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The story takes place in a small Argentinean city. A rumor spread among its inhabitants that an unknown monster, called the sea devil, had appeared in the sea. But the devil did evil selectively: he tore fishing tackle from rich and unkind people, prevented them from getting pearls, and helped the poor, saving them during a storm.
The cruel world of people
The owner of the schooner "Medusa", the rich man Pedro Zurita, wants to make big money on the myth of the sea devil, and therefore decides to catch him. Further, the events of the novel develop very dynamically, which also reflects the summary. The amphibious man, as Zurita found out, lives in an underwater hole. By order of Pedro, the exit from it is blocked by a metal net, but the devil manages to cut it and leave. Then Zurita decides to get into the house of a bigscientist - Dr. Salvator. He sends an Indian with a sick girl to him. The doctor helps the child, and the grateful grandfather asks to serve the professor. After serving for several months, the new servant, Cristo, finally meets the "sea devil". It turned out to be an ordinary young man Ichthyander, to whom Salvator transplanted shark gills instead of diseased lungs. Ichthyander spends most of his life at sea, where he is surrounded by a beautiful and kind world of underwater inhabitants. The amphibian man (a summary of the novel takes us either under water or into the world of ordinary people) once saves a drowning girl, and then falls in love with her. But on the shore, some mustachioed stranger tells her that it was he who saved her. Ichthyander shared his new impressions with the "kind" servant Christo, and he advised him to go to the city and find a girl. Together with Christo, they go in search. Cristo has a completely different goal: he needs to bring Ichthyander to his brother B althazar, where they will be met by Pedro Zurita. But when they come to B althazar's house, they find a beautiful girl there, in whom Ichthyander recognizes his beloved. The young man runs out of the house in excitement and hides. The adventure novel is increasingly acquiring a social connotation, which the author A. R. Belyaev gives it. The amphibious man (a brief summary emphasizes the main storyline) gets acquainted with the world of people and involuntarily compares it with the harmonious world of nature, which he sees in the sea. He is struck and disarmed by lies, hypocrisy, greed of people, and he is increasingly striving to go under water. But love keeps him in the cruel world of people.
Fight for love
Ichthyander swims ashore every day, changes into a normal suit and meets with Gutierre. But one day the girl, walking along the shore with her friend Olsen, hands him a pearl necklace, which slips out of her hands and falls into the sea. Gutierre is in despair. But then Ichthyander jumps from a cliff into the waves and takes out an ornament from the bottom. Some time later, Ichthyander confesses his love to Gutierre, but then Pedro Zurita appears and reproaches her for walking with Ichthyander, having another suitor. The young man jumps into the bay and disappears for a long time. Gutierre is convinced that he drowned. Time has passed, Ichthyander continues to seek meetings with Gutierre, and we follow the plot by reading the novel or its summary. The amphibious man meets Olsen one day, they get to know each other, and he tells a sad story. Convinced of the death of Ichthyander, Gutierre marries the rich, but hated by her, Pedro Zurita. Ichthyander decides to go to the city, to the house of Zurita. On the way, he is stopped by a policeman, but the young man runs away and comes to the house where Gutierre now lives. He calls her, but Zurita, mistaking Ichthyander for a runaway convict, hits him on the head with a shovel and throws him into a pond. At night, Gutierre goes out into the garden and finds a “drowned man” in the pond, who suddenly comes out of the water and reveals his secret to the girl. But here the amphibious man is seized by Zurita's people and sent to the schooner. Now he must serve the greedy master, pulling pearls from the seabed. What does the novel or its summary tell about further? Amphibian Man escapes Zurita at Salvator's house. But Pedro arrangesa criminal case against the doctor, accusing him of inhuman experiments. Salvatore is offered to escape from prison, but he passes this opportunity on to Ichthyander. The young man sails to South America to a friend of Salvatore, and the doctor after some time is released. Gutierre divorces Pedro Zurita and marries Olsen.
Conclusion
This is the summary. "Amphibian Man" is a work where, behind the external showiness of an adventure novel, a deep thought about the real and imaginary values of human life is revealed.
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