This work combines several genres. In the novel we will see a fascinating travel narrative, a pamphlet, it also contains dystopia, fantasy and a little riot. This novel can be called prophetic, since those who read it at any time will clearly see in it the specificity of the addressee of Swift's satire. The author strikes with his imagination, which will surprise anyone.

Main character- an ordinary doctor who gets into an incredible adventure beyond his desire. He only decided to go by ship from England, but soon he accidentally finds himself 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 having matured a little, he went to study at Cambridge College. After studying in college, he completed his studies with the surgeon Bats, and after that he independently studied medical practice. After studying, he went to work on the ship as a surgeon.

Three years later, having traveled enough, he decides to marry and marry Mary Burton, who is the daughter of a stocking merchant. For the next two years, he and his wife live in London, but after the unforeseen death of his teacher, he has to return to the post of surgeon on the ship.

Here he is again on the ship and does not portend trouble, but soon a strong storm rises, their ship crashes, the crew dies, and he miraculously swims to the shore and turns off for a long time.

When the hero regains consciousness, he realizes that he is tied with a huge number of ropes, and many small creatures make him bonded, which are exactly like people, only of a very miniature size.

All these small ropes turn out to be not so strong and Gulliver, tensing a little, frees one hand, but the little people shoot at him with needle arrows. He calms down and decides to lie down a little more and, after waiting for darkness, to free himself.

Having erected a large staircase, apparently their ruler Gurgo 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 it to him, but he asks them to release him. He is denied. Gulliver's wounds are treated with some incomprehensible herbs and they give him a drink, adding a lot of sleeping pills there. 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 rises and looks around the surroundings. He sees a beautiful city and well-groomed fields. He relieves himself, and soon he is visited by the king, who is no larger than a fingernail, and explains that he will try to take good care of him.

The hero has been on this island for two weeks already, a special mattress and bed linen are being made for him. The state has no idea what to do with this huge man, because he eats a lot and soon they will go hungry.

It takes about three weeks and he masters their language a little. Gulliver wants to ask the ruler for release. Officials arrange a search and take away his saber, pistol, and bullets with gunpowder. Gulliver manages to hide a few things.

The emperor and the little men 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 does not like Gulliver is Admiral Skyresh Bolgolam, who, by order of the king, writes a contract that discusses the conditions for Gulliver's freedom. Gulliver is given a tour of Lilliput, as well as its capital. They show him the palace. The secretary tells what the political situation is in their country, as well as the hostility of the parties and the possibility of an attack from another Blefuska empire, 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 do the favor.

Once a fire broke out in Lilliput and Gulliver, to help the citizens, urinates on him. The Emperor is outraged.

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 brought up 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 comes 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 Blefuscu, he sails away on it. Soon he is picked up by English merchants and brought to the Downs. For a couple of months he is with his family, but then he has to go back to work.

In June, he leaves England on a ship, but in April he again gets into a storm, after which there is very little left on the ship. drinking water. Together with those who landed, he finds himself on an island, on which he notices giants, who at that time were already running after their comrades. The hero realizes that he is in a field with barley planted, but this plant is very large. He is found by a peasant and given to the owner of the field. The hero meets the hosts and soon he has dinner with them.

The hero wakes up from the sight of overly large rats who want to eat them. The farmer's wife takes him out into the garden so that the hero can relieve himself. The master's daughter makes a bed for Gulliver, makes new clothes for him and calls him Grildrik. Soon, on the instructions of a neighbor, the hero begins to perform for the public, and after a few weeks they go on a tour with demonstration performances. It takes about ten weeks 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 scientists.

They build a house for the hero and sew clothes. He often dine with the king and queen. The queen's servant, the dwarf, 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 crest, 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 the eagle kidnaps the hero and he finds himself at sea, where he is again picked up by an English ship and brought to the Downs.

Somewhere in early August, Gulliver 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 whole ship is captured and captured. Gulliver 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 flying. The citizens of this island call themselves Laputians 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 Laputians love mathematics and music, and their biggest fear is space disasters. Since male Laputians are very thoughtful, their wives love to cheat on them.

After some time, the hero learns that the island flies because there is a magnet located in the central part of Laputa. If subjects rebel, their king blocks the sun or lowers an island on that city. The king and his family never leave Laputa.

One day the hero decided to go down to Balnibarbi, a small continent. He stops at a dignitary who bears the name Munodi. 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 soil treatment, so something stopped growing on it. Munodi was not interested in this then, so his fields are bearing fruit.

Soon the hero enters the Searchlight Academy. There, scientists are engaged in strange studies: getting sunlight from cucumbers, food from waste, trying to extract gunpowder from ice, and starting to build a house from above. Many more things were told to him by scientists, but it seemed to him ridiculous. They also had proposals for new laws, such as changing the back of the brain or taking taxes on human vices or virtues.

The hero leaves for Maldonado to get away from Luggnagg. While the ship is waiting, he visits the island of Glubbdobdrib, which is inhabited by wizards. The main inhabitant of this island manages to summon spirits, among them were Hannibal, Caesar, Brutus, 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, where he gets acquainted with a strange custom, it is necessary to lick the throne room. It's been three months since he's been in Luggnagg. The inhabitants here are courteous and good-natured, he learns that some inhabitants are born immortal. Gulliver dreams of what he could do if he was 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 hires robbers, who will soon capture him and land him on the nearest island. There, monkeys attack Gulliver, and the horse, which is very strange in appearance, saves him. The horse comes to his horse and they discuss something, periodically feeling Gulliver.

Horses bring the hero to his home, where he meets monkeys that look like people, but they are pets. He is offered rotten meat, but he refuses and shows that milk is better for him. Horses are also taken to dinner. This lunch is oatmeal.

Gulliver slowly masters this language and soon tells one of the horses the story of his appearance.

Somehow he is caught naked by the servant of the horse with whom he lives, but he promises to keep a 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 the mind at all for its intended purpose, but only to increase vices.

The Houyhnhnms are family marriages for the birth of children, necessarily two different sexes.

Because great 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, since he looks like a Yahoo, from the country. Two months later, Gulliver sails away.

From the trip, he loses his mind a little, because he believes that they want to send him to live with Yahoo, 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 brief retelling of "Gulliver's Travels" in abbreviation was prepared by Oleg Nikov for the reader's diary.

Kir Bulychev, "Alice's Journey"

Genre: fantasy story

The main characters of the story "Alice's Journey" and their characteristics

1. Alisa Selezneva. She finished the second grade. A smart and kind girl, decisive and quick-witted. Never retreats and always finds a way out of any situation
2. Professor Seleznev, Alice's dad, is just a biologist who is most interested in a different life
3. Green, mechanic, big pessimist.
4. Poloskov Gennady, captain, resolute and at the same time gentle and kind
5. Veselchak U, the fattest pirate in the world. Outwardly harmless, but insidious and cruel.
6. Rat. The most cruel insect pirate
7. First captain, Vsevolod. Worked on Venus, rushed to help friends
8. Second captain. Martian. He was in captivity for four years.
9. Third captain. Flexian. Died in captivity
10. Verkhovtsev. Doctor and director of the museum. A very decent person.
11. Talker. The bird is smart, but does not always say everything that is needed.

The shortest content of the story "Alice's Journey" for the reader's diary in 6 sentences

1. Alice, together with her dad, goes on the ship "Pegasus" in search of rare animals
2. The Pegasus visits the captains' planet, but Dr. Verkhovtseff behaves strangely and mysteriously.
3. Travelers find the last Talker, for whom there is a real hunt
4. Talker guides travelers to the Medusa system, but they save robots along the way.
5. On the third planet of the system, travelers fall into the trap of pirates, but find the second captain.
6. Alice and the first captain free the captives and all go to Earth together.

The main idea of ​​the story "Alice's Journey"
There are so many secrets and mysteries in the world, so much wonderful and beautiful that a person must forget about wars, about selfishness and indifference, about money in order to become a part of this beautiful and perfect universe.

What does Alice's Journey teach?
This tale teaches honesty and kindness. Teaches to be courageous, resourceful, responsive. teaches to help other people and animals. Learn to love nature. Teaches friendship and loyalty. Teaches reciprocity. 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 lose heart. And also because Alice believes in miracles that do happen.
There are exotic animals in this story, 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 to the story "Alice's Journey"
Well that ends well.
Do not dig a hole for another, you will fall into it yourself.
The quieter you go, the further you'll get.

Read the summary brief retelling story "Alice's Journey" chapter by chapter
Chapter 1. Criminal Alice.
Alice walks sad and dad asks her what's the matter. Alice asks her dad for a gold nugget. It turns out that she and the guys from the class decided to catch a giant pike on a golden lure and took a nugget from the school museum. But the pike bit off the lure.
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 a nugget, and when Alice leaves, he calls a friend and asks to get a nugget.
At this time, Alice's friends and acquaintances come in turn and each brings gold, coins and even diamonds.
Finally Alice returns, who also took out a nugget.
Chapter 2
Seleznev is loading the Pegasus, the crew of which consists of four people - him, Poloskov. Green and Alice.
There are many boxes and gifts to be loaded, which the earthlings give to their relatives and friends. At the end, a grandmother comes, who wants to send a huge cake.
Finally, all the loads are distributed, there is a reserve of 200 kilograms 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 learns that a complaint has been received by the Pegasus that he is trying to take the 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.
Alice was upset that her class would not get into the match of the century, but 3B would get it because she was flying on a cargo barge in potato sacks
Chapter 3
On the moon, Alice ran to a football match, and Professor Seleznev met his friend Gromozeka from the planet Chumaroz in a restaurant. Upon learning 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 of the exploits of the captains and tells that the First Captain is currently 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 announces 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
"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 cautiously approached the pool, 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 turned into huge tadpoles.
Chapter 5
"Pegasus" flew to the planet of captains and the expedition was cordially welcomed by Dr. Verkhovtsev, curator of the museum. He showed the astronauts a statue of the 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 read the diaries of the captains. And Alice directly says that she would like to catch the bird that is shown on the captain's shoulder.
Verkhovtseff gets frightened and crawls under the sofa for his hat. From there, he says that there are no diaries and he cannot help in any way. Then Verkhovtsev reminisces about different planets and their inhabitants, and finally talks about the Empty Planet with its mysterious life and talks about Skliss.
Chapter 6
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 went to strange sounds. It turned out that the bushes sang, a local form of life. The bushes showed the captain the water and saved his life.
The expedition went to the eighth satellite of Aldebaran.
They found bushes quickly and took three plants with them.
Already in flight, Zeleny heard singing - it was the bushes singing. And then the bushes appeared at the door and went to the frightened people. Professor Seleznev armed himself with a mop and tried to drive the bushes back into the hold.
Zeleny ran after the flamethrower, and Alice asked her dad to delay 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 were just thirsty, and they always sang when they were thirsty.
Chapter 7
Pegasus flies to the Empty Planet and cannot find it at the specified coordinates. Therefore, the cosmonauts contact another ship, and the female astronaut informs them that they are flying correctly, and Dr. Verkhovtseff is a wonderful old man. She also says that there are a lot of fish on the Empty Planet, but no animals, and that she is looking for a living nebula.
The Pegasus landed on the Empty Planet and Zeleny immediately went fishing. He quickly caught a whole bucket.
The next morning, Seleznev saw that the skies of the planet were teeming with birds. Zeleny went fishing, but there was not a single living creature in the sea. At this time, a strong wind rose and the birds also disappeared. On the other hand, small animals like hares jumped on the grass. Then it turned out that the steppe is simply teeming with animals.
It soon started to rain. Seleznev and Alice went to the steppe to catch animals, but the biodetector showed that there were no animals around.
The astronauts were at a loss, but Alice revealed the riddle of the planet. She ran with a bucket to the lake, scooped up water and brought a fish in a 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
The Pegasus arrives on the planet Bluk, where a bazaar is being held. Ushans lived on the planet - intelligent creatures who had three large ears. The guards with earflaps told the astronauts a sad story.
It turned out that recently a man began to sell white worms, which all pet owners bought with pleasure. But it turned out that the worms multiply at a tremendous speed and soon most of the planet was buried under a layer of worms. The problem was solved by the trader Krabakas, who let the worms feed on the worms, which ate all the worms.
Therefore, now all ships from the Earth were strictly inspected, because the merchant with worms was an earthling. The guards showed the astronauts a photo and they recognized Dr. Verkhovtsev.
And then the Ushans remembered that they had exterminated all the talkers.

Chapter 9
Seleznev and Alice are looking for a hotel for people and notice the silhouette of Dr. 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 appeared and informed them that the guest had left.
The bazaar on the planet was striking in size and abundance different forms life. Sometimes it was difficult to understand who was selling whom. So, Professor Seleznev made a mistake and asked how much a bird costs, when it turned out that it was the bird that was selling the ball.
Alice is 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 talks in the air. The merchant is filled with tears, because the professor scared away all his invisible air fish, ruined him. Alice reproaches her father for being callous. In parting, the merchant gives Alice a cap of invisibility.
At this time, a strange creature on thin legs, constantly changing color, rushes under the feet of travelers. This is an indicator that, depending on emotions, becomes a different color.
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 carried by earflaps. But the earflaps say that they wanted to buy a talker, but only there weren’t any left. Someone has exterminated all the talkers and Alice says that they need a talker.
Chapter 10
No one can sell talkers to astronauts. Krabakas says that these birds do not just talk, they can fly between the stars. Behind the boxes hides the earflap, which brought the talker to the bazaar. Alice recognizes the bird that sat on the captain's shoulder.
Wushan says that someone is after him and aims to steal the talker or even kill him. He points to Dr. Verkhovtsev.
Seleznev and Alice buy Govorun and carry him across the square. Everyone around is surprised, and the talker in Russian says the phrases that he heard from the Captains.
An old familiar fat man comes out to meet Seleznev and demands to sell or give away the talker. Seleznev already wants to go to the police, but the fat man is hiding.
Here Dr. Verkhovtseff appears to Seleznev and puts his hand in his pocket. He is armed.
Seleznev calls Poloskov for help. At this time, numerous stamp collectors show up and Verkhovtseff retreats.
Chapter 11
On the ship, the astronauts decide that the talker is the 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 heading for the Medusa system.
Seleznev decides to fly to the Medusa system, but first fly to Sheshinera and look at the Sliths. At this time, the turtle tries to escape, and the astronauts lock her in a safe.
Chapter 12
"Pegasus" arrives at the planet Sheshiner and in the refrigerator Seleznev finds a green man eating a pineapple. Then a second appears, then a third green man 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, in whom she recognizes the inhabitants of the planet.
The 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 allowed them to travel in time. This led to disaster. Everyone began to return to the past in order to experience pleasant moments, and no one was interested in the present.
The little man disappeared and returned with a pineapple he took yesterday from the Pegasus refrigerator. He said that everyone on the planet thanked 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 business, and Seleznev took the skiss to the Pegasus.
Chapter 13
En route to the Medusa system, the Pegasus receives a distress signal from the robotic planet Shelezyaka. Traveler sit down and find one slightly alive robot. The robot tells that there is an epidemic on the planet.
Zeleny began to dig into the robot, but found nothing, then he decided to change his 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 changing the lubricant, the robot comes to life. Zeleny says that bacteria has settled in the grease, 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 - the 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 tank with grease. It was Dr. Verkhovtseff again.
In parting, the robot gave the travelers several small animal robots, which immediately began chasing the diamond turtle along the corridor.
Chapter 14
The Pegasus lands on the deserted second planet of the Medusa system and the Talker warns to 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, Dr. Verkhovtsev, who turns out to be familiar with Veselchak, and finally 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 says that it is necessary to look for it on the third planet.
Chapter 15
On the third planet there were many forests and various animals, 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 how Alice follows the talker to the forest and suddenly the bird rok grabs her.
He calls for help and Poloskov hurries 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 in one of them they notice Alice. The bird tries to feed the girl with fish, she mistakes Alice for her chick.
Seleznev and Poloskov take Alice, and she shows them a sign found in the nest with the inscription "Blue Gull".
Chapter 16
Seleznev and Alice follow Govorun for a long time through the forest. And now they find themselves in a clearing overgrown with flowers-mirrors. Alice looks at her reflection. Then Poloskov checks the clearing with a metal detector, but does not find any traces of the Blue Gull.
The astronauts are picking flowers and carrying a bouquet to the Pegasus.
Green looks like a flower, but it does not reflect him, but Alice.
At this time, Govorun knocks with his beak outside. They launch him and he says in the voice of the second captain: "There is no more strength to hold on. Will help come soon?"
Chapter 17
Travelers look into the flowers and see that everything in them moves in reverse. They realize that they are seeing a replay of events that happened in the past.
Suddenly they see Verkhovtsev and Veselchak. They are arguing about something, and behind them is the silhouette of a spaceship.
Seleznev and Alice fly to the clearing, but the search is unsuccessful. They return and Green suggests cutting off the mirror layer from the flower to see what happened in the past. Gradually cutting off layer by layer, they notice that a huge hatch occupies the entire clearing.
At this time, the indicator pushes Green under the 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 Govorun bird has disappeared.

Chapter 18
Poloskov flew around the planet at that time and did not find anything. Seleznev checked the ship's hatch and found that it was open. He notices a talker pushing a diamond turtle along the ground.
Seleznev picks up the turtle and returns it to the ship. He and Zeleny do not 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 hooks the shell and it opens. The turtle turns out to be a clever robot. The turtle turned out to be a spy, and the cosmonauts realize that Verkhovtseff and Veselchak wanted to get the key to the ship in order to capture it.
Chapter 19
Poloskov decides to overtake "Pegasus" on a mirror clearing. Then another ship sits next to it and Verkhovtseff runs out of it, he waves his hand to the astronauts. Poloskov quickly starts.
Alice says that Verkhovtseff was without a hat.
"Pegasus" sits down on a mirror clearing, where broken mirrors lie everywhere, and suddenly falls through.
During the emergency landing, no one was hurt and the travelers decide to find out where they failed. They exit the ship and explore the cave. Around stone and darkness. But in the beams of flashlights, they see the silhouette of a spaceship nearby. This is Blue Gull.
Suddenly, a bright light flashes and a command is given to drop the weapon and not move. Four pirates are approaching from two sides, among them Verkhovtseff in a hat and Veselchak.
Travelers are surrounded.
The pirates put handcuffs on the astronauts, but suddenly they notice that Alice is not around. The girl has disappeared.
Chapter 20
Alice is nowhere to be found, and the black man finds the Talker in the ship and goes down the ladder. Verkhovtseff orders to twist Govorun's neck, but the black man suddenly falls and releases the bird. The talker flies away quickly.
The merry fellow turns to the Second Captain and demands that he get off the ship. He threatens to kill the professor and his companions.
The captain addresses Professor Seleznev.
He reveals that the Third Captain, who flew to another galaxy, returned from there with a formula for galactium, the universal fuel, and requested that the Second Captain meet him here. The third captain was very ill.
But the pirates intercepted this message and set a trap. They also hunted for galactia. The pirates captured the Third Captain and probably killed him.
The pirates are about to kill Professor Seleznev and the Second Captain is about to come out.
He jumps out of the ship and fires his blaster, but the pirates surround him, and Veselchak raises a knife over Seleznev's throat.
And suddenly the command to drop the weapon sounds. From two sides are Dr. Verkhovtseff without a hat, the First Captain and even Alice.
Chapter 21
While still on the Pegasus, Alice discovered that the invisibility cap really exists, 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 the Talker, and in some cell she heard a faint groan. Then the Talker brought her to the surface.
And there she sees a spaceship and Dr. Verkhovtsev. But next to the doctor, the First Captain and the Talker joyfully sits on his shoulder.
Alice tries to warn the Captain that Verkhovtseff is a traitor, but the Captain dismisses these accusations. Verkhovtseff was with him all the time, and in the dungeon there was someone else who only pretended to be Verkhovtsev.
Then Alice takes off her invisible hat and meets the First Captain.
They rush to help their comrades in trouble.
Chapter 22
The pirates surrender and Verkhovtseff steps on his double. He pulls the zipper and under the appearance of a man opens a terrible insect. Cheerful shouts that this is the main pirate, Rats. The rat stabs himself with his own stinger and pretends to be dead.
But Veselchak says that the Rats are just unconscious. Then they decide to put him in a cage.
Cheerful says that he is an honest pirate and is trading to discover 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 groan she heard.
Chapter 23
In the cage, the astronauts find a slightly alive Third Captain. He is very bad, but he rejoices at his friends. And at that moment he dies. Seleznev cuts his chest and begins to directly massage his heart. Finally, the heart beat.
The third captain is given strengthening injections and taken out to Fresh air. His life is no longer in danger. Everyone rejoices that the three captains are together again and will soon surf the expanses of space again.
Chapter 24
When the Third Captain has recovered a little, everyone begins to prepare for the return trip. And at that moment another ship appears.
The ship's pilot refuses to help and the voice of the First Captain recognizes his wife Ella. It turns out that she still caught her living nebula, and now the main thing is not to let her down.
By joint efforts, the nebula is planted on the ground and Veselchak immediately hides in it.
While Ella and Seva, as it turns out, are the name of the First Captain, sort things out, Veselchak suddenly rushes to run. But the Croc bird catches him and takes him away.
However, Veselchak spins so that the bird drops him, and Veselchak falls somewhere behind the stones.
And the nebula safely escapes and is caught again only near the planet Shelezyak.
Then the nebula is taken to Earth, where it is placed on the Moon in a crater.
Everyone says goodbye and wish 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.

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Zoshchenko's great travelers: analysis, heroes, composition

Mini Composition based on the story "Great Travelers"

The story "Great Travelers" is humorous.
It tells about how three guys: Styopka, the narrator Minka and his older sister Lyolya - went on a trip around the world. And they also took their dog Tuzik with them.
Styopka, as the eldest, started all this, and persuaded his younger friends to go with him. Of course, they didn't get far. But they had a lot of funny adventures. And I think that the story is written in order to amuse the reader. For example, I laughed heartily. What do I remember most about this story? Firstly, the way Styopka made everyone carry a heavy bag. In the end, Minka, as the smallest, fell into the ditch along with the bag. And when the guys wanted to adapt Tuzik for carrying, he "gnawed through the bag and ate all the fat in an instant." Travelers had to eat bread sprinkled with granulated sugar. But then wasps flew in, and one of them stung Minka on the cheek. "Cheek puffed up like a pie." But the episode in which the sleeping Styopka was turned around by his feet in the opposite direction in order to return home as soon as possible seemed to me the most ridiculous. And he was very surprised to see his village. And then he decided that they circled the earth, that is, they made a trip around the world.
When the children returned home safely, Minka's dad said: “It is not enough to know geography and the multiplication table. To go on a journey, you must have a higher education.” And of course he's right. In order for a trip to come to fruition, you need to prepare for it. Accumulate knowledge and experience of hiking trips. Otherwise, you can get into the same comical situation in which the heroes of Zoshchenko's story found themselves.

Zoshchenko, "Great Travelers": a brief analysis

The story, which will make its readers laugh with good humor, is jokingly called "Great Travelers". "Great" the author called his little heroes with good humor. They are kids who imagined themselves to be adults and smart, they 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 friends. Well, for example, he suggests kindling a fire with a magnifying glass, frying the meat of killed small animals on it. Guys don't represent real life and in everything they agree with the great inventor. Children do not realize 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 if their actions are correct.

The main characters of Zoshchenko's story The Great Travelers

The main characters of Zoshchenko's story "The Great Travelers" are the boys Styopka and Minka, as well as the girl Lelya.

Styopka is the master's son and the leader in this company. It is obvious that the boy read a lot about adventure, and reading books gave him the idea to travel around the world.

Minka is Styopka's comrade. By age, he is a little younger than his friend, has a more timid character and obeys his friend in everything, so as not to seem like a coward in front of Styopka.

Lelya is Minka's sister. Like any girl, she is a little naughty on a hike. However, Lelya soon realizes that the idea of ​​going on a hike was unsuccessful, and at night she and her brother turn Styopka's legs in the opposite direction in order to get home faster.

If we compare the characters of the boys Styopka and Minka, we will see that they are completely opposite.

Styopka is a leader and had children in the company. He is brave, not afraid to leave home, convincing his friends of this. Minka is younger in age, he is afraid of everything in the forest, even a cone that has fallen from a tree. The boy unconditionally recognizes Styopka's leadership, timidly agreeing with all his ideas, so as not to look weak and frail in the company of friends. However, the writer in his story does not mock Minka, calling him cowardly, he kindly teases the boy, who is still small for such a trip.

Summary and Review of the story "Great Travelers"

The main characters of Mikhail Zoshchenko's story "Great Travelers" are children who decide to travel around the world. It all started with the fact that six-year-old Minka, whose parents rented a dacha in the village, learned from Stepka, the son of the owners of the dacha, that the earth is round.

Styopka said that if you go straight all the time, you will definitely return to the starting point. Styopka agreed to take Minka and his sister Lelya on a round-the-world trip. The children carefully prepared for the trip: Lelya took her pocket money, and Styopka gathered a large bag in which he put bread, sugar, a little lard, dishes, a couple of blankets and a pillow.

The next day, the children waited until the adults were not at home and set off along the forest road. The dog Tuzik followed the young travelers. The bag turned out to be heavy and the guys carried it in turn. When Minka was carrying the bag, he managed to fall. As a result, all the dishes were broken. And then Tuzik gnawed through the bag and ate the fat.

During a halt, the guys who ate bread with sugar were attacked by wasps, and one of them bit Minka. After a halt Styopka threw many things out of the bag and the guys went on lightly.

The travelers walked until dark and were very tired. Styopka's idea no longer seemed so interesting to Minka and Lele. But Styopka did not even allow the thought of turning back. When they settled down for the night, Styopka went to bed so that his legs were stretched out where the guys had been walking all day.

At night, Lelya woke up Minka and offered to turn Styopka around so that she could go back in the morning. Minka did not object, and they turned Styopka around, who did not even wake up.

In the morning, the unsuspecting Styopka led his detachment in the opposite direction. Soon they were overtaken by a man riding a cart. He agreed to take the guys. An hour later, the travelers drove straight to their village, which was called Peski.

The stunned Styopka decided that they had already circled the Earth and returned to their starting point. The cart drove right up to the pier, where Minka and Lelya's parents and their grandmother, who had just arrived from the city, were standing. The nanny explained something to them excitedly.

It turned out that she was just talking about the missing children. Hearing about the world tour, the grandmother offered to punish the children, but the father said that the children already understood that they had done something stupid. He also said that to travel around the world you need to know a lot and be able to do a lot.

Then everyone went home for dinner, and Styopka was locked up by his mother for the whole day in a shed.

This is the summary of the story.

The main idea of ​​Zoshchenko's story "Great Travelers" is that for any serious business it is important to have the appropriate knowledge and experience. The children went on a trip around the world without basic geographic knowledge and hiking experience, and only by chance did not get into trouble.

The story teaches you to live your mind and not get involved in adventures. Minka and Lelya were impressed by Styopka's idea of ​​a round-the-world trip, but then they regretted agreeing to this adventure.

Proverbs to Zoshchenko's story "Great Travelers"

A bad head does not give rest to the legs.
Following the order of a fool, a hundred people suffer.
Whoever travels will know.

You read a mini essay on Zoshchenko: for a lesson in literature for different grades of the school. The text of the essay can be used as a message, a report, a brief abstract or for a reader's diary.

Summary of the story "Great Travelers":

Zoshchenko's story "Great Travelers" is interesting story about three small children: Minka, 6 years old, his sister Lelya and their neighbor Styopka, whose parents they all lived in the country. Styopka told Minka that the Earth has the shape of a ball, and if you go straight all the time, in one direction, you will end up where you came from. And, to prove his words, Styopka decided to take Lelya around the world, he did not want to take Minka, since it was not interesting to travel with fools.

Minka also really wanted to go on a trip around the world, and he gave Styopka a penknife so that he could take it with him and Lelya. Styopka agreed and the children began to pack the bag for a long journey. The children took with them bacon, bread, sugar, dishes, necessary items when traveling, such as a campfire magnifier, a flashlight, pencils, and even a washbasin. And for halts they took blankets and a pillow. Minka also grabbed a fishing rod, net and 3 slingshots to get food and catch butterflies.

The next day, when the parents left, the children went on a hike. Behind them followed the dog Tuzik. Soon Styopka got tired of dragging the sack and the children took turns carrying it. When it was Minka's turn, he fell under the weight of the sack into the ditch, breaking all the dishes and the washstand in the process. While the children were laughing at this, Tuzik, taking advantage of the situation, ate all the fat. But these losses did not stop the children and they continued their journey.

A few hours later, the children decided to make a halt and ate bread with sugar. The smell of sugar attracted wasps, and one of them stung Minka on the cheek, which immediately swelled up. But this incident did not turn the great travelers around, although the thoughts of returning home began to creep into the children's heads, Styopka promised to tie him to a tree and leave the one who refuses to continue the journey to be eaten by ants.

So the travelers walked for a long time and evening came. The children found a place to rest, tried to light a fire, but the Sun had already set and they did not get out. A little depressed and having chewed bread and sugar in the dark, the travelers began to go to bed. Before going to bed, Styopka told everyone the trick of all great travelers: in order not to go astray, you must go to bed with your feet in the direction where you are heading. Which he did.

Minka and Lelya wanted to go home, and in the morning, while Styopka was still sleeping, they turned him around with his feet towards the house. Soon Styopka woke up, the travelers had breakfast and set off to where Styopka's feet were pointing. The road seemed very familiar to Styopka, but he said that it should be so, because the earth is round. Soon they were caught up by an uncle on a cart, who agreed to give the great travelers a lift. Soon they reached a small village, which was very similar to the one in which they lived. And the pier was the same. Styopka was so surprised that he did not believe that it was possible to circumnavigate the earth so quickly.

And soon a steamer moored to the pier, from which Minka and Lely's parents got off. The parents scolded the children because they left without warning and the nanny thought they drowned. And Styopka's parents generally locked him up for the whole day in the bathhouse. But the next day the prisoner was released and the children began to play together again.

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When I was six years old, I didn't know that the Earth was spherical.

But Styopka, the master's son, with whose parents we lived in the dacha, explained to me what land is. He said:

The earth is a circle. And if everything goes straight, you can go around the whole Earth and still come to the very place where you came from.

And when I did not believe, Styopka hit me on the back of the head and said:

I'd rather go on a round-the-world trip with your sister Lelya than I'll take you. I have no interest in traveling with fools.

But I wanted to travel, and I gave Styopka a penknife.

Styopka liked my knife, and he agreed to take me on a trip around the world.

Styopka arranged a general meeting of travelers in the garden. And there he said to me and Lele:

Tomorrow, when your parents leave for the city, and my mother goes to the river to do laundry, we will do what we have planned. We will go straight and straight, crossing mountains and deserts. And we will go straight ahead until we come back here, even if it took us a whole year.

Lela said:

And if, Stepochka, we meet Indians?

As for the Indians, - answered Styopa, - we will take the Indian tribes as prisoners.

And who do not want to go into captivity? I asked timidly.

Those who do not want to, - answered Styopa, - those we will not take prisoner.

Lela said:

I will take three rubles from my piggy bank. I think that we will have enough of this money.

Stepka said:

Three rubles will certainly be enough for us, because we only need money to buy seeds and sweets. As for food, we will kill small animals on the way, and we will roast their tender meat on a fire.

Styopka ran to the barn and brought out a large sack of flour. And in this bag we began to collect things needed for long journeys. We put bread and sugar and a piece of bacon in a bag, then put various dishes - plates, glasses, forks and knives. Then, after thinking, they put in colored pencils, a magic lantern, a clay washstand and a magnifying glass for lighting fires. And, besides, they stuffed two blankets and a pillow from the ottoman into the bag.

In addition, I prepared three slingshots, a fishing rod and a net for catching tropical butterflies.

And the next day, when our parents left for the city, and Stepka's mother went to the river to rinse clothes, we left our village of Peski.

We went along the road through the forest.

Stepkin's dog Tuzik ran ahead. Styopka followed her with a huge sack over his head. Stepka was followed by Lelya with a skipping rope. And I followed Lelya with three slingshots, a net and a fishing rod.

We walked for about an hour.

Finally Styopa said:

The bag is insanely heavy. And I won't carry it alone. Let everyone take turns carrying this bag.

Then Lelya took this bag and carried it.

But she did not carry long, because she was exhausted.

She threw the bag on the ground and said:

Now let Minka carry it.

When they put this bag on me, I gasped in surprise, this bag turned out to be so heavy.

But I was even more surprised when I walked with this bag along the road. I was bent to the ground, and, like a pendulum, I swayed from side to side, until finally, after walking ten paces, I fell into a ditch with this bag.

And I fell into a ditch in a strange way. First, a bag fell into a ditch, and after the bag, right on all these things, I also dived. And although I was light, nevertheless I managed to break all the glasses, almost all the plates and the clay washstand.

Lelya and Styopka were dying of laughter as they watched me flounder in the ditch. And so they were not angry with me when they found out what damage I had caused by my fall.

Styopka whistled the dog and wanted to adapt it for carrying weights. But nothing came of it, because Tuzik did not understand what we wanted from him. Yes, and we didn’t understand well how we could adapt Tuzik for this.

Taking advantage of our thinking, Tuzik gnawed through the bag and ate all the fat in an instant.

Then Styopka ordered us all to carry this bag together.

Grabbing the corners, we carried the bag. But it was uncomfortable and hard to carry. Nevertheless, we walked for another two hours. And finally they came out of the forest to the lawn.

Here Styopka decided to make a halt. He said:

Whenever we rest or when we go to bed, I will stretch my legs in the direction in which we need to go. All great travelers have done this, and because of this they have not strayed from their straight path.

And Styopka sat down by the road, stretching his legs forward.

We untied the bag and began to eat.

We ate bread sprinkled with granulated sugar.

Suddenly, wasps began to circle above us. And one of them, apparently wanting to taste my sugar, stung me on the cheek. Soon my cheek was swollen like a pie. And I, on the advice of Styopka, began to apply moss, damp earth and leaves to it.

I walked behind everyone, whining and whimpering. My cheek burned and ached.

Lelya was also not happy about the trip. She sighed and dreamed of returning home, saying that home is also good.

But Styopka forbade us to think about it. He said:

Anyone who wants to return home, I will tie to a tree and leave to be eaten by ants.

We continued to walk in a bad mood.

And only Tuzik's mood was wow.

With his tail up, he rushed after the birds and with his barking brought unnecessary noise into our journey.

Finally it got dark.

Styopka threw the sack on the ground. And we decided to spend the night here.

We collected firewood for the fire. And Styopka took out a magnifying glass from the bag to kindle a fire.

But not finding the sun in the sky, Styopka became despondent. And we were upset too.

And having eaten bread, they lay down in the dark.

Styopka solemnly lay down with his feet forward, saying that in the morning it would be clear to us which way to go.

Styopka immediately began to snore. And Acey sniffed too. But Lelya and I could not sleep for a long time. We were frightened by the dark forest and the noise of the trees.

Lelya suddenly mistook a dry branch under her head for a snake and squealed in horror.

A fallen cone from a tree scared me to the point that I jumped on the ground like a ball.

Finally we dozed off.

I woke up from the fact that Lelya was tugging at my shoulders. It was an early morning. And the sun hasn't risen yet.

Lelya whispered to me:

Minka, while Styopka is sleeping, let's turn his legs into reverse side. And then he will lead us where Makar did not drive calves.

We looked at Stepka. He slept with a blissful smile.

Lelya and I grabbed his legs and in an instant turned them in the opposite direction, so that Styopka's head described a semicircle.

But Styopka did not wake up from this.

He only groaned in his sleep and waved his arms, muttering: “Hey, here, to me…”

He probably dreamed that he was attacked by the Indians and he was calling us for help.

We began to wait for Styopka to wake up.

He woke up with the first rays of the sun and, looking at his feet, said:

We would be good if I lay my feet anywhere. So we wouldn't know which way to go. And now, thanks to my legs, it is clear to all of us that we must go there.

And Styopka waved his hand in the direction of the road along which we had been walking yesterday.

We ate bread and set off.

The road was familiar. And Styopka kept opening his mouth in surprise. However, he said:

The trip around the world differs from other trips in that everything repeats itself, since the Earth is a circle.

Wheels creaked from behind. This is some uncle riding in an empty cart. Stepka said:

For the speed of travel and in order to quickly circumnavigate the Earth, it would not be bad for us to sit in this cart.

We began to ask to be taken. The good-natured uncle stopped the cart and allowed us to get into it.

We rolled fast. And we drove for less than an hour. Suddenly, our village Peski appeared ahead. Styopka, opening his mouth in amazement, said:

Here is a village exactly like our village Peski. This happens when traveling around the world.

But Styopka was even more amazed when we drove up to the pier.

We got out of the cart.

There was no doubt - this was our pier, and a steamer had just approached it.

Stepka whispered:

Have we circled the earth?

Lelya snorted, and I laughed too.

But then we saw our parents and our grandmother on the pier - they had just left the ship.

And next to them we saw our nanny, who was crying and saying something.

We ran to our parents.

And the parents laughed with joy that they saw us.

The nanny said:

Ah, children, I thought you drowned yesterday.

Lela said:

If we drowned yesterday, we would not be able to go on a trip around the world.

Mom exclaimed:

What do I hear! They must be punished.

Papa said:

All is well that ends well.

Grandmother, tearing off a branch, said:

I propose to flog the children. Let Minka be whipped by mom. And I take on Lelya.

Papa said:

Spanking is an old method of raising children. And it doesn't do any good. Children, I suppose, even without a spanking realized what a stupid thing they had done.

Mom sighed and said:

I have stupid kids. Go on a trip around the world, not knowing the multiplication tables and geography - well, what is it!

Papa said:

It is not enough to know geography and the multiplication table. To travel around the world, you must have higher education in five courses. You need to know everything that is taught there, including cosmography. And those who embark on a long journey without this knowledge come to sad results, deserving of regret.

With these words we came home. And sat down to dinner. And our parents laughed and gasped as they listened to our stories of yesterday's adventure.

As for Styopka, his mother locked him up in the bathhouse, and there our great traveler spent the whole day.

And the next day, his mother let him out. And we began to play with him as if nothing had happened.

It remains to say a few words about Tuzik.

Tuzik ran after the cart for an hour and was very overtired. Running home, he climbed into the barn and slept there until evening. And in the evening, having eaten, he fell asleep again, and what he saw in a dream remains shrouded in the darkness of uncertainty. As for me, in a dream I saw a tiger, which I killed with a shot from a slingshot.

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Publication year: 1940 Genre: story

Main characters: Stepan, Lyolya, Minka, dog Tuzik

Zoshchenko's story "Great Travelers" is written about the adventure of children. Written in a light, humorous way, which allows children to quickly and with interest read such stories. We are talking about the boys, Styopka, Minka and the girl Lele. Styopka probably read a lot about travel and decided to tell his friend that the earth is round. That if you leave one point and go straight all the time, you will definitely come back. But Minka did not believe this.

And then Styopka suggested that they go on a trip around the world and check this version. They agreed to go out the next day, when the parents of one boy would leave for the city, and the mother of the other would go to the river to do laundry. Lelya said that she had three rubles and she would take them. Everyone decided that this was enough, since they would only buy sweets, and they would take everything else with them.

They packed their things into a bag. Some bread, lard, sugar, and a lot of unnecessary things, like pillows, but they considered them necessary. The next day they went camping with a dog named Tuzik. Styopka, having read books, took slingshots and a net to catch small animals and cook them on a fire. They walked for a long time through the forest.

The bag turned out to be heavy, and it was decided to carry it in turn. Lelya carried a little, and Styopka just a little. He just collapsed from the weight of the bag right into the ditch. And although it was not heavy, he interrupted all the dishes. Everyone was tired, and only the ace twirled its tail merrily. He quickly gnawed a hole in the bag and ate the fat.

Soon they came to the edge of the forest and decided to spend the night there. Styopka learned from books that if you go to bed with your feet in the same direction, you will always walk in the same direction. But Lelya, having not slept all night, in fear that Styopka would lead them somewhere, suggested turning Styopka's legs in the opposite direction. On the way they met a cart and asked to drive up.

To Styopka's surprise, they very quickly returned to their native village of Peski, where their worried parents were waiting for them. And the father told them that before going on a hike, you need to learn and gain knowledge, education. The writer delicately prompts the children not to be, but to be.

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