The father died of cholera. It was at this time that my mother gave birth to another baby brother. After the baby brother was born, I, my grandfather, and my mother went to bury my father, but I didn't feel the least bit sad about his death, but rather about the two frogs that were buried with him. Later, my younger brother also died, and on the way to my grandfather's house by boat, my mother and grandmother took my little brother to be buried. At that time, "I" was already sad that they didn't want me anymore, so I went to sleep. When I woke up, I found my grandmother sitting next to me. It was several days before we arrived in Niger, and as soon as we did, my mother became excited and introduced me to the family. But I didn't like "my" grandfather very much.
Chapter 2
The two uncles fought over the division of the family. Uncle Mikhail, poor and bored, instructed his young nephew to take a thimble and cuff it red and put it in the hand of Grigori, an old worker, intending to scald the old worker, but not realizing that he had scalded his maternal grandfather. Uncle Yaakov's son, Sasha, although young, also learned to do bad things: he encouraged "me" to take a white tablecloth to the dye pot and dye it blue, and as a result, "I" was beaten by his grandfather. After the beating, I lost consciousness and became very ill, during which Grandfather brought gifts to visit me at my bedside and told me stories about his youth. Then Ivan came to see me and taught me how to ease the pain of the beatings.
Chapter 3
The main point: Grandfather and his uncles all wanted to get Tzigane into their lives because they were going to open dye houses in the future, and they wanted to get Tzigane to work there. The uncles were always trying to play tricks on Master Grigori P32.Little Tzigane's life: Little Tzigane was an abandoned baby, and Grandmother found him in front of the house on a rainy night P93.Little Tzigane told me a series of funny things. At the lively family dance, Uncle Yakov was happily playing the guitar, Tzigane danced uncontrollably, and Grandmother's dancing was very attractive P35-41. I was a little afraid of Master's eyes, which could see through everything, but Tzigane told me that Master was a good man, so there was no need to be afraid of him P43. Tzigane used to go to the market to shop and steal to save Grandfather's money, and his two uncles always praised Tzigane's ability to work, and thought that he was a good worker. So Grandfather and the uncles all wanted to please Tzigane P45-48.Tzigane died a horrible death from carrying the cross: Tzigane fell when he was carrying the cross, and the two uncles, afraid of hurting themselves, rushed to throw away the cross, which resulted in the cross smashing Tzigane to death, and there was a direct connection between Tzigane's death and his selfish and despicable uncles P48-53.
Chapter Four
Grandmother Often prayed to God and told Him the family business from beginning to end. "I" often asked for stories about God. When she spoke of God, heaven, and angels, she looked kind; her face became much younger, and her moist eyes glowed with a special warmth. One day, as she was kneeling to pray, Grandfather suddenly came in and said there was a fire. Grandmother commanded sternly, with a firm voice, while grandfather only whimpered, and "I" looked at the fire and was terrified, only to see that, in the midst of the people's consternation, she held the sulfate drilled out. Everyone listened to her, and the fire was finally extinguished. Just before going to sleep, the house was busy again, aunt Natalia was going to give birth. Later, I woke up and learned that Aunt Natalia had died in childbirth. "I felt another piece of something swelling up in my head and heart, and what I saw in the house was like a loaded car on a winter street slowly passing over me. "I see in this house as if a heavy car on a winter street were slowly passing over me, crushing everything. ......
Chapter 5
The uncles divided the family. Grandfather bought a new home on Main Street and the family moved there, and Alyosha made a favorable impression on Nanny Akulina. In the meantime, his mother comes once, but leaves again. Grandmother tells Alyosha about previous experiences, and Alyosha recalls that he was drinking tea in his room with Grandfather, Grandmother. Grandfather tells Alyosha to read and tells him stories about his mother and about the Russians and the French, Alyosha is impressed by Napoleon, Grandfather often beats Grandmother when he talks to her, Alyosha is disgusted by this and comforts Grandmother.
Chapter VI
One evening, when the family was quiet, Yakov Gyulchu burst in, saying that Uncle Michal was drunk at his place, and that he was going to kill Grandfather, and Grandfather, while storming, showed great distrust of Uncle Yakov, who mumbled and piled up in a corner, and Grandfather became even more furious. When I heard that my savage uncle was going to beat my grandfather, I was afraid, and my grandmother told me to go upstairs to "keep watch", and I felt proud again, and looked down from the window, and I felt bored, bored, and at that moment I saw Uncle Michal, and I went to report it to my grandfather, and he told me to go back to the attic, and I thought of my mother, and I thought about her even more, and suddenly, Michal rushed downstairs, and he told me to go back to the attic, and I thought of my mother, and I thought of her even more, and I thought of her even more. Suddenly, Michal rushed downstairs, ready to push himself into the door, and Grandfather and Yaakov and his friend Merijan pushed him out, and eventually Michal fell into the street, and the door was locked.
Grandmother sat there motionless, repenting for her son, and it reminded me of another time when Michal brought some rascals to the house to make trouble, and on that occasion Grandmother had her bones broken by something smashing through the window, and Michal was imprisoned in the attic, and I thought about my mother. bones, and Michal was locked up in the hayloft, and Grandfather was both grief-stricken and helpless.
Chapter 7
Grandfather and Grandmother have different gods.
The tavern-mistress had a quarrel with Grandfather and them also, and I locked him in the cellar to get back at him, and Grandmother Co. was so angry that she rebuked me and released the fierce woman herself, and from then on I was much closer to Grandmother's God.
Every time I prayed with my grandfather, it was difficult, his God was fierce and rigid, and the difference in thinking between the grandparents made my grandfather go and beat my grandmother.
I always went to the street with the children everyone, often squash, because the brutality in the street made me feel angry, I saw with my own eyes how those ruthless children tortured Igorsha. And the most saddening, is blind Grigori, pop for grandmother is very good to him, but I squirm to look at him, at the same time slutty woman Voronikha is also intimidating
Later grandmother saved a small pachyderm, and raised him, but grandfather was extremely disgusted, because the pachyderm teased him from time to time. The atmosphere in the house was very depressing.
Chapter 8
Grandfather sells the house to the tavern owner and buys another lovely house. In this new place, "I" met many neighbors with different personalities, fat Petrovna, a soldier, his wife, etc., and the "good thing". He was a man who devoted himself to science, did not dress well, and made a mess of his room with his experiments. "I was curious at first and climbed up to the roof to watch him through the window. Later, the "good thing" took "me" into his room, "I" watched him doing experiments for a while, then he was politely told not to come back. "I was angry and puzzled. From the beginning, my grandfather despised and even loathed "good things" because he was always secretive and made a mess of the room. In the fall, when there were entertaining parties, "Good Things" was always silent, but only when Grandmother told poetic stories about punishing the evil and promoting the good did he become excited, how he longed for the light! Soon, he and I became friends, and the mantra "good things" was on his lips all day long. "Good things" can patiently listen to "me", and tell "me" some truths. Once, my grandfather and I helped a countryman who was being beaten up by a group of citizens in the square, and "Good Thing" knew about it and thought that my grandmother and I had done a good job. However, Grandfather and the others became more and more displeased with the Good Thing and accused him of printing counterfeit money. In the end, he was forced to move "I" and such a good and upright intellectual separated.
Chapter 9
The nine chapters can be divided into two parts: the first part is about "my good friend, Uncle Peter"; the good things, Grandfather, and Peter's tree were hit by a new old man with a sarcoma on his head with a loose bullet, but fortunately it was nothing serious; Uncle Peter told me about the old days; and I was tricked by the two big brothers into going to the Bertram's yard to ask for money. to spit on the bald head of one of the lords in Bertram's yard and they went to steal his dog, which resulted in a bunch of people from Bertram's house coming to my house. The two older brothers ran out into the street and I was beaten up; the novel emphasizes the effect of adult storytelling on children. The coachman often tells me stories, although he is a much better storyteller than Grandma and Grandpa. The best episode of this chapter is the friendship between "I" and the three brothers: the three brothers and I met, the oldest three fell into the well, I helped them out of the oldest three; the next part of the story is about the friendship between "I" and the "three young masters". "The next part is about the friendship between me and the three young masters. "Friends have an important influence on the formation of one's "spiritual outlook" and worldview. The mother of the three brothers is dead, and there is a stepmother. The novel truthfully describes my feelings of affection and envy for the three young masters. My grandmother supports my friendship with the three brothers, but my grandfather, the father of the three brothers, Colonel Ovsyannikov, forbids them to get acquainted with each other, and even Peter, the coachman, firmly opposes it. The coachman and I had a quarrel, and this "quarrel" became a link between the first and the next two articles, the last thing to write about Uncle Peter's depression and dementia, and his mute nephew went to the countryside to get married; in my backyard, the police came, and the dead man was Uncle Peter.
Chapter 10
Mother came back to surprise me, but when she came, there was a watery argument, Grandfather was shivering with anger, Grandmother comforted him, and I have never seen them so good. My mother began to teach me to memorize poems, but I didn't want to learn them, so I continued to learn them so that my mother wouldn't be sad. After a few days of peace and quiet, a "war" broke out. My grandfather had found a husband for my mother, and she didn't want to marry him. After the argument, they were as calm and quiet as if nothing had happened. This kind of argument is not stimulating me anymore.
Chapter 11
Mother was very beautifully dressed and used to go out with her friends; Sasha, Uncle Mikhail's son, was living in his grandmother's house because he was ostracized by his stepmother; "I" went to school with Sasha but Sasha skipped school and his grandfather got angry and "I "Both Sasha and I are beaten up. I want to be an officer and Sasha wants to be a bandit. "When I got out of smallpox, my grandmother told me a love story about my father and my mother. My father married my mother behind my grandfather's back, and for the first few days of their marriage, even my grandmother didn't know where they lived, and then my grandfather gradually accepted my father and let my mother live with my father. mother and father to come home to live. Father was well-behaved and capable. Her two uncles often bullied her, but father never cared and helped them escape police investigation. Mother was so angry that she and Father left Grandfather's house together. The maternal grandfather was also much gentler to the mother and took out the impounded costumes and dressed up his daughter properly. The relationship between father and daughter improved dramatically. The mother's heart made a group of flamboyant friends, and the grandmother felt annoyed and bitter.
Chapter XII
I felt my feet, and came to bring up my mother's room, which contained several strangers, among whom Maximoff was to be my stepfather. I y detested the old woman and his son, and I received many beatings for it. I built a project in the garden, while my maternal grandfather intended to sell the house. Mother and Maximov got married. Mother and stepfather left for Moscow. Grandfather began to quarrel constantly with grandmother and threw her out of the house. In the fall Grandfather sold the house and moved to the dimly lit basement. Soon my mother returned and my stepfather lost all his money. I lived in a house in the town of Somov and went to school. Teachers and priests did not like me. There was a new priest who was very kind, and he made me less mischievous. I took one ruble of my mother's money and sold two books, which my mother found out about and confiscated my copy of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales. The news of my taking the money reached the school, and I never wanted to go to school again for that reason. I heard my stepfather beating my mother.
Chapter 13
Characters in this chapter:Alyosha, Grandfather, Grandmother, Vezhir, Churka, Habibi, Kostroma, Mother, Stepfather.
Brief summary of the chapter: Alyosha returns to her maternal grandfather's house, which by this time has been separated from her maternal grandmother. Grandmother and Alyosha lived a very hard and difficult life, for which Alyosha went out on the street to collect rags for a living, and gave the money he earned to Grandmother, who praised him. Once, he found his grandmother crying with the money. When picking up rags, Alyosha met a few friends, they live a difficult life, but they cherish each other's friendship, once with Alyosha to steal wood to sell money. Mother came, she gave birth to a little brother, but soon, the little brother once again died, the mother could not bear the pain of the loss of children, and finally died. Grandfather told Alyosha to go to the "earth" fugitives, he buried his mother, had to go to the "earth"
The feeling of this chapter "Childhood" ended with the tragic death of his mother, and the last picture to the The word "poor" sums it up." I" grew up in this situation, stepped into the "earth", and began the life of the heart, the whole text is full of bleak