Summary of “Winter Oak” Nagibina


The main theme is the relationship between the teacher and the student, which changes during the narrative. The conflict begins with the delay of Savushkin in the lesson of the Russian language. This is the next delay of the student, which causes a young teacher to lose her temper. She decides to talk with his mother Savushkin. Anna Vasilyevna is 24 years old. She works only two years, but has already gained the glory of an experienced teacher. They know, appreciate, respect.

Anna Vasilyevna herself is a good person, but she is a bit self-confident. Savushkin reveals to his teacher an amazing world of winter nature and patiently explains his secrets. In the enchanted world there are no sounds; there is an amazing creek with warm keys. There on the white snow are amazing tracks. Now Anna Vasilievna, fascinated by the winter forest, forgot that she must hurry to the pupil’s mother. She is all in the power of the charm of nature. Anna Vasilyevna will now necessarily change, will not be indulgent, as before, but truly attentive, kind, sensitive. She will be a very good teacher!

This day made Anna Vasilyevna wiser and as if older. Saying to Savushkin that “the short way is not the most faithful”, that now he will have to walk on the highway, she draws conclusions for herself. Anna Vasilyevna realized that she had considered herself an experienced teacher early, that “maybe she did not make one step on the path for which there is not enough of a whole human life.” And where does he lie, this way? To find it is not easy and not easy ” . Oak is like a keeper of the forest, master. And man is the keeper of nature. Only the kind, caring owners will give nature their wealth and secrets. That’s why Anna Vasilievna saw at that moment in her student “a wonderful and mysterious person.” So, like him, to keep peace on earth, to cherish all life.


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Summary of “Winter Oak” Nagibina