lay down under a bush nearby, pretended to be asleep and listened to what the kids were talking about.
The boys boiled potatoes and told stories about evil spirits.
Ilyusha
Most of the stories were told by twelve-year-old Ilyusha, with a hook-nosed, elongated, half-sighted face, on which a dull, preoccupied expression was frozen.
Ilyusha - 12 years old, hook-nosed, long face, yellow hair, neatly dressed, works in a paper mill; superstitious and fearful, believes in the supernatural
The boy was dressed cleanly and neatly, but poorly. Ilyusha's large family, apparently, was not rich, so the boy, along with his two brothers, worked at a paper factory from early childhood. Ilyusha “knew all the rural beliefs better than others” and sincerely believed in them.
Brownie at a paper mill
The first story was about how the clerk ordered Ilyusha and a group of guys to spend the night at a paper factory. Someone suddenly stomped upstairs, went down the stairs, and approached the door. The door swung open, and there was no one behind it. And suddenly someone coughs! Scared the brownie boys.
Talking lamb on the grave of a drowned man
Then Ilyusha spoke about a broken dam, an unclean place where a drowned man was once buried. One day the clerk sent a huntsman to the post office. He returned through the dam late at night. Suddenly he sees a little white lamb sitting on the grave of a drowned man. The huntsman decided to take him with him. The lamb does not escape from your hands, it only looks intently into your eyes. The hound felt terrible, he stroked the lamb and said: “Byasha, byasha!” And the lamb bared his teeth and answered him: “Byasha, byasha!”
The late gentleman looking for the gap-grass
Then Ilyusha spoke about the late gentleman he met at the same dam. The dead man was looking for a gap of grass in the “unclean place” and complained that the grave was pressing on him.
Parents' Saturday
Ilyusha was sure that “you can see the dead at any hour,” and on parental Saturday you can find out who will die this year, you just need to sit on the porch and look at the church road - whoever passes by will die. He talked about a woman who decided to find out who would die this year, went to the porch on her parents’ Saturday and recognized herself in a woman passing by.
Solar eclipse and Trishka
When the conversation turned to the recently occurring “celestial foresight” - a solar eclipse, Ilyusha told the legend about the amazing man Trishka, who will come during the solar eclipse. This Trishka is amazing with his ability to free himself from any shackles and get out of any prison.
Pavlusha
Then Pavlusha also remembered the solar eclipse.
Pavlusha - 12 years old; gray-eyed, big-headed and squat, poorly dressed; brave, tries to explain the incomprehensible, determined and inquisitive
When the sun disappeared, the peasants got scared, and the master's cook broke all the pots in the oven, believing that the end of the world had come and there would be no one to eat cabbage soup. Everyone believed that “white wolves would run across the earth, eat people, a bird of prey would fly, or even see Trishka himself.”
The peasants went to the field to meet Trishka. Suddenly they see a “sophisticated” man with a strange head walking. Everyone rushed to hide, and it turned out to be not Trishka, but a village cooper who bought a new jug and put it on his head to make it easier to carry. Pavlushin's story amused the boys.
Suddenly, in the midst of the conversation, the dogs began to bark and rush away. Pavlusha rushed after them. When he returned, he said that the dogs sensed the wolf.
Without a twig in his hand, at night, he, without hesitation at all, galloped alone towards the wolf... “What a nice boy!” - I thought, looking at him.
Kostya
Kostya, a small, frail, very poorly dressed and timid boy of about ten years old with a thoughtful and sad look, told two stories.
Kostya - 10 years old, thin and short, poorly dressed; coward, afraid of the unknown, capable of sympathy, believes Ilyusha’s stories
Carpenter meets mermaid
The first is about a carpenter who gets lost in the forest and stumbles upon a mermaid. She sat on a tree branch, called him to her and laughed. The carpenter took it and crossed himself. The mermaid cried pitifully, and then cursed him - the carpenter would grieve until the end of his days. Since then he has been sad and walking around.
The merman who dragged the boy to the bottom
Kostya’s second story was about a boy who was dragged under the water by a merman, and his mother went crazy with grief.
Fedya
The eldest of the boys, Fedya, a slender, handsome teenager of about fourteen, belonged, judging by his clothes, to a wealthy family and was the “lead singer” in this company - he treated his friends patronizingly, but kindly, occasionally interrupting them with good-natured ridicule.
Fedya - 14 years old, handsome, well dressed; as an elder, treats friends patronizingly, but kindly, taciturn
Fedya remembered a woman living in his village who was abandoned by her lover. She went to drown herself, and the waterman dragged her to the bottom, and “ruined” her there. The woman was pulled out, but she did not come to her senses and remained a fool.
The narrator regrets that in the same year the “nice guy” Pavel died - he crashed, falling from a horse.
Composition
In Turgenev's story "Bezhin Meadow" the narration is told from the perspective of the hunter Ivan Petrovich. Closer to night, he got lost and wandered into Bezhin meadow, where he meets five village boys. The hunter, listening to their conversation, identifies each boy with his own characteristics and notices their talent.
The eldest of them is Fedya. He comes from a rich family, and he went out at night for fun. He was dressed differently from all the other boys: a cotton shirt with a border, an army jacket, and his own boots. He also had a comb - a rare item among peasant children. The boy is slender, not hard-working, with beautiful and small features, with blond hair, “white-handed.” Fedya lay like a master, leaning on his elbow. During the conversation, he behaved in a businesslike manner, asked questions, and put on airs. patronizingly allowed the boys to share stories.
Then the hunter notices Pavlusha, who was on his knees, boiling potatoes. His appearance was unprepossessing: a huge head, unkempt hair, a pale face, a clumsy body. But Ivan Petrovich admires his “brave daring and firm determination” when, unarmed, he rode alone against a wolf at night and did not boast about it at all. He also paid attention to his talents: Pavlusha looked very smart and direct, “and there was strength in his voice.” The author paid attention to the clothes in the last place. It consisted of a simple shirt and ports. Pavel behaves calmer and braver than everyone else: after the terrible story told by Kostya, he was not afraid, but calmed the boys down and turned the conversation to another topic. Pavel himself, a smart, intelligent boy, only listens to stories about “evil spirits” and talks about the real events that took place in his village during a solar eclipse.
Ten-year-old Kostya attracted the hunter's attention with the thoughtful and sad look of his black shiny eyes. Kostya's face is small and thin, and he himself is short. The boy is very superstitious, he believes in mermaids and mermaids, which he told the other guys about. He imitates adults and often says “my brothers” in his speech. The author called Kostya a coward for his fear of wolves, comparing him with Pavel. But Kostya was a kind boy. He was very sorry for Feklista, the mother of the drowned Vasya. He is dressed as poorly as Pavel.
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The narrator also paid attention to Pavlusha’s talent: “he looked very smart and direct, and there was strength in his voice.” And only lastly did the author pay attention to the clothes, which consisted of ports and a simple shirt. Pavel remains calm and courageous, he is businesslike and decisive: after the terrible story that Kostya told, he was not afraid, but calmed the guys down and turned the conversation to another topic. Pavlusha himself, an intelligent and intelligent boy, only listens to stories about evil spirits, telling only a real incident that happened in his village during the “heavenly foresight”. Only his innate courage and strong character did not reward him with a long life. As the narrator notes, in the same year Pavel died, he was killed by falling from a horse. "It's a pity, he was a nice guy!" - Turgenev finishes his story with sadness in his soul.
Characteristics of Fedya The oldest of the guys is Fedya. He came from a wealthy family, and he went out to guard the herd for fun. Unlike the other boys, he was dressed in a calico shirt with a border, a brand new army jacket, wore his own boots, and also had a comb with him - a rare attribute among peasant children. Fedya was a slender boy, “with beautiful and thin, slightly small features, curly blond hair and a constant half-cheerful, half-absent-minded smile.” Fedya lay like a lord, leaning on his elbow, showing his superiority with all his appearance. During the conversation, he behaves in a businesslike manner, asks questions, puts on airs, and patronizingly allows the boys to share amazing stories. He listens carefully to his friends, but with all his appearance he demonstrates that he has little faith in their stories. It is felt that he had a good education at home, and therefore he is not characterized by the naivety inherent in other children.
Description of Ilyusha from the story “Bezhin Meadow” Ilyusha is a twelve-year-old boy with an insignificant appearance, hook-nosed, with an elongated, blind face, expressing “some kind of dull, painful solicitude.” The author emphasizes how poor this peasant boy looked: “He was wearing new bast shoes and onuchi; a thick rope, twisted three times around the waist, carefully pulled together his neat black scroll.” And he kept pulling his low felt cap, from under which sharp braids of yellow hair stuck out, over his ears with both hands.
Ilyusha differs from other village boys in his ability to retell scary stories in an interesting and exciting way. He told his friends 7 stories: about the brownie that happened to him and his comrades, about the werewolf, about the late master Ivan Ivanovich, about fortune telling on his parents' Saturday, about the Antichrist Trishka, about the peasant and the goblin, and about the merman.
Kostya In the description of ten-year-old Kostya, the narrator notes the sad and thoughtful look with which he, drooping, looked somewhere into the distance. On his thin and freckled face, only “his large, black eyes, shining with a liquid brilliance, stood out; they seemed to want to say something, but he had no words.” Creepy stories about evil spirits make a strong impression on little Kostya. However, he also retells to his friends the story he heard from his father about the mermaid, about the voice from the butch, and also about the unfortunate Vasya, a boy from his village.
Vanya For the youngest of the children, Vanya, the author does not give a portrait description, noting only that the boy was only seven years old. He lay quietly under his matting, trying to sleep. Vanya is silent and timid, he is still too small to tell stories, but only looks at the night sky and admires the “stars of God” that look like bees.