Reading: Revisiting How Steel is Made

Lately, I've been bored, revisiting the book "How Steel is Made" that I read when I was a child, and now at the age of 30, I re-read it and have a new understanding.

In a nutshell a few feelings:

1, this is a children's book, the content as a whole is relatively dry for adults. All aspects of the storyline, the background of the times, wars, doctrines, friendships, and love are almost understated, and when they are fascinating, they immediately stop abruptly and make people look very unsentimental. (Of course, this question is not known whether the original version has been greatly deleted)

2. The writing is mediocre and the plot of the running account is flowing. The writing of the novel is simple and unpretentious, and it is mediocre to say that it is not good, I don't know if it is a problem of translation, and it always feels like reading it is looking at the flow account homework without beauty and wonderful plot description.

3, the role shaping power is not enough, there are too many face-facing characters. In addition to the protagonist Paul mentor Zhu Helai is more impressed, other characters feel too facial, including the protagonist in the first appearance of the "good guy" or "bad guy", compared to Jin Yong's martial arts novel "Steel" is really inferior in this regard.

4. Promote violence, class hatred, and hatred of the rich. Although the protagonist Paul has lived a hard life since he was a child and has been oppressed poorly, the whole novel is full of ideas such as cynicism, class hatred, and violent revolution, and the novel is vague on the question of how oppression and hatred are formed and why it is fought, which is very easy to mislead young readers.

5, the product of a specific era, lamenting the encounters of small people. Although the protagonist Paul is a very firm and resolute revolutionary, indomitable encountered any difficulties are difficult to face the disability of the courage is commendable, but also have to remind me of a movie "Mad Dog Johnny", before and after participating in the movement, in fact, the people and things around me did not feel that there was too much essential change, how everyone should live their lives, no more will not be repeated, only with a sentence "Hillside Sheep Tong Cares for the Ancient" "Xing, the people are suffering." Death, the people suffer" concluded with this reading note.