Peru I.A. Bunin owns many stories and short stories that occupy the reader today. I would like to dwell on the work of Son Chang in more detail. Chang is a dog, it is he who is the main character, and the author depicts the world through the eyes of a dog. From the very first lines, I.A. Bunin asks: does it matter who you talk about? Each of the living on earth deserves it .... Chang and his master, the captain, live in Odessa. Both the owner and his dog are drunkards. And if the owner drinks from a bottle, then there is always a bowl of vodka or something else heady in front of Chang. Chang and the captain have been living for six years in a narrow and rather gloomy street, in the attic of a tall building. The room where they live is ugly and uncomfortable, Chang sleeps in a corner behind the fireplace, and the captain sleeps on a sagging bed with an unclean and liquid pillow. Looking at this, Chang bitterly recalls that there was a time when the captain sailed the seas and slept on an okay, high bed, with snow-white pillows and thin sheets. And now, waking up in the morning, the captain does not open his eyes, but lies for about an hour and thinks about something, about what - Chang does not know. Then the captain gets up and starts a normal day. The day consists of breakfasts, lunches, dinners - all with the same drinks and conversations. The captain is talking with one of his old friends, or with new acquaintances - he invariably talks about the truth of life, which consists in the fact that there are no people with a conscience, God, honesty, no - and never will ... Chang listens to all these conversations, lying under table, and can not understand in any way whether he himself agrees with the captain or disagrees? He never manages to understand this - there is fog and hops in his brain ... But then the music begins to play and Chang gives himself to the music with his whole being, he returns to the dreams that he often dreams of. And he sees the time when he was still a puppy, a gullible puppy who was sold to that captain. He sees his first journey by sea, his suffering from seasickness, he sees the captain. The captain in his dreams is clean and tidy, smells like cologne, and often talks about his wife and daughter. He loves his wife with all his heart, and even more his daughter, and from time to time he admits to the dog that he is happy ... But time passes and Chang begins to notice that the captain smells of wine more and more often. The captain is still talking with Chang, and says that he understood everything when his wife was alone at the ball, and returned with her eyes completely distant and dark. Chang also dreams of other words of the captain - about the fact that as soon as the captain heard the smell of her black hair, he already went crazy. These are the dreams Chang sees. Sometimes he wakes up from a roar and, waking up, cannot understand what it is - did the steamer again hit the underwater reefs through the fault of the drunken captain, or did the captain fire a pistol at his lovely wife again? ! And only after finally waking up, Chang realizes that this is a restaurant, and the noise - from hitting the table with his fist - the captain is angry again and shouts to his interlocutor: Golden ring in the nostril of a pig - that's who your woman is! So the days of Chang pass monotonously. But, waking up one morning, Chang sees that the captain is pale, and his eyes are half closed. Chang jumps up and starts yelling frantically as if his car had hit him. Chang begins to live in a cemetery, but the world does not see, most often he lies with his eyes closed. Here he is picked up by an artist, an acquaintance of the captain, and Chang moves in with him. In essence, this is already the third owner of Chang, but for the dog himself, the owner remains alone - the captain, the captain, whom Chang often sees with a glance of memory. This concludes the work of I. Bunin Son Chang.
Dreams of Chang
Chang (the dog) is dozing, remembering how six years ago in China he met his current owner, the captain. During this time, their fate has changed dramatically: they no longer swim, they live in the attic, in a large and cold room with low ceilings. The captain sleeps on a sagging bed, but Chang remembers what kind of bed his master had before - comfortable, with drawers, with a soft bed. Chang has a dream about how his first owner, a Chinese, sold him as a puppy to the captain for just a ruble. Chang was sick all the way, and he did not see Singapore, or the ocean, or Colombo, past which the steamer sailed.
Chang is awakened by a loud slamming of a door somewhere downstairs. The captain gets up, takes a sip of vodka straight from the bottle, pours some for Chang too. The tipsy dog has a new dream about how his seasickness has passed, and he has enjoyed a beautiful clear morning off the coast of Arabia. The captain called the dog to his cabin, fed him, and suddenly started a conversation with Chang about what worried him (how to get through the "smarter" Red Sea). Then the captain tells Chang that he is taking him to Odessa, that a beautiful wife and daughter are waiting for him at home, whom he loves so much that he himself is afraid of his love (“for me the whole world is only in her”), but considers himself a happy person. After a pause, the owner adds: "When you love someone, no one will force you to believe that the one you love can not love you."
Chang wakes up and, like every day for the past two years, goes along with the captain to wander around restaurants and taverns, drink, eat, look at other drunkards. Usually the captain is silent, but, having met one of his old friends, he starts talking about the insignificance of life: “All this is a lie and nonsense, how people seem to live: they have no god, no conscience, no reasonable goal of existence, no love, no friendship, no honesty, not even mere pity."
Chang again recalls how one night the captain brought him to his cabin. There were two portraits on the table - a girl in curls and a slender, charming young lady. The captain tells Chang that this woman will not love him: "There are, brother, female souls who are forever languishing with some sad thirst for love and who from this themselves never love anyone." He tells how his wife gradually moved away from him, how he became more and more alone.
Chang wakes up and returns to the monotonous nights and days with the captain, until one day he finds his master dead. Chang loses his sense of reality from horror and comes to his senses only after some time on the church porch. An artist comes out of the church, one of the captain's former friends. He picks up the dog and Chang becomes happy again, lying by the fireplace in his third owner's house. He continues to remember the captain. "If Chang loves and feels the captain, sees him with the gaze of memory, that divine that no one understands, then the captain is still with him; in that beginningless and endless world that is inaccessible to Death. In this world there should be only one truth, - the third - and what she is, - that last Master knows about it, to whom Chang should soon return.
Chang (the dog) is dozing, remembering how six years ago in China he met his current owner, the captain. During this time, their fate has changed dramatically: they no longer swim, they live in the attic, in a large and cold room with low ceilings. The captain sleeps on a sagging bed, but Chang remembers what kind of bed his master had before - comfortable, with drawers, with a soft bed. Chang has a dream about how his first owner, a Chinese, sold him as a puppy to the captain for just a ruble. Chang was sick all the way, and he did not see Singapore, or the ocean, or Colombo, past which the steamer sailed.
Chang is awakened by a loud slamming of a door somewhere downstairs. The captain gets up, takes a sip of vodka straight from the bottle, pours some for Chang too. The tipsy dog has a new dream about how his seasickness has passed, and he has enjoyed a beautiful clear morning off the coast of Arabia. The captain called the dog to his wheelhouse, fed him, and suddenly started a conversation with Chang about what worried him (how to get through the “smarter” Red Sea). Then the captain tells Chang that he is taking him to Odessa, that a beautiful wife and daughter are waiting for him at home, whom he loves so much that he himself is afraid of his love (“for me, the whole world is only in her”), but considers himself a happy person. After a pause, the owner adds: “When you love someone, no one will force you to believe that the one you love can not love you.”
Chang wakes up and, like every day for the past two years, goes along with the captain to wander around restaurants and taverns, drink, eat, look at other drunkards. Usually the captain is silent, but, having met one of his old friends, he starts talking about the insignificance of life: “All this is a lie and nonsense, how people seem to live: they have no god, no conscience, no reasonable goal of existence, no love, no friendship, no honesty - not even simple pity.
Chang again recalls how one night the captain brought him to his cabin. There were two portraits on the table - a girl in curls and a slender, charming young lady. The captain tells Chang that this woman will not love him: “There are, brother, female souls who are forever languishing with some sad thirst for love and who never love anyone for this.” He tells how his wife gradually moved away from him, how he became more and more alone.
Chang wakes up and returns to the monotonous nights and days with the captain, until one day he finds his master dead. Chang loses his sense of reality from horror and comes to his senses only after some time on the church porch. An artist comes out of the church, one of the captain's former friends. He picks up the dog and Chang becomes happy again, lying by the fireplace in his third owner's house. He continues to remember the captain. “If Chang loves and feels the captain, sees him with the eyes of memory, that divine thing that no one understands, then the captain is still with him; in that beginningless and endless world that is inaccessible to Death. In this world there should be only one truth, - the third, - and what it is, - that last Master knows about it, to which Chang should soon return.
Chang (the dog) is dozing, remembering how six years ago in China he met his current owner, the captain. During this time, their fate has changed dramatically: they no longer swim, they live in the attic, in a large and cold room with low ceilings. The captain sleeps on a sagging bed, but Chang remembers what kind of bed his master had before - comfortable, with drawers, with a soft bed. Chang has a dream about how his first owner, a Chinese, sold him as a puppy to the captain for just a ruble. Chang was sick all the way, and he did not see Singapore, or the ocean, or Colombo, past which the steamer sailed.
Chang is awakened by a loud slamming of a door somewhere downstairs. The captain gets up, takes a sip of vodka straight from the bottle, pours some for Chang too. The tipsy dog has a new dream about how his seasickness has passed, and he has enjoyed a beautiful clear morning off the coast of Arabia. The captain called the dog to his cabin, fed him, and suddenly started a conversation with Chang about what worried him (how to get through the “smarter” Red Sea). Then the captain tells Chang that he is taking him to Odessa, that a beautiful wife and daughter are waiting for him at home, whom he loves so much that he himself is afraid of his love (“for me, the whole world is only in her”), but considers himself a happy person. After a pause, the owner adds: “When you love someone, no one will force you to believe that the one you love can not love you.”
Chang wakes up and, like every day for the past two years, goes along with the captain to wander around restaurants and taverns, drink, eat, look at other drunkards. Usually the captain is silent, but when he meets one of his old friends, he starts talking about the insignificance of life: “All this is a lie and nonsense, how people seem to live: they have no god, no conscience, no reasonable goal of existence, no love, no friendship, no honesty, not even simple pity.”
Chang again recalls how one night the captain brought him to his cabin. There were two portraits on the table - a girl in curls and a slender, charming young lady. The captain tells Chang that this woman will not love him: “There are, brother, female souls who are forever languishing with some sad thirst for love and who from this themselves never love anyone.” He tells how his wife gradually moved away from him, how he became more and more lonely.
Chang wakes up and returns to the monotonous nights and days with the captain, until one day he finds his master dead. Chang loses his sense of reality from horror and comes to his senses only after some time on the church porch. An artist comes out of the church, one of the captain's former friends. He picks up the dog and Chang becomes happy again, lying by the fireplace at his third owner's house. He continues to remember the captain. “If Chang loves and feels the captain, sees him with the gaze of memory, that divine that no one understands, then the captain is still with him; in that beginningless and endless world that is inaccessible to Death. In this world there should be only one truth, the third, and what it is, that last Master knows about it, to whom Chang should soon return.
Option 2
The captain's dog Chang, came to the captain as a puppy, the first owner sold him on the market for one ruble. And here he is, lying on the floor, remembering days long gone. How he felt sick on the way, and he did not see the places that they passed by. What kind of bed the owner used to have was comfortable, soft, not what is now squeezed. Yes, and now they live not on a cozy ship, but in an attic, in a cold room, where it is impossible to straighten up in full height. The drowsiness was interrupted by the loud knocking of the door below. The awakened captain got up, took a sip of vodka from his throat and did not forget to refill his friend. Drunk Chang again sees dreams. Now he dreams that seasickness has ended, and he is watching a magnificent dawn met off the Arabian coast.
Then the captain, having fed him, indulges in reasoning on topics important to him. Full and satisfied, he listens to the captain, who shares his plans to pass the Red Sea with the least losses. He tells Chang that they are going to his beloved wife and daughter in Odessa. The captain loved his daughter so much that it sometimes frightened him. But, despite this, he always considered himself the happiest person. Waking up, Chang proceeds to what he has been doing for the past two years - he goes with his captain to restaurants and dens to drink, eat and watch drunkards. The always silent captain, only occasionally, having met a friend, can philosophize with him about the miserable existence of all people on this earth.
He believed that there were no moral principles, no pity, no conscience, no friendship, no God, he argued that everything was a lie. Memories flood in again. This time, the captain showed two portraits in his cabin: a curly-haired girl with golden hair and a lovely young maiden. He argues with Chang that this woman, because of the constant thirst for love, is not capable of it herself. The wife slowly, but still moved away from him, leaving him alone. Again a series of identical days spent in the company of the captain, passing all the same routine. But one day, unexpectedly, he found his master dead.
From shock, Chang falls into oblivion until he wakes up in the church. The artist, a good friend of the captain, who appeared from the church, takes the dog to him. The dog liked his third owner, and he feels happy again, basking by the crackling fireplace. But he thinks about his beloved captain all the time. It means that his captain is still with him, between the worlds, inaccessible to Death. The truth is known only by that Master, the last one, with whom Chang will soon meet.
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Lets them summary. "Chang's Dreams" is a story that was written by the author in 1916. It differs from many other works of the writer in that the narration is conducted, as it were, on behalf of a dog that recalls its past. The whole story is essentially a motley picture of the dreams of this dog, from which the reader learns about his past life, and most importantly, gets an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat his owner used to be, once a former captain of the ship.
Introduction
With a short description of the living conditions of the heroes of the work, its brief content begins. "Chang's Dreams" is a story written in the magnificent literary language for which the author was so famous. At the beginning of the book, he shows the miserable life that the dog and his master lead. They live in a miserable little room with a low ceiling and cold walls. The former captain has a poor bed, the appearance of which is in sharp contrast to what the dog has seen before: a comfortable soft bed with drawers. The dog's first dream refers to his childhood: he remembers how his first owner sold him to the captain for literally one penny. Then he recalls his first sea voyage, during which he felt very bad and therefore did not see either the cities or the land that the ship sailed past.
Second dream
The detailed description of the animal's memories includes a summary below. "Chang's Dreams" is a work built on the principle of contrast between the dog's dreams and the miserable reality in which he now finds himself. The author draws attention to the fact that the captain sank a lot, drinks a lot and gives his dog a drink too. Under the influence of alcohol, the dog again has a wonderful dream: he enjoyed a magnificent morning off the coast of Arabia and listened to the conversations of his master, who told him about his love for his wife and daughter. This moment is very important for understanding subsequent events, because it is this episode that shows that the family was the meaning of life for the captain and that his feelings were so strong that he was even afraid of his affection. However, he felt happy, and the dog was happy with him.
Everyday life of heroes
To understand the characters and fate of the heroes of the story helps its summary. "Chang's Dreams" is a story about the unhappy love of the captain and the life of his dog, who is surprisingly sensitive to everything that happens to the owner. The writer creates a sharp contrast between the dreams of the dog and the rough life that she is forced to lead. Both go to taverns and taverns, drink, looking at drunkards. At the same time, the captain is almost always silent, when meeting with acquaintances, he begins to say that a person’s life does not make any sense. This attitude to his fate is explained by the new dream of the dog: he sees the captain showing him photographs of his wife and daughter and at the same time telling him that his wife does not love him. And the reader understands that unhappy love was the cause of everything that happened.
Changes in destiny
The real master of psychological analysis is Bunin. "Chang's Dreams" (a brief summary of the work is the subject of this review) is a story that conveys ongoing events through the consciousness and worldview of the dog. He led a normal everyday life with the captain, but one day he was found dead. It was a terrible blow for the hero: he even lost his sense of reality and woke up only after some time on the church porch. Bunin was able to convey the experiences of the animal surprisingly subtly. "Chang's Dreams" (a summary of the story should include a description of the changes that happened to the hero after the death of the former captain) is a deeply psychological work. The author emphasizes that the hero experienced this loss as a living person. However, it was not abandoned, as a friend of his second owner, who was an artist, took him in. With its new owner, the dog found, if not happiness, then at least peace.
Ideological meaning
The brief content of the story "Chang's Dreams" helps to understand the meaning of the work in question. Bunin focused on describing the state of his hero after the death of the captain: he described that the dog retained memories of his former owner, and he remembered him as strong, powerful and beautiful. The author paid special attention to the fact that Chang himself foresees his death. It is indicative that this happened in the artist's apartment, in an environment that conducive to philosophical reflection.
Thus, in its own way, a very subtle psychological work is the story "Chang's Dreams". A very brief content, in principle, reflects the main ideological meaning that the writer put into his work. This is a sense of the temporality of life and a premonition of eternity. This idea was clearly voiced at the end of the story, when Chang, as it were, was summing up the results of his existence.