It is very difficult for a modern student to keep the amount of information he receives at school. Something must slip away from his head. This is especially true of the numerous works asked by the literature teacher. In order to help you prepare for the lesson, we have prepared a very short summary of Chekhov’s story “Steppe” for the reader’s diary and the analysis you need to write a review. Enjoy reading!
(256 words) A chaise leaves the provincial town, there are: a merchant Ivan Ivanovich Kuzmichev, a priest Christopher of Syria and little Yegorushka in it. Mother sent the boy to study at the gymnasium, and the men went to sell their wool. The child is crying because he does not want to leave his mother and home. Christopher reassures him and says that study is very important, Kuzmichev believes that this is not necessary.
Heroes are on the road all day, but they can’t catch up with the convoy and merchant Varlamov, the richest and most famous in their county. But they find themselves visiting a certain Moses Moiseich - a Jew. He appears before us as a “little man”, if we compare him with Kuzmichev and Christopher. Moses makes every effort to please his guests and curry favor with them.
Later, the heroes still catch up with the convoy and leave little Yegorushka with the envoys - Pantelei, Emelyan, Dymov, Vasya and Kiryukha. The boy trusts the old man Pantelei most of all. When all of them are already approaching the city, they finally find Varlamov, an elderly imperious merchant. Against his background, Uncle Egorushka looks like that “little man”, although until recently everything was different: in comparison with the Jew Moses, Kuzmichev and Christopher were real “masters”.
Soon the boy falls ill. Christopher helps him recover, while Kuzmichev is very dissatisfied with the new chores - he needs to quickly arrange Yegorushka. A little boy is attached to his mother’s girlfriend, for which his uncle will have to pay ten rubles a month. Admission exams to the gymnasium await the child. When the uncle and the priest leave, he sits down on the bench and cries bitterly, because now he has a completely new, unknown life ahead of him, which, due to his age, greatly frightens the hero.
Genius on order
