CHAPTER FIRST,
In which Cipollone crushed Prince Lemon's leg
Cipollino was the son of Cipollone. And he had seven brothers: Cipolletto, Cipollotto, Cipolloccia, Cipolluccia and so on - the most suitable names for an honest onion family. They were good people, I must say frankly, but they were just unlucky in life.
What can you do: where there are onions, there are tears.
Cipollone, his wife and sons lived in a wooden shack slightly larger than a garden seedling box. If rich people happened to find themselves in these places, they wrinkled their noses with displeasure and grumbled: “Ugh, that sounds like a bow!” - and ordered the coachman to go faster.
One day, the ruler of the country himself, Prince Lemon, was going to visit the poor outskirts. The courtiers were terribly worried whether the onion smell would hit His Highness's nose.
– What will the prince say when he smells this poverty?
– You can spray the poor with perfume! – suggested the Senior Chamberlain.
A dozen Lemon soldiers were immediately sent to the outskirts to perfume those who smelled of onions. This time the soldiers left their sabers and cannons in the barracks and shouldered huge cans of sprayers. The cans contained: floral cologne, violet essence and even the best rose water.
The commander ordered Cipollone, his sons and all his relatives to leave the houses. The soldiers lined them up and sprayed them thoroughly from head to toe with cologne. This fragrant rain gave Cipollino, out of habit, a severe runny nose. He began to sneeze loudly and did not hear the drawn-out sound of a trumpet coming from a distance.
It was the ruler himself who arrived on the outskirts with his retinue of Limonov, Limonishek and Limonchikov. Prince Lemon was dressed all in yellow from head to toe, and a golden bell jingled on his yellow cap. The court Lemons had silver bells, and the Limon soldiers had bronze bells. All these bells rang incessantly, so that the result was magnificent music. The whole street came running to listen to her. The people decided that a traveling orchestra had arrived.
Cipollone and Cipollino were in the front row. They both received a lot of pushes and kicks from those who were pressing from behind. Finally, poor old Cipollone could not stand it and shouted:
- Back! Siege back!..
Prince Lemon became wary. What is it?
He approached Cipollone, stepping majestically with his short, crooked legs, and looked sternly at the old man:
– Why are you shouting “back”? My loyal subjects are so eager to see me that they are rushing forward, and you don’t like it, do you?
“Your Highness,” the Senior Chamberlain whispered in the prince’s ear, “it seems to me that this man is a dangerous rebel.” He needs to be taken under special supervision.
Immediately one of the Limonchik soldiers pointed a telescope at Cipollone, which was used to observe troublemakers. Every Lemonchik had such a pipe.
Cipollone turned green with fear.
“Your Highness,” he muttered, “but they’ll push me in!”
“And they will do great,” thundered Prince Lemon. - Serves you right!
Here the Senior Chamberlain addressed the crowd with a speech.
“Our beloved subjects,” he said, “His Highness thanks you for your expression of devotion and for the zealous kicks with which you treat each other.” Push harder, push with all your might!
“But they’ll knock you off your feet, too,” Cipollino tried to object.
But now another Lemonchik pointed a telescope at the boy, and Cipollino considered it best to hide in the crowd.
At first, the back rows did not press too hard on the front rows. But the Senior Chamberlain looked so fiercely at the careless people that in the end the crowd became agitated, like water in a tub. Unable to withstand the pressure, old Cipollone spun head over heels and accidentally stepped on the foot of Prince Lemon himself. His Highness, who had significant calluses on his feet, immediately saw all the stars of heaven without the help of the court astronomer. Ten Lemon soldiers rushed from all sides at the unfortunate Cipollone and handcuffed him.
- Cipollino, Cipollino, son! - the poor old man called, looking around in confusion, as the soldiers took him away.
Cipollino at that moment was very far from the scene of the incident and did not suspect anything, but the onlookers scurrying around already knew everything and, as happens in such cases, they knew even more than what actually happened.
“It’s good that he was caught in time,” said the idle talkers. “Just think, he wanted to stab His Highness with a dagger!”
- Nothing of the kind: the villain has a machine gun in his pocket!
- Machine gun? In the pocket? This cannot be!
– Don’t you hear the shooting?
In fact, it was not shooting at all, but the crackling of festive fireworks arranged in honor of Prince Lemon.
Details Category: Author's and literary fairy tales Published 01/05/2017 14:47 Views: 2040This tale by an Italian writer was extremely popular in the USSR. And currently this is one of the most popular books for children's reading.
The famous children's writer, storyteller and journalist Gianni Rodari was born in Italy (in the town of Omegna) in 1920. His full name is Giovanni Francesco Rodari.
The family of baker Giuseppe Rodari had three boys: Gianni, Cesare and Mario. The father died early, and the children grew up in their mother’s native village, Varesotto.
The future journalist and writer grew up as a sickly and weak boy. He was interested in music and reading. After graduating from seminary, he began teaching in primary school at the age of 17. During World War II, Rodari was released from service due to poor health.
Initially he was interested in the ideas of fascism, but after the imprisonment of his brother Cesare in a German concentration camp, as well as other circumstances, he reconsidered his views and became a member of the Resistance Movement. In 1944 he joined the Italian Communist Party.
Since 1948, Rodari worked as a journalist for the communist newspaper Unita and also wrote for children. His most famous work, “The Adventures of Cipollino,” was published in 1951. The tale was published in Russian translation by Zlata Potapova, edited by Samuil Marshak, in 1953.
J. Rodari visited the USSR several times.
In 1970 he received the Hans Christian Andersen Prize, after which he gained worldwide fame.
Many of J. Rodari’s poems for children were translated into Russian by S. Marshak, Y. Akim, I. Konstantinova.
Gianni Rodari died of a serious illness on April 14, 1980 in Rome.
"The Adventures of Cipollino" (1951)
Plot summary
Cipollino is an onion boy. He lived in a large onion family: mom, dad Cipollone and 7 brothers: Cipolletto, Cipollotto, Cipolloccia, Cipolluccia, etc. The family was poor, living in a house the size of a wooden seedling box on the very outskirts of the city.
One day, the ruler of the country, Prince Lemon, decided to visit this place.
The court lemon soldiers urgently began to spray the outskirts with cologne and perfume to destroy the smell of onions. During the stampede, old Cipollone accidentally crushed the ruler’s thin crooked leg with a callus. For this he was captured and thrown into prison. When Cipollino got a meeting with his father, he learned that it was not criminals who were in prison in the country, but only decent and honest people. His father advised Cipollino to go around the world and learn his wits. Cipollino entrusted his mother and his brothers to his uncle, tied his things in a bundle and hit the road.
In one of the villages, he met old man Pumpkin, who was sitting in a brick box - this was his house, for the construction of which he had saved money all his life and collected 118 bricks. Cipollino began asking godfather Pumpkin about his life, but then the residents began to hide in their homes - Signor Tomato came out of the carriage.
He announced to his godfather Pumpkin that he had built his “palace” illegally on the land of the landowners Countesses Vishen. Pumpkin objected, Cipollino defended him. And then Signor Tomato asked him why he wasn’t working. The boy replied that he was studying - studying scammers. Signor Tomato became interested, and then Cipollino brought a mirror to Signor Tomato. He realized that the boy was mocking him and became furious. He grabbed Cipollino by the hair and began to shake him. Immediately tears came to his eyes from the bow, and he hurried away.
Master Vinogradinka invited Cipollino to work as an apprentice in his workshop. And people flocked to him from everywhere.
He met Professor Pear, who played a violin made from a pear; with the gardener Luk Leek, on whose mustache his wife dried clothes in sunny weather; with a family of centipedes.
Signor Tomato again visited the village with a dozen lemon soldiers and the guard dog Mastino. They forcibly pushed poor old Pumpkin out of his house, into which they placed a guard dog. But Cipollino dissolved a sleeping pill in water and gave it to the thirsty dog to drink. When he fell asleep, Cipollino took him to the park of Countesses Cherry.
But everyone was now afraid of Signor Tomato’s revenge. The house was carefully loaded onto a cart, transported into the forest and left under the supervision of Cherniki's godfather.
And at that time two guests arrived at the estate of the countesses of Cherry - Baron Orange and Duke Mandarin. Baron Orange ate all the supplies of his peasants, then ate all the trees of his gardens, then he began to sell his lands and buy food. When he had nothing left, he asked to visit one of the Countesses Vishen.
Baron Orange had a huge belly and could not move on his own. Therefore, they had to assign servants to him with a wheelbarrow on which his belly was transported. The Duke of Mandarin also caused a lot of trouble. He was very greedy. So he acted out suicide scenes. Countesses Cherries gave Signor Mandarin jewelry, silk shirts, etc. to distract him from bad thoughts. Because of these troubles, the Countesses of Cherries were in a terrible mood.
At this time, Signor Tomato was urgently reported about the disappearance of Pumpkin's house. Signor Tomato sent soldiers to quell the riot. Almost all the village residents were arrested. Cipollino and the girl Radish ran away from the soldiers.
The nephew of the countesses Vishenka, the boy Vishenka, lived extremely lonely among luxury. One day he saw village children running along the road with backpacks on their backs. He asked his aunts to send him to school. But he was a count! His aunts assigned him a teacher, Signor Petrushka. But the teacher turned out to be a terrible bore: he hung notices everywhere with prohibitions. One day, just on the day of the arrests, Cherry saw Cipollino and Radish behind the fence.
The children became friends. But Signor Tomato heard their cheerful laughter and forbade Cherry to be friends with the poor.
The boy Cherry was very upset and cried constantly. But they laughed at him. Only the maid Zemlyanichka sincerely felt sorry for Cherry. Soon Cherry developed a fever. He began repeating the names Cipollino and Radish. Everyone decided that the child was delirious and invited doctors. But they couldn't help Cherry. Then Strawberry Girl invited the poor but truthful Doctor Chestnut. He said that Cherry has melancholy and needs communication with other children. For these words, Doctor Chestnut was kicked out of the castle.
Cipollino was finally captured and thrown into the darkest and deepest cell found in the Countess Vishen prison. But by chance he met Mole, who was digging a new tunnel. Cipollino persuaded Mole to dig a new underground corridor leading towards the dungeon where his friends were. Mole agreed.
When Signor Tomato discovered that Cipollino's cell was empty, he became furious. He sank down onto the bench in frustration; the cell door slammed shut from a gust of wind. The tomato was locked. At this time, Cipollino and Mole reached their friends’ cell. The familiar voices and sighs of Pumpkin’s godfather could already be heard. But then Master Grape lit a match, and Mole hated the light. He abandoned Cipollino and his friends.
Cherry learned that Signor Tomato carries the keys to the dungeon in his stocking pocket. He slept in stockings. Cherry asked Strawberry to bake a very tasty chocolate cake and give him sleeping pills. The tomato ate the cake with pleasure and began snoring. So Cherry and Strawberry released all the prisoners. In the morning, Tomato gave an urgent telegram to Prince Lemon that unrest had broken out in the castle of Countesses Cherry.
Then there were many adventures, but the struggle with the rich rulers ended in the victory of the poor. Prince Lemon, seeing the Banner of Freedom, went to the once abandoned dunghill. Countesses Cherries immediately left somewhere. Signor Pea also left the country. Beans stopped serving Baron Orange, pushing the wheelbarrow with his belly. And without Beans, the baron could not leave his place. Therefore, Orange soon lost weight. As soon as he was able to move, he tried to beg. But he was immediately shamed and advised to work as a loader at the station. Now he is slim. Duke Mandarin did not work, but settled down with Orange and began to live at his expense. Good Orange could not refuse him. Signor Petrushka became the castle's guard. Godfather Pumpkin got a job as a gardener in this castle. And his student was Signor Tomato - however, before that, Tomato had to serve several years in prison. Master Vinogradinka was elected chairman of the village. The castle was handed over to the children. It housed a school, a creativity room, playrooms and other rooms for children.
Analysis of the tale by G. Rodari “The Adventures of Cipollino”
The fairy tale at all times and among all peoples has expressed the dream of the triumph of justice and hope for a better future.
In the fabulous fruit, berry and vegetable country of J. Rodari, everything that grows right on the ground is the people: Cipollino, Leek, Pumpkin, Strawberry, Blueberry. But the gentleman Tomato has already risen above the earth and the people and is oppressing them. Lawyer Pea clings to everything with his antennae, just to climb higher, and turns out to be a traitor. Countess Cherries, Baron Orange, Duke Mandarin - all these fruits grow on trees, they have risen high, completely cut off from their native soil, what do they care about the troubles and suffering of those who live below on earth? Life in this country was not easy for the people, because Prince Lemon was the ruler there. Can life be sweet with Lemon?
Cipollino is a cheerful and smart onion boy. All the characters in the fairy tale are vegetables or fruits: godfather Pumpkin, shoemaker Grape, lawyer Peas, girl Radish, boy Cherry, music professor Pear, old Chipolla, etc. The author said that in this fairy-tale garden society, as in life, social antagonisms operate: modest “honest citizens” are oppressed by the evil and greedy Signor Tomato, the arrogant Prince Lemon with his army of Limonchiks, and the proud Countesses Cherries.
But Rodari was confident that society could be transformed in favor of ordinary working people, and through the efforts of the people themselves. Cipollino led the process.
When his father Cipolla and the entire poor garden brethren were put into prison by Signor Tomato on the orders of Prince Lemon, the cheerful Cipollino went on a journey to “learn wisdom” and to thoroughly “study swindlers and rogues.” He finds loyal friends (the clever girl Radish, the kind and smart boy Cherry) and with their help frees his father and other prisoners from prison. Then the entire vegetable village drives its tormentors and parasites Tomato, Lemon and Cherry into prison, and the castle of the evil countesses turns into a cheerful Children's Palace, where the garden kids, led by Cipollino, go to play and study.
I would like to end the article with the words of Cipollino: “In this world it is quite possible to live in peace, there is enough space for everyone on Earth.”
"The Adventures of Cipollino" in other forms of art
In 1961, the Soviet full-length hand-drawn animated film “Chipollino” was shot. The music for the cartoon, written by Karen Khachaturyan, 12-13 years later served as the basis for the ballet of the same name.
In 1974, based on the fairy tale by Gianni Rodari, an eccentric musical comedy directed by Tamara Lisitsian was filmed at the Mosfilm studio. The leading roles were played by famous actors V. Basov, Rina Zelenaya, G. Vitsin and others. Tamara Lisitsian, who worked for some time in Italy, was personally acquainted with Gianni Rodari.
Dear parents, it is very useful to read the fairy tale “The Adventures of Cipollino. CHAPTER 1” by Gianni Rodari to children before bed, so that the good ending of the fairy tale makes them happy and calm and they fall asleep. How charmingly and soulfully the description of nature, mythical creatures and the way of life of the people was conveyed from generation to generation. All images are simple, ordinary and do not cause youthful misunderstanding, because we encounter them every day in our everyday life. How clearly the superiority of the positive heroes over the negative ones is depicted, how lively and bright we see the former and the petty ones - the latter. The story takes place in distant times or “A long time ago” as people say, but those difficulties, those obstacles and difficulties are close to our contemporaries. With the virtuosity of a genius, portraits of the heroes are depicted, their appearance, rich inner world, they “breathe life” into the creation and the events taking place in it. A small amount of detail in the surrounding world makes the depicted world more rich and believable. The fairy tale “The Adventures of Cipollino. CHAPTER 1” by Gianni Rodari is certainly necessary to read for free online not by children alone, but in the presence or under the guidance of their parents.
CHAPTER 1: In which Cipollone crushed Prince Lemon's leg
Cipollino was the son of Cipollone. And he had seven brothers: Cipolletto, Cipollotto, Cipolloccia, Cipolluccia and so on - the most suitable names for an honest onion family. They were good people, I must say frankly, but they were just unlucky in life.
What can you do: where there are onions, there are tears.
Cipollone, his wife and sons lived in a wooden shack slightly larger than a garden seedling box. If rich people happened to find themselves in these places, they wrinkled their noses with displeasure and grumbled: “Ugh, that sounds like a bow!” - and ordered the coachman to go faster.
One day, the ruler of the country himself, Prince Lemon, was going to visit the poor outskirts. The courtiers were terribly worried whether the onion smell would hit His Highness's nose.
- What will the prince say when he smells this poverty?
- You can spray the poor with perfume! - suggested the Senior Chamberlain.
A dozen Lemon soldiers were immediately sent to the outskirts to perfume those who smelled of onions. This time the soldiers left their sabers and cannons in the barracks and shouldered huge cans of sprayers. The cans contained: floral cologne, violet essence and even the best rose water.
The commander ordered Cipollone, his sons and all his relatives to leave the houses. The soldiers lined them up and sprayed them thoroughly from head to toe with cologne. This fragrant rain gave Cipollino, out of habit, a severe runny nose. He began to sneeze loudly and did not hear the drawn-out sound of a trumpet coming from a distance.
It was the ruler himself who arrived on the outskirts with his retinue of Limonov, Limonishek and Limonchikov. Prince Lemon was dressed all in yellow from head to toe, and a golden bell jingled on his yellow cap. The court Lemons had silver bells, while the Limon soldiers had bronze bells. All these bells rang incessantly, so that the result was magnificent music. The whole street came running to listen to her. The people decided that a traveling orchestra had arrived.
Cipollone and Cipollino were in the front row. They both received a lot of pushes and kicks from those who were pressing from behind. Finally, poor old Cipollone could not stand it and shouted:
- Back! Siege back!..
Prince Lemon became wary. What is it?
He approached Cipollone, stepping majestically with his short, crooked legs, and looked sternly at the old man:
- Why are you shouting “back”? My loyal subjects are so eager to see me that they are rushing forward, and you don’t like it, do you?
“Your Highness,” the Senior Chamberlain whispered in the prince’s ear, “it seems to me that this man is a dangerous rebel.” He needs to be taken under special supervision.
Immediately one of the Limonchik soldiers pointed a telescope at Cipollone, which was used to observe troublemakers. Every Lemonchik had such a pipe.
Cipollone turned green with fear.
“Your Highness,” he muttered, “but they’ll push me in!”
“And they will do great,” thundered Prince Lemon. - Serves you right!
Here the Senior Chamberlain addressed the crowd with a speech.
“Our beloved subjects,” he said, “His Highness thanks you for your expression of devotion and for the zealous kicks with which you treat each other.” Push harder, push with all your might!
“But they’ll knock you off your feet, too,” Cipollino tried to object.
But now another Lemonchik pointed a telescope at the boy, and Cipollino considered it best to hide in the crowd.
At first, the back rows did not press too hard on the front rows. But the Senior Chamberlain looked so fiercely at the careless people that in the end the crowd became agitated, like water in a tub. Unable to withstand the pressure, old Cipollone spun head over heels and accidentally stepped on the foot of Prince Lemon himself. His Highness, who had significant calluses on his feet, immediately saw all the stars of heaven without the help of the court astronomer. Ten Lemon soldiers rushed from all sides at the unfortunate Cipollone and handcuffed him.
- Cipollino, Cipollino, son! - the poor old man called, looking around in confusion, as the soldiers took him away.
Cipollino at that moment was very far from the scene of the incident and did not suspect anything, but the onlookers scurrying around already knew everything and, as happens in such cases, they knew even more than what actually happened.
“It’s good that he was caught in time,” said the idle talkers. “Just think, he wanted to stab His Highness with a dagger!”
- Nothing of the kind: the villain has a machine gun in his pocket!
- Machine gun? In the pocket? This cannot be!
- Don’t you hear the shooting?
In fact, it was not shooting at all, but the crackling of festive fireworks arranged in honor of Prince Lemon. But the crowd was so frightened that they shied away from the Lemon soldiers in all directions.
Cipollino wanted to shout to all these people that his father did not have a machine gun in his pocket, but only a small cigar butt, but, after thinking, he decided that you still couldn’t argue with the talkers, and wisely remained silent.
Poor Cipollino! It suddenly seemed to him that he began to see poorly - this is because huge tears welled up in his eyes.
- Go back, stupid! - Cipollino shouted at her and clenched his teeth so as not to roar.
The tear got scared, backed away and never showed up again.
In short, old Cipollone was sentenced to imprisonment not only for life, but also for many, many years after death, because Prince Lemon's prisons also had cemeteries.
Cipollino secured a meeting with the old man and hugged him tightly:
- My poor father! You were put in jail like a criminal, along with thieves and bandits!..
“What are you saying, son,” his father interrupted him affectionately, “but the prison is full of honest people!”
- Why are they imprisoned? What bad did they do?
- Absolutely nothing, son. That's why they were jailed. Prince Lemon doesn't like decent people.
Cipollino thought about it.
- So, going to prison is a great honor? - he asked.
- It turns out so. Prisons are built for those who steal and kill, but for Prince Lemon it’s the other way around: the thieves and murderers are in his palace, and honest citizens are in prison.
“I also want to be an honest citizen,” said Cipollino, “but I just don’t want to go to prison.” Just be patient, I'll come back here and free you all!
- Aren't you relying on yourself too much? - The old man smiled. - This is not an easy task!
- But you'll see. I will achieve my goal.
Then some Limonishka from the guard appeared and announced that the meeting was over.
“Cipollino,” the father said in parting, “now you are already big and can think about yourself.” Uncle Chipolla will take care of your mother and brothers, and you go to wander around the world, learn some wisdom.
- How can I study? I don’t have books, and I don’t have money to buy them.
- It doesn’t matter, life will teach you. Just keep your eyes open - try to see through all sorts of rogues and swindlers, especially those who have power.
- And then? What should I do then?
- You will understand when the time comes.
“Well, let’s go, let’s go,” Limonishka shouted, “enough chatting!” And you, ragamuffin, stay away from here if you don’t want to go to jail yourself.
Cipollino would have responded to Limonishka with a mocking song, but he thought that it was not worth going to jail until you had time to properly get down to business.
He kissed his father deeply and ran away.
The next day he entrusted his mother and seven brothers to the care of his good uncle Cipolla, who was a little more fortunate in life than the rest of his relatives - he served somewhere as a gatekeeper.
Having said goodbye to his uncle, mother and brothers, Cipollino tied his things in a bundle and, attaching it to a stick, set off on his way. He went wherever his eyes led him and must have chosen the right road.
A few hours later he reached a small village - so small that no one even bothered to write its name on the pillar or on the first house. And this house was, strictly speaking, not a house, but some kind of tiny kennel, which was only suitable for a dachshund. An old man with a reddish beard sat at the window; he looked sadly at the street and seemed to be very preoccupied with something.
In which Cipollone crushed Prince Lemon's leg
Cipollino was the son of Cipollone. And he had seven brothers: Cipolletto, Cipollotto, Cipolloccia, Cipolluccia and so on - the most suitable names for an honest onion family. They were good people, I must say frankly, but they were just unlucky in life.
What can you do: where there are onions, there are tears.
Cipollone, his wife and sons lived in a wooden shack slightly larger than a garden seedling box. If rich people happened to find themselves in these places, they wrinkled their noses with displeasure and grumbled: “Ugh, that sounds like a bow!” - and ordered the coachman to go faster.
One day, the ruler of the country himself, Prince Lemon, was going to visit the poor outskirts. The courtiers were terribly worried whether the onion smell would hit His Highness's nose.
– What will the prince say when he smells this poverty?
– You can spray the poor with perfume! – suggested the Senior Chamberlain.
A dozen Lemon soldiers were immediately sent to the outskirts to perfume those who smelled of onions. This time the soldiers left their sabers and cannons in the barracks and shouldered huge cans of sprayers. The cans contained: floral cologne, violet essence and even the best rose water.
The commander ordered Cipollone, his sons and all his relatives to leave the houses. The soldiers lined them up and sprayed them thoroughly from head to toe with cologne. This fragrant rain gave Cipollino, out of habit, a severe runny nose. He began to sneeze loudly and did not hear the drawn-out sound of a trumpet coming from a distance.
It was the ruler himself who arrived on the outskirts with his retinue of Limonov, Limonishek and Limonchikov. Prince Lemon was dressed all in yellow from head to toe, and a golden bell jingled on his yellow cap. The court Lemons had silver bells, and the Limon soldiers had bronze bells. All these bells rang incessantly, so that the result was magnificent music. The whole street came running to listen to her. The people decided that a traveling orchestra had arrived.
Cipollone and Cipollino were in the front row. They both received a lot of pushes and kicks from those who were pressing from behind. Finally, poor old Cipollone could not stand it and shouted:
- Back! Siege back!..
Prince Lemon became wary. What is it?
He approached Cipollone, stepping majestically with his short, crooked legs, and looked sternly at the old man:
– Why are you shouting “back”? My loyal subjects are so eager to see me that they are rushing forward, and you don’t like it, do you?
“Your Highness,” the Senior Chamberlain whispered in the prince’s ear, “it seems to me that this man is a dangerous rebel.” He needs to be taken under special supervision.
Immediately one of the Limonchik soldiers pointed a telescope at Cipollone, which was used to observe troublemakers. Every Lemonchik had such a pipe.
Cipollone turned green with fear.
“Your Highness,” he muttered, “but they’ll push me in!”
“And they will do great,” thundered Prince Lemon. - Serves you right!
Here the Senior Chamberlain addressed the crowd with a speech.
“Our beloved subjects,” he said, “His Highness thanks you for your expression of devotion and for the zealous kicks with which you treat each other.” Push harder, push with all your might!
“But they’ll knock you off your feet, too,” Cipollino tried to object.
But now another Lemonchik pointed a telescope at the boy, and Cipollino considered it best to hide in the crowd.
At first, the back rows did not press too hard on the front rows. But the Senior Chamberlain looked so fiercely at the careless people that in the end the crowd became agitated, like water in a tub. Unable to withstand the pressure, old Cipollone spun head over heels and accidentally stepped on the foot of Prince Lemon himself. His Highness, who had significant calluses on his feet, immediately saw all the stars of heaven without the help of the court astronomer. Ten Lemon soldiers rushed from all sides at the unfortunate Cipollone and handcuffed him.
- Cipollino, Cipollino, son! - the poor old man called, looking around in confusion, as the soldiers took him away.
Cipollino at that moment was very far from the scene of the incident and did not suspect anything, but the onlookers scurrying around already knew everything and, as happens in such cases, they knew even more than what actually happened.
“It’s good that he was caught in time,” said the idle talkers. “Just think, he wanted to stab His Highness with a dagger!”
- Nothing of the kind: the villain has a machine gun in his pocket!
- Machine gun? In the pocket? This cannot be!
– Don’t you hear the shooting?
In fact, it was not shooting at all, but the crackling of festive fireworks arranged in honor of Prince Lemon. But the crowd was so frightened that they shied away from the Lemon soldiers in all directions.
Cipollino wanted to shout to all these people that his father did not have a machine gun in his pocket, but only a small cigar butt, but, after thinking, he decided that you still couldn’t argue with the talkers, and wisely remained silent.
Poor Cipollino! It suddenly seemed to him that he began to see poorly - this is because huge tears welled up in his eyes.
- Get back, stupid! – Cipollino shouted at her and clenched his teeth so as not to roar.
The tear got scared, backed away and never showed up again.
In short, old Cipollone was sentenced to imprisonment not only for life, but also for many, many years after death, because Prince Lemon's prisons also had cemeteries.
Cipollino secured a meeting with the old man and hugged him tightly:
- My poor father! You were put in jail like a criminal, along with thieves and bandits!..
“What are you saying, son,” his father interrupted him affectionately, “but the prison is full of honest people!”
– Why are they imprisoned? What bad did they do?
- Absolutely nothing, son. That's why they were jailed. Prince Lemon doesn't like decent people.
Cipollino thought about it.
– So, going to prison is a great honor? - he asked.
- It turns out so. Prisons are built for those who steal and kill, but for Prince Lemon it’s the other way around: the thieves and murderers are in his palace, and honest citizens are in prison.
“I also want to be an honest citizen,” said Cipollino, “but I just don’t want to go to prison.” Just be patient, I'll come back here and free you all!
– Aren’t you relying on yourself too much? – the old man smiled. - This is not an easy task!
- But you'll see. I will achieve my goal.
Then some Limonilka from the guard appeared and announced that the date was over.
“Cipollino,” the father said in parting, “now you are already big and can think about yourself.” Uncle Chipolla will take care of your mother and brothers, and you go to wander around the world, learn some wisdom.
- How can I study? I don’t have books, and I don’t have money to buy them.
– It doesn’t matter, life will teach you. Just keep your eyes open - try to see through all sorts of rogues and swindlers, especially those who have power.
- And then? What should I do then?
– You will understand when the time comes.
“Well, let’s go, let’s go,” Limonishka shouted, “enough chatting!” And you, ragamuffin, stay away from here if you don’t want to go to jail yourself.
Cipollino would have responded to Limonishka with a mocking song, but he thought that it was not worth going to jail until you had time to properly get down to business.
He kissed his father deeply and ran away.
The next day he entrusted his mother and seven brothers to the care of his good uncle Cipolla, who was a little more fortunate in life than the rest of his relatives - he served somewhere as a gatekeeper.
The main character of the fairy tale “The Adventures of Cipollino” is an unusual boy whose name is Cipollino. Cipollino is an onion, and he lives in a family of onions. He has a Cipollone dad, a mom and many brothers. One day, Cipollino's father accidentally stepped on Prince Lemon's foot and for this he was sent to prison for life. In prison there were many people like Cipollone - simple, decent people who did not please Prince Lemon in some way.
During a meeting with his father, Cipollino promised that he would definitely free him from captivity. But his father advised him to go on a journey to learn wisdom. And the onion boy went on a journey. In one small village he met godfather Pumpkin, who had been saving bricks all his life to build his house. He was already quite old when he was able to build a tiny house from these bricks, no larger than a dog kennel.
He was sitting in this cramped house when Cipollino came up to talk to him. However, their conversation was interrupted by the arrival of Signor Tomato, the manager of the Countess Cherries, in the village. Signor Tomato began shouting that the house was built illegally and demanded the eviction of godfather Pumpkin. Cipollino called the loud signor a swindler. He grabbed the onion boy by the head, but immediately burst into tears from the onion smell. Signor Tomato got scared and left in a panic.
And Chipollino remained in the village and began working in the shoemaker’s workshop of the master Vinogradinka. Over time, he made many acquaintances - Professor Pear, Leek and a family of millipedes. Kuma Pumpkin was nevertheless evicted from his house and the dog Mastino was put in his place. But Cipollino found a way out of the situation. He offered the dog water with sleeping pills, and when he fell asleep, he took him back to his owners, to the castle of Countess Vishen. Godfather Pumpkin could live in his house again.
However, the villagers understood that Signor Tomato could take the house away again. They decided to hide a small house in the forest, with Cherniki's godfather. Cipollino and his friends took the house in a wheelbarrow to the forest. When Signor Tomato learned about the disappearance of the house, he complained to Prince Lemon and he sent police officers Lemon to the village. They arrested all the villagers and locked them in the castle dungeon. Cipollino managed to avoid arrest.
The owners of the castle, Countess Vishen, lived with Vishenka's nephew. He was brought up in strictness and was forced to study his lessons all the time. He was not allowed to go to the village school, but was taught by his home teacher, Signor Petrushka, who posted prohibiting notices for Cherry throughout the park. Walking through the park, Cherry met Cipollino and his girlfriend Radish, who came to find out about the fate of the arrested villagers. Cherry quickly made friends with the village children, but then Signor Tomato saw them, and Cipollino and Radish had to run away.
At night, Cipollino returned to the castle to talk with the maid Zemlyanichka about those arrested, but he was captured by the dog Mastino, and Cipollino also ended up in prison, in a separate cell. However, with the help of the Mole, the onion boy managed to get to his arrested friends through an underground passage, and Signor Tomato was surprised to discover that Cipollino had disappeared.
From the servant Zemlyanichka, the boy Cherry learned that Cipollino and his friends were in the castle prison. He managed to steal the keys to the cell from Signor Tomato and, with the help of Zemlyanichka, freed all the villagers and Cipollino, who fled into the forest.
Next, many events occurred, including an attempt to capture the castle of the countesses of Cherry. Cipollino was captured again, and this time he was sent to the city prison. Here he met his father, who had grown very old during his imprisonment.
And again Cipollino was helped by his friend Mole. He brought other moles with him and they dug a large underground passage through which all the prisoners in prison escaped. Cipollino and his father were also released. The escaped prisoners staged a rebellion and drove out Prince Lemon. Countesses Vishny fled with him. And in their castle they set up a Children's Palace, which not only had a lot of different entertainment, but also a school, where Cipollino himself and his friends happily went to study.
This is the summary of the tale.
The main idea of the fairy tale “The Adventures of Cipollino” is that you cannot put up with injustice, you must fight it. Cipollino understood this and first helped godfather Pumpkin free his small house. Then, with the help of Cipollino, Prince Lemon, who ruled the country unjustly, was expelled. The fairy tale teaches you to be brave, decisive and not be afraid of difficulties.
In the fairy tale, I liked the main character, Cipollino. He managed to keep his word to his father and freed him from unjust captivity. Cipollino made many friends during his adventures, and together with his friends he began to build a new life based on justice.
What proverbs fit the fairy tale “The Adventures of Cipollino”?
A person's injustice strikes him.
The power of friendship is justice.
Friendship is strong through care and help.
