Sholokhov's work is closely connected with the era in which he lived. His works are a special view of life. This is the look of an adult, seasoned by the harsh reality of a person who loves his homeland and appreciates people who faced danger with their breasts. These people died so that we could live in a free country, so that tears of happiness would shine in the eyes of their children.
During the Great Patriotic War Sholokhov set himself the goal of strengthening love for the homeland among Soviet people. The story “The Fate of a Man,” written in 1957, is an amazing work about how two souls, tormented by the horrors of the war years, find support and the meaning of life in each other.
Andrey Sokolov – ordinary person, his fate is similar to thousands of other destinies, his life is similar to many other lives. The main character of the story endured the trials that befell him with enviable fortitude. He remembered very well the difficult separation from his family when he went to the front. He cannot forgive himself for pushing away his wife during parting, who had a presentiment that this was theirs. last meeting: “I forcibly separated her hands and lightly pushed her on the shoulders. It seemed like I pushed lightly, but my strength was stupid; She backed away, took three steps, and again walked towards me in small steps, holding out her arms.”
At the beginning of spring, Andrei Sokolov was wounded twice, shell-shocked, and, worst of all, captured. The hero had to endure inhumane trials in fascist captivity, but, nevertheless, he did not break. Andrei still managed to escape, and he again returned to the ranks of the Red Army. This man carried and tragic death. He hears terrible news on the last day of the war: “Take courage, father! Your son, captain Sokolov, was killed today at the battery.”
Andrei Sokolov has amazing courage and spiritual strength; the horrors he experienced do not make him embittered. The main character wages a continuous struggle within himself and emerges victorious. This man, who lost people close to him during the Great Patriotic War, finds the meaning of life in Vanyusha, who was also left an orphan: “Such a little ragamuffin: his face is covered in watermelon juice, covered with dust, dirty as dust, unkempt, and his eyes are like stars. at night after the rain! It is this boy with “eyes as bright as the sky” who becomes new life main character.
Vanyusha’s meeting with Sokolov was significant for both. The boy, whose father died at the front and whose mother was killed on the train, still hopes that he will be found: “Dad, dear! I know that you will find me! You'll find it anyway! I’ve been waiting for so long for you to find me.” Andrei Sokolov’s fatherly feelings for someone else’s child awaken: “He snuggled up to me and trembles all over, like a blade of grass in the wind. And there’s a fog in my eyes and I’m also shaking all over, and my hands are shaking...”
The glorious hero of the story again performs some kind of spiritual, and perhaps moral, feat when he takes the boy for himself. He helps him get on his feet and feel needed. This child became a kind of “medicine” for Andrei’s crippled soul: “I went to bed with him and for the first time in a long time fell asleep peacefully. ... I wake up, and he’s nestled under my arm, like a sparrow under cover, quietly snoring, and my soul feels so happy that I can’t even express it in words!”
“Two orphaned people, two grains of sand, thrown into foreign lands by a military hurricane of unprecedented force... what lies ahead for them?” - Maxim Aleksandrovich Sholokhov asks at the end of the story. One thing is certain - these people will still find their happiness, and it cannot be otherwise.
Sholokhov's story is imbued with a deep, bright faith in man. The title is also very symbolic, for this work expresses not only the fate of the soldier Andrei Sokolov, but also the fate of Vanyusha himself, and indeed the entire country. “And I would like to think,” writes Sholokhov, “that this Russian man, a man of inexhaustible will, will endure, and near his father’s shoulder will grow one who, having matured, will be able to withstand everything, overcome everything on his way, if the Motherland calls for it.”
I think that the heroes of "The Fate of Man" are typical of their time. Millions of people were left orphans in brutal war 1941-1945. But the resilience and courage of the generation that found the strength to believe and wait is amazing. People did not become embittered, but, on the contrary, united and became even stronger. And Andrei Sokolov, and Vanyusha, who is still quite little boy, - people are strong-willed and persistent. Perhaps this helped them find each other.
In my opinion, Sholokhov took upon himself the sacred duty to tell humanity the harsh truth about what a huge price he paid Soviet people for the right to be free and for the right to make the next generation happy. War is cruel and heartless, it does not distinguish who is right and who is wrong, it does not spare children, women, or the elderly. Therefore, subsequent generations are obliged to know the whole truth about it.
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There are many works in Russian literature that tell about the Great Patriotic War. A striking example is Mikhail Sholokhov’s story “The Fate of a Man”, where the author gives us not so much a description of the war, but a description of life common man during the difficult war years. In the story "The Fate of Man" the main characters are not historical figures, not titled officials, nor illustrious officers. They ordinary people, but with a very difficult fate.
Main characters
Sholokhov's story is small in volume, it takes up only ten pages of text. And there are not so many heroes in it. The main character of the story is a Soviet soldier - Andrei Sokolov. Everything that happens to him in life, we hear from his lips. Sokolov is the narrator of the entire story. His named son, the boy Vanyusha, plays an important role in the story. He ends the sad story of Sokolov and opens new page his life. They become inseparable from each other, so let’s classify Vanyusha as one of the main characters.
Andrey Sokolov
Andrey Sokolov - main character story “The Fate of Man” by Sholokhov.
His character is truly Russian. How many troubles he experienced, what torments he endured, only he himself knows. The hero speaks about this on the pages of the story: “Why did you, life, cripple me like that? Why did you distort it like that?” He slowly tells his life from beginning to end to a fellow traveler with whom he sat down to have a cigarette by the road.
Sokolov had to endure a lot: hunger, captivity, the loss of his family, and the death of his son on the day the war ended. But he endured everything, survived everything, because he had strong character And iron strength spirit. “That’s why you’re a man, that’s why you’re a soldier, to endure everything, to endure everything, if need calls for it,” Andrei Sokolov himself said. His Russian character did not allow him to break down, retreat in the face of difficulties, or surrender to the enemy. He snatched life from death itself. All the hardships and cruelties of the war that Andrei Sokolov endured did not kill his human feelings or harden his heart. When he met little Vanyusha, just as lonely as he was, just as unhappy and unwanted, he realized that he could become his family. “There is no way for us to disappear separately! I’ll take him as my child,” Sokolov decided. And he became a father to a homeless boy.
Sholokhov very accurately revealed the character of the Russian man, a simple soldier who fought not for ranks and orders, but for the Motherland. Sokolov is one of those many who fought for the country, not sparing their lives. He embodied the entire spirit of the Russian people - persistent, strong, invincible. The characterization of the hero of the story “The Fate of Man” is given by Sholokhov through the speech of the character himself, through his thoughts, feelings, and actions. We walk with him through the pages of his life. Sokolov goes through a difficult path, but remains human. A kind, sympathetic person who lends a helping hand to little Vanyusha.
A boy of five or six years old. He was left without parents, without a home. His father died at the front, and his mother was killed by a bomb while traveling on a train. Vanyusha walked around in tattered, dirty clothes, and ate what people served. When he met Andrei Sokolov, he reached out to him with all his soul. “Dear folder! I knew it! I knew you would find me! You'll find it anyway! I’ve been waiting so long for you to find me!” - the overjoyed Vanyusha shouted with tears in his eyes. For a long time he could not tear himself away from his father, apparently afraid that he would lose him again. But in Vanyusha’s memory the image of his real father was preserved, he remembered leather coat which he wore. And Sokolov told Vanyusha that he probably lost him in the war.
Two loneliness, two destinies are now intertwined so tightly that they can never be separated. The heroes of “The Fate of Man” Andrei Sokolov and Vanyusha are now together, they are one family. And we understand that they will live according to their conscience, in truth. They will survive everything, they will survive everything, they will be able to do everything.
Minor characters
There are also a number of minor characters. This is Sokolov’s wife Irina, his children - daughters Nastenka and Olyushka, son Anatoly. They don’t speak in the story, they are invisible to us, Andrei remembers them. The company commander, the dark-haired German, the military doctor, the traitor Kryzhnev, Lagerführer Müller, the Russian colonel, Andrei’s Uryupinsk friend - all these are the heroes of Sokolov’s own story. Some have neither a first nor a last name, because they are episodic characters in the life of Sokolov.
The real, audible hero here is the author. He meets Andrei Sokolov at the crossing and listens to his life story. It is with him that our hero talks, to whom he tells his fate.
“The Fate of Man” by M.A. Sholokhov is one of the most touching works about the Great Patriotic War. In this story, the author conveyed all the harsh truths of life during the war years, all the hardships and losses. Sholokhov tells us about fate in an extraordinary way courageous man who went through the entire war, lost his family, but managed to maintain his human dignity.
The main character is Andrei Sokolov, a native of the Voronezh province, an ordinary hard worker.
IN peacetime he worked at a factory, then as a driver. I had a family, a home - everything I needed to be happy. Sokolov loved his wife and children and saw in them the meaning of life. But the family idyll was destroyed by the unexpected outbreak of war. She separated Andrei from the most important thing he had.
At the front, the hero suffered many difficult, painful trials. He was wounded twice. While trying to deliver shells for an artillery unit, he fell into the rear of the enemy army and was captured. The hero was brought to Poznan, placed in a camp, where he was obliged to dig graves for the dead soldiers. But even in captivity, Andrei did not lose heart. He behaved courageously and with dignity. The character of a real Russian man allowed him to endure all the trials without breaking. One day, while digging a grave, Andrei managed to escape, but, unfortunately, without success. He was found by detective dogs in a field. For his escape, the hero was severely punished: beaten, bitten by dogs and transferred to the camp isolation ward for a month. But even in such terrible situations, Sokolov was able to survive without losing his humanity.
The hero was driven around Germany for a long time: he worked in inhumane conditions at a silicate plant in Saxony, in a coal mine in the Ruhr region, in earthworks in Bavaria and in an infinite number of other places. The prisoners of war were fed horribly and were constantly beaten. By the fall of 1942, Sokolov had lost more than 36 kilograms.
The author clearly shows the hero’s courage in the scene of his interrogation by the camp commander, Muller. The German promised to personally shoot Sokolov for his terrible statement: “They need four cubic meters of production, but for the grave of each of us, one cubic meter through the eyes is enough.” Being on the verge of death, the hero openly expresses his opinion about the very difficult working and living conditions for prisoners. He had already prepared for death, gathered his courage, but the executioner’s mood suddenly changed in a more loyal direction. Müller was amazed at the courage of the Russian soldier and saved his life, also giving him a small loaf of bread and a piece of lard with him to the block.
After some time, Andrei was appointed driver of a major engineer in the German army. On one of the missions, Sokolov managed to escape to his own people, taking the “fat man” with him. In this situation, the soldier showed resourcefulness and ingenuity. He delivered the major's documents to headquarters, for which they promised to reward him.
After the end of the war, the life of the main character did not become easier. He lost his family: during the bombing of an aircraft factory, a bomb hit the Sokolovs’ house, and his wife and daughters were at home at that moment; his son Anatoly died from an enemy bullet on the last day of the war. Andrei Sokolov, having lost the meaning of life, returned to Russia, went to Uryupinsk to visit a demobilized friend, where he settled, found a job and at least somehow began to live like a human being. Finally, the hero’s life began to take shape. white stripe: fate sent the man a little orphan, a ragged Vanyushka, who also lost all his loved ones during the war.
One can only hope that later life Andrea got better. The main character of the work “The Fate of Man” is worthy of endless respect, love and admiration.
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Immortal work M. A. Sholokhov “The Fate of Man” is a real ode to the common people, whose life was completely broken by the war.
Features of the story composition
The main character here is presented not as a legendary heroic figure, but as a simple person, one of the millions of people who were touched by the tragedy of the war.
The fate of man in wartime
Andrei Sokolov was a simple rural worker who, like everyone else, worked on a collective farm, had a family and lived an ordinary measured life. He boldly goes to defend his fatherland from the fascist invaders, thus leaving his children and wife to the mercy of fate.
At the front, the main character begins those terrible trials that turned his life upside down. Andrei finds out that his wife, daughter and youngest son died as a result of an air attack. He takes this loss very hard, as he feels his own guilt for what happened to his family.
However, Andrei Sokolov has something to live for; he still has his eldest son, who during the war was able to achieve significant success in military affairs, and was his father’s only support. IN last days During the war, fate prepared the last crushing blow for Sokolov; his son is killed by his opponents.
At the end of the war, the main character is morally broken and does not know how to live further: he has lost his loved ones, home was destroyed. Andrey gets a job as a driver in a neighboring village and gradually begins to drink.
As you know, fate, which pushes a person into the abyss, always leaves him with a small straw through which he can get out of it, if desired. Andrei's salvation was a meeting with a little orphan boy whose parents died at the front.
Vanechka had never seen his father and reached out to Andrei, because he longed for the love and attention that the main character showed to him. The dramatic peak in the story is Andrei’s decision to lie to Vanechka that he is his own father.
An unfortunate child, who has never known love, affection or kindness towards himself in his life, throws himself in tears on Andrei Sokolov’s neck and begins to say that he remembered him. So, in essence, two destitute orphans begin a joint life path. They found salvation in each other. Each of them gained a meaning in life.
The moral “core” of Andrei Sokolov’s character
Andrei Sokolov had a real inner core, high ideals of spirituality, steadfastness and patriotism. In one of the episodes of the story, the author tells us how, exhausted by hunger and labor work in the concentration camp, Andrei was still able to maintain his human dignity: for a long time he refused the food that the Nazis offered him before they threatened to kill him.
The strength of his character aroused respect even among the German murderers, who ultimately had mercy on him. The bread and lard that they gave to the main character as a reward for his pride, Andrei Sokolov divided among all his starving cellmates.
Sholokhov's work is closely connected with the era in which he lived. His works are a special view of life. This is the look of an adult, seasoned by the harsh reality of a person who loves his homeland and appreciates people who faced danger with their breasts. These people died so that we could live in a free country, so that tears of happiness would shine in the eyes of their children.
During the Great Patriotic War, Sholokhov set himself the goal of strengthening love for the homeland among the Soviet people. The story “The Fate of a Man,” written in 1957, is an amazing work about how two souls, tormented by the horrors of the war years, find support and the meaning of life in each other.
Andrei Sokolov is an ordinary person, his fate is similar to thousands of other destinies, his life is similar to many other lives. The main character of the story endured the trials that befell him with enviable fortitude. He remembered very well the difficult separation from his family when he went to the front. He cannot forgive himself for pushing away his wife during farewell, who had a presentiment that this was their last meeting: “I forcibly separated her hands and lightly pushed her on the shoulders. It seemed like I pushed lightly, but my strength was stupid; She backed away, took three steps, and again walked towards me in small steps, holding out her arms.”
At the beginning of spring, Andrei Sokolov was wounded twice, shell-shocked, and, worst of all, captured. The hero had to endure inhumane trials in fascist captivity, but, nevertheless, he did not break. Andrei still managed to escape, and he again returned to the ranks of the Red Army. This man also suffered a tragic death. He hears terrible news on the last day of the war: “Take courage, father! Your son, captain Sokolov, was killed today at the battery.”
Andrei Sokolov has amazing courage and spiritual strength; the horrors he experienced do not make him embittered. The main character wages a continuous struggle within himself and emerges victorious. This man, who lost people close to him during the Great Patriotic War, finds the meaning of life in Vanyusha, who was also left an orphan: “Such a little ragamuffin: his face is all in watermelon juice, covered with dust, dirty as dust, unkempt, and his eyes are like stars at night after the rain! It is this boy with “eyes as bright as the sky” who becomes the new life of the main character.
Vanyusha’s meeting with Sokolov was significant for both. The boy, whose father died at the front and whose mother was killed on the train, still hopes that he will be found: “Dad, dear! I know that you will find me! You'll find it anyway! I’ve been waiting for so long for you to find me.” Andrei Sokolov’s fatherly feelings for someone else’s child awaken: “He snuggled up to me and trembles all over, like a blade of grass in the wind. And there’s a fog in my eyes and I’m also shaking all over, and my hands are shaking...”
The glorious hero of the story again performs some kind of spiritual, and perhaps moral, feat when he takes the boy for himself. He helps him get on his feet and feel needed. This child became a kind of “medicine” for Andrei’s crippled soul: “I went to bed with him and for the first time in a long time fell asleep peacefully. ... I wake up, and he’s nestled under my arm, like a sparrow under cover, quietly snoring, and my soul feels so happy that I can’t even express it in words!”
“Two orphaned people, two grains of sand, thrown into foreign lands by a military hurricane of unprecedented force... what lies ahead for them?” - Maxim Aleksandrovich Sholokhov asks at the end of the story. One thing is certain - these people will still find their happiness, and it cannot be otherwise.
Sholokhov's story is imbued with a deep, bright faith in man. The title is also very symbolic, for this work expresses not only the fate of the soldier Andrei Sokolov, but also the fate of Vanyusha himself, and indeed the entire country. “And I would like to think,” writes Sholokhov, “that this Russian man, a man of inexhaustible will, will endure, and near his father’s shoulder will grow one who, having matured, will be able to withstand everything, overcome everything on his way, if the Motherland calls for it.”
I think that the heroes of "The Fate of Man" are typical of their time. Millions of people were left orphans in the brutal war of 1941-1945. But the resilience and courage of the generation that found the strength to believe and wait is amazing. People did not become embittered, but, on the contrary, united and became even stronger. Both Andrei Sokolov and Vanyusha, who is still a very small boy, are strong-willed and persistent people. Perhaps this helped them find each other.
In my opinion, Sholokhov took upon himself the sacred duty to tell humanity the harsh truth about what a huge price the Soviet people paid for the right to be free and for the right to make the next generation happy. War is cruel and heartless, it does not distinguish who is right and who is wrong, it does not spare children, women, or the elderly. Therefore, subsequent generations are obliged to know the whole truth about it.
All the hardships and cruelties of the war that Andrei Sokolov endured did not kill his human feelings or harden his heart. When he met little Vanyusha, just as lonely as he was, just as unhappy and unwanted, he realized that he could become his family. “There is no way for us to disappear separately! I’ll take him as my child,” Sokolov decided. And he became a father to a homeless boy.
Sholokhov very accurately revealed the character of the Russian man, a simple soldier who fought not for ranks and orders, but for the Motherland. Sokolov is one of those many who fought for the country, not sparing their lives. He embodied the entire spirit of the Russian people - persistent, strong, invincible. The characterization of the hero of the story “The Fate of a Man” is given by Sholokhov through the speech of the character himself, through his thoughts, feelings, and actions. We walk with him through the pages of his life. Sokolov goes through a difficult path, but remains human. A kind, sympathetic person who lends a helping hand to little Vanyusha.
A boy of five or six years old. He was left without parents, without a home. His father died at the front, and his mother was killed by a bomb while traveling on a train. Vanyusha walked around in tattered, dirty clothes, and ate what people served. When he met Andrei Sokolov, he reached out to him with all his soul. “Dear folder! I knew it! I knew you would find me! You'll find it anyway! I’ve been waiting so long for you to find me!” – the delighted Vanyusha shouted with tears in his eyes. For a long time he could not tear himself away from his father, apparently afraid that he would lose him again. But in Vanyusha’s memory the image of his real father was preserved; he remembered the leather cloak that he wore. And Sokolov told Vanyusha that he probably lost him in the war.
Two loneliness, two destinies are now intertwined so tightly that they can never be separated. The heroes of “The Fate of Man” Andrei Sokolov and Vanyusha are now together, they are one family. And we understand that they will live according to their conscience, in truth. They will survive everything, they will survive everything, they will be able to do everything.
Minor characters
There are also a number of minor characters in the work. This is Sokolov’s wife Irina, his children – daughters Nastenka and Olyushka, son Anatoly. They don’t speak in the story, they are invisible to us, Andrei remembers them. The company commander, the dark-haired German, the military doctor, the traitor Kryzhnev, Lagerführer Müller, the Russian colonel, Andrei’s Uryupinsk friend - all these are the heroes of Sokolov’s own story. Some have neither a first nor a last name, because they are episodic characters in Sokolov’s life.
The real, audible hero here is the author. He meets Andrei Sokolov at the crossing and listens to his life story. It is with him that our hero talks, to whom he tells his fate.
The literary work of M. Sholokhov “The Fate of a Man” is a story about the Great Patriotic War. This tragic milestone in human history caused the loss of lives for millions of people. Central character works Andrei Sokolov worked as a driver before the war, had an uncomplaining and tender wife, and three children. The main character experienced a lot of hardships during the difficult period of captivity, but retained his human appearance and the title of a Russian warrior, who, even being on the verge of death, did not lose loyalty to his homeland and did not drink with an enemy officer for the superiority of “Germany’s weapons.”
Characteristics of the heroes “The Fate of Man”
Main characters
Andrey Sokolov |
In the story “The Fate of a Man,” the hero Andrei Sokolov is the main character. His nature absorbs all those features that are characteristic of a Russian person. How many hardships this indomitable man endured, only he knows. About nature and inner strength the character speaks of the way he talks about his life. There is no haste, no confusion, no vanity in the narrative. Even the choice of a listener in the person of a random fellow traveler speaks of the hero’s internal anguish. |
Vanyushka |
Vanyushka is the key character of the story in the person of an orphan boy about six years old. The author describes it using features that perfectly characterize the picture of those post-war years. Vanyushka is a trusting and inquisitive child with kind hearted. His life is already filled with difficult trials for a child. Vanya's mother died during the evacuation - she was killed by a bomb that hit the train. The boy's father met his death at the front. In the person of Sokolov, the boy finds a “father”. |
Minor characters
Irina |
The woman was brought up in orphanage. She was funny and smart. A difficult childhood left its mark on her character. Irina is an example of a Russian woman: a good housewife and a loving mother and wife. During her life with Andrei, she never reproached her husband or contradicted him. When her husband went to war, she seemed to have a presentiment that they would never meet again. |
Camp Commandant Müller |
Müller was a cruel and ruthless man. He spoke Russian and loved Russian swearing. He liked to beat prisoners. He called his sadistic tendencies “prevention against the flu” - he hit prisoners in the face using a lead pad in a glove. He repeated this every day. The commandant feels fear when he tests Andrei. He is surprised by his courage and fortitude. |
The list of the main characters of “The Fate of Man” is a sample of personalities corresponding to the spirit of the times. Sholokhov himself is, to some extent, an indirect hero of his own story. A common misfortune united the people and made them stronger. Both Andrei Sokolov and Vanyusha, despite their age, appear before the reader as strong-willed and persistent people. The list of heroes is also symbolic in that it reflects the social diversity of people. The picture is emerging that everyone is equal before the war. And the moment where the camp commandant refuses to shoot Sokolov demonstrates military solidarity and respect for the enemy. This part of the story contains the most accurate and succinct description of the perseverance of the Soviet and Russian soldier even in the face of danger and imminent death. Manifests true essence the moral image of Commandant Mueller, his weakness, insignificance and helplessness.
Sholokhov “The Fate of Man” the main characters live in times of war, lose what is most precious, but find the strength to live on.
M. Sholokhov “The Fate of Man” main characters and their characteristics
- Andrey Sokolov
- Vanyushka
- Irina, Andrey's wife
- Ivan Timofeevich, neighbor of the Sokolovs
- Müller, camp commandant
- Soviet colonel
- captured military doctor
- Kyryzhnev is a traitor
- Peter, friend of Andrei Sokolov
- landlady
- Anatoly Sokolov- son of Andrei and Irina. He went to the front during the war. Becomes battery commander. Anatoly died on Victory Day, he was killed by a German sniper.
Nastenka and Olyushka- Sokolov's daughters
Andrey Sokolov- the main character of the story “The Fate of a Man”, a front-line driver, a man who went through the whole war.
Andrei Sokolov is the main character of the story “The Fate of Man” by Sholokhov. His character is truly Russian. How many troubles he experienced, what torments he endured, only he himself knows. The hero speaks about this on the pages of the story: “Why did you, life, cripple me like that? Why did you distort it like that?” He slowly tells his life from beginning to end to a fellow traveler with whom he sat down to have a cigarette by the road.
Sokolov had to endure a lot: hunger, captivity, the loss of his family, and the death of his son on the day the war ended. But he endured everything, survived everything, because he had a strong character and iron fortitude. “That’s why you’re a man, that’s why you’re a soldier, to endure everything, to endure everything, if need calls for it,” Andrei Sokolov himself said. His Russian character did not allow him to break down, retreat in the face of difficulties, or surrender to the enemy. He snatched life from death itself.
All the hardships and cruelties of the war that Andrei Sokolov endured did not kill his human feelings or harden his heart. When he met little Vanyusha, just as lonely as he was, just as unhappy and unwanted, he realized that he could become his family. Sokolov told him that he was his father and took him in for upbringing.
Vanyushka- an orphan boy of five or six years old. The author describes him as follows: “fair-haired curly head”, “pink cold little hand”, “eyes as bright as the sky”. Vanyushka is trusting, inquisitive and kind. This child has already experienced a lot; he is an orphan. Vanyushka’s mother died during the evacuation, was killed by a bomb on a train, and her father died at the front.
Andrei Sokolov told him that he was his father, which Vanya immediately believed and was incredibly happy about. He knew how to sincerely enjoy even the little things. He compares the beauty of the starry sky to a swarm of bees. This child, dispossessed by the war, early developed a courageous and compassionate character. At the same time, the author emphasizes that he is just a small, vulnerable child, who, after the death of his parents, spends the night anywhere, lying around covered in dust and dirt (“he lay quietly on the ground, dozing under the angular matting”). His sincere joy indicates that he yearned for human warmth.
There are many works in Russian literature that tell about the Great Patriotic War. A striking example is Mikhail Sholokhov’s story “The Fate of a Man,” where the author gives us not so much a description of the war, but a description of the life of an ordinary person during the difficult war years. In the story "The Fate of Man" the main characters are not historical figures, not titled officials, nor famous officers. They are ordinary people, but with a very difficult fate.
Main characters
Sholokhov's story is small in volume, it takes up only ten pages of text. And there are not so many heroes in it. The main character of the story is a Soviet soldier - Andrei Sokolov. Everything that happens to him in life, we hear from his lips. Sokolov is the narrator of the entire story. His named son, the boy Vanyusha, plays an important role in the story. It ends the sad story of Sokolov and opens a new page in his life. They become inseparable from each other, so let’s classify Vanyusha as one of the main characters.
Andrey Sokolov
Andrei Sokolov is the main character of the story “The Fate of Man”
Sholokhov. His character is truly Russian. How many troubles he experienced, what torments he endured, only he himself knows. The hero speaks about this on the pages of the story: “Why did you, life, cripple me like that? Why did you distort it like that?” He slowly tells his life from beginning to end to a fellow traveler with whom he sat down to have a cigarette by the road.
Sokolov had to endure a lot: hunger, captivity, the loss of his family, and the death of his son on the day the war ended. But he endured everything, survived everything, because he had a strong character and iron fortitude. “That’s why you’re a man, that’s why you’re a soldier, to endure everything, to endure everything, if need calls for it,” Andrei Sokolov himself said. His Russian character did not allow him to break down, retreat in the face of difficulties, or surrender to the enemy. He snatched life from death itself.
All the hardships and cruelties of the war that Andrei Sokolov endured did not kill his human feelings or harden his heart. When he met little Vanyusha, just as lonely as he was, just as unhappy and unwanted, he realized that he could become his family. “There is no way for us to disappear separately! I’ll take him as my child,” Sokolov decided. And he became a father to a homeless boy.
Sholokhov very accurately revealed the character of the Russian man, a simple soldier who fought not for ranks and orders, but for the Motherland. Sokolov is one of those many who fought for the country, not sparing their lives. He embodied the entire spirit of the Russian people - persistent, strong, invincible. The characterization of the hero of the story “The Fate of Man” is given by Sholokhov through the speech of the character himself, through his thoughts, feelings, and actions. We walk with him through the pages of his life. Sokolov goes through a difficult path, but remains human. A kind, sympathetic person who lends a helping hand to little Vanyusha.
Vanyusha
A boy of five or six years old. He was left without parents, without a home. His father died at the front, and his mother was killed by a bomb while traveling on a train. Vanyusha walked around in tattered, dirty clothes, and ate what people served. When he met Andrei Sokolov, he reached out to him with all his soul. “Dear folder! I knew it! I knew you would find me! You'll find it anyway! I’ve been waiting so long for you to find me!” - the overjoyed Vanyusha shouted with tears in his eyes. For a long time he could not tear himself away from his father, apparently afraid that he would lose him again. But in Vanyusha’s memory the image of his real father was preserved; he remembered the leather cloak that he wore. And Sokolov told Vanyusha that he probably lost him in the war.
Two loneliness, two destinies are now intertwined so tightly that they can never be separated. The heroes of “The Fate of Man” Andrei Sokolov and Vanyusha are now together, they are one family. And we understand that they will live according to their conscience, in truth. They will survive everything, they will survive everything, they will be able to do everything.
Minor characters
There are also a number of minor characters in the work. This is Sokolov’s wife Irina, his children - daughters Nastenka and Olyushka, son Anatoly. They don’t speak in the story, they are invisible to us, Andrei remembers them. The company commander, the dark-haired German, the military doctor, the traitor Kryzhnev, Lagerführer Müller, the Russian colonel, Andrei’s Uryupinsk friend - all these are the heroes of Sokolov’s own story. Some have neither a first nor a last name, because they are episodic characters in Sokolov’s life.
The real, audible hero here is the author. He meets Andrei Sokolov at the crossing and listens to his life story. It is with him that our hero talks, to whom he tells his fate.
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