Radiy Petrovich Pogodin - Soviet writer, artist and poet. The heroes of his stories are children with their inner feelings and thoughts. One of the pearls of his work is the work "How much is the debt", a brief summary of which is presented in this article.
A real man
The main character of the story is the boy Pavlukha, who came to a small border village to earn money. His mother used to work as a salarier on the collective farm, but due to a hand illness she was forced to move to another place. In addition to Pavluha, the family had two more children who needed to be fed and dressed; one mother had a very difficult time. The father, according to the boy, went to Kamchatka, as he was drawn to unknown places, respectively, he did not pay child support. Mother was spinning as best she could, but recently she even began to hold a spoon with difficulty, she was helped by the eleven-year-old sister Pavluhi with housework. It was difficult for the boy to watch how the woman was knocked out of her last strength to feed her family, so he put on his tall fishing boots and went to look for work. Initially, Pavlukha tried to get a job on his collective farm, but no one took him because he was still small for such a thing, according to the law, children were forbidden to work. The head of the district executive committee promised to help his mother, and arrange Pavlukh himself in a boarding school, but the boy did not agree to this. The collective farm chairman gave him fishing boots, since he himself did not need them (he had a prosthesis instead of one leg).
You will learn about what fate awaited the boy further by reading the work "How much is the debt" (summary).
Meeting with Roman
Having traveled a great distance on foot, Pavluha was in the northern village, where he was noticed by Roman Pankevich, a local excavator. The boy wanted to get to the authorities, but the guy brought him to his house, fed him, and then called Zina, the secretary of the local Komsomol. Together, they found a way out of this situation.
Meeting with Viktor Nikolaevich
Further, the story "How much is the debt", the brief content of which we are considering, takes an unexpected turn. A certain Victor Nikolaevich, a surveyor engineer, agreed to take Pavluha to work. He had the right to attract children to work in the summer. And so began a new life for the boy. For days they climbed mountains together with Viktor Nikolaevich, collected rock samples and talked. An elderly surveyor knew a lot of interesting things.
Accident
Once Pavlukha asked why Viktor Nikolaevich hired him. To which he replied that he had a duty to his own son, who was in prison. It turned out that the man found out about this when he worked in Kamchatka. The boy already wanted to ask if he had seen his father, when Viktor Nikolayevich felt ill. He fell to the ground and lost consciousness. Whether the man survived, you will learn from the continuation of the story "How much is the debt," a summary of which you are now reading.
Pavluha ran out on the road to ask for help, but was hit by a truck. Fortunately, the boy flew between the wheels and survived. He could not clearly explain to the driver what was the matter, and he left. Then the boy put up a tripod, which he and Viktor Nikolaevich used to work, right in the middle of the road. At this time, a car with the military was passing by, they stopped and, when they understood what was happening, helped an elderly man and sent him to the hospital. Pavlukha thought that if he had at least some money, he would thank the soldiers and buy them cigarettes. The topic of debt is again raised in the story "How much is debt" (summary). Pogodin takes her through the whole work.
On the day the salary was issued, the cashier deducted from each of them a part of the money for the hotel for Viktor Nikolayevich. Pavlukha took off his boots and put them in front of the woman, saying that this was a gift from him and the elderly surveyor would fit the shoes. In response, the cashier only laughed and deducted from his salary money for a gift for Viktor Nikolaevich.
All the works of the author with particular subtlety and sensitivity reveal the inner world of adolescents. There is no exception in this regard and the story "How much is the debt" (summary). Pogodin, to some extent, becomes a kind of psychologist who, like no one else, can understand his heroes.
Debt
Pavlukha turned around and went to Roman to repay his debt for feeding him for a while. Entering the apartment, the boy saw a lot of people. As it turned out, Roman had a son on that day. He put his hand in his pocket for money, Pavluha changed his mind and just silently got up, took off his boots and put them next to the child, saying that these are very good boots, let them wear them. On this note ends the story "How much is the debt" (summary). For a reader's diary, it will be useful to write down the names of the main characters and their main characteristics. This work will help to quickly quickly recall the essence of the work.