June 25 2011

Problem moral choice in the story “The Blind Musician” by V. G. Korolenko

For each young man At a certain time, the question arises about his future fate, about his attitude towards people and towards the world. The world around is huge, there are many different roads, and a person’s future depends on the correct choice of his life path. But what about someone who does not know this huge world - a blind person?

Korolenko places his, born blind Peter, in very difficult conditions, endowing him with intelligence, talent as a musician and heightened sensitivity to all manifestations of life, which he will never be able to see. Since childhood, he knew only one world, calm and reliable, where he always felt like the center. He knew the warmth of the family and Evelina’s kind, friendly concern. Inability to see color appearance objects, the beauty of the surrounding nature upset him, but he imagined this familiar world of the estate thanks to his sensitive perception of its sounds.

Everything changed after meeting the Stavruchenkov family: he learned about the existence of another world, a world outside the estate. At first he reacted to these disputes, to the stormy expression of the opinions and expectations of young people with enthusiastic amazement, but soon felt “that this living wave was rolling past him.” He's a stranger. Rules of life in big world unknown to him, and also unknown to him, whether this world will want to accept a blind person. This meeting sharply aggravated his suffering and sowed doubts in his soul. After visiting the monastery and meeting the blind bell-ringers, he is haunted by the painful thought that isolation from people, anger and selfishness are the inevitable qualities of a person born blind. Peter feels the commonality of his fate with the fate of the embittered bell-ringer Yegor, who hates children. But a different attitude towards the world and people is also possible. There is a story about the blind bandura player Yurka, who took part in the campaigns of Ataman Ignat Kary. Peter learned this legend from Stavruchenko: meeting new people and big world brought the young man not only suffering, but also understanding

The fact that the choice of path belongs to the person himself.

Most of all, Uncle Maxim helped Peter and his lessons. After wandering with the blind and pilgrimage to miraculous icon the bitterness passes: Peter was indeed cured, but not from a physical illness, but from a mental illness. Anger is replaced by a feeling of compassion for people and a desire to help them. A blind man finds strength in music. Through music he can influence people, tell them the most important things about life that he himself found so difficult to understand. This is the choice of a blind musician.

In Korolenko's story, not only Peter is faced with the problem of choice. Evelina, the blind man’s friend, must make an equally difficult choice. They had been together since childhood; the girl’s company and caring attention helped and supported Peter. She gave a lot of them and Evelina, like Peter, had almost no idea about life outside the estate. The meeting with the Stavruchenko brothers was also for her a meeting with an unfamiliar and large world that was ready to accept her. Young people are trying to captivate her with dreams and expectations; they don’t believe that at seventeen you can already plan your life. Dreams intoxicate her, but in that life there is no place for Peter. She understands Peter’s suffering and doubts - and makes a “quiet

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For every young person at a certain time, the question arises about his future fate, about his attitude towards people and towards the world. The world around us is huge, there are many different roads in it, and a person’s future depends on the right choice of his life path. But what about someone who does not know this huge world - a blind person?
Korolenko places his hero, the born blind Peter, in very difficult conditions, endowing him with intelligence, talent as a musician and heightened sensitivity to all manifestations of life, which he will never be able to see. Since childhood, he knew only one world, calm and reliable, where he always felt like the center. He knew the warmth of the family and Evelina’s kind, friendly concern. The inability to see color, the appearance of objects, the beauty of the surrounding nature upset him, but he imagined this familiar world of the estate thanks to his sensitive perception of its sounds.
Everything changed after meeting the Stavruchenkov family: he learned about the existence of another world, a world outside the estate. At first he reacted to these disputes, to the stormy expression of the opinions and expectations of young people with enthusiastic amazement, but soon felt “that this living wave was rolling past him.” He's a stranger. The rules of life in the big world are unknown to him, and it is also unknown whether this world will want to accept a blind man. This meeting sharply aggravated his suffering and sowed doubts in his soul. After visiting the monastery and meeting the blind bell-ringers, he is haunted by the painful thought that isolation from people, anger and selfishness are the inevitable qualities of a person born blind. Peter feels the commonality of his fate with the fate of the embittered bell-ringer Yegor, who hates children. But a different attitude towards the world and people is also possible. There is a legend about the blind bandura player Yurka, who took part in the campaigns of Ataman Ignat Kary. Peter learned this legend from Stavruchenko: meeting new people and the big world brought the young man not only suffering, but also the understanding that the choice of path belongs to the person himself.
Most of all, Uncle Maxim helped Peter and his lessons. After wandering with the blind and pilgrimage to the miraculous icon, the bitterness passes: Peter was indeed cured, but not from a physical illness, but from a mental illness. Anger is replaced by a feeling of compassion for people and a desire to help them. A blind man finds strength in music. Through music he can influence people, tell them the most important things about life that he himself found so difficult to understand. This is the choice of a blind musician.
In Korolenko's story, not only Peter is faced with the problem of choice. Evelina, the blind man’s friend, must make an equally difficult choice. They had been together since childhood; the girl’s company and caring attention helped and supported Peter. Their friendship gave a lot and Evelina, like Peter, had almost no idea about life outside the estate. The meeting with the Stavruchenko brothers was also for her a meeting with an unfamiliar and large world that was ready to accept her. Young people are trying to captivate her with dreams and expectations; they do not believe that at seventeen you can already plan your life. Dreams intoxicate her, but in that life there is no place for Peter. She understands Peter’s suffering and doubts - and performs a “quiet feat of love”: she is the first to speak about her feelings to Peter. The decision to start a family also comes from Evelina. It's her choice. For the sake of blind Peter, she immediately and forever closes the path so temptingly outlined by the students. And the writer was able to convince us that this was not a sacrifice, but a manifestation of sincere and very selfless love.

For every young person at a certain time, the question arises about his future fate, about his attitude towards people and towards the world. The world around us is huge, there are many different roads in it, and a person’s future depends on the right choice of his life path. But what about someone who does not know this huge world - a blind person?

Korolenko places his hero, the born blind Peter, in very difficult conditions, endowing him with intelligence, talent as a musician and heightened sensitivity to all manifestations of life, which he will never be able to see. Since childhood, he knew only one world, calm and reliable, where he always felt like the center. He knew the warmth of the family and Evelina’s kind, friendly concern.

The inability to see color, the appearance of objects, the beauty of the surrounding nature upset him, but he imagined this familiar world of the estate thanks to his sensitive perception of its sounds.

Everything changed after meeting the Stavruchenkov family: he learned about the existence of another world, a world outside the estate. At first he reacted to these disputes, to the stormy expression of the opinions and expectations of young people with enthusiastic amazement, but soon felt “that this living wave was rolling past him.” He's a stranger. The rules of life in the big world are unknown to him, and it is also unknown whether this world will want to accept a blind man. This meeting sharply aggravated his suffering and sowed doubts in his soul. After visiting the monastery and meeting the blind bell-ringers, he is haunted by the painful thought that isolation from people, anger and selfishness are the inevitable qualities of a person born blind. Peter feels the commonality of his fate with the fate of the embittered bell-ringer Yegor, who hates children. But a different attitude towards the World, towards people is also possible. There is a legend about the blind bandura player Yurka, who took part in the campaigns of Ataman Ignat Kary. Peter learned this legend from Stavruchenko: meeting new people and the big world brought the young man not only suffering, but also the understanding that the choice of path belongs to the person himself.

Most of all, Uncle Maxim helped Peter and his lessons. After wandering with the blind and pilgrimage to the miraculous icon, the bitterness passes: Peter was indeed cured, but not from a physical illness, but from a mental illness. Anger is replaced by a feeling of compassion for people and a desire to help them. A blind man finds strength in music. Through music he can influence people, tell them the most important things about life that he himself found so difficult to understand. This is the choice of a blind musician.

In Korolenko's story, not only Peter is faced with the problem of choice. Evelina, the blind man’s friend, must make an equally difficult choice. They had been together since childhood; the girl’s company and caring attention helped and supported Peter. Their friendship gave a lot and Evelina, like Peter, had almost no idea about life outside the estate. The meeting with the Stavruchenko brothers was also for her a meeting with an unfamiliar and large world that was ready to accept her. Young people are trying to captivate her with dreams and expectations; they do not believe that at seventeen you can already plan your life. Dreams intoxicate her, but in that life there is no place for Peter. She understands Peter’s suffering and doubts - and commits “ quiet love": she is the first to speak about her feelings to Peter. The decision to start a family also comes from Evelina. It's her choice. For the sake of blind Peter, she immediately and forever closes the path so temptingly outlined by the students. And the writer was able to convince us that this was not a sacrifice, but a manifestation of sincere and very selfless love.

For every young person at a certain time, the question arises about his future fate, about his attitude towards people and towards the world. The world around us is huge, there are many different roads in it, and a person’s future depends on the right choice of his life path. But what about someone who does not know this huge world - a blind person?

Korolenko places his hero, the born blind Peter, in very difficult conditions, endowing him with intelligence, talent as a musician and heightened sensitivity to all manifestations of life, which he will never be able to see. Since childhood, he knew only one world, calm and reliable, where he always felt like the center. He knew the warmth of the family and Evelina’s kind, friendly concern. The inability to see color, the appearance of objects, the beauty of the surrounding nature upset him, but he imagined this familiar world of the estate thanks to his sensitive perception of its sounds.

Everything changed after meeting the Stavruchenkov family: he learned about the existence of another world, a world outside the estate. At first he reacted to these disputes, to the stormy expression of the opinions and expectations of young people with enthusiastic amazement, but soon felt “that this living wave was rolling past him.” He's a stranger. The rules of life in the big world are unknown to him, and it is also unknown whether this world will want to accept a blind man. This meeting sharply aggravated his suffering and sowed doubts in his soul. After visiting the monastery and meeting the blind bell-ringers, he is haunted by the painful thought that isolation from people, anger and selfishness are the inevitable qualities of a person born blind. Peter feels the commonality of his fate with the fate of the embittered bell-ringer Yegor, who hates children. But a different attitude towards the world and people is also possible. There is a legend about the blind bandura player Yurka, who took part in the campaigns of Ataman Ignat Kary. Peter learned this legend from Stavruchenko: meeting new people and the big world brought the young man not only suffering, but also the understanding that the choice of path belongs to the person himself.

Most of all, Uncle Maxim helped Peter and his lessons. After wandering with the blind and pilgrimage to the miraculous icon, the bitterness passes: Peter was indeed cured, but not from a physical illness, but from a mental illness. Anger is replaced by a feeling of compassion for people and a desire to help them. A blind man finds strength in music. Through music he can influence people, tell them the most important things about life that he himself found so difficult to understand. This is the choice of a blind musician.

In Korolenko's story, not only Peter is faced with the problem of choice. Evelina, the blind man’s friend, must make an equally difficult choice. They had been together since childhood; the girl’s company and caring attention helped and supported Peter. Their friendship gave a lot and Evelina, like Peter, had almost no idea about life outside the estate. The meeting with the Stavruchenko brothers was also for her a meeting with an unfamiliar and large world that was ready to accept her. Young people are trying to captivate her with dreams and expectations; they do not believe that at seventeen you can already plan your life. Dreams intoxicate her, but in that life there is no place for Peter. She understands Peter’s suffering and doubts - and performs a “quiet feat of love”: she is the first to speak about her feelings to Peter. The decision to start a family also comes from Evelina. It's her choice. For the sake of blind Peter, she immediately and forever closes the path so temptingly outlined by the students. And the writer was able to convince us that this was not a sacrifice, but a manifestation of sincere and very selfless love.

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According to the story

"The Blind Musician"

Lesson topic. Moral issues in the story

"The Blind Musician"

Lesson type : Improving knowledge, skills and abilities, targeted

application of assimilation.

Lesson type: The lesson is a study with elements of analysis of 2 episodes.

Educational

task: increasing the level of perception and depth of penetration

V artistic text;

show the spiritual renewal of a person offended

destiny, the path to realizing one's destiny.

Development objective:

raising an attentive and thoughtful reader;

ability to work with a work of art,

analyze what you read, select the main thing;

training in competent analysis of individual episodes;

ability to speak.

Educational

task: help students hear the moral voice

the story, its worldly wisdom;

education of tolerance and mercy.

Equipment: portrait,

student drawings for various episodes,

fragment from the film,

musical accompaniment,

illustrations,

book exhibition.

1. Theme, idea, genre, plot, composition of the work. /Name/.

Subject: about overcoming difficulties, about the trials that befell the hero from the very beginning

birth, about the importance of human destiny.

Idea: show hard way to realizing your purpose.

“My task was not specifically the psychology of the blind, but

psychology of universal human longing for completeness

existence."

Genre: story.

Plot: includes, as it were, 2 narratives:

1 – about how a boy born blind was drawn to the light, to life;

2 – a story about how a man, depressed by personal misfortune, overcame

passive suffering for himself, found a place in life and managed to cultivate in himself

understanding and compassion for all disadvantaged people.

Composition :

Exposure: 1, 2 ch. - a premonition of trouble - and a verdict:"The child was born blind."

This is a tragedy. How will his life turn out?

Development of action: The boy’s fate depends on those around him, on the participation of loved ones:

/mother, uncle Maxim, Evelina/.

Climax: Resign yourself and suffer or challenge fate?

/meeting with the bell ringer, conversation with uncle/.

Denouement: The path of search, finding happiness: wife, son, talent, recognition.

Epilogue: Instead of blind, selfish suffering, he found a feeling of life in his soul

“... he began to feel both human grief and human joy.”

1. introduction teachers .

For every young person at a certain time, the question arises about his future fate, about his attitude towards people and towards the world. The world around us is huge, there are many different roads in it, and a person’s future depends on the right choice of his life path.

Life requires from everyone not only the ability to survive, but also civic responsibility. And only by realizing this problem (choosing a path) and accepting responsibility for the chosen path can a person move on.

We will talk about this in class today.

But what about someone who does not know this huge world - a blind person?

SO:

The topic of our extracurricular reading - Moral problems in the story

"The Blind Musician"

The purpose of our lesson – try to understand what moral commandments the author left for his descendants in his story?

For today's lesson, assignments and questions were given for each group.

So, I invite you to a conversation and to reflect on what you read.

Main question , which the author put in the story is:

« What, exactly, was man created for?”

“Man is created for happiness, like a bird is created for flight.” But the hero of the story answers with bitter irony:

“... only happiness is not always created for him.”

The question of what is happiness? Where are its boundaries? What is its meaning?

Is a person, as an individual, able to resist circumstances and change these circumstances? – the author dedicated one of his most remarkable works, “The Blind Musician,” first published in 1886.

The birth of a blind child is a tragedy.

What will happen to him?

2. Work in groups.

Let's look at the stages

formation of personality, during which the main character is formed:

Stage 1:

1. Ways of understanding the world.

/1st contact with the natural world occurs for a boy at approximately

3 years. How subtly and surprisingly accurately the author conveys the feelings that

experienced by a blind child. Korolenko notices subtle

experiences, impressions of a child's soul. Boy painfully

listens to the world of sounds. To show the boy's world of perception,

Ringing drops

gently murmuring water,

bird cherry rustling leaves,

trills of a nightingale song,

roar, noise, creaking carts, rustling wheels,

human talk of the fair,

the sound of branches hitting glass,

calls of cranes. / Chapter 1, subtitle 6/.

- How does cognition of the surrounding world occur?

Painfully listens, anxiously stretches out his hands,

looks for his mother and clings to her.

Conclusion: The world is perceived by the boy through sounds, smells, sensations.

So: Sound forms became the main forms of his thought.

What feelings does this world evoke? /Curiosity, fear/.

Conclusion:

But he was lucky.

Two people first took a special part in the child’s fate:

his mother and uncle Maxim. Two different beginnings -

mother's tenderness and poetry

and the courage of the old warrior - helped Peter get to know the world.

Conclusion. The role of an uncle is invaluable. He could not remain indifferent to the fate of his nephew. And not only because their fates are similar:

both are disabled: he has no legs,

the other has vision.

It is he who prevents his sister from turning the child into a “greenhouse plant.” And we are convinced that he is right.

What would have happened to the boy without his uncle's participation?

/I would withdraw into myself/.

Next to him loving people. He knew the warmth of the family, the kind, friendly concern of those around him.

He was given a talent: a love of music /Joachim/.

Fate gave Peter a guardian angel in the form of Evelina.

2 – stage.

Everything seemed fine.

But my uncle decided to expand the boundaries of space. Introduces people of different social statuses:

- meeting with the Stavruchenkov family, blind beggars-bandura players….

He learned about the existence of another world, a world outside the estate. He felt like a stranger, defective. Peter was completely plunged into darkness, into personal misfortune.

This world is unknown to him and will this world want to accept a blind man?

- The suffering in his soul intensified and after meeting with the bell ringer.

How did he feel?

/ He felt that the fate of the blind was anger and resentment. A mental crisis has arrived. Watch the episode.

EPISODE ANALYSIS.

“I wanted you to feel someone else’s grief and stop running around

with his",- he says to the young man with anger.

“You only know how to blaspheme with your well-fed envy of

someone else’s hunger!...” – Maxim Yatsenko says to his nephew.

Why does his uncle talk to him like that?

/ The uncle reveals to the young man the full depth of human suffering:

inspires that personal misfortunes are insignificant compared to the suffering of the people/.

Conclusion:

This episode has special significance. T.K. the hero gets his moral lesson, the uncle’s words are decisive and bring clarity to the hero’s thoughts and actions:

Conclusion: Peter makes a choice: he goes to wander with the blind on the advice of his uncle.

After a long journey, anger is replaced by compassion for people and a desire to help them. In the end, the suffering, which he learned about from his own experience, cured him, his soul was healed: “as if the nightmare had disappeared forever from the estate,” where Peter returned.

We see what helped him gain peace of mind folk music which he mastered to perfection.

And soon he mastered the heights of classical music.

He finds strength in music, which can influence people, tell them the main thing about life that was so difficult for him to understand.

The story ends with a concert, where we see Peter confident and strong.

He achieved this only with the help of his environment and his own perseverance.

Another remarkable image in the work is the image of Evelina.

She made an equally difficult choice. But it's her choice. And the writer convinces us that this was not a sacrifice, but a manifestation of sincere and very selfless love. The author glorifies the love of a girl who is ready to sacrifice her well-being for the happiness of her loved one. Evelina’s personal feat takes on a highly civic meaning.

So, a story about a complex comprehension of the world,

about his small victories over his illness, about the fact that a person

must fight for the right to be human, despite

circumstances.

Conclusion: So, what helped Peter return to a full life?

- love of loved ones,

- human fate,

- the mercy of others,

- own will.

Essay miniature. What does the story teach us?

Summarizing.

on literature:

Moral issues

in the story

"The Blind Musician"

During the classes.

1. Introductory speech by the teacher.

2. Work in groups.

- Theme, idea, title of the work, genre, plot, composition of the story.

- Stages of personality development, during which the most

common common features.

- The skill of the writer.

- The attitude of others towards the main character.

- Analysis of episodes.

3. Listening to music.

4. Essay – miniature.

1. What does the story teach us? or

2. Am I capable of compassion and sensitivity to my neighbor?

5. Summing up.

Problems:

The problem of moral and civil choice.

How to learn to live with people?

About love for one's neighbor.

About compassion, about the ability to sympathize with those offended by fate.

About the difficult task of finding your place in life.

Resign yourself or challenge fate?

What exactly was man created for?