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The hero of Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi's story “The Christmas Tree” is a twelve-year-old boy Vasylko. Kind, sensitive, obedient, the eldest of the children in a poor peasant family, the boy treats his parents with love and respect, is concerned with their pain and worries.
The first assistant to his parents, Vasyl is also a good student at school. It is for his academic success that his father gives his son a Christmas tree, which, growing up in kindergarten, is a real joy for the boy, almost the only one in the face of constant material deprivation. However, the boy is forced to sacrifice even this joy for the sake of at least a temporary improvement in the family's financial situation.
