Streszczenie książki Kapitan Trujący

The story in 10 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   A street fight brings three women a stranger

   On the afternoon of the twenty-sixth of March, 1848, a handful of republicans rises against the army of Queen Isabella the Second. The narrator says he will leave politics there and turn to more pleasant matters.

   Three women live on the ground floor of a house in Preciados Street. They are a grave widow from Aragon, her daughter Angustias, and a timid, funny servant from Galicia named Rosa. Angustias is the heart of the book. The narrator calls her common sense in a skirt.

   While bullets ring on the window bars, Angustias slips to the shutters to watch. She sees an officer of about forty, thin and strong as a bundle of nerves, leading the soldiers. Then the republicans fire, and he drops with his face covered in blood. Angustias argues her mother and the maid into carrying him inside and laying him on the widow's best bed.

   One act of plain mercy sets the whole story in motion.

2. 2

   Angustias crosses the street under fire

   The man is alive, but a bullet has grazed his forehead and his right leg is broken and bleeding badly.

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3. 3

   The patient wakes up and starts giving orders

   At three in the morning the captain opens his eyes and growls a question about where on earth he is.

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4. 4

   He calls himself a monster and demands a hospital

   The captain explains himself in a speech that is half threat and half confession.

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5. 5

   A marquis arrives with speeches and a family history

   The next morning the doctor warns that the shattered shin bone needs complete stillness, or the leg may be lost.

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6. 6

   A poor widow refuses the rich man's money

   The marquis assumes the widow will accept help for the cost of doctor and medicine.

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7. 7

   Cards, quarrels and a slow change of heart

   Fifteen or twenty days pass in quarrels and small kindnesses.

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8. 8

   A visitor, a collapse and a deathbed promise

   The festive day ends badly.

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9. 9

   Kindness is stronger than the armor of a tough man

   The first great theme is that gentleness beats force.

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10. 10

    How the narrator tells the tale with humor

    The story is told by a lively, joking narrator who loves to step in and comment.

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