"The White Steamer": a brief summary (Chingiz Aitmatov)

In this article we will describe the story "The White Steamer". The summary of this work will be presented in it. The story was written in 1970 by Chingiz Aitmatov.

The "White Steamer" (a short summary) begins next. On the forest cordon lived a boy with his grandfather. There were three women here: the grandmother, the wife of the detective Orozkul, the chief on the cordon of a man, his grandfather's daughter was Aunt Bekey. Was still the wife of Seydakhmat, an auxiliary worker. Aunt Bekey is a woman, the most unhappy in the whole world, since she has no children. Orozkul drunks beats her for it. These are the main characters of the story, which Chingiz Aitmatov wrote.

"The White Steamer." Grandfather Momun

Rapid Momun called Grandfather Momun. Such a nickname he received for his constant affability, as well as his willingness to serve. He was able to work. And Orozkul, his son-in-law, although he was considered the boss, mostly rode around the guests. Momun kept the apiary, went after the cattle. Chingiz Aitmatov notes that he was at work all day long, all his life, but he never learned to make him respect himself.

The boy's dream

Neither the mother nor the father remembered the boy. He did not see them once, but he knew that his father served in Issyk-Kul as a sailor, and his mother left for some distant city after the divorce.

He liked to climb a boy to a neighboring mountain and look at Issyk-Kul in his grandfathers binoculars. On the lake, towards the evening, a white boat appeared.

Beautiful, powerful, long, with pipes in a row. Aitmatov's story "The White Steamer" is named after this ship. The boy wanted to turn into a fish, with only his own head, big, on a thin neck, with protruding ears. He dreamed that he would go to his father and tell him that he was his son. The boy wanted to tell me how he lives at Momun. This grandfather is the best, but not at all cunning, because of what everyone laughs at him. And Orozkul often screams.

Tale told by Momun

Grandfather told a fairy tale to his grandson in the evenings. The description of it continues the work "The White Steamer."

In ancient times, the Kirghiz tribe lived on the banks of the Enesay River. Enemies attacked him and killed everyone, only a girl and a boy were left. But then the children were in the hands of the enemies. Pockmarked Lame Old Woman gave them to the Khan and ordered them to finish with these Kirghiz. But when the children led to the bank of the River Enesai, Pockmarked Lame Old Woman, the maral mother came out of the forest and asked to give her the children. The old woman warned that these were human children who would kill her deer when they grew up. After all, people do not even regret each other, not that animals. However, the mother-deer still begged the old woman, and led the children to Issyk-Kul.

They got married when they grew up. The woman began to give birth, she suffered. The man was frightened, he began to call his mother a deer. Then from afar there was an iridescent ringing. The horned mother brought a children's cradle on her horns - beshik. The silver bell on his bell rang. Immediately the woman was born. They named the first-born Bugubai, in honor of the deer. Rod Bugu went from him.

Then one rich man died, and his children decided to install the antler's horns on the tomb. There have been no marals since then, no mercy in the forests, and there were none. The mountains were deserted. When the mother-deer left, she said that she would never come back. Thus finishes the description of Aitmat's tale. The "White Steamer" continues with a story about further developments on the forest cordon.

Orozkul works with Momun

In the mountains, autumn came again. For Orozkul, the time of visits to the herdsmen and shepherds departed together with the summer - it was time to pay for the offerings. They dragged two pine logs along the mountains together with Momun, and therefore Orozkul was angry with the whole world. He wanted to settle down in a city where people are respected, and cultural people live. There it is not necessary then to drag logs for what has received a gift. And the inspectorate is visited by the inspection, the police - they suddenly ask where the forest comes from. At Orozkul, this thought boiled with anger. He wanted to beat his wife, but the house was far away. In addition, the grandfather noticed marals and almost got to tears, as if he had met his own brothers.

The quarrel between Orozkul and Momun

"White steamer," a brief description of which we describe, continues with the quarrel between Orozkul and Momun. Finally, the old man quarreled Orozkul, when the cordon was very close. He all asked to take his grandson out of school. It came to the point that he threw the stuck logs in the river and went for the boy. Orozkul hit him several times on the head, but it did not help - the old man broke free and left.

When the boy and his grandfather returned, they found out that Orozkul had driven his wife out of the house and had beaten her. He said that he was firing his grandfather. Bekey cursed her father, howled, and grandmother itched, that Orozkul must submit, ask for forgiveness from him, otherwise there would be nowhere to go in his old age.

The boy wanted to tell his grandfather that he met marals in the forest - they returned. But the old man was not up to it. The boy left again in an imaginary world, he begged the deer-mother to bring the cradle on the horns of Orozkulu and Bekei.

People came for the forest

Meanwhile, people came to the cordon behind the forest. While they were pulling out the log, Grandfather Momun walked behind Orozkul, like a devoted dog. Arrived also noticed marals. These animals, apparently, were from the reserve, not scared.

Momun kills the mother-deer

The boy saw a cauldron in the evening, boiling on fire in the yard, from where the meat spirit came. There was a grandfather at the fire. He was drunk. I've never seen his boy like that. One of the visitors, as well as drunk Orozkul, shared a pile of fresh meat, sitting at the barn on a squat. The boy saw a head under the wall of the shed. He tried to run, but his legs did not obey him - he just stood and looked at the head of the one that was just a deer mother yesterday.

The boy goes to the river

All soon sat down at the table. All the time the boy was troubled. He heard people, intoxicated, snorted, gnawed, gnawed, devouring a deer mother. Saidahmat told later how he made his grandfather shoot her: he was intimidated that he would be expelled by Orozkul if he did not do it.

He decided to become a fish and never go back to the mountains. He went to the river and stepped into the water.

Thus ends the story "The White Steamer," a brief description of which we have described. In 2013, this work was included in the list of "100 books for schoolchildren", recommended for independent reading by the Ministry of Education and Science.