Man in War


War. What a terrible word! There is no person if a person who does not shudder when he heard it. The history of mankind is the history of wars. The history of heroic deeds, losses, and sometimes betrayals. The war is on, sweeping away everything in its path. Compassion, love, kindness are not peculiar to her. The main thing is to conquer, capture, destroy, trample. Man is only a means to an end. Everyone who started terrible wars in the history of mankind thought so. And wrong. .. There is something stronger than a thirst for power and money. There is love – for the motherland, family, children.

In this love people drew courage and strength to fight. Otherwise, how to understand where the hero of the story of M. Sholokhov, “The Fate of Man”, is a violent desire to live, to escape from the fascist captivity in which he found himself, like tens, hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Even if the first attempt to escape was unsuccessful: he was seized, the dogs tore

off his skin, and then another month the Germans held in the punishment cell – he did not cease to hope. To remain a man, not to break under the weight of humiliation, beatings, torture, to preserve his “pride and human dignity” – what courage was required for this!

He who, having passed all the trials of the war, was able to remain a man, and is the winner in this war. Nobody knows what awaits future hungry prisoners from the barracks, where Andrew returned after meeting with the commandant, but at that moment they were stronger than the Germans, because they did not rush to wrest a piece of bread and bacon from the hands of a person who had lost consciousness, and divided it by a thread at all.

The whole country celebrates the victory, the soldiers return home, and Andrei has nowhere to return: the family is dead, and on the site of his house an empty funnel. The war picked up everything from him, and “untreated tears… on the heart withered.” But the man did not give up, did not give desperation and pain to seize himself. Untainted love, he gave a warm little ragamuff,

for which he became a father. “Two orphaned people, two grains of sand, abandoned to foreign lands by a military hurricane of unprecedented power” have become a salvation for each other. And the fact that Andrei was able to show sympathy and love – his personal victory in the war.

War can maim the body and soul, but if a person has managed to keep in his heart love and compassion – she will come out victorious from this deadly battle. I think that each person’s task is to be able to preserve dignity, humanity and love in every situation. And it is very important to do everything to ensure that our country has always lived in peace.


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Man in War