The Tale of Selma Lagerlöf, summary: "Niels' adventure with wild geese"

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In 1907, Selma Lagerlöf wrote a fairy tale textbook for Swedish children "Niels' adventure with wild geese". The author told a lot of interesting things about the history of Sweden, its geography, fauna. From every page of the book flowing love for his native country, presented in an entertaining way. This was immediately appreciated by the readers, and in 1909 by the members of the Nobel Committee for Literature, who presented her with a prize for the children's book "Niels's Adventure with the Wild Geese." A summary of the chapters can be found below.

How Niels got poisoned on a trip

In a remote Swedish village there lived a boy named Nils Holgersson. He liked to misbehave, even often evil. At school, he was lazy and got bad grades. At home, he pulled the cat's tail, chased chickens, ducks, geese, kicked and offended cows.

We started to get acquainted with the abridged version of the fairy tale book, to present its summary. "Niels' adventure with wild geese" is a work where miracles begin from the first pages. On his Sundaythe parents went to a neighboring village for a fair, and Nils was given the Instructions to read, a thick book that told about how good it is to be good and how bad it is to be bad. Nils fell asleep while reading a long book, and woke up from a rustle and found that the chest in which mother kept all the most valuable things was open. There was no one in the room, and Nils remembered that before leaving, his mother checked the lock. He noticed a funny little man sitting on the edge of the chest and looking at its contents. The boy grabbed the net and caught the man in it.

He turned out to be a dwarf and asked Niels to let him go. For this he promised a gold coin. Nils released the dwarf, but immediately regretted that he had not asked for a hundred coins and waved the net again. But he got hit and fell to the floor.

We only provide a very brief summary. "Nils Adventure with the Wild Geese" is a book by a Swedish writer that has become a brand for a long time.

When Nils came to his senses, everything miraculously changed in the room. All familiar things have become terribly large. Then Niels realized that he himself had become as small as a dwarf. He went out into the yard and was surprised to learn that he understood the language of birds and animals. Everyone mocked him and said that he deserved such a punishment. The cat, whom Niels politely asked to tell where the gnome lives, refused him because the boy often offended him.

At this time, a flock of wild gray geese flew from the south. In mockery, they began to call for a home. Nils' mother's favorite Martin ran after them, andNiels grabbed him by the neck to hold him, so they flew away from the yard. By evening, Martin began to lag behind the flock, flew in last, when everyone settled down for the night. Niels dragged the exhausted Martin to the water, and he got drunk. Thus began their friendship.

Insidious Smirre

In the evening, the flock moved to a large ice floe in the middle of the lake. All the geese were against the person who travels with them. The wise Akka Kebnekaise, the leader of the pack, said that she would make a decision as to whether Nils should fly with them further in the morning. Everyone fell asleep.

We continue to retell the work of Selma Lagerlöf and give its summary. "Niels' adventure with the wild geese" shows what changes are taking place with Niels. At night, the boy woke up from the flapping of wings - the whole flock soared up. The red fox Smirre remained on the ice floe. He held a gray goose in his mouth and moved ashore to eat it.

Niels stabbed the fox in the tail with a penknife so badly that he released the goose, which immediately flew away. The whole flock flew to save Niels. The geese outsmarted Smirre and took the boy with them. Now no one said that a man in a flock of geese is a big danger.

Niels saves everyone from rats

A flock of geese stopped to spend the night in an old castle. People have not lived in it for a long time, but only animals and birds. It became known that huge evil rats want to populate it. Akka Kebnekaise handed Niels a pipe. He played it andall the rats, lining up in a chain, obediently followed the musician. He led them to the lake, got on the boat and swam, the rats followed him one by one and drowned. So they were gone. The castle and its inhabitants were saved.

This is just a summary. "Nils' adventure with wild geese" – is a very interesting and exciting story that is best read in the author's version.

In the ancient capital

Nils and the geese had more than one adventure. Later, the flock stopped for the night in the old city. Niels decided to take a walk at night. He met a wooden boatswain and a bronze king who stepped off the plinth and chased the boy who was teasing him. The boatswain hid it under his hat. And then morning came, and the king went to his place. Before you continues to unfold the work "The Adventure of Niels with Wild Geese." A summary without entertaining details describes all the events.

Lapland

After many adventures, when, for example, Martin was caught by people and almost eaten, the flock reached Lapland. All geese began to make nests and acquire offspring. The short northern summer ended, the goslings grew up, and the whole flock began to gather south. Soon, very soon, Niels' adventure with wild geese will end. The summary of the work we cover is still not as interesting as the original.

Return home, or How Niels turned into an ordinary boy

Flying over the house of Nils's parents, the goose Martin wanted to show his children his native poultry yard. He couldn'tbreak away from the feeder with oats and kept saying that there is always such delicious food. Goslings and Nils hurried him. Suddenly, Niels' mother came in and was delighted that Martin had returned and could be sold at the fair in two days. The boy's parents grabbed the unfortunate goose and were about to slaughter it. Nils bravely promised Martin to save him and rushed after his parents.

Suddenly the knife fell out of the hands of the father, and he released the goose, and the mother exclaimed: "Niels, dear, how you have grown and prettier." It turned out that he turned into an ordinary person.

The wise book by S. Lagerlöf "Niels' adventure with wild geese", the content of which we briefly retold, says that while the boy had a small evil soul, he was a dwarf. When the soul became large, open to good deeds, the dwarf returned him to his original human form.