B. Ekimov, "The Night of Healing": a short story

War leaves a deep imprint in the soul of every person. Often, and after many years, memories of her do not allow you to sleep and live peacefully. The proof of this is the story of B.Ekimov "The Night of Healing", the brief content of which is proposed below.

Forced loneliness

The children of Danya's women have long settled in the city. And she lived alone in the village, so the arrival of her grandson seemed to inspire her. The old woman fussed, cooked and, even when Grisha ran off into the street, felt: there is a living soul in the house. This is how Yekimov Boris begins his work.

"The Night of Healing" continues with a story about the circumstances that forced the woman Dunya to spend a century alone. Of course, an economy that you will not give up. However, there was a more important reason: the old woman could not sleep peacefully. At first she often visited the children, but every visit she made turned into a test for them. She screamed at night: the difficult war years and the famine affected - and did not allow to sleep. Baba Dunya was taken to the doctors, but nothing helped. And now she was in the city only in the afternoon, and by the evening she certainly returned home. The benefit of growing up Grisha stayed with her in the winter and in the spring.

Restless night

The grandson returned from the street in the evening and, having supped, began to prepare the gear for morning fishing. And the woman Dunya was sitting next to him and kept asking him about this and that. When they went to bed, she warned that if they make noise at night, they wake up. Grisha just waved him off: he slept soundly, because he would not hear anything. However, soon he was awakened by the screams of Dunya's women. She talked about lost cards, about hungry children and asked for help, says the author of the story "The Night of Healing".

A brief summary of what happened next can be conveyed as follows. The grandson tried to calm her grandmother, and she fell asleep again. But after a while the screams repeated. Now the woman Dunya talked about acorns, which, as Grisha, who had awakened her, learned that in the hungry years she was grinding and adding to the flour. The old woman felt very guilty before her grandson and probably did not sleep till morning. In any case, the tired Grisha fell asleep soundly and did not hear anything else.

The solution of the problem

The next day the grandson went fishing, then for a ski trip. He was so exhausted that he slept like a dead man at night. And in the afternoon the woman Dunya apologized for everything, to which Grisha reassured her and asked not to worry. That was the time, B.Ekimov said in the story "The Night of Healing", the brief content of which you read.

Somehow the boy called from the post office to the city. Mom asked if he was sleeping at night. Then she gave advice - if the woman Dunya starts screaming, you need to come up and shout: "Be silent!" Helps. On the way home Grisha kept thinking about his grandmother. She seemed small and weak to him. I tormented the question of how to help her. For other sorrows long over, and the woman Dunya is not released. The whole evening the boy felt something stung and burned in his chest. And he thought: if only not to fall asleep.

Night of Healing: a summary of the episode

When a murmur from the room of Dunya muttered, Grisha went to her bed and was ready to shout and even stamp her foot. But, hearing the painful groans and interrupted speech about the bread cards, he suddenly felt pity and pain, then knelt down. The grandson began to affectionately convince: "Here is your blue handkerchief, grandmother. And there are cards in it. " The old woman at first paused, then began to thank and calmed down. And Grisha was chilled, and tears rolled down his face. They came from the heart, full of pity for the woman Dunya. When she again spoke, the grandson approached her and all the way, continued to answer her gently and calm her. The old woman turned and quietly fell asleep, now before morning.

Grisha went to bed and thought about how he would tell grandmother about everything in the morning. And suddenly it felt as if it were burning: you can not talk about it. Now the grandson knew that tomorrow, and then he will be next to the woman Dunya. And then the night of healing will come. The analysis of what happened made him look at the past and the present in a new way.