“ I dedicate to all generals. To all the colonels. To all lieutenant colonels ”- this is how Alber Likhanov begins his appeal to readers . My General, a summary of which will be given in this article, is a novel for young children.
Start
The work was written on behalf of the first person, the boy Antoshka, a native of Siberia. Children's naive remarks, such as “my friend’s name is Keshka, and the rest is the same for us,” are mixed with adult discussions about the strength of love. Antoshka calls himself “deputy son” - his dad is the deputy chief engineer.
In the novel "My General" Likhanov ( we transmit the summary of this work) creates many images. A similar language is characteristic of children: mother's face, like her name, is round and kind, and her name is Olga.
The boy talks about the children's perception of the world, how he goes to study French, how his mother made him real boots, so that they would not get their feet wet. His life, of course, is not without childhood joys, for example, not going to school when the temperature is minus forty.
Granddad
With childlike spontaneity, the boy says that he has a grandfather whom he has never seen. Grandfather, Anton Petrovich, is a general, lives in Moscow, the boy really wants to see him, but since dad works, grandfather serves, their meeting can not take place.
But one day they met: the grandfather was fired from the service for health reasons.
The experiences of a retired general
Likhanov’s relationship of grandson and grandfather in the book “ My General” is very touching , the summary cannot convey how the boy reaches for his grandfather, how insulting that grandfather, while in the apartment, bakes pies, cleans the rooms, goes for milk, and Anton Petrovich wants to be busy.
The boy’s father, trying to help a retired general, agrees for him on the post of head of the personnel department at a construction site, but he refuses, he does not want to be a "wedding general."
The boy, trying to be closer to his grandfather, is specially ill, introduces him to Anna Robertovna, an elderly French teacher.
Further in his novel “ My General” Likhanov (a brief summary can only partially convey the fullness of creation) tells how Antoshka gives medicine to his grandfather, and he asks him not to say anything to his parents.
A boy with curiosity inherent in all children really wants to know if his grandfather has a real, “real” secret.
Step-grandson
Antoshka is very proud of his grandfather, classmates and teachers will learn that his grandfather is a general.
The boy receives the privileges and special attitude of classmates.
In the novel " My General" Likhanov ( we continue to consider the summary of his book) tells how pride took possession of Antoshka, how he begins to consider himself superior to others, how his best friend turned away from him.
Grandfather gets a job as a simple storekeeper, and his grandson learns from him that any work is important.
Antoshka spends his winter holidays with his grandfather in a Moscow apartment, the boy learns that his grandfather is not a simple general, but a candidate of science, who is engaged in testing guns. The boy meets his grandfather's friends, goes to museums with him, they walk and talk a lot.
Returning to Siberia, the grandfather tells the boy that he was a step-grandson to him, that he adopted his dad when he was very young: retreating after the fight, my grandfather saw a dead woman and next to her a three-year-old boy, Antoshka's dad. Anton Petrovich took him and raised him as his own son. At the end of the work, grandfather dies, which becomes a major shock to the boy and his parents.
Concluding the summary of “My General” by Likhanov , it is worth noting that this book is useful to read in adulthood.