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"Korolenko V.G."
"Bad Society" and " dark personalities"in the story by V.G. Korolenko “Children of the Dungeon”
Lesson objectives:
– teach partial analysis of a work of art through the study of text, paintings by Russian artists, creative works children; improve the skill of expressive reading, the ability to express one’s thoughts orally and in writing;
– develop integrative qualities of thinking and artistic perception, the ability to analyze, compare, generalize, draw conclusions, develop the emotional and moral sphere of students;
– develop the ability to empathize; improve communication culture.
Lesson type:
Technology: elements of developmental education using information and computer technologies.
Lesson type: lesson - research with elements of discussion.
Equipment: computer, projector.
Didactic materials to the lesson: presentation.
During the classes
I. Organizational moment.
II. Teacher's word.
Guys, today in class we must find out what “bad society” and “shady personalities” are in V.G. Korolenko’s story “Children of the Dungeon”. But first, let’s check whether you know the content of the story well.
Exercise. Mark the numbers of the correct sentences (Slide 3).
(+ ) The prison was the best architectural decoration of the city.
(–) The castle became disgusting to the boy, as it had an ominous appearance.
(+ ) Vasya and his father were separated by the death of Vasya’s mother.
(–) Vasya and Valek first met in the grove.
(–) Valek refused to go to visit Vasya because he was afraid of the judge.
(+ ) Marusya was very different from Sonya.
(+) Valek was the first to explain to Vasya that his father good man.
(–) When Marusya was hungry, Valek asked Vasya for food for her
(+) Meat was a rare food for Valek and Marusya.
(+) Marusya fell ill in the fall.
(–) Vasya secretly took the doll from Sonya.
(+) Father understood Vasya after he learned the truth from Tyburtsy.
Now let’s get acquainted with the details of the writer’s biography. Let's start our acquaintance with the work on the portrait of V. G. Korolenko by artist I. E. Repin (Slide 5).
Look carefully at the portrait and try to suggest what the person depicted in it was like, what kind of life he lived. (The artist depicted the pensive, penetrating, slightly sad eyes of the writer, wrinkles on his face, a gray beard, tired hands lying on the armrests. All this suggests that his life was not easy; he, apparently, has seen a lot in his lifetime. He seems strict and kind.)
The soundtrack of the song from the movie “Generals of the Sand Pit” is played.
– Why do you think the conversation about Korolenko’s story “Children of the Dungeon” is preceded by such a song?
(The children remember the extraordinary personality of Tyburtsy, thrown out into the street by life, Valek and Marusya, living among the “gray stones,” and also talk about the outcasts, the starving, and their forced kinship. This is what Korolenko’s story is about and this is what the song is about.)
– What exactly did this story make you think about? What was the bitterest and saddest thing about it for you? Why?
(The story about Marusya’s illness and death, Vasya’s loneliness in home, about his longing for a loved one, about the need to love and be loved.)
Teacher: The theme of the disadvantaged and unfortunate worried not only writers, but also many Russian artists, so often works of literature and visual arts echo each other, complementing each other.
III. View the slideshow “Dark Personalities” from “Bad Society”(Slides 6–13). Slides are shown in the background organ music A. Vivaldi “Adagio”.
These are Russian paintings artists of the 19th century centuries: V.G. Perov “Sleeping Children”, “Savoyar”, F.S. Zhuravlev “Beggar Children”, P.P. Chistyakov “Beggar Children”, F.A. Bronnikov “Old Beggar” and others. After viewing the slide show, students answer the teacher's questions:
1. What is the consonance between the paintings of Russian artists in Korolenko’s story?
(The bare beaten feet of sleeping children, Savoyard’s broken shoes, bundles in the hands of beggars, the sad eyes of grandfather Vasily, puddles and cold rain in the painting by V.P. Yakobi, the unhappy faces of little beggars in the canvases of Chistyakov and Zhuravlev.)
2. People like those we saw on the canvases of Russian artists in the city of Knyazhye-Veno, where the events of the story take place, are called “bad society” and “dark personalities.” What is this “bad society”? Who belongs to it? These are “unfortunate dark personalities,” frightened, pitiful,” in rags, barely covering their thin bodies, left without shelter and a piece of bread, tramps and thieves, beggars and bottomless - those who had no place in the dusty small town where the prison is “ the best architectural decoration.” What attitude do these people evoke among the townspeople?
(The townspeople despise and fear these tramps, treat them with “hostile anxiety”; at night they go out into the streets and knock on the fences with sticks, letting the outcasts know that the townsfolk are on guard and will not allow them to steal anything or hide near human habitation The city knew that people were wandering along its streets in the stormy darkness of a rainy night, hungry and cold, shivering and wet, realizing that cruel feelings must be born in the hearts of these people, the city was on its guard and sent its threats towards these feelings.”)
3. Where do these “dark personalities” live? Why?
(Their refuge became an abandoned castle on the island and a dilapidated chapel “among the decayed crosses and collapsed graves” since “the unfortunate exiles did not find their rut in the city.” Only here, among the ruins, could they find shelter, because only “the old castle was welcoming received and covered the temporarily impoverished scribe and lonely old women and rootless vagabonds.”)
4. Find descriptions of the old castle and chapel. How do they feel? Describe how you imagine them.
(There are “legends and stories about the castle, one more terrible than the other.” Dasha is clear sunny days it causes “attacks of panic horror” in children - the black hollows of the long-broken windows looked so scary, a mysterious rustling sound walked in the empty halls; pebbles and plaster, coming off, fell down, awakening a booming echo...” “And on stormy autumn nights, when the giant poplar trees swayed and hummed from the wind blowing from behind the ponds, horror spread from the old castle and reigned over the entire city.” “At the chapel, “the roof collapsed in some places, the walls were crumbling, and instead of a echoing, high-pitched copper bell, owls started playing their ominous songs in it at night.”)
IV. Work on illustrations by V. Gluzdov “Old Castle” and V. Kostitsyn “Majestic Decrepit Building”(Slide 16).
1. Guys, based on the description of the old castle and chapel, draw verbal illustrations and compare them with the illustrations of V. Gluzdov and V. Kostitsyn.
(Gluzdov’s illustration is designed in sparse gray-green tones. It seems that we see a gloomy autumn sky, falling low over a dilapidated castle. The sun peeks through the fog, from which comes a feeling of pain rather than joy. Three huge crows bring sadness, hopelessness, alarm. The old castle in Kostitsyn’s illustration seems to emerge from the darkness of the night. Gloomy, gloomy, lonely, it produces a frightening and mysterious impression at the same time. This is exactly the kind of building that can be the habitat of “dark personalities.”)
(He always “looked with fear ... at that majestic decrepit building,” but when the boy saw how “pathetic ragamuffins” were expelled from there, the castle became disgusting to him.) (Slide 17.)
3. Guys, let’s imagine that the walls of the gloomy castle and chapel were able to speak. What could they tell us about the events that took place here, about those who lived there? Will this story sound with sympathy or hostility?
(The walls could tell about the poor people who huddled among them, about their need, suffering, illness; about how they were expelled even from this miserable shelter. This story could sound like with sympathy. This is indicated in the story by the words: “Old the castle cordially received and sheltered everyone...", and with hostility: "All these poor people tormented the insides of the decrepit building, breaking off the ceilings and floors...".)
4. Who calls society “bad”, and the people who represent it “dark personalities”? From whose point of view is it “bad”?
(“The townspeople call him “bad” because ragamuffins pose a threat to their well-being and peace.)
5. Is there really anything bad in him and how is this manifested? (Yes, there is. “... These poor people, completely deprived of all means of living since the time of expulsion from the castle, formed a friendly community and were engaged in... petty theft in the city and the surrounding area.” They are thieves. Taking someone else’s is a sin, a crime.)
– But what pushes the poor to it? (Need, hunger, rejection, it is impossible to earn money by honest work.)
V. Analysis of Chapter V. Valek and Vasya's conversation about rolls.
1. Why can’t Vasya, who firmly knows that “stealing is wrong,” not condemn his new friends and call them “bad”?
(Vasya’s regret for Valek and Marusya intensified and became aggravated, but the attachment did not disappear. The conviction that “it’s not good to steal” remained. But when his imagination painted the animated face of Marusya, licking her greasy fingers, Vasya rejoiced at her joy and Valek’s joy.)
2. Now let’s look at the illustration by V. Gluzdov “Tyburtsy with children” (slide 18). What's at the center of the illustration?
(A piece of roast, on which Tyburtsy’s thoughtful gaze is fixed.)
3. What is his expression?
(It is sad, because Tyburtsy also knows that “stealing is not good,” but cannot calmly look at the hunger of his children, so he commits a crime. Looking at the children devouring the roast, he sadly thinks about their fate: “I am a beggar, and he a beggar. I ... and he will steal” The prospect is bleak and inevitable.)
4. How did the artist depict Valek and Marusya?
(The children eat greedily, licking their fingers. It is clear that “ meat dish for them an unprecedented luxury...).
5. In the foreground of the illustration is Vasya. Why did the artist depict him turning away from the “feast” and with his head bowed?
(Vasya is ashamed of the bad inclinations of his friends, for the stolen food, but he cannot help but sympathize with their misfortune, their life, because they are beggars, they have no home, but Vasya knew that contempt was connected with all this. He felt how From the depths of his soul all the bitterness of contempt rises in him, but he instinctively defended his attachment to this bitter admixture.)
6. Why, despite everything, was he unable to cheat on Valek and Marusa?
(Vasya has a kind, sympathetic heart. He watched with suffering the expulsion of “dark personalities” from the castle; and he himself, deprived of love and affection, is able to appreciate and understand the loneliness of the tramps. Having given his heart to the little beggars, sharing their troubles and worries, he has matured.)
VI. Lesson summary.
VII. Reflection(Slide 19).
Each student is asked to fill out a card and mark themselves.
Are you satisfied with how the lesson went?
Did you manage to gain new knowledge?
Were you active in class?
Did you manage to show your knowledge?
VIII. Homework (Slide 20). Three options for written assignments (optional):
The story of the old chapel walls.
The story of the old castle walls.
The story of the old castle.
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"Korolenko V.G."
Public lesson “Bad society” and “dark personalities” in V. G. Korolenko’s story “Children of the Dungeon” Teacher of Russian language and literature Agnaeva Svetlana Georgievna SOMSH No. 44
Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko
1853 – 1921
… through all of Korolenko’s works - large and small... there is faith in man, faith in immortality, the invincible and victorious nobility of his nature and mind.
A. Platonov
- The prison was the best architectural decoration of the city.
- The castle became disgusting to the boy, as it had an ominous appearance.
- Vasya and his father were separated by the death of Vasya’s mother.
- Vasya and Valek met for the first time in the grove.
- Valek refused to go to visit Vasya because he was afraid of the judge.
- Marusya was very different from Sonya.
- Valek was the first to explain to Vasya that his father is a good man.
- When Marusya was hungry, Valek asked Vasya for food for her.
- Meat was a rare food for Valek and Marusya.
- Marusya fell ill in the fall.
- Vasya secretly took the doll from Sonya.
- Father understood Vasya after he learned the truth from Tyburtsy.
Goals and objectives:
To teach partial analysis of a work of art through the study of text, paintings by Russian artists, and creative works of children;
Analyze the cause-and-effect relationships of the child’s world of feelings, the nature of his relationships with adults and surrounding reality based on the story by V.G. Korolenko “Children of the Dungeon”;
Develop integrative qualities of thinking and artistic perception, the ability to analyze, compare, generalize, draw conclusions, develop the emotional and moral sphere of students;
Develop the ability to empathize; improve communication culture.
I.R. Repin. Portrait of the writer V.G. Korolenko. 1902
V. Perov. Sleeping children. 1870
F.S. Zhuravlev. Children are beggars. 1860s
V.P. Jacobi. Autumn.
P.P. Chistyakov. Poor children.
V. G. Perov. Savoyard.
N.V. Nevreev. Grandfather Vasily.
F. Bronnikov. Old beggar.
Group work
I group - Based on the description of the old castle and chapel, draw verbal illustrations and compare them with the illustrations of V. Gluzdov and V. Kostitsyn.
II group - What feelings did the castle and chapel evoke in Vasya?
III group -
2.What is in the center of the illustration?
Based on the description of the old castle and chapel, draw verbal illustrations and compare them with the illustrations of V. Gluzdov and V. Kostitsyn.
V. Kostitsyn."A stately, decrepit building." 1984
V. Gluzdov. Old lock. 1977
1.Look at the illustration by V. Gluzdov “Tyburtsy with children.”
2.What is in the center of the illustration?
3. How did the artist depict Valek and Marusya?
4. Why did the artist depict Vasya turning away from the “feast” and with his head bowed?
V. Gluzdov. Tyburtsy with children
Reflection
1. Are you satisfied with how the lesson went?
2.Did you manage to gain new knowledge?
3.Were you active in class?
4.Did you manage to show your knowledge?
- The story of the old chapel walls.
- The story of the old castle walls.
- The story of the old castle.
Thank you children for the lesson !
Reading is not always fun. The book sometimes upsets you, makes you think and change your outlook on life. And therefore the choice fiction plays a significant role in the development of a teenager’s personality. It is extremely important to instill in a child the ability to be compassionate and empathize with others. Vladimir Korolenko dedicated this extremely important topic “In bad society" An essay based on this story will reveal true meaning words such as compassion and mercy.
about the author
Before we begin to analyze the work, it is worth saying a few words about the writer Vladimir Korolenko. He was born in mid-19th century, and since he lost his father quite early, he experienced own experience poverty and severe hardships. A difficult childhood formed a special worldview. Korolenko reacted with pain to injustice, of which there is a monstrous amount in this world. He reflected his experiences in works of art, most of which are dedicated to children. One of them was called “In Bad Society” by Korolenko. This work, however, has another name - “Children of the Dungeon.”
Children of the outcasts
This story is dedicated to the restless life of the poor. Social inequality is an issue that has been addressed by great writers and thinkers. This topic is quite complex and controversial. But innocent children suffer from the inequality established by adults. So it was, is and, perhaps, will be for many centuries. Only compassion can soften cruelty - a feeling to which Korolenko dedicated “In Bad Society.” An essay on this topic should begin with a definition of this important moral category.
What is compassion?
What is the idea of Korolenko’s work “In Bad Society”? An essay on the story about the children of the dungeon can begin with an interpretation polysemantic word"compassion". As already mentioned, this topic was considered by the classics of Russian and foreign literature. It is worth remembering the words of the Austrian writer who believed that there are two types of compassion. One is a sentimental and cowardly feeling. The other is true. The first is nothing more than the desire to protect oneself from the sight of someone else’s misfortune. The second encourages action. A person who knows how to truly sympathize is able to do everything that is humanly possible, and even beyond it.
The hero of Korolenko’s story “In a Bad Society,” despite his very young age, shows pure, selfless feelings. Vasya knows how to truly have compassion. Unusually mature and noble deeds committed by a boy from Korolenko’s sentimental story “In Bad Society.”
Essay “Marusya and Sonya - two childhoods”
There are two little heroines in the story. They never meet. What do they have in common? Age and absence of mother. The comparison of these two girls plays an important role in the overall analysis of this work.
The first is Sonya, Vasya’s sister. She lives in a comfortable house, she has a caring nanny and a loving father. The second is Marusya, a girl who lives in a cold, uncomfortable dungeon. She is also not deprived of her father's love. In addition, she has a brother who is ready to do anything (and more often Valek goes to theft) in order to feed his sister. But the townspeople treat Marusya’s family with contempt. It is similar to the life of those who are destined to be outcasts not only in decent society, but even among the same beggars as they themselves are. However, this fate escapes the girl, since she dies very early.
Sonya's fate is completely different. Her father is a respected man in the city. And therefore, those around her treat Sonya herself with warm sympathy. From the example of these two images, young readers should understand the important moral idea. It lies in the fact that various social prejudices present in any society give rise to cruelty. And it’s especially scary when children suffer from it.
About friendship
After reading Korolenko’s story “In Bad Society,” the essay “My Friend Vasya” is a standard creative task. Children write about how they see true friendship and cite the kind boy Vasya as an example. But in the form of this little hero What is important is not so much his warm feelings for Valk and Marusa as his desire to help and support representatives of the outcast sections of society. After all, even before meeting the children from the dungeon, the “owner” of the abandoned castle favorably invites Vasya to visit, but he refuses. He is more drawn to those who have been rejected, to those whose existence evokes pity and compassion. This is probably the point main idea Korolenko's story "In Bad Society". Children often write essays about Vasya after reading the work.
Essay about Vasya
But if we really dedicate creative task For such a lofty topic as friendship, it is necessary to first set out the contents of the chapter in which the significant acquaintance is depicted.
Vasya, the son of the city judge, decided one day to go on a short excursion with the neighboring boys. The destination of the journey was an abandoned chapel. All other objects in the city have been examined for a long time and more than once. And only she remained an unknown structure. This old gloomy building evoked horror even more than curiosity. But what was Vasya’s surprise when it turned out that someone lived in this half-destroyed building! The boy was the only one who knew about it. He didn't say anything to his friends.
Valek and Marusya
The children of Tyburtsiy, the leader of the lower strata of the urban population, lived in the chapel. Vasya almost immediately became friends with Valk and Marusya. He helped these children, did everything in his power. And most of all, the brother and sister needed the basic necessities for human existence- food. Later, Vasya realized that Valek was a thief, and although this discovery was extremely unpleasant for the judge’s son, he tried to be understanding of his new friend’s lifestyle. And after the boy realized that stealing for these people is the only way to survive, he completely realized that he had no right to condemn them. This is how the relationships of children from different social worlds are depicted in Korolenko’s work “In a Bad Society.”
Essay “My Favorite Hero”
One of the most touching and sad chapters in this story is the one in which we talk about last days life of Marusya. Perhaps, the events that preceded the girl’s death should be described in detail and analyzed when writing an essay about the character of Korolenko’s work - a young hero, but able to sympathize in a way that not every adult can.
When the warm days passed, Marusya began to feel worse and worse. And Vasya thought that the only saving grace for her could be a large bright doll. This expensive toy belonged to Sonya and was a gift from her late mother. Having begged a doll from his sister for a while, Vasya took it to the dying girl. And even when his father found out about the loss, the boy did not reveal the secret of where his friends lived. He was unjustly punished, but kept his word once given to Tyburtius.
Marusya died. Tyburtsy came to the judge’s house, returned the doll and spoke about Vasya’s kindness and mercy. For many years the judge was ashamed in front of his son for the cold attitude he showed towards him. The father also felt guilty that Vasya did not find understanding and love in his home, among close relatives, but found them in the refuge of strangers and distant people from “bad society.”
Russian writer Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was born in Zhitomir, into an impoverished noble family. His father, Galaktion Afanasyevich, was a judge, a stern and reserved man, but at the same time honest and incorruptible. Most likely, under the influence of his father back in early age the boy developed a desire for justice. But the future writer did not want to become a judge, like his father, he dreamed of becoming a lawyer, not to judge, but to protect people.
Nowadays it is customary to call such people human rights activists, because the main work of Korolenko’s life was defending human rights. Already from his youth he joined the People's Will movement. Behind revolutionary activity repeatedly referred to the Urals and Siberia. Having already become famous writer, he sought release ordinary people, unjustly convicted, during Civil War helped prisoners of war, created shelters and orphanages.
One of the works that brought fame to the writer was the story “In Bad Society,” which later became the story “Children of the Dungeon” in a version adapted for children. The author was dissatisfied with the desire of publishers to introduce young people to the writer in a “shredded form.” But this particular version of the work was known to every Soviet schoolchild.
The story of the boy Vasya, who was left without a mother at the age of six and grew up “like a timid animal,” could not leave anyone indifferent. Having become a tramp because his “criminal games” with his younger sister Sonya were perceived negatively by the old nanny and father, the boy suffers from the “horror of loneliness” and the abyss that separates him from his father. “Mr. Judge,” as the father was respectfully called in the small town of Knyazhye-Veno, having become a widower, grieves over the loss alone, not allowing his son, who experienced the same feelings, to approach him. The isolation and severity of the father and the fear of the son increasingly alienated them from each other.
It is unknown how this ordeal of grief would have ended for the main character if not for his acquaintance with “problematic natures” - beggar vagabonds who lived in an abandoned chapel near the cemetery. Among them was Vasya’s age, nine-year-old Valek. The first meeting, which almost ended in a clash, turned into friendship thanks to Marusa. This four-year-old girl, clinging to her older friend, prevented the relationship between the boys from being sorted out, as they say, like a man. And this chance acquaintance turned out to be new life experiences for the main character.
Vasya learned that there is injustice in the world, that his new acquaintances are beggars and often experience hunger - a feeling hitherto unknown to the judge’s son. But from Marusya’s simple-minded admission that she was hungry, “something turned in the chest” of the hero. For a long time the boy could not realize this “new painful feeling that filled his soul,” because for the first time he really thought about what is good and what is bad in this world. As the son of a judge, he was well aware that stealing was prohibited, that it was illegal, but when he saw hungry children, for the first time he doubted the correctness of these laws. “The blindfold fell off” from his eyes: he began to discover in life from a new, unexpected side what seemed clear and unambiguous to him.
Comparing Marusya, “a pale, tiny creature that resembled a flower,” who grew up without the sun, and his sister Sonya, “elastic like a ball,” also a four-year-old girl, Vasya involuntarily sympathized with the little girl, from whom the “gray stone” had sucked all the life. These mysterious words forced the boy to think again and again about the injustice of the world order, and “a feeling of painfully painful regret” squeezed the heart of the young hero, and he himself became more courageous and strong-willed, preparing to protect his new friends from all the horrors of reality, because Marusya’s sad smile became for him it is almost as dear as his sister’s smile.
Finding himself in “bad society,” the boy was surprised to realize that his father was not who he seemed. External severity and inaccessibility, according to Pan Tyburtsy, were evidence that he was a faithful servant of his master, whose name is law. From these words, the father’s figure in the boy’s mind “was clothed with an aura of formidable but attractive power.” However, he had yet to learn the manifestation of this power. When Marusya became very ill, Vasya brought her his sister’s doll - a memory of her late mother. This “elegant earthenware young lady” had an almost magical effect on Marusya: the girl got out of bed and even began to play with the doll, laughing loudly. This first and last joy of the girl’s short life became a turning point in her relationship with her father.
Having learned about the loss, the father forcibly tried to wrest a confession from his son, but the father’s anger and rage, on the contrary, gave determination to the main character: he was ready for his father to throw him, break him, that his body would “beat helplessly in the strong and frenzied hands of the “man.” , whom he loved and hated at that moment. Fortunately, the “mad violence” did not have time to shatter the son’s love into smithereens: Tyburtsy Drab intervened, coming to tell the sad news about Marusya’s death and return the doll.
It was this tramp who, in his words, “ big quarrel“with the law, it was possible not only to reconcile father and son, but also to give the servant of the law the opportunity to take a different look at “bad society.” His words that Vasya was in “bad society,” but did not do anything bad, allowed the father to believe in his son. The “heavy fog hanging over the father’s soul” cleared, and the son’s long-restrained love poured into his heart.
After the sad scene of farewell to Marusya, the author speeds up the time of the events described: childhood flies by quickly young heroes, and now Vasya and Sonya have a “winged and honest youth” ahead of them. And you can be sure that they will truly grow up to be real people, because they have passed the difficult but necessary test of humanity.
Problem social inequality, raised by Vladimir Korolenko in the story, allowed everyone to think about adult problems at a young age. The work teaches to show mercy and kindness both to your loved ones and to those who find themselves in difficult situation. Maybe then ours modern society stop being “bad”?
“In a Bad Society” is a story by Russian-Ukrainian writer Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko.
Theme of the story
The main characters of the work:
- boy Vasya - he is also a storyteller;
- Vasya's father is a rich judge;
- Pan Tyburtsy Drab - a poor man from a “bad society”;
- the boy Valek and the girl Marusya are the children of the master.
In the city of Knyazh-gorodok, beggars and poor people live in an old ruined castle. One day a split occurs among these people. The servant of the local count allows Catholics, former servants or descendants of the count's former servants to remain in the castle, calling them "decent society", and expels all other beggars. They constitute "bad society"; these people have to live in the dungeon of the local chapel.
Vasya is a boy from a rich family, deprived of his father’s attention. Out of curiosity, he ends up in a dungeon and there he meets Valek and Marusya, as well as their father, the master.
Friendship begins between the children; Vasya feels very sorry for poor people. Soon Marusya begins to get sick due to constant stay in the dungeon, as well as due to constant hunger. Vasya gives her his sister’s doll. The father, having learned about his son’s friendship with “bad society,” forbids the boy to communicate with them and locks him at home.
Soon Pan Drab himself comes to them and reports that Marusya has died. Vasya's father shows compassion and allows his son to say goodbye to the girl. After her death, Pan and Valek disappear from the city.
Having matured, Vasya and his sister Sonya still visit Marusya’s grave; sometimes their father visits her with them.
The main ideas of the story “In Bad Society”
The main idea of the story is that labeling people is wrong. Pan Tyburtsy, his children and entourage are called “bad society” only because of their poverty, although in fact these people did nothing wrong. They are honest, kind, responsible and caring towards their family and friends.
This story is also about goodness. You always need to be kind, and it doesn’t matter who is in front of you - a rich man or a poor man. This is what Vasya did in the story. He supported the master’s children as best he could, and in return received unforgettable life lessons: he learned to be compassionate, to help his neighbor; he learned what true friendship is and that poverty is not evil or a vice.