(273 words) After reading the story "Lyudochka", I could not fully understand what impression this work made on me. This is a very sad story, and the author tries to plunge us into that gloomy atmosphere through any details and descriptions. I enjoyed reading it, but I can hardly repeat it, because the plot of the work froze in my heart, and it is incredibly hard to readjust and forget about it.
My opinion is that Astafyev wants us to experience the same feeling that he has left of this story. So that our heart would also burn, but we could not understand why. This is a sad result, the swan song of the Soviet Union, in which, contrary to the demagogy of the authorities, a simple person was not protected and provided. His eyes were closed on his troubles, and he lived poorly, and even under the yoke of the Strekach. I believe that the main idea of the story is precisely to show the wrong side of that idyll that developed on Soviet posters. One thing is written there, but in reality we see a completely different one: the village is dying, people are impoverished, crime is taking control of the city. The point is that we read this, realize and learn a lesson for ourselves, draw certain conclusions. Personally, I realized that it is impossible to live in illusions and even more so to build state policy on them, otherwise it will turn out that crying, ragged, unhappy people will print and hang up cheerful, life-affirming posters about what they don’t have.
I liked the story, despite its tragedy. The author teaches us to experience new sensations that we did not know yet, and on the example of characters shows errors that cannot be allowed. This story can be called acutely social, since it touches on the most painful ulcers of modern society - crime, the marginalization of youth, violence, lynching and the drama of a victim who is doomed to be slaughtered.
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