Aesthetic education of children includes many aspects. One of them is the child’s ability to enjoy the beauty of the surrounding nature. In addition to a contemplative position, it is also necessary to cultivate a desire to take an active part in environmental activities, to understand the interconnections that exist in the world between objects. Paustovsky’s works on nature are taught precisely this attitude to the world around him.
Critics of Paustovsky’s work
To notice all the mysteries of nature and to describe what was seen in such a way as not to leave indifferent any reader is the main thing that Paustovsky perfectly possessed. Tales of nature are proof of this.
About the work of Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky with love, his fans say. Literary critics have great respect for the master of fiction. According to them, it is rare for any writer to “humanize” the phenomena of nature, to present them in such a way that all the interconnections become obvious. Even a small person is able to understand how fragile the world in which people live. According to some critics, it was nature that made Paustovsky a great writer. Paustovsky himself always compared his creative insight, which more than once helped him in his work, to nature in spring. It is just as beautiful and joyful.
How Paustovsky developed his creative gift
Stories about nature are the result of many years of work. Not a single day lived by the writer was erased from his memory. Paustovsky constantly wrote down all his life observations, stories, experience of communicating with interesting people, impressions accumulated after numerous trips. Most of these memoirs became the basis of the writer's works.
The creations of great poets, writers, artists, composers, in which the beauty of simple
Russian nature was praised
, were always interesting to Konstantin Georgievich. Enjoying the work of recognized masters, he was amazed at how exactly they can convey the feelings of their souls, innermost thoughts.
Years later, Paustovsky himself could do this.
Stories about nature imperiously attract the reader, enchanting with accurate, capacious descriptions.
Nature in the works of Paustovsky
The peculiarity of the stories is that in them, mainly, the nature of central Russia, which is not rich in its colors and variety of species, is represented. But the writer did it so masterfully that the reader is fascinated and amazed by this discreet beauty.
Paustovsky always wrote stories about nature based on personal observations. It is for this reason that all the facts presented by Paustovsky in his works are reliable. The writer admitted that while working on a particular story, he constantly discovered something new for himself, but there were no less secrets.
The plants, animals, and natural phenomena described in the works are easily recognizable by the reader. Stories are filled with sound, visual images. You can easily smell the smells of air.
The importance of landscape in the works of the writer
Paustovsky believed that the reader, for a more complete perception of the work, must immerse himself in the environment that surrounds the heroes. This can easily be done if the writer uses the techniques of landscape characteristics.
Paustovsky’s stories about nature, shorter and more voluminous, necessarily contain artistic descriptions of a forest, river, field, garden or any other natural community. Thoughtful reading of these characteristics helps the reader to better understand the meaning of the entire work or its individual parts.
The landscape, according to the master, is not some kind of addition to prose or its decoration. It should logically enter the structure of the story and immerse the reader in the world of native nature.
Paustovsky's stories for children
Careful thoughtful attitude to the outside world must be brought up from a very young age. Great help in this is provided by the works of art by Russian writers. K. G. Paustovsky is one of those whose works are included in the school curriculum for literary reading. The list of recommended works for reading includes a series of stories about nature. Their list can be represented by the following names: "Hare legs", "Cat-thief", "Rubber boat", "Badger nose", "Meeting of miracles", "Meshcherskaya side" and many others. The stories told by Paustovsky touch the soul of a child. Heroes of works are remembered forever. And the writer himself for many young readers becomes a friend, a role model. This is what the lines from children's essays that were written by schoolchildren after meeting with the stories of Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky speak about this.