Analyze the given work as a whole. You can rely on the provided questions or choose your own path of analysis. Keep in

Analyze the given work as a whole. You can rely on the provided questions or choose your own path of analysis. Keep in mind that the depth of understanding of the text, your ability to determine the author’s position, express your thoughts and feelings, logic, style, compositional structure, and the coherence of your written response will be evaluated. Your work should consist of a complete, coherent, and finished text. From A. Solzhenitsyn’s «Krokhots» cycle (1996-1999), «The Uglich Bell». Who among us has not heard of this bell, deprived of both language and one earlobe as a strange punishment, so that it would never again hang in bell dignity; not only beaten with whips, but also exiled two thousand versts, to Tobolsk, on a sledge — and all this way the Uglichans carried the cursed clapper on themselves — in addition to those two hundred, already executed for tearing apart the tsar’s people (the murderers of the little tsarevich), and those — with their tongues cut out, so as not to tell about what happened in the city in their own way. Returning from Siberia, I crossed paths with the empty trail of the exile in the Tobolsk Kremlin, in a solitary chapel, where he served his three hundred years until he was pardoned by his age. And here I am in Uglich, in The Church of Dmitry-on-Blood. And the bell, although twenty poods, only half the height of a human, is firmly mounted here in honor. Its bronze has dulled to a worn-out seriousness. Its clapper hangs motionless. And they offer me to strike it. I strike it once. And what a marvelous toll arises in the church, how ambiguously this merging of deep tones is interpreted, from ancient times — to us, unreasonably hasty and troubled souls. Only one strike, but it lasts for half a minute, and extends for a full minute, only slowly and majestically fading away — and not losing its colorful polyphony until it falls completely silent. Ancestors knew the secrets of metals. At the first news that the tsarevich had been killed, the cathedral sacristan rushed to the bell tower, cleverly locking the door with himself, and no matter how hard the enemies tried to break it down, he continued to beat the alarm into this very bell. It was a cry and horror for the people of Uglich — the bell announced the general fear for Russia. Those resonant bell strikes — the call of great calamity — heralded the first turmoil. I also had to strike the suffering bell somewhere in the course, in the heat of the third turmoil. And how to avoid a comparison: prophetic national alarm is just an annoying hindrance to unyielding boyars, four hundred years ago and now. Support scheme for conducting a text analysis: 1. Which literary device (trope) is the most important in the depiction of the bell? Why? 2. Which details in the description of the bell do you consider the most significant? What symbolic meanings does the Uglich Bell acquire in «Krokhots» by A. Solzhenitsyn? 3. What is the temporal and spatial scope in this prose miniature by A. Solzhenitsyn? How are the present and the past interconnected? 4. What thoughts and feelings accompany the narrator’s «acquaintance» with the bell? How are they expressed in the text? 5. What particularities of A. Solzhenitsyn’s language could you note?