Amphibian Man is an incredibly fascinating book whose plot will appeal to many science fiction lovers. But in the abyss of school everyday life, you can not always find time to read fiction. And it is difficult to do without it, so it’s good when there are detailed and understandable short retelling of certain works. Therefore, the Literaguru team outlined the main events of the story.
(603 words) A wave of rumors swept through a small Argentinean town: they say a sea devil has wound up in the bay. Pedro Zurita, the owner of the schooner Medusa, like all fishermen, suffered from an uninvited guest. A strange creature threw fish into boats for poor fishermen, spoiled the others for nets and released all the catch. Together with his assistant, the Balthazar Indian, Zurita decides to follow the sea devil. Following the monster, they discover an underwater cave half filled with air, located just under the house of Dr. Salvator.
Balthazar sends his brother Cristo to the doctor to find out the secret of the sea monster. Salvator does not like strangers in the house, but he needed assistants, and he allows Cristo to work in the garden. There the Indian meets strange animals: llamas with horse tails, sparrows with the head of a parrot. The brothers came up with a cunning plan: Balthazar allegedly will attack the doctor, and Cristo will save him, and thus earn more trust. The play was successfully played, and Salvator reveals Cristo the main secret of his house. The Indian meets Ichthyander, a young man whom Dr. Salvator saved as a child by implanting the gills of a young shark. In a special scaly suit, glasses and gloves, he really looked like a sea devil, but in fact he was a kind person. Now Cristo is helping the doctor look after his adoptive son.
A little later, Ichthyander will save the drowning girl. When she begins to regain consciousness, the young man hides so as not to frighten her, but the stranger who appears appears to impersonate her savior. Ichthyander is indignant at his lie, but cannot do anything.
Cristo talks about everything to Balthazar, and they decide to lure the sea devil to land. Ichthyander believed that the servant will help him find that beautiful girl, and goes to the city. Once in Balthazar's shop, he meets Guttiere and recognizes in her a rescued stranger. She was the adopted daughter of an Indian.
Ichthyander begins to follow the girl, and once, when she dropped a pearl necklace, she helps to get it from the bottom of the sea, and for the first time she speaks to her. They began to meet every night, but Balthazar did not even suspect that the kind young man was the same sea devil.
Once, Ichthyander was badly injured when he was saving Leading, his dolphin friend. Cristo bandaged the wound and noticed a strange-shaped mole on his shoulder. The same was with his nephew, whom many years ago he had referred to Dr. Salvator, so that he would help the boy cope with an incurable disease. A few days later, the doctor said that it was not possible to save the child, but now Cristo realized that Ichthyander was his surviving nephew, and therefore, the son of Balthazar.
Meanwhile, Zurita persuades the Indian to give him his beautiful daughter as his wife. Pedro takes Guttiere away to his hacienda, but Ichthyander finds out about this and sets off after them. Having made a difficult journey through water and land, being arrested and handcuffed, the young man still escapes and gets to Guttiere. Zurita promises to release him into the open sea, but in reality he wants to make Ichthyander work for him. On the ship, he closes the girl in the cabin, and puts the sea devil in chains and forces him to hunt for pearls.
Cristo tells the doctor that Ichthyander is in trouble, and he rushes to the rescue of his adoptive son. The young man manages to escape from Zurita, but then Balthazar sued Dr. Salvator: he wants to return his son. The bailiffs examined the scientist’s house and came to the conclusion that he was a brilliant doctor, but a crazy person, and sent him to prison. Ichthyander is also under arrest, but the head of the prison feels obliged to Salvator, because he once saved his wife and child. He arranges an escape for an amphibian man, and the young man swims to Salvator's friend on a distant island in the Pacific Ocean. The doctor is not afraid for his fate, he is waiting for the end of the term to reunite with his adopted son. Guttiere escapes from Zurita and, together with his beloved Olsen, leaves for New York. And only Balthazar remains in the city, where everyone considers him crazy, and every day on the seashore calls Ichthyander.
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