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Mysterious Island
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March 1865 In the USA during civil war five daredevils-northerners flee from Richmond taken by the southerners in a balloon. A terrible storm throws four of them onto the shore of a desert island in the Southern Hemisphere. The fifth man and his dog break into the sea near the shore. This fifth one - a certain Cyrus Smith, a talented engineer and scientist, soul and leader of a group of travelers - for several days involuntarily keeps his companions in suspense, who cannot find either himself or his devoted dog Top anywhere. The former slave, and now the devoted servant of Smith, Negro Neb suffers the most. In the balloon were also a military journalist and friend of Smith, Gideon Spilett, a man of great energy and determination, possessing an ebullient mind; sailor Pencroff, a good-natured and enterprising daredevil; fifteen-year-old Herbert Brown, son of the captain of the ship on which Pencroft sailed, left an orphan, and whom the sailor treats as his own son. After a tedious search, Neb finally finds his master, inexplicably saved, a mile from the coast. Each of the new settlers of the island has irreplaceable talents, and under the leadership of Cyres Spilet, these brave people unite and become a single team. First, with the help of the simplest improvised means, then by producing more and more complex objects of labor and everyday life in their own small factories, the settlers arrange their lives. They hunt, collect edible plants, oysters, then even breed domestic animals and farm. They make a dwelling for themselves high in a rock, in a cave freed from water. Soon, thanks to their industriousness and intelligence, the colonists no longer know the need for food, clothing, or warmth and comfort. They have everything except news about their homeland, about the fate of which they are very worried.
One day, returning to their dwelling, which they called the Granite Palace, they see that monkeys are in charge inside. After some time, as if under the influence of insane fear, the monkeys begin to jump out of the windows, and someone's hand throws out to the travelers a rope ladder, which the monkeys raised into the house. Inside, people find another monkey - an orangutan, which they keep and call Uncle Jupe. In the future, Jup becomes a friend to people, a servant and an indispensable assistant.
On another day, the settlers find a chest of tools, firearms, various appliances, clothing, kitchen utensils, and books on the sand. English language. The settlers wonder where this box could come from. According to the map, also in the box, they discover that Tabor Island is located next to their island, not marked on the map. The sailor Pencroff is eager to go to him. With the help of his friends, he builds a bot. When the boat is ready, everyone goes on it together for a trial voyage around the island. During it, they find a bottle with a note saying that shipwrecked a man is waiting for rescue on Tabor Island. This event strengthens Pencroff's confidence in the need to visit the neighboring island. Pencroft, journalist Gideon Spilett and Herbert set sail. Arriving at Tabor, they discover a small shack, where, by all indications, no one has lived for a long time. They disperse around the island, not hoping to see a living person, and try to find at least his remains. Suddenly, they hear Herbert's scream and rush to his aid. They see that Herbert is fighting with a certain hairy creature that looks like a monkey. However, the monkey turns out to be a feral man. Travelers tie him up and transport him to their island. They give him a separate room in the Granite Palace. Thanks to their attention and care, the savage soon turns back into a civilized person and tells them his story. It turns out that his name is Ayrton, he is a former criminal, he wanted to take possession of the Duncan sailboat and, with the help of the dregs of society like him, turn it into a pirate ship. However, his plans were not destined to come true, and as a punishment twelve years ago he was left on desert island Tabor, so that he realizes his act and atones for his sin. However, the owner of the Duncan, Edward Glenarvan, said that he would someday return for Ayrton. The settlers see that Ayrton sincerely repents of his past sins, and he tries to be useful to them in every possible way. Therefore, they are not inclined to judge him for past misdeeds and willingly accept him into their society. However, Ayrton needs time, and therefore he asks to be given the opportunity to live in a corral that the settlers built for their domesticated animals at some distance from the Granite Palace,
When the boat was returning from the island of Tabor in a storm at night, it was saved by a fire, which, as they thought, those sailing on it, had been kindled by their friends. However, it turns out that they were not involved in this. It also turns out that Ayrton did not throw a bottle with a note into the sea. The settlers cannot explain these mysterious events. They are more and more inclined to think that besides them, on Lincoln Island, as they dubbed it, someone else lives, their mysterious benefactor, who often comes to their aid in the most difficult difficult situations. They even undertake a search expedition in the hope of finding his place of residence. However, the search ends in vain.
The next summer (for since Ayrton appeared on their island and before he told them his story, five months had already passed and the summer was over, and in the cold season it is dangerous to sail) they decide to get to Tabor Island to leave a note in the hut. In the note they intend to warn Captain Glenarvan, should he return, that Ayrton and five others wrecked waiting for help on neighboring island.
The settlers have been living on their island for three years. Their life, their economy reached prosperity. They are already harvesting rich crops of wheat grown from a single grain found three years ago in Herbert's pocket, they have built a mill, they breed poultry, they have fully equipped their dwelling, they have made themselves new warm clothes and blankets from mouflon wool. However, their peaceful life is overshadowed by one incident that threatens them with death. One day, looking at the sea, they see a well-equipped ship in the distance, but a black flag flies over the ship. The ship anchors off the coast. It shows beautiful long-range guns. Ayrton, under the cover of night, sneaks onto the ship to make reconnaissance. It turns out that there are fifty pirates on the ship. Having miraculously eluded them, Ayrton returns to the shore and informs his friends that they need to prepare for battle. The next morning, two boats descend from the ship. On the first, the settlers shoot three, and she returns back, while the second comes ashore, and the six pirates remaining on it hide in the forest. Cannons are fired from the ship, and it comes even closer to the shore. It seems that nothing can save a handful of settlers. Suddenly a huge wave rises under the ship and it sinks. All pirates on it die. As it turns out later, the ship hit a mine, and this event finally convinces the inhabitants of the island that they are not alone here.
At first they are not going to exterminate the pirates, wanting to give them the opportunity to lead a peaceful life. But it turns out that the robbers are not capable of this. They begin to loot and burn down the settlers' farm. Ayrton goes to the corral to visit the animals. The pirates grab him and take him to a cave, where they try to torture him into agreeing to go over to their side. Ayrton does not give up. His friends go to his aid, but Herbert is seriously injured in the corral, and his friends remain in it, unable to move back with the dying young man. A few days later they still go to the Granite Palace. As a result of the transition, Herbert develops a malignant fever, he is near death. Once again, providence intervenes in their lives and the hand of their kind mysterious friend throws them the necessary medicine. Herbert makes a full recovery. The settlers intend to strike the final blow against the pirates. They go to the corral, where they expect to find them, but they find Ayrton, exhausted and barely alive, and nearby the corpses of robbers. Ayrton reports that he does not know how he ended up in the corral, who carried him out of the cave and killed the pirates. However, he reports one sad news. A week ago, the bandits went to sea, but, not knowing how to control the boat, they smashed it on the coastal reefs. The trip to Tabor has to be postponed until a new vehicle is built. For the next seven months, the mysterious stranger does not make himself felt. Meanwhile, a volcano wakes up on the island, which the colonists considered already dead. They are building a new large ship, which, if necessary, could deliver them to inhabited earth.
One evening, already preparing to go to bed, the inhabitants of the Granite Palace hear a call. The telegraph works, which they carried from the corral to their home. They are urgently summoned to the corral. There they find a note asking them to walk along an additional wire. The cable leads them to a huge grotto, where they see, to their amazement, a submarine. In it they meet her owner and their patron, Captain Nemo, the Indian prince Dakkar, who fought for the independence of his homeland all his life. He, already a sixty-year-old man who buried all his comrades-in-arms, is dying. Nemo gives his new friends a chest of jewels and warns that if a volcano erupts, the island (such is its structure) will explode. He dies, the settlers batten down the hatches of the boat and lower it under water, while they themselves tirelessly build new ship. However, they fail to finish it. All life perishes during the explosion of the island, from which only a small reef in the ocean remains. Settlers who spent the night in a tent on the shore, air wave throws into the sea. All of them, with the exception of Jupe, remain alive. For more than ten days they sit on the reef, almost dying of hunger and no longer hoping for anything. Suddenly they see a ship. This is Duncan. He saves everyone. As it turns out later, Captain Nemo, when the bot was still safe, sailed on it to Tabor and left a note for the rescuers.
Returning to America, with the jewelry donated by Captain Nemo, the friends buy a large piece of land and live on it just like they lived on Lincoln Island.

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Oh, this irrepressible Jules Verne... Fantasy sometimes led him to bold plots, as if snatched from the distant future. This man, who is the most faithful friend of Dumas son, was the first to write about space travel accomplished with the help of technology. By the way, the passenger module "Columbiada" invented by him, like the real American space shuttle "Columbia", is made of aluminum. The world's first nuclear submarine was named Nautilus, in honor of Captain Nemo's fantastic submarine. Both the underwater battles anticipated by the science fiction writer and the trip to the Pole became a reality.

Perhaps he anticipated the coming world wars. In the novel "500 million Begums" the main negative character, a German by birth, dreamed of world domination. And in “Paris of the 20th century”, skyscrapers rise, citizens ride electric trains, and powerful computers work in banks.

You can talk about it endlessly ... However, the topic of this article is a summary of the "Mysterious Island", the world-famous book by Jules Verne.

Third robinsonade of the writer

This novel, written by a well-known forty-six-year-old writer, was eagerly awaited by the world readership (Jules Verne was second only to Agatha Christie in the number of translated literature published). The previous books of the Jules Verne Robinsonade, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, as well as Captain Grant's Children, were very popular. Robinsonade genre, where people who have fallen into the world wildlife, resist circumstances, return to the civilized world, was then especially popular.

Main characters. Acquaintance

Let's start the summary of the "Mysterious Island" with a plot: prisoners of war, representatives of the army of the North, fleeing from the southerners from Richmond in a balloon, due to a storm on March 23, 1865, find themselves on a desert island located 7 thousand miles from the continent. Who are they, the new Robinsons?

Their leader is Cyrus Smith, a scientist and engineer. This is a thin and even bony man of 45 years of age with a short haircut and mustache. He is remarkably brave, having participated in many battles under the command of General Grant. He is accompanied by a deeply respectful and devoted servant - a dark-skinned strongman Neb.

With them on the same team is a fearless, dynamic and resourceful military journalist of the newspaper “ NY Herald ”Gideon Spilett, whose courage and fearlessness surprised even the soldiers. Outwardly, he is a tall, physically strong man in his forties with light, slightly brown sideburns. He, along with Cyrus Smith, is the initiator of the escape. The summary of the "Mysterious Island" presents them to us as like-minded people, business and decisive people, the backbone of the team.

With them, by the will of fate, there was also a real sea wolf, a man familiar with the sea firsthand - the sailor Pencroff. Together with them is the captain's son, fifteen-year-old Herbert Brown, who came to Richmond with Pencroff. A good sailor, who sailed under his father, takes care of young man like a son. He is determined and smart. It was Pencroff who came up with the risky idea of ​​escaping captivity on a balloon.

Balloon crash and rescue

The very genre of the book involves creative logic further developments. The summary of the "Mysterious Island" suggests that the plot of the novel, like all Robinsonades, is typical. His heroes are people who have become victims of circumstances, by the strength of their spirit, thanks to their work, again gaining power over their destiny. At the same time, they go through serious trials and challenges.

The balloon with the fugitives was launched into a storm. People obviously took risks, but this was the only way to lull the vigilance of the southerners and escape unnoticed. In fact, there was no landing of the ball on the island, there was a crash. Cyrus Smith, along with his dog, were thrown out of the ball basket separately from the rest of the fugitives. He, exhausted, found himself at a distance of a mile from the coast, was found by the faithful servant Neb. Thus, classically for Robinsonade: the novel begins with a catastrophe, and, accordingly, its summary.

The mysterious island turned out to be quite hospitable. It is inhabited by plants and animals. Here, fortunately, it was easy enough to find food and shelter.

At first, travelers found edible bivalve mollusks, lithodome. Also readily available food was the eggs of rock pigeons. They were discovered by Herbert Brown, who was interested in zoology. On the island was fresh water trees grew here. Pencroft wove a makeshift rope of vines, built a raft fit to cross the river and float on it. Thus began the Robinsonade of five resourceful Northern Americans.

Creative activity of settlers

Invariably, in such novels, the construction of housing is present in the plot, and a brief summary will not bypass its attention. The mysterious island provides the five with a whole natural palace - a granite cave, and even with an excellent view that opens up to an observer located in such a fortress house. After all, the rock where this dwelling was located towered above the rest of the area.

The northern colonists are already engaged in crop production on a grand scale (from a single grain of wheat miraculously discovered in Herbert's pocket, they grew this crop in an amount sufficient for regular baking of bread). The island now provides the settlers with plenty of meat, milk, and clothing. After all, they tamed mouflons, pigs. They keep the animals in a structure called a coral.

They also tame exotic animals, and our summary of the story mentions such a case. The "Mysterious Island" is also inhabited by monkeys. One of them, an orangutan that wandered into their granite dwelling, was tamed. The animal that became attached to them, became their true friend, was named Jupe.

However, the settlers periodically feel that there is a kind of well-wisher present on the island. Indeed, a box with working tools, utensils, small arms and cartridges, found by them in the morning on the beach strip, became an invaluable gift for the five Americans. Now the engineering knowledge of Cyrus Smith has allowed the Robinsons to establish the production of the most necessary.

However, not only information about the improvement of life by the settlers contains a summary. Verne turns his "Mysterious Island" into a dynamic work by enriching the plot of the novel with new characters.

Swimming on the island Camp

The sailor Pencroft, having carefully studied the map, carefully inserted into the pencil case with tools by an unknown well-wisher, discovered that next to the island where he and his comrades now live, there is another island, Tabor. The experienced sea wolf realized that it made sense to examine him. Friends together build a small flat-bottomed boat and begin to explore the waters of this island archipelago. Together with the sailor, there are two more people on board who are interested in Pencroff's idea - creative journalist Gideon Spilett and young Garbert. They discover a "sea letter" - a floating sealed bottle containing a note pleading for help. A shipwrecked sailor is waiting for help, staying on about. Camp. This is its brief content (Vern builds "The Mysterious Island" on the principle of a quest). Indeed, having landed on about. Tabor, friends discover this man. He is in an inadequate state of consciousness. Ayrton (that was the name of the former pirate) - a creature half-wild, overgrown with hair and dressed in rags, is trying to attack the young man Garbert. Friends help out. Ayrton is tied up and sent to Lincoln Island in the Granite Castle (as friends call their cave - dwelling).

History of Ayrton

Care and nutrition did their job: the repentant Ayrton told about his ugly story. Twelve years ago, he, being a complete dregs of society, along with accomplices like himself, tried to seize the Duncan sailing ship. Captain Edward Glenarvan spared the offender, but left him on about. Tabor, telling Ayrton that he would take him, re-educated, someday. Thus, Ayrton was serving his sentence on the island. This is his history very briefly. The mysterious island became a prison for him.

They returned from Tabor Island in the dark... The colonists were then saved by a landmark - a fire on the shore. Then they decided that the negro Neb had kindled it. It turned out - no. It was kindled by a mysterious friend ... (However, " bottle mail" turned out to be the work of his hands. Ayrton did not write the note.)

Arrangement of the economy of the settlers

Three years of Cyrus Smith's stay with his comrades on the island were not wasted. Their economy includes a mill, a poultry farm, wheat fields, and a well-established production of woolen products. There is even a telegraph linking the place of residence of the colonists with the corral where they keep animals.

However, a terrible danger awaits friends: a fighting pirate ship anchors in the bay of the island. The forces are clearly unequal. Ayrton, who carried out night reconnaissance, established: there were 50 pirates on the ship.

War with Pirates

The battle scene further embellishes the plot and our summary of The Mysterious Island. Two pirate boats carry thugs from the sailboat to the shore. The northerners bravely accept the battle. One of the boats, having lost three corsairs, returns. The second with six fighters still moored to the shore overgrown with jungle, and the pirates hide in the thickets.

Americans, apparently, are in for a disaster. The gunship of the cutthroats turns in their direction, the guns begin to shoot through the area around them. However, suddenly an incident occurs again that inspires respect for the power of their secret friend. The pirate ship suddenly explodes and instantly sinks. A live mine went off.

Further, the author tells us about the real war with pirates, called by some unidentified readers only Zhulver (“The Mysterious Island”). The summary mentions that it begins with the attacks of pirates disembarked from the boat. Relying on the common sense of the shipless robbers, the northerners did not pursue them. However, the thugs proceeded to their usual business - robbery and arson of the property of the settlers. They captured Ayrton, who, tormented by his conscience, voluntarily lived not in a granite castle, but near a corral. Cyres Smith and his comrades came to his aid. However, the pirates manage to severely injure the young Garbert. The northerners return to their home. The wounded man has a fever. He is saved by a medicine planted by a mysterious friend.

The summary of Verne's novel "The Mysterious Island" is entering the stage of denouement. The settlers decide to finally destroy the uninvited guests. In their opinion, the thugs are in the corral. And indeed it is. However, all the bandits are dead, and next to them is the emaciated Ayrton, who has no idea how he ended up here (the pirates kept him in a cave). Again, the presence of an unknown benefactor is palpable.

Life is returning to normal. However new danger threatens the settlers: the island volcano gradually begins to wake up and gain strength. The boat was previously broken on the reefs by pirates. Worried settlers set to building big ship to leave the island if necessary.

Acquaintance with a secret benefactor

One day, a telegraph wired from the corral goes off in their granite cave. Finally, a previously unknown patron decided to meet them! They are summoned by him to the corral. The note lying there (again an element of the quest) further directs them along the laid cable - to the majestic grotto. Here they are awaited by their patron, the sixty-year-old captain Nemo, who by his origin is the Indian prince of Dakar, and by conviction - a fighter for the independence of his homeland. He is old, he is alone. In the campaigns and in the struggle for the independence of India, his comrades died. He is also a creative scientist. The unprecedented Nautilus submarine was designed and assembled by him from components produced by various contractors. Feeling the approach of death, Captain Nemo called the settlers to help him do the last thing - to help him be buried in the abyss of the sea along with his Nautilus. This noble man gives our travelers a chest of jewels and something else that has no price. He left a note on Tabor Island addressed to the rescuers. When he dies, the northerners batten down the hatches and lower the submarine to the bottom. This is a very touching scene.

Final disaster and rescue

Soon Lincoln Island explodes due to a volcano. The explosion turns out to be of such force that the settlers are thrown out of the tent, where they moved due to the impending catastrophe, into the water. Spare no colors for final scenes Verne J. G. ("The Mysterious Island"). The chapter-by-chapter summary ends with a touching rescue. The sailors of the Duncan sailing ship, which sailed to save Ayrton, orientated by the found note, remove settlers from the lifeless reef island, suffering from hunger and thirst for several days.

Returning to their homeland, the Americans turn the jewelry donated by Captain Nemo into material values ​​by buying land, livestock, tools and equipment. They recreate the American continent the same productive economy as on the island, and successfully run it together.

Conclusion

Jules Verne in the novel "The Mysterious Island" presented his readers with an exciting story about American Robinsons. The writer's innovation is striking. In the composition of the book, there are a number of artistic techniques that are characteristic of today's action films. The subsequent scenes are logically connected with the previous ones according to the laws of the quest. The final catastrophe and miraculous rescue are carefully outlined.

Innovation, as well as the artistry of the presentation of the novel, served as a source of its popularity among millions of readers.

March 1865 In the United States, during the American Civil War, five daredevil northerners flee from Richmond, taken by the southerners, in a balloon. A terrible storm throws four of them onto the shore of a desert island in the Southern Hemisphere. The fifth man and his dog break into the sea near the shore. This fifth one - a certain Cyrus Smith, a talented engineer and scientist, soul and leader of a group of travelers - for several days involuntarily keeps his companions in suspense, who cannot find either himself or his devoted dog Top anywhere. The former slave, and now the devoted servant of Smith, Negro Neb suffers the most. In the balloon were also a military journalist and friend of Smith, Gideon Spilett, a man of great energy and determination, possessing an ebullient mind; sailor Pencroff, a good-natured and enterprising daredevil; fifteen-year-old Herbert Brown, son of the captain of the ship on which Pencroft sailed, left an orphan, and whom the sailor treats as his own son. After a tedious search, Neb finally finds his master, inexplicably saved, a mile from the coast. Each of the new settlers of the island has irreplaceable talents, and under the leadership of Cyres Spilet, these brave people unite and become a single team. First, with the help of the simplest improvised means, then by producing more and more complex objects of labor and everyday life in their own small factories, the settlers arrange their lives. They hunt, collect edible plants, oysters, then even breed domestic animals and farm. They make a dwelling for themselves high in a rock, in a cave freed from water. Soon, thanks to their industriousness and intelligence, the colonists no longer know the need for food, clothing, or warmth and comfort. They have everything except news about their homeland, about the fate of which they are very worried. One day, returning to their dwelling, which they called the Granite Palace, they see that monkeys are in charge inside. After some time, as if under the influence of insane fear, the monkeys begin to jump out of the windows, and someone's hand throws out to the travelers a rope ladder, which the monkeys raised into the house. Inside, people find another monkey - an orangutan, which they keep and call Uncle Jupe. In the future, Jup becomes a friend to people, a servant and an indispensable assistant. On another day, the settlers find a chest of tools, firearms, various appliances, clothes, kitchen utensils, and books in English on the sand. The settlers wonder where this box could come from. According to the map, also in the box, they discover that Tabor Island is located next to their island, not marked on the map. The sailor Pencroff is eager to go to him. With the help of his friends, he builds a bot. When the boat is ready, everyone goes on it together for a trial voyage around the island. During it, they find a bottle with a note saying that a shipwrecked man is waiting for rescue on Tabor Island. This event strengthens Pencroff's confidence in the need to visit the neighboring island. Pencroft, journalist Gideon Spilett and Herbert set sail. Arriving at Tabor, they discover a small shack, where, by all indications, no one has lived for a long time. They disperse around the island, not hoping to see a living person, and try to find at least his remains. Suddenly, they hear Herbert's scream and rush to his aid. They see that Herbert is fighting with a certain hairy creature that looks like a monkey. However, the monkey turns out to be a feral man. Travelers tie him up and transport him to their island. They give him a separate room in the Granite Palace. Thanks to their attention and care, the savage soon turns back into a civilized person and tells them his story. It turns out that his name is Ayrton, he is a former criminal, he wanted to take possession of the Duncan sailboat and, with the help of the dregs of society like him, turn it into a pirate ship. However, his plans were not destined to come true, and as a punishment twelve years ago he was left on the uninhabited island of Tabor, so that he would realize his act and atone for his sin. However, the owner of the Duncan, Edward Glenarvan, said that he would someday return for Ayrton. The settlers see that Ayrton sincerely repents of his past sins, and he tries to be useful to them in every possible way. Therefore, they are not inclined to judge him for past misdeeds and willingly accept him into their society. However, Ayrton needs time, and therefore he asks to be given the opportunity to live in a corral that the settlers built for their domesticated animals at some distance from the Granite Palace. him, kindled their friends. However, it turns out that they were not involved in this. It also turns out that Ayrton did not throw a bottle with a note into the sea. The settlers cannot explain these mysterious events. They are more and more inclined to think that besides them, on Lincoln Island, as they dubbed it, someone else lives, their mysterious benefactor, who often comes to their aid in the most difficult situations. They even undertake a search expedition in the hope of finding his place of residence. However, the search ends in vain. The next summer (for since Ayrton appeared on their island and before he told them his story, five months had already passed and the summer was over, and in the cold season it is dangerous to sail) they decide to get to Tabor Island to leave a note in the hut. In the note, they intend to warn Captain Glenarvan, should he return, that Ayrton and five other castaways are waiting for help on a nearby island. The settlers have been living on their island for three years. Their life, their economy reached prosperity. They are already harvesting rich crops of wheat grown from a single grain found three years ago in Herbert's pocket, they have built a mill, they breed poultry, they have fully equipped their dwelling, they have made themselves new warm clothes and blankets from mouflon wool. However, their peaceful life is overshadowed by one incident that threatens them with death. One day, looking at the sea, they see a well-equipped ship in the distance, but a black flag flies over the ship. The ship anchors off the coast. It shows beautiful long-range guns. Ayrton, under the cover of night, sneaks onto the ship to make reconnaissance. It turns out that there are fifty pirates on the ship. Having miraculously eluded them, Ayrton returns to the shore and informs his friends that they need to prepare for battle. The next morning, two boats descend from the ship. On the first, the settlers shoot three, and she returns back, while the second comes ashore, and the six pirates remaining on it hide in the forest. Cannons are fired from the ship, and it comes even closer to the shore. It seems that nothing can save a handful of settlers. Suddenly a huge wave rises under the ship and it sinks. All pirates on it die. As it turns out later, the ship hit a mine, and this event finally convinces the inhabitants of the island that they are not alone here. At first they are not going to exterminate the pirates, wanting to give them the opportunity to lead a peaceful life. But it turns out that the robbers are not capable of this. They begin to loot and burn down the settlers' farm. Ayrton goes to the corral to visit the animals. The pirates grab him and take him to a cave, where they try to torture him into agreeing to go over to their side. Ayrton does not give up. His friends go to his aid, but Herbert is seriously injured in the corral, and his friends remain in it, unable to move back with the dying young man. A few days later they still go to the Granite Palace. As a result of the transition, Herbert develops a malignant fever, he is near death. Once again, providence intervenes in their lives and the hand of their kind mysterious friend throws them the necessary medicine. Herbert makes a full recovery. The settlers intend to strike the final blow against the pirates. They go to the corral, where they expect to find them, but they find Ayrton, exhausted and barely alive, and nearby - the corpses of robbers. Ayrton reports that he does not know how he ended up in the corral, who carried him out of the cave and killed the pirates. However, he reports one sad news. A week ago, the bandits went to sea, but, not knowing how to control the boat, they smashed it on the coastal reefs. The trip to Tabor has to be postponed until a new vehicle is built. For the next seven months, the mysterious stranger does not make himself felt. Meanwhile, a volcano wakes up on the island, which the colonists considered already dead. They are building a new large ship, which, if necessary, could deliver them to inhabited earth. One evening, already preparing to go to bed, the inhabitants of the Granite Palace hear a call. The telegraph that they ran from the ship to their home goes off. They are urgently summoned to the corral. There they find a note asking them to walk along an additional wire. The cable leads them to a huge grotto, where they see, to their amazement, a submarine. In it, they meet her owner and their patron, Captain Nemo, the Indian prince Dakkar, who fought for the independence of his homeland all his life. He, already a sixty-year-old man who buried all his comrades-in-arms, is dying. Nemo gives his new friends a chest of jewels and warns that if a volcano erupts, the island (such is its structure) will explode. He dies, the settlers batten down the hatches of the boat and lower it under water, and they themselves tirelessly build a new ship all day long. However, they fail to finish it. All life perishes during the explosion of the island, from which only a small reef in the ocean remains. The settlers who spent the night in a tent on the shore are thrown into the sea by an air wave. All of them, with the exception of Jupe, remain alive. For more than ten days they sit on the reef, almost dying of hunger and no longer hoping for anything. Suddenly they see a ship. Suddenly they see a ship. This is Duncan. He saves everyone. As it turns out later, Captain Nemo, when the bot was still safe, sailed on it to Tabor and left a note for the rescuers. Returning to America, with the jewelry donated by Captain Nemo, the friends buy a large piece of land and live on it just like they lived on Lincoln Island. Returning to America, with the jewelry donated by Captain Nemo, the friends buy a large piece of land and live on it just like they lived on Lincoln Island.

The Robinsonade novel "The Mysterious Island" became a continuation of two other famous works of the French writer Jules Verne - "Children of Captain Grant" and "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". The events described in the book take place on a fictional island, on which Captain Nemo, already familiar to readers from previous works, has landed.

The novel takes place during the Civil War in the United States. Five Northern Americans (Nab, Cyres, Gideon, Herbert and Bonaventure) are forced to flee Richmond, the capital of the Southerners. At the disposal of the fugitives was a balloon. Unusual vehicle gets caught in a storm. The Americans were washed ashore on an unknown uninhabited island in the Southern Hemisphere. The new owners of the island begin to equip the land they have found and after a while they improve their way of life. new earth was named Lincoln Island. Over time, the Americans have a true friend - an orangutan, nicknamed Uncle Jupe.

One day, the settlers found a chest containing firearms, clothing, tools, books in English, and various appliances. A map was found in the same box, on which the island of Tabor was marked. An unfamiliar piece of land is located near Lincoln Island. Pencroft, a sailor by profession, wants to see Tabor in person. For little trip friends are building a bot. Making a trial voyage around the island, the Americans discover a bottle with a note saying that a shipwrecked man is waiting for help on Tabor.

Ayrton, who had lost his human appearance, was indeed discovered on the island. As it turned out, Ayrton did not get into a shipwreck. He was left on Tabora by the owner of the Duncan sailing ship because Ayrton was trying to organize a riot. The owner of the sailboat promised that someday he would definitely return for the offender. Friends take Ayrton with them and surround him with care.

Three years have passed since the arrival of a new resident on Lincoln Island. The Americans managed to collect a rich harvest of wheat. Once Herbert discovered in his pocket a grain of wheat that happened to be there, thanks to which it became possible to grow wheat. Friends took up poultry breeding, built a mill, made themselves new clothes. But once the peaceful and prosperous existence of the inhabitants of a small colony was overshadowed by the appearance on the horizon of a ship with a black flag, which could only be seen on pirate ships.

The inhabitants of Lincoln Island are forced to fight for their land with sea robbers: first on the water, then on land. Americans constantly have the feeling that someone is helping them, because on their own they could not cope with such a huge number of pirates. In the end, they meet their mysterious patron. The Indian prince Dakkar, also known as Captain Nemo, fought for the independence of his country as a young man. All of the captain's associates are already dead. The prince himself was also dying. Nemo warned his friends that a volcano was about to explode on the island, and then presented them with a chest of jewels.

After the death of the captain, the Americans began building a ship in order to leave the island in time. Nemo's boat was no longer usable. An unexpected explosion of the volcano led to the fact that only a small reef remained from the island. Friends drifted on it for several days. Then they were rescued by the Duncan sailing ship. Subsequently, it turned out that Captain Nemo left a message on Tabor that there were people on the neighboring island who were waiting for help. Thanks to this note, the Lincolns were saved.

After returning to the United States, the "Robinsons" sold the jewelry donated by the captain and acquired a small plot of land on which they all settled together.

Character characteristics

Bonaventure Pencroft

Before fleeing America, Pencroff was a sailor. Friends consider him an enterprising and very kind person. Bonaventure was left an orphan at an early age and was forced to work on a ship on which Herbert Brown's father was the captain.

Cyrus Smith

Cyrus became the leader of the detachment. Smith is the soul of the company and a very talented engineer.

Gideon Spilett

Spilet worked as a military journalist. Gideon has all the qualities of a man who will live on a desert island. He is determined, energetic and very resourceful. Spilett loves to hunt.

Herbert Brown

Pencroff treats Brown like his own son. Herbert has a deep knowledge of the natural sciences.

Former slave

Nebuchadnezzar, or simply Neb, was once a slave. Neb is well versed in blacksmithing. Having received freedom, the former slave became a devoted servant of Smith.

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Robinson Ayrton

For some time, Ayrton lived alone on the island of Tabor. Forced loneliness led to the fact that the "robinson" almost completely lost his mind. When the Lincolns took him to their island, Ayrton could not recover for a long time, despite the care of new friends. Gradually recovering, "Robinson" began to be ashamed of his former behavior.

Captain Nemo is difficult to name among the main characters, but he is invisibly present throughout the story. Already at the beginning of the novel, Nemo throws a box of tools to Cyres to help the new inhabitants of the island. Ayrton was also rescued by the captain, who, as it turned out, did not throw a bottle with a note, as he was on the verge of insanity. Over time, Americans begin to realize that there is someone else on the island besides them. Friends undertook a search expedition to find their mysterious benefactor. However, the search turned out to be fruitless.

Nemo (Latin for "no one") was originally conceived by Verne as a Polish revolutionary. However, later the writer had more interesting idea, and he turned Nemo into the Bundelkhand prince of Dakkar, who led the sepoy uprising in the 1850s. The British invaders enslaved the homeland. Dakkar fought for liberation native land. The prince lost his wife and children, taken hostage by enemies and killed in captivity. Dakkar himself was forced to flee.

New life

The prince had a brilliant education, thanks to which he was able to build a submarine. Taking the name Nemo, Dakkar decided to settle permanently in ocean depths. He tried not to go on land and, in principle, not to use substances of terrestrial origin. According to Nemo, only life under water makes a person truly free.

True friends always helped Captain Nemo. It was they who helped him build a submarine. However, years passed, and almost none of the captain's friends survived. Nemo was left a lonely old man looking for his final resting place. The only consolation for the old captain is the help that he had the opportunity to provide to complete strangers. The author allows his hero to end his days among good people without refusing his last confession.

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Oh, this irrepressible Jules Verne... Fantasy sometimes led him to bold plots, as if snatched from the distant future. This man, who is the most faithful friend of Dumas son, was the first to write about space travel accomplished with the help of technology. By the way, the passenger module "Columbiada" invented by him, like the real American space shuttle "Columbia", is made of aluminum. The world's first nuclear submarine was named Nautilus, in honor of Captain Nemo's fantastic submarine. Both the underwater battles anticipated by the science fiction writer and the trip to the Pole became a reality.

Perhaps he anticipated the coming world wars. In the novel "500 million Begums" the main negative character, a German by birth, dreamed of world domination. And in “Paris of the 20th century”, skyscrapers rise, citizens ride electric trains, and powerful computers work in banks.

You can talk about it endlessly ... However, the topic of this article is a summary of the "Mysterious Island", the world-famous book by Jules Verne.

Third robinsonade of the writer

This novel, written by a well-known forty-six-year-old writer, was eagerly awaited by the world readership (Jules Verne was second only to Agatha Christie in the number of translated literature published). The previous books of the Jules Verne Robinsonade, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, as well as Captain Grant's Children, were very popular. The robinsonade genre, where people who have fallen into the world of wildlife, resist circumstances, return to the civilized world, was then especially popular.

Main characters. Acquaintance

Let's start with a brief summary of the "Mysterious Island" from the beginning: prisoners of war, representatives of the army of the North, fleeing from the southerners by flight from Richmond in a balloon, due to a storm on March 23, 1865, find themselves on a continent located 7 thousand miles from the continent. Who are they, the new Robinsons?

Their leader is Cyrus Smith, a scientist and engineer. This is a thin and even bony man of 45 years of age with a short haircut and mustache. He is remarkably brave, having participated in many battles under the command of General Grant. He is accompanied by a deeply respectful and devoted servant - a dark-skinned strongman Neb.

With them on the same team is the fearless, dynamic and resourceful New York Herald newspaper Gideon Spilett, whose courage and fearlessness surprised even the soldiers. Outwardly, he is a tall, physically strong man in his forties with light, slightly brown sideburns. He, along with Cyrus Smith, is the initiator of the escape. The summary of the "Mysterious Island" presents them to us as like-minded people, business and decisive people, the backbone of the team.

With them, the will of fate also turned out to be a real marine acquaintance with the sea firsthand - the sailor Pencroff. Together with them is the captain's son, fifteen-year-old Herbert Brown, who came to Richmond with Pencroff. A kind sailor, who sailed under his father, takes care of the young man as if he were a son. He is determined and smart. It was Pencroff who came up with the risky idea of ​​escaping captivity on a balloon.

Balloon crash and rescue

The very genre of the book suggests the creative logic of further events. The summary of the "Mysterious Island" suggests that the plot of the novel, like all Robinsonades, is typical. His heroes are people who have become victims of circumstances, by the strength of their spirit, thanks to their work, again gaining power over their destiny. At the same time, they go through serious trials and challenges.

The balloon with the fugitives was launched into a storm. People obviously took risks, but this was the only way to lull the vigilance of the southerners and escape unnoticed. In fact, there was no landing of the ball on the island, there was a crash. Cyrus Smith, along with his dog, were thrown out of the ball basket separately from the rest of the fugitives. He, exhausted, found himself at a distance of a mile from the coast, was found by the faithful servant Neb. Thus, classically for Robinsonade: the novel begins with a catastrophe, and, accordingly, its summary.

The mysterious island turned out to be quite hospitable. It is inhabited by plants and animals. Here, fortunately, it was easy enough to find food and shelter.

At first, travelers found edible lithodomes. Also readily available food was the eggs of rock pigeons. They were discovered by Herbert Brown, who was interested in zoology. The island had fresh water, trees grew here. Pencroft wove a makeshift rope of vines, built a raft fit to cross the river and float on it. Thus began the Robinsonade of five resourceful Northern Americans.

Creative activity of settlers

Invariably, in such novels, the construction of housing is present in the plot, and a brief summary will not bypass its attention. The mysterious island provides the five with a whole natural palace - a granite cave, and even with an excellent view that opens up to an observer located in such a fortress house. After all, the rock where this dwelling was located towered above the rest of the area.

The northern colonists are already engaged in crop production on a grand scale (from a single grain of wheat miraculously discovered in Herbert's pocket, they grew this crop in an amount sufficient for regular baking of bread). The island now provides the settlers with plenty of meat, milk, and clothing. After all, they tamed mouflons, pigs. They keep the animals in a structure called a coral.

They also tame exotic animals, and our summary of the story mentions such a case. The "Mysterious Island" is also inhabited by monkeys. One of them, an orangutan that wandered into their granite dwelling, was tamed. The animal that became attached to them, became their true friend, was named Jupe.

However, the settlers periodically feel that there is a kind of well-wisher present on the island. Indeed, a box with working tools, utensils, small arms and cartridges, found by them in the morning on the beach strip, became an invaluable gift for the five Americans. Now the engineering knowledge of Cyrus Smith has allowed the Robinsons to establish the production of the most necessary.

However, not only information about the improvement of life by the settlers contains a summary. Verne turns his "Mysterious Island" into a dynamic work by enriching the plot of the novel with new characters.

Swimming on the island Camp

The sailor Pencroft, having carefully studied the map, carefully inserted into the pencil case with tools by an unknown well-wisher, discovered that next to the island where he and his comrades now live, there is another island, Tabor. The experienced sea wolf realized that it made sense to examine him. Friends together build a small flat-bottomed boat and begin to explore the waters of this island archipelago. Together with the sailor, there are two more people on board who are interested in Pencroff's idea - creative journalist Gideon Spilett and young Garbert. They discover a "sea letter" - a floating sealed bottle containing a note pleading for help. A shipwrecked sailor is waiting for help, staying on about. Camp. This is its brief content (Vern builds "The Mysterious Island" on the principle of a quest). Indeed, having landed on about. Tabor, friends discover this man. He is in an inadequate state of consciousness. Ayrton (that was the name of the former pirate) - a creature half-wild, overgrown with hair and dressed in rags, is trying to attack the young man Garbert. Friends help out. Ayrton is tied up and sent to Lincoln Island in the Granite Castle (as friends call their cave - dwelling).

History of Ayrton

Care and nutrition did their job: the repentant Ayrton told about his ugly story. Twelve years ago, he, being a complete dregs of society, along with accomplices like himself, tried to seize the Duncan sailing ship. Captain Edward Glenarvan spared the offender, but left him on about. Tabor, telling Ayrton that he would take him, re-educated, someday. Thus, Ayrton was serving his sentence on the island. This is his history very briefly. The mysterious island became a prison for him.

They returned from it in the dark ... The colonists were then saved by a landmark - a fire on the shore. Then they decided that the negro Neb had kindled it. It turned out - no. It was kindled by a mysterious friend ... (However, the “bottle mail” turned out to be the work of his hands. Ayrton did not write a note.)

Arrangement of the economy of the settlers

Three years of Cyrus Smith's stay with his comrades on the island were not wasted. Their economy includes a mill, a poultry farm, and a well-established production of woolen products. There is even a telegraph linking the place of residence of the colonists with the corral where they keep animals.

However, a terrible danger awaits friends: a fighting pirate ship anchors in the bay of the island. The forces are clearly unequal. Ayrton, who carried out night reconnaissance, established: there were 50 pirates on the ship.

War with Pirates

The battle scene further embellishes the plot and our summary of The Mysterious Island. Two pirate boats carry thugs from the sailboat to the shore. The northerners bravely accept the battle. One of the boats, having lost three corsairs, returns. The second with six fighters still moored to the shore overgrown with jungle, and the pirates hide in the thickets.

Americans, apparently, are in for a disaster. The gunship of the cutthroats turns in their direction, the guns begin to shoot through the area around them. However, suddenly an incident occurs again that inspires respect for the power of their secret friend. The pirate ship suddenly explodes and instantly sinks. A live mine went off.

Further, the author tells us about the real war with pirates, called by some unidentified readers only Zhulver (“The Mysterious Island”). The summary mentions that it begins with the attacks of pirates disembarked from the boat. Relying on the common sense of the shipless robbers, the northerners did not pursue them. However, the thugs proceeded to their usual business - robbery and arson of the property of the settlers. They captured Ayrton, who, tormented by his conscience, voluntarily lived not in a granite castle, but near a corral. Cyres Smith and his comrades came to his aid. However, the pirates manage to severely injure the young Garbert. The northerners return to their home. The wounded man has a fever. He is saved by a medicine planted by a mysterious friend.

The summary of Verne's novel "The Mysterious Island" is entering the stage of denouement. The settlers decide to finally destroy the uninvited guests. In their opinion, the thugs are in the corral. And indeed it is. However, all the bandits are dead, and next to them is the emaciated Ayrton, who has no idea how he ended up here (the pirates kept him in a cave). Again, the presence of an unknown benefactor is palpable.

Life is returning to normal. However, a new danger threatens the settlers: the island volcano gradually begins to wake up and gain strength. The boat was previously broken on the reefs by pirates. Worried settlers set about building a large ship to leave the island if necessary.

Acquaintance with a secret benefactor

One day, a telegraph wired from the corral goes off in their granite cave. Finally, a previously unknown patron decided to meet them! They are summoned by him to the corral. The note lying there (again an element of the quest) further directs them along the laid cable - to the majestic grotto. Here they are awaited by their patron, the sixty-year-old captain Nemo, who by his origin is the Indian prince of Dakar, and by conviction - a fighter for the independence of his homeland. He is old, he is alone. In the campaigns and in the struggle for the independence of India, his comrades died. He is also a creative scientist. The unprecedented Nautilus submarine was designed and assembled by him from components produced by various contractors. Feeling the approach of death, Captain Nemo called the settlers to help him do the last thing - to help him be buried in the abyss of the sea along with his Nautilus. This noble man gives our travelers a chest of jewels and something else that has no price. He left a note on Tabor Island addressed to the rescuers. When he dies, the northerners batten down the hatches and lower the submarine to the bottom. This is a very touching scene.

Final disaster and rescue

Soon Lincoln Island explodes due to a volcano. The explosion turns out to be of such force that the settlers are thrown out of the tent, where they moved due to the impending catastrophe, into the water. Verne does not spare colors for the final scenes J.G. ("Mysterious Island"). The chapter-by-chapter summary ends with a touching rescue. The sailors of the Duncan sailing ship, which sailed to save Ayrton, orientated by the found note, remove settlers from the lifeless reef island, suffering from hunger and thirst for several days.

Returning to their homeland, the Americans turn the jewelry donated by Captain Nemo into material values ​​by buying land, livestock, tools and equipment. They are recreating on the American continent the same productive economy as on the island, and they are successfully running it together.

Conclusion

Jules Verne in the novel "The Mysterious Island" presented his readers with an exciting story about American Robinsons. The writer's innovation is striking. In the composition of the book, there are a number of artistic techniques that are characteristic of today's action films. The subsequent scenes are logically connected with the previous ones according to the laws of the quest. The final catastrophe and miraculous rescue are carefully outlined.

Innovation, as well as the artistry of the presentation of the novel, served as a source of its popularity among millions of readers.