Tintin's personas

nospam@example.com (liooran) — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:17:19 +0200

Tintin's synopsis

Whilst on holiday with his friend Captain Haddock, Tintin reads about a plane crash in the Himalayas. That evening he dozes off while playing chess with the Captain at the hotel and has a vivid dream that his young friend Chang has survived a plane crash on his way to Tibet. The next morning, he reads in the paper that Chang's plane actually did crash in Tibet. Believing that his dream was a telepathic vision, Tintin travels to Kathmandu, followed by a sceptical Captain Haddock. They meet a sherpa named Tharkey, and accompanied by some porters, they head to the crash site.

Following a number of events, they discover footprints in the snow that Tharkey claims belong to the Abominable Snowman. When they reach the crash site, Tintin finds a teddy bear half-buried in the snow, which he believes belonged to Chang. Tintin sets off with Snowy to try and retrace Chang's steps, and find a cave where Chang has carved his name on a rock.

Tharkey decides not to go on any further, believing Chang to be dead, but Tintin refusing to believe his friends fate, heads off with Snowy and Haddock after spotting a scarf on a cliff face. Haddock loses his grip and hangs perilously over a cliff edge. He wants Tintin to cut the rope to save himself, but Tintin refuses, saying that either they're both saved or they die together. Tharkey, moved by Tintin's selflessness, returns just in time to save them. They pitch their tent in a storm, but it blows away so they head on through the night, eventually seeing a monastery in the distance for shelter, but before they can reach it an avalanche occurs and the three are buried in the snow.

Blessed Lightning, a monk at the monastery, has a vision where he sees Tintin, Snowy, Haddock and Tharkey in the snow. Meanwhile up in the mountains Tintin regains consciousness and, unable to reach the monastery himself, writes a note and gives it to Snowy to deliver. Snowy drops the message when he finds a bone, but then realises what he's done, and runs to the monastery to alert the monks who then follow him.

Captain Haddock awakes to find himself in the monastery. He finds Tintin and Tharkey again. After Tintin tells the Grand Abbot why they are there, the Abbot tells him to abandon his quest and return to his country, but Blessed Lightning has another vision, through which Tintin learns Chang is still alive in a mountain cave, but the "migou", or Abominable Snowman is there. Haddock doesn't believe the monk is genuine, but the Abbot explains to him that many things that occur in Tibet seem unbelievable to Westerners. Tintin heads to the Horn of the Yak mountain where Chang is said to be, according to Blessed Lightning. Haddock initially gives up and refuses to follow Tintin anymore, but eventually agrees to go with Tintin and Snowy

Tintin heads into the cave where he finally finds Chang, who is feverish and shaking. Haddock fails to warn Tintin when the Abominable Snowman returns and as it reaches toward Tintin, he sets off the flash bulb of the camera that Tintin is carrying. Frightened by the light, it runs out of the cave bowling over the Captain who has come to save Tintin. Chang is carried out by the two of them, and he tells the story of how he survived, and how the Snowman took care of him. Chang calls him "Poor Snowman", and Tintin comments that he didn't call him "Abominable". "Of course I don't, Tintin," says Chang, "he took care of me. Without him I'd have died of cold and hunger." They are met by the Grand Abbot and an envoy of monks who present Tintin with a silk scarf in honour of his bravery and the strength of his friendship with Chang. They are taken back to the monastery, and Chang muses that the Snowman is no wild animal, but instead has a human soul.

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