Introduction

A Grade 6 Kyrgyz Literature topic: «Introduction» (pp. 3–4). The lesson covers three questions: the subject of literature, how it differs from the other arts, and its tool. The word «адабият» comes from the Arabic for «good manners» and «morality», so its chief aim is to bring people up. The word has two senses: in the broad sense, everything written (scientific, technical, medical literature); in the narrow sense, an imaginative work. Every art has its own material: in painting — colour, in dance — movement, in music — sound, in literature — the word. The chief subject of literature is the human being. A. Tokombaev's novella “The Wounded Heart” is taken as the example.