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GOD SEES
THE TRUTH,
BUT WAITS
LEO TOLSTOY
 table of contents

01 biography of the
writter 02 Setting

03 Characters of the
story 04 Plot of the story
 table of contents

04 Conflict of the
story

05 theme
 “If you make it a habit not
to blame others, you will
feel the growth of ability to
love in your soul, and you
will see the growth of
goodness in your life.”

—Leo Tolstoy
Biography of
the author
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy,
usually referred to in English as
Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian
writer regarded as one of the
greatest authors of all time. He
received nominations for the
Nobel Prize in Literature every
year from 1902 to 1906 and for
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901,
1902, and 1909.
 He was born on
September 9, 1828 in
Yasnaya Polyana, Russia.
Married to Sophia
Tolstaya. He and his wife,
Sophia, had 13 children
together. She was an
invaluable assistant in his
work, hand copying his
manuscripts.
educational background
Leo Tolstoy studied languages and law
at Kazan University for three years. He
entered university at 16, planning to
study law and languages, but he was
neither a very good student nor a
well-motivated one, and he left school
before completing his studies. After
leaving the university, Tolstoy began
writing, which appears to be the only
thing he took very seriously.
Leo Tolstoy died from pneumonia,
aged eighty-two, at the railway
station of Astapovo, a remote
Russian village, on November 7,
1910.
 Famous works

War and Peace Anna Karenina God sees the

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God sees the truth but waits
 Setting of the story

The story was set in the town

of Vladimir, located in the
country of Russia, where Alvin
Dmitrich Aksionov had two
shops and a house of his own.
As Aksionov prepares to travel
to the Nizhny Fair, his wife
dreamt of a bad omen begging
him to go the next day.
 Characters of the story
Alvin Dmitrich Makar
Aksionov: Semyonich:
A merchant from Vladimir,
A man from Vladimir, Russia,
Russia, is heading to the
responsible for the murder of
Nizhny Fair. He was wrongly
a merchant Aksionov knew,
accused of the murder of a
which Aksionov was falsely
merchant he knew and
accused of. Semyonich was
therefore sent to prison. He
arrested because he was
lived as a convict in Siberia for
accused of stealing a horse.
26 years and was called
Tried to escape prison by
"Grandfather" and "The Saint"
digging a hole but was later
during his stay in prison. He is
on found. The antagonist of
also The protagonist of the
the story
story
 Characters of the story

Aksionov's Wife: Official and Two

Soldiers:
The one who dreamt of a bad
omen in which Aksionov's hair Arrested Aksionov despite
was gray when he returned having no proof and not
home from the Nizhny Fair. finding the money Aksionov
had two children with supposedly stole.
Aksionov. Also suspects
Aksionov of the murder.
Plot of the
story
 Exposition

In the town of Vladimir, there was

a young merchant named Ivan
Dmitrich Aksionov who will be
travelling to the Nizhny Fair, but
as he bade goodbye to his family,
his wife told him not to start today
as she had a bad dream about him
returning with grey hair from the
Nizhny fair
 Rising Action
Aksionov met a merchant whom
he knew and put up at the same
inn for the night. When he
departed from the inn, a troika
drove up and an official alighted,
followed by two soldiers
suspecting Aksionov about the
death of the merchant whom he
knew. He was later on put in jail
for the murder of the merchant he
knew.
 Climax
Aksionovʼs wife also suspects him for
the murder and began to weep and
when his wife and children are gone he
gave up all hope, only prayed, and said
to himself that only God can know the
truth and lived as a convict in Siberia
for 26 years. It is there when he met
Makar Semyonich which is the
murderer of the merchant Aksionov
knew. Aksionov then caught Semyonich
digging a hole to escape prison but
Semyonich threatened Aksionov not to
tell the guards or else he will die.
 Falling action
The Governor turned to Aksionov
asking who dug the hole. Aksionov was
speechless and for a long time he
couldnʼt utter a word. The Governor
asked Aksionov again but he refused to
answer so the matter had to be left.
Later that night Makar Semyonich
came to Aksionov asking for
forgiveness. Then Makar said it was
him who killed the merchant Aksionov
knew and hid the knife among
Aksionovʼs things.
 Resolution
When Aksionov heard him sobbing, he
too began to weep, and said, “God will
forgive you. Maybe I am a hundred
times worse than you” And these words
his heart grew light He had no longer
any desire to leave the prison, and only
wait for his last day to come. In spite of
what Aksionov had said, Makar
confessed his. But when the order for
his release came, Aksionov was already
dead.
Conflict
The primary conflict in Leo Tolstoyʼs short story
“God Sees the Truth, But Waits” revolves around
Aksionov, who is wrongfully convicted of a
murder he did not commit. Despite his
innocence, he is unable to find justice, which
forms the central conflict of the story. The
narrative serves as a parable about forgiveness,
with Aksionovʼs inability to forgive Makar
acting as a secondary conflict. Aksenovʼs moral
crisis and internal struggle with guilt and
innocence further contribute to the complexity
of the story.

Ultimately, the conflict is resolved when

Aksenov realizes that only God has the power to
forgive.
Theme of the
story
 Injustice
Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov was wrongly accused
of killing a merchant, he pleaded to the
authorities they looked into his case further
and even wrote multiple petitions for his
release but in the end, they still speculated
that the murder weapon was found in his bag
and that no one could've been able to put it in
their other than him so he was put into jail for
almost 26 years.
 Faith
When everyone suspects him of the crime
even his wife, he puts all of his faith in God
because he is the only one who knows the
truth in him and that God knows that he did
not do the crime that he was being accused
of, and that God alone is the only authority to
whom he should appeal to. So he stopped
writing petitions for his release and just gave
all of his faith and devotion to God.
 Forgiveness
At first Dmitrich Aksionov longs to get his
revenge against Makar Semyonich for all of
the things that have happened to him, but
when the time to get his revenge by snitching
on Makar Semyonich for his tunnel-digging
schemes to the guards, he chooses not to, and
when Makar Semyonich bent down to ask for
his forgiveness, and when he starts crying he
also began to weep and said: “God will
Forgive you!”.
 Acceptance

He accepted the fact that he would never be

able to go and see her wifeʼs grave nor his
aged-up children ever again, he no longer had
a longing to go home, and he had no more
desires to leave the prison, but rather only
hoped for his last hour to come.
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