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Narrative p.o.v

3rd person point of view.

"That night, when Aksionov was lying on his bed and just beginning to doze, some one came

quietly and sat down on his bed. He peered through the darkness and recognised Makar."

Tone

The tone of this story is very tragic, and sympathetic

Diction

Theme

God sees the truth but waits

The diction is simple, very easy to understand. Names may be hard to pronounce, but that's because they are Russian, of course.

In time the truth will always prevail.

Leo Tolstoy

Excerpt

Leo had experienced quite a few deaths of close family as he was growing up. He had failed in the Law program so he then tried to become a farmer, when that had failed as well, he turned to writing.

"Perhaps you heard who killed the merchant?" asked Aksionov.

Makar Semyonich laughed, and replied: "It must have been him in whose bag the knife was

found! If some one else hid the knife there, 'He's not a thief till he's caught,' as the saying is.

How could any one put a knife into your bag while it was under your head? It would surely

have woke you up."

When Aksionov heard these words, he felt sure this was the man who had killed the

merchant. He rose and went away. All that night Aksionov lay awake. He felt terribly

unhappy, and all sorts of images rose in his mind. There was the image of his wife as she was

when he parted from her to go to the fair. He saw her as if she were present; her face and her

eyes rose before him; he heard her speak and laugh. Then he saw his children, quite little, as

they: were at that time: one with a little cloak on, another at his mother's breast. And then he

remembered himself as he used to be-young and merry. He remembered how he sat playing

the guitar in the porch of the inn where he was arrested, and how free from care he had been.

He saw, in his mind, the place where he was flogged, the executioner, and the people

standing around; the chains, the convicts, all the twenty-six years of his prison life, and his

premature old age. The thought of it all made him so wretched that he was ready to kill

himself.

setting

Symbols

Born on September 09, 1828 in Tula Province, Russia

Died November 20, 1910

By: Leo Tolstoy

The story takes place in a prison in Siberia.

The prison would symbolizes misery, and out of misery you find something good, like Aksionov had found his religious view.

"Aksionov was condemned to be flogged and sent to the mines. So he was flogged with a

knot, and when the wounds made by the knot were healed, he was driven to Siberia with

other convicts. "

Table of contents

"In prison Aksionov learnt to make boots, and earned a little money, with which he bought

The Lives of the Saints. He read this book when there was light enough in the prison; and on

Sundays in the prison-church he read the lessons and sang in the choir; for his voice was still

good. "

Character Analysis

Plot

  • Excerpt
  • Plot
  • Setting
  • Theme
  • Characters
  • Writers Nationality
  • Tone
  • Symbols
  • Diction
  • Narrative p.o.v
  • Work cited

Conclusion:

Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov

Semyonich feels extremely guilty and cannot bare to look at Aksionov, so he confesses he is the one whom killed the merchant twenty-six years ago, but when Aksionov's release day came, he was already dead.

Role:

Climax:

Introduction:

He spends twenty-six years in prison until he finally meets the person whom he thinks knows who killed the merchant. (Semyonich)

"For twenty-six years Aksionov lived as a convict in Siberia. His hair turned white as snow,

and his beard grew long, thin, and grey. All his mirth went; he stooped; he walked slowly,

spoke little, and never laughed, but he often prayed. "

Aksinovo was heading to the Nizhny Fair where he had stopped to stay at a hotel/inn.

Falling Action:

Social: convict.

Familial: Father and a Husband.

Occupational: Merchant.

Relationships:

Motives:

Semyonich is planing a way to escape and tells Aksionov to not tell or he will kill him. and when the Governor asks Aksoinonov he does not tell even though their past.

Rising Action:

Semyonich : His Enemy

others : positive, well liked

"Aksionov trembled with anger as he looked at his enemy. He drew his hand away, saying, "I have no wish to escape, and you have no need to kill me; you killed me long ago! As to telling of you--I may do so or not, as God shall direct."

"So you, too, suspect me!" said Aksionov, and, hiding his face in his hands, he began to

weep. Then a soldier came to say that the wife and children must go away; and Aksionov said good-bye to his family for the last time.

"The prison authorities liked Aksionov for his meekness, and his fellow-prisoners respected

him: they called him "Grandfather," and "The Saint."

On his travels he is stopped by officials and soldiers that had accused him of murder an sent him to prison.

Work Cited

"Aksionov laughed, and said, "You are afraid that when I get to the fair I shall go on a spree."

Short term: To sell goods at the Nizhny Fair.

Long term: To allow god to answer and solve the problems.

Tone:

Aksionov goes into a depression type personality and is full of sorrow.

"It is easy for you to talk," said Aksionov, "but I have suffered for you these twenty-six years. Where could I go to now?... My wife is dead, and my children have forgotten me. I have nowhere to go..."

"In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov. He had two shops and a house of his own.

"When Aksionov heard him sobbing he, too, began to weep. "God will forgive you!" said he.

Self Image:

He knows he has done nothing wrong, but doesn't argue because he feels as it does no good.

"But Aksionov only said, "Well, well--I must have deserved it!" He would have said no more,

but his companions told the newcomers how Aksionov came to be in Siberia; how some one

had killed a merchant, and had put the knife among Aksionov's things, and Aksionov had

been unjustly condemned.

http://www.biography.com/people/leo-tolstoy-9508518

The Short story god sees the truth but waits by leo tolstoy

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