PLOT:
A bishop was sailing from the city of Arkhangelsk to the Solovetsky Islands. The pilgrims was also there sailing to visit the holy shrines. Then they saw a group of people gathered together. One merchant said to the Bishop that the fisherman is telling them about the hermits who lived in an island nearby the sea. Before the fisherman never had a chance to see the three hermits, until last summer, he saw them by himself. He said to the bishop that one of the three hermit’s looks tiny, bent, but he keeps smiling. Another, a little taller, also old, in a torn coat, but he is a powerful man. And the third is tall, eyebrows hanging over his eyes. The bishop goes to the island and saw the hermits. He says there they seek salvation in the island, praying for people to Christ the Lord. He told them that it is not the right to way to pray to the Lord, the Bishop did not leave the hermits until he had taught them the whole of the Lord's Prayer. The Bishop took leave of the hermits, back to the ship and sailed out. The bishop can’t sleep so he decided to sit alone on the stern, then he saw something following them, the hermits! They told the bishop that they forgot the prayer he taught to them. And the bishop told them that they’re own prayer can reaches God too. And the Bishop bowed to the ground before the hermits. And the Hermits stopped, turned and went back over the sea. And until morning, radiance shone in the direction in which the hermits had disappeared.
SETTING:
The settings in the story are in the sea, from the City of Arkhangelsk to the Solovetsky Islands, and the small island where the three hermits lived.
CONFLICT:
When the three hermits stopped reciting the Lord’s Prayer for an hour, they forget everything the Bishop taught them.
CHARACTER: The Bishop, fisherman, helmsman, the pilgrims, peasant, merchant and the three hermits are the characters in the story.
THEME:
The theme in the story is all about God.