The old man hit a goldfish and put her back into the sea without any reward. This incident shows that the old man is a kind person. However, when the old woman learned about it, she swore and forced the old man to ask the goldfish for a new wooden basin.
The goldfish met the old woman's requirements. But the old woman swore again and asked the old man to have another wooden house. The goldfish gave her a wooden house.
The third time, the old woman claimed that she was "unwilling to be the queen of freedom" and "wanted to be the overlord of the sea", and asked the goldfish to serve her personally and obey her orders.
This time, the goldfish not only didn't agree to her request, but also took back everything she had given her before. When the old man came back from the seaside, he saw "the same cabin" and "the same broken wooden basin" in front of the old woman. Goldfish did this because she had seen that the old woman's greedy heart would never be satisfied.
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The Fisherman and the Goldfish is a fairy tale narrative poem written by Pushkin, a great Russian writer and poet. This famous fairy tale poem tells the story of an old fisherman's wife who was insatiable and never satisfied, and put forward higher and higher requirements for the goldfish who finally got nothing in return for her kindness.
The whole poem castigates those who are fierce, greedy and get something for nothing, while criticizing the old fisherman's tolerance and forbearance for ugly behavior and his weakness, and inspiring us to create a better life with our own efforts.
The sections of the whole poem *** 10 are separated by blank lines, and the full text is arranged in the order of things.
Section 1~2 explains the cause of the story. This paper briefly introduces these characters, their identities and the place where things happened. The old fisherman caught a talking goldfish. The goldfish begged the old man to let it go and promised to give him a valuable reward.
Sections 3-8 tell the story of development. The old woman asked the goldfish for a wooden basin, a wooden house and a lady, and the goldfish promised her one by one.
Section 9~ 10 tells the result of the development of things. The old woman proposed to be the overlord of the sea, and the goldfish took everything back from her. The old woman went back to the past and became nothing.
When telling stories, poetry mainly describes the characters' hearts and personalities with their dialogues and actions, and reflects the changes of goldfish with the changes of the sea, that is, from repaying kindness to strong dissatisfaction, and finally to restoring the poverty of the old woman, telling people that greed will never end well.
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