Kir Bulychev, "Alice's Journey"
Genre: fantasy fairy tale
The main characters of the story "Alice's Journey" and their characteristics
- Alisa Selezneva. She graduated from the second grade. She is a smart and kind girl, determined and quick-witted. Never backs down and always finds a way out of any situation
- Professor Seleznev, Alice's dad, is just a biologist who is most interested in other life
- Green, mechanic, big pessimist.
- Poloskov Gennady, captain, decisive and at the same time gentle and kind
- Veselchak U, the fattest pirate in the world. Outwardly harmless, but cunning and cruel.
- Rat. The most cruel insect pirate
- First captain, Vsevolod. Worked on Venus, rushed to help friends
- Second captain. Martian. I spent four years in captivity.
- Third captain. Flexian. Died in captivity
- Verkhovtsev. Doctor and museum director. A very decent person.
- Talker. The bird is smart, but does not always say everything that needs to be said.
- Alice, together with her dad, goes on the ship "Pegasus" in search of rare animals
- "Pegasus" visits the captains' planet, but Dr. Verkhovtsev behaves strangely and mysteriously.
- Travelers find the last Talker, who is being hunted for real
- The Talker guides travelers to the Medusa system, but they are rescued by robots along the way.
- On the third planet of the system, travelers fall into the trap of pirates, but find the second captain.
- Alice and the first captain free the prisoners and all go to Earth together.
There are so many secrets and mysteries in the world, so many wonderful and beautiful things that a person must forget about wars, selfishness and indifference, about money in order to become part of this beautiful and perfect universe.
What does the story "Alice's Journey" teach?
This fairy tale teaches honesty and kindness. Teaches you to be brave, resourceful, and responsive. teaches you to help other people and animals. Teaches you to love nature. Teaches friendship and loyalty. Teaches mutual assistance. teaches that in the future humanity will forget what money and wars are.
Review of the story "Alice's Journey"
This is a wonderful and very interesting story about a girl Alice. I really like the heroine of this story, because she is smart and beautiful, she is brave and decisive. she knows how to find a way out in any situation and never loses heart. And also because Alice believes in miracles that do happen.
In this story there are exotic animals, there is a detective mystery, there are space pirates and there is true friendship. The story keeps the reader in suspense from the first to the last minutes.
Proverbs for the story "Alice's Journey"
All's well that ends well.
Don't dig a hole for someone else, you will fall into it yourself.
The quieter you go, the further you'll get.
Read the summary, a brief retelling of the story "Alice's Journey" chapter by chapter
Chapter 1. Criminal Alice.
Alice walks around sad and dad asks her what’s the matter. Alice asks dad for a gold nugget. It turns out that she and the guys from the class decided to catch a giant pike with a golden spoon and took a nugget from the school museum. But the pike bit off the spoon.
And now Alice urgently needs to return the nugget to the museum before she is kicked out of school.
Dad says that he doesn’t have the nugget, and when Alice leaves, he calls a friend and asks him to get the nugget.
At this time, Alice's friends and acquaintances come in turn and each brings gold, coins and even diamonds.
Finally, Alice returns, having also taken out the nugget.
Chapter 2. Forty-three birds with one stone
Seleznev is loading the Pegasus, whose crew consists of four people - him and Poloskov. Green and Alice.
There are a lot of boxes and gifts to be loaded, which the earthlings give to their relatives and friends. At the end, grandma comes and wants to send a huge cake.
Finally, all the cargo has been distributed, a reserve of 200 kilograms remains, and the Pegasus is trying to take off.
The astronauts decide to throw some of the cargo out of the holds, but Alice is against it. Suddenly Seleznev finds out that Pegasus has received a complaint that he is trying to take children to the Moon.
It turned out that Alice hid her entire 3A class in the holds of the ship.
Seleznev and Zeleny unloaded 43 hares.
Alisa was upset that her class would not get to the match of the century, but 3B would get there because she was flying on a cargo barge in potato sacks
Chapter 3. Have you heard about the three captains?
On the Moon, Alice ran to a football match, and Professor Seleznev met his friend Gromozeka from the planet Chumaroz in a restaurant. Having learned that Seleznev is looking for rare animals, Gromozeka advises him to visit the planet of captains, where they are going to create a museum of three captains.
He reminds Seleznev about the exploits of the captains and says that currently the First Captain is working on Venus, which is being dragged closer to Earth, the Second has died, and the Third has not yet returned from the neighboring galaxy.
Alice arrives and reports the victory of the earthlings. Gromozeka rejoices at the girl and picks her up. Zeleny rushes to save Alice and ends up hanging from a chandelier.
Chapter 4. The tadpoles have disappeared
"Pegasus" flies to the scouts of Little Arthur and the scouts arrange a solemn meeting for the travelers. And having learned about the search for animals, they give Seleznev two tadpoles, meter-long reptiles, which must be kept in the pool.
By morning, the tadpoles had doubled in size, and by the evening of the next day they had grown to three and a half meters.
The next morning, Seleznev approached the pool with caution, but the pool turned out to be empty. Only the old discarded bodies of tadpoles floated in the water.
The astronauts began to search the ship, but the hatched tadpoles were not found. Finally, Alice took pity on the adults and offered to find the tadpoles.
She led everyone to the pool and showed three small frogs, which had turned into huge tadpoles.
Chapter 5. Advice from Dr. Verkhovtsev
"Pegasus" flew to the captains' planet and the expedition was cordially greeted by Dr. Verkhovtsev, the curator of the museum. He showed the astronauts a statue of captains - an earthling, a Martian and a Fixian. A bird sits on the shoulder of one of the captains.
Seleznev tells Verkhovtsev that they are looking for rare animals and would like to get acquainted with the captains' diaries. And Alice directly says that she would like to catch the bird, which is shown on the captain’s shoulder.
Verkhovtsev gets scared and crawls under the sofa for his hat. From there he says that there are no diaries and he cannot help. Then Verkhovtsev remembers about different planets and their inhabitants and finally talks about the Empty Planet with its mysterious life and talks about the Skliss.
Chapter 6. Bushes
At the last moment, Verkhovtsev remembers the bushes and tells the astronauts an interesting story. How the Third Cosmonaut got lost in the sands of a distant planet and followed strange sounds. It turned out that the bushes, a local life form, were singing. The bushes showed the captain the water and saved his life.
The expedition went to the eighth satellite of Aldebaran.
They found the bushes quickly and took three plants with them.
Already in flight, Zeleny heard singing - it was the bushes singing. And then the bushes appeared in the doorway and attacked the frightened people. Professor Seleznev armed himself with a mop and tried to drive the bushes back into the hold.
Green ran for the flamethrower, and Alice asked dad to hold back the bushes a little.
When the bushes snatched the mop from Seleznev’s hands, Alice returned and immediately dived into the bushes. The bushes instantly calmed down, and Seleznev saw that Alice was simply watering them.
The bushes just wanted to drink, and they always sang when they were thirsty.
Chapter 7. The mystery of the empty planet
"Pegasus" flies to the Empty Planet and cannot find it at the specified coordinates. So the astronauts contact the other ship, and the female astronaut tells them that they are flying correctly, and Dr. Verkhovtsev is a wonderful old man. She also says that there are many fish on the Empty Planet, but no animals, and that she is looking for a living nebula.
"Pegasus" landed on the Empty Planet and Green immediately went fishing. He quickly caught a whole bucket.
The next morning, Seleznev saw that the skies of the planet were teeming with birds. Green went fishing, but there was not a single living creature in the sea. At that time, a strong wind rose and the birds also disappeared. But small animals that looked like hares were jumping on the grass. Then it turned out that the steppe was simply teeming with animals.
Soon it started to rain. Seleznev and Alisa went to the steppe to catch animals, but the bioscanner showed that there were no animals around.
The astronauts were at a loss, but Alice solved the mystery of the planet. She ran to the lake with a bucket, scooped up water and brought a fish in the bucket. It turned out that when it rains, the inhabitants of the planet turn into fish, when the sun shines, into birds, and when the wind blows, into animals.
Chapter 8. What the Ushans said
"Pegasus" arrives on the planet Blook, where a bazaar is being held. Ushans lived on the planet - intelligent creatures who had three large ears. The ushan guards told the astronauts a sad story.
It turned out that recently some person began selling white worms, which all animal owners were happy to buy. But it turned out that the worms multiply at tremendous speed and soon most of the planet was buried under a layer of worms. The problem was solved by the merchant Krabakas, who released eater birds on the worms, which ate all the worms.
Therefore, now all ships from Earth were strictly inspected, because the merchant with the worms was an earthling. The guards showed the photo to the astronauts and they recognized Dr. Verkhovtsev.
And then the Ushans remembered that all their talkers had been exterminated.
Chapter 9. We need a Talker
Seleznev and Alisa are looking for a hotel for people and notice the silhouette of Doctor Verkhovtsev in the windows of the third floor. They rush to get up, but find an empty room. And a fat, smiling man in a black suit appears and tells them that the guest has left.
The bazaar on the planet was amazing in size and abundance of different life forms. Sometimes it was difficult to understand who was selling whom. So, Professor Seleznev made a mistake and asked how much the bird cost, when it turned out that it was the bird that was selling the baller.
Alice became interested in the invisible fish in the aquarium, but Seleznev does not believe that there is anything there. He sticks his hand into the aquarium and dangles it in the air. The merchant bursts into tears, because the professor scared away all his airy invisible fish and ruined him. Alice reproaches her father for his callousness. As a farewell, the merchant gives Alice an invisibility cap.
At this time, a strange creature on thin legs, constantly changing color, rushes under the travelers’ feet. This is an indicator that turns different colors depending on emotions.
He is caught by a two-headed snake, which is indignant that Seleznev is selling his own daughter, then is indignant that Alice is selling her father, and finally gives the indicator to Alice.
Alice sees a canary in a cage being carried by the ears. But the Ushans say that they wanted to buy the talker, but there were none left at all. Someone has destroyed all the talkers and Alice says that they need a talker.
Chapter 10. We bought Talker
Nobody can sell talkers to astronauts. Krabakas says that these birds don’t just talk, they can fly between the stars. Hidden behind the boxes is the ushan who brought the talker to the market. Alice recognizes the bird that was sitting on the captain's shoulder.
Ushan says that someone is following him and is trying to steal the talker or even kill him. He points to Dr. Verkhovtsev.
Seleznev and Alisa buy Govorun and carry him around the square. Everyone around is surprised, and the talker in Russian says phrases that he heard from the Captains.
An old acquaintance, a fat man, comes out to meet Seleznev and demands that he sell or give up the talker. Seleznev already wants to turn to the police, but the fat man is hiding.
Then Doctor Verkhovtsev appears to Seleznev and puts his hand in his pocket. He's armed.
Seleznev calls Poloskov for help. At this time, numerous stamp collectors show up and Verkhovtsev retreats.
Chapter 11. Course towards the Medusa system
On the ship, the astronauts decide that the talker is the same one that the Captains had. A fat man comes and gives them a diamond turtle, saying that his name is Veselchak U.
The talker suggests setting a course for the Medusa system.
Seleznev decides to fly to the Medusa system, but first fly to Sheshinera and look at the Slyss. At this time, the turtle tries to escape, and the astronauts lock it in a safe.
Chapter 12. Such a sad invention
"Pegasus" arrives at the planet Sheshinera and in the refrigerator Seleznev finds a green man eating a pineapple. Next, a second, then a third green man appears and everyone takes pineapples. Seleznev calls Poloskov, but the refrigerator is already empty and there are no more pineapples.
Alice asks to forgive the little green men, whom she recognizes as the inhabitants of the planet.
"Pegasus" lands on the planet and is greeted by a crowd with banners, everyone greets Alice.
An elderly green man said that once on the planet they invented pills that made it possible to travel through time. This led to trouble. Everyone began to return to the past to relive pleasant moments, but no one was interested in the present.
The little man disappeared and returned with a pineapple, which he took from the Pegasus refrigerator yesterday. He said that everyone on the planet thanks Alice for standing up for them yesterday.
Then Seleznev asked about the Skliss, but the little man said that they would refuse them anyway and disappeared.
Seleznev saw a cow that took off and flew to the other side of the street. He asked the green boy whose skliss it was. The boy replied that it was nobody’s, and Seleznev took the skiff to the Pegasus.
Chapter 13. Paralyzed robots
On the way to the Medusa system, Pegasus receives a distress signal from the planet Shelezyaka, inhabited by robots. The traveler sits down and finds one barely alive robot. The robot says that there is an epidemic on the planet.
Green began to dig into the robot, but found nothing, then he decided to change the lubricant. The robot, having learned that the expedition is looking for animals, offers them robotic animals, but Seleznev believes that he does not need such animals.
After replacing the lubricant, the robot comes to its senses. Green says that bacteria have settled in the lubricant, which turns it into rust.
The robot recognizes the talker and greets him. It turns out that the wounded talker received help on the planet - robots replaced his wing with a prosthesis.
And then a man in a hat flew in and cursed terribly when he found out that the robots had helped the talker. And then he was seen at the lubricant tank. It was Doctor Verkhovtsev again.
As a parting gift, the robot gave the travelers several small robotic animals, which immediately began chasing the diamond turtle along the corridor.
Chapter 14. The Pursuit of Lady Winter
"Pegasus" lands on the deserted second planet of the Medusa system and Govorun warns that one should beware of mirages.
Then Seleznev sees two men and one woman on the field. Alice immediately recognizes them - these are Porthos, D'Artagnan and Lady Winter. It was about them that she read in the evening.
Travelers understand that these are mirages. They see birch trees, grass, then themselves, Doctor Verkhovtsev, who turns out to be familiar with Veselchak, and finally the Captains.
Professor Seleznev takes pebbles from the surface and brings them to the Pegasus. He introduces the crew to the inhabitants of the planet, who can create mirages. A mirage of the Second Captain appears in the cabin, and the talker reports that they need to look for him on the third planet.
Chapter 15. Croc bird chick
On the third planet there were many forests and various animals, and huge birds flew in the sky. Poloskov sends a scout flying, but he very quickly falls silent, and Poloskov flies on a boat to look for him.
Seleznev sees Alice following the talker to the forest and suddenly a croc bird grabs her.
He calls for help and Poloskov rushes to him. They fly on a boat to the mountains, where the nest of the croc bird is located.
There they see many nests and notice Alice in one of them. The bird tries to feed the girl fish; she mistakes Alice for her chick.
Seleznev and Poloskov take Alisa, and she shows them a sign found in the nest with the inscription “Blue Gull”.
Chapter 16. Mirror flowers
Seleznev and Alisa walk for a long time through the forest after Govorun. And so they find themselves in a clearing overgrown with mirror flowers. Alice looks at her reflection. Then Poloskov checks the clearing with a metal detector, but finds no traces of the Blue Seagull.
The astronauts pick flowers and carry a bouquet to the Pegasus.
Green looks like a flower, but it reflects not him, but Alice.
At this time, Talker is knocking with his beak outside. They launch him and he says in the voice of the second captain: “There is no strength to hold on anymore. Will help come soon?”
Chapter 17. We look into the past
Travelers look into the flowers and see that everything in them is moving in reverse. They realize that they are seeing a backward recording of events that happened in the past.
Suddenly they see Verkhovtsev and Veselchak. They are arguing about something, and behind them you can see the silhouette of a spaceship.
Seleznev and Alisa fly to the clearing, but the search will not be successful. They return and Zeleny suggests cutting off the layer of mirror from the flower to see what happened in the past. Gradually cutting away layer by layer, they notice that a huge hatch occupies the entire clearing.
At this time, the indicator pushes Green's arm and the mirror breaks.
The astronauts go to the wardroom to take another flower and see that all the flowers are broken and the Talker bird has disappeared.
Chapter 18. Spy
Poloskov was flying around the planet at that time and found nothing. Seleznev checked the ship's hatch and found that it was open. He notices a talker pushing a diamond turtle along the ground.
Seleznev takes the turtle in his arms and returns it to the ship. He and Zeleny don’t understand who could open the hatch, but then Zeleny sees the key to the hatch in the turtle’s beak.
He takes the turtle and examines it. Then he pries the shell and it opens. The turtle turns out to be a cunning robot. The turtle turned out to be a spy and the cosmonauts understand that Verkhovtsev and Veselchak wanted to get the key to the ship in order to capture it.
Chapter 19. Where is the girl?
Poloskov decides to drive the Pegasus to the mirror clearing. Then another ship lands nearby and Verkhovtsev runs out of it, waving to the cosmonauts. Poloskov starts off quickly.
Alice says that Verkhovtsev was without a hat.
"Pegasus" lands in a mirror clearing, where broken mirrors lie everywhere, and suddenly falls through.
No one was hurt during the emergency landing and the travelers decide to find out where they fell through. They exit the ship and explore the cave. There is stone and darkness all around. But in the rays of flashlights they see the silhouette of a spaceship nearby. This is the Blue Seagull.
Suddenly a bright light flashes and a command sounds to drop the weapon and not move. Four pirates are approaching from both sides, among them Verkhovtsev in a hat and Veselchak.
The travelers find themselves surrounded.
The pirates handcuff the astronauts, but suddenly notice that Alice is not nearby. The girl disappeared.
Chapter 20. In captivity.
Alice is nowhere to be found, and the black man finds Talker in the ship and goes down the ladder. Verkhovtsev commands to break Govorun’s neck, but the black man suddenly falls and releases the bird. The talker quickly flies away.
Veselchak turns to the Second Captain and demands that he leave the ship. He threatens to kill the professor and his companions.
The captain turns to Professor Seleznev.
He says that the Third Captain, who flew to another galaxy, returned from there with the formula for galactium, a universal fuel, and asked the Second Captain to meet him here. The third captain was very ill.
But the pirates intercepted this message and set a trap. They were also hunting for galaxy. The pirates captured the Third Captain and probably killed him.
The pirates are going to kill Professor Seleznev and the Second Captain is about to leave.
He jumps out of the ship and fires a blaster, but the pirates surround him, and Veselchak raises a knife over Seleznev's throat.
And suddenly the command to drop the weapon sounds. Dr. Verkhovtsev without a hat, the First Captain and even Alice are coming from both sides.
Chapter 21. Meanwhile...
Alice, while still on the Pegasus, discovered that the invisibility cap really existed, and when they were attacked by pirates, she decided to use it. She put on her hat and disappeared.
She tripped the pirate and he released the Talker. Then Alice ran along the corridors after Talker, and in some cell I heard a faint groan. Then Govorun brought her to the surface.
And there she sees a spaceship and Doctor Verkhovtsev. But next to the doctor, the First Captain and Talker joyfully sits on his shoulder.
Alice tries to warn the Captain that Verkhovtsev is a traitor, but the Captain brushes aside these accusations. Verkhovtsev was with him all the time, and in the dungeon there was someone else who was only posing as Verkhovtsev.
Then Alice takes off her invisible hat and meets the First Captain.
They rush to help their comrades in trouble.
Chapter 22. The fat man is lying
The pirates surrender and Verkhovtsev steps on his double. He pulls the zipper and underneath the man's appearance reveals a scary insect. Merry Man shouts that this is the main pirate, Rat. The rat stabs himself with his own stinger and pretends to die.
But Veselchak says that Rat is simply unconscious. Then they decide to put him in a cage.
Veselchak says that he is an honest pirate and bargains to reveal the secret of the trap. But the captains do not conduct any negotiations with him.
The First Captain tells how he and Verkhovtsev searched for both the Pegasus and the Second Captain.
Finally, Veselchak opens the trap and everyone gets ready to leave. And then Alice remembers the moan she heard.
Chapter 23. Prisoner in the dungeon
In the cage, the astronauts find the Third Captain, barely alive. He is very bad, but he is happy with his friends. And at that moment he dies. Seleznev cuts his chest and begins to directly massage his heart. Finally my heart started beating.
The third captain is given strengthening injections and taken out into the fresh air. His life is no longer in danger. Everyone is happy that the three captains are together again and will soon be sailing the expanses of space again.
Chapter 24. The end of the journey.
When the Third Captain has recovered a little, everyone begins to prepare for the return journey. And at that moment another ship appears.
The ship's pilot refuses help and the First Captain recognizes his wife Ella by his voice. It turns out that she finally caught her living nebula and now the main thing is not to let it go.
With joint efforts, the nebula is planted on the ground and Veselchak immediately hides in it.
While Ella and Seva, as the First Captain's name turns out, are sorting things out, Veselchak suddenly starts running. But the Croc bird catches him and carries him away.
However, Veselchak spins around so much that the bird drops him, and Veselchak falls somewhere behind the stones.
But the nebula escapes safely and is recaptured only near Shelezyak’s planet.
Then the nebula is taken to Earth, where it is placed on the Moon in a crater.
Everyone says goodbye and wishes each other the best.
The captains promise Alice to take her to another galaxy when the girl grows up, and she promises to take her dad with her.
Drawings and illustrations for the story "Alice's Journey"
Year of first publication: 1940
Genre: story
Main characters: Stepan, Lelya, Minka and the dog Tuzik
A brief summary of the story “Great Travelers” for a reader’s diary will help you understand the main idea of this funny story about youthful maximalism.
Plot
Styopka shares information that the Earth is round with Lelya and her brother Minka, but they do not believe him. The guys are going on a trip around the world. According to Stepan's theory, having circled the Earth, they should return to the village.
Early in the morning, the children prepare themselves for the journey with everything they think is necessary and take the dog with them. There turned out to be a lot of things needed; it was not easy for the boys to carry the bag. Minka fell into a ditch and broke all the glass in his equipment. But the bag became lighter.
When darkness falls, the friends stop and fall asleep without even lighting a fire. Stepan goes to bed with his head towards the abandoned village, and his feet in the direction of the further path, so as not to get lost.
In the morning, Lyolya and Minka conspire and, while Styopka is sleeping, turn him over with his feet backwards. The children get home safely, and Styopka is confident that they have circled the Earth.
Conclusion (my opinion)
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A very brief summary (in a nutshell)
Styopka decided to go around the world. He knew that the earth was round, which meant that if you left one end of the village, you could come from the other. He took with him his friend Minka and his sister, Lelya. Having collected a whole bag of all sorts of things, they hit the road. Minka and her sister quickly got tired, but Styopka threatened that anyone who wanted to turn would be tied to a tree to be eaten by ants. At night, he went to sleep with his feet facing the further road, but Minka and Lelya turned him sleeping towards their village, and the next day they returned home safely.
Summary (details)
Minka did not know that the Earth is spherical. When Styopka found out about this, he didn’t even want to take him on a trip around the world, but Minka gave him a penknife and he changed his mind. Styopka argued that if they only go straight, they will be able to go around the Earth and come out again to their village, but from the other side.
Styopka brought a large bag, and they filled it with everything necessary and not so much: bread, lard, sugar, a flashlight, plates, two blankets, a pillow and many other things. They also took a fishing rod, a net and three slingshots. In addition, they decided to take Lelya, Minka’s sister, on this trip.
The next day they left their village and walked through the forest. A dog named Tuzik also went with them. The bag turned out to be very heavy, and Styopka offered to take turns carrying it, but no one else could carry it. Then they threw almost all the things out of it and went light. But even without the bag, Minka and her sister were very tired, and they even wanted to turn back, but Styopka said that he would tie to a tree and leave the one who wanted to return to be eaten by the ants.
When it got dark, they were unable to light a fire and went to bed in the dark. Styopka said that he would lay his feet in the direction where they would have to go tomorrow, so as not to go astray. Styopka immediately fell asleep, but Minka and Lelya were very afraid to sleep, any rustling noises frightened them so much. In the morning, Lelya suggested turning Styopka’s feet towards the house, since she really didn’t want to go further. They did just that. But Styopka didn’t notice this in the morning, and they returned safely to their village. They locked him in the bathhouse for the whole day, and they wanted to flog them, but his father interceded.
This work combines several genres. In the novel we will see a fascinating travel narrative, a pamphlet, it also contains dystopia, fantasy and a bit of violence. This novel can be called prophetic, since anyone who reads it at any time will clearly see in it the specificity of the addressee of Swift’s satire. The author amazes with his imagination, which will surprise anyone.
The main character is an ordinary doctor who finds himself in an incredible adventure beyond his wishes. He just decided to go by ship from England, but soon he completely accidentally ends up in the most unimaginable countries, in which, as usual, a completely ordinary life takes place.
Lemuel was the middle son in his family. There were five of them in the family. He lived in Nottinghamshire, and when he was a little older, he went to Cambridge to study at college. After college, he completed his studies with the surgeon Bates, and after that he independently studied medical practice. After graduating, he went to work on a ship as a surgeon.
Three years later, having traveled enough, he decides to get married and takes Mary Burton, the daughter of a stocking merchant, as his wife. For the next two years, he and his wife live in London, but after the unexpected death of his teacher, he has to return to the position of surgeon on the ship.
Here he is again on the ship and there are no signs of trouble, but soon a strong storm arises, their ship is wrecked, the crew dies, and he miraculously swims to the shore and switches off for a long time.
When the hero regains consciousness, he realizes that he is tied with a huge number of ropes, and he is being enslaved by many small creatures that are exactly like people, only of a very miniature size.
All these small ropes turn out to be not so strong and Gulliver, having tensed a little, frees one hand, but the little people shoot needle arrows at him. He calms down and decides to lie down a little longer and, after waiting for darkness, to free himself.
Having erected a large staircase, their ruler, Gurgo, apparently climbs up to him. He speaks a lot, but it is not possible to understand him, since the language is unfamiliar to Gulliver. Lemuel explains to the little men that he is very hungry and is being fed.
The officials decide to transport Gulliver to the capital and try to explain this to him, but he asks them to release him. They refuse him. Gulliver's wounds are treated with some strange herbs and they give him something to drink, adding a lot of sleeping pills. Gulliver falls asleep. The hero is taken to the capital.
The hero wakes up in an abandoned temple, chained to one of his legs.The hero gets up and looks around the surroundings. He sees a beautiful city and well-groomed fields. He relieves himself, and soon the king, no larger than a fingernail, visits him and explains that he will try to take good care of him.
The hero has been spending two weeks on this island; a special mattress and bed linen are being sewn for him. The state has no idea what to do with this huge man, because he eats a lot and soon they will starve.
About three weeks pass and he masters their language a little. Gulliver wants to ask the ruler for release. Officials conduct a search and take away his saber, pistol, and bullets with gunpowder. Gulliver manages to hide a few things.
The emperor and the little people begin to like the giant and they dance especially for him, perform all sorts of tricks, and also return his hat, which he lost on the shore.
The only one who doesn’t like Gulliver is Admiral Skyresh Bolgolam, he, by order of the king, writes an agreement in which the conditions for Gulliver’s freedom are discussed. Gulliver is given a tour of Lilliput, as well as its capital. They show him the palace. The secretary tells about the political situation in their country, as well as about the hostility of the parties and the possibility of an attack from another empire of Blefuski, which is located on another island.
Gulliver helps in the fight against Blefuscu by tying the anchors of their ships and delivering them to the capital. The rulers of Lilliput really want to capture the enemy, but Gulliver is against this and refuses to perform the service.
One day there was a fire in Lilliput and Gulliver, to help the citizens, urinated on it. The Emperor is indignant.
The hero decides to write in his notebook everything he sees in this strange country. He describes short inhabitants, small animals and miniature plants, he also writes that people are buried here upside down and how they punish false informers. If in this country someone forgets to thank a resident, they can go to jail. Their children are not raised by their parents, but women and men live separately. Gulliver spends almost a year in this place. By this time, he has a chair with a table and completely new clothes.
The Emperor becomes jealous and explains to Gulliver that he is costing their treasury too much. Soon an indictment arrives from Bolgolam, who accuses him of urinating on the palace and also refusing to conquer another state.Gulliver gets scared and runs away from the Lilliputians.
Soon he gets to the sea and finds a boat there and, with the permission of the Emperor of Blefuscu, he sails on it into the distance. He is soon picked up by English merchants and brought to the Downs. He stays with his family for a couple of months, but then he has to go back to work.
In June he leaves England on a ship, but in April he again encounters a storm, after which there is very little drinking water left on the ship. Together with those who landed, he finds himself on an island, on which he notices giants, who at that moment are already running after their comrades. The hero understands that he is in a field with planted barley, but this plant is very large. A peasant finds him and gives him to the owner of the field. The hero meets the owners and soon he has dinner with them.
The hero wakes up to the sight of overly large rats who want to feed on them. The farmer's wife takes him out into the garden so that the hero can relieve himself. The owner's daughter makes Gulliver a crib, makes him new clothes and names him Grildrik. Soon, on the instructions of a neighbor, the hero begins to perform for the public, and after several weeks they go on tour with demonstration performances. About ten weeks pass and they manage to visit many cities and villages.
Gulliver loses weight and becomes sickly in appearance and the owner sells him to the royal person. Gulliver and the queen talk about life on the farm, and after that the woman introduces him to her husband, who gives him to the scientists.
They build a house for the hero and sew clothes. He often dines with the king and queen. The queen's dwarf servant is very jealous of Gulliver.
Gulliver and the queen set off across the country, but the annoying dwarf is always trying to get rid of the hero. The Queen wants to entertain Gulliver, so she asks to make him a boat and give him a basin of water so that he can swim. For the comb, Gulliver takes the king's hair. Gulliver talks about England and its customs, and the king strongly criticizes the government of the country.
Three years pass. One fine day, the queen and her retinue decide to take a walk along the beach, but an eagle kidnaps the hero and he ends up at sea, where he is again picked up by an English ship and brought to the Downs.
Somewhere in early August, Guliver leaves England on a ship. Soon the villains attack. The hero asks for mercy from the villains and one of the Japanese shows it. The entire ship is captured and captured. Guliver is loaded into a shuttle and thrown out in the middle of the ocean, but he again finds himself on the island.
The island turned out to be floating. The citizens of this island call themselves Laputans and they are very strange in appearance. They feed him, teach him the language and sew new clothes again. Soon the flying island flies to the central city of the kingdom of Logado. After some time, the hero realizes that the Laputans love mathematics and music, and their greatest fear is cosmic cataclysms. Since Laputan men are very brooding, their wives love to cheat on them.
After some time, the hero learns that the island flies because there is a magnet that is located in the central part of Laputa. If the subjects rebel, their king blocks the sun or lowers an island onto that city. The king and his family never leave Laputa.
One day the hero decided to go down to Balnibarbi, which is a small continent. He stays with a dignitary who goes by the name Myunodi. In this state, people are poorly dressed, the fields are empty, but the peasants still try to cultivate them. The dignitary says that they were once taught a completely unique cultivation of the soil, so nothing stopped growing on it. Munody was not interested in this then, so his fields bear fruit.
Soon the hero ends up in the Searchlight Academy. There, scientists are engaged in strange studies: obtaining sunlight from cucumbers, food from waste, trying to extract gunpowder from ice, and starting to build a house on top. Scientists told him a lot more, but he thought it was funny. They also had proposals for new laws, for example, changing the back parts of the brain or taking taxes from human vices or virtues.
The hero leaves for Maldonado to get away from Luggnegg. While waiting for the ship, he visits the island of Glabbdobdrib, which is inhabited by wizards. The main inhabitant of this island manages to summon spirits, among them were Hannibal, Caesar, Bruttus, Alexander the Great and the inhabitants of Pompeii, he also talks with Aristotle, Descartes and Homer, with various kings, and ordinary, unremarkable people. But he soon returned to Maldonado and a couple of weeks later sailed to Luggnagg. Soon he was arrested there. In the city of Traldregdab, Gulliver has the opportunity to meet the king, there he becomes acquainted with a strange custom, it is necessary to lick the throne room. Three months have passed since he has been in Luggnagg. The residents here are courteous and good-natured, and he learns that some residents are born immortal. Gulliver dreams of what he could do if he were immortal, but the people say that they only suffer from immortality. After Luggnagg, the hero comes to Japan, and then to Amsterdam. In April he hits the Downs.
After such strange, long and difficult journeys, Gulliver is given the position of captain of the ship. He accidentally recruits robbers, who soon capture him and land him on the nearest island. There Gulliver is attacked by monkeys, and a horse, which is very strange in appearance, saves him. The horse comes to his horse and they discuss something, periodically feeling Gulliver.
The horses bring the hero to their home, where he meets monkeys that look like people, but they are pets. They offer him rotten meat, but he refuses and shows that milk is better for him. The horses also begin to dine. This lunch consists of oatmeal.
Gulliver slowly masters this language and soon tells one of the horses the story of his appearance.
One day he is caught naked by the servant of the horse with whom he lives, but he promises to keep the secret that the man is very similar to a monkey.
Gulliver talks about England, about English horses, medicine and alcohol. The horse decided that the inhabitants of England did not use their minds for their intended purpose, but only to increase their vices.
In the Houyhnhnms, family marriages are concluded for the birth of children, always of two different sexes.
Since apes are difficult to train, they decide to exterminate them, but soon they come to the decision to sterilize all the Yahoos, and send Gulliver out of the country, since he looks like a Yahoo. Two months later, Gulliver sails away.
He loses his mind a little from the journey, because he believes that they want to send him to live with the Yahoos, although he has been on a Portuguese ship for a long time, but he soon recovers and is sent to England.
In December he comes home and decides to write a story about his adventures.
A short retelling of "Gulliver's Travels" in abbreviation was prepared by Oleg Nikov for the reader's diary.
Three children from Zoshchenko’s story “Great Travelers,” a summary of which we will consider below, decided to go around the entire globe and return back to their village of Peski. The writer told us with good humor what came out of this idea.
What does Minka introduce us to?
Minka was only 6 years old. He, of course, didn’t know. His eyes were opened by Styopka, an older boy who was the son of the owners of the dacha where Minka’s family lived in the summer. Styopka was older and confidently stated that the earth is a circle. You can walk around it all and return home. But Minka didn’t believe it. Then Styopka hit him on the head and promised that he would tell his sister Lelka about this and take her on a long journey around the world. Minka also wanted to see the whole earth with his own eyes and, in order to appease Styopka, gave him a penknife. Styopka liked the gift, and he, as Zoshchenko says in “Great Travelers,” a summary of which we began to present, agreed to take Minka with him.
Meeting
In the garden, the cheerful trio held a serious meeting. It was decided to set off tomorrow, when the father and mother of the brother and sister would go to the city, and Styopka’s mother would go to the river to do laundry. Everything is told in the story “Great Travelers” by Mikhail Zoshchenko, a summary of which we are considering. The head of the expedition chose the simplest route: you just have to go straight. Let there be mountains, rivers, deserts, Indians on the way - there is nothing wrong with that. They started packing right away.
Styopka brought an empty flour sack, and they put the necessary things in it: lard, sugar, bread, spoons, plates, glasses, a jug, a washstand, a magic lantern, a magnifying glass for starting a fire, 2 blankets, a pillow, a fishing rod, a net, three slingshots. Lelya promised to take three more rubles from the piggy bank, and Styopka said that they would be very useful for buying sweets and seeds. This is how Zoshchenko talks about the plans and preparations made by the great travelers. We will continue the summary of the story in the next chapter.
The vicissitudes of the journey
Tuzik the dog ran ahead along the road that led through the forest. Styopka followed him and carried a bag on his head, followed by Lelya with a jump rope, and after everyone, Minka with a net, slingshots and a fishing rod.
An hour later, Styopka got tired of the bag, and Lelya carried him. But this did not last long. The girl gave it to her brother. He was amazed at its weight, bent under it and staggered. After 10 steps, Minka fell into the ditch with the bag. The washstand, glasses, and plates were broken, but Tuzik managed to grab the lard from the bag and quickly deal with it. After these adventures, the three of them carried the bag. It was still uncomfortable and difficult for them. Having reached the lawn, the guys took a break. Here Styopka made a statement that he would always sit down or lie feet first along their route, so as not to go astray. He was sure that all great travelers do this. Zoshchenko, a brief summary of whose work we present below, says that a dinner with bread and sugar led to Minka being painfully bitten on the cheek by a bee. My cheek immediately turned into a “pillow” and was very painful.
Night in the forest
After resting, the guys threw everything unnecessary out of the bag. Now walking has become much easier. Styopka walked briskly ahead, and Lelka and Minka trailed behind him. They wanted to go home. But the stern Stepan promised that he would tie the traitor to a tree and give it to the ants to be eaten. Minka's bite hurt badly, and he moaned and sobbed.
Only Tuzik was having fun. It's starting to get dark. It got dark. Styopka stopped and put down the bag. Everyone began to collect brushwood to light a fire. A magnifying glass was brought to the pile of dry branches. There was no sun in the sky, and the fire did not light up. Everyone became depressed and ate bread in the dark. As Stepan had planned, he went to bed feet first again so that he would know the exact direction in the morning. He quickly fell asleep. This is only part of Zoshchenko’s story “Great Travelers,” a summary of which is presented to the reader.
Two cunning people
Minka and Lelka couldn’t sleep. They were afraid of the forest, its bushes and the night noise of the trees.
Lelka suddenly dreamed of a snake, and the girl squealed loudly, but it turned out to be a dry branch. Suddenly a cone fell from the tree, and Minka got scared. Eventually the children fell asleep. Early in the morning, when it began to get light, Lelya woke up her brother. She wanted to go home. She suggested that Minka turn Styopka with her feet in the opposite direction. So they did, and the boy felt almost nothing, only muttered something in his sleep. The children decided that he was dreaming of Indians, and he was calling them for help. Only the first rays of the sun woke him up, and he immediately looked at his feet as if they were a compass. He said with satisfaction that he now knew where to go. Everyone had breakfast with bread again and hit the road. M. Zoshchenko’s “Great Travelers” continues his story with humor, a summary of which shows how the brother and sister’s cunning worked.
Road
They walked together along the same path they walked yesterday. Styopka kept turning his head and was incredibly surprised that he recognized these places. Only he was firmly convinced that this was how it should be, because the earth is a circle. Behind them, the guys heard from the creaking of the wheels that a cart was following them. When she caught up with them, they asked for a ride. The driver allowed them to sit down.
They drove for just under an hour, and the village of Peski appeared. Styopka did not believe that it was she, but was only amazed. But all doubts disappeared when the children saw a familiar pier, which the ship approached. We continue a brief retelling of M. Zoshchenko’s story “Great Travelers”.
Meeting at the pier
Styopka’s amazement knew no end: “Have we really covered the whole earth?” Brother and sister chuckled quietly. Meanwhile, they saw their nanny, who was running loudly crying and telling something to their parents and grandmother, who had returned from the city. Brother and sister also ran to them.
Conversations about parenting
The summary of Zoshchenko’s story “Great Travelers” continues. When the parents and grandmother found out what their children were doing, they reacted differently. The mother decided that her son and daughter should be punished. Grandmother quickly prepared a branch for spanking. Dad wisely and calmly said that “everything ended well. And spanking won't do any good. The children themselves realized that they had done something stupid.” Mom said with a sigh that it was a lot of nonsense: to become travelers without knowing geography and the multiplication tables. Dad added that this is not enough. “You need to complete five courses at the institute and know cosmography. Those same people who go on a long journey without this knowledge come to sad results.” And everyone went home and sat down to dinner. Parents gasped and laughed at the adventures of the travelers.
Styopka and Tuzik
Now the story of M. M. Zoshchenko “Great Travelers” is coming to its end, the summary and ending of which everyone will now know. For education, and so that Styopka would think about everything carefully, his mother locked him in the bathhouse for the whole day.
He was released the next day. The children began to play together again. Tuzik, after running after the cart for an hour, was very tired and slept all day. Only in the evening did he eat and fall asleep again. No one knows what he saw in his dream. And Minka dreamed of a tiger, which he killed outright with a slingshot.
Characters of the story
The main characters of Zoshchenko’s story “Great Travelers” are: Styopka, Minka, on whose behalf the story is told, and his older sister Lelya. Let's look at each of them in turn.
Styopka is a cheerful inventor and organizer who always wants to be in charge. He is by nature a courageous and inquisitive leader. He is tired of everyday life and dreams of seeing distant countries. He infects the neighboring city kids with this dream. Styopka carefully, as far as his knowledge allowed him, selected the items necessary for the journey and got a bag for them. Of course, there was a lot of unnecessary stuff in it. A washstand, for example. But this says that all children respect hygiene. Styopka is a strong boy. He carried the heavy bag alone for almost an hour. And the fact that this is a child is emphasized by M. Zoshchenko with humor. He considered it right to use Lelya’s money to buy seeds and sweets. The boy firmly decided to go around the entire land, and he was not afraid of encounters with Indians, whom he proposed to take prisoner. This is also his humorous characteristic that the author gives him. Styopka’s behavior was also funny when he went to bed with his legs extended in the direction of the upcoming hike. But this speaks of his unshakable desire to see the whole world. As befits a child, Styopka sincerely believes that their idea will succeed, and they will see the whole earth and return home as heroes.
Minka is the youngest of the children. He himself cannot offer anything, but only listens to everyone and is surprised at everything. M. Zoshchenko describes with good humor how Minka at first walked carefreely behind everyone, carrying fishing rods, a net for catching tropical butterflies and a slingshot, then, when he received a bag of general things, he fell into a ditch. Minka is small, so even a fallen pine cone can scare him at night.
Lelya, like the older sister, is braver and stronger, but very cunning. It was she who figured out how to stop a long journey without quarrels and arguments: take the sleeping Styopka and turn his legs in the opposite direction. She is not greedy at all and donates 3 rubles for the trip - that’s all she has. Of course, she is scared in the forest at night, and even a dry branch at first seems like a snake. As befits a girl, carrying a heavy bag, she quickly gets tired and passes it to her brother.
Mikhail Zoshchenko, “Great Travelers”: analysis
The story of a sad man who knew how to make his readers laugh with good humor is jokingly called “The Great Travelers.” The author called his little heroes “great” with good humor. They, kids who imagined themselves to be adults and smart, wanted to go on a long journey around the earth and see unknown places. Their leader, Styopka, picked up some information from simple books and generously shares it with his friends. Well, for example, he suggests lighting a fire with a magnifying glass and frying the meat of killed small animals on it. The guys have no idea of real life and agree with the great inventor on everything. Children have no idea how serious the task is before them, and therefore, when you read this story, you laugh at their preparations and further adventures. The conclusion to be drawn from this story is that all children should learn to laugh at themselves and ask their parents more often how correct their actions are.
