In 1927, the story was written A.Platonov "Sand teacher." The prototype of the main character was the bride of the writer M. Kashintsev, who, like Maria Naryshkina from the work, was engaged in the elimination of illiteracy in a remote village near Voronezh.
In the story, Platonov addresses the topic of the struggle of a human enthusiast with the element of nature, which he raised more than once in the 1920s. We offer to read its summary.
Марии Нарышкиной исполнилось двадцать лет, и она just graduated from a pedagogical course. It was a healthy, strong girl, whose childhood and youth were spent in the Astrakhan province. She knew the Caspian sands well, but her parents protected her daughter from the details and echoes of the recent events in the country: revolution and civil war. Such is the beginning of the story (and its brief content) by Platonov “The Sandy Teacher”.
Maria was fond of geography, survivedlove, and now with shining eyes, she listened to her and waited for a change. She was sent to the school of the village of Khoshutovo, located on the border with the dead desert in Central Asia.
The second chapter opens with a description of the sandstorm.Heat, similar to the burning fires of sand dunes, endless streams of moving sand - this is its summary. Sand teacher - so we will call Mary - saw a similar picture for the first time, therefore, experienced anguish.
Only on the third day the girl reached the village.Several dozen houses, rare bushes at the wells, a stone school and all the same drifts of sand brought from the Pamirs. Residents desperately tried to clear the courtyards of him, but it was "hard and almost unnecessary work." As a result, poverty and despair of peasants tired of the struggle. This picture ends the second chapter and its summary.
Sandy teacher settled at the school, which made the watchman tired of loneliness very happy.
Maria Nikiforovna somehow prepared the room forstudy and in two months met pupils. They walked five or twenty people each. And with the onset of cold weather there was no one to teach. The parents did not have the means to dress the children. There is almost no bread left, two students died of starvation. The girl's hands fell, as the peasants in the conditions when it came to survival, the school was not needed.
Long thought Maria Nikiforovna over the fact thatto take Finally, I realized: you need to teach the fight against the sands, and went to the district. They sympathized with her, gave her books, and advised her to seek help from an agronomist who lived a hundred and fifty miles from Khoshutovo. So you can describe the meeting and its summary.
Maria Nikiforovna not easily persuaded residentsgo out in spring and autumn for community service. Soon, she found assistants in the face of two activists. A year later, the village was surrounded by green shelug plantings. As a result, yields increased significantly as the land was protected from sand and stored more moisture. Appeared and additional fuel. And the residents have mastered the extra income: they wove baskets and furniture from the bars. Here are the results of the two-year activity of Maria Nikiforovna and her brief content. Platonova sand teacher attracted her enthusiasm and faith in the future. In the near future, she planned to smash a pine nursery near the school.
Life in the village began to improve - only in the firstwinter was received an additional two thousand rubles. Adults now, along with children, constantly attended school, where they got acquainted with new ways of fighting the desert.
Such is the summary (the sand teacher during this time became stout and even more face-seeded) of the fourth chapter.
The trouble happened in August of the third year.Residents have long been waiting for nomads who passed through these places every fifteen years. This usually happened in the spring, when there was still some greenery. And by the end of the summer everything was dry, even the birds and the beasts went to look for better places.
Пришедшие стада за трое суток уничтожили все, что with great difficulty created three years. Confused and embittered, Maria Nikiforovna went to the leader of the nomads. The girl accused those who came to the robbery, to which she heard: "Our steppe ... Whoever is hungry and eats the grass of the motherland is not a criminal." The conversation turned out unpleasant, which proves its summary. Sand teacher (Platonov notes that Maria Nikiforovna still thought the leader smart) immediately went to the district.
The manager surprised the girl, immediately stating thatNow in Khoshutovo completely do without it. And then he explained that the peasants of the village would be able to fight the sand by themselves, but they want to send it to Safut, where the nomads live. Maria Nikiforova was outraged at first, but the manager immediately explained her idea. We give its summary. Sand teacher must teach nomads to deal with the elements. Then the fear will disappear that at some point they will break out of the places covered with sand and will again go to destroy the landings of the Russian immigrants.
Мария Никифоровна задумалась.What about youth? Family? But then she remembered the intelligent leader, thought about the despair of the tribes sandwiched by sands, and answered with satisfaction: "I agree." Zavokrono approached the girl: “You ... could manage a whole nation, not a school ... I ... for some reason feel ashamed. But the desert - the future world ... ".
This is the summary of the story "Sand teacher" A. Platonov.
