Year of writing: 1891

Genre of the work: story

Main characters: Star boy- a young man, Woodcutter- Foster father, Beggar- an old woman.

Plot

The poor woodcutter found a boy, with an amber necklace around his neck, wrapped in linen with bright stars. He was in the place of a falling star. Grew up uncontrollable. He tortured all living things, both people and animals. He once stoned a beggar woman. For this, the lumberjack punished his son. I decided to take the old woman home. She admitted that she is the mother of the boy. But he kicked her out. Friends abandoned Star Boy because he became ugly. He was looking for his mother. He was sold to an old man who kept the boy in the basement. Sent to the forest for gold. But he did good deeds, for which the old man beat the boy. On the third day, it turned out that he was the Prince. And the parents are the King and Queen. Boy Star became a kind monarch.

Conclusion (my opinion)

A stubborn and angry person can change. New circumstances, ugliness influenced the boy and he began to look at life differently. Saved the hare and helped the leper.

Oscar Fingal O "Flaherty Wills Wilde

"Star Boy"

A poor woodcutter brought a baby with an amber necklace around his neck, wrapped in a cloak with gold stars - he found him in the winter forest at the place where the star fell (other woodcutters refused to carry the freeloader home). At first, his wife was against an extra mouth, but then she gave up and raised him as her own son. The boy grew up handsome, but proud and cruel: he tortured animals and people, and the admonitions of the old village priest did not help.

One day a boy threw stones at a beggar woman. The woodcutter gave him a slap in the face, and took the woman home, where she introduced herself as the mother of his adopted son. But he did not recognize her - he said that he was disgusted even to look at her, and kicked her out. When he left the house to the boys, who supported him in all cruel amusements, they drove him out of the garden, calling him vile like a toad. Looking at his reflection in the pond, he saw that he really had become a freak.

The boy went to wander and look for his mother in order to beg her forgiveness, but could not find her in any way - the animals, whom he had tormented before, refused to help. The guards at the city gates sold him for a bottle of wine to an old man who kept the boy from hand to mouth in the basement room and sent him three times for the whole day to a dense forest, which looked like a pleasant grove from the side, for 3 bars of white, yellow and red gold. Three times the boy was helped by the Hare, whom he freed from the trap, and three times he gave the gold to the leper who was sitting at the city gates. Twice the old man beat the young man half to death, and the third time he was greeted with honors in the city and named Prince Charming. The confused guy rushed to the beggar mother, whom he saw in the crowd, but she was silent. He turned to the leper for intercession, but when he looked up, he saw the King and Queen - their parents.

When the time came, Star Boy became king - kind and just. Retold Mouse

Oscar Wilde's "Star Boy" begins with two poor lumberjacks getting lost in the woods, and the yard was bitterly cold. They were looking for a way home for a long time, but suddenly they saw an unusual star fall from the sky and the woodcutters moved towards it. There they saw that a little boy was lying instead of a star. One of the lumberjacks decides to take and adopt the child. He brings the baby home. At first, the woodcutter's wife was against everything, but then she agreed and raised the boy as her own. Years passed, and the foster child grew up beautiful, but cruel. He put himself above the rest and laughed at ugly people. Also, the boy mocked animals, and sometimes people.

Once a misfortune happened to him, a mischievous man threw stones at one beggar, for which he received a punishment from his father. From this woman, the boy learned that she was his real mother, but he drove her away and said that he did not want to know and see the poor beggar. After that, going out into the street to the boys who had previously supported him in cruel games, they simply did not want to know him, and chased away the star boy, while calling him a vile toad. For driving his mother away, he was punished for his sins and past actions. The boy became very ugly, and his appearance resembled a wrinkled frog, and he decides to go in search of his mother, whom he wanted to ask for forgiveness.

The hero wandered around the world for three years in search of forgiveness, but he never finds it. The animals he mocked refused to help him. Over the years, the boy realized how insulting it was to those people at whom he laughed - after all, on his own skin, he felt what it was like to be a freak. He did not find anywhere either love or mercy. And one guard, in general, sold him into slavery for a bottle of wine. Then the hero gets to the sorcerer, who every day sends him to the dense forest to look for coins: white, yellow and red. A bunny came to the boy's aid, which he freed.

On the first and second day, finding the coins, the young man gave them to the beggar who constantly sat near the castle walls, and for this he received punishment (the first time - beatings, the second - eternal slavery, and the third time he could die). But when he wanted to give the coin to the beggar for the third time, his real mother appeared in front of him and all the evil spells dissolved. The boy became handsome again, but with a kind soul. As it turned out, he was a prince, and when time passed, he became a just and kind king.

Wilde O. "Star Boy"

Genre: literary fairy tale

The main characters of the fairy tale "Star Boy" and their characteristics

1. Star boy. Very beautiful. narcissistic, cruel, indifferent egoist. He was punished, repented, and became kind, sympathetic, noble.
2. The lumberjack and his wife. The boy's adoptive parents, picked him up in the snow. Kind and welcoming.
3. Beggar Queen. The boy's mother. Unhappy, poor, kind.
4. The Leper King. The boy's father. Clever, cunning, noble.
5. Wizard. Angry, greedy, insidious, cruel.

Plan for retelling the tale "Star Boy"

1. Lumberjacks in the forest
2. Terrible frost
3. Fallen star
4. Found baby
5. Kind lumberjack
6. Lumberjack's wife
7. Very handsome boy
8. Boy cruelty
9. Punishing the boy
10. Finding Mother
11. At the gates of the city
12. At the wizard
13. First gold coin
14. Second gold coin
15. Third gold coin
16. The return of beauty
17. King and queen
18. Short life.

The shortest content of the fairy tale "Star Boy" for the reader's diary in 6 sentences

1. Once in the forest, a lumberjack found a baby wrapped in a raincoat and brought him home.
2. The boy grew up very handsome, but cruel, and one day he drove away his own beggar mother.
3. The boy became ugly, repented and looked for his mother for a long time.
4. The wizard made the boy look for gold coins in the forest.
5. The boy gave the coins to the leper and became handsome again.
6. His mother and father forgave him and the boy became king.

The main idea of ​​the fairy tale "Star Boy"
The beauty of a person is not in his appearance, but in the actions that he performs.

What does the "Star Boy" fairy tale teach
The tale teaches you not to be proud of your appearance, not to offend the weak and the poor, not to consider yourself superior to other people. Teaches you not to be cruel to animals. Teaches you to love and respect your parents. Teaches you to correct your mistakes. Teaches to help those in need, teaches to share the latter. Teaches you to be fair.

Review of the fairy tale "Star Boy"
I liked this tale and especially how the boy became after he turned into a snake frog. After all, at first it was just a terrible boy, with whom I would never communicate, even despite his beauty, because at heart he was ugly. But when he realized his mistakes and repented, the star boy became a completely different person. He became kind, and kindness made him beautiful again. He also earned the respect of those around him.

Proverbs to the fairy tale "Star Boy"
Beauty until the evening, and kindness forever.
Don't look for beauty, look for kindness.
Years take beauty away, kindness does not take away.
I knew how to sin, I knew how to repent.
Whoever respects mother and father will never perish.

Read a summary, a short retelling of the tale "Star Boy"
Once, in a terrible frost, two lumberjacks were returning home from the forest. They carried bundles of firewood, fell into deep snow, saw how the waterfall froze over. Birds and animals, all suffered from a terrible frost, and only owls liked this weather, despite the fact that their wings were completely icy.
The lumberjacks were afraid that they would not reach their native village, so they were very happy when they finally left the forest and saw their homes in the distance. But immediately they darkened, because they were very poor and they had nothing to rejoice at.
And suddenly they saw a star fall from the sky. The place of the fall was very close, near the old sheepfold, and the lumberjacks ran there, hoping to find gold. One of them found something wrapped in an expensive cloak embroidered with gold. But it turned out to be not gold. It was a child.
The second lumberjack told his comrade to leave the child in the cold, because they had nothing to feed him. But the first did not agree and carried the child home. The second began to ask him to give him an expensive cloak, but the first said that this cloak was a little boy.
And so the lumberjack brought the baby home, and his wife was very upset. They already had many children, and here is a strange baby. The wife began to scold the lumberjack, but he did not cross the threshold of the house, talking about her callous heart. Soon the wife calmed down and even asked for forgiveness from her husband. Then he entered the house with the baby.
The boy began to grow up with the children of the lumberjack.
He soon became handsome, with golden hair and pale skin. And all the children listened to him and played with him.
And the boy became so proud of his own beauty that his heart became angry. He scolded everyone, offended, did not listen to anyone. He threw stones at the beggars and the sick, killed birds and squirrels, and stuck out his eyes to moles. And all the time he admired his own reflection.
When his parents tried to shame him, when the priest advised him to be more merciful, Star Boy only grinned.
And then one day, he saw a completely ugly beggar and began to throw stones at her. The beggar turned around and looked at the boy in horror. The lumberjack began to scold his son, saying that he did not do the same with him when he found him in the forest. The beggar heard these words and fainted.
When she woke up, she asked the lumberjack if he was telling the truth about the boy that he had found him in the forest. And the lumberjack confirmed his words. Then the woman asked if there was a raincoat next to the boy, and the lumberjack nodded again. Then the beggar woman said that she was the mother of a boy whom the robbers had stolen from her, and whom she had been looking for for many years.
But the star boy refused to believe the beggar. He believed that he was the son of a star, and not a simple woman. Therefore, he began to scold the woman, saying that she was disgusting to him, and that it was easier for him to kiss a viper or a toad than this woman.
And the woman with a bitter cry went into the forest.
And the boy ran to play with his comrades. But they suddenly turned away from him, shouting that they had never seen such a freak. The star boy did not understand anything, and went to look at his reflection in the reservoir. He saw that his face had become like a toad, and his body was covered with scales like that of a viper. The boy began to cry, realizing that this was the punishment for his sin.
The lumberjack's little daughter tried to console him, saying that she would still play with him, but Star Boy decided to find his mother and beg her forgiveness. He fled into the forest.
For a long time the boy wandered through the forest, asking animals about his mother. But the mole replied that the boy gouged out his eyes and he did not see anything, Linnet replied that he cut her wings, and Squirrel said that he had killed her mother.
And no one wanted to help Star Boy.
Three years have passed. The star boy kept wandering around the world and looking for his mother. In the villages they laughed at him and threw stones at him, but the boy did not calm down.

And so he came to the gates of a big city. But the soldiers refused to let him through. The boy cried and begged them, saying that he was looking for his mother to ask her forgiveness, but the soldiers were adamant.
And then Someone in chain mail with golden flowers approached the gate and asked the soldiers whom they would not let into the city. They pointed to the boy and Someone said that this vile creature should be sold into slavery for a cup of wine. And a creepy old man passing by agreed to buy the Star Boy for this price.
This old man was a mighty wizard who brought the boy to his house, put him in a dungeon and fed him with a piece of bread and a sip of water. The next day, he told the boy that in the forest near this city, three coins were hidden, which the boy should find for him. And he sent the Boy into the forest for a coin of white gold, threatening, if he did not get a coin by evening, to beat him cruelly with whips.
The boy went into the forest and wandered among the trees all day, but found nothing. Toward evening, he suddenly noticed a bunny, which fell into the snare and released him. The hare asked how he could thank the boy and he told about the white gold coin.
Then the hare took him to an oak tree and in its hollow the boy found the necessary coin.
He thanked the hare and ran into the city. But at the gate he was stopped by a leper, who began to beg the boy to give him alms so that he would not die of hunger.
The boy had nothing but a white gold coin and he gave it to the leper.
The wizard severely beat the boy when he returned without a coin. And the next day he sent him to look for a yellow gold coin.
And again the boy wandered through the forest all day, met the Hare and he helped him find the coin at the bottom of a small lake. The boy thanked the hare again and ran into the city.
And again the leper began to beg him for alms, saying that he would die otherwise. And again the boy gave him the coin.
The wizard beat the boy even more and ordered him to find a red gold coin.
The boy went back to the forest and, after wandering all day, sat down and wept. A hare came running and, learning why he was crying, showed him a red gold coin in the cave.
And the boy went to the city, and a beggar was waiting at the gate. The beggar immediately asked me to give him a red gold coin, because otherwise he would die. And the boy gave him the coin.
And when he began to pass through the gate, the soldiers bowed to him, saying that he was very handsome. And the townspeople admired the boy, and he believed that they were laughing at him.
When the priests came out and began to call him a wonderful lord, the boy could not resist and began to cry, saying that his appearance was disgusting. But then Someone in armor with golden flowers showed the boy his shield and he saw in the reflection that he had become beautiful again, as before.
And everyone bowed to him and said that a prophecy had been made long ago, that on this day the one who would rule it would come to the city. And they began to offer the boy a crown and a scepter.
But the boy said that he was not worthy of this, because he severely offended his mother. And he turned to the gate. But suddenly the boy saw his beggar mother and rushed to her.
He fell into the mud near her feet and watered the wounds on the woman's legs with tears. He began to beg her to forgive him. He asked her to accept him.
But the beggar was silent.
Then the boy turned to the leper, who was standing nearby, and began to beg him to influence his mother, because the boy helped the leper three times.
But he, too, remained silent. And the boy again began to ask his mother to accept him and take him to their forest.
And then his mother said to him "Get up!", And the leper repeated his words.
The boy looked up and saw the king and queen standing in front of him. They hugged the boy and showered him with kisses, then took him to the palace and made him the ruler of this city.
And the boy ruled fairly. He banished the wizard, rewarded the Woodcutter, and gave his sons prestigious positions. He was merciful to the poor, helped the sick and forbade cruelty to animals and birds.
But the star boy did not rule for long. He died three years later.

Drawings and illustrations for the fairy tale "Star Boy"

The work begins with a story about how, in a severe frost, two poor lumberjacks got lost in the forest. Suddenly, an unusually bright star fell from the sky.

One poor woodcutter brought home a baby, whom he found in the winter forest, where the star fell. The boy wore an amber necklace and was wrapped in a cloak with gold stars. His wife was at first against the freeloader, but then agreed and raised the baby as her son. The foster child grew very handsome, but he was proud and cruel: he took pleasure in torturing people and animals, he also did not listen to the old village priest.

One day a boy threw stones at a beggar woman. The woodcutter gave him a slap in the face, and took the woman home, where she introduced herself as the mother of his adopted son. But he did not recognize her - he said that he was disgusted even to look at her, and kicked her out. When he went out of the house to the boys who supported him in all cruel amusements, they drove him out of the garden, calling him vile like a toad. Looking at his reflection in the pond, he saw that he really had become a freak.

He had to go in search of his mother to ask her forgiveness. It was difficult for him, the animals refused to help him, they remembered how he tortured them. And the guards at the gates of the city sold him to the old man for a bottle of wine. The old man kept him in the basement half-starved and sent the boy three times for the whole day in the forest, which seemed to be a beautiful grove, but in fact was dark and dense. Each time he gave the task to bring an ingot of gold, the first time white, the second - yellow, and the third time - red gold. Three times he was helped by the Hare, freed by him from the trap, and each time he gave the found ingot to the leper sitting at the gates of the city. Twice the old man severely beat the guilty young man, and the third time in the city he was greeted with honors, calling him a handsome Prince. The confused young man fell at the feet of the beggar mother, whom he saw in the crowd, but the woman was silent. Then he began to ask the leper for help, but when he looked, he saw his parents - the King and Queen. And when his time came, he himself became a just and kind king.

Everyone knows the name of Oscar Wilde - a wonderful writer. But, unfortunately, the increased attention of the public attracts only one work of the writer - "The Portrait of Dorian Gray", leaving undeservedly in the shadows other works of the master. This article will be devoted to one such "shadow masterpiece".

"Boy Star" - a fairy tale with an unhappy ending

Even if you look only at a summary, O. Wilde's Star Boy will seem like a very sad fairy tale. It all starts with the lumberjacks walking through the forest. It's a fierce winter. They no longer feel hands or feet. And suddenly they see how from the sky They run to the place where, as it seems to them, she fell, and they find there a child wrapped in a cloak (it is embroidered with gold), even with the child there is an amber necklace. One of the woodcutters took pity on the baby and took him to his home.

At first, the lumberjack's wife did not want to accept the baby, she said that they had so many mouths and little food, but then the "good Samaritan" put the crumb on her lap, and the woman's heart melted. She adopted the child. The lumberjack and his wife raised the boy as their own, never letting him know by their attitude that he was adopted. This is the plot of the tale. Ahead - a summary. Star Boy is a tricky story, as you will see.

The main moral conflict of the tale:

Surprisingly, despite the excellent attitude from the outside, the boy grew up angry and cruel, because he considered himself the son of a star. In addition, the boy was handsome and strong. This allowed him to be the leader not only of his named brothers and sisters, but also of all the surrounding children. One day a beggar came up to the house. Outwardly, she was terrible: her face was sharpened by leprosy, her hands were sores, and she was dressed in rags. The cruel boy began to mock her in every possible way. The lumberjack was furious at the behavior of his adopted son and made him a harsh suggestion. However, the boy did not heed his father and, with his usual ambition, declared: “You are a commoner, you have no right to tell me. I'm the son of a star. " His father reasonably reminded him that it was he, a simple woodcutter, who saved him from death a long time ago. The beggar, hearing this, rushed to him and confessed that it was she who was the mother of the “boy from the star”. The lumberjack was delighted and told his son, who was playing in the street, to go into the house, because his mother was waiting for the boy. The heartless youth entered the house. Before him was just a beggar, whom he had recently bullied. He said that it was not his mother and that he would rather kiss a toad or a viper than her. Having said this, he left the house. But before he had time to appear on the street, his now former friends called the handsome young man a "freak", "a toad." He could not understand what was the matter, but then he found a pond and saw in it that he had become terribly disgusting in appearance (here you can see some of the opposite). He understood what the punishment for his sins had befallen him. Ashamed of his behavior, he said goodbye to the lumberjack and his family and went in search of the beggar mother he had treated so unfairly. This is the summary. "Boy-Star" is a fairy tale, the main moral conflict of which is the fight between good and evil in the heart of a person.

Rising tension and climax

Further, the action develops very rapidly, and the tale is read in one breath. No matter how much the boy wandered, he could not find his mother. One way or another, the road led the terrible youth to the gates of the city, and he asked the guards if they had seen the beggar. She is his mother. He told them that finding her was a matter of life and death for him. The guards only laugh at the "freak" and end up selling him into slavery to a passing sorcerer. The sorcerer locks him in his castle and releases only so that the former "star boy" can get three coins for him in the forest - from white, from red, from

The boy went into the forest. I accidentally saved a bunny there, and for good reason. Because it was the bunny who helped him get coins for the old sorcerer, but they never got to the villain. Every time the boy returned from the forest, he met a beggar on the road and asked him to give the coins. And each time the boy, who at that moment was completely transformed, yielded to the request of the tramp. When the boy gave the last coin to the beggar and was already waiting for death at the hand of the sorcerer, the world suddenly changed: the guards knelt down, and next to the beggar stood the same beggar - the boy's mother. The young man washed her feet, her wounds and her ulcers with his tears. She said, “Come up. You didn’t help a beggar, you helped your father ”. Needless to say, both his beauty and his strength returned to the boy. He was the prince of that kingdom, the main city of which he had not been able to enter some time ago. This is the culmination of the tale, its summary. Star Boy doesn't end there.

The final hairpin by Oscar Wilde

The author of "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" would not be himself if he finished the tale on a positive note. He said something else. Of course, in order to feel all the beauty of Wilde's joke, you need to read the whole story, and not watch the summary of the story "The Boy Star". But duty still tells the reader of this article that O. Wilde finished his essay something like this: our dear prince, although he was just, kind and merciful to everyone, did not rule for too long. His poor heart could not stand the suffering he experienced, and three years later he died, and the heirs to the throne were tyrants, so his subjects were not too lucky. This end of the tale replaces Wilde's signature. Unmistakable stylistics of the master.

Star Boy is Dorian Gray the other way around

So what did O. Wilde want to say? "Boy Star", the summary of which you have read, is an unusual tale. But, yielding to temptation, it is worth saying: even a cursory glance is enough to understand: "The Boy-Star" is a work about the moral revival of a person, about a spiritual upheaval, about the unconditional victory of good over evil. "The Portrait of Dorian Gray", on the other hand, is about the moral and spiritual degradation of a person. And from the denouement, or rather, from the final hairpin, it is clear that Wilde, as an artist, hates happy ends. He is dearer to the boundless deployment of evil in a man. O. Wilde's aesthetic position can be expressed in one quote from "Portrait ...": "When tragedy is combined with beauty, beauty is born." And what could be more tragic and more beautiful than the gradual death of beauty?