The story of Maxim Gorky, the famous Russian writer, "Sparrow" was written in 1912. It is known that the writer composed it for his son. "Sparrow" belongs to the genre of "stories about animals" and is addressed to a children's audience.
In this article we will give a brief summary of Gorky's Sparrow and list the main characters.
What a story?
A little chick grows up in a sparrow nest. His name is Pudik. While he is still yellow-haired and cannot fly, he is very curious. He wants to know what this world around him is and what kind of creatures they inhabit?
He sits in the nest, which his mom and dad arranged over the window of the bath, behind the platband. They pulled tow and everything that they found soft - that’s the house. Vorobishko sits himself, examines the world and shakes his wings. Dad hunts and brings little children insects, and Mom guards Pudik: “Look, don't fall!”
Vorobishko has his own opinion about everything, thinks that he already knows everything in the world. For example, he knows well where the wind comes from (he blows because the trees are swinging), that people are wingless creatures, and you can't be wingless - after all, it's better in the air than on earth.
Sparrow's mother teaches him, but Pudik does not particularly listen to her. For days on end, sitting on the edge of the nest, he sings a song:
Eh, wingless man
You have two legs
Though you are very great
Gnats are eating you!
And I'm very small
But he’s eating midges himself.
Not listening to mom and dad is very harmful, but Pudik does not understand this. Because he almost suffered.
We note in the brief content of Gorky's Sparrow that history begins: he once sat, as usual, on the very edge, and fell down. And then the cat ran up: scary, red, with green eyes. As soon as she aimed to grab the chick, a brave sparrow mother threw herself at her from above. Feathers reared, beak aimed directly at the cat's eye:
- Fly, - shouts, - Pudik, away! Hurry up!
The sparrow got scared, jumped up and took off! He sat on the edge of the window, and next to him was a sparrow mother. Lived back, but tailless. My son pecked for disobedience, but at least that, like water from a goose, says: “Well, well, you won’t learn everything at once!”
Down on the ground sits a cat, looks sadly at the feathers: she did not get a sparrow. And mother’s tail Pudik sorry. But the main thing is that everything ended well.
And here is what the summary of Gorky's Sparrow for the reader’s diary could be:
"The story of how one unreasonable, not yet able to fly sparrow chick fell out of the nest and almost fell into the cat's paws. But thanks to the protection of my mother I was saved."
Who is a sparrow?
This is a well-known ordinary bird to all of us. Sparrows live in forests, and in the vicinity of humans - in cities and towns. It is rather small, with the unpretentious gray-motley plumage of a pichuga, nimble, fussy, thieving, curious.
Sparrows feed on plant seeds, breadcrumbs, worms, small insects. In the warm regions, when winter comes, they do not fly away, winter near us.
Sparrow in Russian folk art
Even in the brief content of Gorky's Sparrow, it can be seen that this bird, as a writer, personifies a person - active, cheerful, but with a sly one. He is all open, always in sight, but if next to you, don’t yawn - if you don’t have time to look around, he will pull a trifle from under his nose and fly away.
A lot of proverbs and sayings are popular among these little birds. And it is no coincidence, after all, “for sparrows everything is the same as for humans,” says Gorky.
Here are the sayings we know about them:
Where there is millet, there is a sparrow.
An old bird is not caught with chaff.
And the sparrow does not live without people.
The sparrow and the nightingale in the cage envy.
And the sparrow tweets at the cat.
You cannot kill two sparrows with one stone.
There are Russian folk tales about these birds.
Characters and their speech characteristics
There are very few actors in the story: the puddles, the parents, sparrows - father and mother, a cat and a man walking around the yard.
Only according to the words that the characters pronounce, it is clear who says it. Using the speech of the characters, the author reveals to us their images. So, in the words of sparrows the letter "h" prevails - why? Because this bird in nature makes sounds similar to the combinations "chik-chirik" or "chiv-chiv". Hence the following remarks appeared in the story:
- Too black, too much! - exclaims a sparrow, looking at the ground.
And so his mother warns against the fall of the unreasonable son on the ground:
- Child, child, look - cheburahnesh!
- Am I chiv? - And this the boastful dad asks, having brought the prey to the nest.
And how does the cat regret the missed bird? Recall that these animals meow.
- Miaa-akonkiy such a sparrow, - pulls the domestic predator, - like we-yshka ... alas ...
Such is the talent of the writer - we seem to see both these sparrows and the cat.
We have provided a summary of Gorky's story "Vorobishko".