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Than the person is alive? Leo Tolstoy, "Than people live": a summary and analysis

Let's try to answer the question of what a person is alive. Leo Tolstoy pondered a lot on this subject. She is somehow affected in all his works. But the most direct result of the author's reflections was the story "Than people are alive". This work tells how the angel of God came to earth in search of the meaning of human existence. He tries to find out what a person is alive. Leo Tolstoy through this hero holds his ideas. We first describe the summary of the work, and then analyze it.

The story that happened to the shoemaker

The story begins with the fact that a poor cobbler who lives with his wife in a hired house, having saved money for work, went for a sheepskin coat for a fur coat in the village. This fur coat was very necessary to him, since it was a harsh winter, and the quilted jacket was available to the spouses for two. However, there were circumstances that he did not buy sheepskin, but only drank 20 cents of vodka and went back. On the way the shoemaker argued that he needed drinking to warm him, and his wife would now scold him for coming back drunk, without money and sheepskin. At the church, he noticed a naked man sitting crouched, but passed by, afraid that he was dead. However, the conscience tortured the shoemaker for leaving him freezing in the street of the unhappy. He returned and noticed that this person is alive, pleasant face, without abrasions and beatings. Semyon (so called the main character) asked the stranger what he was doing and where he was coming from. He said that he was not a stranger, God punished him. Semyon then gave the unfortunate felt boots, a quilted jacket and took this man to his home.

Behavior of Matryona

The wife of the shoemaker (Matryona) reflected, having finished her household chores, that it is not necessary to serve the last bread crust, it is better to leave it for later. The travelers, meanwhile, returned. Matryona, seeing her husband without a sheepskin and drunk, began to scold him for everything that he could remember, in particular, and for the fact that he brought a stranger when they themselves have nothing to eat.

She wanted to leave the house, tearing off her quilted jacket with her husband, but he reproached the woman for forgetting God. Matryona came to her senses and looked at the companion Semyon, silently sitting on the edge of the bench.

Baba became zasosstilas, began to lay on the table, even gave the men bread. The woman of the traveler has fed, then has sheltered for the night and has given it clothes. He smiled and so looked at her that the woman's heart leapt. Later she regretted both the clothes she had given and the last bread, but this bright gaze was recalled to her, and she let her get greed.

Mikhaila remains apprentice in the house

Mikhail, a stranger, began to live in a man's house, learned to work and became an apprentice. He was very quiet, joyless and dumb, he looked all up and worked. Only once he smiled, when the woman gathered them for the first time on the table. So the craftsmen worked together, that prosperity appeared in the house.

History with the master

We continue to describe the work "Than people are alive" (Tolstoy). Composition is the following further events. Once a rich gentleman came to a shoemaker in a troika and brought his very expensive skin to his boots. He kept telling me what was required to be sewn in such a way that there was no demolition, and that in time they were absolutely ready. Mikhail looked carefully behind the master's back, as if peering into something, and then suddenly smiled, brightened his face and said that they would just be in time. The master left, and Michael sewed and made of his material barefoot, not boots. When Semyon saw it, he almost lost his feelings of horror, he was about to chide the master, when suddenly a knock came at the door. The servants of the master came running to say that he had died the previous day, and now they needed barefoot, not boots. They were immediately filed by Mikhail.

An elderly merchant talks about herself

He lived in cares and work for six years in the house of a shoemaker. One day a merchant and a couple of daughters came to them, one of whom was limping. The woman told her story about the fact that these girls are not her relatives, but her adoptive. They lived with their husbands for 6 years in the peasantry, and they had a little son. At the same time, two girls were born in the neighborhood, but soon their father died, and then the mother was buried, so the woman decided to take the orphans to her. The boy died, and only these two girls were left. Mikhail looked at them and smiled.

Angel talks about who he really is

One day, this employee took off his apron and told why he only smiled three times in six years. He told Semyon that he was an angel in heaven, and one day God sent him to take away the soul of a young woman. Mikhail flew to her and saw that the two had newborn girls. The woman asked to be left alive to take care of the children. The angel took pity and returned without a soul to heaven. The Lord was angry with him, told him to take away the soul from this woman, and ordered the angel to go to earth to understand what is in people, what is not given to them, and what a person is alive.

Leo Tolstoy continues the story of Michael. The hero says that so he was at the church, where he found a shoemaker. When Matryona began to swear, Mikhail felt that now this woman will die of anger, but she came to her senses, and the angel smiled, because he saw in her god and realized that there is love in people.

When he looked at the rich master, he saw a mortal angel behind him and realized what to know to people is not given. And when he saw a woman growing up orphans, he realized the third truth - people live with love. God forgave the angel, his wings grew, and he ascended to heaven.

Brief analysis

So, what does a person live by? Leo Tolstoy believes that people are alive with love. This story depicts this feeling in the first place . The shoemaker takes a beggar, a woman - two orphans. The beggar is an angel, and the girls are the best daughters for this woman. Not only external actions depict in the story "Than people live" Tolstoy, people's souls are analyzed - what is happening in them. Extraordinary feats and sacrifices are not performed in the work. And the characters in the story "Than people are alive" (Tolstoy), the summary of which is presented in this article, have nothing heroic. Semyon is a simple fellow, although he is kind, loves to drink sometimes, like all members of his profession. Matryona - talkative, economic, a little grumpy, curious woman - like everyone else. Merchant is also only softness and good nature is different from the other heroes of the story "Than people are alive" (Tolstoy).

The summary of the work, its analysis allow us to say that it makes us a little better. Opens us a lot of eyes. Makes me reflect, carries in me eternal ideas - good, love for my neighbor, compassion - the story "Than people are alive" (Tolstoy). The analysis of the work was carried out by us briefly - we singled out only the main points. You can add it yourself, including quotes and your own thoughts.

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