In the school program is always presentclassics, including "Poor people." The summary is intended for those who for some reason did not have time to read the work on time before the examination. In the end, it may be that the moment in life has not come yet when you want to read Dostoevsky consciously, therefore the Poor People are offered below - a brief summary of the work.
Protagonist - titular adviser MakarDevushkin, 49 years old. Despite the title, he rewrites paper for a penny for one of the departments of St. Petersburg. The hero is optimistic about life: huddling behind a partition in the kitchen of a common apartment, he describes housing as a “new apartment”. He has to save on everything in order to pay for the living of his distant relative Varvara Dobroselova, which Devushkin takes care of voluntarily. He rarely sees her, although he took her up to her upbringing at the age of seventeen.
The story "Poor people" summary is reducedto the presentation of the letters - almost the only way to communicate between Makar and Varenka. On paper, they pour out each other's soul and hope for a bright future. In order to buy chocolates for Vare, Devushkin denies food and light, explaining that to her only “fatherly affection”. However, go to Vare embarrassed.
Makar describes the poverty in which he lives andwhich is ashamed. An alarm for him in Varenka is elicited by a relative with whom she lives - Anna Feodorovna, the “benefactor”, who offered the orphan to the landowner Bykova. Now Devushkin should save, take out Varenka, who had been unconscious for almost a month after the violence.
In one of the letters, the girl tells her story.youth The former teacher of Varenka, whom he described in the story “Poor People” by Dostoevsky - Peter, who was once a student, seemed to Vare to be the kindest person, but his attitude to his father who visited him was surprising. It was a matter of the drunkenness of an old man, of the same petty official, for whom the tyrant of the Bulls betrayed the beautiful mother of Peter. At the insistence of the same Bykov young man was learned and sent to Anna Feodorovna for bread. Here he met Varenka, took up her taste and upbringing.
Alas, misfortune befell an old father:Peter fell ill and died of consumption. His books went to the drunkard, who filled his pockets and ran after the cart with the body of the deceased, sobbing and dropping folios into the mud. Vare is doubly difficult - her mother dies shortly after Peter.
By the end of June, Makar had run out of savings,and he had to move out. There is an unpleasant incident with a search officer who pushes Makar down the stairs. Neighbors chuckle at the role of Varenka in his life.
All attempts to borrow at interest are completed.by failure. In response, Devushkin tells about his fate, but in the story “Poor people” a brief summary conveys only the main points: he has served thirty years, sits quietly and does not lean out, his only joy now is Varenka. He meets with her during the walk and admires every thought expressed, the book being offered for discussion, including Pushkin's “Stationmaster”. But Gogol's "Overcoat" offends the feelings of the official, as if his "underwear had been turned inside out."
At the same time, the girl comes to wooBulls, who wants to have legitimate heirs, to deprive the money of his nephew. Varya agrees - this is her only way to save her name. Makar is beside himself with grief, but helps the pupil to collect a dowry. On the wedding day, he confesses to Varenka that he wrote and worked alone for her, so “by what right do human life destroy”?
This is a summary. “Poor people” is a work that is the standard of great Dostoevsky's work.
