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V.G. Rasputin Reflection of wartime difficulties in the story “French Lessons”

Valentin Grigorievich Rasputin (1937-2015) is a successor to the traditions of Russian classical prose from the point of view of moral problems. Madness and a vain existence are opposed by wisdom, a caring attitude towards the world, towards man, towards nature. The main words in his work are conscience and memory.

Biography Born on March 15 in the village of Ust-Uda, Irkutsk region, into a peasant family. After school, he entered the Faculty of History and Philology of Irkutsk University. During his student years, he became a freelance correspondent for a youth newspaper. After graduating from university in 1959, Rasputin worked for several years in newspapers in Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk, and often visited construction sites. Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station and the Abakan-Tayshet highway. Essays and stories about what he saw were later included in his collections “Bonfires of New Cities” and “The Land Near the Sky.”

Biography He began writing fiction in 1961, mainly stories: “I forgot to ask Leshka” (1961), etc. The story “Money for Maria” (1967), which testified to the writer’s interest in issues of morality and morality, brought fame. the story “The Last Term”, which became a classic of “village prose”, told about the last days of the old woman Anna, who was the same age as a rosary, sorting out her memories, summing up her righteous life. Rasputin’s merit was an artistic discovery, following A.I. righteous man. In 1965, Rasputin showed several new stories to V. Chivilikhin, who came to Chita for a meeting of young writers of Siberia, who became the “godfather” of the aspiring prose writer.

Influence of place The writer said that his childhood and his work are unthinkable without the influence of Siberia, the taiga and, especially, the Angara: “I believe that it played an important role in my writing; Once upon a time, at an integral moment, I went out to the Angara and was stunned - both from the beauty that entered me, as well as from the conscious and material feeling of the Motherland that emerged from it.”

The story “French Lessons” I wrote this story in the hope that the lessons taught to me at one time will fall on the soul of both young and adult readers.

History of creation “I dedicated the story, the heroine of which was Lydia Mikhailovna, to another teacher - Anastasia Prokopyevna Kopylova. When I recognized her, she had already worked at the school for many years, but neither then nor later did I see in her eyes that harsh expression for which it seemed the time had already come. The story was first published in 1973. in our Irkutsk Komsomol newspaper “Soviet Youth” in an issue dedicated to the memory of Alexander Vampilov. Anastasia Prokopyevna is his mother. Looking into the face of this amazing woman, ageless, kind and wise, I more than once remembered my teacher and knew that the children had a good time with both.”

History of creation The story “French Lessons” is an autobiographical work. Without knowing how the writer’s childhood passed and what it was filled with, it is impossible to read his works deeply and with full understanding. After graduating from elementary school in his native village, Rasputin wanted to continue his studies. But the school, which included fifth and subsequent grades, was located only in the regional center of Ust-Uda, and this is fifty kilometers from home. You have to move there to live alone, without parents, without family. It was a very serious change in life. Moreover, as V. Rasputin would later write, “before that, no one from our village in the region studied. I was the first."

Lydia Mikhailovna Molokova is the prototype of Rasputin’s heroine “Lidia Mikhailovna, as in the story, always aroused both surprise and awe in me... She seemed to me an exalted, almost unearthly being. Our teacher had that inner independence that protects against hypocrisy. Still very young, a recent student, she did not think that she was educating us by her example, but the actions that came naturally to her became the most important lessons of kindness for us.”

History of creation Autobiography - This is a consistent presentation by the speaker or writer himself of the main stages of his life. “I didn’t have to invent anything there,” said Rasputin. - All this happened to me. I didn't have to go far to get the prototype. I needed to return to people the good that they did for me at one time.”

Vocabulary work Polutorka - (colloquial) A truck with a lifting capacity of 1.5 tons. Regional center. A city or village is the center of an administrative district within a region. Bonds. State loan ticket. (Government winning loan).

Questions What does the title of the story say? From whose perspective is the story told? Why? What time is the author writing about? How was life in the village? When and how did the hero begin his independent life? What trials awaited him?

Questions Why did the hero of the story start playing “chicka”? How do Vadik and the narrator feel about this game? Why did Vadik and Ptah beat him? Find words that convey his state at this moment.

Questions How does the hero behave the day after the fight? How does the teacher find out what happened to the hero? What feelings does the hero experience? What qualities of the hero are demonstrated in this episode?

V.G. Rasputin The role of teacher Lydia Mikhailovna in the life of a boy. Presentation by: Guryeva K.S., literature teacher

Questions What did Lidia Mikhailovna seem like to the boy? What technique does the author use in describing the teacher? How does the teacher’s intonation and the boy’s mood change during a conversation after class? Why did Lydia Mikhailovna force the hero to study extra? What feelings does the hero experience in the teacher’s apartment? What character traits does the hero exhibit?

Lydia Mikhailovna She sat in front of me, all neat, smart and beautiful, beautiful both in her clothes and in her youth, which I vaguely felt, the smell of perfume from her reached me...; Moreover, she was not a teacher of some kind of arithmetic, not of history, but of the mysterious French language, from which something special, fabulous, beyond the control of anyone, like me, for example, emanated.

“She sat in front of me, neat, all smart and beautiful, beautiful and dressed...” What can we judge from the portrait of the heroine? Why did Rasputin place this portrait? What would happen if portraiture did not exist?

Let's think about it... What traits did Lydia Mikhailovna have? Provide quotations from the text. What would you choose: to have money but no friends or to have friends but little money? Why? Would you like to help the hero, as Lydia Mikhailovna helped him?

Main character There was, of course, something to look at: in front of her, crouched on the desk was a skinny, wild boy with a broken face, unkempt, without a mother and alone, in an old, washed-out jacket on his drooping shoulders, which fit well on his chest, but from which his arms protruded far; wearing stained light green trousers altered from his father's riding breeches and tucked into teal with traces of yesterday's fight.

Questions Why did Lidia Mikhailovna decide to play “measures” with her student? How did the game end? How does Lydia Mikhailovna behave in a conversation with the director? Why didn’t you explain your actions to the director?

Characteristics of the main characters: moral fortitude; hunger for knowledge; self-esteem. “teacher of the mysterious French language”; smart and beautiful; “some kind of special fairy-tale creature...”; "An extraordinary person, not like everyone else." self-esteem; kindness; courage; mercy; sensitivity; generosity; responsiveness. Boy Lidia Mikhailovna

Conclusions Surprisingly, Lidia Mikhailovna, it turns out, did not remember that she sent me a parcel with pasta in the same way as in the story... But, upon reflection, I realized that there is essentially nothing surprising here: true good on the part of the one who creates it has less memory than on the part of the one who accepts it... Good is selfless, and this is its miraculous power.

Lydia Mikhailovna opened a new world to the boy, showed him “another life” (in the teacher’s house, even the air seemed saturated with the “light and unfamiliar smells of another life”), where people can trust each other, support and help, share grief, relieve loneliness. The boy recognized “red apples”, which he had never dreamed of. Now he has learned that he is not alone, that there is kindness, responsiveness, and love in the world. These are true spiritual values. What role does the afterword play? conclusions

V.G. Rasputin Moral problems of V. Rasputin’s story “French Lessons” Presentation by: Guryeva K.S., literature teacher

The concept of “LESSON” is work assigned for a certain period. She set herself a lesson. Academic work, tasks that are given to the student to prepare for the next lesson. Prepare a lesson. Learn lessons. A training session on a subject, as well as the time allocated for it. Literature lesson. Something from which you can draw conclusions and extract something instructive for the future. Life lesson. Peren. Outdated Teachings, instructions. Onegin, do you remember that hour, When in the garden, in the alley, Fate brought us together, and so humbly I listened to your lesson.

Theme and idea of the story The theme of the work is life in the post-war years. The idea of the story “French Lessons”: selfless and selfless kindness is an eternal human value. The end of the story suggests that even after parting, the connection between people is not broken, does not disappear: “In the middle of winter, after the January holidays, I received a package by mail to school... it contained pasta and three red apples... Previously, I had only seen them in the picture, but I guessed it was them.”

Meaning of the title The word “lesson” in the title of the story has two meanings. Firstly, this is an educational hour devoted to a separate subject, and secondly, this is something instructive from which conclusions can be drawn for the future. It is the second meaning of this word that becomes decisive for understanding the intent of the story. The boy remembered the lessons of kindness and cordiality taught by Lydia Mikhailovna for the rest of his life. Literary critic Semenova calls Lydia Mikhailovna’s act “the highest pedagogy,” “one that pierces the heart forever and shines with the pure, simple-minded light of a natural example, ... before which one is ashamed of all one’s adult deviations from oneself.” The moral significance of the story lies in the celebration of eternal values - kindness and philanthropy.

Results In the story “French Lessons,” V. G. Rasputin talks about the courage of a boy who has preserved the purity of his soul, the inviolability of his moral laws, who fearlessly and courageously, like a soldier, carries his duties and his bruises. The boy is attracted by his clarity, integrity, and fearlessness of soul, but it is much more difficult for him to live, much more difficult to resist, than for the teacher. The hero is alone in a foreign country, he is constantly hungry, but still he will never bow to either Vadik or Ptah, who beat him bloody, or to Lydia Mikhailovna, who wants the best for him. The boy combines the bright, cheerful carefree nature of childhood, a love of play, faith in the kindness of people and childish serious thoughts about the troubles brought by the war.

Let's create a syncwine! Kindness Sincere, sincere Guides, instructs, teaches. Treating people kindly is the meaning of life.

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“French Lessons” - Lessons of Humanity (lesson project based on the story by V.G. Rasputin)

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Goals: 1) to create conditions for revealing the problems of the story and the lessons it teaches; developing the ability to concisely present a narrative text with elements of reasoning and creative analysis; 2) create conditions for the development of analysis and synthesis skills by creating projects; 3) to promote the development of observation, the cultivation of responsiveness, empathy, kindness Preliminary work - work in groups: 1) create a moral dictionary of the work (based on moral words and concepts from the story), 2) prepare an exhibition of drawings on the topic “Kindness and Cruelty in Life” , 3) and 4) work on an epistolary project (write a letter on behalf of Lydia Mikhailovna to the main character, a letter on behalf of the main character to the teacher)

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Epigraph: I wrote this story in the hope that the lessons given to me at one time will fall on the soul of both a small and an adult person. V. Rasputin

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Creation of the 5th group. (5 people will write down on separate sheets of paper with markers the conclusions that we will draw during the dialogue).

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Remember what problems the author raises in the story, and, based on them, try to set goals for yourself: 1 problem: man and time (reveal the difficulties of the post-war period described in the story) 2 problem: teenager and the street (evaluate the behavior of the hero who begins independent life) Problem 3: teacher and student (define the role of the teacher in the boy’s life) At the end of the lesson, everyone must answer the problematic question: Did the main character of the story and I only learn French?

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Lexical meaning of the word “lesson” A lesson is: 1) a teaching hour devoted to a separate subject; 2) something instructive, something from which one can draw a conclusion for the future. (dictionary by S.I. Ozhegov) What kind of confession opens the story? What can we guess from this confession?

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Problem 1: man and time When and where do events take place? How did Valentin end up in the regional center? What trials awaited the boy? How did the boy feel about studying?

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Conclusions, lessons 1. Time brings cruelty into the souls of people. 2. In life you need to strive to be better. 3.don’t give up in the face of difficulties. 4. You need to live according to the laws of morality. 5. It's never too late to ask for forgiveness. 6. Patience and work will grind everything down. 7.The mother must take care of the children. 8. Life teaches. 9. Don’t do anything carelessly.

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Report of group 1 – project “Moral dictionary of the story by V.G. Rasputin “French Lessons”

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Problem 2: a teenager and the street (assessment of Valentin’s behavior) Why did Valik start playing for money? Why did he learn quickly and start winning? The main character has become a skilled player. Was he driven by the thirst for profit? Compare what character qualities are manifested in the game of Valik and Vadik (work in pairs).

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Valik Vadik Perseverance Purposefulness Pride Honesty Justice Curiosity Sense of proportion steadfastness Rudeness Cruelty Deceitfulness Cunning Selfishness Authoritativeness Self-confidence Thirst for profit

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We saw and compared the world of kindness and cruelty in the story. Group 2 report – exhibition of drawings on the topic “Kindness and Cruelty in Life”

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Conclusions, lessons 1.Tell me who your friend is, and I will tell you who you are. 2. Don’t do to others what you don’t want for yourself. 3. Cruelty can and should be resisted. 4.Greed destroys a person. 5.Be proud and independent. 6. Don’t get excited, know how to give in to those to whom you can’t prove anything. 7.Be principled. 8.Know a sense of proportion. 9. Know how to stand up for yourself. 10.Lies and betrayal are destructive. 11.Be honest and sincere.

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Problem 2: a teenager and the street (the role of Lydia Mikhailovna in Valik’s life) What did the teacher understand about the hero’s life and how did she try to help the boy? How were the lessons? Why did Lidia Mikhailovna start playing for money? Why weren’t you afraid to ruin yourself in the eyes of your student?

V. G. Rasputin

"French lessons".

Literature lesson

in 6th grade

Rasputin Valentin Grigorievich ( R. 1937), prose writer. Born on March 15th in village Ust-Uda Irkutsk region V peasant family. After school, he entered the Faculty of History and Philology of Irkutsk University. During his student years, he became a freelance correspondent for a youth newspaper. After graduating from university in 1959, Rasputin worked for several years in newspapers in Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk, and often visited construction sites. Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station and the Abakan-Tayshet highway. Essays and stories about what he saw were later included in his collections "Bonfires of New Cities" and "The Land Near the Sky". He began writing fiction in 1961, mainly stories: "I forgot to ask Leshka-" (1961), etc. Brought fame the story “Money for Maria” (1967), which testified to the writer’s interest in issues of morality and morality. In 1970, the story “The Last Term” was published, which became a classic of “village prose”, telling about the last days of the old woman Anna, the same age as the century, sorting through her memories like a rosary, summing up her righteous life. Rasputin's merit was an artistic discovery, following A.I. Solzhenitsyn, like a righteous hero. In 1965, Rasputin showed several new stories to V. Chivilikhin, who came to Chita for a meeting of young writers of Siberia, who became the “godfather” of the aspiring prose writer.

“My childhood was during the war and the hungry post-war years,” the writer recalls. “It wasn’t easy, but, as I now understand, it was happy.” Having barely learned to walk, we hobbled to the river and threw fishing rods into it; not yet strong enough, they gravitated to the taiga, which began right behind the village, picked berries and mushrooms, from an early age got into a boat and independently took up the oars...” The writer’s homeland, Atalanka, is a small village on the banks of the famous Angara River. Now it has been moved to the shore of the Bratsk Sea and turned into a workers’ village.

Rasputin himself notes that “what makes a person a writer is his childhood, the ability at an early age to see and feel everything that then gives him the right to take up the pen. Education, books, life experience nurture and strengthen this gift in the future, but it should be born in childhood.”

Autobiographical nature of the story “French Lessons”

The story “French Lessons” - a work autobiographical. Without knowing how the writer’s childhood passed and what it was filled with, it is impossible to read his works deeply and with full understanding. After graduating from elementary school in his native village, Rasputin wanted to continue his studies. But the school, which included fifth and subsequent grades, was located only in the regional center of Ust-Uda, and this is fifty kilometers from home. You have to move there to live alone, without parents, without family. It was a very serious change in life. Moreover, as V. Rasputin would later write, “before that, no one from our village in the region studied. I was the first."

I.Glazunov. Portrait

V.G. Rasputin.

Autobiography – a consistent presentation by the speaker or writer himself of the main stages of his life.

“I didn’t have to do anything there

dream up, - Rasputin spoke. - All this happened to me.

I didn't have to go far to get the prototype. I needed to return to people the good that they did for me at one time.”

Lessons in Kindness

“...It seems to me that a person’s profession can be recognized by his face. By some very tired, stern, almost hopeless look, I often guessed the teachers. He guessed and thought that the teacher was being drained by his work, that it was very difficult for him to maintain a lively interest in children, spiritual gentleness and warmth. I dedicated the story, the heroine of which was Lydia Mikhailovna, to another teacher - Anastasia Prokopyevna Kopylova. When I recognized her, she had already worked at the school for many years, but neither then nor later did I see in her eyes that cruel expression for which it seemed the time had already come.

The story “French Lessons” was first published in 1973 in our Irkutsk Komsomol newspaper “Soviet Youth” in an issue dedicated to the memory of Alexander Vampilov. Anastasia Prokopyevna is his mother. Looking into the face of this amazing woman, who did not age, kind and wise, more than once I remembered my teacher and knew that the children had a good time with both » .

Vocabulary work:

One and a half truck – (colloquial) A truck with a lifting capacity of 1.5 tons.
Regional center. A city or village is the center of an administrative district within a region.
Bonds. State loan ticket. (State winning

loan).

-What does the title of the story say?

-On whose behalf is the story being told? Why?

-How was life in the village?

-When and how did the hero begin his independent life?

-What trials awaited him?

Why did the hero of the story start playing “chika”?

How do Vadik and the narrator feel about this game?

Why did Vadik and Ptah beat him?

Find words that convey his state at this moment.

How does the hero behave the day after the fight?

How does the teacher find out what happened to the hero?

What feelings does the hero experience?

What qualities of the hero are demonstrated in this episode?

- What did the boy imagine

Lidia Mikhailovna?

-How does the teacher’s intonation and the boy’s mood change during a conversation after class?

Why did Lydia Mikhailovna force the hero to study extra?

-What feelings does the hero experience in the teacher’s apartment?

- What character traits does the hero exhibit?

Why did Lidia Mikhailovna decide to play the game?

to “measure” with your student?

- How did the game end? How does Lidia Mikhailovna behave in

conversation with the director? Why didn’t you explain your actions to the director?

-What role does the afterword play?

Theme and idea of the story.

Theme of the work – life in the post-war years.
Idea for the story “French Lessons”:

selfless and selfless kindness is an eternal human value .

The end of the story suggests that even after parting, the connection between people is not broken, does not disappear: “In the middle of winter, after the January holidays, I received a package by mail at school... it contained pasta and three red apples... Previously, I had only seen them in the picture, but I guessed that it was them.”

Conclusion

In this lesson you were introduced to creativity. Valentin Grigorievich Rasputin - read the story "French lessons".
You learned:

about the difficulties of the writer’s post-war childhood;
about kindness that changed the boy’s fate;
about the features of an autobiographical story.

"Lessons in Kindness"

According to the story by V.G. Rasputin "French Lessons" »

The smarter and kinder a person is, the

He notices more goodness in people.
L.N. Tolstoy

I believe the time will come.

The power of meanness and malice
The spirit of goodness will prevail.
B. Pasternak

Observe in the story the importance of kindness in life;
Reveal the spiritual values, moral laws by which the heroes of the story live;
Learn the basic principles of kindness that V.G. Rasputin .

“FRENCH LESSONS” - 1973

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STORY ABOUT THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE POST-WAR TIME.

“Lydia Mikhailovna, as in the story, always aroused both surprise and awe in me...

She seemed to me a sublime, almost unearthly being. Our teacher had that inner independence that protects against hypocrisy.

Still very young, a recent student, she did not think that she was educating us by her example, but the actions that came naturally to her became the most important lessons for us. Lessons of kindness."

1. Independent life
2. Playing “chiku” for money
3. Fight
4. Beaten up again
5. French classes
6. Game of "measuring"
7. Lidia Mikhailovna left

1. “But as soon as I was left alone, melancholy immediately set in”
2. “I didn’t allow myself to get too carried away with the game and hang around in the clearing until the evening, I only needed a ruble, a ruble every time.”
3. “On that day there was not and could not have been in the whole wide world a person more unhappy than me.”
etc

Does your idea of Lydia Mikhailovna coincide with the artist’s perception?
How did you see the teacher? ?

“The mind can tell you what to avoid, but only the heart tells you what to do.”

J. Joubert

Stubbornness
Decency
Shyness
Sensitivity
Mercy
Honesty
Love for children
Integrity
Thirst for justice
Kindness

Lidia Mikhailovna:

Boy:

Decency
Sensitivity
Mercy
Honesty
Love for children
Integrity
Kindness

Stubbornness
Decency
Shyness
Honesty
Thirst for justice

understanding;
Love;
support friend friend in different

life situations;

trust in each other.

A teaching hour (in secondary schools) devoted to a specific subject.
Study work assigned to a student at home.
Something instructive, something from which one can draw conclusions for the future.
Teaching school subjects to individuals.
Work assigned to be completed within a specific time frame (obsolete)

True goodness on the part of the one who creates it has less memory than on the part of the one who receives it.
That’s why it’s good, so as not to seek direct return (I helped you, and you deign to help me), but to be selfless and confident in your quiet miraculous power.
Having left a person, good returns to him after many years from a completely different side, the more it has bypassed people and the wider the circle of its action.

“In the middle of winter, after the January holidays, I received a package by mail at school... it contained pasta and three red apples... Previously, I had only seen them in the picture, but I guessed that it was them.”

Story idea: selfless and selfless kindness is an eternal human value

What importance do you think kindness has in life?
Did Rasputin, using the example of a story from his childhood, manage to show that there are truly kind people, and that there are laws of kindness in life?
What principles of kindness were highlighted by V.G. Rasputin?

Thank you for your attention!

Prepared by Kukushkina O.S.
Literature teacher at Municipal Educational Institution Bolsheklyuchishchenskaya Secondary School named after V.N. Kashtankina

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V. G. Rasputin “French Lessons”.
Literature lesson in 6th grade

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Fill out the table
Dates Biography Facts
Born in the village of Ust-Uda, Irkutsk region
Graduated from Irkutsk University, Faculty of History and Philology
1961
The story "Deadline"
The story “French Lessons” was published for the first time

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Rasputin Valentin Grigorievich (b. 1937), prose writer. Born on March 15 in the village of Ust-Uda, Irkutsk region, into a peasant family. After school, he entered the Faculty of History and Philology of Irkutsk University. During his student years, he became a freelance correspondent for a youth newspaper. After graduating from university in 1959, Rasputin worked for several years in newspapers in Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk, and often visited construction sites. Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station and the Abakan-Tayshet highway. Essays and stories about what he saw were later included in his collections “Bonfires of New Cities” and “The Land Near the Sky.” He began writing fiction in 1961, mainly short stories. In 1970, the story “The Deadline” was published, which became a classic of “village prose” telling about the last days of the same age as the old woman Anna, sorting through her memories like a rosary, summing up her righteous life.

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Valentin Grigorievich Rasputin entered our literature immediately, almost without a start and as a true master of words. It is difficult to imagine Russian literature today without his novels and short stories. His works have gained well-deserved popularity in our country and abroad.

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Autobiographical nature of the story “French Lessons”
The story “French Lessons” is an autobiographical work. Without knowing how the writer’s childhood passed and what it was filled with, it is impossible to read his works deeply and with full understanding. After graduating from primary school in his native village, Rasputin wanted to continue his studies. But the school, which included fifth and subsequent grades, was located only in the regional center of Ust-Uda, and this is fifty kilometers from home. You have to move there to live alone, without parents, without family. It was a very serious change in life. Moreover, as V. Rasputin would later write, “before that, no one from our village in the region studied. I was the first."
I.Glazunov. Portrait of V.G. Rasputin.

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An autobiography is a consistent presentation by the speaker or writer himself of the main stages of his life. “I didn’t have to invent anything there,” said Rasputin. - All this happened to me. I didn't have to go far to get the prototype. I needed to return to people the good that they did for me at one time.”

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The most popular of the writer’s early stories, “French Lessons,” is autobiographical. An eleven-year-old boy comes to study in the regional center, where there is an eight-year school. For the first time he was separated from his family, from his native village. His irresistible melancholy and longing to go home are not surprising. However, the little hero understands that the hopes of not only his relatives, but also the entire village are placed on him: after all, according to the unanimous opinion of his fellow villagers, “by nature itself he is called to be a learned man.” This opinion of fellow countrymen is confirmed in the new school, in the new social circle. But the time was difficult - post-war and half-starved. The boy begins to gamble for money, solely in order to be able to buy a jar of milk every day “for anemia.” And the French teacher takes a risky step: secretly, at home, she plays with a student, simply out of easily explainable human compassion: “The boy is extremely exhausted, but refuses to take out a loan.” This story was later made into a movie.

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Lessons in Kindness
“...It seems to me that a person’s profession can be recognized by his face. By some very tired, stern, almost hopeless look, I often guessed the teachers. He guessed and thought that the teacher was being drained by his work, that it was very difficult for him to maintain a lively interest in children, spiritual gentleness and warmth. I dedicated the story, the heroine of which was Lydia Mikhailovna, to another teacher - Anastasia Prokopyevna Kopylova. When I recognized her, she had already worked at the school for many years, but neither then nor later did I see in her eyes that cruel expression for which it seemed the time had already come. The story “French Lessons” was first published in 1973 in our Irkutsk Komsomol newspaper “Soviet Youth” in an issue dedicated to the memory of Alexander Vampilov. Anastasia Prokopyevna is his mother. Looking into the face of this amazing woman, who did not age, kind and wise, more than once I remembered my teacher and knew that the children had a good time with both.”

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Vocabulary work:
One and a half truck - (unfolded) A truck with a lifting capacity of 1.5 tons. Regional center. A city or village is the center of an administrative district within a region. Bonds. State loan ticket. (Government winning loan).

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What does the title of the story say? -On whose behalf is the story being told? Why? -What time is the author writing about? -How was life in the village? -When and how did the hero begin his independent life? -What trials awaited him?

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Why did the hero of the story start playing “chika”? -How do Vadik and the narrator feel about this game? -Why did Vadik and Ptah beat him? -Find words that convey his state at this moment.

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How does the hero behave the day after the fight? -How does the teacher find out what happened to the hero? -What feelings does the hero experience? -What qualities of the hero are manifested in this episode?

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What did the boy think of Lydia Mikhailovna? -What technique does the author use in describing the teacher? -How does the teacher’s intonation and the boy’s mood change during a conversation after class? Why did Lydia Mikhailovna force the hero to study extra? -What feelings does the hero experience in the teacher’s apartment? - What character traits does the hero exhibit?