From ancient times, instructive stories about animals have been compiled in Russia. Their peasants saw next to their huts and knew their habits and characters well. They attributed to animals the characteristics of people. The fairy tale "Cat, Rooster and Fox" is a wonderful example of the transfer of human features on animals. Heroes in fairy tales can be divided into strong and weak, cunning and stupid.
Who is the author of the fairy tale "Cat, Rooster and Fox"
It is folded in different ways in Russian villages and villages. Together with storytellers who liked to add something from themselves, she moved from one locality to another. Everywhere it turned out a little different options. That is, there is no specific author. This is folk art, which was transmitted orally from one person to another.
Fairy tale collectors
But the researchers became interested in him. A.N. Afanasyev wrote down three versions of this instructive story. The first ends tragically. A fox eats a cock. The other two have a prosperous end - the cat manages to help his friend and saves him from a terrible death. We can say that A.N. Afanasyev is the man who wrote the fairy tale "Cat, Rooster and Fox." He preserved for us the characters that people gave to heroes in different places of Russia.
A folk tale with a good ending
The old man had a cat and a rooster. The old man went to work in the forest, and the cat went to bring him lunch and left a cock to keep an eye on the house. With such an inception begins the fairy tale "Cat, Rooster and Fox." Only the cat from the house, as a fox is already sitting under the window and humming a song, seducing the rooster to look out, and promises to treat him with peas. The rooster peered out, putting out a window. The fox quickly grabbed him and carried him to her.
The rooster cried out, began to ask that Kot Kotofeyevich save him. The cat heard the cries of a rooster, quickly ran up, took the rooster from the fox and returned home with him. And the cat taught his friend not to believe the fox, because she would eat it together with bones.
The next day
The old man went to work again, the cat went to his grandfather again, and the rooster remained at home. And the fox came back under the window and began to promise the cockerel not only peas, but also delicious grains. The Golden Scallop does not respond. The fox threw peas at him, Petya ate him, and the fox continues to persuade him to look out and treat himself with grains. The rooster also looked out. The fox grabbed him. The cockerel cried out loud for the cat to help him. Kot Kotofeyevich came running, recaptured Petya from the fox and again began to teach an unreasonable friend. “Do not listen to the fox,” he says, “tomorrow we will go far, we will not hear you, and the fox will eat you.”
The fox came again
The old man went far, far away, and the cat took the bread and carried it to him. And the rooster stayed at home, and the fox was right there. Three times he sang a song, but he did not peer out. Then the fox promised a cockerel a lot of wheat and said that she would leave, only let Petya look out and eat tasty food.
She hid around the corner, and when the cockerel looked out, the fox grabbed him. No matter how the cockerel screamed, the cat did not hear him. This continues the tale "Cat, Rooster and Fox."
The rescue
The cat came to the hut and sees - the cockerel disappeared. Understands: it is necessary to save a friend. He took the goslings and the club and went to the fox hut. There, under the window, he began to hum a song and play the harp. Fox first sent one daughter to find out who sings so beautifully there. The cat hit her on the head with a club and put it in a box. So he killed all the daughters of the fox. The fox sees that no one has returned, she herself went and received a blow from the cat with a club. So the fox did not become. And the cockerel flew out of the window and with the cat went home. Since then, they have all lived peacefully.
Composition and plot
Situations are constantly repeated. This suggests that the tale is built simply. The action takes place rapidly. The denouement comes quickly.
Characteristics of Heroes
The cat is just wonderful. A true friend who will always help. He is responsive and reliable.
It comes to the rescue right away. I was not taken aback in a difficult case when a cockerel fell into a fox hut. He came up with a song to call everyone one by one from the house, and saved the rooster. The cat is very responsible, smart, serious and courageous. How diligently he instructs his friend not to fall for the fox's songs. A proverb is suitable for a cat: “Friends are in need.”
The fox is sly and sassy. She is a cheat and a liar. She sings songs and deceitfully condemns that she only wants to introduce the cockerel to her life and being, and is not at all going to eat it. The wit of the fox is adjacent to her hypocrisy and betrayal. You can recall the proverb about her: "What a guest is, such is the treat."
The cock is stupid, rustic and very gullible. He listens to what the old master and clever cat tells him, but he gives in every time to the tricks of the fox. Every time they have filled with her more and more seductive promises, and he believes them. And every time does not learn anything. For the first time, the fox promised peas to the rooster, the second time also seeds, and the last time tasty wheat. And each time in this way the fox lured a naive rooster into its paws. And he should follow the proverb: "Measure seven times, cut one."
Difficult words
The tale "Cat, Rooster and Fox" is full of words that need to be explained to children. For example, a cat “rushed in pursuit”, which means that he ran very quickly. Or "beat off a rooster" from a fox - pulled out of her tenacious paws. Deep Forests are very dense and dark forests. Gusli is an ancient instrument with strings. A “box” is a wicker basket, often with a lid worn on a belt behind its back.
Analysis of the fairy tale “Cat, Rooster and Fox” shows that she teaches to be careful with lying people who just pretend to be good. It also helps to understand what true friendship is.