Next is my father's funeral. A few days later, we boarded a ship to Nigeria. It was a beautiful day. My grandmother tells stories to me and the sailors. We all like my grandmother, but my mother is still depressed.
Finally, we arrived in Niger. My grandfather and uncles came to meet us. I always felt that my grandfather was hostile to me. After that, we went back to grandpa's house with dye vat and various pigments in the yard.
Childhood is the first part of Gorky's autobiographical novel trilogy based on his own experience (the other two parts are On Earth and My University). It tells the story of Aletha's childhood from three to ten years old. The novel vividly reproduces the ending from when "I" followed my mother to find my grandfather to write, to when my grandfather called "I" to live on earth.
Childhood portrayed many characters with distinct personalities. For example, brave and upright Aletha, kind and optimistic grandmother, selfish and cruel grandfather, greedy and vicious uncles, happy "small measures" and persistent "good things". Grandfather opened a dye house, but with the decline of his family business, he became stingy, greedy, bossy and cruel, often beating his grandmother and children and ruthlessly exploiting workers. He beat me unconscious. Young Alisha was once crushed unconscious by branches. He also secretly lends usury and even encourages his helpers to steal things. The two uncles are also rude and selfish philistines, fighting for property all day long and abusing their wives crazily. In such a family full of cruelty and hatred, young Alisha realized the pain and ugliness of the world prematurely.
Speaking of Gorky, some scholars believe that students who love reading are no strangers. We had already learned his articles when we were in primary school, such as the sentence "Let the storm come more violently!" I don't know how many young people use it to give themselves chicken blood!
Maxim Gorky was the founder of Soviet literature, and Lenin called him "the most outstanding representative of proletarian art". Gorky's parents died when he was a child. Since he was a child, he had to wander in the society and suffered countless hardships. But like everyone else, Gorky is also a good boy who loves reading. No matter what the circumstances, he never forgets to study. His rich life experiences in his early years have accumulated materials for his writing, which eventually made him a world-famous great writer.
Today, a scholar will introduce the first part of Gorky's autobiographical trilogy "Childhood", "On Earth" and "My University-Childhood".
This childhood is actually Gorky's real life experience from the age of four to ten, and the realistic prototype of the protagonist Aletha in the book is Gorky himself.
Alisha has been the son of bad karma since she was a child. At the age of four, his father died. After burying his father, he and his mother went to grandpa's house. Although the death of her father brought a fatal blow to orphans and widows, when she thought that she could live with her favorite grandmother in the future, young Alisha was full of longing for her future life.
Aletha likes grandma so much because grandma Kulina Ivanovna is not only kind and kind, but also loves life no matter how hard it is. She can sing and dance and tell all kinds of folk stories. Countless cold and lonely nights, little Alisha spent in grandma's beautiful story. "She is hunched, almost hunched, and she is very fat, but she can run lightly and flexibly, like a big cat and as soft as this cute little animal." Gorky describes his grandmother in this book.
But Alisha's grandpa and uncles and grandma are completely different people. Grandpa is selfish, greedy and grumpy, and likes to beat people with a whip. Aletha was a curious teenager when he was a child, which caused a lot of trouble. On one occasion, he was almost knocked unconscious by his grandfather and was ill in bed for several days. Grandpa's ruthlessness made him feel lonely and insecure in this family.