"Children of the Blue Flamingo": a brief summary. "Children of the Blue Flamingo", Krapivin

Krapivin Vladislav Petrovich was born in Tyumen in 1938, in a family of teachers. From an early age, he discovered the ability to create entertaining stories and told them in the circle of peers. Literary works the future writer began to create, when he studied at the university at the Faculty of Journalism. The first critic and reader of this author was his mother.

In this article, we will present one of the works of Krapivin Vladislav Petrovich, his summary. "Children of the Blue Flamingo" - included in the series "Flying Tales" novel, created by the author in 1980. About it, we'll talk.

The main works of the author

The first book of Vladislav Petrovich appeared in 1962. It was called "The Ride of Orion." Two years later, in 1964, this author became one of the members of the Writers' Union of the USSR.

The first stories of Krapivin Vladislav Petrovich appeared in the sixties of the last century. Their main characters are knights and dreamers, loyal friends, elder brothers, kind, sincere, sympathetic. In the 70's and 80's Krapivin pushes the boundaries of the world of reality, turning to a fairy tale and science fiction. "Children of the blue flamingo" - this story is a fairy tale. We note its main features.

"Children of the blue flamingo": what is this story about?

The work "Children of the Blue Flamingo" is a social tragedy, a philosophical parable, an anti-utopia, a grotesque book ... This work takes about 130 pages in volume. The main question raised in the work is the following: "How can you defeat a terrible monster who keeps all the residents of some island in awe, which is the law of existence?" Fear is the primary basis of our life. We are born with him, in fear all the human existence passes. He has a lot of names, from "global warming" to "terrorism."

Fear in the heart of man

In order for the reified fear to live as long as possible in the heart of a person, one should as often as possible pull out a symbol for everyone to see, like a scarecrow: here again washed away the village in Micronesia, here again blew up the house of the "alcade" ... Residents should be constantly afraid.

How to remove the Lizard from human hearts? This book is about what monsters are some of the people. And others are so simple and easy to obey, look under their feet, and not to heaven.

It keeps the "equilibrium of order" octopus not only in the public, but also in the personal life of the islanders. He is a tool of intimidation. The motif of fear in this tale has two planes: it is the fear of destroying the physical, punishment, provoked by the existence of the terrible Lizard, but at the same time it is also the fear to become, finally, free. Living in a limited, enclosed space, the islanders are devoid of the fearlessness inherent in youth. The appeal is understandable: children should be kept in eternal fear.

Summary. "Children of the Blue Flamingo": the beginning of the story

The main character after the game with his friends returns home to his grandmother, as his parents are on a business trip. A man approaches him along the road, who tells of an island that is invisible, not affixed to any map of the world. It is allegedly ruled by a terrible lizard. The hero proposes to go with him to the island, in order to fight the villain and free the local population.

Zhenya Ushakov goes to the island

We continue to describe the summary. "Children of the blue flamingo" - a story that will please almost all readers. Zhenya Ushakov (so called the boy) agrees and floats to the island with a stranger named Ktor Echo. It turns out that the Lizard is a huge robot, which is made in the image of an octopus. Zhenya escapes, but he is caught, judged and about to be executed.

Suddenly the boy is rescued by a blue bird, whom during the escape from the monster helped save his chick. She takes Zhenya to an old fortress, in which several other children are hiding. It turns out that there are no girls and boys on the island, as babies immediately become adults. Only in the fortress there lives a young man named Doug.

Zhenya meets Yulia

We continue to describe the summary. "Children of the Blue Flamingo" continue such events. Soldiers discover the refuge of children. These are the servants of the Lizard who want to capture them, but the children with the help of this bird manage to fly away. Only the Arc is killed, and then the Blue Bird rescues them. Zhenya in the fortress learns from the other children the boy Yulka, whom he knew in the real world. Everyone thought about him that the boy drowned. In the story "Children of the Blue Flamingo" these heroes made friends. They succeeded after the boys had escaped from the fortress, to find the remote that controls the Lizard, and to kill this monster.

Boys find out who Ktor Echo is

After that they are going to kill also Tahomir Tycho, ruler of the island. It turns out that Ktor Echo and Takhomir are one and the same person who offers the boys to fly away from here in a hot air balloon. At the last moment, Yulia changed her mind and made Zhenka cunningly fly away. In our world, after a certain time, another Bluebird found it, which was the chick of the deceased.

Continues the work that created Krapivin. "Children of the blue flamingo" further narrate about such events. With the help of this bird, a new friend of Zhenka Tolik, along with the protagonist, returns to the island in order to fight the ruler and servants of the Lizard. They manage to do it, and they all go home together, where Yulka sees her parents who are prematurely old with grief.

This concludes the events of the work that Krapivin created. "Children of the blue flamingo" have an optimistic ending, and it's not accidental. As in any fairy tale, good will surely overcome evil. The author also believed that the works should teach the cooperation and friendship of adults and children.

"The Legend of Dvid Island"

In 2010, the story "Children of the Blue Flamingo" was filmed. On it they shot a film called "The Legend of Dvid Island". The author himself, however, expressed skepticism about this film, criticizing a number of key points in the film.

We told you about the story "Children of the Blue Flamingo". The content of it is really very interesting, so we recommend everyone to read this work of Vladislav Petrovich Krapivin.