The events of the revolution, the First World and the CivilWar M. Sholokhov dedicated a cycle of small in volume works entitled "Don Stories". “Aleshkino's heart” - a brief summary is given below - shows the cruel reality when human life against the background of the famine that has engulfed the country loses all value. And the murder is no longer perceived as something criminal and sinful.
The protagonist of the story - fourteenteen Aleshka. In his stanitsa, hunger reigns for the second year. The boy represented him as a huge black man destroying people. Alyoshka was all swollen, his face was covered with dry skin, and his eyes seemed to be hollow depressions. This is the fifth month the family has nothing to eat. So begins Sholokhov "Aleshkino heart."
Summary continues with the description of the firsttragedy in the family boy. One morning Alyoshka, swaying, got to the fence, where he saw the corpse of a foal. There was no power to get him to the house, and the hero went to get a knife. When he returned, he drove the dogs and moved the remains, every single piece, into the house. In the evening, after eating meat, the younger sister died. There was no strength to bury her, so Aleshka and her mother carried the girl into the garden and, putting them in a ditch, they sprinkled them with earth.
A week later, the eldest, Polka, climbed into the houserich neighbor, while that was not at home, and ate soup. When he returned, Makarchiha pushed the sleeping guest with an iron to death and threw her corpse into an abandoned well. So shows the author of human cruelty in the story "Aleshkino heart."
Summary of the incident with the hero himself:He climbed into the cellar of a neighbor and drank milk. Makarchiha, noticing the boy, pounced on him with a kingpin, pulled out of the wagon. Having decided that he was also dead, she carried it to the river and threw it on the silt. And the next morning she dressed up - there was Trinity - and went to the neighbor with the intention to buy her hut. The woman lay dead. Makarchiha rushed to the door. And there the boy is covered in blood and silt for mercy prays — Sholokhov completes this part of the work “Aleshkino's heart”.
In the evening, the hero went to the Procuringto the office, he saw grain pouring out of the barn into the gap in a yellow stream. On the way, I met a priest carrying pies and corned beef. I asked to file, but the priest went further.
Reaching the barn, Aleshka began to eagerly chewcorn. 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 political committee Sinitsyn’s room, the hero eagerly ate until the bespectacled picked up the pot: “Flop you will die.” This is how Sholokhov’s fateful acquaintance for a boy describes.
Aleshkino's heart - a brief summary of the story it shows - kind and clean, was revealed to people. The hero immediately trusted Sinitsynu. And he, while he treated and cared for the boy, became attached to him.
Alyoshka began to feed the horses in the zagotkontory.One day a local man came up to him richer and called him to work as grubs. The boy began to do all the work in the household of Ivan Alekseev. I got tired so that I could not sleep at night. And the owner was all unhappy. It became especially bad after a neighbor shamed Alexeev that the boy was bursting at him. In the evenings, the hero began to go to the RKSM Club, where they read a lot about different things. But he was afraid to complain about the owner Sinitsynu, the author of the story “Aleshkino heart” notes.
Once, the bespectacled boy told the boy thatDistrict appeared gang. And the next day, the owner made an interrogation, where does Alyoshka go at night? It ended all beatings. But Aleshkino was kind of heart. A brief summary of the words of the mother recalled by the hero shows that he went all the way to his father: just as resigned. Because the boy, although he had hardly waited for the evening, he endured everything. And at dawn I heard the host talk with the guests who had arrived. Alekseev reported to them that there were not many red in the village. Then his interlocutors promised to come the next night and cut everyone off.
After breakfast, Aleshka rushed to the office and aboutSinitsina told everyone. By evening, the boy could already fire a rifle, and an armed company was awaiting guests in full readiness. During the shootout, two gangsters climbed into the house. Sinitsyn gave the boy a grenade - Alyoshka was shorter - so that he could make his way to the window. But at that moment, when the hero pulled off the ring, a gangster appeared on the porch. He was holding a girl in her arms, then her mother jumped out. Alyoshka immediately assessed the situation and lay down on the explosives. Sinitsyn, who saw this, managed to push the boy away and drop the grenade.
The hero woke up in the hospital - a fragment fell into his chest half a half from the heart. And Sinitsyn handed him a ticket member of RKSM.
This is the summary of the story “Aleshkino Heart” by M. Sholokhov.
