Garshin red flower summary for the reader. Red flower. The Story (1883). II and III chapters

This story became not only the most famous of all written by Garshin, but also reflected personal life experience, although it is not autobiographical. Garshin himself suffered from a terrible disease, the acute form of which he suffered in 1880. It was a manic-depressive psychosis.
A new, violent patient ends up in a provincial psychiatric hospital. Doctors fail to relieve the attack and the person, without stopping, walks from one corner of the ward to another. He does not sleep, or rather, he hardly sleeps. They feed well, and for this patient the doctor prescribes enhanced nutrition, but he still loses weight. A person, this can be seen at once, had a good upbringing and education, and even now, when he is in a madhouse, he, realizing this unfortunate fact, tries to preserve not only intellectual integrity, but also the very properties of his human nature. A person is worried about the presence of evil in this mortal world.

Now he thinks, or rather, it seems to him, he is in the center of some huge enterprise, working without stopping or interruption, with one single goal - to destroy evil, constantly and mercilessly. Around himself, man represents the most outstanding people of this vast world, who tirelessly help him in the process of eliminating the world's evil.
Summer is coming. A man discovers a poppy, as many as three bushes. All patients take care of flower beds. Three poppy bushes, found by a man, are located next to the porch. They are bright red in color and a person understands that it is in these flowers that there is the embodiment of evil collected from all over the world. They are bright red because they have absorbed into their buds all the blood innocently shed by numerous victims. He must, he is obliged, this is his destiny: to destroy these flowers and with them the evil, the all-embracing world evil.


A man picks the first flower and, hiding it on his chest, shuns everyone. He begs, he begs not to come near him.
A person feels how poison emanates from this flower, but he is ready to accept this poison himself, let him better than the flower kill someone else! The man is ready to die. He is a soldier in the struggle of mankind against evil and he, on the first line ... No one has yet tried to fight the universal evil alone, with all evil at once. And he has to, this is the meaning of his existence.
In the morning, a person is found barely showing signs of life. He is tired in this endless struggle with evil, he is poisoned by the poison emanating from the red flower.
Three days have passed and the man pulls out the second flower. The watchman protests, but he simply does not understand the depth of the struggle and its necessity! Hiding again a flower on his chest, a person feels how evil is twisting from a red bud in long, spreading stripes.
This confrontation with the world's evil is exhausting a person even more. The doctor orders to put on a straitjacket - he is concerned about the patient's well-being. I tie the person to the bed. This evil is trying to resist - so man thinks.


The man resists. He must pick another flower, must destroy this evil! Who if not him? He tries to explain everything, to convey the depth of the danger, he says that if he is not released, everything is lost - he is the only one on earth who can win this struggle. Other people will die immediately, just as soon as they touch this insidious source of evil. Everyone listens to him and sympathizes, but they do not want to understand and therefore do not pay attention to the warnings.
The man decides that he must deceive his overseers. He pretends and pretends to be calm, but after waiting for the night, he managed to free himself from the straitjacket that was binding him, as well as the ropes that were tightening his arms and legs. The man shows incredible strength: he bends the rod on the window lattice and climbs over the stone fence. My hands are bloody and all my nails are broken, but it doesn't matter! This flower! He rips it off ...
Morning is coming. The man was found dead. His face expresses complete calmness and pacification. In his hand sticks out a squeezed red flower - with it he was buried.

The summary of the story "The Red Flower" was retold by A.S. Osipova.

Please note that this is only summary literary work "Red Flower". This summary has omitted many important points and quotes.

Garshin's most famous story. While not strictly autobiographical, he nevertheless absorbed personal experience a writer who suffered from manic-depressive psychosis and suffered an acute form of the disease in 1880

A new patient is brought to the provincial psychiatric hospital. He is violent, and the doctor is unable to relieve the severity of the attack. He constantly walks from corner to corner of the room, almost does not sleep and, despite the increased nutrition prescribed by the doctor, is uncontrollably losing weight. He realizes that he is in a madhouse. Educated man, he largely retains

Your intellect and the properties of your soul. He is worried about the abundance of evil in the world. And now, in the hospital, it seems to him that somehow he is at the center of a gigantic enterprise aimed at eliminating evil on earth, and that other prominent people of all times who have gathered here are called to help him in this.

Meanwhile, summer comes, patients spend whole days in the garden, cultivating vegetable beds and caring for the flower garden.

Not far from the porch, the patient discovers three poppy bushes of an unusually bright scarlet color. The hero suddenly imagines that in these flowers all the world's evil is embodied, that they are so red because

They absorbed the innocently shed blood of mankind, and that its purpose on earth is to destroy the flower and, along with it, all the evil of the world ...

He picks one flower, quickly hides it on his chest, and all evening begs others not to approach him.

The flower, it seems to him, is poisonous, and let it be better that this poison first passes into his chest than strikes someone else ... He himself is ready to die, “as an honest fighter and as the first fighter of mankind, because until now no one dared fight all the evil in the world at once. "

In the morning, the paramedic finds him slightly alive, so the hero was tortured by the struggle with the poisonous secretions of the red flower ...

Three days later, he picks the second flower, despite the protests of the watchman, and again hides it on his chest, while feeling the evil wriggling out of the flower in long snake-like creeping streams.

This struggle further weakens the patient. The doctor, seeing the critical condition of the patient, the severity of which is aggravated by incessant walking, orders him to put on a strait shirt and tie him to the bed.

The patient resists - after all, he needs to pick the last flower and destroy evil. He tries to explain to his guards what danger threatens all of them if they do not let him go - after all, only he alone in the whole world can defeat the insidious flower - they themselves will die from one touch to it. The watchmen sympathize with him, but do not pay attention to the patient's warnings.

Then he decides to deceive the vigilance of his watchmen. Pretending to have calmed down, he waits for the night and then shows miracles of dexterity and ingenuity. He frees himself from the restraining shirt and fetters, with a desperate effort bends the iron bar of the window lattice, climbs the stone fence. With torn nails and bloody hands, he finally reaches the last flower.

In the morning they find him dead. The face is calm, light and full of proud happiness. In a numb hand there is a red flower, which is a fighter against evil and takes with him to the grave.

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Garshin's most famous story. While not strictly autobiographical, he nevertheless absorbed the personal experience of a writer who suffered from manic-depressive psychosis and suffered an acute form of the disease in 1880.

A new patient is brought to the provincial psychiatric hospital. He is violent, and the doctor is unable to relieve the severity of the attack. He constantly walks from corner to corner of the room, almost does not sleep and, despite the increased nutrition prescribed by the doctor, is uncontrollably losing weight. He realizes that he is in an insane asylum. An educated person, he largely retains his intellect and the properties of his soul. He is worried about the abundance of evil in the world. And now, in the hospital, it seems to him that somehow he is at the center of a gigantic enterprise aimed at eliminating evil on earth, and that other prominent people of all times who have gathered here are called to help him in this.

Meanwhile, summer comes, patients spend whole days in the garden, cultivating vegetable beds and caring for the flower garden.

Not far from the porch, the patient discovers three poppy bushes of an unusually bright scarlet color. The hero suddenly imagines that in these flowers all the world's evil is embodied, that they are so red because they have absorbed the innocent blood of mankind, and that his mission on earth is to destroy the flower and, along with it, all the evil of the world ...

He picks one flower, quickly hides it on his chest, and all evening begs others not to approach him.

The flower, it seems to him, is poisonous, and let it be better that this poison first passes into his chest than strikes someone else ... He himself is ready to die, “as an honest fighter and as the first fighter of mankind, because there is still no one did not dare to fight all the evils of the world at once. "

In the morning, the paramedic finds him slightly alive, so the hero was tortured by the struggle with the poisonous secretions of the red flower ...

Three days later, he picks the second flower, despite the protests of the watchman, and again hides it on his chest, while feeling the evil wriggling out of the flower in long snake-like creeping streams.

This struggle further weakens the patient. The doctor, seeing the critical condition of the patient, the severity of which is aggravated by incessant walking, orders him to put on a strait shirt and tie him to the bed.

The patient resists - after all, he needs to pick the last flower and destroy evil. He tries to explain to his guards what danger threatens all of them if they do not let him go, because only he alone in the whole world can defeat the insidious flower - they themselves will die from one touch to it. The watchmen sympathize with him, but do not pay attention to the patient's warnings.

Then he decides to deceive the vigilance of his watchmen. Pretending to have calmed down, he waits for the night and then shows miracles of dexterity and ingenuity. He frees himself from the restraining shirt and fetters, with a desperate effort bends the iron bar of the window lattice, climbs the stone fence. With torn nails and bloody hands, he finally reaches the last flower.

In the morning they find him dead. The face is calm, light and full of proud happiness. In a numb hand there is a red flower, which is a fighter against evil and takes with him to the grave.

Garshin's most famous story. While not strictly autobiographical, he nevertheless absorbed the personal experience of a writer who suffered from manic-depressive psychosis and suffered an acute form of the disease in 1880.

A new patient is brought to the provincial psychiatric hospital. He is violent, and the doctor is unable to relieve the severity of the attack. He constantly walks from corner to corner of the room, almost does not sleep and, despite the increased nutrition prescribed by the doctor, is uncontrollably losing weight. He realizes that he is in a madhouse. An educated person, he largely retains his intellect and the properties of his soul. He is worried about the abundance of evil in the world. And now, in the hospital, it seems to him that somehow he is at the center of a gigantic enterprise aimed at eliminating evil on earth, and that other prominent people of all times who have gathered here are called to help him in this.

Meanwhile, summer comes, patients spend whole days in the garden, cultivating vegetable beds and caring for the flower garden.

Not far from the porch, the patient discovers three poppy bushes of an unusually bright scarlet color. The hero suddenly imagines that in these flowers all the world's evil is embodied, that they are so red because they have absorbed the innocent blood of mankind, and that his mission on earth is to destroy the flower and, along with it, all the evil of the world ...

He picks one flower, quickly hides it on his chest, and all evening begs others not to approach him.

The flower, it seems to him, is poisonous, and let it be better that this poison first passes into his chest than strikes someone else ... He himself is ready to die, “as an honest fighter and as the first fighter of mankind, because until now no one dared fight all the evil in the world at once. "

In the morning, the paramedic finds him slightly alive, so the hero was tortured by the struggle with the poisonous secretions of the red flower ...

Three days later, he picks the second flower, despite the protests of the watchman, and again hides it on his chest, while feeling the evil wriggling out of the flower in long snake-like creeping streams.

This struggle further weakens the patient. The doctor, seeing the critical condition of the patient, the severity of which is aggravated by incessant walking, orders him to put on a strait shirt and tie him to the bed.

The patient resists - after all, he needs to pick the last flower and destroy evil. He tries to explain to his guards what danger threatens all of them if they do not let him go - after all, only he alone in the whole world can defeat the insidious flower - they themselves will die from one touch to it. The watchmen sympathize with him, but do not pay attention to the patient's warnings.

Then he decides to deceive the vigilance of his watchmen. Pretending to have calmed down, he waits for the night and then shows miracles of dexterity and ingenuity. He frees himself from the restraining shirt and fetters, with a desperate effort bends the iron bar of the window lattice, climbs the stone fence. With torn nails and bloody hands, he finally reaches the last flower.

In the morning they find him dead. The face is calm, light and full of proud happiness. In a numb hand there is a red flower, which is a fighter against evil and takes with him to the grave. ...

Garshin's most famous story. While not strictly autobiographical, he nevertheless absorbed the personal experience of a writer who suffered from manic-depressive psychosis and suffered an acute form of the disease in 1880.

A new patient is brought to the provincial psychiatric hospital. He is violent, and the doctor is unable to relieve the severity of the attack. He constantly walks from corner to corner of the room, almost does not sleep and, despite the increased nutrition prescribed by the doctor, is uncontrollably losing weight. He realizes that he is in an insane asylum. An educated person, he largely retains his intellect and the properties of his soul. He is worried about the abundance of evil in the world. And now, in the hospital, it seems to him that somehow he is at the center of a gigantic enterprise aimed at eliminating evil on earth, and that other prominent people of all times who have gathered here are called to help him in this.

Meanwhile, summer comes, patients spend whole days in the garden, cultivating vegetable beds and caring for the flower garden.

Not far from the porch, the patient discovers three poppy bushes of an unusually bright scarlet color. The hero suddenly imagines that in these flowers all the world's evil is embodied, that they are so red because they have absorbed the innocent blood of mankind, and that his mission on earth is to destroy the flower and, along with it, all the evil of the world ...

He picks one flower, quickly hides it on his chest, and all evening begs others not to approach him.

The flower, it seems to him, is poisonous, and let it be better that this poison first passes into his chest than strikes someone else ... He himself is ready to die, “as an honest fighter and as the first fighter of mankind, because there is still no one did not dare to fight all the evils of the world at once. "

In the morning, the paramedic finds him slightly alive, so the hero was tortured by the struggle with the poisonous secretions of the red flower ...

Three days later, he picks the second flower, despite the protests of the watchman, and again hides it on his chest, while feeling the evil wriggling out of the flower in long snake-like creeping streams.

This struggle further weakens the patient. The doctor, seeing the critical condition of the patient, the severity of which is aggravated by incessant walking, orders him to put on a strait shirt and tie him to the bed.

The patient resists - after all, he needs to pick the last flower and destroy evil. He tries to explain to his guards what danger threatens all of them if they do not let him go - after all, only he alone in the whole world can defeat the insidious flower - they themselves will die from one touch to it. The watchmen sympathize with him, but do not pay attention to the patient's warnings.

Then he decides to deceive the vigilance of his watchmen. Pretending to have calmed down, he waits for the night and then shows miracles of dexterity and ingenuity. He frees himself from the restraining shirt and fetters, with a desperate effort bends the iron bar of the window lattice, climbs the stone fence. With torn nails and bloody hands, he finally reaches the last flower.

In the morning they find him dead. The face is calm, light and full of proud happiness. In a numb hand there is a red flower, which is a fighter against evil and takes with him to the grave.

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