Mysterious island main characters and their characteristics. Characteristics of the heroes of Jules Verne's novel "mysterious island"

• boring story;
• the complexity of the plot and the author's idea;
• foreign language after all.

For the first time I heard the phrase "difficult to read book" in relation to Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago, the second time - to Jean-Paul Sartre's "Nausea", and the third time - "Ulysses" by James Joyce. And if I didn’t have time to evaluate the “complexity” of “GULAG” (still ahead), then I mastered the other two works, and they did not seem difficult to me. Ulysses is complicated in the storyline and sometimes incomprehensible in the narrative, but it is incredibly interesting to read, especially when it comes to cartoonish, satirical and ridiculous episodes. "Nausea" seemed to me very close to "Notes from the Underground" by Dostoevsky. But I found Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island" to be truly difficult to read.

The long-awaited period has come when you can get comfortable in Peresvet's room and start reading books aloud to him. And the first lump at this pancake party was the novel "The Mysterious Island". And the main difficulty was by no means in the storyline - everything was great and quite interesting there, the problem was in describing the ways of surviving the main characters on desert island. But first things first.

Heroes of the mysterious island

Jules Verne's novel tells us a curious and adventurous story of the life of several Americans and one Briton, who, by the will of fate, ended up on a desert island. Each hero deserves special attention, but I still want to start with the one whose direct actions and instructions for survival in the wild just broke my brain, since there are serious gaps in many disciplines of the school curriculum. As the well-known hero of Arthur Conan Doyle said: “Well, when I was a schoolboy, I knew this, and then I completely forgot.” So Cyrus Smith.

“Cyres Smith, native of Massachusetts. an engineer by profession, was a first-class scientist; during the war, the United States government entrusted him to manage railways of great strategic importance."

It was this scholarship of Smith that became the stumbling block for all reading in the evenings. The difficulty lay in the described theories and practices of applying his knowledge by Cyres Smith. It's just that a long-standing habit of imagining everything that I read had a deadly effect in this particular accident. I had to imagine in my mind all the physical, chemical and even navigational sketches of an engineer in order to understand what exactly was being said.

“On the afternoon of April 2, Cyrus Smith made an attempt to determine the position of the island in relation to the cardinal points.

The day before, he accurately noted the time when the sun had set, taking into account the phenomenon of refraction. And on the morning of April 2, he set the time of sunrise no less accurately. Twelve hours and twenty-four minutes passed from sunset to sunrise. So, six hours and twelve minutes after sunrise on that day, the sun should have passed through the meridian of the island, and the point at which it would be in the sky at that moment would indicate where the north is.

“From these stones, which crumbled when they were calcined on fire, fat quicklime was obtained, which strongly swelled and seethed when extinguished - lime is as pure as that obtained by firing marble or chalk. By mixing a semi-liquid solution of slaked lime with sand, which did not allow it to harden too quickly, our colonists obtained an excellent cementing agent.

If it was hard for me to read and imagine, then how Peresvet perceived such a flow of information, one can only guess. In general, Cyrus Smith appeared before us as some kind of superman. I can definitely say that without it, the colonists, if they had survived, would not have achieved the described prosperity and development. various kinds communications on the island (they even had a remote connection between certain areas of the island).

In general, this is one of the two central characters of the work, but a few words will be said about the second a little later, especially since it became possible to identify him only towards the end of the novel. And Cyrus Smith turned out to be not only smart, but also a brave person, for whom there is no “terra incognito” both in the thought process and in everyday life. This trait of the hero seemed to me extremely uninteresting, because the ideal character always causes despondency with its implausibility, and maybe subconscious envy. I have not yet decided which feeling is stronger, because I would also like to be able to make an improvised explosive device based on glycerin from improvised means on a desert island. Compare Batman and Superman - everyone loves the Dark Knight, and the Man of Steel has a very small fan base.

Gideon Spilett turned out to be the most pleasant and likeable character for me personally.

“Gideon Spilett was tall and not yet old - forty years old, no more. He had reddish whiskers. Lively, quick eyes looked calmly and confidently. Such eyes are in people who are accustomed to instantly grasp all the details of the picture that opens up to their eyes. He was of strong build, and he had tempered himself by traveling under different latitudes—that is how one tempers cold water hot steel bar.

For ten years now, Gideon Spilett has been a regular correspondent for the New York Herald and enriched the newspaper with his notes and drawings - he was equally good at a writer's pen and a draftsman's pencil.

Colleagues in island life were amazed at the ability of a polished journalist to manage household items, use brute male power in favor of a common cause, and also excellently hunt. Then, and even more so now, you will not often meet a media employee who is able to follow the path of a real “Robinson” without losing good spirits and composure. Thanks to his intelligence and prudence, it was Spilett who was Smith's main adviser in all the most mysterious and difficult tasks.

Of the remaining trinity, I have to single out Herbert, since it was this hero who passionately sunk into the soul of Peresvet. For several days in a row, the child was worried because pirates landed on the island and shot young Herbert. Thank God, the young man recovered, because my boy was in sincere confusion.

“In early 1865, Pencroff came to Richmond from New Jersey on business with fifteen-year-old Herbert Brown, the son of his captain, who was left an orphan; Pencroff loved this young man like his own son.

Next, in fact, is a sailor named Bonadventur Pencroff, who brings much-needed lightness and ease to this novel with an abundance of tense situations, mysterious cases and dramatic events. Not once did the old sailor cause a sincere smile with his simplicity and straightforwardness. What is worth only the episode when Pencroff began to experience an unbearable craving for tobacco. The desire to smoke ate him from the inside, although he tried to more or less hide it. And what was his happiness when the colonists got the same tobacco.

“That day, engineer Cyres was approached on the street by a man he did not know. He was a sailor of about thirty-five or forty, bearing the name of Pencroft, tall, strong and very sunburnt, with lively, rapidly blinking eyes and a good-natured face. He was a native North America, sailed all the seas, visited all sorts of alterations, experienced many unusual adventures, which other land dwellers would not dream of even in a dream. Needless to say, he was an enterprising man, a daredevil who was not afraid of anything and was not surprised by anything.

Was among the colonists and another member of this friendly team Neb. Once he was a slave to the Cyres Smith family, but at an already conscious age, Cyres gave him freedom, and he, being grateful and devoted to his former master, promised to stay with him in moments of joy and sadness, prosperity and trouble.

“To him [Naboo - approx. Batin Blog] was the thirty-first year, he was a strong, agile, dexterous and quick-witted person, meek and calm, sometimes very naive, always smiling, helpful and kind. His name was Nebuchadnezzar, but he did not like this pompous name and preferred the diminutive name he had been accustomed to from childhood - Neb.

The last humanoid inhabitant of the island is Ayrton. A curious character who was once a criminal, a pirate, landed on an island adjacent to the colonists as a warning. For many years, he went wild and turned into a real savage, until a team of our heroes arrived by swimming on this very island, found Ayrton and returned him to a human form. During the time spent with new friends, Ayrton regained confidence in himself and renounced all the bad deeds of his past life.

“From the time Ayrton was put ashore, he, under the name of Ben Joyce, led a gang of runaway convicts, now brazenly asserted that the shipwreck had occurred on east coast. He deliberately sent Lord Glenarvan down the wrong path, in the hope that while he was traveling, he would be able to take possession of the yacht, turn it into a pirate ship and become a thunderstorm of the seas.

The remaining members of the colony are Cyres Smith's faithful dog named Top, who has repeatedly saved his two-legged colleagues and friends, as well as an orangutan named Jupe, who has become a faithful helper for newcomers, while maintaining the status of an aborigine.

saving island

The weakest "character", so to speak, in the novel was the island itself. No, there is no personification here, just the immediate scene of action, so meaningfully highlighted in the title of the work by Jules Verne, incredibly disappointed with its predisposition to the colonists.

For now, I will omit the whole entourage of the mystery of the island, because it turned out to be such not because of its magical nature, but because of the presence of a specific person, whose identity was carefully hidden until the very denouement. So here's more perfect place habitation for a man, it would seem, can not be imagined. Absolutely everything that the heroes of the novel needed not only for life, but also for a luxurious stay away from their native American expanses, was present there. And it's not very fair.

The colonists gave their name to this piece of land, which pampered its new inhabitants with all the charms of its wealth with a cornucopia. And his name is Lincoln. Do you need additional comments, in honor of which political figure the island was named? To appreciate the generosity of Lincoln Island and the implausibility of this fact through the eyes of the reader, it is worth noting an important detail - no one has ever been here before (except for one secret character). But this is the second half of the 19th century, most of the key discoveries have already been made, only a few blank spots remained. And the huge abode of Lincoln Island, rich in minerals, rivers, jungles, mountainous area and all sorts of different creatures of all stripes definitely didn’t pull on that land, which could not be on the maps during the period civil war in USA. Which there was no one to open among the placers of travelers and seafarers of the era.

And nearby in terms of location was the island of Tabor, much smaller in size, less rich in fossils and possible food options, but it was still mapped. Civilization knew about its existence, but Lincoln somehow did not turn up. Moreover, the author covered all traces by destroying the island at the end of the work with the help of a volcanic eruption.

Coupled with the inexhaustible ingenuity of Cyrus Smith and the constant assistance of a secret assistant, the life of the colonists generally looked like a resort on paradise island, where only women and whiskey were missing for greater pleasure. Moreover, sooner or later they would have learned to cook whiskey.

Personal impressions

But in the end, despite the excessive mythicity and implausibility of some important facts, the novel "The Mysterious Island" is important in many aspects. First, it is very interesting story about how you can survive in difficult conditions far from civilization. And at least a number of tips can be safely adopted. Young travelers will definitely be curious about the descriptions of making tools needed in the household.

Secondly, "The Mysterious Island" is a cornerstone work in the entire universe of Jules Verne, containing three key storylines: the family of Captain Grant, the fate of Captain Nemo and the biography of the fugitives of the Richmond fortress. And it is the novel about the island that dots the 'i', crowning the denouement in the fates of many heroes who met on the pages of other works by Jules Verne. And in general, the process of reading can by no means be considered boring and ordinary. The events taking place with the colonists now and then gave rise to bouts of indescribable interest, forcing us to wait for the next evening, when Peresvet and I would continue reading. The fate of the young Herbert Brown haunted the eldest son for a couple of weeks, and sometimes he still clarifies whether everything is in order with Herbert in the end, although we have long finished reading The Mysterious Island. I also remember my feelings when I found out that the mysterious assistant of the colonists, to whom they owe their lives, turned out to be Captain Nemo. I then finished reading the chapter, put my son to bed, turned off the light, closed the door and proceeded in shock to the kitchen, where I shared this unexpected news with my wife with sincere excitement.

Every adventure lover and good examples real male deeds should appreciate this literary work. And I will certainly advise my sons to re-read The Mysterious Island already alone. It's great to return to the books of the authors of past years, where life guidelines that are close to me are still preserved. Modern prose, with rare exceptions, is replete with works in which you deliberately demonstrate and praise the ability to fool an outsider or describe the dark side of this or that sphere of life. Perhaps I was just unlucky and often stumbled upon this, but I retained a clear realization that I prefer to read books from the past or about the past. And in view of the immense baggage of such materials, I am not in danger of being left without reading. And at the same time my children, who want to read time-tested stories.

Five brave Americans find themselves on the uninhabited Lincoln Island. On the new land, they build a shelter for themselves, gardening, irrigating the land and raising livestock. Mysterious incidents constantly occur on the island. The inhabitants of the island are sure that someone is helping them. It really is. The colonists meet their guardian angel Captain Nemo. A volcano erupts on the island, miraculously the Americans escape and return to their native lands.

the main idea

Roman teaches that it is necessary to help each other, only by working together, one team can get an excellent result. To work for the common good is the main idea of ​​the work.

Read the summary of Jules Verne's Mysterious Island

The events of the work unfold in 1865, in America. Five brave Americans must leave Richmond, the city that is the capital of the southerners. Among them: Cyres Smith - a capable young man, engineer, he leads the fugitives, Gideon Spilett - Smith's comrade, is fond of military journalism, Neb - Cyres' servant, sailor Pencroff and his successor Harbert Brown. For the chase they choose original transport – balloon. While fleeing, they are caught in a hurricane. The fugitives find themselves on a deserted island. The Americans are gradually ennobling the new place. This land is called Lincoln Island.

One day, returning from hunting, the colonists discover the monkeys inside the house. After a certain time, the monkeys began to run away from the dwelling. Only the orangutan remained in the Granite Palace, which will become a friend and helper of the Americans. He will be given the nickname Uncle Jupe.

Once the inhabitants of the island found a box with various things. Among the finds was a map on which the territory of Tabora Island was marked. This place was nearby. Sailor Pencroft wants to visit Tabor Island. To do this, they need to build a board. While testing the ship, the Americans find a bottle with a message. The note says that there was a catastrophe, as a result of which a person remained on the island of Tabor and is waiting for help.

On the island they do meet a man. Due to the fact that Ayrton has not communicated with anyone for a long time, he turned into a savage resembling a monkey. After a certain time, he returns to his usual appearance, and tells his story.

In the past, Ayrton was a robber and wanted to steal a sailboat to make a pirate ship out of it. But these dreams were not destined to come true. The owner of the ship left Ayrton on the island as a punishment, but promised that he would return for him.

Strange things are happening on the island: a bottle with a note is not Ayrton's handiwork, and the fire on Lincoln was not kindled by the comrades of the Americans. The inhabitants of the island begin to think that someone else lives here besides them, but they cannot find it.

Herbert accidentally finds a grain of wheat. From this point on, the colonists begin to grow crop plants. But a happy existence on the island is hampered by the appearance of an unknown ship with a black flag.

Americans must fight for their property with pirates. The colonists are confident that they are constantly assisted by a mysterious stranger, because they would not have been able to cope with the robbers on their own. Finally, they meet their savior. This is the Indian prince Dakkar, in the past he was a captain and his name was Nemo. He advises the Americans to leave the island, as the volcano is about to erupt.

Captain Nemo is dying. The inhabitants of the island are building a ship to escape the disaster. But suddenly the volcano erupts, leaving only one reef on the island, where the colonists stay for about 10 days. They are rescued by the Duncan. The fact is that before his death, Nemo left a message on neighboring island Tabor that there are people on Lincoln.

The Americans successfully return to their homeland, selling expensive jewelry that Nemo gave them. They buy land, build housing and live together in harmony.

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Jules Verne

"Mysterious Island"

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 are hiding in the sea near the shore. This fifth one - a certain Cyres 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, the 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, the son of the captain of the ship on which Pencroff 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 and 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 their dwelling 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 a while, 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 salvation on the island of Tabor. This event strengthens Pencroff's confidence in the need to visit the neighboring island. Pencroft, journalist Gideon Spilett and Harbert set sail. Arriving at Tabor, they discover a small shack, where, by all indications, no one has been living 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 Harbert'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 person. 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 so he asks to be given the opportunity to live in a corral that the settlers built for their domesticated animals 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 lit 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 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 it was dangerous to sail in the cold season) 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 a neighboring island.

The settlers have been living on their island for three years. Their life, their economy reached prosperity. They are already harvesting rich harvests of wheat grown from a single grain found three years ago in Harbert's pocket, they have built a mill, they breed poultry, they have completely 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 sticks to the shore, 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 doesn't give up. His friends go to his aid, but Harbert 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, Harbert 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. Harbert 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 big 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 new friends a chest of jewels and warns that when 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 living things die 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.

In the spring of 1865, during the American Civil War, the Southerners captured Richmond. Five guys fly away from the city in a balloon, but a storm knocks them astray, and they find themselves in the Southern Hemisphere on a desert island. The fifth daredevil, Cyrus Smith, who led this journey, did not manage to get ashore. His dog Top also disappeared. For several days, travelers continue their search: the servant of the missing Neb, the journalist Gideon Spilet, the sailor Pencroff and his 15-year-old ward Harbert Brown. And suddenly Smith is found a mile from the coast. The settlers are trying to settle down in a new place, equipping their dwelling at a height in a cave, and begin to engage in animal husbandry and agriculture. Once monkeys climbed into their dwelling, and after the arrival of the owners, everyone fled, except for one orangutan, whom people called Yupa and allowed to live with them.

The settlers found a box with valuables: tools, weapons, books, clothes and kitchen utensils. There they find a map on which they see the nearby island of Tabor. The settlers build a boat and make a test swim, during which they catch a bottle in the sea with a note from a shipwrecked man from a neighboring land. Harbert, Pencroft and Spilett sail to Tabor, but they do not find anyone in the discovered hut. During the search, a 15-year-old boy is attacked by a feral man, whom they tie up and decide to transport to their island in the evening. Upon returning back, people find themselves in a storm, and only thanks to a blazing fire do they find their way home. But on the island it turns out that the fire was not kindled by their friends. The savage turns out to be the criminal Ayrton, who 12 years ago wanted to capture the Duncan sailing ship and become a pirate, and for this he was landed on a desert island, promising to return for it someday. He also assured that he did not write any note about salvation. The settlers take pity on Ayrton and accept him into their team. But the savage asks for some time to live away from them in a building erected by them for animals.

Friends begin to suspect that someone else lives on the island and secretly helps them. They undertake searches but find nothing. During the three years of living on the island, the friends made their stay comfortable: they increased wheat yields, built a mill, and learned how to make clothes. One day a pirate ship sailed to their island, the settlers desperately defended themselves, but the forces are unequal. Suddenly, the ship struck a mine and sank. The surviving pirates do not want peaceful cohabitation, they constantly harm their economy and capture Ayrton. During his release, Harbert is severely wounded, causing the young man to develop a fatal fever. But his life is saved by a drug that comes from nowhere. The next time they try to rescue Ayrton, the settlers discover a barely alive friend who does not remember how all the pirates were killed.

A few months later, a volcano wakes up on the island, and friends begin to build a ship to save them. In the ship, after meeting with the pirates, a means of communication with the dwelling was installed. Once they heard a signal, and when they arrived at the place, they found a note and a cable that led them to a grotto with a submarine. Inside it, they meet their secret patron, 60-year-old Captain Nemo, who gave them jewelry before his death. Friends do not have time to complete their ship when the volcano exploded. They were able to escape on a small reef, on which they were discovered by the captain of the Duncan, who sailed for Ayrton.

Compositions

Conclusion (my opinion)

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 saved 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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