1: Reaching for the stars means ideal, having goals, and daring to innovate. He hopes to pluck the stars that are out of reach and is full of hope and confidence in life.
2: It is a metaphor for frustration and failure. First, it uses personification to take Qingkong and the earth to ridicule him, and then writes about reporters’ ridicule of him, showing that most people ridicule him.
3: Omitting the development of the times and the progress of people’s civilization. At this time, he was very calm and still working towards his dream. Failure after failure did not defeat him. In his years to come, more and more star-catchers emerged. More than 2,000 years later, a young man named Mao Zedong succeeded. The Communist Party of China led by him ended the 2,000-year-old feudal dynasty.