Chekhov "Fugitive": a short summary and analysis of the story

AP Chekhov lived a not very long life (only 44 years), but wrote during this time a lot - 22 volumes of essays and 8 volumes of letters. He wrote different stories, some were big, some small. We invite the reader to study the work that Chekhov wrote - The Fugitive (summary).

Hospital and Doctor

Chekhov has works that contain inner morality, but are free from it. "Fugitive" refers, rather, to the second. It is only the fixation of some experience or observation. The composition could be based on a real fact, but it could well have been invented by Chekhov. "Fugitive" (a short summary will be presented in the article) - a work written in a cultural style.

The boy is brought to the hospital by a mother with a strange wound on her elbow. After examining the hand, the doctor starts from the heart to scold the mother with the last words for the fact that she so late Pashka (Pavel Galaktionova) led him. The doctor says: "How could you pull so much? Do not you bring a child six months? Now we have to cut off the hand, and that he is without a hand, who needs it? And you (the doctor turns to the mother) is a burden for the rest of his life! "Of course, Chekhov describes this scene in a heartfelt manner. "Fugitive", the brief content of which fell into our field of vision, it is worth reading the story for the sake of these mise-en-scène, especially since its volume is less than 10 pages.

Prior to Pashka's mother, apparently, the meaning of the words does not go very well, so she expects further instructions from the doctor. Having slightly calmed down, the doctor puts the boy in the hospital. He is escorted to the second floor of the hospital, where, apparently, lie seriously ill people. Pashka is given new clothes, well fed. An old man with a lung injury lies on the next cot in the ward. The boy likes everything: he is well fed, dressed in clean clothes. True, there are some strange and terrible people in the neighborhood, but this does not bother him much during the absorption of hospital food.

Strange pictures for the modern reader are described by Chekhov. "Fugitive" (summary) does not lie. The boy and his mom came, most likely, from the village to the hospital, where there was state support, so this is not surprising.

Acquaintance with death

The inconvenience began at night, when it turned out that one of the guests, who was in front of the ward, died, and the patients who shared a room with him tried to take him out on the blanket. They talked noisily, discussing in detail the details of such a difficult matter. Pashka heard their conversations, and panic struck him. Here, and outlined the culmination of the narrative Chekhov. "Fugitive" (work) appears before the reader in all its glory.

The child began to call his mother. The boy ran to the hospital, then to the street, then he turned out to be unknown as at the porch of the doctor's house (the doctor's dwelling was on the hospital territory), which he examined in the morning. Pashka looked into the window shining in the darkness (although it was scary), he saw there a pretty face and lost consciousness.

The doctor found Pashka a few hours later. The hero of the story came to consciousness to the sound of the doctor's voice. It was already light, and all his fears were scattered, only the doctor's ridicule was left over him.

This is how Chekhov's story "The Fugitive" ends. The summary also ends on this soothing note.