Good Book Recommendation: No. 34
How Steel is Made
Author: [Su] Ni Ostrovsky
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Reasons for recommendation
All our lives, we have been trying to meet the best of ourselves. If you want to make a good piece of steel, you have to withstand thousands of hammers.
How Steel is Made depicts the protagonist, Paul Kochagin, living a harsh life during the First World War, the October Revolution, the Civil War, and the recovery of the national economy.
Paul lost his father at an early age and his family was poor.
At the age of 12, his mother sent him to the station canteen as a handyman and was humiliated. The October Revolution broke out, and the old Bolshevik Juhle did underground work in the town. Juhle taught Paul many things about revolution, the working class, and the class struggle.
Once, Paul accidentally jumped into Tonya's garden, and thus fell in love with Tonya. Paul suffered serious injuries to the head during the fierce battle.
After being discharged from the hospital, he participated in the work of restoring and building the country, and the ideological gap between him and Tonya grew wider and wider, and he parted ways. Towards the end of the road construction, Paul contracted typhoid fever.
In 1927, he was almost completely paralyzed and then blinded in both eyes. On the one hand, he was determined to help his wife Daya progress; on the other hand, he decided to start a literary work.
A person's growth must be tempered and will never go out of style. Learning to endure hardship is the best practice on the road of life.
Being able to endure hardship is the best practice on the road of life.
When Paul was young, he overheard a senior teacher at school saying that the Earth had existed for millions of years.
But father Vasily gave them a Bible lesson that said the earth was only five thousand years old.
So in class, he asked this question.
Who knows that this fairy tale is unscrupulous, but it offends the priest.
What he had long believed in and taught was questioned in public, and he felt that he had lost face.
Since then, he has always found various reasons to hit Paul, such as pricking his ears, standing in the corner, driving out of the classroom, etc., and constantly humiliating Paul.
Until that time, Paul had thrown a handful of soot in retaliation in the priest's Easter hair.
This move, which led to an angry priest, directly asked the school to expel Paul.
In desperation, 12-year-old Paul was sent by his mother to the station canteen to cook tea stoves for people and live a busy life day and night.
From early in the morning, he chopped firewood, boiled water, wiped dishes, poured dirty water, baked towels, and was on duty until late at night.
However, he is not afraid of hard work and is industrious. During this period, he worked more than anyone else, not only earned a long salary, but also became an indispensable helper for the canteen.
It is this kind of hard-working experience that makes little Paul hone his tenacity and perseverance, and also from the lowest point of view, he is in contact with the real society.
He felt the warmth and coldness of life, the good and evil of human nature, and saw the beauty and ugliness of the world.
He understood the difficulties of survival, the difficulties of life, and learned to be grateful and cherished.
Born as a human being, there must be suffering.
"When he looks back on the past, he will not regret his inaction and wasted his years, nor will he feel guilty because he was despicable and his life is vulgar."
Paul lived only 32 years. However, his life burned like a fiery fire, infecting everyone around him.
On the battlefield, he fought bravely to kill the enemy, and when his whole body was attacked by stray bullets and he lost consciousness, he miraculously survived the difficulties and survived.
In the course of revolutionary construction, he worked selflessly and suffered from severe typhoid fever, and once again with a strong will, he made a smooth recovery.
In the darkness, the god of death passed him many times, but he was finally defeated because of his iron will.
The last time, he was blind and paralyzed in bed.
Savor the book and savor Paul's spirit. More and more we feel that we should draw nourishment from the paul spirit, strengthen our ideals and beliefs, and establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life and values.
There is a saying in the book: "Human life is the most precious." When he looks back, he should not regret his inaction. ”
Looking back on Paul's life, it was too hard, but he still kept improving himself.
Turgenev said: "Do you want to be a happy person?" Then first of all, we must learn to endure hardships. Whoever can endure hardships, all misfortunes can be endured. ”
May we all endure hardship and be strong in suffering.