M. Sholokhov, "Aleshkino heart". Brief narrative content

The events of the revolution, the First World War and the Civil War, M. Sholokhov dedicated a series of small-volume works called "Don Stories." "Aleshkino heart" - a brief summary is given below - shows a cruel reality when the human life against the background of the famine that has engulfed the country loses all value. And murder is no longer perceived as something criminal and sinful.

The consequences of hunger

The protagonist of the story is fourteen-year-old teenager Alyoshka. In his village, the second year is dominated by famine. The boy represented him as a huge black man, destroying people. Alyoshka was swollen, his face was covered with dry skin, and his eyes seemed empty hollows. This is the fifth month the family has nothing to eat. So begins Sholokhov "Alyoshkino heart".

The summary continues with the description of the first tragedy in the boy's family. One morning Alyoshka, swaying, reached the fence where he saw the colt's corpse. To bring him home there was no strength, and the hero went for a knife. Returning, he dispersed the dogs and transferred the remnants, all to one piece, into the house. And in the evening, having grown fat, the younger sister died. Burying her did not have the strength, because Alyoshka and her mother took the girl to the garden and, putting them in a ditch, they sprinkled the earth.

A week later, the eldest, Polka, climbed into the house of a wealthy neighbor, while she was not at home, and ate a cabbage soup. Returning, Makarchicha killed her guest with an iron, and threw her corpse into an abandoned well. So the author shows human cruelty in the story "Aleshkino heart".

A brief summary of what happened to the hero himself: he climbed into the cellar of a neighbor and drank milk. Makarchikha, noticing the boy, attacked him with a pivot pulled from a wagon. Deciding that he too was dead, carried to the river and threw it on the silt. And next morning dressed up - was the Trinity - and went to a neighbor with the intention of buying her house. The woman was lying dead. Makarchikha rushed to the door. And there the boy is all in blood and silt about mercy - Sholokhov completes this part of the work "Alyoshkino heart".

Summary of the meeting with Sinitsyn

In the evening the hero went to the Procurement Office-he saw a grain pouring from a barn into a slot in a yellow trickle. On the way I met a priest, who carried pies and corned beef. He asked me to give it, but the priest went on.

Having reached the barn, Alyoshka began to chew the grain greedily. Suddenly I heard a voice. The boy stood up and covered his face with his hands, waiting for the blow. However, the voice said good-naturedly: "Let's go. I have steamed wheat. " In the room of the political commissar Sinitsyn, the hero greedily ate, until the bespectacled took away the pot: "Oblopaeshsya - you'll die." This describes the fateful for the boy acquaintance Sholokhov.

Aleshkino heart - the short content of the story it shows - kind and clean, was revealed to people. The hero immediately trusted Sinitsyn. And he, while he was treating and cared for the boy, became attached to him.

In hiring

Alyoshka began to graze horses zagotkontori. Once a local rich man approached him and called for food to go to him in the workers. The boy began to perform all the work in the farm of Ivan Alekseev. I was tired so that at night I could not sleep. And the owner was not happy with everything. Especially bad was after the neighbor shamed Alexeyev, that he was suffering from a boy. The hero in the evenings began to go to the "Club of the RCYM", where they read a lot about different things. But Sinitsyn was afraid to complain only to the owner, says the author of the story "Aleshkino heart".

Summary of the episode with the plot

Once bespectacled, he told the boy that a gang had appeared in the district. And the next day the owner arranged an interrogation, where does Alyoshka walk at night? All ended with beatings. But the non-splintered was Aleshkino's heart. The summary of the mother's words, which the hero recalled, shows that he went all over to his father: the same uncomplaining. Therefore, the boy, though he hardly waited for the evenings, endured everything. And at dawn he heard the owner talking with the guests. Alekseev reported to them that there are not many reds in the village. Then his interlocutors promised to come next night and cut everything.

After breakfast, Alyoshka rushed to the office and told Sinitsyn about everything. By evening, the boy was already able to shoot a rifle, and the armed company was waiting in full readiness for the guests. During the shooting, two bandits climbed into the house. Sinitsyn gave the boy a grenade - Alyoshka was smaller - so he made his way to the window. But at the moment when the hero pulled the ring, a bandit appeared on the porch. He was holding a girl in his arms, followed by his mother. Alyoshka immediately evaluated the situation and lay down on the explosives. Sinitsin, who saw this, managed to push the boy away and throw away the grenade.

The hero woke up in the hospital - a splinter hit his chest half a vertex from the heart. And Sinitsyn gave him a ticket to a member of the RCYU.

This is the summary of the story "Aleshkino heart" by M. Sholokhov.