How Steel Is Made (Russian: Как закалялась сталь) is a full-length novel by Soviet writer Nikolai Ostrovsky, written in 1933. The novel tells the story of Paul . Kochagin's path of growth, tell people that only in the revolution of the hard and difficult to overcome the enemy also overcome themselves, only in the pursuit of their own and the interests of the motherland and the people of the time linked together, will create a miracle, will grow into a steel warrior. The revolutionary's transformation into steel through struggle is an important theme of the novel.In 1942, the Soviet Union made a movie of the same name based on the original novel.
Author Introduction
N. Ostrovsky (1904-1936) was a famous Soviet inspirational writer Bolshevik. Since the release of his novel The making of steel, he has become a friend and role model for millions of aspiring young people around the world, along with Paul Kochagin. 1904, Ostrovsky was born in Ukraine into a working-class family, with his father working as a seasonal laborer at a brewery, and his mother as a cook at a large family home. As a result, he only had three years of schooling and began working for a living around the age of ten. Ostrovsky worked in various occupations, such as herding horses for other people, working as a boy in a station canteen, working as an assistant stoker in a power plant, etc. His poor and humiliating life cultivated his hatred for the old world and his character of resistance, and at the age of thirteen he began to take an active part in revolutionary activities. In 1918, Ostrovsky's hometown was once occupied by the German army, he risked his life to complete the task assigned to him by the organization to collect information about the enemy and post the revolutionary bulletin on the sentry hut of the German command, which demonstrated his resourcefulness, bravery, and fearlessness of sacrifice, and was praised by his comrades. Nikolai Alexeevich Ostrovsky In July 1919, Ostrovsky's hometown established the **** Youth League, he became a member of the first generation of the **** Youth League, and participated in the Red Army to go to the front to fight with the White bandits. The following year, during a fierce battle, he was wounded in the head and abdomen, and his right eye was blinded as a result of the injury. Severe injuries forced Ostrov to leave the ranks. However, as soon as his injuries improved, he turned to labor and construction with a high degree of revolutionary self-consciousness, first working as an assistant electrician in a railroad factory, and then voluntarily enrolling in a commando unit to put in the hard labor of building railroads. On the construction site, he contracted typhoid fever and rheumatism, often in a coma. Before he recovered from this serious illness, he actively participated in the intense labor of salvaging firewood on the Dibnye River. Because of the long time soaking in waist-deep ice water, resulting in rheumatism is more serious, and soon broke out multiple arthritis, pneumonia. Since then lost the minimum health, and worsening, to 1929, his whole body paralyzed, blind, completely lost the ability to move, but he was not pessimistic and depressed, "as long as the heart has not stopped beating, we must make ourselves a useful person to the party." Learning to create literature was the "ticket to life" that Ostrovsky found while lying on his sickbed. At the end of 1927, while struggling with his illness, Ostrovsky wrote a middle-grade novel about the growth and development of the Kotov Cavalry Brigade and its heroic campaigns. Two months later the novel was finished, he sealed it and asked his wife to send it to his comrades in the Kotov Cavalry Brigade in Odessa for their comments, who enthusiastically evaluated it, but never thought that the manuscript would be lost by the post office on its way back to the mail. This unexpected blow was too cruel for him, but it did not dampen his strong will, and while attending the Sverdlov****ist Correspondence University, he began to conceptualize a much larger novel, How Iron is Made.The novel was published in 1934, with great success, and he was absorbed into the Writers' Association of the USSR. Subsequently, Ostrovsky began work on another set of three-step novels, Born of the Storm, in recognition of his creative labors and outstanding contributions to literature. in December 1936, due to a recurrence of a serious illness, Ostrovsky passed away in Moscow. Nii Ostrovsky was a native of the former Soviet Union. His father was a brewery worker, and he also did odd jobs in other villages or in the city. He also worked as a letter carrier for five years. He traveled to Petersburg, served in the army, came into contact with progressive university students, and knew stories of revolutionaries fighting against the tsar. His mother came from a poor family and at a young age had to work for others, herding geese, planting vegetables and taking care of the children. They married and had six children, two of whom died young. Ostrovsky was the youngest, with two sisters and a brother above him. Besides doing housework and bringing up the children, his mother also did needlework and worked as a maid. When he was ten years old, due to the outbreak of the First World War, the family fled the war and settled in Dzepetovka. At this time, life became even more difficult. At the age of eleven, Ostrovsky entered the local train station cafeteria as a boy, and at the age of fourteen, he entered the power plant and worked as a stoker, electrician, and also sawed wood, unloaded coal and other miscellaneous work. He grew up with a strong desire to learn, eager to study, but only intermittently attended school for a few years. In school, he not only got good grades, but was also very active and a good assistant to the teacher. He tried his hand at writing fairy tales, short stories and poems, and published his work in the student-run and handwritten "magazine" "Colors of Youth". He also liked to act in plays and loved to play heroic roles on stage. He dropped out of school several times, mostly because of poverty, and once because he offended the priest who taught theology. So the boy borrowed books any way he could, even giving up his lunch to the newspaper vendor in exchange for a newspaper to read. At the age of twelve he read the masterpiece of the English woman writer Voynich, "The Gadfly", and since then the image of the gadfly was y imprinted in his heart.
Biography
N. Alexeevich Ostrovsky was born in 1904 to a working family. After graduating from elementary school, he had to leave school to work because of his family's poverty. 1919, he joined the Soviet **** Youth League and participated in the Red Army to fight against the white bandits. 1923-1924, he worked for the **** Youth League. 1924, he joined the **** Proletariat. 1927, he was paralyzed due to illness and lost his eyesight. With amazing perseverance, he wrote the novels "How Steel is Made" and "Born of the Storm", which depicted the experience of the Soviet youth growing up in the revolutionary furnace based on his personal experience. How Iron is Made" was translated into Chinese as early as 1942, and the main character of the book, Paul Kochagin, became a role model for Chinese youths. (At that time, the first chapter of "Born of the Storm" had only been written, and the manuscript was still being typeset in the printing house.) The suffering and heaviness of real life, and the perseverance and glory of the characters in the book made the boy understand and mature. He helped the Bolshevik underground to post leaflets and spy for information. When he was fifteen years old, he was walking down the street when he suddenly spotted a member of the underground revolutionary committee being escorted head-on by a heavily armed bandit soldier. Without thinking, he lunged at the bandit soldier. The revolutionary was saved, but he was arrested. The boy was tortured, but he survived without uttering a word. The Red Army and the insurgents defeated the bandits. In July of the same year, Ostrovsky joined the **** Youth League; in August, he volunteered to join the Red Army and went to the front with the troops to be tested by the fire of war. He served as a cavalryman and a scout, and traveled all over the world. This young man, not only jumped on the horse and wielded the sword, fighting bravely, received written awards, but also good at inspiring comrades, showing the talent of propaganda and agitation. In August of the following year, Ostrovsky was seriously wounded in the abdomen and head, and spent two months in a field hospital bed, often in a coma. After his release from the hospital, he retained only two-fifths of the sight in his right eye and was transferred to the local area. He took part in the work of the Soviet Anti-Committee, worked as an electrician's assistant in the Railway General Factory, and was elected as the secretary of the Youth League branch, while studying in the electrician's technical school. At the age of seventeen, he took the lead in the arduous work of building a railroad spur. On the railroad site, many people lost their lives to harsh conditions, disease, and sneak attacks by gangs. Ostrovsky gritted his teeth and worked as hard as he could. But as he neared completion, his knees became red and swollen. He had difficulty walking and contracted typhoid fever. He fell into a coma and was sent home. Under the care of his mother, he barely survived. After returning to the factory, he labored while studying at the technical school. Injured and sick, he could not withstand the excessive hard work, and his health got worse and worse, he was sent to a sanatorium for mud therapy. When his condition improved a little, he returned to Kiev and, together with many members of the **** Youth League, salvaged timber in the knee-deep, bone-chilling cold water of the river. Again he fell ill. At the age of eighteen, a medical commission issued him a certificate of first-degree invalidity. He hid the certificate and asked for a job. After that, he became the secretary of the district committee of the regiment, the political commissar of the national military training battalion, a member of the regional regiment committee, and an alternate member of the provincial committee of the regiment. At the age of twenty, he joined the Party and was once the secretary of the Provincial Party Committee. Unfortunately, he was in a car accident, right knee injury, caused chronic disease, joints red, swollen and painful. Difficulty in moving, only twenty-three years old, he was paralyzed, and both eyes gradually lost their eyesight. From then on, he traveled to and from hospitals, treatment did not improve. Twenty-six years old, accept the ninth operation, after the incision suture, there is a cotton ball left in the body. If anesthesia was administered to a weak patient, he was afraid that it would damage his heart and endanger his life. He offered to cut the incision without anesthesia and remove the cotton ball. He did not utter a single moan, but his fever was high after the operation and did not subside for eight days. After this, he flatly refused any operation, saying, "I have already given a portion of my blood for science; let me save the rest for something else." In hospitals and sanatoriums all over the world, he made many friends, some of whom were revolutionaries of the older generation. In between treatments, he utilized what was left of his eyesight to read a great deal of excellent literature, including the works of such writers as Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, Sholokhov, Balzac, Hugo, Zola, and Dreiser. He attended a correspondence university and at the same time wrote a middle grade novel reflecting life in combat. Unfortunately, the only manuscript of the novel was lost on the way back to his comrades in the field after reading it. At the age of twenty-six, he started to write a long novel "How Steel is Made"; at the age of twenty-seven, he completed the first part, which was published the following year. At the age of thirty, the second part of "How Iron is Made" came out. At the age of thirty-one, he was awarded the Order of Lenin; at the age of thirty-two, on December 14, 1936, he finished proofreading another long story, "Born of the Storm" (Part I). Eight days later, on December 22, he died. And this book answers the question: How is "steel" made? He was born in 1904 into a working-class family. After graduating from elementary school, he worked as a handyman. In 1919, he joined the power plant as a stoker's assistant. In the same year, he joined the **** Youth League, and joined the Red Army to the front. In 1920, he was demobilized due to serious injury and worked as an assistant electrician in a railroad factory. From 1923 to 1924 he was a leader of the **** Youth League in the border area of Ukraine. In 1924 he joined the ****anist party. In 1927, due to the deterioration of his condition, he became paralyzed and blind. In 1934 Ostrovsky joined the Soviet Writers' Association. In 1935 the Soviet government awarded him the Order of Lenin in recognition of his literary merits. From 1934, he began to write his long novel "Born of the Storm" (the first of a trilogy), which reflected the struggle of the proletariat for Soviet power during the civil war, and completed it in 1936. On December 22, 1936, he died of illness.
Synopsis
Paul, born into a poor family of railroad workers, lost his father at an early age, and relied on his mother to do the laundry and cover meals to make ends meet. He was expelled from school because he hated the priest who usually looked down on him as a poor man's child and often treated him unfairly by spreading soot on the priest's Easter cake. 12 years old, his mother sent him to the station canteen as an odd-job man, where he suffered a lot of abuse. He hated shopkeepers who oppressed the poor, and loathed rich people who drank and drank. "After the outbreak of the October Revolution, the imperialists and reactionaries tried to strangle the new Soviet regime. Paul's hometown of Shepetovka, Ukraine, also experienced years of foreign armed intervention and civil war. The Red Army liberated the town of Shepetovka, but soon withdrew. (For this reason, Paul was once given a gun. But since the Germans wanted to confiscate the weapon, Paul's brother, Artyom, smashed Paul's gun for fear that the Germans would find it and shoot him.) Only the old Bushwick Juhlai is left to do underground work in the town. During a fishing trip, Paul befriends the forester's daughter, Tonya. and strengthens his friendship with him after an unexpected meeting. Once he stole a pistol belonging to a lieutenant who lived next door at the Lesinsky house, but it was a good scare. Once, Zhu Helai suddenly came to Paul and stayed at Paul's house for eight days, telling Paul many truths about the revolution, the working class and the class struggle; Zhu Helai was the initial leader of Paul's journey on the road to revolution. One day, Juhlai was captured by the White Bandits. Paul inquired everywhere about his whereabouts, and while the bandit soldiers were on their way to escort Juhlai, Paul pounced on them, knocked them down in a trench, and escaped with Juhlai. Due to the informing of Viktor, the son of Polish aristocrat Leszczynski, Paul was taken to prison. In prison, Paul withstood the torture, strong and unyielding. In anticipation of a visit to the town by the White Bandit "leader" Petliura, an officer mistakenly released Paul as a common prisoner. He was afraid to go home for fear of falling back into the clutches of the devil, so he couldn't help but come to Tonya's garden gate and jumped into the garden. Since Paul had rescued Tonya from the last fishing trip, and since she liked his "passionate and stubborn" character, she was delighted by his arrival. Paul also feels that Tonya is different from other rich girls, and they both feel a misty love for each other. In order to take refuge, he agrees to Tonya's request and stays. A few days later, Tonya found Paul's brother, Artyom, who sent his brother Kochagin to join the Red Army in Khachadin. Paul joined the army as a scout and later as a cavalryman. He was a daring soldier on the battlefield and an excellent political propagandist. He was especially fond of reading "The Gadfly" and "Spartacus", and often read or told stories to his comrades. During a fierce battle, he was seriously wounded in the head, but he overcame death with tenacity. His physical condition prevented him from returning to the front, so he immediately devoted himself to restoring and building the country. He did regimental work, purges, and unselfishly devoted himself to hard physical labor. Especially hard was the work of building railroads; autumn rains, mud, heavy snow, frozen soil, lack of food and clothing for all, open-air lodging, and the attack of armed bandits and the threat of disease. During this time there was a crisis of love between him and Tonya, whose vulgar individualism revolted him. By the time he saw her again during the construction of the railroad, she was married to a wealthy engineer. Paul in the railroad factory as secretary of the Communist Youth League, and the Communist Youth League member Lida in the work of frequent contact, but Paul to "gadfly" spirit to resist their feelings for Lida, and later he mistook Lida's brother for her lover, and finally determined to cut off their feelings, and thus lost the opportunity to fall in love with her. When the road construction work was about to end, Paul got typhoid fever and caused pneumonia, and the organization had to send Paul back to his hometown to recuperate. Halfway there, it was mistakenly rumored that Paul had died, but for the fourth time, Paul overcame death and returned to earth. After recovering from his illness, he returned to work and joined the Party. Due to all kinds of injuries and illnesses and forgetfulness of work and labor, Paul's health is getting worse and worse, lost the ability to work, the party organization had to release him from work, so that he was hospitalized for a long time. While convalescing at the seaside, he met and fell in love with Daya, a female worker. Paul continued to help Daya progress, while beginning to study tenaciously to enhance the ability to write. In 1927, Paul was paralyzed, then blinded, and the ravages of the disease finally bound this passionate warrior to his bed. Paul also once had the idea of suicide, but he soon came out from the trough. This paralyzed, blind and without the slightest writing experience, began his heroic career - literary creation. Paul endured great physical and mental pain, first with cardboard made of frames to write. 6 months later, the written manuscript was lost when a friend sent it back, Paul was once discouraged. Later, he pulled himself together, dictated to himself and asked someone to record for him. With the help of his mother and wife, the novel he wrote with his life, Born of the Storm, was finally published! The iron ring of life had been completely shattered, and Paul took up a new weapon and began a new life.
Main Characters
Paul Kochagin (lovingly known as: Povlusha, popularly known as: Povka) Seryozha Bruszak - Paul's childhood friend, a soldier of the Red Army, the secretary of the district committee of the **** Youth League Varya Bruszak. -Seryozha's sister, a member of the Youth League Lida Ustinovich - a staff member of the Political Department of the Red Army Division, a member of the Standing Committee of the Youth League, Paul's true love Ivan Zarki - a Red Army soldier, a member of the Youth League, a member of the District Committee of the Youth League. Ignat Pankratov - longshoreman, secretary of the ****Youth League at the cargo terminal Nikolai Okunev - secretary of the ****Youth League at the locomotive depot, secretary of the ****Youth League district committee Fyodor Zhukhrai - sailor, Party underground member -Sailor, Party underground worker, Chairman of the Provincial Lustration Committee, Deputy Head of the Special Services Department of the Military District Dolnik -Carpenter, Party underground worker, Chairman of the Municipal Revolutionary Committee Akim - Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the ****Youth League, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian ****Youth League Tokarev - veteran pincer, head of the road construction engineering team, Secretary of the District Party Committee Alexander Puzilevsky - head of the Red Army Legenyov --Artyom Kochagin - Paul's brother, locksmith, chairman of the city soviet Politovsky - train driver Bruszczak - Zakhar Buru Zak - Seryozha's father, deputy train driver Maria Yakovlevna - Paul's mother, cook in the tax collector's house, devoted religious person Daya Kochagina (fondly known as Dayusha) - a woman worker, Paul's wife. -Danya Kochagina (nickname: Dajusha) - a working woman, Paul's wife Tonya Tumanova - Paul's teenage girlfriend, the forester's daughter, Paul's first love Dmitry Dubava - the secretary of the district committee of the ****Youth League, a Trotskyist Volodya Tuvta - the secretary of the district committee of the ****Youth League, a Trotskyist Tuvta - head of the Registration and Distribution Department of the Provincial Committee of the **** Youth League, Trotskyist Tsvetaev - secretary of the Railway Factory Committee, Trotskyist Vasily Vasily - a member of the Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party (USRP). Counterrevolutionary Viktor Leszczynski - Polish hereditary nobleman, high school student, informer, traitor Petliura - leader of the White Bandits, gang leader, nobleman Dumanov - Tonya's father, forest officer Neli Lesinskaya - Polish hereditary nobleman, Viktor's sister Pavel Korchagin Paul Kochagin
Characterization
The greatest achievement of the novel "How Iron is Made" is the success of the portrayal of the character of Paul . Kochagin, under the cultivation of the Bolshevik Party, in the fire of the revolution and the hard environment to work out the typical image of the new ****productivist. His love and hatred of the class position, noble moral style, high revolutionary passion, miraculous vitality and strong will of steel, writing a magnificent poem of dedicating everything to the party and the people. Paul is a self-conscious, selfless revolutionary warrior, he always put the interests of the party and the motherland in the first place. In the war years of blood and fire, Paul and his brothers and fathers rode the frontier together, for the defense of the Soviet regime and efforts, with foreign armed interferers and the white bandits fought in blood, showing a willingness to sacrifice for the cause of the revolution, not afraid of the spirit of sacrifice. During the difficult years of healing the wounds of war and restoring the national economy, he devoted himself to peaceful labor with all his enthusiasm. Although he was once a jingoist and a bloodstained soldier, he was not proud of his achievements, nor did he consider his personal fame and fortune, but only wanted to do more for the Party and the people. The party told him to repair the railroad, he went; the party transferred him to be a cadre of the regiment, he went, and all of them put their lives on the line. For the sake of the revolution, he could even sacrifice love. He loved Lida, but under the influence of the Gadfly, he wanted to "devote himself completely to the cause of the revolution", so he said goodbye without saying goodbye according to the way of the Gadfly. After being paralyzed and blind, his only need in life was to be able to continue to work for the Party. Just as he said: "My whole life and all my energy are dedicated to the most magnificent cause in the world - the struggle for the liberation of mankind." Paul is more of a stalwart and strong revolutionary warrior, he has withstood severe tests in all aspects of life. In front of the enemy's torture, he was steadfast; in the rain of bullets on the battlefield, he went forward; in the fight with the devouring life of the devil, he has repeatedly made the gods of death, creating a "back from the dead" miracle. Especially on his deathbed, he also struggled to climb to the temple of art process, showing a revolutionary warrior steel will to reach the highest level. Paul is a hero in the ordinary to see greatness. In his resume, there is no earth-shattering great performance, he always start from the most ordinary small things. Faced with the heavy blow of disease, he also had the idea of suicide, and it is in his heroic passion to fight with the disease, he contains the danger of "leftist" infantile disease. Paul later also finally realized that he did not love the body can not be called heroic behavior, but a kind of capricious and irresponsible. Therefore, Paul is great, but also ordinary, he is in the fire of the revolution gradually refined maturity of the steel warrior, is a flesh and blood, let a person feel close to the role model character. Paul's character: he has the spirit of dedication to ideals, steel will and the noble quality of the tenacious struggle Paul and the author himself as a prototype of the autobiographical nature of the typical image, the writer is based on his own life experience and true feelings to describe Paul. Therefore, Paul's moving deeds are not artistic fiction, but basically a true story, but its real, so more touching. However, the author is opposed to the novel as a writer's autobiography, because "this is a novel, not a biography". In Paul, he concentrated on his contemporaries, many similar characters of thought and character traits, using the typicalization of the technique. He said: "In this book, I am not writing about Paul Kochagin. In this book, I am not writing about Paul Kochagin alone, but about millions of Kochagins, millions of men and women who fought for their own happiness and put their lives on the line!" The image of Paul is both autobiographical and synoptic, the most brilliant and typical representative of the young socialist generation. Tonya - Paul's first love, she is the daughter of a forest officer. She was pure, kind and beautiful. She had introduced the novel "The Gadfly" to Paul. The book inspired his thoughts. She met Paul Kochagin in a chance encounter and unconsciously liked him and loved him because of his stubbornness and passion. But because of her class origin, she did not join the great struggle in defense of Soviet power, as did many young people at that time. Zhu Helai - **** member of the Communist Party, a strong Red Army soldier, brave, resourceful, good at leading and organizing the masses, he was very good at uniting the masses of workers and educating countless young people in the revolutionary struggle, Paul was y educated and nurtured by him and grew up. Artyom - he was Paul's brother, a train driver, a clampsman, and the chairman of the city soviet. He had noble qualities of the working class, fought tirelessly against the enemy, and he was the best assistant to Juhlai. Lida - an excellent ****animalist, the object of Paul's true and deep love. She is beautiful, witty, simple but capable dress, kind-hearted and firm. She loves her work, good at strategizing, able to actively deal with emergencies, do not let private feelings affect the work of the overall situation. She loves and hates, loves her own beliefs ****productivism, and Paul like-minded, with the tacit understanding. Theme Ideas How Steel is Made is an excellent novel that describes the growth process of a newcomer and reveals the excellent qualities of a newcomer. When a British reporter asked the author why he took "How Steel is Made" as the title of his book, Ostrovsky replied, "Steel is forged in fire and sudden cold. Only in this way can it become hard and fear nothing, and it is in such struggles, in hard trials, that our generation has been tempered and has learned not to be disheveled in the face of life." The title of this book, graphically summarizes the content of the ideas he is trying to express; the path of growth and ideological character of his own generation. Through Paul's path of growth, the novel tells people that only when a person defeats the enemy as well as himself in the hardships of the revolution, and only when he links his own pursuits with the interests of the motherland and the people, will he create miracles and grow up to be a warrior of steel. It is an important theme of the novel that revolutionaries are refined into steel in the struggle. By revealing Paul's stalwart character who dares to overcome any hardship for the cause of the Party and the people, the novel graphically tells the young generation what the ****productivist ideal is and how to strive for the ****productivist ideal. What kind of life should a revolutionary soldier have, this is another theme of the novel. The words that Paul said while mourning the grave of his female comrade Wa Lian are the confession of his ****productivist outlook on life, and also the elaboration of this theme of the novel: "The most precious thing for a man is life, and life is only once for us. A man's life should be spent in such a way that when he remembers the past, he does not regret for having wasted his years, nor is he ashamed for having done nothing-so that, on his deathbed, he can say: 'My whole life and all my energies have been devoted to the most magnificent cause in the world! -- the struggle for the liberation of mankind.'" The thematic idea of the novel can be summarized in this way: one's life should be spent like Paul.
Artistic Characteristics
How Steel is Made is a novel, many stories in the novel come from the author's personal experience, so it reads more real and believable, affectionate and touching. But the author is not bound to the facts of life, the characters and plot to do a lot of typical treatment. Like Gorky's "autobiographical trilogy", "How Steel is Made" has made an important contribution to the innovation of autobiographical novels. All the descriptions of the novel are centered on the growth of the main character, and the structure is compact and natural. While portraying the character of the main character, the novel also shows his excellent qualities from different sides. Through the description of Paul how to deal with prison, war, work, friendship, love, disease, frustration, and how to deal with the revolution and personal, public and private, life and death and other major issues of attitude, the image of Paul the steel warrior shaped extraordinarily full and vivid, brilliant.
Appreciation of the work "How Steel is Made" describes the events that took place in 1915 until the early 30s of that period of history. Paul Kochagin is the author's efforts to shape the central character, but also the book to shape the most successful **** the image of the proletarian fighter, he is in the old Bolsheviks Zhu Helai's influence from the spontaneous to the self-conscious. He understands the social roots of the unequal life, and understands that in order to overthrow the old world, he has to become a "brave and strong class brother" and a "steel warrior of resolute struggle". In the course of his active participation in the great struggle for the defense of Soviet power, he realized that a man can work miracles only when he is linked to his motherland. He once said, "I am in favor of the kind of revolutionaries who think that individual matters are in no way comparable to the collective cause." Paul always put the interests of the Party and the motherland in the first place. In those times of blood and fire, Paul galloped on the frontier with his father and brothers and fought indomitably with foreign armed interlopers and white bandits for the defense of Soviet power. In the years of healing the wounds of war and restoring the national economy, Paul devoted himself to peaceful labor with all his enthusiasm, and his spirit of hard work and desperation showed the noble quality of the first generation of builders. In the construction of railroads, Paul was in the Pankratov team "desperately in front", "crazy speed" to work. Paul never surrendered. He was always ready to take the heaviest blow that could be dealt to him. He withstood all the tests, in dealing with issues of friendship, love and family, he also withstood the test, showing the noble ****productivist moral principles. After Paul was paralyzed and blind, he was so distressed that he could not help himself. He develops the idea of suicide, and this is when the storyline develops to a very tense level. Suicide is tantamount to betrayal of the revolution - because of this, the muzzle of the pistol is so "contemptuously staring at Paul's eyes", so he condemned himself with a cold and grim attitude, "man, you usually say what to The first thing you can do is to make a heroic career, but it turns out to be all talk on paper! ...... Have you ever tried to overcome this life! ...... Have you tried your best to break out of this iron ring? Even when you get to the point where life is just too much to bear, find a way to live. To make life more rewarding. There is nothing worse than falling off the wagon." For a young blind ****anist, all he needed in life was to be able to continue working for the Party. He overcame the blows of his tragic fate with strength and fortitude and began the struggle for his return to the ranks. Paul also practiced the principles of his life with his life's work: "The most precious thing for a man is his life, and life comes only once to each man. A man's life should be spent in such a way that when he looks back, he will not regret his wasted years, nor will he be ashamed of his inactivity; so that when he is dying he will be able to say: 'My whole life and all my energies. All dedicated to the world's most magnificent cause - the struggle for the liberation of mankind.'" This is a true reflection of Paul's fighting life, but also a profound summary of his revolutionary optimism.
Related Comments
①This is a long novel that glitters with the light of lofty idealism; ②Successfully shaped the image of Paul Kochagin as a hero of the proletariat; ③The novel writes the characters with narratives and descriptions as the main, and at the same time, interspersed with inner monologues, letters and diaries, aphorisms and aphorisms, etc, so as to make the characters have flesh and blood. ④ The novel's scene description, psychological description and environment description are also quite excellent, and the language is simple, beautiful and expressive. Character Image - Typical Plot - Character Traits: Paul Kochagin worked as a child laborer and was tortured and humiliated at the lowest level of society since he was a child. Later, under the influence of Zhu Helai, he gradually embarked on the path of revolution. Subsequently he experienced a series of life challenges, making himself stronger and stronger. Even when injuries and illnesses mercilessly took away his health and forced him to lie on the sick bed, he still did not give in to fate, but wrote with tenacity, practicing his life oath in another way. With the spirit of dedication to the ideal of unwavering faith, iron will and tenacious struggle of noble qualities. This book has a great influence on my growth process, the book's strong heroism, idealism, dedication in a considerable period of time to become the most important pillar of my spiritual life.