A. Aleksin, "The third in the fifth row": a short summary. "The third in the fifth row": reviews

On the wall is an old school photograph. The most common, black and white. For many years, writer Anatoly Aleksin peered at every face, every destiny, once imprinted on an eternal memory: in the pretty teacher sitting in the center, and in the students around her, especially those who were surprisingly in the fifth row ... Who they are ? The story "The third in the fifth row" (a brief summary follows) tells us about this beautiful and at the same time tragic story.

Features of narration

Many of the works of writer Anatoly Aleksin are devoted to problems of adolescence, and the narration in them is conducted on behalf of these same adolescents. They act as antiheroes, on the contrary - they rush to the rescue, first of all to adults, to save them from problems, to take on their childish, still very fragile and trustful shoulders their responsibility.

But the story "The Third in the Fifth Row" (a brief summary of the six chapters follows) differs from the others. It seems that for the first time the author offered as a narrator not a young man, but an elderly teacher of Russian language and literature, who devoted her entire life to teaching and educating children. We can say that Aleksin has changed the viewing angle, but not the object of observation. And what? The result was unexpected and at the same time predictable: the maturity of the soul is not an age, but a moral category. One to the truth comes in adolescence, and he does not need for this either experience or knowledge. And the other reaches it only when the head is full of gray hair. But about all this in order. We read the summary: "The third in the fifth row."

Old photo

Above the table in the room of Vera Matveyevna hung a lot of photographs. These were faded images of classes in which an elderly teacher once taught Russian language and literature, and in some cases she also worked as a class teacher. She remembered all her students without exception, and could immediately name their names and surnames.

Elizabeth, a four-year-old granddaughter of a teacher, loved to use her finger to take black-and-white photographs and ask who this boy is, what the girl's name is. But especially she liked one red-haired guy - Vanya Belov. Why? The author does not give a direct answer. The reader is invited to find him himself, to feel. And then he will open the whole essence of the work "The third in the fifth row," a summary of which is given in this article.

Vanya Belov

Every day Lisa insistently asked grandmother to tell stories about this red-haired guy, who looked like an ordinary blonde teenager in the photo, but, unlike others, he smiled, and also - stood in the fifth row, the third right after Pope Elizabeth. Yes, there were a lot of differences. Which ones? Read on the novel, which A. Alexin wrote - "The third in the fifth row." The summary of the second chapter will tell in detail about all. Once he deftly passed through the whole cornice of the third floor, he entered the classroom through the window with the most usual kind: "Permit me to enter?" None other than Vanya Belov, announced the start of a hunger strike in protest against the unfair attitude of the teacher to one of the students - Her own son. And, finally, he just built that very fifth row, piling one chair on another to win the argument and once again break the habitual order and order.

Yes, Vera Matveyevna had a lot of stories about the tricks of "evil genius". She told them to her granddaughter for the sole purpose - pedagogical, so that Elizabeth learned a negative example. But there was a paradox: the more stories the girl heard, the more she admired him. But was this paradox unique in the life of a teacher with a huge pedagogical experience?

Loving everyone equally

Vanya Belov - not just one of the main characters of the story, written by A. Aleksin, "The third in the fifth row." The summary of the fourth chapter of the work emphasizes the fact that he is a "developer" for the old teacher, a "chemical solution" that helps to get an explicit image from the hidden one. Vera Matveevna is an open, intelligent, loving woman, mother, friend, who every day dressed herself in the "gray dress" of a teacher with a huge work experience, striving to love everyone "equally" at any price, not to single out anyone in the "row ", And all, not excluding her husband and son, lead to" one denominator "of their worldview. She lived a long life, but she could not understand what was for her, Vanya Belov: a mystery, torture, or still a happy finding. And only an unforeseen family misfortune prompted an elderly woman to reconsider her attitude to the surrounding world, to people and herself.

Last night's miserable woes

Before us is the story "The third in the fifth row." A summary of the chapters of A. Aleksin's work does not end there. We continue ...

With a small Lisa, which parents gave to raise their grandmother, a misfortune happened - an allergic shock. The girl was in mortal danger. I needed an urgent operation. And it was taken by none other than the famous surgeon Belov. And the old teacher suddenly for some reason decides that this is her "evil genius" - Vanya, with whom she did not know what to do, and because of which she had to move to another school. Fear for her granddaughter, immense gratitude for her salvation and an insurmountable sense of guilt that she has been muffled throughout her life-all this in some unexpected way is woven together, bursts outward and sweeps her whole, causing deep remorse both before Vanya and before her own Son, and before her ex-husband. It seems that the author brings us to a logical, predictable outcome.

Another turn

But this is where the main meaning of the work "The Third in the Fifth Row" is displayed, the summary of which is coming to an end. The surgeon who performed the surgery is just a namesake of Belov. And the renewed soul of Vera Matveyevna is eager to find a former student and, at any price, talk to him. An ambulance is happy. And finally, Vanya's house. The door is opened by aged parents who at first sight recognized the former class teacher and, as before, offered to undress her, but she can not, she hurries to explain herself, share her secret and finally calm down. However, the long-awaited point can not be put: in the hands of a fairly battered leaf - a funeral from the forty-fifth. Yes, at the very end of the war, in the spring, near the town of Penzlau, Vanya Belov was killed.

Reviews

What can be the feedback from such a deep work? No doubt, only positive. The work finds, finds and, undoubtedly, many more years will find its grateful readers of all age categories. And there are several reasons for this. Many people note the ease of perception. No complicated turns, subtle humor. It seems that the author once just sat down at his desk, and thoughts, feelings put on words themselves, easily, without a single stumbling block. But the most important thing is that everyone among the many lines can find something that will touch his heart, then, without which something real, the true ceases to be real.

Once again I want to recall that the article is devoted to the story of A. Aleksin "The third in the fifth row." Summary and feedback, even the most positive and complete, can not fully reflect the emotional experiences of all actors, describe what a tremendous power they had, sometimes good, and sometimes devastating, in a person's life. Therefore, for a deeper understanding of the events described, it is necessary to read the entire work.