Ivan admitted that in a moment of despair and inability to come to terms with the new trials of fate, he almost had committed suicide, going to hang himself on a pear, but remembered the hump, had run to his cross, where he resigned himself to the decision to go overseas. All of Ivan's thoughts are concentrated around the hill: he asked the neighbors not to pass him on Easter, to send one of the young people to sprinkle the cross with holy water. Consoling the godfather, Mykhailo said that people will always remember him because "you were a decent man, you didn't snore on anyone, you didn't plow or sift anyone, you didn't pound someone else's grain."