Fantazer E. Uspensky invented a good story for everyone to enjoy. A summary will be given below. Crocodile Gena and his friends will show everyone that living alone without friends is boring and pointless.
How do we know Cheburashka
In the hot tropics, in the forest, there lived a strange ridiculous lop-eared animal with a round head, with large yellow eyes and a round fluffy tail. He climbed into a box of oranges, ate a couple and fell asleep soundly. He did not even feel how they pounded a box, loaded it onto a ship and drove it far, far away. The animal woke up in the store, and when they opened the box, he fell out of it, and then fell from the table into a chair, and then onto the floor.
The store director called the strange animal Cheburashka and took it to the zoo. He was not needed there. Then Cheburashka was taken to the store so that he was in the window and attracted buyers with his unusual appearance. We settled him in a telephone box. The summary (“The Crocodile Gene and His Friends”) of the adventures of a lonely Cheburashka is the beginning of the story.
Lonely crocodile
Green Gene worked as a crocodile in a zoo. Every day, having dressed in a suit and not forgetting to put on his hat and take a cane, he went to work. At the zoo, he was in a cage. But since he was kind, he could be fed and stroked. In the evening, Gena returned home, and it was empty there. He was very bored: he was 50 years old, and he had no friends. Then Gene posted an announcement that he was looking for friends and you can find him at the specified address. Here is such an invention of a crocodile to us is a brief summary.
“Crocodile Gene and his friends” is an amazing story. Further events will show that this act of Genes was not in vain.
First friends
First came a girl named Galya. And as soon as she began to talk with Gena, the doorbell rang. On the threshold stood Cheburashka. He was so extraordinary that both Gene and Galya began to search for his image in the book, but were never found. Cheburashka was sad: "If you do not know who I am, then you will not be friends with me?" Gene said that with a good friend, of course, you have to live. “Hurray!” Cried Cheburashka and asked what they would do.
We further consider the story and its summary. Crocodile Gena and his friends, Cheburashka and Galya, looked at their watches and went to sleep.
Cheburashka was going with Gena in the house of the crocodile. They played, drank coffee and chatted. But once Cheburashka called Gena and invited him to his place, only asked to bring Gena coffee, cups and a bucket of water so that he could make a drink. Gene, of course, fulfilled everything, but leaving, he suggested that he nevertheless collect from him, because it is easier.
Galya got sick and recovered
Once, Gena and Cheburashka went to Gala, and she lies in bed and cries, because because of her illness, a performance about "Little Red Riding Hood" will break. But Gena and Cheburashka comforted her by coming and replacing her. At the play, they mixed everything up, and Gene almost ate the Gray Wolf, who ran away in fear. But all the children really liked it, because it was very, very interesting.
While Galya was sick, Cheburashka met a small dog, Tobik, who was kicked out of the house, and settled in his telephone booth. And while he and Galya and Gena sat drinking coffee and thinking about how to talk about Tobik, a doorbell rang. This came the lonely beautiful Chandra. It was a lion who also wanted to make friends. But Gene said that he already has friends, and Cheburashka volunteered to help the lion.
He quickly ran after Tobik. So the big lion made a little friend. Kindness and friendliness are the key to friendship. This proves the story and its summary. Crocodile Gena and his friends always help each other.
Once all the heroes thought about how many lonely hearts there were in the city, and decided to make them friends.
Long live friendship!
They posted ads and created the House of Friendship at Gena. Instead, the next day an old woman with a rat came to them, who called herself Shapoklyak and said that she wanted to become famous for evil deeds. Nobody liked it, and Shapoklyak declared war on everyone, and then something hit her painfully on Gena Street.
They saw a rat of an evil old woman, and then a ball with an elastic band flew out, which Gena caught with his teeth and did not let go for a long time, pulling the elastic band all the way. And when he let go, the ball hit the old woman directly in her mouth, and she had to run to the hospital. This concludes the story (brief summary) "Crocodile Gena and his friends." Ouspensky wrote several sequels to this entertaining story.