The author's attitude towards the characters of the story Asya. The hero of I. S. Turgenev’s story “Asya”. How his attitude towards life has changed. Relationship between Asya and Mr. N.N.

A very touching, lyrical and beautiful story from the point of view of literary art, “Asya” was written in 1857 by Ivan Turgenev. Millions of readers were literally captivated by this work - people read, reread and became engrossed in Asya, it was translated into many foreign languages, and critics did not hide their delight. Turgenev wrote an attractive and simple love story, but how beautiful and unforgettable it turned out! Now we will do a short analysis of the story "Asya" by Ivan Turgenev, and in addition you can read a summary on our website. In the same article, the plot of “Asia” will be presented very briefly.

Writing history and prototypes

The story was published when Turgenev was almost forty years old. It is known that the author was not only well educated, but also possessed a rare talent. Once Ivan Turgenev went on a trip to Germany, and fleetingly saw the following picture: two women looked out of the windows from a two-story house - one was an elderly and decorous lady, and she was looking from the first floor, and the second was a young girl, and looked out she's on top. The writer wondered - who are these women, why do they live in the same house, what brought them together? Reflections on this glimpse of the picture prompted Turgenev to write the lyrical story “Asya,” which we are now analyzing.

Let's discuss who could become the prototype for the main character. Turgenev, as you know, had a daughter, Polina Brewer, who was born illegitimate. She is very reminiscent of the timid and sensual main character Asya. At the same time, the writer had a sister, so it is quite possible that Turgenev could have considered Varvara Zhitova as a prototype for Asi. Both girls could not come to terms with their dubious position in society, which worried Asya herself.

The plot of the story "Asya" is very short

A short retelling of the plot will help you better understand the analysis of the story “Asya” by Turgenev. The story is narrated by the main character on his own behalf. We see the anonymous Mr. N.N., who traveled abroad and met his compatriots there. The young people made acquaintances and even became friends. So, N.N. meets the Gagins. This is a brother and his half-sister Asya, who also went on a trip to Europe.

Gagin and N.N. like each other, they have a lot in common, so they communicate, relax together and have fun. In the end, N.N. falls in love with Asya, and the main character experiences reciprocal feelings. They declare their love, but misunderstandings in the relationship lead to mixed feelings and awkward conversation. Asya and Gagin abruptly leave, leaving a note, at the very moment when N.N. decided to ask for her hand. He rushes around in search of the Gagins, looks for them everywhere, but does not find them. And the feelings that he had for Asya will never be repeated in his life.

Be sure to read Gagin’s characterization, and it is important that we examined the plot of the story “Asya” very briefly, because this makes it easier to carry out further analysis.

Asya's image

Asya seems to us to be a special and unusual girl. She reads a lot, draws beautifully and takes what is happening to heart. She has a keen sense of justice, but as for her character, she is changeable and even somewhat extravagant. Sometimes she is drawn to reckless and desperate actions, as can be seen from her decision to leave her relationship with N.N., with whom she fell deeply in love.

However, an analysis of the story “Asya” shows that the girl’s soul is easy to hurt; she is very impressionable, kind and affectionate. Of course, this nature attracted Mr. N.N., who began to spend a lot of time with his new friends. He looks for the reasons for her actions and is sometimes perplexed: should he condemn Asya or admire her.

Important details of the analysis of the story "Asya"

When Asya begins to communicate with the main character N.N., incomprehensible and previously unknown feelings awaken in her soul. The girl is still very young and inexperienced, and does not know how to cope with her emotions. She is afraid of this state, this explains her strange and changeable actions, which can hardly be called ordinary whims. She wants to arouse sympathy from N.N., to be attractive and charming in his eyes, and in the end she opens up to both him and Gagin.

Yes, this is a childish and naive act, but here she is - a sweet, kind girl Asya. Unfortunately, neither Gagin nor N.N. appreciate Asya’s frank and temperamental behavior. Her brother thinks she is reckless, and the main character reflects on her character, thinking that it is madness to marry a seventeen-year-old girl with such a character. In addition, he found out that Asya was illegitimate, and such a wedding would have caused misunderstanding in secular circles! Even a short analysis of the story “Asya” showed that this ruined their relationship, and when N.N. came to his senses, it was already too late.

Of course, we have something to think about: could Gagin reason with his sister, whom he loved so much, and whose whims he always fulfilled, and convince her not to rush things? Or maybe Gagin should have talked more openly with N.N.? Should Asya have made such a hasty decision and left the relationship? Wasn't this cruel to the main character? And Mr. N.N. himself - was he ready to fight for his love, go against secular rules, put his feelings above? Well, there are a lot of questions, but can anyone give clear answers to them? Hardly. Let everyone find the answer for themselves...

You have read the analysis of the story “Asya” by Turgenev, also in this article the plot of the story was presented very briefly, a description of the image of Asya and characteristics of all the characters.

It was based on the features inherent in the writer’s biography. The characterization of Asya in the story “Asya” is impossible without a brief excursion into the life, or rather the love of Ivan Sergeevich.

Eternal friend of Pauline Viardot

The relationship between Polina Viardot and Ivan Sergeevich lasted 40 long years. It was a love story that settled in the heart of only one person, Turgenev, and the woman he passionately revered did not reciprocate his feelings. She was married. And for all four decades, Ivan Sergeevich came to their house as an eternal and forever faithful friend of the family. Having settled “on the edge of someone else’s nest,” the writer tried to build his own, but until the end of his life he loved Pauline Viardot. Viardot became a homewrecker, a killer of the happiness of girls who recklessly fell in love with Ivan Sergeevich.

It is worth saying that the tragic relationship with Viardot was not new to him. The very young Ivan, at the age of eighteen, fell in love with his daughter Katenka. The sweet angelic creature that the girl seemed to be at first glance, in fact, did not turn out to be such. She had a long relationship with the main village ladies' man. By evil irony, the girl’s heart was conquered by Sergei Nikolaevich Turgenev, the writer’s father.

However, not only did the writer have his heart broken, he himself more than once rejected the women who loved him. After all, until the end of his days he adored Pauline Viardot.

Characteristics of Asya in the story “Asya”. Type of Turgenev girl

Many people know that Turgenev’s girls exist, but few remember what she is like, the heroine from the writer’s stories.

The portrait characteristics of Asya found on the pages of the story are as follows.

As can be seen from the above lines, Asya had atypical beauty: her boyish appearance combined short large eyes fringed with long eyelashes and an unusually slender figure.

A brief description of Asya and her external image would be incomplete without mentioning that, most likely, it reflected Turgenev’s disappointment in the circle (consequences towards Ekaterina Shakhovskaya).

It is here, on the pages of the story “Asya”, that not only Turgenev’s girl, but Turgenev’s feeling of love is born. Love is compared to revolution.

Love, like revolution, tests heroes and their feelings for perseverance and vitality.

Asya's origin and character

The backstory of the heroine's life made a significant contribution to the girl's character. She is the illegitimate daughter of a landowner and a maid. Her mother tried to raise her strictly. However, after Tatyana’s death, Asya was taken in by her father. Because of him, feelings such as pride and distrust arose in the girl’s soul.

The characterization of Asya from Turgenev's story introduces initial inconsistencies into her image. She is contradictory and playful in her relationships with all people. If you take her interest in everything around her, you can understand that the girl shows this a little unnaturally. Since she looks at everything with curiosity, but in fact does not delve into anything carefully or peer into it.

Despite her inherent pride, she has a strange predilection: making acquaintances with people who are lower in class than her.

Moment of Spiritual Awakening

The characterization of Asya from Turgenev’s story will be incomplete without considering the issue of the spiritual awakening of the main characters: Asya and Mr. N.N.

The hero and author of the story, having met Asya in a small German town, feels that his soul trembled. We can say that he came to life spiritually and opened up to his feelings. Asya removes the pink veil through which he looked at himself and his life. N.N. understands how false his existence was until the moment he met Asya: time wasted on travel now seems to him an unaffordable luxury.

The reborn worldview of Mr. N.N. looks forward to every meeting with trepidation. However, faced with a choice: love and responsibility or loneliness, he comes to the conclusion that it is absurd to marry someone whose temper he can never conquer.

Love also helps Asya’s character reveal itself. She begins to realize herself as an individual. Now she cannot get by with the usual reading of books from which she learned about “true” love. Asya opens up to feelings and hopes. For the first time in her life, she stopped doubting and opened herself up to vivid feelings.

What is she like, Asya, in the eyes of Mr. N.N.?

The characterization of Asya in the story “Asya” is not carried out by Ivan Sergeevich himself; he assigns this task to his hero, Mr. N.N.

Thanks to this, we can notice the transformation of the hero’s attitude towards his beloved: from hostility to love and misunderstanding.

Mr. N.N. noted Asya’s spiritual impulse, wanting to show her “high” origin:

At first, all her actions seem like “childish antics” to him. But soon he saw her in the guise of a frightened but beautiful bird:

The relationship between Asya and Mr. N.N.

The verbal characterization of Asya in the story “Asya” predicts the tragic outcome of the emerging relationship between the heroine and Mr. N.N.

By nature, Asya is a contradictory person from her very roots. One has only to remember the girl’s attitude towards her mother and her origins:

The girl loved to be paid attention to, and at the same time was afraid of it, since she was quite timid and bashful.

Asya dreams of a hero who will become for her the embodiment of happiness, love and thought. A hero who can meekly oppose himself to “human vulgarity” in order to save love.

Asya saw her hero in Mr. N.N.

The girl fell in love with the narrator from the first moment they met. She wanted to intrigue him and at the same time show that she was a well-born young lady, and not some kind of daughter of Tatyana’s maid. This behavior, unusual for her, influenced the first impression formed by Mr. N.N.

Then she falls in love with N.N. and begins to expect from him not just actions, but an answer. The answer to the question that worries her: “What to do?” The heroine dreams of a heroic deed, but never receives it from her lover.

But why? The answer is simple: Mr. N.N. not endowed with the spiritual wealth inherent in Asa. His image is quite meager and a little sad, although not without a touch of edification. This is how he appears to us according to Chernyshevsky. Turgenev himself sees him as a man with a trembling, tormented soul.

“Asya”, characterization of N.N.

Soul impulses, thoughts about the meaning of life were unfamiliar to the hero of the story N.N., on whose behalf the story is told. He led a dissolute life in which he did what he wanted and thought only about his own desires, neglecting the opinions of others.

He did not care about a sense of morality, duty, responsibility. He never thought about the consequences of his actions, while shifting the most important decisions onto the shoulders of others.

However, N.N. - not the complete embodiment of the bad hero of the story. Despite everything, he did not lose the ability to understand and separate good from evil. He is quite curious and inquisitive. The purpose of his journey is not the desire to explore the world, but the dream of getting to know many new people and faces. N.N. He is quite proud, but he is not alien to the feeling of rejected love: he was previously in love with a widow who rejected him. Despite this, he remains a kind and quite pleasant young man of 25 years old.

Mr. N.N. realizes that Asya is a girl with oddities, so she is afraid in the future to encounter unexpected turns in her character. In addition, he sees marriage as an unbearable burden, the basis of which is responsibility for someone else’s fate and life.

Afraid of change and a changeable but full life, N.N. refuses possible mutual happiness, placing on Asya's shoulders the responsibility for deciding the outcome of their relationship. Having thus committed betrayal, he predicts in advance a lonely existence for himself. Having betrayed Asya, he rejected life, love, and the future. However, Ivan Sergeevich is in no hurry to reproach him. Since he himself paid for the mistake he made...

Composition

Subject: My attitude to the story Asya

For I.S. Turgenev’s impetus for starting work on the story, according to the author, was the following impression: “Driving on a boat past a small house, I saw the sweetest girl. Then suddenly a special mood came over me. I began to figure out who this girl was, what she was like and why she was in this house - and so right there, in the boat, the whole plot of the story came together for me.” Work on the work ended in 1858.

The plot of “Asia” is extremely simple. A certain Mr. N.N. meets a girl Anna Nikolaevna (Asya), falls in love, does not immediately dare to offer her his hand, and having decided, he finds out that the girl has left, disappearing from his life forever.

The heroine of the story, seventeen-year-old Asya, is a girl of difficult Russian fate. The heroine, the daughter of a landowner and a maid, was raised for a long time in a village family. She lived her childhood with her mother in meager conditions, and her adolescence in the manor's house. This could not but affect the formation of Asya’s character. N.N. describes her as gracefully built, very pretty, who “had something of her own, special, in the complexion of her darkish round face, with a small thin nose, almost childish cheeks and black, light eyes.” Her “black hair, cut and combed like a boy’s, fell in large curls over her neck and ears.”

N.N. I first met Asya and Gagin at a student festival. Asya introduced herself as Gagin’s sister. Every day the main character visited them and at each meeting he discovered something new in Asa. “What a chameleon this girl is!” - he thought once again. N.N. I admired and a little irritated this uncertainty in the girl. The hero fell in love...

Turgenev masterfully shows the emergence of love feelings in the hero. On the first date, the girl seemed very pretty to him.

Next - a conversation in the Gagins' house, Asya's strange behavior, a moonlit night, a boat, Asya on the shore, throwing out an unexpected phrase: “You drove into a moon pillar, you broke it...” - this is enough for the hero to feel happy . Somewhere in the depths of his soul the thought of love is born, but he does not give it a go. Soon, with pleasure, the hero begins to guess that Asya loves him. He drowns in this blissful sweet feeling...

Asya's strange behavior is explained by the fact that at first she lived in a village house, and after her mother died, her father took her to the manor's house. As a result of the events that took place, Asya began to shy away from strangers, and only really got used to her older brother Gagin. Asya constantly tried to overcome her stiffness and timidity. She was shy and did not know how to behave with the young man she liked. And trying to hide her shyness, the girl did not sit still for a single moment. And also, perhaps, this was due to the fact that she did not forget about the fact of her fate.
During the date, Asya hoped for reciprocity and expected warm words addressed to her. But N.N. although he loved, he did not understand the hints, or, perhaps, did not understand his feelings. The heroine's first love remains unhappy. After the date, Asya and Gagin disappear. The search for the girl does not yield results.

Indecisiveness of Mr. N.N. is explained by Turgenev’s feeling about the irresponsibility of youth, the belief that life is endless and everything can happen again. Obviously, this is why N.N. In those years, he didn’t feel sad for Asa for too long; only many years later did he understand the significance of meeting her in his life.

After reading the story, I learned for myself - A person should feel a sense of responsibility for himself and those around him at every minute of his life - I learned such an important life lesson for myself from the story.

Topics that reveal the student’s attitude towards the hero of a literary work can be formulated in different ways: “Which of the heroes (of the work) is closer to me and why?”, “My attitude towards the hero (heroes) of the work”, “My favorite literary hero”, etc. .P.

Essays in which students directly express their attitude towards literary characters should be preceded by experience in characterizing a literary character. We begin writing character essays in the 5th grade, mastering in the process of text analysis such theoretical and literary concepts as “portrait of a literary hero,” “hero’s speech,” “author’s attitude toward the hero” (author’s position). Comparative characteristics of the heroes of one work are the next stage of work on the literary image.

As students develop literary and age-wise, we increase the context of comparison (comparing literary heroes of different works of art, eras, movements, heroes of Russian and world literature), complicating the goals and objectives of the work. Thus, the topic proposed in 8th grade “My attitude towards the heroes of I. S. Turgenev’s story “Asya” in the future, at the next stage of literary development, can be developed in a broader, philosophical context. For example, in line with D. S. Likhachev’s reflections on the uniqueness of the Russian character: “One trait, noticed long ago, really constitutes the misfortune of Russians: to go to extremes in everything, to the limit of the possible, and at the same time in the shortest possible time... Thanks to this, Russia “The line has always been on the verge of extreme danger - this is beyond any doubt, and in Russia there was no happy present, but only a dream of the future that replaced it.”

At the initial stage - the characteristics of a literary hero, expressing one’s attitude towards him - such works, as a rule, do not cause much difficulty for students. Nevertheless, the most common mistake in their writing is the absence in the work of a direct characterization of the hero, which would motivate the attitude expressed towards him. Often the student is in a hurry to express his opinion, skipping an important stage of work - reflection on the image of the hero, attention to the author's position - which are possible only on the specific material of the analyzed literary text. In order to focus students’ attention on revealing the images of the heroes, we will slightly change the traditional topic: instead of “My attitude towards the heroes of I. S. Turgenev’s story “Asya”” - “The heroes of I. S. Turgenev’s story “Asya” and my attitude towards them "

Focusing on the characteristics of the hero, relying on the material provided by the text (portrait, speech, actions, the author’s attitude towards the hero), help the student avoid unfounded assessments and superficial judgments. In real life, this contributes to the development in students of such qualities as observation and the desire for objectivity when expressing their own opinions.

Since any creative work in literature is directly related to the analysis of the work, directly or indirectly motivated by its nature, goals and objectives, we recommend turning to the materials of the textbook for grade 8, ed. V. G. Marantsman, as well as methodological recommendations for the textbook, which will help the teacher plan lessons on the work.

Experience shows that students read the story with interest: the topic of human feelings and relationships is interesting to teenagers. The main difficulty is understanding the image of the main character of the story - Asya and feeling the lyrical leitmotif of the story - “happiness has no tomorrow.”

The naturalness and openness of nature, the strength and fearlessness of feelings, the ability to respond with the heart to everything that happens in life are not always close to the consciousness of a modern person: a fairly rational, pragmatic person. The understanding of the uniqueness of a meeting, a “moment” that fate gives to a person only once and for which he is most often not ready, like the hero of Turgenev’s story, is not close to the 13-14 year old reader. And this is explained not only by his little life experience, but also by the different worldview of a person in the 21st century, who lives in the era of virtual reality: everything can be replicated, repeated, replayed, like in a movie, duplicated. Uniqueness, singularity, uniqueness as characteristics of certain life situations, feelings, relationships are denied as such today. Mass culture puts forward an alternative thesis: everything is repeatable, reproducible, replaceable. Attempts at self-expression most often ultimately lead to unification - since initially they are based on a veiled desire to “be like everyone else.”

The essay “Heroes of I. S. Turgenev’s story “Asya” and my attitude towards them,” on the one hand, is an educational work, the purpose of which is to teach students to express their attitude towards literary heroes, actively using literary text to argue their thoughts and feelings (reliance on the characteristics of the image), on the other hand, it gives students the opportunity to better understand the characters of the characters and the author’s position in the work, and once again think about the actions of the characters and their attitude towards them.

Below we present the students' work, accompanied by a brief analysis and recommendations for further work. We selected essays that differ in the level of mastery of the material and style of thinking. They will help you see how the process of working on an essay goes for different students. All of them are presented without stylistic correction, although almost all of them contain speech errors and shortcomings, which, in our deep conviction, reflect the inaccuracy, first of all, of the thought itself.

The heroes of I. S. Turgenev’s story “Asya” and my attitude towards them

1. Draft of an essay by Olga Pantyukhova.

In I. S. Turgenev’s story “Asya” there are three main characters: Asya, Gagin and N. N.

Gagin is a nobleman, an educated man. He played the piano, composed music, painted pictures - in general, he led a secular lifestyle.

He considered his paternal sister Asya “kind, but with a bad head.” “It’s hard to get along with her,” he said. “You have to get to know her well in order to judge her!”

Asya was short, “gracefully built, but as if not yet fully developed.” Her hair was black, “cut and combed like a boy’s,” her face was dark, round, “with a small thin nose, almost childish cheeks and black eyes.”

She was very active, “she never sat still for a moment; she got up, ran away and came running again, hummed in a low voice, often laughed, and in a strange way: it seemed that she was laughing not at what she heard, but at various thoughts that came into her head. Her large eyes looked straight, bright, bold, but sometimes her eyelids squinted slightly, and then her gaze suddenly became deep and tender.”

N.N. was a free-thinking man, not bothering himself with anything, an ordinary nobleman who went to travel “without any goal, without a plan”; “he lived without looking back, did what he wanted, prospered, in a word.” When traveling, he was most interested in faces, “living, human faces - people’s speech, their movements, laughter - that’s what I couldn’t do without,” he said. N.N. loved to be in a crowd and communicate with people. He often passed off all his fleeting hobbies as serious feelings, so perhaps he was unable to correctly address Asa, to understand her when she wanted to confess her feelings to him. He behaved tactlessly, accusing Asya of something she didn’t think about, and especially couldn’t do: “You didn’t allow the feeling that was beginning to mature to develop, you yourself broke our connection, you didn’t have trust in me, you doubted in my..."

Thus, when I read the story, I still thought about the question: why did fate not unite the heroes, why did it all end this way? So unexpected and sad? After all, there were no barriers for the heroes; they could influence their fate themselves.

Here only the action, done or not done on time, plays a role. N.N. was to blame for the fact that everything turned out this way. He had a chance both at the moment when they met Asya, and at the moment when he decided that “tomorrow he will be happy.” But “happiness has no tomorrow; he doesn’t even have yesterday; it does not remember the past, does not think about the future; he has a present - and that’s not a day - but a moment.” And N.N. missed his happiness. His frivolity ruined his fate. And he himself, having already lived his life, realized this, “condemned to the loneliness of a familyless bastard,” “...what happened to me? What remains of me, from those blissful and anxious days, from those winged hopes and aspirations?

Turgenev's story “Asya” is a story about unfulfilled love, irretrievably lost hope for happiness.

This work is the result of the student’s attentive attitude to the text of the work and active participation in the analysis.

We see that the character of each of the heroes of the story as a whole is recreated correctly. The portrait of Gagin is not fully drawn in the work. Although he plays a less significant role in the story compared to other characters in the story, his image is ambiguous. When characterizing Gagin, it is important, on the one hand, to note the irony with which the author speaks about his painting activities (and in this superficial attitude to art, Gagin and N.N. are close), on the other hand, to emphasize Gagin’s sincere attitude towards Asya’s fate, his ability to understand her difference from others, to accept her as she is - something N.N. is not capable of.

Asya's portrait is drawn in sufficient detail, but lacks evaluation. It remains not entirely clear how the author of the essay relates to Asya, what associations the image created by the artist evokes. It is also necessary to think about how best to introduce her portrait into the essay. Some significant episodes of the narrative were missed during the analysis: “why don’t people fly”, the waltz scene. Turning to these episodes would help to “hear” the melody of love in the story, to join the style of the author’s narration.

The advantage of the work is, undoubtedly, its reliance on the text of the work of art and the skillful introduction of quotations. But the “size” of each quote must be reduced to the minimum that reflects the essence of the thought.

The introduction directly leads to the topic of the essay, but is stereotypical and lacks a dialogue mindset. The final part of the work successfully reflects the general meaning of the story, but does not reveal the reader’s position of the student. There are speech impediments.

2. Draft of an essay by Viktor Lukyanov.

All of you have probably heard about I. S. Turgenev’s work “Asya” or read this story. This work is known to many people because what is written in it is very close to reality. This is not some simple novel. This is a life where actions are so natural that sometimes it seems as if the writer did not invent the story, but he only transferred to paper what happened in life.

N.N. is an ordinary young nobleman who is looking for something new, without having a specific goal in life.

Asya is a young girl who is interested in everything. She is honest and in many situations does not know how to behave.

N.N. fell in love with Asya, and she fell in love with him, it seemed that everything should go well, but this work is too similar to life for it to have such a happy ending. After all, a person’s life cannot be ideal.

He is a nobleman, but she is not, what will happen after the wedding? He will lose everything, and this fear prevailed over love, and they parted.

Despite the fact that the heroes broke up, N.N. continues to love Asya with her heart. And in the end, love conquers fear, but it was already too late. And there is nothing left but sadness. And she manages and warms his heart.

The characteristics of the heroes are given too generally, although their main features are correctly captured. The logic of thinking is interesting, according to which “Asya is honest”, therefore in many situations she does not know how to behave. At first glance, it is illogical. But, if you think about it, a “natural” person does not have “prepared” behavior for different life situations. It would be interesting to develop thought in this direction.

It is necessary to supplement the characteristics of the characters: emphasize Asya’s uniqueness, highlight N.N.’s attitude to life at the beginning of the story, say a few words about Gagina; compare heroes. Enter small quotes that accurately and figuratively characterize each of the characters. Is it possible to prove in text that N.N. was prevented from marrying Asa by her non-noble origins (this is stated in the work). The work does not clearly express its own attitude towards the characters in the story.

The dialogical nature of the narrative is outlined in the introduction, but it is not developed further. In general, what was written is a sketch, outlines for future work. The absence of support from the text perpetuates thinking and impoverishes thought.

It is necessary to develop independent thoughts, actively drawing on the text of the work and the results of analysis.

3. Draft of an essay by Svetlana Golubeva.

The main character of the story is Asya: short, gracefully built, short black curls, black eyes. Although her name was “Anna,” for some reason everyone affectionately called her “Asya.” She was about seventeen. Agile, agile, she even seemed a little daring, and her whole being “strove for the truth.” She believed that “flattery and cowardice are the worst vices.”

In this story, a trusting, sweet girl, unlike others, attracts the attention of a young man - I.N. She gives birth to conflicting feelings in his heart. The hero of the story himself cannot fully understand his feelings for Asya, because he has never had a serious relationship with girls her age. I think that before meeting Asya N.N. was even cynical about girls. Soon he began to forget his wrong feelings. And yet it seems to me that N.N. is a frivolous, flighty person, incapable of real feelings. He was too amorous and careless, because all his life he did not bother himself with anything. As he talks about himself, he “lived without looking back,” “he did what he wanted.” It never occurred to him that he couldn’t live like that. Much later, the hero will understand that “youth eats gilded gingerbread, and thinks that this is their daily bread, but the time will come - and you’ll ask for some bread.”

Gagin is an unusual person. There is something “soft” in his whole appearance: soft curly hair, “soft” eyes. He loves nature and art, although he clearly did not have enough patience and hard work for serious painting. But at the same time, he loves Asya strongly and sincerely, like a brother, and worries about her fate.

After listening to Asya’s confession, N.N. does not appreciate her action, and even pretends that she is indifferent to him. Asya is confused, in despair, she loses faith in everything that was so important to her. She had to endure and experience a lot. After all, she was so afraid of this disappointment, but it overtook her. Asya is naive, she still does not know how difficult and cruel life is. The heroine evokes pity, sympathy and understanding in me. At the end of the story, N.N. admits that in fact he never experienced such feelings for anyone as for Asya: “There was a burning, tender and deep feeling only then. No! No eyes have ever looked at me with such love!”

N.N. loses Asya. She remained in his memory as the same girl as he knew her at the best time of his life and as he saw her for the last time. He realized too late what a mistake he had made. “Tomorrow I will be happy,” he thought. But “happiness has no tomorrow”...

In the work one can feel the student’s “capture” by the heroine’s feelings. It is no coincidence that she writes that she understands the heroine.

Here we clearly see the “involvement” of a work of art with the psychological dominant of age - the experiences of first love. The internal state of the heroine at the moment of her meeting with N.N. is precisely understood: Asya “loses faith in everything that was so important to her.”

The characters' characters are described quite fully. The transition to Gagin's characterization was not entirely successful. There is no comparison with N.N. and no conclusions. Good choice of quotes. Unfortunately, some important episodes of the story are not mentioned in the work, so the author was not entirely able to recreate the poetic atmosphere of the story or convey the “music” of the text, which, of course, impoverishes the analysis of the story. Apparently, this layer of the work was somewhat ignored by the student. The focus is on the plot.

4. Draft of Anikin Stanislav’s essay.

In literature class we read I. S. Turgenev’s story “Asya”. I am very sorry that Asya and N.N. did not stay together. If N.N. had not lived for “tomorrow,” they would have been happy.

Asya had an extraordinary appearance. Almost childish cheeks, black eyes, small nose. She was gracefully built and resembled Raphael's Galatea. Her inner restlessness and desire to show off confused N.N. She alternately laughed and was sad: “What a chameleon this girl is!” But he liked her soul.

Gagin, Asya's brother, loved to draw, but all the paintings remained unfinished. Despite his love for nature and art, he lacked hard work and patience. It is no coincidence that, describing one of the walks of Gagin and N.N., when Gagin decided to “work,” Turgenev notes that the heroes began to talk with such pleasure, as if they were doing something useful. But, despite the author’s ironic attitude towards the “artist,” we see that Gagin was capable of sincere love for his sister and was worried about her fate.

During the date, Asya was like a “scared bird.” She was trembling, and at first N.N. felt sorry for her, his heart “melted” in him. Then, remembering Gagina, N.N. began to shout at Asya and gradually became more and more cruel. Asya did not understand the reasons for his cruelty. I.I. knew that he was deceiving her. Asya rushed to the door and ran away, and he stood “as if struck by thunder.”

N.I. loved Asya. If he had only said one word, they would have been together. Fear tormented him, frustration gnawed at him. He felt regret, remorse. How can you marry a seventeen year old girl! And at the same time, he was almost ready to tell Gagin about this and decided to postpone it until tomorrow. “Tomorrow I will be happy!” But “happiness has no tomorrow” ... The critic N. G. Chernyshevsky wrote that all Russian “Romeos” are like that.

In general, the student correctly grasped the meaning of Turgenev’s story. The work contains episodes from the text, quotes, and Chernyshevsky’s point of view. But it is difficult for a student to logically connect micro-topics and move from text reproduction to independent reflection. One’s own attitude towards the characters is clearly not expressed enough; there is no involvement in the world of the work of art, in the world of the author and the characters. That is why the work pays so little attention to the experiences of the characters and their feelings.

Despite all the shortcomings, the work is completely independent.

It is necessary to once again turn to the materials for the essay and think about the proposed questions.

5. Draft of Ulyana Karpuzova’s essay.

The heroes of Turgenev's story “Asya” aroused conflicting feelings in me. It's a little hard for me to know how I feel about them. I'll try to think about it.

At first it was not clear to me why Asya changes so much throughout the story. At the beginning, the author describes her like this: “Her big eyes looked straight, bright, bold,” “her gaze became deep and tender,” “her movements were very sweet.” “There was something restless in all her movements”; by nature she was “bashful and timid.” She was gracefully built and resembled Raphael's Galatea.

Even N.N. notices something strange, or rather, extraordinary, in her. The reader gets the feeling that each chapter describes different girls. Now she is a peasant girl, now a funny child, now a socialite, now a woman who loves with all her soul. Asya is different, but always sincere. The heroine changes roles, remaining herself. Her big black eyes always sparkled with sincerity.

I noticed that Asya is very different from Gagin and N.N. There is something restless about her. Maybe it’s a hot-tempered, daring, constantly changing character, or maybe it’s blood, which contains both the simplicity and tenderness of a Russian woman, and the obstinacy and spoiledness of a society young lady. Feeling any feelings, be it love or hatred, she experiences them to the end, deeply, with all her soul. I think that this is precisely what distinguishes the “Turgenev” girl from all the others. Asya is very close to me in spirit, I understand her every movement, look, and words. It seems to me that we are even similar.

In Gagina I see a friend. A simple, interesting young man, a funny artist and a caring brother.

I treat N.N. completely differently. He seems to me brave, sensual, but not capable of decisive action. He is inquisitive, loves to travel, meet different people. But his problem is that he is afraid of his feelings.

Gagin and N.N. are similar. They are always interested in being together. They find common topics for conversation. N.N. describes one of these conversations as follows: “Having chatted to our heart’s content and filled with a feeling of satisfaction, as if we had done something...” He seems to ironically emphasize the invariable feature of the Russian soul - the love of conversation.

It’s strange to us why Asya and N.N. don’t stay together. It seems that there are no obstacles to their relationship. On the date, Asya trembled “like a frightened bird”; she could barely hold back “the tears that were boiling up.” She was all so touching and helpless at that moment.

She sincerely loved N.N. and was ready to do anything for the sake of love. And N.N. felt sorry for her, his “heart melted,” he “forgot everything.” But at some point he feels bitter and begins to reproach her, knowing that he is deceiving both her and himself. “I’m a liar,” he says later when he admits his mistake.

“Tomorrow I will be happy”... These words become fatal for N.N. If then he had not trusted his mind, but relied on his heart, everything would have ended differently. It's strange how just one action can deprive us of happiness forever.

It seems to me that the bitter fates of the heroes of the story teach us to believe our feelings and always trust our hearts.

A distinctive feature of the work is the author’s lively “participation” in the destinies of the heroes and a mature, independent attitude towards their actions. Sympathy for the heroine of the story, discovery, recognition of oneself in her stimulates the student’s creative imagination, which is especially noticeable in the analysis of the portrait of the heroine. The student managed to understand the motives of N.N.’s actions and “separate” feelings and reason in his characterization.

Unfortunately, important “poetic episodes” are missed - the waltz scene, the dialogue between Asya and N.N. “Why don’t people fly...”, and the general musical tonality of the story is left unattended.

6. Draft of Daria Zakharova’s essay.

In the story “Asya” by I. S. Turgenev we are talking about the fate of the three main characters: Asya, N. N. and Gagin. While reading Turgenev’s two other stories, “First Love” and “Spring Waters,” I came to the conclusion that the writer puts his main characters through the test of love. What a person is like in love is the kind of person he is.

In the story “Asya”, the heroine Asya evokes my greatest sympathy, because she is closer to me in spirit. She's not like everyone else. She gives me conflicting feelings. On the one hand, this is understanding and sympathy, but on the other hand, there is indignation and even indignation for her daring, unpredictable behavior. Asya's portrait changes throughout the story. She seems to be trying on different roles. In the beginning, she “didn’t sit still for a single moment; she got up, ran into the house and came running again.” Then she decided to play a new role - “the role of a decent and well-mannered young lady,” then Asya chooses the role of “a capricious girl with a forced laugh.” But most of all I was surprised by the image of a “simple girl”, almost a “maid”. At the end of the story, I see a completely different Asya - a woman who loves with all her heart, ready to do anything for her love. Despite all the unpredictability of Asya’s behavior, I consider her a kind, sincere girl.

I treat N.N. differently. He was an independent person who loved to travel without any purpose, without a plan. At first he lives as if in an idyll: he is slightly in love, he is also interested in new faces. After meeting Asya and Gagin, he begins to anticipate happiness. N.N. peers at Asya, at her graceful movements, at the “most changeable face” he has ever seen and for some reason begins to feel annoyed. He is irritated by the fact that he involuntarily constantly thinks about Asa. He does not think about the fact that happiness is close, but he is not ready for love.

It seems to me that N.N. and Gagin are similar. They were interested together, they had common topics for conversation, because they were from the same noble circle, both were young and not particularly hard-working. In Gagina, I see a caring brother who will do anything to ensure that Asya’s heart is not broken.

In order to understand the feelings of the main characters, you need to analyze the date scene. On a date, Asya “trembles like a frightened bird,” and I.N. experiences bitterness. After an unsuccessful date, having abandoned Asya, N.N. suddenly realized that he loved her, began to lavish vows and confessions into the blackness of the night, and was now annoyed with himself. “One word... Oh, I'm crazy! This word... I repeated it with tears... among the empty fields... but I did not tell her that I loved her... Yes, I could not utter this word then. When I met her in that fateful room. I did not have a clear consciousness of my love; it did not wake up even when I sat with her brother in meaningless and painful silence... It flared up with uncontrollable force only a few moments later, when, frightened by the possibility of misfortune, I began to look for and call her... but already then it was too late "

Happiness postponed until tomorrow turns out to be impossible. “Tomorrow I will be happy!” But “happiness has no tomorrow; he doesn’t even have yesterday; it does not remember the past, does not think about the future; he has only the present - and that’s not a day, but a moment.”

It is gratifying that the author of the work read and mentioned Turgenev’s other stories about love, which indicates an interest in the writer’s work. The student writes that the heroine of the story is “close in spirit” to her, but, unfortunately, she does not fully reveal this kinship of souls, just as the entire appearance of Asya is not fully outlined in the essay. What is felt here is not a lack of understanding of the heroine, but simply an “unspokenness”: the intuitive and emotional attitude towards the heroine is not fully clarified in thoughts, not entirely realized. In general, N.N.’s attitude towards Asya is clearly indicated: the hero “refuses” happiness. To a small extent, the content of the work was influenced by the textbook article, but in general the work is independent. It is interesting to note that the choice of all the children who used the textbook material fell precisely on the phrase about the “idyll” in which the hero resides before meeting Asya, and on the idea that the hero does not notice that he is standing “on the threshold of love.”

Apparently, this choice can be explained not so much by the desire to confirm one’s own thoughts with someone else’s successful comparison, but by the desire to express one’s thoughts beautifully, as in a book. The very style of student essays does not give us grounds to say that the work is not independent.

Left out of sight, as in many other works, was the theme of music and “flight” in the story.

7. Draft of an essay by Vadim Ryzhkov.

It is difficult to find a person who has not read or, in extreme cases, not heard about Turgenev’s “Ace”. She, like, for example, “Poor Liza” by Karamzin, turned over time into a kind of symbol. As soon as you say the title of the story, everyone immediately understands that we are talking about a sad love story. The beautiful turns out to be unrealistic. It becomes sad and bright because love passed very close, touched and left. Such experiences are called “romantic.”

Firstly, you still need to read the story “Asya” very carefully. Secondly, think about it, forgetting about the initial mood. Before I read the story, it seemed to me that “Asya” was just another fairy tale about vows and tears.

It turns out that Turgenev is realistic here to such an extent that you get scared and believe every word. The main character N.N. looks like a non-fictional character, so the author, I think, partially describes himself, his friends, and contemporaries in general in him. Yes, I.I. is a thinking, reasonable person of the 19th-20th-21st centuries. The hero is 25 years old, he has traveled all over the world, has a position in society, and was once infatuated with a young widow. But when he met Asya, a young seventeen-year-old girl, he truly fell in love for the first time.

Sympathy arises between them. Asya expresses it sincerely and openly. She "can't pretend." And N.N., on the contrary, hides her love. He's trying to be noble. He indulges Asya without understanding himself. The hero cannot decide on the proposal until the last page of the story. N.N. lies to himself and does not doubt the correctness of what he is doing.

N.N.’s problem is not the different social status between him and his beloved. It seems that happiness is so close. It is possible. I.N. says “I love her,” but he himself is afraid of his feelings. It seems to me that the characters are so different! They would have to show infinite patience to live together. N.I. is afraid of Asya’s love and explosive temperament.

In the last lines of the story, the hero experiences slight regret and nostalgia for failed love. It seems to me that Asya deserves more pity, and not N.N. Of course, N.I. is also worthy of sympathy, because what is it like to “stop in front of the door behind which lies happiness and not open it because of your own fears and emotions.”

The work stands out sharply for its “literariness.” The student seeks to distance himself from the narrative, as it were, choosing the role of a literary critic. It is interesting that what the student likes most about the story is the “realism” of the images and narration. The individual manner of thinking reveals a real reader in the author of the work. Despite all the roughness of some phrases, the thoughts expressed are interesting and independent.

Unfortunately, important episodes of the text are not analyzed, the characters of the characters are not outlined in as much detail as the topic requires.

But the general background of reflection is quite broad, self-sufficient, and interesting.

8. Draft of an essay by Nikolai Yakushev.

Turgenev's story "Asya" was read easily and quickly by many in the class. I liked her too.

The main character of this story, N.N., did everything he wanted. It never occurred to him that “man is not a plant and cannot flourish for long.” Nature had an extraordinary effect on him. He traveled without any purpose, without a plan, stopping wherever he liked. He felt a passionate desire to see new faces. That's how he met Asya.

But Asya was very unusual. Even in N.N. she evoked a contradictory feeling. He spoke of her like this: “What a chameleon this girl is,” “the most changeable face I have ever seen.” Asya was gracefully built. She had large black eyes, a small thin nose, and childish cheeks. And there was some kind of insolence in her whole being.

“She wanted...to make the whole world forget her origins; she was ashamed of her mother and ashamed of her shame,” Gagin said about Asa. “The life that started wrong” turned out “wrongly,” but “the heart in it did not deteriorate, the mind survived.”

Gagin is a nice young man. He loved Asya like a brother. When N.N. went on a date with Asya, all his thoughts were confused in his head. For a long time different feelings fought within him. “I can’t marry her,” N.N. decided.

On a date, he saw Asya, who was trembling like a frightened bird. He felt sorry for her, but when he remembered Gagina, he behaved differently. N.N. walked and said “as if in a fever,” reproaching Asya for something.

Then this bitterness gave way to annoyance at myself: “Can I lose her?” “Madman! Madman,” he repeated to himself. N.N. decides that “tomorrow he will be happy.” But “happiness has no tomorrow; he doesn’t even have yesterday; it does not remember the past, does not think about the future; he has only the present - and that’s not a day, but a moment.”

The next day Asya left, and N.N. realized that he would never see her again. If that same night he would have said just one word to her!.. “One word... I didn’t tell her that I love her.”

N.N. experienced such a feeling only for Asya, and such a feeling never happened again in his life.

The student knows the text of the work well. The student contrasts the “ordinariness” of N.N. and the “unusuality” of Asya, but does not further develop this idea.

In the essay, one senses the student’s empathy for what he is writing about, and the author’s sympathy for the characters in the story. Unfortunately, the key episodes of the story and the author's position were left unattended.

Apparently, the student did not have enough diligence for a more detailed analysis of the characters and actions of the heroes. Quotes are probably used from memory, which indicates a good knowledge of the text and the ability to grasp the main points. The conclusion also requires improvement, since it is not directly related to the purpose of the work.

9. Draft of an essay by Alexander Drozdov.

Now I’ve read the last page of Turgenev’s story “Asya”, and I begin to go through everything in my head, remember how I felt about the heroes of the story at the beginning of the work, and how at the end, and immediately a strange feeling and question arises in me: “Why is it all... Are the heroes unhappy? Now I'll try to think about it.

Asya, the main character of the work, looked very unusual. She was gracefully built, had large black eyes, and short curls framed her face. “I have not seen a more mobile creature,” said N.N., seeing Asya. Her life was very tragic: she is the daughter of a serf peasant woman and a landowner. After the death of her father, Asya found herself left to her own devices and began to think about her situation early. And for the first time she encountered such a feeling as love. It inspires her, gives her new strength, but remains unrequited. The man she fell in love with, Mr. N.I., was weak-willed and indecisive; he was afraid to show her his feelings, although he often thought about her. He liked her, but her determination repulsed him. On a date with Asya, N.N. begins to blame her for everything. He spoke as if in a fever: “It’s all your fault.” And then he admitted to himself that he had deceived himself and Asya.

Her brother Gagin, a handsome young man, took care of Asa and loved her like no one else, but he is not the main character in the story, although he tried to help Asa and N.N. find happiness.

“Tomorrow I will be happy!” - so said N.N., but he still did not know that “happiness has no tomorrow; he doesn’t even have yesterday; it does not remember the past, does not think about the future; he has only the present - and that’s not a day, but a moment.”

If only everything were so simple!.. There is only one life, and you need to live it in such a way that you don’t regret anything later. Each person has his own happiness, but it is not always taken seriously. If you have found your happiness, then you need to take care of it and never let it go, then everything will be fine. We build our own lives and our own happiness.

The author of the work is a student who rarely writes. It is difficult for him to speak. Interest in the story and the reflections of his classmates in class prompted him to take up the pen himself. Note that the student accurately conveys the psychological states of the characters (“the feeling inspires her,” N.N. “deceived himself and Asya,” etc.).

The author of the work transfers what he experienced in a literary text into real life. At first glance, this “naive realism” is repulsive, but, on the other hand, this frankness reveals the inner world of a student who practically does not speak in class and reads very little, but here, although straightforward, he tries to project his changed mind (see the beginning work - “I go over it in my head”) into my own life.

10. Draft of an essay by Tamara Fedoseeva.

Turgenev’s story “Asya” left me with sadness and tenderness. The story filled my soul with sadness, and the question involuntarily sounded: why did N.N. do this? Why did Asya leave the next morning? Why aren't the heroes together?

Asya is an unusual girl who feels and experiences everything a little differently, not like an ordinary secular girl. She is not afraid of her feelings. Asya is very brave and sincere.

Asya's appearance is unusual, as is her character.

N.N. is an ordinary nobleman who left the capital only to forget his next hobby, which he passes off as true love. N.N. lives for tomorrow. He thinks that tomorrow he will be happy. At the end of the story, these words are heard in two tenses: present and past. And only after living his life, he begins to understand that it was wasted: balls, easy hobbies.

But nothing compares to the feelings he felt for Asya, for this strangely changeable girl with an unusual character. N.N. attracted her to Asya lively mood, a face that changed every minute, not like masks instead of faces at balls for society ladies.

N.N. depended on the environment where relationships were feigned, but with Asya everything was so sincere that he simply could not help but fall in love with this open girl. It seems to me that this characterizes him as a person who can truly feel, understand, and empathize.

Gagin is a pleasant young man who loves Asya like his own sister. He loved to draw and play the piano, which characterizes him as a person who knows how to feel.

All the main characters treat each other with respect. Question: why does everything end so badly? After all, there are no barriers to I.I. and Asya getting married and being happy. But this is precisely where the drama of Turgenev’s story “Asya” lies.

I think that Turgenev wanted to show us true, real feelings in all manifestations in the story. He wanted to say that love is a feeling that fills a person’s entire soul and makes him omnipotent. No one and nothing stopped N.N. and Asya from being together. N.N. is to blame for this situation. I think that N.N. had never felt before what he felt for Asa. He could not cope with his new feeling, and therefore, on a date with Asya, he so unexpectedly turns from a very loving person into an indifferent, unexpectedly cruel one.

My attitude towards all the characters in the story is different. Towards Asa it is good, touching, sympathetic. To Gagin - indifferent.

And I treat N.N. as a person who has missed his happiness.

The work brings to the fore the emotional perception of the story. The focus is on the theme of love, which has become the main one for the author of the work.

The student strives to emphasize Asya’s “liveness” and unusualness in comparison with society ladies. The position from which the heroes are characterized is interesting. N.N. - Asya’s “choice”. Gagin was “ignored” by the author of the work, apparently as a hero who has no direct relation to the feelings of Asya and N.N.

The author of the work does not always manage to choose a grammatically correct form for expressing thoughts; the work suffers from repetitions, sometimes - speech cliches, behind which one can discern the inaccuracy of the thought - its lack of elaboration; emotions prevail over thinking.

It is necessary to revive the essay with key quotes, give examples of episodes in which the characters’ characters are revealed.

Summing up the overall analysis of the draft essays, we note the following.

• 1. All works represent the student’s independent reflection on what he has read.
• 2. Communication with the work of art took place: the students, to varying degrees of expression, entered into a dialogue with the literary text, characters, and author.
• 3. The material of art has become a stimulus for reflection on human characters and actions.
• 4. Students have mastered the text well and actively use quotations.
• 5. Most of the works are distinguished by compositional and logical harmony.
• 6. Characteristics of characters are easy for students, but often they are “curtailed” in nature, which, we believe, is explained not by ignorance of the material, but by the student’s haste in expressing his attitude towards the hero; dislike of careful description, laziness.
• 7. Some key episodes and the musical leitmotif of the work were left unattended in some works.
• 8. Introductions and conclusions, in general, correspond to the topic, but they clearly do not sufficiently create the setting for dialogical reflection.

We will show you how work on an essay can proceed and highlight the stages of work.

• 1st stage. Preparing for an essay.
• 1.1. Clarify to students the purpose of the work.
• 1.2. Selection of material: portraits of heroes, selection of episodes in which the characters’ characters are most clearly revealed.
• 1.3. Writing down key words and quotes that help the author create images of characters.
• 1.4. Identification of the author's position.
• 1.5. Determining your own attitude towards each of the characters. If the work is successfully analyzed, this work turns out to have already been done in class (on the questions and assignments of the textbook, methodological recommendations for the topic). Let's outline questions that will help students in their work. It will be better if these questions are the result of collective reflection on what you need to pay attention to when revealing the topic of the essay.
• 1) What attracted N.N. to Asa?
• 2) How does N.N. characterize himself at the beginning of the novel? How do we see the hero at the beginning and end of the story?
• 3) How are N.N. and Gagin similar and what distinguishes them?
• 4) At what moments does the hero feel happy?
• 5) How are the characters’ characters revealed during a date?
• 6) Why did N.N. do this? How does he explain his actions?
• 7) Why does “happiness have no tomorrow”?
• 8) How does the author relate to his characters? Compare the narrator's intonation at the beginning and end of the story.
• 9) Does my attitude towards the characters change throughout the story? Which of the characters in the story is closest to me and why?
• 10) When does music sound in the text? What role does it play in revealing the characters’ characters and the author’s position?
• 2nd stage. Draft of the main part of the essay
• 2.1. Writing characteristics of the main characters using selected material.
• 2.2. Expression of one’s own attitude towards the characters.
• 3rd stage. Working on the composition of the main part
• 3.1. According to what plan will the heroes be characterized?
• 3.2. Will the plan for characterizing each of them be the same?
• 3.3. In what part of the character’s characterization is it more appropriate to express the author’s position and personal attitude towards the hero?
• 4th stage. Writing an introduction and conclusion to a work
• 4.1. Do the introduction and conclusion relate to the main body of the essay?
• 4.2. How are the introduction and conclusion related?
• 4.3. To whom are the opening and closing words of the essay addressed?
• 4.4. Are the ending and the beginning of the work original or quite traditional in thought?
• 5th stage. Editing a draft work
• 5.1. Does the writing style match the topic and genre of the work?
• 5.2. Are there unreasonably long quotes or repetitions in the work?
• 5.3. Are the author's and reader's positions clearly expressed?
• 5.4. Does the essay have an addressee? (Direction of speech).
• 5.5. What is the nature of reflection: a statement of the given materials, reflection on them, the desire to include an imaginary interlocutor in the dialogue?
• 6th stage. Discussion of written works in class
• 6.1. Reading drafts of essays in class (fragments of works, individual compositional parts).
• 6.2. Reading out 1-2 works. (Encourages, comments, recommendations).
• 7th stage. Writing an essay
• 8th stage. Analysis of works. Grade

• Svirina N. M. Literature 8th grade. Part 2: textbook / ed. V. G. Marantsman.M. : Enlightenment. 2001. pp. 105-152.
• Svirina N. M. “Happiness has no tomorrow.” The story of I. S. Turgenev “Asya” // Literature: methodological recommendations. 8th grade / ed. V. G. Marantsman. M.: Education, 2004. pp. 128-140.

The story “Asya” by I. S. Turgenev tells how the acquaintance of the main character, Mr. N. N., with the Gagins develops into a love story, which turned out to be for the hero a source of both sweet romantic longing and bitter torment, which then, over the years, lost their sharpness, but doomed the hero to the fate of a bore.

An interesting fact is that the author refused to give the hero a name, and there is no portrait of him. Various explanations can be given for this, but one thing is certain: I. S. Turgenev shifts the emphasis from the external to the internal, immersing us in the emotional experiences of the hero. From the very beginning of the story, the writer arouses sympathy among readers and trust in the hero-narrator. We learn that he is a cheerful, healthy, rich young man who loves to travel, observe life and people. He recently experienced a love failure, but with the help of subtle irony we understand that the love was not real love, but only entertainment.

And then a meeting with Gagin, in whom he felt a kindred spirit, a similarity of interests in music, painting, and literature. Communication with him and his sister Asya immediately set the hero in a sublime romantic mood.

On the second day of their acquaintance, he carefully watches Asya, who both attracts him and arouses in him a feeling of annoyance and even hostility with inexplicable, free actions. The hero is not aware of what is happening to him. He feels some kind of vague uneasiness, which grows into an anxiety incomprehensible to him; that jealous suspicion that the Gagins are not relatives.

Two weeks of daily meetings passed. N.N. was increasingly upset by jealous suspicions, and although he did not fully realize his love for Asa, she gradually took possession of his heart. During this period, he is overwhelmed by persistent curiosity, some annoyance at the girl’s mysterious, inexplicable behavior, and a desire to understand her inner world.

But the conversation between Asya and Ganin overheard in the gazebo makes N.N. finally understand that he has already been captured by a deep and disturbing feeling of love. It is from him that he leaves for the mountains, and when he returns, he goes to the Ganins, having read the note from brother Asya. Having learned the truth about these people, he instantly regains his lost balance and defines his emotional state this way: “I felt some kind of sweetness - precisely sweetness in my heart: as if honey had been secretly poured into me ...” The landscape sketch in chapter 10 helps to understand the psychological state of the hero in this significant day, becoming the “landscape” of the soul. It is at this moment of merging with nature that a new turn takes place in the hero’s inner world: what was vague and anxious suddenly turns into an undoubted and passionate thirst for happiness, which is associated with Asya’s personality. But the hero prefers to mindlessly surrender to the oncoming impressions: “I’m not only talking about the future, I didn’t think about tomorrow, I felt very good.” This indicates that at that moment N.N. was only ready to enjoy romantic contemplation, he did not feel in himself that it was taking away prudence and caution, while Asya had already “grown wings”, a deep feeling came to her and irresistible. Therefore, in the meeting scene, N.N. seems to be trying to hide behind reproaches and loud exclamations his unpreparedness for reciprocal feelings, his inability to surrender to love, which so slowly matures in his contemplative nature.

Having parted with Asya after an unsuccessful explanation, N.N. still does not know what awaits him in the future, “the loneliness of a familyless little guy,” he hopes for “tomorrow’s happiness,” not knowing that “happiness has no tomorrow... it has the present is not a day, but a moment.” N.N.’s love for Asya, subject to the whimsical play of chance or the fatal predetermination of fate, will flare up later, when nothing can be corrected. The hero will be punished for not recognizing love, for doubting it. “And happiness was so close, so possible...”