The slogan of the Russian Children's Fund, which is headed by writer and journalist Albert Likhanov, is: "Not a day without good deeds." The concise, easy-to-remember phrase perfectly reflects the opinion of a recognized public figure (he heads the well-known International Association of Children's Funds, is the director of a childhood research institute, an academician, an Honorary Citizen of the city of Kirov and the Kirov region). Likhanov believed and believes that the most sincere human intentions are nothing if they are not followed by real actions. Today we will talk about the famous work "Good intentions." The book was released in 1981. It is about the high moral character of a contemporary teacher.
"Let there be sun!"
To better understand the person who actively influences the minds of parents, but most of all wants to be heard by the child himself, we will get acquainted with the biography of the writer A. A. Likhanov. He was born on September 13, 1935 in Kirov, into a simple Soviet family. Father is a locksmith, mother is a laboratory assistant in the hospital, and during the war years in the evacuation hospital.
In 1958 he graduated from the journalism department of Ural State University (Ural State University, Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg). In his hometown, he is known as a literary worker of the newspaper Kirovskaya Pravda. In 1961, here, in his small homeland, he headed the periodical âKomsomol Tribeâ. The Kirovites of the older generation remember the publications of this author.
The first literary brainchild of Likhanov was published on Kirov land (âOn the Noble Queen, Golden Grains and Hot Heartsâ, 1959). The writer himself took the story âLet the sun be!â (1963). Years and decades passed, and readers began to recognize "in person" a modest volume with the inscription: A. Likhanov, "Good intentions." We will analyze this work today.
Teenagers are our shift
Later there were Novosibirsk and the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, whose co-editor Albert Anatolyevich worked for two years, transfer to the apparatus of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Communist Youth Union and Smena magazine. The latter became the fate of the writer for two decades. 13 years since 1975, A.A. Likhanov was the editor-in-chief of this publication with powerful literary traditions.
The youth press made it possible to plunge into the lives of children and adolescents in a huge country called the USSR, to consider aspects of the relationship of fathers and children from different angles. Once a chosen topic has forever become central to the author. The writer is sure: a growing person (our future) deserves the closest attention of society. He assigns a special role in the education of the younger generation to the family and school. Likhanov devoted many books to the children of war.
The peak of the writing activity of A. A. Likhanov occurred in 1970-1990. In 1983, for the book "Dramatic Pedagogy: Essays on Conflict Situations" (1983), the writer received the International Prize im. J. Korczak. Since 1987, the writer's creative activity has been combined with social activity aimed at protecting childhood. The story "Good intentions" is also about a durable shield for the fragile seven-year-old world.
The world is not without orphans
Tale A.A. Likhanov's "Good intentions" touches on the topic of orphanhood with living parents, child loneliness outside the war and bombing, under a quiet blue sky covered with white clouds. Peaceful orphanhood. The hearts of thoughtful readers of the 21st century are particularly worrying that a book written more than 35 years ago is as relevant today as ever.
Indeed, the refusal to perform parental duty is a widespread phenomenon in modern Russia. There is an opinion that the situation is complicated by the fact that today âNade-Vnyâ - the so-called little heroes of the story of her beloved teacher Nadezhda Georgievna - are becoming very rare.
About the book "Good intentions," readers' reviews are almost the same. They call the book a good, naive, penetrated by the purity of thoughts of a young teacher-writer of literature Nadezhda. The girl wholeheartedly worries about the broken lives of her students, strives to ensure that her lonely âumiksâ know the love of mothers - âbearsâ (in the eponymous feature film written by Albert Likhanov, there is a touching episode when the girls and Nadia-Vn watch the cartoon âUmka Âť), Paternal affection, even if they are presented by strangers by blood.
Where do good intentions lead?
Recall the plot: the pedagogical institute behind, distribution, the beginning of the work biography. It so happened that the modest girl Nadezhda, as if to the front, fell into the collective of first-graders, 22 of whom were orphans from the orphanage. Brought up in the best traditions of high Soviet patriotism and selflessness (âone cannot be sorry for the heart with themâ), living in a society where it was believed that a person is a friend, comrade and brother, the teacher does not allow the thought to abandon the high task of teaching and educating wounded . Her intentions are good. But where are they going? This is a summary. Good intentions Likhanov approves, but not in a pure "dreamy" form.
32-year-old Nadezhda fearlessly accepts the echoes of betrayal of woe-mothers and the same fathers. She wants to find an adult friend for every orphan, so that "little people" at least in this way know the warmth of the family hearth. At first, everything goes as well as possible. People are ready (or think they can) show mercy. But itâs not so simple: it turned out to be easier to find adult friends for orphans than to keep them. The reasons for the gap can be understood, but what of this?
As the presentation progresses, it becomes clearer. It is not just about seven-year-old boys and girls who are forced to grow up without parents, but that there is a place for everything in this world: âevil coexists with goodâ. And also about the ability to answer for oneâs actions and irresponsibility. But the worlds of children and adults, at least sometimes so polar, in fact, must be united. Otherwise - trouble. In the story "Good intentions" Albert Anatolyevich Likhanov talks about this.
Cuckoo mothers
Chicks from under the parental wing distinguish between home and boarding school, where they live and study from weekends to weekends. Orphans do not feel the difference between an educational institution and an orphanage. For them, everyday clones flow: educators everywhere, a strict regime of the day, common life. Who cares what the name of this place is? This can be noted by reading the summary. Likhanov built âGood intentionsâ in such a way that it is impossible not to feel all the pain and hopelessness of orphanhood.
The heroine of the book Lepestinya can not understand at all where the orphans come from, because not hunger, not a difficult time. But here you go! And then, and now. Can modern society solve the problem of orphanhood? Many believe that the task is solvable (if not completely, then to a greater extent) if family values ââare strengthened not in words ("good intentions"), but in practice. The prestige of motherhood and fatherhood, a reference to spiritual rather than material well-being, is the pill for the cuckooâs disease. The orphanage is not able to replace the family.
Teacher's duty
Is the profession of a teacher-educator easy? Of course not! On almost every page of the narrative you can find lines that reflect the thoughts of Nadezhda Georgievna about the high duty of a teacher who is able to immerse himself in a person wholeheartedly. Love is the main type of âfuelâ that supports the burning of the teacherâs soul.
This feeling (if it exists!) Cannot be quenched or dosed. An ideal teacher is a noble maximalist, so Albert Likhanov draws him like that. In support of his thoughts, the head of the boarding school calls teaching a feat in the name of children. We can say that this is the essence of the profession of a teacher summary. Likhanov interprets good intentions broadly and powerfully: they should not be a whim, a flash of emotions.
Having plunged into workdays, a young teacher, not guilty of the fact that the intentions of âadult friendsâ were not realized, reproaches not them, but herself, because she believes that she is personally responsible for everything that happens around. Such dedication seems incomprehensible to many readers. Or unreachable? Or maybe the proverb that âthere is always room for exploitâ in life, all the more if it is in the name of children, doesnât lie.
Crime and Punishment
Responsibility for the fate of orphans - whose cross is this? Guardians? States? All put together? This is a common task, and it must be solved by the whole world so that it does not flourish like weed grass, the opposite of human quality, when no one owes anything to anyone, and the salvation of drowning people is the work of the drowning people themselves.
In the story "Good intentions" there are examples of both high consciousness and the irresponsibility of adults, which hurts children. And the actions of the âparentsâ, which have led to peaceful orphanhood, which are not subject to control, can at all be regarded as a crime, which should be followed by punishment.
On the way, for Hope
Nadezhda Georgievna - the main heroine of the story - is capable of high intentions and act, which causes sympathy among most readers. The book encourages, but does not force, in orderly rows to follow her example - it is impossible to make love. Everyone comes to this (perhaps not) at the cost of many trial and error in life.
Itâs hard when mistakes hurt our hearts, but even worse when they leave ânicksâ on gentle children's souls - fragile, trusting, vulnerable.
Dreaming is not harmful, we must act
It is noteworthy that neither in the book, nor in the feature film that came out after it on wide screens, Albert Likhanov puts an end to i, gives everyone the opportunity to imagine how and how the story of peaceful orphanage ended in each case.
The immediate pedagogical power of the books of Albert Likhanov in general and the story "Good intentions" in particular lies in the fact that they are filled with mercy. The writer is not afraid of such words as pity, kindness, forgiveness, help.
Such is the summary in the broad sense of this work. Likhanov, I think, considers "good intentions" to be a "cry of the soul." He says that it so happened that today all the children of Russia, in fact, are orphans. In people who do not expect âmercy from nature,â who, it seems to them, subjugate everything around them, there is less and less mercy, they rely more on strength and money.
But the salvation of mankind lies not in them, but in a loving relationship with another person and the world around. Albert Likhanov is a staunch opponent of a distorted perception of life values. He believes that now is the time to firmly combine good intentions and real affairs.