Man came into the world for immense freedom, creativity and happiness. A.I. Kuprin A. Kuprin’s work is associated with the period of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. At this time he completes his life path L.N. Tolstoy, the talents of A.P. are revealed. Chekhov, M. Gorky, Korolenko, I.A. Bunina, L. Andreeva.

Born in the Penza province in the family of a minor official who died a year after the birth of his son. After the death of her husband, his mother (from an ancient family of Tatar princes) moved to Moscow, where the future writer spent his childhood and youth. At the age of six, the boy was sent to the Moscow Razumovsky boarding school (orphanage), then entered the Moscow military academy, transformed into the Cadet Corps. The life of an officer, which he led for four years after graduating from the Corps, provided rich material for his future works.

In 1894, he retired and moved to Kyiv, without any civilian profession and with little life experience. In the following years, he traveled a lot around Russia, trying many professions, greedily absorbing life experiences that became the basis of his future works. In 1901 he moved to St. Petersburg and began working as secretary of the “Magazine for Everyone.” Stories about animals A series of stories and stories about the army A series of stories about the circus Works about the hard life of the poor.

The seventeen years that the writer spent in Paris were an unproductive period. Constant material need and homesickness led him to the decision to return to Russia. In the spring of 1937, the seriously ill Kuprin returned to his homeland, warmly received by his admirers. Published the essay "Native Moscow". However, the new creative plans were not destined to come true. In August 1938 Kuprin died in Leningrad from cancer. After the October Revolution of 1917 The writer did not accept the policy of military communism, the “Red Terror”; he feared for the fate of Russian culture. In the fall of 1919, while in Gatchina, cut off from Petrograd by Yudenich’s troops, he emigrated abroad.

A.I. Kuprin. Photograph given to I. Bunin A. Kuprin’s stories are characterized by the depiction of a deep, selfless feeling of love. Spiritual world The heroes are rich, but various reasons determine the tragedy of their destinies. The theme of pure and beautiful feeling runs through the entire work of the Russian writer. “All love is great happiness, even if it is not shared” - these words could be repeated by all the heroes of his stories.

A.I. Kuprin at his desk. 1911 Why is the story called “The Lilac Bush”? The story is called this because it is the lilac bush that brings happiness to the heroes. At first, the young couple are depressed by the failure that befell Almazov. He did not enter the Academy, and all because of a stain on the drawing. They are looking for a way out, and Verochka finds it. A lilac bush planted outside the city helped Almazov enter the Academy. It is the lilac bush that brings happiness and peace to the Almazov family.

Gilgur Vlad. "Lilac bush"

How does Vera empathize with the hero? What does this mean? Vera met her husband “with suffering on his handsome, nervous face.” How do husband and wife behave? The wife is trying to find out the reason for such a drastic change in her husband’s behavior. From the very beginning of the story, the couple did not utter a word. The wife starts a conversation, but there is no dialogue. Verochka does not despair and tries to “talk” her husband a second time. Almazov says that he even tries to blame Verochka for his misfortune. Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In the garden

How do you see the characters in the scene when they are going to the gardener? Almazov is helpless, throwing up his hands in amazement and furrowing his forehead. He is dissatisfied and does not believe in success. All Verochka’s movements are fast and precise, at the moment she feels like the mistress and head of the family.

The gardener was unhappy with such a late visit. He answers dryly, almost hostilely. But then he shows sympathy for the characters. We see that the author sympathizes with this man: “a little old man in gold glasses.” Usually they come to the gardener during the day, but here... They come in the evening and behave strangely. Naturally, the gardener took it all for a joke. But then, when the gardener finds out what’s going on, his attitude changes dramatically. He understands the condition of the spouses and willingly helps them.

Verochka finds no place for herself and is very worried about her husband. She couldn't even sit at home. Vera guesses her husband's mood from afar. Almazov is transformed: from a gloomy loser he turns into a happy man. His face shines with the “triumph of a won victory.” But even now Verochka does not calm down until she hears from her husband’s lips that everything is fine. How did Verochka react to her husband’s success? She understands that she pleases her husband, so she asks him again and again, trying to find out details

Lesson topic: Moral issues story by A.I. Kuprin “The Lilac Bush”.

Lesson type: learning new material.

Lesson type: mixed lesson.

Lesson objectives: acquaintance with the works of A.I. Kuprin, the text of the story “The Lilac Bush”; based on work with literary work teach analysis of the actions of heroes, their characters, as well as vision and understanding of the meaning of what they read; improving the skills of analyzing a literary text by predicting plot fragments and comparing them with the author’s version, developing creative abilities and creativity; development of communicative competence; appeal to moral family values; cultivating a sensitive attitude to love, the ability to experience and understand another person.

Equipment: portrait of A.I. Kuprin, board, textbook, editions of his work, audio recording.

II.Motivation for learning activities.

III.Communicate the topic and purpose of the lesson.

IV.Work on the topic of the lesson.

V.Reflection.

VI.Homework.

I.Organizing time

creates a friendly classroom atmosphere.

IV.Teacher's opening speech.

Today we are getting acquainted with the work of the great Russian writer - A.I. Kuprin.

1.What stories of A.I. Kuprin do you remember?

2.What topics are they devoted to?

3.What distinguishes the heroes of A.I. Kuprin?

Together with you, we will try to construct in general terms the story “The Lilac Bush,” predicting the course of the plot in accordance with individual fragments of the story’s text. At the same time, we will train our skills in analyzing literary texts and become familiar with moral family values.

There is a note on the board: lilac bush.

What associations do you have?(write associations on the board)

Lilac blooms in spring. Spring is the time of lovers. This means that lilac is the flower of lovers. Lilac has 4 petals, and in mythology 4 are a symbol of the Universe. But there is also a five-petalled lilac that brings happiness. The topic of our lesson is “Moral problems of the story “The Lilac Bush”. The idea of ​​love and happiness in the family."

Based on the title “Lilac Bush,” can you guess what the story will be about? (orally).

Technique “Reading with stops” (audio recording of part I of A.I. Kuprin’s story “The Lilac Bush”).

Did your expectations come true?

What was unexpected?

What can you say about the heroes?

What events can happen in the described situation next?

What event is the beginning of the story?

Will we find out right away? what happened to Nikolai Evgrafovich?

Who helped him overcome all the “obstacles”?

II part of the story. Teacher reading.

How can you title this part of the story? Why?

Which of the heroes broke the heavy silence?

How did Nikolai Evgrafovich react to this?

What did Verochka really come up with?

How do you feel about this decision of the heroine?

How does Verochka behave after making a decision?

Where do the heroes go?

Tensions rise when the Almazovs go to the gardener. How does the author emphasize this?

How does Verochka save the situation?

III part – independent reading by students (textbook, p. 73).

How can you title this part of the story?

Why did the heroes decide to plant a lilac bush?

Why do you think Verochka, having agreed with the gardener, went not home, but out of town with her husband?

What happened the next day?

We meet with the professor again and Almazov talks about him again. How did Nikolai Evgrafovich’s attitude towards his examiner change?

Why does Vera make her husband repeat again and again how he talked to the professor, interested in the smallest details?

What is the most important thing about a diamond for a poet?

What did not leave you indifferent in the relationship between the two lovers?

V. Reflection.

Reception "Sinquain" (group task).

What is the meaning of the story's title?

Now let's be creative - write a syncwine on the topic of our lesson. What words can be used for the first line? Rules for writing syncwine on the board.

Listening to syncwines.

VI. Homework: draw how you imagine happiness and write an essay-reasoning “Is Vera Almazova happy?”

IV. Student message.

A.I. Kuprin (1870-1938) was born on August 28, 1870 in the Penza province in the family of a minor official. Left without a father early, he spent a joyless childhood, first in the Widow's House in Moscow, where his mother was, then in the Razumovsky charitable orphanage.

For ten years, Kuprin was sent to a military gymnasium. The impetuous, hot-tempered, rebellious boy suffered a lot from the cruel corps rules. Since childhood, Kuprin hated violence and became sensitive to the suffering of others.

In 1888 he entered the Moscow Alexander Military School. In the spring of 1893, Kuprin went to St. Petersburg to take an exam at the Academy of the General Staff. He did not get into the academy, but during his stay in the capital he managed to establish literary connections. In the autumn of 1893, he began publishing in the magazine “Russian Wealth”.

In August 1894, Kuprin retired and went on a journey through southern Russia. He travels a lot and willingly changes his profession, lifestyle, and surroundings. He unloads barges with watermelons on the Kyiv piers, organizes an athletic society in Kyiv, in 1896 works at one of the factories in Donbass, in Volyn he serves as a forest walker, an estate manager, a psalm-reader, is engaged in dentistry, plays with circus performers... All this provided rich material for his works. It was during these years that he became a professional writer, gradually publishing his works in various newspapers.

The heroes of Kuprin's stories are people of various classes and social groups, from millionaire capitalists to tramps and beggars. Kuprin wrote “about everyone and for everyone...”

- Associations: spring, warmth, sun, happiness, love.

I part of the story.

- “Grief.”

Nikolai Evgrafovich Almazov returns home in a very bad mood. When his wife saw him, she immediately realized that a great misfortune had happened.

Nikolai Evgrafovich was helped by his wife Verochka. She did not let him lose heart, denied herself everything he needed, and was a copyist, draftsman, reader, tutor, and memory book.

II part of the story.

- “Hope”.

Verochka, energetically jumping up from her chair, told her husband that they must leave immediately.

Almazov thought that she was inviting him to apologize to the professor. “This means directly signing a sentence on yourself. Please don't do anything stupid."

She decided to plant the bushes in the place where Almazov depicted them on the plan.

This is a very witty way out of this situation. Vera here is similar to the heroines of Russian fairy tales who rescued their husbands in difficult moments of life, helping them complete impossible tasks.

She becomes active and energetic. She stomps her feet, commands her husband, looks for jewelry.

They go to a pawnshop to pawn their jewelry to get at least some money.

He was very amazed and dissatisfied with what happened, and refused to send workers to such a distance at night.

She tells in detail the whole story of the stain.

III part of the story.

- "Happiness".

- “Of all the breeds that the gardener had, not one turned out to be suitable: willy-nilly, I had to settle on lilac bushes.”

Devoted and loving Verochka cannot calm down until she completes the job.

Verochka could not sit at home and went out to meet her husband on the street. From her husband’s gait and his beaming face, she realized that the story had a happy ending.

He is one of our best professors. It's a pity that I deceived him.

They truly love each other and have gone through many hardships together.

Guardian of eternal purity, this purity also exists in the Almazovs’ relationships.

The ability to penetrate the soul of a loved one. The desire to make others happy.

V. Reflection.

The lilac bush has become the heroes’ favorite flower, because it will constantly remind them of what happened. Life events like what the Almazovs experienced are usually remembered for a long time. Love helped them find a way out of a difficult situation, and lilacs will always remind them of this.

Words for syncwine: Vera, Almazov, Lilac Bush, Happiness, Love.

Love

Fabulous, fantastic

Comes, inspires, runs away

Only a few can hold it

Dream

Bibliography:

Korovina V.Ya., Zhuravlev V.P., Korovin V.I. We read, think, argue...: Didactic materials: 8 grades – M.: Enlightenment, − 2008

Kuteinikova N.E. Literature lessons in 8th grade: Book. for the teacher. – M.: Enlightenment, − 2010

Phonochrestomathy for textbooks. “Literature 8th grade.” (form MP3). – M.: Audio school: Education, − 2010

For the creativity of A.I. Kuprin is characterized by special attention to the concept of love. What is true love? What is it like? This same story is dedicated to one of the types of love - between husband and wife. Therefore, it seems to give the reader the opportunity to think about what kind of family relationships can be called deep, sincere, and on what they are built.

“The Lilac Bush” - a story by A.I. Kuprin, written in 1894 and published in October of the same year in the magazine “Life and Art”. It refers to the author's early prose. This writer's work is characterized by great thematic diversity and a humane, sensitive attitude towards the characters.

The work immediately caught the fancy of reviewers and ordinary readers. It can be said to have made a name for the author in the literary world. It is not surprising, since the writer began his creative career with a description of human virtues. Only then did he begin active journalistic activity, which led him to the social bottom. The plots of that period no longer delighted the public, but confused them.

Meaning of the name

Why did Kuprin title his story that way? The image of lilac appears more than once in Russian literature and, in particular, in prose. So, in “Spring Waters” I.S. Turgenev's lilac symbolizes emerging love and at the same time separation, just as in the novel by I.A. Goncharov’s “Oblomov” with a branch of lilac is associated with the beginning of the relationship between Oblomov and Olga, and the same image correlates with the separation.

In the story by A.I. Kuprin, the image of lilac is also associated with the theme of love: it symbolizes true marital affection and love, sincere participation and mutual assistance, which is main problem, the semantic center of the work. In addition, this bush means the beginning of spring, and in the context of the work it indicates that the spouses have not grown cold towards each other, on the contrary, a wonderful time has opened in their relationship, where mutual warmth enlivens everything around.

Genre and direction

Story by A.I. Kuprin's "Lilac Bush" refers to the method and direction of realism. Kuprin is one of the most famous representatives of this trend in Russian literature. His works are very bright and detailed descriptions everyday life (daily conversations, events), filled with a feeling of the author-narrator’s living participation in them.

The story, as a rule, depicts one or more events in the life of the hero or heroes; one stands out story line- these features are characteristic of the work “The Lilac Bush”, and therefore, we can define it as a story (the plot is built around how Vera and Nikolai Evgrafovich solve the problem of successfully passing the exam).

Composition

Compositionally, the work can be divided into three parts:

1. Nikolai Evrgafovich’s return from work and message to his wife about failure;
2. Verochka's energetic help to her husband - every effort to rectify the situation;
3. Happy ending - Vera meets Almazov again, and he tells her the good news of success.

This composition is called a mirror composition: both at the beginning and at the end of the story, Vera’s husband returns with news from work.

About what?

The story “The Lilac Bush” is about marital love. This theme is revealed in the relationship between Vera and Nikolai Evgrafovich. So, Verochka takes an active part in everything that happens in her husband’s life. She constantly supports him, denies herself everything, even the necessary, for the sake of his success. So, a woman pawns her jewelry to get money for a gardener who could plant bushes so that her husband can pass the exam. The fact is that he accidentally put a blot on the drawing, and instead of it, so as not to redo it, he drew a bush. The professor got angry and didn’t take the paper in because he knew the area by heart. But the heroine planted a lilac in that place, and the embarrassed teacher, seeing it, changed the grade. At the end of the story, the happy spouses laugh and share their joy and mutual love with each other. In this short episode, revealing the essence of the story “The Lilac Bush,” the writer showed a recipe for getting rid of life’s problems. Alone, a person has a hard time, he loses faith in himself, but in marriage he gains not only emotional attachment, but also a faithful ally in the person of his lover or beloved. The main thing is to learn to put common interests above personal ones.

The other side of the story is the theme of life values. For Verochka and her husband this is love, prosperity, mutual understanding. Professor Nikolai Evgrafovich, for example, is shown as a person who devoted himself all his life to his favorite work.

The main characters and their characteristics

1. Nikolai Evgrafovich Almazov- a young, poor officer who only entered the General Staff Academy on his third try. All the exams were very difficult for him and cost a lot of work. He is described as a strong person, but failure in the last exam hit his self-control very hard, and he was so upset that he almost wanted to cry from resentment. In difficult times, he listens to his wife, does not resist her desire to help, and carries out her short orders.
2. His wife supported him in everything Verochka capable of deep sympathy, able to take on the role of the head of the family in difficult times, resolve a difficult situation, and become a peacemaker.
   So, she addressed her husband very carefully and affectionately, her quick decisive actions were caused by sincere concern for her husband’s state of mind and his possible future failure.

Themes

The main themes of the story, closely related to each other, are: love and happiness. What is true love? Is this where happiness lies? True feeling is based on mutual trust, on the ability to self-sacrifice for the sake of a loved one, on the ability to understand the pain and joy of a loved one, and in its possession there can be real happiness, spiritual and elevating the personality. This is why we can call Vera happy: she is capable of such deep love, and her husband values ​​her as much as she values ​​him.

The story gives brief descriptions details of everyday life, the environment in which the action itself takes place, and sketches of nature convey a special feeling at one time or another, such as, for example, the silence and beauty of late evening:

When the Almazovs arrived at the gardener’s, the white St. Petersburg night had already spread across the sky and in the air like blue milk.

This state of evening peace also continues because at this time people are already returning home to their family.

The gardener, a Czech, a little old man in gold glasses, had just sat down to dinner with his family.

Problems

The work raises, first of all, the problem of love and the related problem of happiness. In particular, this is the difficulty of true, sacrificial love, and the ability to sincere participation and sympathy. This is both the main character’s lack of fortitude and the difficult task on Vera’s shoulders - to take on the role of the main one and resolve a difficult situation when a loved one is at a loss.

One way or another, the problems of the work are connected with moral categories love relationship between people. What properties does true love have, and how does it manifest itself? Is it capable of making a person truly happy and spiritually free in his happiness? Moral problems also affected Vera's husband when he realized his deception and realized that he had not acted very well towards the professor.

Meaning

The main idea of ​​the work is that deep affection, mutual love, trust and respect of spouses are built on the ability to sacrifice oneself for the sake of a loved one, to support, sympathize - to be close. A life of harmony can only arise if both people treat each other very carefully and with love. It is this kind of marriage that can make a wife and husband happy, elevating them above routine and everyday life.

I wonder what the main idea Kuprina focuses on the role of a woman in marriage. The weather in the house largely depends on it. If she had not shown proper understanding and had only attacked her husband for his lack of attentiveness, then Nikolai would have broken down completely, and the family would have turned into mutual torture. But the support, sympathy and love of Vera, who sacrifices her interests for the good of her husband, saved the situation and rescued the hero, who is again ready to conquer the granite cliffs of science.

Conclusion

So, the story of A.I. Kuprin’s “The Lilac Bush,” presenting a certain ideal of marital relations, and a completely realistic one at that, inspires the reader with the natural beauty of human feelings: mutual respect, trust, sacrifice, participation. Thus, our consciousness can absorb this ideal, accordingly, rise and approach it, understand its essence and unconsciously reach for its beauty.

You need to learn to love. Many people think that this feeling falls from the sky or depends entirely on mysterious compatibility hearts, but the writer draws our attention to the fact that he needs to learn, overcoming difficulties together. True love is not a gift, but an achievement achieved by moral and virtuous people who are ready to work on themselves to achieve harmony in the family. This is what Kuprin teaches in his story.

Criticism

Story by A.I. I perceived Kuprin’s “Lilac Bush” as something very integral, organic, and natural. The relationship between Vera and Nikolai Evgrafovich, everyday, seemingly everyday, is described so carefully and faithfully that it is easy to be charmed by the mutual friendship and love of the spouses. The impression from the story is that a certain example of a marital relationship appeared somewhere in the memory, natural, completely close to real life and at the same time very noble and beautiful.

The writer's contemporaries received the story enthusiastically. Thus, I.V. Terentyev wrote that “A. Kuprin’s work has the healing power of the purest moral source.” In his article, he especially praised the image of Verochka as the author’s most successful discovery.

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Man came into the world for immense freedom, creativity and happiness.

A.I. Kuprin Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin A. Kuprin’s work is associated with the period of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. At this time, L.N. completed his life’s journey. Tolstoy, the talents of A.P. are revealed. Chekhov, M. Gorky, Korolenko, I.A. Bunina, L. Andreeva.

Born in the Penza province in the family of a minor official who died a year after the birth of his son.

After the death of her husband, his mother (from an ancient family of Tatar princes) moved to Moscow, where the future writer spent his childhood and youth.

At the age of six, the boy was sent to the Moscow Razumovsky boarding school (orphanage), then entered the Moscow Military Academy, transformed into the Cadet Corps.

The life of an officer, which he led for four years after graduating from the Corps, provided rich material for his future works.

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In 1894, he retired and moved to Kyiv, without any civilian profession and with little life experience. In the following years, he traveled a lot around Russia, trying many professions, greedily absorbing life experiences that became the basis of his future works.

In 1901 he moved to St. Petersburg and began working as secretary of the “Magazine for Everyone.” Stories about animals A series of stories and stories about the army A series of stories about the circus Works about the hard life of the poor.

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The seventeen years that the writer spent in Paris were an unproductive period. Constant material need and homesickness led him to the decision to return to Russia. In the spring of 1937, the seriously ill Kuprin returned to his homeland, warmly received by his admirers. Published the essay "Native Moscow". However, the new creative plans were not destined to come true. In August 1938 Kuprin died in Leningrad from cancer. After the October Revolution of 1917 The writer did not accept the policy of military communism, the “Red Terror”; he feared for the fate of Russian culture. In the fall of 1919, while in Gatchina, cut off from Petrograd by Yudenich’s troops, he emigrated abroad.

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A.I. Kuprin. Photograph given to I. Bunin The theme of pure and beautiful feeling runs through the entire work of the Russian writer. “All love is great happiness, even if it is not shared” - these words could be repeated by all the heroes of his stories.

Slide 7 A.I. Kuprin at his desk. 1911 Why is the story called “The Lilac Bush”?, which blooms in spring. Spring is the time for lovers. It can be assumed that lilac is the flower of lovers.

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In addition, lilac has 4 petals. In mythology, 4 is a symbol of the Universe. There is also a five-petalled lilac that brings happiness.

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Tell me, why is the heroine close to you? Verochka is kind, sympathetic, and loves her husband very much.

In any situation he can find a way out. I like her perseverance, endurance and enormous faith in herself. Emil Vernon

Slide 12

Which episodes do you consider the main ones?

Slide 13

What misfortune happened to Almazov?

How does the author describe the hero's suffering? How do you understand the proverb “Patience and work will grind everything down”? Is it appropriate to say that the proverb is reflected in this story?

Slide 14

Gilgur Vlad. "Lilac bush"

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How does Vera empathize with the hero? What does this mean? Vera met her husband “with suffering on his handsome, nervous face.” How do husband and wife behave? The wife is trying to find out the reason for such a drastic change in her husband’s behavior. From the very beginning of the story, the couple did not utter a word. The wife starts a conversation, but there is no dialogue. Verochka does not despair and tries to “talk” her husband a second time. Almazov says that he even tries to blame Verochka for his misfortune. Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In the garden

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Does Almazov change under the influence of his wife? He no longer resists, but still sits “with an offended expression.” It seems that Verochka helped her husband out more than once. What way out does Verochka find? Auguste Renoir. Two

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How do you see the characters in the scene when they are going to the gardener? Almazov is helpless, throwing up his hands in amazement and furrowing his forehead. He is dissatisfied and does not believe in success.

All Verochka’s movements are fast and precise, at the moment she feels like the mistress and head of the family.

Slide 18

How did the gardener react to the appearance of uninvited guests?

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The gardener was unhappy with such a late visit. He answers dryly, almost hostilely. But then he shows sympathy for the characters. We see that the author sympathizes with this man: “a little old man in gold glasses.” Usually they come to the gardener during the day, but here... They come in the evening and behave strangely. Naturally, the gardener took it all for a joke. But then, when the gardener finds out what’s going on, his attitude changes dramatically. He understands the condition of the spouses and willingly helps them.

Verochka finds no place for herself and is very worried about her husband. She couldn't even sit at home. Vera guesses her husband's mood from afar. Almazov is transformed: from a gloomy loser he turns into a happy man. His face shines with the “triumph of a won victory.” But even now Verochka does not calm down until she hears from her husband’s lips that everything is fine. How did Verochka react to her husband’s success? She understands that she pleases her husband, so she asks him again and again, trying to find out details