(380 words) The story Asya was written by Turgenev in 1857, and was first published in the first issue of Sovremennik magazine in 1858.
Asya is the central character in the story, so you should pay attention to her image. This is still a very young seventeen-year-old girl, her real name is Anna, but the girl is affectionately called Asya. She is very fragile and tiny, the story often focuses on her sophistication. Asya also has large expressive eyes and curly dark hair above her shoulders.
This girl has a rather sad fate, this can be understood at least by her origin. She is an illegitimate daughter, half noblewoman (according to her father), and half peasant, her mother was a maid in her father's house. Until the age of nine, Asya lived with her mother in the village, received an upbringing that was completely different from that of Gagin, who is her paternal stepbrother. At this early age, she was left without a mother, so the barin father decided to take the girl to him, because her mother loved him very much. He raised her according to all the noble rules. But at the age of thirteen, another blow awaited her - her father died, so Asya became an orphan, from then on, Brother Gagin was responsible for her, with whom they almost did not know each other, but Gagin became her only family and close friend. Further in her life, a certain N.N. appears on behalf of whom the narrative is being conducted. He made friends with her brother, respectively, often appeared in their house, they spent time together. Not fortunately, but rather unfortunately Asya, she fell in love with N.N. But this love was not happy for the girl, she suffered greatly and was worried, she only wanted to receive mutual recognition from N.N. Asya and her brother left the city forever, in parting, she wrote a letter to her lover, in which she said that only important words that N.N. didn't tell her at the right time.
Thus, Asya’s life and fate can be called very tragic. The saddest thing is that the young heroine became a victim of circumstances, the outcome of which did not depend on her in any way. She did not choose which family she was born into and did not choose the person to whom she was destined to experience a feeling of first love. This girl is sincerely sorry, because she does not deserve all these misfortunes that have befallen her.
The finale of the story remains open, so the reader himself can come up with a continuation of Asya's story, and in this continuation she must be happy.
