Tales are folk and invented by a specific author. "White Heron" is a fairy tale written by Teleshov Nikolai Dmitrievich (1867-1957). This work will make the reader empathize and understand what global catastrophe bad actions can lead to.
Princess Isolda
On one distant island, located in the North, the kingdom is spread. It was small, but thanks to the wise and kind ruler, all people here lived well and were happy. So begins the fairy tale "White Heron". The summary goes to the story about the nature of this place and the main character.
Winter here was long and summer short, so everyone was looking forward to the arrival of spring, including the king's daughter, beautiful Isold. She was kind, like her father - she also helped the unfortunate and sick, she was merciful.
Summer flew by quickly. The sea turned gray and cold, ice floated on it. The sun did not glimpse because of lead clouds, the long winter came.
Isolde approached the window, but saw only the shore covered with snow, and the sea visible behind it.
Wedding attire
She was worried about Prince Sagir, who sailed in the fall on his ship. I thought, did he manage to cross the sea and return to his homeland before the onset of cold weather? Father comforted his daughter, saying that the prince was probably already in his southern country.
To reassure his daughter, the king told her how good in the homeland of Sagir, what strange flowers grow there. Father told Isolde that after the end of winter the prince would come to them again and bring everything that his country was rich in. And in the spring the wedding of Sagir and Isolde was to take place. This is described in a work entitled "White Heron", a summary of which you are now reading.
The girl began to think about a wedding dress. She decided that she would be in a white dress, which would symbolize the snow of her homeland, and a gray cloak - the color of the sea. She also would like a hat that will be very similar to the pattern of a frosty window.
The next day, Isolda ordered to start making her wedding outfit. The seamstress promised to make a white dress, the master promised to make a beautiful steel-colored cloak, but no one could make such a headdress similar to the arrows of frost.
Then it was decided to send messengers all over the kingdom to find out who is able to create such a hat, but no one responded. Soon you will find out what role the white heron will play in the tale. The summary of the work goes to the sad moment.
Wanderer's offer
Once an old man came to the princess, he said that he traveled a lot around the world and could help Isolde. The old man told the girl that white herons live in the south, no one touches them there, since the meat of these birds is not suitable for food. Therefore, they are in those parts in large numbers. In spring, a beautiful white tuft with beautiful delicate thin fibers grows on their heads. If you take it, decorate with precious stones, you get an amazing headdress.
But you have to kill the bird. At first, the girl wanted to get the object of her dreams, but when she found out at what cost, she refused. However, after this story, she did not sleep all night, so she wanted to shine at her own wedding. She thought that the bird would someday die anyway, called a stranger the next morning and ordered him to get such a headdress.
Because of the whim of the princess, one white heron was supposed to suffer, a brief summary of the tale will tell about it.
Crest
Spring has come. Prince Sagir arrived with expensive gifts. Have appointed a wedding day. The day before, the old man returned and showed the princess what he managed to make a heron out of a crest. He opened the gilded box, and the girl was amazed: there were delicate, thin, white twigs, similar to fluff, they were covered with sparkling diamonds.
But suddenly the princess changed her face and asked the old man if he had killed a heron? The answer was yes. The next day, the wedding took place. The crowd, seeing how beautiful in Isold's wedding attire, admired.
The king blessed his daughter, and after the celebration, she departed with the prince to his wonderful country.
The end of the tale. The White Heron, Teleshov
The summary of the tale is nearing completion. Several years passed, the princess came to visit her father. When she went to bed, she woke up and saw two white birds in front of her. They said that after her order to kill one bird, hunters for the sake of beautiful crests began to destroy them in large numbers and exterminated the entire family, they are the last couple.
Birds gave the girl a flower that grew on the blood of their brothers, she turned into a heron and flew with them to the island, where she saw a sad picture with her own eyes. Here lay thousands of dead birds, including chicks.
From what she saw, the girl lost consciousness, and when she woke up, she realized that it was a dream. The next morning she told her father everything, and he rebuked Isolde for a terrible act. Then she decided from that moment to do only good deeds and never harm anyone. With these thoughts, the girl went back to her beloved.
This ends the fairy tale "White Heron" (Teleshov). An analysis of this work will help to establish itself in the idea that bad frivolous actions can lead to great trouble. Unfortunately, there are still many cases of poaching, when people kill animals at their whim, thereby causing damage not only to individual individuals, but also to entire species that disappear without a trace.