Synopsis of Chapter 2:
When he was twelve years old, Paul Kochakin left school. Because the make-up exam, he spilled cigarette ashes on the dough of the Easter cake made by the Vasily priest's family. As a last resort, Paul followed his mother to work in the station's canteen, where he was sent by his boss to the washhouse, where he was in charge of some menial and dirty work, such as burning the tea-stove, wiping knives and forks and pouring dirty water.
While working in the canteen, Paul was oppressed by the boss's wife and saw the hardship and poverty of the people at the bottom of the society, and hated the rich people who spent their time drinking. Soon, his brother Arjom gets him a job at the power plant and Paul leaves the cafeteria.
News came that the tsar had been overthrown. But nothing much changed in the lives of the townspeople, except that more and more soldiers called "Bolsheviks" appeared in the town. There were changes in the town and some of the rich people fled.
The Red Army soldiers appeared and the townspeople were given guns by the Red Army. Soon, the Red Army retreats and the Germans come in and they demand that the citizens pay for their guns. The rich and wealthy return.
Expanded InformationThe return of the main character profile: Paul Kochagin was born into a poor Ukrainian family of railroad workers, lost his father at an early age, very poor. All rely on his mother to do the laundry and cooking for people to make ends meet, until after his brother's work, there is no improvement. He later went to work for the provincial purge committee. His wife was Daya Kochagina, the third lover.
How Iron is Made is a masterpiece of Soviet socialist literature, and the main achievement of the work is the creation of Paul Kochagin as an artistic archetype.
The author, in portraying this character, strictly follows the reality of life, and does not regard Paul's strong will and strong character as innate, but believes that it is tempered in heroic battles and hard labor, in hard study and strict discipline.
The novel realistically and profoundly depicts the broad picture of life in the Ukrainian region before and after the October Revolution, and shapes the glorious image of a generation of heroes represented by Paul Kochagin. The childhood of the main character, Paul Kochagin, is characterized by a life of misery at the bottom of the hierarchy.
Young Paul was arrested for saving the old Bolshevik Juhlai who fell into the hands of the enemy, and showed his steadfastness in prison, and joined the army after his release from prison, and fought in Kotovsky's cavalry brigade and Bujumbura's cavalry regiment, and fought bloodily, and made the doctors admire him for his amazing endurance after being seriously injured.
Leaving the army after discharge, whether it is doing **** Youth League work, purges and anti-revolutionary work or to participate in the construction of railroads and hard labor, have demonstrated adherence to the truth and not afraid of the fearlessness of hardship and danger, and also in the issue of love has a serious attitude and spirituality, brutal war, hard labor, heavy work so that Paul was sick and blind, the whole body is paralyzed, but he is amazing with the But he engaged in literary creation with amazing perseverance, and eventually achieved success.