Description of the wall live and remember. Composition based on the story live and remember Rasputin. War and love

V.G. Rasputin "Live and Remember"

The events described in the story take place in the winter of 1945, in the last war year, on the banks of the Angara in the village of Atamanovka. The name, it would seem, is loud, and in the recent past it is even more frightening - Razboinikovo. “... Once upon a time, in the old years, the local peasants did not disdain one quiet and profitable trade: they checked the zolotishniks coming from Lena”. But the inhabitants of the village have long been quiet and harmless and did not hunt for robbery. Against the background of this virgin and wild nature, the main event of the story takes place - the betrayal of Andrei Guskov.

Questions that are raised in the story.

Who is to blame for the moral downfall of man? What is a person's path to betrayal? What is the measure of a person's responsibility for his own destiny and the destiny of the Motherland?

The war, as an exceptional circumstance, put all people, including Guskov, before a "choice" that everyone had to make.

The path to betrayal

War is an ordeal for the people. But if in strong people she brought up stamina, inflexibility, heroism, then in the hearts of the weak cowardice, cruelty, selfishness, disbelief, despair sprouted and began to give their bitter fruits.

In the image of Andrei Guskov, the hero of the story "Live and Remember", we discover the soul of a weak man, crippled by the harsh events of the war, as a result of which he became a deserter. How did this man, who honestly defended his homeland from enemies for several years and even earned the respect of his comrades in arms, decided on an act despised by everyone, always and everywhere, regardless of age and nationality?

V. Rasputin shows the way to the hero's betrayal. Of all those leaving for the front, Guskov experienced this the hardest: "Andrei looked at the village in silence and offended, for some reason he was no longer ready to war, but to accuse the village of being forced to leave it."... But despite the fact that it is difficult for him to leave home, he says goodbye to his family quickly, dryly: "What has to be cut off must be cut off immediately ..."

At first, Andrei Guskov was not going to desert, he honestly went to the front and was a good fighter and comrade, earning the respect of his friends. But the horrors of war, the injury sharpened the egoism of this man, who placed himself above his comrades, deciding that it was he who needed to survive, be saved, and return alive at any cost.

Knowing that the war was already coming to an end, he tried to survive at any cost. His wish came true, but not quite: he was wounded and was sent to the hospital. He thought that a severe wound would free him from further service. Lying in the ward, he already imagined how he would return home, and was so sure of this that he did not even call his relatives to the hospital to see him. The news that he was again sent to the front struck like a thunderbolt. All his dreams and plans were destroyed in an instant.

The author Valentin Rasputin does not try to justify Andrei's desertion, but seeks to explain from the position of a hero: he fought for a long time, deserved a vacation, wanted to see his wife, but the vacation he was entitled to after being wounded was canceled. The betrayal committed by Andrey Guskov creeps into his soul gradually. At first he was haunted by the fear of death, which seemed to him inevitable: "Not today - so tomorrow, not tomorrow - so the day after tomorrow, when the line comes up." Guskov survived both injury and concussion, experienced tank attacks and ski raids. V.G. Rasputin emphasizes that among the scouts Andrei was considered a reliable comrade. Why did he embark on the path of betrayal? At first, Andrei just wants to see his family, with Nastya, stay at home for a while and return. However, having gone by train to Irkutsk, Guskov realized that in winter and in three days he could not turn around. Andrei remembered the demonstration execution, when a boy was shot in his presence, who wanted to flee to his village fifty miles away. Guskov understands that they won't pat the head AWOL. Thus, unaccounted for circumstances made Guskov's path much longer than he expected, and he decided that this was fate, there was no turning back. In moments of spiritual confusion, despair and fear of death, Andrei makes a fatal decision for himself - to desert, which turned his life and soul upside down, made him a different person.

Gradually, Andrei began to hate himself. In Irkutsk, he settled for some time with the mute woman Tanya, although he had no intention of doing this at all. A month later, Guskov finally found himself in his native places. However, the hero did not feel joy at the sight of the village. V.G. Rasputin constantly emphasizes that, having committed a betrayal, Guskov embarked on a bestial path. After a while, his life, which he valued so much at the front, became not sweet. Having committed treason to his homeland, Andrei cannot respect himself. Mental anguish, nervous tension, the inability to relax even for a minute turn him into a hunted animal.

Forced to hide in the forest from people, Guskov gradually loses all the human, good beginning that was in him. Only anger and irrepressible selfishness remain in his heart by the end of the story, he is worried only about his own fate.

Andrei Guskov deliberately deserts, for the sake of his life, and Nastya, his wife, makes him hide, thereby dooming her to live in a lie: “I'll tell you right away, Nastya. No dog should know I'm here. If you tell someone, I will kill you. I will kill - I have nothing to lose. I have a firm hand on this, it will not break ",- with these words he meets his wife after a long separation. And Nastya had no choice but to obey him. She was at the same time with him until her death, although sometimes she was visited by thoughts that it was he who was to blame for her suffering, but not only in her, but also in the suffering of her unborn child, conceived not at all in love, but in an impulse of rude, animal passion. This unborn child suffered with his mother. Andrei did not realize that this child was doomed to live his whole life in shame. For Guskov, it was important to fulfill his male duty, to leave an heir, and how this child would live on, he did not care much. The author shows how by betraying himself and his people, Guskov inevitably betrays both the person closest to him and who understands him - his wife Nastena, who is ready to share the guilt and shame of her husband, and her unborn child, whom he cruelly dooms to tragic death.

Nastya understood that both the life of her child and she herself were doomed to further shame and suffering. Shielding and protecting her husband, she goes to suicide. She decides to throw herself into the Angara, thereby killing herself and her unborn baby. Andrei Guskov is undoubtedly to blame for all this. This moment is the punishment with which higher powers can punish a person who has transgressed all moral laws. Andrey is doomed to a painful life. Nastena's words: “Live and remember” - will knock in his fevered brain until the end of his days.

Why did Guskov become a traitor? The hero himself would like to shift the blame to "rock", before which "will" is powerless.

It is no coincidence that the word "fate", to which Guskov so clings, runs like a red thread throughout the story. He's not ready. He does not want to be held accountable for his actions, for his crime he tries with all his might to hide behind “fate”, “fate”. "This is all war, all of it," he again began to make excuses and conjure. “Andrei Guskov understood: fate had turned him into a dead end, and there was no way out of it. And the fact that there was no way back for him freed Andrey from unnecessary thoughts. " Unwillingness to admit the need for personal responsibility for their actions is the reason for the appearance of a wormhole in Guskov's soul, which determines his crime (desertion).

War in the pages of the story

The story does not describe battles, deaths on the battlefield, the exploits of Russian soldiers, front-line life. Only life in the rear. And yet - this is precisely the story of the war.

Rasputin explores the deforming influence on a person of a force whose name is war. Had it not been for the war, apparently, Guskov would not have succumbed only to death inspired fear and would not have come to such a fall. Perhaps, from childhood, selfishness and resentment that settled in him would find a way out in some other forms, but not so ugly. If there were no war, the fate of Nastya's friend, Nadya, who remained at twenty-seven years old with three children in her arms, would have turned out differently: a funeral has come for her husband. There was no war ... But it was, it was, people perished on it. And he, Guskov, decided that you can live according to other laws than the whole people. And this incommensurable opposition doomed him not just to loneliness among people, but also to an inevitable reciprocal rejection.

The result of the war for the family of Andrei Guskov was three broken lives. But, unfortunately, there were many such families, many of them collapsed.

Telling us about the tragedy of Nastena and Andrei Guskovs, Rasputin shows us war as a force that deforms a person's personality, capable of destroying hopes, extinguishing self-confidence, shattering unstable characters and even breaking the strong. After all, Nastena, unlike Andrei, is an innocent victim who suffered as a result of the impossibility of choosing between her people and the person with whom she once linked her life. Nastena never cheated on anyone, always remaining true to the moral principles that were laid in her since childhood, and therefore her death seems even more terrible and tragic.

Rasputin highlights the inhuman nature of war, which brings suffering and misfortune to people, not figuring out who is right, who is wrong, who is weak, who is strong.

War and love

Their love and war are two driving forces that determined the bitter lot of Nastya and the shameful fate of Andrei. Although the heroes were initially different - the humane Nastena and the cruel Andrei. She is the very kindness and spiritual nobility, he is blatant callousness and selfishness. At first, the war even brought them closer together, but moral incompatibility cannot be overcome by any tests they endured together. After all, love, like any other relationship, breaks down on betrayal.

Andrey's feeling for Nastena is more of a consumer one. He always wants to receive something from her - whether it be objects of the material world (ax, bread, gun) or feelings. It is much more interesting to understand whether Nastena loved Andrei? She threw herself into marriage, "like into water", in other words, she did not hesitate for a long time. Nastena's love for her husband was based partly on a feeling of gratitude, because he took her, a lonely orphan, into his house, did not give anyone offense. True, her husband's kindness lasted only for a year, and then he even beat her half to death, but Nastena, following the old rule: agreed - we must live, - patiently carried her cross, getting used to her husband, to her family, to a new place.

In part, her affection for Andrei can be explained by a sense of guilt because they did not have children. Nastena did not think that Andrey could be guilty here. So later, for some reason, she blamed herself for her husband's crime. But in essence, Nastena cannot love anyone other than her husband, because one of the sacred family commandments for her is marital fidelity. Like all women, Nastena was waiting for her husband, rushed to him, worried and feared for him. He also thought about her. If Andrei had been a different person, he would most likely have returned from the army, and they would have started their normal family life again. It all went wrong: Andrei returned ahead of schedule. He returned as a deserter. A traitor. A traitor to the Motherland. In those days, this mark was indelible. Nastena does not turn away from her husband. She finds the strength to understand him. Such behavior is the only form of existence possible for her. She helps Andrey, because it is natural for her to regret, give and sympathize. She no longer remembers the bad things that darkened their pre-war family life. She knows only one thing - her husband is in great trouble, he must be pitied and saved. And she saves as best she can. Fate brought them together again and sent them a child as a huge ordeal.

The child should be sent as a reward, as the greatest happiness. How Nastena once dreamed of him! Now the child is the fruit of the love of his parents - a burden, a sin, although he was conceived in a legal marriage. And again Andrei thinks only of himself: "We don't care about him." He says "us", but in fact, only he does not care. Nastena cannot be as indifferent to this event. For Andrey, the main thing is that a child is born, the family continues. At this moment he does not think about Nastena, who will have to endure shame and humiliation. This is the degree of his love for his wife. Of course, it cannot be denied that Guskov is attached to Nastena. Sometimes even he has moments of tenderness and enlightenment when he thinks with horror about what he is doing, into which abyss he is pushing his wife.

Their love was not what is written about in novels. This is the usual relationship between man and woman, husband and wife. The war revealed both Nastena's loyalty to her husband and Guskov's consumerist attitude towards his wife. The war also destroyed this family, like the family of Nadya Berezkina and thousands of other families. Although someone still managed to maintain their relationship, like Liza and Maxim Voloshin, And Liza could walk with her head held high. And the Guskovs, even if they had kept their family, would never have been able to raise their eyes from shame, because both in love and in war one must be honest. Andrei could not be honest. This determined the difficult fate of Nastena. This is how Rasputin resolves the theme of love and war in a peculiar way.

The meaning of the name. The title of the story is associated with the statement of V. Astafiev: “Live and remember, man, in trouble, in trouble, in the most difficult days and trials: your place is with your people; any apostasy caused by your weakness, whether it is unreasonable, turns into even greater grief for your homeland and people, and therefore for you. "

Andrei Guskov is least of all worried about the fact that he betrayed his land, his Motherland, abandoned his comrades in arms at a difficult moment, depriving, in Rasputin's opinion, of his life of the highest meaning. Hence the moral degradation of Guskov, his savagery. He who did not leave offspring and betrayed everything dear that he had, he is doomed to oblivion and loneliness, no one will remember him with a kind word, because cowardice combined with cruelty has been condemned at all times. Nastena, who did not want to leave her husband in trouble, who voluntarily shared the guilt with him, who took responsibility for someone else's betrayal, appears before us completely different. Helping Andrei, she in no way justifies either him or herself before the human court, because she believes: betrayal has no forgiveness. Nastena's heart is torn to pieces: on the one hand, she considers herself not entitled to abandon the person with whom she once linked her life in difficult times. On the other hand, she endlessly suffers, deceiving people, keeping her terrible secret and therefore suddenly feeling herself alone, cut off from the people.

In a difficult conversation on this topic, an important symbolically image of Angara arises. “You only had one side: people. There, on the right hand of Angara. And now two: people and me. It is impossible to bring them together: it is necessary that the Angara dry up", Says Andrey Nastene.

During the conversation, it turns out that once the heroes had the same dream: Nastena in a girlish form comes to Andrei, who lies near the birches and calls him, telling him that she was tortured with the children.

The description of this dream once again emphasizes the painful undecidability of the situation in which Nastena found herself.

The heroine finds the strength to sacrifice her happiness, peace, her life for the sake of her husband. But realizing that by doing so she breaks all ties between herself and the people, Nastena cannot survive this and tragically dies.

And yet, the highest justice triumphs at the end of the story, because people understood and did not condemn Nastena's actions. Guskov, on the other hand, evokes nothing but contempt and disgust, since "a person who has at least once set foot on the path of betrayal goes along it to the end."

Andrey Guskov pays the highest price: there will be no continuation; no one will ever understand him like Nastena. From that moment on, it is no longer important how he, having heard the noise on the river and prepared to hide, will live on: his days are numbered, and he will spend them as before - like an animal. Maybe, being already caught, she will even howl with despair like a wolf. Guskov must die, and Nastena dies. This means that the deserter dies twice, and now forever.

... In the whole of Atamanovka there was not a single person who would simply feel sorry for Nastena. Just before his death, Nastena hears Maxim Vologzhin's cry: "Nastena, don't you dare!" Maxim is one of the first front-line soldiers who knew what death is, he understands that life is the greatest value. After Nastena's body was found, she was not buried in the cemetery of the drowned, because "the women were not given," but buried among her own, but on the edge.

The story ends with the author's message, from which it is clear that they do not speak about Guskov, do not "remember" - for him "the connection of times has disintegrated", he has no future. The author speaks of the drowned Nastena as alive (nowhere replacing the name with the word "deceased"): "After the funeral, the women gathered at Nadka's for a simple commemoration and cried: it was a pity for Nastya."... These words, which signify the "connection of times" restored for Nastena (the traditional ending for folklore - about the memory of the hero in centuries), ends the story of V. Rasputin "Live and Remember".

The title of the book is "Live and Remember". These words tell us that everything that is written on the pages of the book should become a lesson in the life of every person. Live and remember that there is treason, baseness, human fall, the test of love with this blow in life. Live and remember that you cannot go against your conscience and that in moments of difficult trials you must be with the people. The appeal "Live and Remember" is addressed to all of us: a person is responsible for his actions!

In 1974, Rasputin wrote "Live and Remember". The heroes of this work, the events described in it, as well as the problems of the story are very interesting. We will talk about all this in this article.

Rasputin begins "Live and Remember" as follows. The heroes of the work (the main ones) are Andrei Guskov and his wife, Nastena. In the last year of the war, Andrei Guskov, a local resident, secretly returned to the village located on the Angara. He does not think that he will be welcomed in his home with open arms, but he believes in his wife's support. And it is true, Nastena, although she does not want to admit it to herself, understands by instinct that her husband has returned. She did not marry him for love. 4 years of marriage were not particularly happy, but the heroine was devoted to her husband and found for the first time in her life in the house his reliability and protection (Nastena grew up an orphan).

Nastya's life in her husband's house

Without further hesitation, the girl married Andrei: you still have to leave, so why wait? She had little idea what awaited her in a strange village and a new family. It turned out that of the female workers (Nastena lived and worked with her aunt), she got back to the female workers, only the yard was different, the demand was stricter and the farm was larger. Perhaps, in the new family, the attitude towards her would be better if the girl gave birth to a child. However, she had no children.

News about Andrew

She had heard from childhood that a woman without children is no longer a woman. Nastena considers herself to be guilty. Only once, when, reproaching her, Andrei said something unbearable, the woman replied out of resentment that it is not known who the reason is - in him or in her. Then her husband beat her to a pulp. Nastena, when Andrei is taken to the war, is a little glad even that he is left without children. Letters come regularly from the front, then from the hospital. After that, there is no news for a long time, only once a policeman and the chairman of the village council come into the hut and ask Nastena to show the correspondence.

Meeting with her husband

Rasputin's story "Live and Remember" continues as follows. When the ax disappears into the Guskovs' family bathhouse, Nastena thinks that her husband may have returned. She leaves bread in the bathhouse, just in case, once even drowns it and meets Andrey here. His return becomes their secret and is perceived by Nastya as her cross.

Help for Andrey

She readily comes to the aid of her husband, is ready to steal and lie for him. In marriage, you have to accept everything: both good and bad. Courage and enthusiasm take up residence in Nastena's soul. She selflessly helps her husband, especially when she realizes that she is expecting a child. Nastena is ready for anything: for meetings with her husband across the river in the winter quarters, for long talks about the hopelessness of this situation, for hard work at home, for insincerity in relations with other villagers. With a man's remarkable strength, Nastena pulls her strap. You will learn more about her relationship with her spouse by reading the analysis at the end of the article. Rasputin wrote "Live and Remember" not only to show the uneasy relationship between the characters. You can also find out about other problems raised in the story by reading the article to the end.

Andrei is not a traitor, not a murderer, but just a deserter who escaped from the hospital, from where they wanted to send him to the front, without really getting medical treatment. He is already in the mood for vacation and cannot refuse to return. Realizing that in his village, in the world, in the country he will not be forgiven, he wants to pull to the last, not thinking about his wife, parents and future child.

An unsolvable question

The personal connection with Andrei Nastena conflicts with their way of life, as the analysis shows. Rasputin ("Live and Remember") notes that Nastena cannot raise her eyes to the wives who receive funerals, unable to rejoice, as before, when the neighbors return from the war. She recalls at a village celebration in honor of the victory with unexpected anger about Andrei, because because of him she cannot rejoice in her, like everyone else. An unsolvable question was posed by her husband to Nastya: with whom should she be? Andrei's girlfriend condemns, especially now that the war is over and it seems that he would remain intact. However, condemning, she retreats: after all, she is his wife.

Nastya's suicide

Former friends of Nastena, noticing her pregnancy, begin to laugh at her, and her mother-in-law chases her out of the house. The girl, forced to restrain her feelings, hide them, is exhausted more and more. Her fearlessness turns into risk, into wasted feelings. They push her to commit suicide. Nastena finds peace in the waters of the Angara.

Analysis of the work

So, you have familiarized yourself with the content of the work written by Rasputin ("Live and Remember"). The problems that are raised in the text deserve separate consideration. Usually, philosophical questions about honor and conscience, about the meaning of life, about people's responsibility for their own actions come to the fore. The author talks about betrayal and selfishness, about the relationship between the public and the personal in the human soul, about life and death. In the work "Live and Remember" (Rasputin) is also revealed.

War is a tragic and terrible event that has become a test for people. A person shows the true features of his nature. The central image in the work is the image of Nastya. This is important to note when conducting analysis. Rasputin ("Live and Remember") portrayed this girl combining in her character the traits of a village righteous woman: faith in man, mercy, responsibility for the fate of others, kindness. The problem of forgiveness and humanism is closely connected with her bright image.

She found the strength in herself to help Andrei, to feel sorry for him. It was a difficult step for her: the girl had to cheat, lie, live in fear, dodge. She already felt that she was becoming a stranger, moving away from her fellow villagers. However, she chose this path for the sake of her husband, as she loved him.

The war has greatly changed the main characters, as you can see by doing your own analysis. Rasputin ("Live and Remember") notes that they realized that in worldly life their distance from each other and quarrels were absurd. In difficult moments, the spouses were warmed by the hope of a new life. Nastena hopes that her husband will be able to repent and go out to people. However, he hesitates to do so.

The main idea of ​​the work is the moral responsibility of a person for his actions. The author shows, using the life of Andrey Guskov as an example, how easy it is to make an irreparable mistake, to show weakness, to stumble. Rasputin told us about all this. "Live and Remember" reviews after reading are positive for many. The writer managed to touch upon important issues and masterfully reveal them in this story. Rasputin's story "Live and Remember" was filmed. A film of the same name was filmed on it in 2008. Director -

The war ... It not only caused terrible consequences, but also had a strong impact on every aspect of human life, including literature. During the peaceful years after the victory, writers and poets tried to comprehend the war, and their views developed: over time, works began to appear that illuminate those pages of the war that were not mentioned before. One of these works is the story "Live and Remember" by Valentin Grigorievich Rasputin, which raises the topic of desertion and tells about the tragedy of a Russian woman.

The main character of the story is the village woman Nastya, who has a broad soul, the ability to sincere sympathy and empathy. She is kind and merciful, loves to work and lives by conscience, which is why Andrey Guskov probably chose her. They, like the whole village, lived in labor, in work, but did not have children, which was their great misfortune. However, the measured life was interrupted by the war, and Andrei Guskov left his family to defend his homeland.

Andrei went through almost the entire war, but at the beginning of a cold victorious spring, deeply hoping for a vacation and not receiving it, he went not to the unit where he was supposed to, but to his native Atamanovka. He faced a moral choice, and having made it, he separated himself from the whole country, from the victorious people. And this choice is much more bitter and difficult than death from an enemy bullet.

In the village, Andrei decides to open up only to Nastena, realizing that he cannot live without her, thereby depriving her of any peace of mind and exposing her to a blow. Now Nastena is forced to live, constantly fighting with herself: lying and hiding, which destroys her system of relationships with the world, with people who were everything to her. Andrei's bestial beginning, which manifested itself even from the very first meeting of the hero with Nastya, is gradually gaining the upper hand over him, which is reflected both in the behavior of the hero and in his appearance. Andrei goes berserk, finds new excuses for his crime. Even in Nastena's long-awaited pregnancy, which now does not cause her such joy as she could in peacetime, he sees the benefits of his escape. In the hero, the egoist speaks louder and louder, he degrades and turns into someone who even Nastya cannot save.

Andrei killed Nastena, but he will pay for his deed to the highest degree: his life will not continue, he dies as a person. The main blow fell on the heroine, she is the ethical center of the story. The tragedy of Nastena is that all her best qualities were aimed at sympathy for a criminal, a deserter. And this story is not about a deserter, as A. Ovcharenko noted, but about Nastya, "about a Russian woman, great in her exploits and in her misfortunes."

The richest material for understanding moral issues is provided by modern literature. Today our conversation is about the story "Live and Remember" by VG Rasputin. The story "Live and Remember", written in 1974, stands out from a number of other works of the writer. Readers were shocked by the brightness, strength, and the acuteness of the experience of her heroes. But they explained the meaning of the story in different ways.

For all the dramatic fate of Andrei Guskov, it is not he who occupies the main attention of the author, but Nastya. Her image is larger, it shakes our imagination. If Nastya is emotionally highlighted in the story, then the author connects some deep problems with this image.

- The question arises: what was so extremely important that Nastya did that the writer, for the sake of comprehending this, puts her in the foreground of the story, relegating such a terrible fate as Andrei Guskov's to the second place? - Nastena rescues her husband in trouble. - She emphasizes him physically and mentally, helps him survive. - Don't you think that such an answer needs to be clarified? It is very important to expose the depicted situation to the utmost in order to clearly present all its drama. The fact is that Andrei is not just a respectable family man, Nastya's husband, who needs support. He is a man who has committed a crime. And here Rasputin puts Nastena, and after her the readers, before the most difficult question: does everyone have the right to sympathy? Or, as indicated in the title of the topic of our lesson: is “mercy to the fallen” always justified? Let's first try to reflect on the material of the community, based on our own experience.

It should be borne in mind that we have the opportunity to be guided in assessing an act not only by legal laws (as it should be at a court hearing). We must also take into account moral laws. For this, it is extremely important to understand the internal motives of Nastya's actions, to realize the logic of her emotional impulses. What drives Rasputin's heroine. Perhaps it is a concern for one's own well-being, that is, motives of an egoistic nature?

- The thoughts of the main character refute such an assumption: “So how can we refuse it now? It is absolutely necessary not to have a heart, instead of a heart to keep a balance, weighing what is profitable and what is not profitable. Here from a stranger. if he is three times unclean, you simply cannot brush it off, but he is your own, dear. If not God, then life itself united them in order to keep them together, no matter what happened, no matter what misfortune struck. “How to get him out of this trouble. how to live in order not to make mistakes, not to get confused to help? Whatever happens to him now, she is responsible ”; “Guilty - whoever says he is not guilty! - but where now to get that power to return him to the place from which he jumped not where he was supposed to jump. Nastena's thoughts indicate that saving Andrei. she is not concerned with selfish interests. There is a deep meaning in her act.

- Imagine: there is a cruel, terrible war, as they say, not for life, but for death. Streams of blood are pouring in the world. A separate human life is devalued. And under these conditions, somewhere in the Russian provinces. in a distant corner of Siberia. a weak defenseless woman rises for that. in order, despite the general bitterness, to save only one person from death, not physical, but moral. This is a task of incredible complexity. And not only personal. This is a national task. Nastya is well aware of her responsibility to people: “Whether it is fate, higher than, but it seemed to Nastena. that she is seen. separated from people. " The story repeatedly emphasizes Nastena's connection with her native, "human" world. What way out of this situation does she see?

- “For so many years Nastena was attached to the village. to the house, to work, she knew her place, she took care of herself, because she also attached something to her. pulled together into one whole. And suddenly at once the ropes weakened - they didn’t come off at all, but weakened ”. The most important thing here is the heroine's awareness that "... she also attached something, pulled together into one whole." it means that Nastena is a part of this whole, which can be called folk life. And she is afraid to break it.

- For Nastya, life without people is impossible. That is why she is so keenly experiencing the "breaking ties with the world of people", because she is in a position between her fellow villagers and Andrei. The meaning of all her actions is an attempt to return Andrey to people. Confirmation of this in the text of the story: “My mother has long said: there is no such guilt that cannot be forgiven. Not people, are they? The war will end - we'll see. Or you can go out to repent, or something else. "

- For the sake of saving Andrei Nasten is ready for any hardships: “Andrei ... Maybe we won’t do this, let’s go out? I would go with you wherever you go, what kind of hard labor you want - where you, there I too ... ”And how do we find out about the attitude of the second to Nastena? The author does not give direct assessments, but through popular opinion he also expresses his attitude towards Nastya and her deed. This is shown in the finale of the story: “On the fourth day, Nastya was washed ashore near Karda. They reported to Atamanovka, but Mikheich lay dying, and Mishka the farm laborer was sent for Nastena. He brought Nastya back in the boat, and after delivering her, he thoughtfully intended to bury her in the cemetery of the drowned. The women were not given. And they betrayed Nastya to the earth among their own, just a little from the edge, by the rickety hedge.

After the funeral, the women gathered at Nadya's for a simple commemoration and burst into tears: it was a pity for Nastya. " In this “it was a pity for Nastena - the understanding of her act and compassion. Rasputin's opinion is behind this attitude. He himself admitted: “I am inclined to accept the death of Nastena not as a victory of evil in this case, but as a severe test of the moral law, when they demand from him:“ Give up ”; and he, through tears and torment: "I can not." By the fate of his heroine, Rasputin showed that self-sacrifice requires complete dedication, dedication. The writer is convinced that the ability to self-sacrifice is the most capacious, highest human quality in its value. The act of a person who consciously sacrifices his life for the sake of saving another person is a manifestation of the highest justice and always deserves moral justification. This is the meaning of the central motive of the story "Live and Remember".

There are many examples in the literature when circumstances turn out to be above the willpower of the heroes, for example, the image of Andrei Guskov from the story "Live and Remember" by Valentin Rasputin. The work was written with the author's deep knowledge of the life of the people, the psychology of the common man. The author puts his heroes in a difficult situation: a young guy Andrei Guskov fought honestly almost until the very end of the war, but in 1944 he ended up in a hospital, and his life cracked. He thought that a severe wound would free him from further service. But it was not there, the news that he was again sent to the front struck him like a thunderbolt. All his dreams and plans were destroyed in an instant. And in moments of spiritual confusion and despair, Andrei makes a fateful decision for himself, which turned his whole life and soul upside down, made him a different person.

In any work of fiction, the title plays a very important role for the reader. The title of the story "Live and Remember" pushes us towards a deeper concept and understanding of the work. These words "Live and remember" - tell us that everything that is written on the pages of the book should become an unshakable eternal lesson in a person's life.

Andrei was afraid to go to the front, but more than this fear was resentment and anger at everything that brought him back to the war, not allowing him to stay at home. And, in the end, he decides to commit a crime and becomes a deserter. Previously, he did not even have such a thing in his thoughts, but the longing for his relatives, family, and his native village turned out to be the strongest. And the very day on which he was not given leave becomes fatal and turns the life of the hero and his family upside down.

When Andrei was near his home, he realized the meanness of his act, realized that a terrible thing had happened and now he has to hide from people all his life, look back, be afraid of every rustle. This story is not only about how a soldier becomes a deserter. It is also about cruelty, the destructive force of war, killing feelings and desires in a person. If a soldier in war only thinks of victory, he can become a hero. If not, the longing will usually be stronger. Constantly thinking about meeting his family, the soldier mentally strives to see all his relatives and friends, as soon as possible to get to his home. In Andrei, these feelings were very strong, pronounced. And therefore, he is a person doomed to death from the very beginning, since from the moment when the war began, and until the last moment, he lived in memories and in anticipation of a meeting.

The tragedy of the story is amplified by the fact that not only Andrei perishes in it. After him, he leads both his young wife and the unborn child. His wife, Nastena, is a woman who can sacrifice everything, if only her beloved person remains alive. Like her husband, Nastena is a victim of an all-crushing war and its laws. But if Andrey can be blamed, then Nastena is an innocent victim. She is ready to take a blow, suspicions of loved ones, condemnation of neighbors and even punishment. All this evokes undeniable sympathy from the reader.

"The war delayed Nastena's happiness, but Nastena believed in the war that it would come. When peace comes, Andrei will return, and everything that has stopped over the years will start to move again. Otherwise, Nastena could not imagine her life. But Andrei came earlier. time, before victory, and mixed everything up, mixed up, knocked out of order - Nastena could not help but guess. Now she had to think not about happiness - but something else. the way seemed to him from there, no hope. "

The idea of ​​life has been destroyed, and with them life itself. Not every person is given to experience such grief and shame that Nastena took upon herself. She constantly had to lie, get out of difficult situations, figure out what to say to fellow villagers.

The author introduces many reflections on life into the story "Live and Remember". We see this especially well when Andrei meets Nastena. They not only remember the brightest impressions from the past, but also reflect on the future. In my opinion, the border between the past and future lives of Nastena and Andrei is very clearly distinguished here. From their conversations, it is clear that they used to live happily: this is proved by the many joyful cases and moments that they recalled. They are very clear about them, as if it was quite recently. But they cannot imagine a future life. How is it possible to live away from all human people, not to see mother with father and friends? You can't hide from everyone and everything for the rest of your life! But they have no other way, and the heroes understand this. It is worth noting that mainly Nastena and Andrei talk about that happy life, and not about what will happen.

The story ends with the tragic death of Nastena and her unborn child. She was tired of living such a life - a life away from all living things. Nastena no longer believed in anything, it seemed to her that she had invented it all herself.

"The head really broke. Nastena was ready to flay her skin. She tried to think less and move - she had nothing to think about, nowhere to move. Enough. ... She was tired. Who knew how tired she was and how she wanted to relax!" She jumped over the side of the boat and ... The author did not even write this word - she drowned. He described all this in figurative words. “Far, far from within, there was a flickering, as if from an eerie beautiful fairy tale." she saved Nastena from all her torment and suffering.

The multifaceted images described by Rasputin are also great. Here we see the collective image of Mikheich's grandfather and his wife, the conservatively strict Semyonovna, typical of village life. Soldier Maxim Volozhin, courageous and heroic, sparing no effort, who fought for the Fatherland. The many-sided and contradictory image of a truly Russian woman - Nadya, who was left alone with three children. It is she who confirms the words of N.A. Nekrasova: a Russian share, a woman's share ”.

Everything was reflected and seemed - life during the war and its happy ending - on the life of the village of Atamanovka. With everything he wrote, Valentin Rasputin convinces us that there is light in a person, and it is difficult to extinguish it, no matter what circumstances happen! In the heroes of V.G. Rasputin, and in himself there is a poetic sense of life, opposed to the established perception of life.

Follow the words of Valentin Grigorievich Rasputin - “live and love”.