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Analysis of the story

B. L. Vasilyeva "Tomorrow there was a war"

The story of Boris Lvovich Vasiliev “Tomorrow there was a war” was written in 1972. And along with another story by this writer, “The Dawns Here Are Quiet...”, became one of the best and most famous works in our country about the period of the Great Patriotic War.

In his story, B. Vasiliev uses such an artistic method as realism.

The theme of the work is the relationship between the generations of fathers and children.

The story begins with a prologue and ends with an epilogue. Through the prologue, Vasiliev introduces the reader to the world of his memories of his youth, introduces him to his former classmates and teachers, school and parents, and the like. At the same time, the writer, as it were, reflects, pondering and reevaluating everything that happened to him forty years ago.

The epilogue sums up the story, sharply, but, nevertheless, harmoniously merging into the content. We again find ourselves almost forty years ahead, in 1972, we learn about the further fate of the heroes of the book and not only from the memoirs of the narrator, but also from the words of the headmaster.

Several classmates are at the center of the story. Iskra Polyakova is a lively and purposeful girl who dreams of becoming a commissar, an excellent student, an activist, and a wall newspaper editor. Her friends always go to her for advice, and for everyone, Iskra has an accurate and accurate answer, a solution to the most intractable problems and questions. True, at the end of the story, Iskra changes greatly, she begins to doubt those “truths” that her mother so diligently instilled in her. That is, Iskra is gradually maturing.

Zina Kovalenko is windy and fickle. Iskra said she was a real girl. Zina solves all her questions either with the help of Iskra, or by trusting her unmistakable intuition. But she also begins to grow up, feels that the boys like her, and even at the end of the story acquires the independence and prudence of Iskra.

Vika Lyuberetskaya is the most mysterious and incomprehensible girl for her classmates. She seemed to be morally older than them and therefore had no friends until the ninth grade. Vika is delighted with her father, considers him an ideal, loves to self-forgetfulness. The worst thing for her is to doubt her father. And when he is arrested, Vika commits suicide not out of a whim, but as an adult.

Girls grow up first physically and then mentally. Boys grow up somewhat differently, as if they are reaching out for their grown-up classmates. So, the hooligan Sasha Stameskin is taken under his wing by Iskra, makes him an excellent student, enrolls him in an aviation circle, and then helps him get a job at an aircraft factory.

Zhora Landys, a true friend and helper of all the boys in the class, falls in love with Vika and strives to grow up. The same process happens with some other guys.

In principle, we can say that the initiator of all these age-related changes was involuntarily the new director of the school - Nikolai Grigorievich Romakhin. His unusual system of upbringing does not hinder the growing up and spiritual search of children, but, on the contrary, provokes growing up.

The antipode of Romakhin in the story is the class teacher and literature teacher Valentina Andropovna (Valendra, as the guys call her). She is not satisfied with the routine of the new principal at the school. In an almost open struggle with him, she used all means, for example, wrote denunciations to higher authorities, argued, and the like. However, Valentina Andropovna cannot be considered a negative character. The author writes that she absolutely sincerely believed in the correctness of her beliefs, that the new principal was ruining the school. And this sincerity eventually allowed her to find a common language with the matured class and change.

The significance of secondary characters in the story is great. The teacher of literature and the director cannot be attributed to them, since the main conflict of the story unfolds around their relationship. The secondary characters are the students' parents and two teachers who are not involved in the conflict. Parents, raising their children, created their exact copy, with their own character traits, but they all accepted with understanding the growing up of their children, their new understanding of reality. And even comrade Polyakova, the mother of Iskra, the “iron” woman, accustomed to commanding her daughter as a subordinate, having met the rebuff of the matured Iskra, resigns herself, realizing that this should have happened. The same can be said about the father of Vika Lyuberetskaya, who unwittingly changed the lives of many children, becoming their ideal.

The theme of the work is expressed precisely by this growing up. The main idea that permeates the thought of the work is that in no case should adults influence the growing up of children, it is necessary to educate them, of course, but growing up goes its own way.

However, such an idea can be traced only in the main part of the story, and a new idea appears in the prologue and epilogue. The theme of the prologue and epilogue is the author's memories of his youth. And the idea is expressed in the fact that only the most beautiful thing is remembered in life - youth. The story is called - “Tomorrow there was a war”, but practically nothing is said about the war in it, and this is not accidental.

The war does not appear in the action of the story, but, as it were, follows from its content, logically ending the school years. Boris Vasiliev writes that the difference between the generation of his youth and the current one is that they knew that there would be a war, but we know that it will not happen, and we sincerely believe in it.

And now, forty years later, on a train that symbolizes life, these eternal ninth-graders remember not the war, not how they burned in a tank and went into battle, but what happened before that.

The story of Boris Vasiliev "Tomorrow was the war" is dedicated to the last pre-war year in Russia. More precisely, the last pre-war academic year of 1940, since the main characters of the story are schoolchildren, ninth grade students in a small town.

Sixteen-year-olds in 1940 are the same generation that was born immediately after the revolution and civil war. All their fathers and mothers participated in these events in one way or another.

Consequently, these children grew up with a dual feeling: on the one hand, they are sorry that the civil war ended before them, that they did not have time to take part in it, and on the other hand, they sincerely believe that they have an equally important mission entrusted to them, they must to preserve the socialist system, must do something worthy.

Thirst for personal achievement

This is a generation that lives with the dream of a personal feat that should benefit the homeland. All the boys in this class wanted to become commanders of the Red Army in order to keep up with their fathers.

The main character of the story, the Komsomol activist Iskra Polyakova, furiously denies her personal life and personal happiness, dreaming of the proud spirit of the word "commissar".

Other girls in the class do not share her active position, although they also believe in communism. But their dreams are different: the cheerful laugher Zinochka Kovalenko, and the reasonable Lena Bokova, and the dreamy Vika Lyuberetskaya - for all of them their own happiness is more important, it is more important to love and be loved.

However, none of these dreams can be fully realized in the Soviet Union of 1940, where repression and control over society are rampant, where war will soon begin.

Fight for human dignity and justice

The culmination of this story is the moment of the arrest of the father of Vika Lyuberetskaya, a major aircraft designer. After that, Vika is declared “the daughter of an enemy of the people”, and the girl begins to be persecuted at school. Not wanting to betray her father and renounce him, as demanded by the Komsomol organization, Vika commits suicide.

She is not the only one seeking justice. After the news of the arrest of Vika's father, her classmates, contrary to the prohibitions of the school, go to support the girl, because. believe that she is definitely not to blame for anything.

Artem Shefer fights in a “duel” with a tenth grader who has spread the news around the school. After Vika's death, the director of the school, Nikolai Grigorievich, specially sends her classmates to the funeral, where there is no one else.

Particularly interesting in that story is the character of the main character, Iskra Polyakova. If at first she was a classic Komsomol activist who firmly believes in the just cause of the party, then after the events related to Vika, she gradually changes her position: she begins to believe that the party, the school, and the Komsomol can sometimes be wrong.

In the epilogue of the story, it is shown that all the guys really managed to realize their youthful dream of a feat. They embodied it on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, and tragically - almost all the students of the former 9 "B" died. The narration in the introduction and epilogue is conducted on behalf of supposedly their classmate - Boris Vasiliev himself.

Frame from the film "Tomorrow there was a war" (1987)

Very briefly

1940 A ninth-grader from a small town becomes the daughter of an enemy of the people. She is going to be expelled from the Komsomol, and the girl commits suicide. After a while, her father is released.

Prologue

The author recalls the 9th "B" class in which he once studied. As a memento of his classmates, he only had an old photograph, blurry at the edges, that the activist Iskra Polyakova incited everyone to take. Of the entire class, only nineteen people survived to old age. In addition to the author and Iskra, the company included the athlete Pasha Ostapchuk, the eternal inventor Valka Aleksandrov, nicknamed Edison, the frivolous Zinochka Kovalenko and the timid Lenochka Bokova. Most often, the company gathered at Zinochka's. Iskra always told something, read aloud, and Valka invented devices that, as a rule, did not work.

The guys treated the quiet Zinochkin's father with disdain, until one day in the bath they saw his back streaked with scars - "a blue-purple autograph of the civil war." And the mother of Iskra, comrade Polyakova, who walked in boots and a leather jacket, everyone was afraid and did not understand that she had the same scars on her soul as on the back of Zinochkin's father. In the story, the author returns to those naive dreamers.

Chapter first

This fall, Zinochka Kovalenko became aware of herself as a woman for the first time. Taking advantage of the absence of her parents, she sadly looked in the mirror at her precocious breasts, too thin hips and legs with disproportionately thin ankles, when Iskra Polyakova rang at the door. Zinochka was a little afraid of her strict friend, the "conscience of the class", although she was a year older. Iskra's idol was her mother, the inflexible commissar Comrade Polyakova, with whom the girl always took an example. Only recently did she realize that her mother was deeply unhappy and lonely. One night, Iskra saw her mother crying, for which she was flogged with a wide soldier's belt. The girl was given an unusual name by her father, whom she did not remember. As a commissar, he turned out to be a “weak man”, and his mother “with habitual ruthlessness” burned his photographs in the stove.

Spark came to Zinochka with the message that Sasha Stameskin would no longer go to school. Now school classes had to be paid for, but Sasha's mother, who raised her son without a father, did not have the money for this. Stameskin was a personal achievement and the conquest of Iskra. A year ago, he led a free life of a bully and a loser. Having exhausted the patience of the teachers' council, he hoped to gain complete freedom when a spark appeared on his horizon. She just joined the Komsomol and decided that her first Komsomol feat would be the re-education of Stameskin.

Arriving at his home for the first time, Iskra saw beautiful drawings of airplanes. The girl said that such planes would not fly, Stameskin was hurt by this, and he became interested in mathematics and physics. But Iskra was a sober-minded girl. She foresaw that Sasha would soon get tired of all this, so she took him to the aviation circle of the Palace of Pioneers. Now Sasha had something to lose, he took up his studies and abandoned his former friends. And now Stameskin, who became a good student, was forced to leave school.

Zinochka found a way out. She offered to arrange Stameskin at an aircraft factory, where there was an evening school. Vika Lyuberetskaya, the daughter of the chief engineer of the aircraft factory, who sat with Zinochka at the same desk, could help with this. Vika was very beautiful and a bit arrogant. She had already become a woman, and she knew it. Iskra shunned her classmate. For her, this smartly dressed girl, who came to school in a company car, was a creature from another world, for whom one should feel ironic regret. Zina undertook to settle this matter. On September 1, Vika approached Iskra and said that Stameskin would be hired at the factory.

Chapter Two

Artyom Shefer read a lot and went in for athletics. Only one oddity prevented him from becoming an honors student - he "spoke badly" and could not answer oral subjects. It started in the fifth grade, when Artyom accidentally broke the microscope, and Zinochka took the blame. Since then, under the gaze of Zina, the boy's tongue has stiffened - it was love. Artyom's terrible secret was known only by his best friend Zhorka Landys, who was unrequitedly in love with Vika Lyubertskaya.

After working all summer as a laborer, Artyom decided to spend his first earnings on celebrating his sixteenth birthday. On the second Sunday of September, a noisy company gathered at Artyom's, headed by Iskra. The guys danced, played forfeits, and then began to read poetry. And then Vika read several poems by the almost forgotten "decadent" poet Sergei Yesenin. Even Iskra liked the poems, and Vika gave her a tattered volume to read.

Chapter Three

The multi-storey school where the children studied was recently built. At first, the duties of the director were performed by class 7 "B" Valentina Andronovna, nicknamed Valendra. She distributed the classes in ascending order, and the school became like a layer cake - "each floor lived the life of its age", no one ran up the stairs and did not ride on the railing. Six months later, Valendra was replaced by Nikolai Grigorievich Romakhin, a former commander of the cavalry corps. The first thing he did was mix up the classrooms and hang mirrors in the women's restrooms. The school rang with children's voices and laughter, and the girls got bows and trendy bangs. The whole school adored the director and could not stand Valendra. Her innovations Romakhin angered - they went against the ideas of Valentina Andronovna about raising children. She began to fight with the director, for any reason scribbling letters "to the right place."

About the fact that Yesenin was read at the birthday party, Zinochka let slip to Valendra - the class caught her in front of the mirror and scared her. Having learned from Iskra that Vika had read poetry, Valentina Andronovna retreated: in the city of Lyubertsy, they were very respected. Iskra decided to tell Vika about this, and after school the friends went to the Lyubertskys.

Vika's mother died a long time ago, and Leonid Sergeevich Luberetsky raised his daughter alone. He was always worried about Vika, and therefore he took care of her and spoiled her greatly. Vika was very proud of her father. Despite numerous gifts, imported clothes and a company car, Vika was a smart and decent girl. She lived very closed - the position of her father created a wall between her and her classmates. On that day, the girls from the class visited her for the first time, and Leonid Sergeevich was delighted that his daughter still had friends.

Iskra and Zinochka found themselves in such a beautiful house for the first time. They were given tea and treated to delicious cakes. It turned out that Lyuberetsky was familiar with comrade Polyakova - they fought in the civilian water division. Iskra thought about the conversation with Leonid Sergeevich for several days. She was especially struck by the thought that “truth should not turn into dogma, it must be tested for strength and expediency all the time,” because Iskra’s mother believed in the immutable truth embodied in the Soviet idea, and was ready to defend it until her last breath.

Chapter Four

At the beginning of each school year, Zinochka determined who she would fall in love with. She needed not to like her “object”, but to suffer from jealousy herself and dream of reciprocity. Falling in love didn't work out this year. For some time, Zinochka was in disarray, but soon realized that she herself had become an “object”. She quickly calmed down, but then two tenth graders appeared on the horizon, one of whom, Yura, was considered the most handsome boy in the school. Zinochka did not know how to make decisions - Iskra always decided for her, but asking a friend who to fall in love with was unthinkable. At home, they couldn’t help either: the sisters were much older than Zinochka, and her parents were always busy. And Zinochka found a way out herself. She wrote three identical letters with a vague promise of friendship, differing only in addresses, and began to think about which of the three admirers to send a letter to.

After three days of reflection, Zinochka lost two letters, but one of them fell into the hands of Valentina Andronovna. Triumphantly, she took the letter to the director, hoping that he would scold Zinochka at the general meeting, but Nikolai Grigorievich laughed and burned the "evidence". Enraged, Valendra decided to openly defend what she sincerely considered Soviet methods of education.

The spark let her friend out of control - she was busy with herself. While working at an aircraft factory, Sasha Stameskin matured noticeably, he had his own judgments and a special attitude towards Iskra. Once, while walking in the park, they kissed, and this kiss became "a mighty impetus to the forces already in motion." The spark began to grow up, and she was drawn not to the frivolous Zinochka, but to the self-confident Vika, who had already crossed this difficult line. Soon she again visited the Lyuberetskys, talked with Vika about women's happiness, and with Leonid Sergeevich about the presumption of innocence. Vika told the girl that she could not love her, because she was a maximalist. These words upset the spark very much. Arriving home, she wrote an article for the school newspaper with arguments about guilt and innocence, but her mother, who came home from work, burned the article, saying that a Soviet person should not reason, but believe.

Chapter Five

On October 1, the handsome Yura invited Zinochka to the cinema for the last session. The Kovalenki brought up their youngest daughter in strictness, but that day the mother - a surgical nurse - was on duty, the father - a foreman at the factory and an activist - was also busy, and Zinochka agreed. After the session, Yura offered to sit somewhere, and Zinochka led him to the Lyuberetskys' house, where a secluded bench was hidden in the bushes. Sitting on it, the guys saw a black car drive up to the entrance, and three men entered the house. After some time, Luberetsky came out of the entrance, accompanied by these people, Vika jumped out after them, shouting and crying loudly. Already from the body, Leonid Sergeevich shouted that he was not guilty of anything, and the car drove away.

Zinochka rushed to Iskra to tell him that Lyuberetsky had been arrested. Comrade Polyakova left Zina to spend the night at her place, and she herself went to her parents. Kovalenko doubted that Lyuberetsky, “a hero of the civil war, an order bearer,” could turn out to be an enemy of the people. He decided to invite Vika to live with him. Arriving home, Polyakova wrote a letter to the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, in which she stood up for Lyuberetsky.

Chapter six

In the morning the parents of Kovalenko and Polyakova met in the director's office. Romakhin was also sure that Lyubertsy had been arrested by mistake. He suggested that everyone write a letter together to the relevant authorities, but Iskra's mother asked them to wait. She had known Leonid Sergeevich for a long time and believed that at this stage of the case her guarantee was enough.

The girlfriends decided not to tell anyone about the arrest, but when she arrived at the school, Iskra discovered that everyone already knew about it. Zinochka had to admit that she was not alone at the Lyubertsy house. Yurka, who broke the news, should have been punished. Artyom Shefer, Zhorka Landys and Pasha Ostapchuk undertook this. While the girls were distracting the school stoker, the boys called Yurka into the boiler room. Artyom fought, who also had personal motives.

After the duel, the guys went to support Vika. After the search, the Lyuberetskys' apartment was turned upside down. Friends helped Vika clean up, and Zinochka fed her "special scrambled eggs."

At her house, Iskra met Sasha. He said that Lyuberetsky was in fact an "enemy of the people." Rumors circulated around the plant that the chief engineer had sold the aircraft blueprints to the Nazis. Iskra believed, but was convinced that Vika had nothing to do with it.

The next day, Iskra strictly ordered the guys to behave with Vika as usual. In the afternoon, Polyakova and Schaefer were summoned to the director - Valendra became aware of a fight in the boiler room. Valentina Andronovna interrogated the guys. The director was silent, looking at the table. The classroom decided to turn the fight into a political affair, making Artyom the main ringleader. Romakhin could not intercede - Valendra's numerous statements bore fruit, and the director was reprimanded. Finally, the classroom decided that Iskra would hold an emergency Komsomol meeting, at which Vika, as the daughter of an enemy of the people, would be expelled from the Komsomol. Iskra flatly refused to hold the meeting, after which she fainted.

When Iskra came to, Romakhin said that the meeting would take place in a week and that he could change nothing. Schaefer will also have to leave the school because of the "political" fight. And then Zinochka said that Artyom fought because of her. The director was very happy about the opportunity to save at least Schaefer, and ordered Zinochka to write a memorandum.

Chapter Seven

Zinochka's report helped - having received a thrashing from the director, Artyom remained at school. The week passed as usual, only Valendra never called Vika to the board, although in other lessons she answered "five". On Saturday, after school, Vika suggested that the whole class go to the holiday village of Sosnovka to say goodbye to autumn.

The guys spent the whole Sunday in Sosnovka. Vika showed her dacha - a neat house painted in cheerful blue paint. The house was sealed, the girl was not even allowed to take her personal belongings. Then Vika took Zhorka Landys to the river, to her favorite place under a spreading rosehip bush, and allowed herself to be kissed. Then the guys burned a fire, had fun, but everyone remembered that tomorrow there was a Komsomol meeting, at which Vika would be expelled from the Komsomol if she did not publicly condemn her father.

Vika didn't come to school the next day. The chairman of the district committee, however, appeared, and the meeting had to begin. The guys learned from Valendra that Romakhin was almost fired. At that moment, Zina returned, sent for Vika, and announced that Lyuberetskaya was dead.

Chapter Eight

The investigation into Vika's death lasted a day. From the note left by the girl, it was clear that she had poisoned herself with sleeping pills. Now Iskra realized that on Sunday Vika was saying goodbye to her friends. In the days remaining before the funeral, the children did not appear at school.

Artyom's mother helped arrange the funeral. Couldn't get a car. On the day of the funeral, Romakhin closed the school, and a crowd of schoolchildren, led by the director, carried the coffin through the whole city. The boys succeeded each other, only Zhora Landys went all the way, never changing. Mother forbade Iskra to "arrange a memorial service", but the girl could not stand it at the cemetery and began to read Yesenin's poems aloud. Then Artyom and Zhorka planted a wild rose bush at the head of the grave. Only Sashka Stameskin was absent from the funeral.

At home, Iskra was waiting for a notice on a registered post, written in a vaguely familiar handwriting. Soon the furious comrade Polyakova returned home. She found out about the poems that her daughter read at the cemetery, and wanted to flog Iskra. She threatened that she would leave the house, and the woman was frightened - despite the severity, she loved her daughter very much.

Chapter Nine

The parcel was from Vicki. The neat package contained two books and a letter. One book turned out to be a collection of Yesenin's poems, the author of the second was the writer Green, unknown to Iskra, about whom Vika had once told her. In the letter, the girl explained why she decided to take such a step. It was easier for her to die than to renounce her father, whom the girl infinitely respected and loved. For her, there was "no worse betrayal than the betrayal of her father." Vika admitted that she always wanted to be friends with Iskra, but did not dare to get close to her. Now she said goodbye to her only friend and left her favorite books as a keepsake.

Nikolai Grigorievich Romakhin was indeed fired. He walked around the school and said goodbye to each class. Valendra was triumphant - she expected to take the director's office again. At the last lesson, she tried to force Zinochka to sit in Vika's place, but then the whole class gave her a unanimous rebuff. She became a stranger "so much so that they even stopped NOT loving her," and lost her former confidence. Even a solid teaching experience did not help Valentina Andronovna. She was frightened and for some time was with 9 "B" officially cold and very polite.

Spark, who was not at school that day, was taken away for a walk by Stameskin. This time, the girl was finally convinced that Sasha was a coward, and did not want to have anything to do with either the daughter of an enemy of the people, or with those who stood up for her. From disappointment, Iskra cried all the way home.

Valentina Andronovna did not triumph for long - Romakhin soon returned to his post, but became unusually quiet and gloomy. No one guessed that Kovalenko had returned the director, knocking on the thresholds of offices for a whole week and threatening to reach the Moscow Central Committee. No one was sitting at Vicki's desk. Sashka Stameskin silently brought a fence for the grave, welded at the factory, and Zhorka painted it "in the most cheerful blue paint."

The director was not present at the demonstration in honor of the seventh of November. The guys went to his house and found out that Romakhin had been expelled from the party. The neighbor explained that this was done by the primary organization, and Comrade Polyakova from the city committee promised to sort it out, but the director was depressed, and then Iskra sang a song about the Red Cavalrymen. For the rest of the day they sang revolutionary songs, and then Romakhin treated the guys to tea.

Gradually, everything fell into place. Romakhin was not expelled from the party, but he stopped smiling. Valentina Andronovna at first fawned over the class, but gradually it became a formality. At the end of November, handsome Yurka burst into the classroom and said that Lyuberetsky had been released. Somehow reassuring Landys, the guys went to Vika's house. Lyuberetsky did not understand why these children came to him until he saw the whole class under the windows, 45 people. They told him about Vicky's last days. Zinochka said that this year is a leap year, and the next one will probably be better. The next was 1941.

Epilogue

After 40 years, the author went to his hometown for a reunion of graduates and remembered. Of their company, Valka "Edisson", Zina and Pashka Ostapchuk survived. Artyom Shefer died blowing up the bridge. Zhora Landys was a fighter pilot. Iskra was the liaison of the underground, led by Romakhin. The Polyakovs were hanged by the Germans - first the mother, then the daughter. Zinochka Kovalenko gave birth to two sons - Artyom and Zhora. Sasha Stameskin became a big man, the director of a large aircraft factory. And Edison became not a great inventor, but a watchmaker, and "the most accurate time in the city was with the former students of the once woefully famous 9" B "".

The story of Boris Vasilyev "Tomorrow there was a war" was written in 1984. In 1987, a film of the same name was made based on the work.

The action takes place in the USSR in 1940. The story tells about students of the 9th "B" class of an ordinary Soviet school. Yesterday's girls and boys had time to grow up.

Many of them already feel responsible for themselves, for their future and even for their schoolmates. The new academic year has brought many challenges for the children.

Schoolchildren are sure that the coming 1941 will be much happier. 1940 didn't bring good luck because it was a leap year. No one knew that not only 9 "B" was preparing the new year, but also for the entire Soviet people.

Iskra Polyakova

Iskra - student 9 "B". This is the “class conscience”. Iskra tries not only to study well, but also to engage in social work. The girl considers it her duty to re-educate Sasha Stameskin, who does not want to learn a bully. In the class, Polyakova is not just afraid, but truly respected, because she is one of the most responsible and serious students.

Iskra's idol has always been her mother, Commissar Polyakova. A stern woman who went through a civil war raised her daughter in strictness and devotion to the Soviet regime. Iskra does not remember her father, who gave her an unusual name. Commissioner Polyakova considered her life partner too weak and cowardly. Next to such a person it is impossible to fight for your ideals. Iskra's parents broke up, and the mother ruthlessly destroyed all the photos of her former lover. One day, the mother’s personality opens up to the girl from a completely different side: Commissar Polyakova is able to cry, but deep down she is just an unhappy woman.

Transformation of the views of the heroine
The weakness that lives in the soul of mother Iskra makes the main character herself soften. By the end of the story, the girl reconsiders some of her views. The first kiss makes Iskra think that in addition to social work in life there can be personal happiness that inspires the soul and gives strength to fight for their political ideals.

Polyakova also changes her mind about one of her classmates, whom she always considered an arrogant hypocrite. The poems of the "decadent" Yesenin also cease to seem anti-Soviet girls.

Iskra died heroically during the Great Patriotic War. The Polyakovs were executed by the Nazis.

Vika Luberetskaya

Vika is a classmate of Iskra. Vika's father held a high position, which allowed him to pamper his daughter in every possible way. The girl was left without a mother early and became the only joy in the life of engineer Lyubertsy.

The prosperity of Vika's family alienated her from the rest of her classmates. The guys never entered into open conflicts with her, but they always shunned the well-dressed "potbelly stove" who came to school by car. The girl did not try to become her own, but did not oppose herself to the class. Vicki's father knew that his daughter was prudent enough to properly manage her abilities, and allowed her a lot.

Iskra is stricter than other classmates in relation to Lyubertskaya. Vika seems to her too spoiled, arrogant and unadapted to life. A Soviet schoolgirl simply has no right to be like that. A serious trouble in the Lyuberetsky family makes Iskra regret his contempt for a classmate. Vika's father was arrested on suspicion of espionage. The girl understands that her comrades who did not like her will hate her even more. Nevertheless, classmates reacted to family grief with understanding. Vika began to be treated much better than before.

Despite the support of her classmates, Vika could not bear the severity of the test. She became the daughter of an "enemy of the people." In order to be rehabilitated in the public eye, she had to give up her father. But Vika couldn't do it. Not finding a way out of her situation, the girl poisoned herself. The desperate act of the daughter of the “enemy of the people” aroused even greater sympathy for the guys in the class. Vicki's death was in vain. All charges against her father were dropped.

After the death of Lyubertskaya, Iskra received a parcel from her, in which she found two books and a letter. One of the books turned out to be a collection of poems by Yesenin, the second - by the writer Green, unknown to Iskra. These were the favorite books of a deceased classmate. In her letter, Vika regretted that Iskra did not become her friend earlier. Lyuberetskaya always dreamed of being friends with the most honest girl in the class, but she was afraid to take the first step.

Other characters

In addition to Iskra Polyakova and Vika Lyuberetskaya, there are other main characters in the story that deserve the attention of the reader. Such characters include Zinochka Kovalenko, a frivolous girl who is always in love with someone; Vanka Alexandrov, nicknamed "Edison" for his passion for invention; Zhorka Landys, who unrequitedly loved Vika Lyubertskaya, and many others.

An important place in the life of young people is occupied by the teaching staff of the school. Cool lady 7 "B" Valentina Andronovna once served as the director of an educational institution. With her, the school turned into a kind of soldier's barracks with harsh military discipline. For her intolerable character, Valentina Andronovna received the nickname Valendra. The cruel headmistress did not have long to hold her post. In her place, Nikolai Romakhin was accepted, under which the students finally felt the long-awaited freedom.

main idea

Almost every person tends to panic and dramatize. A minor annoyance often leads to despondency and great despair. It seems to students of 9 "B" that real, "adult" problems have come into their lives. However, none of them even realizes that in just a few months the country will face such a difficult test that even the death of a close friend pales against the background of the impending tragedy.

There are special works in the world of literature, for acquaintance with which a summary is hardly suitable. “Tomorrow there was a war” (Vasiliev) is a story about growing up. Boys and girls, who are still considered children, have already lost their childish naivety, but have not yet lost that spontaneity that is characteristic only of a child. At the same time, young people want to participate in public life, to be useful and necessary members of society.

In the actions of schoolchildren, despite their desire to appear adults, there is still a lot of childishness. Some of them only imitate adults, but are not really them. Iskra Polyakova was brought up by a woman who does not recognize weaknesses in people. The girl also wants to become an "iron lady". Iskra is too young to understand that a woman who takes on the role of a man will face loneliness and misunderstanding of others. Vika Lyuberetskaya's act also cannot be called deliberate. Probably, the girl expressed her protest in this way, considering her actions adult and decisive. In reality, Vika committed a great stupidity, parting with her life at the very first difficulties in life.

The war remains behind the scenes of the work. It is an event of the past at the beginning of the story and an event of the future at its end. The author prefers not to directly touch on a topic that is painful for many, allowing readers to see their heroes only before and after the most terrible era in the history of the twentieth century.

Boris Vasiliev devoted the story "Tomorrow there was a war" to the last year preceding the Great Patriotic War. The main characters of this story are schoolchildren, so we are witnessing the last calm academic year of ninth graders who study in a regular school in a small town.

These guys are from 14 to 16 years old, their parents somehow took part in the events of the revolution and the civil war. They know about these events firsthand.

Based on this, we see in them two conflicting feelings. The first is sadness due to the fact that they did not have time to participate in such historically significant events in their country. But on the other hand, they have a hope that fate has prepared for them larger events in which they will be able to participate and leave their mark.

Their idols are their own parents, role models. From here, all the boys as one dream of commanding the Red Army, and accomplishing some significant feat that will be noted in history.

Girls dream about different things. One of them, the liveliest, Iskra Polyakova, sees himself as a commissar in the future and denies any other dreams.

Other girls - the cheerful Zina Kovalenko, the pragmatic Lenochka Bokova, Vika Lyuberetskaya, soaring in the clouds - dream of how they will have a large and friendly family, how their husband will love and the children will all be smart and beautiful.

But what will happen to their dreams if the war starts soon, and now in the midst of repression and total control over all people?

The fate of one of the girls unfolds quite tragically in the story. Vika Luberetskaya. It is her father who is arrested, and he used to work as a very high-ranking aircraft designer. After his arrest, the disfavor of society falls upon the family - relatives are declared enemies of the people, and the girl is simply hunted down in her own school. Finding myself between two conflicting opinions and not wanting to betray her father, renouncing him, she decides to commit suicide.

The relationship between Vika's classmates and her unfolds very touchingly. They decide, in spite of everything, to support the girl, because she really is not to blame for anything. One boy even gave cuffs to a senior student for not keeping his mouth shut and telling everyone at school about Vika's father. The headmaster, after committing suicide, sends her friends to her funeral because no one else came.

As for Iskra Polyakova, an ardent activist, Komsomol member, her faith in the party is significantly shaken after the events. She is no longer so sure of the unquestioning rightness of the Komsomol and the adequacy of the decisions taken by the party.

Throughout the story, we see the growing up of children, the formation of their characters. We see girls growing up faster, they grow up both mentally and physically. The boys are chasing them. We can say that many changes in the character of the main characters are facilitated by their director, Nikolai Grigorievich.

In the epilogues, we learn that the schoolchildren eventually managed to accomplish their feats that they dreamed of - almost all of them died in the war.

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