The image of the tin soldier in Andersen's fairy tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier. The hero of the fairy tale by H. C. Andersen “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”

There were once twenty-five tin soldiers, maternal brothers - an old tin spoon, a gun on his shoulder, his head straight, a red and blue uniform - well, what a delight these soldiers were! The first words they heard when they opened their box house were: “Oh, tin soldiers!” It shouted, clapping its hands, a little boy, who was given tin soldiers on his birthday. And he immediately began to place them on the table. All the soldiers were exactly the same, except for one, who had one leg. He was the last to be cast, and the tin was a little short, but he stood on his own leg as firmly as the others on two; and he turned out to be the most remarkable of all.

On the table where the soldiers found themselves, there were many different toys, but what caught the eye most was a palace made of cardboard. Through the small windows one could see the palace chambers; in front of the palace, around a small mirror that depicted a lake, there were trees, and wax swans swam on the lake and admired their reflection. It was all miraculously sweet, but cutest of all was the young lady standing on the very threshold of the palace. She, too, was cut out of paper and dressed in a skirt made of the finest cambric; over her shoulder was a narrow blue ribbon in the form of a scarf, and on her chest sparkled a rosette the size of the young lady’s own face. The young lady stood on one leg, with her arms outstretched - she was a dancer - and raised her other leg so high that our soldier did not even see her, and thought that the beauty was also one-legged, like him.

“I wish I had such a wife! - he thought. “Only she, apparently, is one of the nobles, lives in the palace, and all I have is a box, and even then there are twenty-five of us stuffed in it, she has no place there!” But it still doesn’t hurt to get to know each other.”

And he hid behind a snuff-box that stood right there on the table; from here he could clearly see the lovely dancer, who kept standing on one leg without losing her balance.

Late in the evening, all the other tin soldiers were put into a box, and all the people in the house went to bed. Now the toys themselves began to play at home, at war and at the ball. The tin soldiers began to knock on the walls of the box - they also wanted to play, but could not lift the lids. The Nutcracker tumbled, the stylus wrote on the board; There was such a noise and uproar that the canary woke up and also began to speak, and even in poetry! Only the dancer and tin soldier: she was still standing on her outstretched toes, stretching her arms forward, he stood cheerfully and did not take his eyes off her.

It struck twelve. Click! — the snuffbox opened.

There was no tobacco, but a small black troll; the snuffbox was a trick!

“Tin soldier,” said the troll, “there’s no point in looking at you!”

The tin soldier seemed not to have heard.

- Well, wait! - said the troll.

In the morning the children got up and put the tin soldier on the window.

Suddenly - whether by the grace of a troll or from a draft - the window flew open, and our soldier flew headfirst from the third floor - only a whistle began to whistle in his ears! A minute - and he was already standing on the pavement with his feet upside down: his head in a helmet and his gun were stuck between the stones of the pavement.

The boy and the maid immediately ran out to search, but no matter how hard they tried, they could not find the soldier; they almost stepped on him with their feet and still did not notice him. He shouted to them: “I’m here!” - They, of course, would have found him right away, but he considered it indecent to shout in the street, he was wearing a uniform!

It began to rain; stronger, stronger, finally the rain poured. When it cleared up again, two street boys came.

- Look! - said one. - There's the tin soldier! Let's send him sailing!

And they made a boat out of newsprint, put a tin soldier in it and let it into the ditch. The boys themselves ran alongside and clapped their hands. Well well! That's how the waves moved along the groove! The current just carried along - no wonder after such a downpour!

The boat was thrown and spun in all directions, so that the tin soldier was shaking all over, but he stood firm: the gun on his shoulder, his head straight, his chest forward!

The boat was carried under long bridges: it became so dark, as if the soldier had fallen into the box again.

“Where is it taking me? - he thought. - Yes, these are all jokes of a nasty troll! Oh, if only that beauty were sitting in the boat with me - for me, be at least twice as dark!”

At that moment she jumped out from under the bridge big rat.

- Do you have a passport? she asked. - Give me your passport!

But the tin soldier was silent and clutched his gun even tighter. The boat was carried along, and the rat swam after it. Uh! How she gnashed her teeth and screamed at the chips and straws floating towards her:

- Hold him, hold him! He didn’t pay the fees and didn’t show his passport!

But the current carried the boat faster and faster, and the tin soldier had already seen the light ahead, when suddenly he heard such a terrible noise that any brave man would have chickened out. Imagine, at the end of the bridge, water from the ditch rushed into the large canal! It was as scary for the soldier as it was for us to rush in a boat to a large waterfall.

But the soldier was carried further and further, it was impossible to stop. The boat with the soldier slid down; The poor fellow remained stoic as before and didn’t even blink an eye. The boat spun... Once, twice, it filled to the brim with water and began to sink. The tin soldier found himself up to his neck in water; further more... the water covered his head! Then he thought about his beauty: he would never see her again. It sounded in his ears:

Strive forward, O warrior,
And face death calmly!

The paper tore and the tin soldier sank to the bottom, but at that very moment a fish swallowed him. What darkness! It’s worse than under the bridge, and what’s more, how cramped it is! But the tin soldier stood firm and lay stretched out to his full length, clutching his gun tightly to himself.

The fish rushed here and there, made the most amazing leaps, but suddenly froze, as if it had been struck by lightning. The light flashed and someone shouted: “Tin Soldier!” The fact is that the fish was caught, taken to the market, then it ended up in the kitchen, and the cook ripped open its belly with a large knife. The cook took the tin soldier by the waist with two fingers and carried him into the room, where everyone at home came running to see the wonderful traveler. But the tin soldier was not at all proud. They put it on the table, and - something that doesn’t happen in the world! - he found himself in the same room, saw the same children, the same toys and a wonderful palace with a lovely little dancer. She still stood on one leg, raising the other high. So much fortitude! The Tin Soldier was touched and almost cried with tin, but that would have been indecent, and he restrained himself. He looked at her, she at him, but they did not say a word.

Suddenly one of the boys grabbed the tin soldier and, for no apparent reason, threw him straight into the stove. The troll probably set it all up! The tin soldier stood engulfed in flames: he was terribly hot, from fire or love - he himself did not know. The colors had completely peeled off of him, he was all faded; who knows from what - from the road or from grief? He looked at the dancer, she looked at him, and he felt that he was melting, but he still stood firm, with a gun on his shoulder. Suddenly the door in the room opened, the wind caught the dancer, and she, like a sylph, fluttered straight into the stove to the tin soldier, burst into flames at once and - the end! And the tin soldier melted and melted into a lump. The next day the maid was clearing out the ash from the stove and found a small tin heart; from the dancer there was only one rosette left, and even that was all burnt and blackened like coal.

The main character of H.H. Andersen's fairy tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” is a toy soldier cast from tin. Together with other tin soldiers, he was given to one boy for his birthday. I must say that from my brothers main character fairy tales was different in that he had only one leg. To make these soldiers they used a tin spoon, and there wasn't enough tin for him. But the soldier stood steadfastly even on one leg.

The boy placed all the donated soldiers on the table, where there were many other toys. The most beautiful toy was a cardboard palace, in front of which there was a mirror lake with swans. On the threshold of the palace, its owner, a dancer, stood on one leg. The soldier liked her so much that he only thought about her.

When everyone in the house went to bed, the toys came to life and began to play on their own. An evil troll jumped out of the snuffbox behind which the soldier stood. He didn’t like that the soldier was looking at the dancer, and the troll harbored a grudge.

In the morning, the children moved the soldier to the window and a gust of wind caused him to fall out onto the street. They looked for the soldier, but did not find him. Passed heavy rain and the ditches were full of water. Two boys passing by found the soldier. They decided to build him a boat from newspaper and send him on a journey on the water. The current was strong and the soldier was quickly carried away into the river. He bravely endured the dangerous voyage and thought about the dancer. At some point, the paper boat began to sink, but the soldier never reached the bottom of the river. He was swallowed by a big fish.

The belly of the fish was dark and cramped. But the soldier was persistent, he patiently endured all difficulties. Time passed and the soldier saw the light. It turns out that the fishermen caught the fish, and the cook brought it from the market to the house, where she began to cut it up. It was a miracle that the soldier again ended up in the very house where his journey began. The delighted cook took the soldier to the children. He again saw familiar toys and the lovely owner of the cardboard castle.

At that moment, one of the boys, perhaps taught by the evil troll, suddenly grabbed the soldier and threw him into the stove. From the heat of the flame, the soldier made of tin began to melt. And at that moment, from a gust of wind, the cardboard dancer took off and landed right in the flame of the stove, next to the tin soldier. It immediately burned down, and by that time the soldier had also melted.

In the morning, the maid found in the oven only a lump of tin that looked like a heart and a burnt brooch that once hung around the neck of a cardboard dancer.

That's how it is summary fairy tales.

The main message of the fairy tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” is that persistence sometimes works wonders. If you have the ability to endure all the hardships and hardships, then you will definitely return to those you want to see. This fairy tale, due to the fault of an evil troll or by chance, has a sad ending, but the main characters of the fairy tale ended up together.

The fairy tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” teaches you not to pay attention to envy and hatred, which sometimes comes from some ill-wishers. To be persistent means to be able to overcome difficulties and not bend under the blows of fate.

In this fairy tale, I liked the tin soldier, who steadfastly endured all the blows of fate. He wanted to be with the dancer - and he stayed with her.

What proverbs are suitable for the fairy tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”?

He who holds fast wins.
Happiness helps those who are resilient.

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The purpose of the lesson: familiarizing students with the content of G. H. Andersen’s fairy tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” and its features.

Lesson objectives:

• Tell students the facts of the biography of H. H. Andersen.
• Read the fairy tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier.”
• Analyze the fairy tale.
• Describe the characters of the fairy tale and their actions.
• Identify the author’s attitude towards the characters of the fairy tale.
• Draw analogies between the events of the fairy tale and moments in the author’s biography.
• Direct educational emphasis on the difference between good and evil, on the affirmation of universal human values.
• Strengthen your skills in working with text.
• To develop students’ ability to express their opinion on an issue, the ability to work in a group, and listen to the statements of classmates (their position on an issue).

1. Lesson Introduction

(Slide 2)Teacher: We continue our journey through the land of fairy tales. Did you recognize the storyteller? Do you enjoy looking at his face?

Children: Yes. This is Andersen. He has a kind face. A sad little smile. Wise look.

Teacher: Pay attention to the buildings that are shown on the slide. What can they “tell” you about?

Children: The buildings are old and quaint. These were built a long time ago. Andersen also lived a long time ago.

(Slide 3)Teacher: What fairy tales by H.H. Andersen have you read?

Children:“The Ugly Duckling”, “Thumbelina”, “The Little Mermaid”, “Flint”, “ The Snow Queen" and others.

(Slide 4)Teacher: On our “green oak” there are apples with excerpts from Andersen’s fairy tales. I suggest you “pluck” (hyperlinks) them from the tree one by one and guess: what fairy tale are these lines from?

• (Slide 5) Princess on the Pea;
• (Slide 6) Flint;
• (Slide 7) Ugly duck;
• (Slide 8) Thumbelina;
• (Slide 9) Mermaid.

2. Report of brief biographical fragments from Andersen’s life

(Slide 10)Teacher: Andersen was born on April 2 in the Danish city of Odense, located on the island of Funen, in the family of a shoemaker.

(Slide 11)Teacher: Andersen's family lived poorly. Parents worked tirelessly, earning pennies. Consider the house where the writer spent his childhood. What confirms my words?

Children: The house is one-story. There are small windows and there are few of them. No decorations. This is the house of the poor.

(Slide 12)Teacher: Little Hans learned the fairy tales of his people early and, even as a child, began to invent his own fairy tales and poems. He dreamed of becoming an actor and performed home plays with homemade dolls. If the baby in the picture were little Hans Christian, what would he think while blowing bubbles?

Children: He was probably making up a fairy tale about a soap bubble. Or he fantasized about where the bubble would fly.

(Slide 13)Teacher: When Andersen turned 14 years old, he decided to go to Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. The name of this city translates as “Trading Harbour”. Look at the photos of the city and tell me why?

Children: City - sea ​​port, with channels. Many people and traders come there.

(Slide 14)Teacher: Hans was always eager to learn. But due to poverty, he began to study at the gymnasium when he was 18 years old. Despite poverty, Andersen graduated not only from high school, but also from university. Think about what it was like for the future writer in the children's gymnasium?

Children: Uncomfortable because of the ridicule of classmates.

(Slide 15)Teacher: He gained worldwide fame as a storyteller after the publication of his first collection of fairy tales. In Russia, interest in the work of the storyteller arose during his lifetime, when some fairy tales were translated into Russian. Andersen wrote to the translator: “I am glad that my works are read in great Russia.”

(Slide 16)Teacher: Why do you think Children's Book Day is associated with Andersen's birthday?

Children: Children really like Andersen's fairy tales. They are understandable and loved.

Teacher: Many children's writers have been awarded the international prize. In 1974, S. Mikhalkov was awarded a Certificate of Honor, and in 1976 Certificate of honor received A. Barto.

3. Vocabulary work

(Slide 17)Teacher: Today we will read a fairy tale about the steadfast tin soldier. Before reading, let's look at the meaning of some words that you will encounter in the text.

4. Reading a fairy tale. Conversation after reading.

Teacher: Did your mood change after reading the fairy tale? Did you like the fairy tale? What are your highlights?

(Slide 18)Teacher: What different (even opposite) feelings does this fairy tale evoke in you?

Children: We are sad, sad, because the soldier and the dancer are dying. And at the same time, we are interested, entertaining, joyful from fabulous wonders, from bright love soldier and dancer.

Teacher: Look at these two illustrations and decide which one we associate with a sad feeling and which one we associate with a happy one?

Children: The first illustration leaves a fabulously interesting impression. It depicts toys, the love of the main characters. The second illustration is very sad, we feel sorry for the soldier.

Teacher: In Russians folk tales always a happy ending, love conquers evil. Why does Andersen's fairy tale have a sad ending? Why do heroes die? We will try to answer these questions when we carefully read the tale again.

5. Analytical reading of a fairy tale

(Slide 19)Teacher: In the first part of the fairy tale, we meet its heroes. What question do we want to ask toys: who or what?

Children: Who. They behave as if they were alive. They think and talk.

Teacher: How did the new toys make the boy feel?

Children: Joy.

Teacher: Find words in the text that support this feeling.

Children:“Oh, tin soldiers!”, “he shouted, clapping his hands,” “he immediately began to arrange them.”

Teacher: How was the steadfast tin soldier different from his “brothers” soldiers? How do the boy and Anderson feel about him? Find the words from the fairy tale that support your answers.

Children: The soldier did not have a leg (there was not enough tin when the tide was low). The boy played with a soldier, he did not throw away the damaged toy. The boy liked the soldier: “but he stood on his one leg just as firmly...”. Andersen also likes the soldier, “and he turned out to be the most wonderful of all.”

Teacher: Why did the soldier pay attention to the dancer?

Children: She was beautiful. They had something in common: “..decided that the beauty was also one-legged, like him.”

Teacher: Re-read the soldier's monologue in the first part. How do these words characterize the soldier?

Children: He admires the beauty and wants to make her his wife. But she worries that she will be uncomfortable with him.

Teacher: Why did Andersen write “But it still doesn’t hurt to get acquainted,” and not “I’ll go and get acquainted.”

Children: The soldier probably feels unworthy of the beauty and is afraid to meet her right away. That “she, apparently, is one of the nobles,” and an ordinary soldier would not be able to achieve her. He is “hiding” and just watching the young lady.

Teacher: Which of the heroes of Andersen’s other fairy tales felt just as “unworthy”, unlike the others?

Children: ugly duckling, Thumbelina among beetles, little mermaid among people.

Teacher: Hans Christian Anderson came from poor backgrounds. There were many sorrows in his life related to his origin. They mocked his “peasant blood” and did not accept him. But Andersen also had friends who appreciated his talent.

Teacher: How did the beauty treat the soldier? Re-read the beginning of the second part and find the answer to this question.

Children: While all the toys were playing, making noise, tumbling, making “noise and commotion,” the dancer “did not move.” She was unanimous with the soldier, because he, like her, did not participate in the general “noise,” he “did not take his eyes off her.” Maybe it was love? And the young lady noticed the poor soldier?

Children: Or maybe she didn't mean to notice him. Maybe she was proud and considered it beneath her dignity to pay attention to all sorts of soldiers.

Children: She was probably just shy; her upbringing did not allow her to meet first.

Teacher: Let us now rest a little and play theater artists while standing. Let's try to depict a soldier as he stands guard with a gun. Dancer. Toy games (children, standing near their desks, depict “living figures”).

Teacher: What toy don't you like? Why didn't you like him? Find the answer in the text.

Children: Black troll from a snuff box. He threatens the soldier. “Why are you looking where you shouldn’t.”

Teacher: Why does the troll think that the soldier doesn’t need to look at the beauty?

Children: Probably the troll considers himself a “cool” toy and the dancer too, and ordinary soldiers have no need to look at her.

Teacher: Imagine a snuff box. What did it look like before the lid opened?

Children: The snuff box must have been beautiful, because it’s a small box for something. They were beautifully decorated.

Teacher: And from this “beauty” an evil troll suddenly jumps out. Think about it, what if this beautiful snuff box is compared with beautiful man, what can “jump” out of a person?

Children: Evil thoughts. Evil, ugly actions.

Teacher: Such people often met in the life of Hans Christian Andersen. Educated, cultural figures of Danish literature often made it clear that Andersen should know his place (the place of a tramp and a peasant) among gentlemen professors and academicians. “Everything good in me was trampled into the dirt,” Andersen said about himself. And the soldier ends up in the mud. When? Why?

Children: He fell out of the window onto the dirty pavement. It was either a troll who dumped him ( evil people), or a draft (fate).

(Slide 20)Teacher: What tests does the soldier go through?

Children: Standing upside down, sailing on a fragile boat, darkness of the stage, an angry rat, a huge canal, the stomach of a fish.

Teacher: How did the soldier pass these tests? Support with words from the text.

Children: He was worried, afraid, but still endured all the trials. “I considered it indecent to shout in the street,” “I was shaking all over, but I held on steadfastly,” “I was silent and clutched my gun even tighter,” “I still held on steadfastly and didn’t even blink an eye,” “I was so scared.”

Teacher: How does Andersen feel about the soldier? Confirm.

Children: Worried about him. Calls him "poor guy."

Teacher: What or who helps the soldier cope with these trials?

Children: He always remembers the Dancer in a moment of danger. “Oh, if only that beauty were sitting in the boat with me - for me, be at least twice as dark!” “Then he thought about his beauty...”

Teacher: Previously, warrior knights had their own ladies. Thoughts about her, love for her warmed them in battle.

Teacher: During these tests, did the soldier hurt anyone, did he harm anyone? After all, his gun probably ended with a sharp tin bayonet, and he could have scratched the boys’ hands and damaged the fish’s stomach.

Children: No. The fairy tale says nothing about this. The soldier is afraid, suffers, but does not harm anyone. He endures stubbornly.

Teacher: So Andersen had to suffer and endure, steadfastly endure all the humiliations in life. At the same time, do not lose your kindness and tender attitude towards ordinary people.

(Slide 21) But the soldier's trials came to an end. And a miracle happened - as a reward for perseverance - he ended up in the same boy’s room and saw the beauty again! What did the soldier and along with him the author want to say with the words “That’s how tenacity is!”?

Children: The soldier admires the ballerina’s tenacity, because she stood on one leg all this time. And Andersen, as it were, admires the soldier with these words, admires his strong character.

Teacher: What words from the fourth part speak about the power of love between our heroes?

Children:“I was touched and almost cried,” “He looked at her, she looked at him, but they didn’t say a word.”

Teacher: Yes. Lovers often don't need words. They can communicate with their eyes. They understand each other, they are “on the same wavelength” of feelings. What words of the fairy tale abruptly “tear” the reader away from the contemplation of the bright love of the heroes?

Children:“Suddenly one of the boys...” The boy does something bad and throws the soldier into the fire.

Teacher: How do you explain the words “The troll probably set it all up!”

Children: This boy was probably a friend, an acquaintance of our little boy-owner. He's probably a calm, decent boy. Otherwise, he would not have been invited to visit our boy. But there was also an evil troll in it: maybe it was envy that he didn’t have such a toy.

Teacher: The soldier is on fire. How does he feel?

Children: He's feeling hot. But even here he loves: “It’s terribly hot, from fire or from love - he himself didn’t know.”

Teacher: What about the young lady?

Children: The wind caught her and she fell into the fire with the soldier.

(Slide 22)Teacher: The heroes burn together. Do you think love won or lost?

Children: I won. IN real life they shouldn't be together. A troll would disturb them and do other dirty tricks. And now the soldier and the dancer will be remembered as the most unusual toys, their unusual fate.

6. Synthesis

Teacher: At the beginning of the lesson, we identified two moods of the fairy tale: bright and sad. Andersen teaches us that life can be different, sad and cheerful. What is there in people and fairy tale heroes? positive features and negative.

(Slide 23) I suggest the class divide into four groups. Each group will receive an illustration from a fairy tale to look at. You will have to consult and answer several questions: Which hero is depicted in the illustration? Name its positive and negative features.

(Image 1) Children: This is the boy who was given soldiers. He loves his toys and doesn't break them. He searched for a long time for the fallen soldier.

Children: In the fairy tale there is another boy - the first one's guest. Envy of the unusual soldier awoke in him.

(Image 2) Children: This is a black troll. He envies the soldier. Points at him, threatens him. Separates the soldier from the beauty.

Children: Before this, the troll was hiding in a beautiful snuff box, which everyone admired. Not expecting a “secret, a trick.” This snuff box helped the soldier to hide and he was not put in a box with the other soldiers.

(Image 3) Children: This is a lovely dancer. She won the heart of the tin soldier with her beauty. She flew into the fire after the soldier.

Children: Very inaccessible. She didn’t let the soldier know with any movement that she saw signs of his attention.

(Image 4) Children: This is a tin soldier. He loves a beautiful dancer. He steadfastly withstands all the trials that befall him.

Children: He is a little unsure of himself and does not dare to meet the young lady. Despite his strong character, he experiences fear during his forced journey.

7. Lesson summary

(Slide 24)Teacher: Now we will try to answer the questions that were asked at the beginning of the lesson. Why does Andersen's fairy tale have a sad ending? Why do heroes die?

Children: They were envied. Others didn't like them because they weren't like everyone else. In other toys and people, low feelings “awakened”, looking at the pure, bright love of the main characters.

Teacher: Yes, guys, in the world around us, the ratio of evil and good, light and darkness, joy and pain depends on each person, and it also depends on you, what choice you make. I wish you that your good, bright half will defeat all dark and evil thoughts and actions.

(Slide 25)Teacher: Homework will be connected with another illustration, which I invite you to consider. Of course, you recognize the fairy tale character in this illustration. Your task: reread the fairy tale and tell what you learned about this character. Why did Andersen choose her, how does she behave, do you like her?

The texts of fairy tales seem to be something kind to the child in any case. Only with age, when a person grows up, does it seem to him that fairy tales are actually not children's works, but very adult, philosophical and deep. Of course, how a particular story is presented is also very important. Today we will talk about the work “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”. A summary of it awaits the reader in this article.

The "wrong" tin soldier

The story begins with (if we omit the author's introduction) that a boy from a wealthy family is given a box of tin soldiers for his birthday. There are only 25 of them. And the last one was a little unlucky: there wasn’t enough tin, and so he turned out to be one-legged. Even from the meager descriptions that the author leaves, the reader understands that the soldier is very upset because of his difference from others. And lo and behold! In the room he sees a ballerina of heavenly beauty. An angel, not a ballerina. And what’s surprising is that she also stands on one leg.

Here we need to interrupt the story about the work “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” (a brief summary of which is the focus of our attention) and say: the ballerina, of course, was not one-legged, she raised her other leg so high that the soldier simply did not notice her.

The servant hid behind a snuffbox on the table and watched the girl from his hiding place. She didn’t see him, but he was looking at her vigilantly behind her. At night, when people were already asleep, the toys began to have fun. Only two did not move - the soldier and the ballerina.

The Troll's Grim Prophecy

Suddenly, a troll jumped out of the snuffbox, where they had never kept tobacco in their life, and began to tease the soldier that he was not so good for such a beautiful ballerina. The soldier didn't listen. Then the troll threatened him that something terrible would happen to the lover in the morning. At this point in the work “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” (the summary, we hope, makes you feel this), the reader’s heart skips a beat, he asks himself: “What will happen to the poor warrior?”

The ordeal of the tin soldier

The child found the soldier in the morning and put him on the window. It accidentally opened and the soldier fell out. It is unknown whether a troll was involved in this or not. The boy and his nanny ran out into the street, but no matter how much they looked, they could not find him. Meanwhile, it began to rain. No, not even a whole downpour. The boy left. Other street children found the tin brave (after all, he had not lost his presence of mind during all this time) and let him into the ditch. At this time, the children joyfully clapped their hands and shouted. The hero of the work “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” (the summary slowly moves towards the finale) was not amused. After all, for him, the ditch is a whole river, and this river was heading towards a waterfall - a large canal. In addition, he met a rat on his way. For some reason she asked him for a passport or pass, but the water carried the soldier away from Toothy. The ship began to sink, and with it the soldier. Then darkness swallowed him, but it was not death, but only the belly of a fish.

The vicissitudes of fate

Next we outline it in dotted lines. The little soldier was removed from the belly of the fish by the cook. The fish, naturally, was caught and ended up in the market, and then in the kitchen. And an amazing thing: the traveler ended up in the same house. They put him in the same place. True, the brave man’s joy was short-lived. One of the children who were in the house (the smallest boy) picked him up and threw him into the stove. Of course, the troll put him up to it, but that doesn’t make it any easier.

What happened to the hero next is easy to guess - he melted. Andersen describes this scene wonderfully. “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” is a work that is worth reading only in its entirety, especially since it is short. But the author leaves the most dramatic moment for last.

The ballerina, obeying a sudden gust of wind, goes into the stove after the hero. Lovers (now one can say so) die hand in hand. It was probably not scary or painful for the soldier to die next to his beloved.

Fabulous and amazing story"The Steadfast Tin Soldier" is always interesting for children, as it tells about a strong but short love two heroes who do not say a single word throughout the entire plot. But this story ends with strong love tragic and sad.

Andersen's collection "Fairy Tales Told to Children"

In 1935, a small book by an already famous children's writer was published in Denmark. This collection was a huge success and immediately sold out. Even the author himself did not expect that his small, but cautionary tales will be so successful.

This collection includes fairy tale story“The Steadfast Tin Soldier”, a summary of which is in this article. After the publication of this book, it appeared in Denmark and new tradition: Hans Christian Andersen's book is now being republished at the same time. Each time it was published on the eve of Christmas and New Year's holidays, and parents bought it to give a pleasant and long-awaited gift to their children.

Summary of the fairy tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”

The child is given a gift on his birthday. These are twenty-five little soldiers made of tin. But only one of them is very different from the rest. And all because when the toys were made, at low tide there was not enough material, and the warrior was left without one leg. In Andersen's fabulous and instructive story “The Steadfast Tin Soldier,” a brief summary helps to understand the main idea of ​​the work. At night, toys come to life. And this is already interesting for kids, because they dream of it being like this.

When all the toys in the boy’s room come to life, the soldier, who was watching everything, saw a small and fragile dancer with whom he immediately fell in love. The dancer was wonderful! Her every movement, every wave of her hand - it was all magnificent. But the author in the fairy tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”, the summary always interests children of different ages, shows both the tension and silence that reigns in the room when the terrible troll appears. He immediately notices the soldier and, seeing that he liked the dancer, warns him not to even look at her.

But the warrior did not pay any attention to the formidable troll and continued to admire the thin and fragile ballerina. Then the villain promised that he would definitely deal with him. This is what happens in the fairy tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier.” Let’s continue the summary with the fact that in the morning the toy was placed on the windowsill, and the window was open. The wind blew, he could not stand on one leg and fell out. While he was lying under the window, it began to rain.

Soon the boys find the toy, they made a small boat out of paper and put a soldier in it and sent it into the ditch. On the way, first there is a collision with a rat, and then, when the ship capsizes, the toy is swallowed by a fish. It ends up on the table of the owner of the house where the tin soldier used to live. And yet the end is sad: the boy throws the toy into the fireplace. The wind carries the dancer there too.

Screen adaptation

Andersen's fairy tale "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", a summary of which is in this article, was filmed both in Russia and abroad. Most best job is an animated film of the same name, which was released in 1976.

Although before this there were already attempts to film Andersen’s fairy tale. The first took place in 1934. The director was Ub Iwerks, and the cartoon was called "Jack in the Box." There were other attempts.