Maybe you can’t have the blue sea, but you can have the waves of laughter; maybe you can’t have the vastness of time and space, but you can have the time of struggle. The characters in the book "Childhood": Grandmother: kind, smart, capable, and loves life. He is tolerant to everyone and has a broad mind like a saint.
Grandfather: stingy, greedy, bossy, cruel, often beats grandmother and children, and ruthlessly exploits his workers.
Alyosha: He still maintains the courage and confidence to live in a dark and dirty environment, and gradually grows into a strong, brave, upright and loving person. The content of the work is about Gorky's childhood when his father lost his father and his mother remarried, and he lived with his grandparents, the grumpy and increasingly dilapidated owner of Xiaoranfang. Through the innocent eyes of a child, this book vividly shows readers the life of the lower class people in Russian society in the mid-19th century, describing the ugly and ignorant life styles of many small citizens as well as the Russian religion, funeral and other folk customs at that time. These memories of Gorky help us understand the style of that era in Tsarist Russia and understand the social environment of Gorky's childhood, a great literary master.