Yangzhou famous people story 400 words essay

Einstein was very playful as a child. His mother often worried about this, and repeatedly warned him how he should be so and so, but to him as a whisper. One morning, in the fall of his 16th year, his father stopped Einstein on his way to the river to go fishing and told him a story that changed his life. The story goes like this: "Yesterday," said Einstein's father, "our neighbor Uncle Jack and I were sweeping a big chimney in the factory to the south. The only way up that chimney is by stepping on the steel steps on the inside. Your Uncle Jack was in the front and I was in the back. We grabbed the handrail and climbed up one step at a time. When we came down, your Uncle Jack was still in front of us and I was still behind him. Later, when I got out of the chimney, I noticed a strange thing: your Uncle Jack's back and face were blackened by the soot from the chimney, but I didn't have any soot on me." Einstein's father continued with a smile, "I saw the look on your Uncle Jack's face and thought to myself that I must be just like him, with a face as dirty as a clown's, so I went to the nearby creek and washed and washed. As for your Uncle Jack, when he saw me coming out of the chimney clean, he thought he was as clean as I was, so he just washed his hands hastily and went out into the street in a great hurry. As a result, the people on the street laughed their stomachs out, and thought that you, Uncle Jack, were a madman."　Einstein heard this and couldn't help but laugh with his father. After his father finished laughing, he solemnly said to him, "In fact, no one else can be your mirror, only yourself is your own mirror. Taking others as mirrors, idiots may shine themselves into geniuses."　Einstein heard this and was filled with shame.　Einstein left the naughty children from then on. He used himself as a mirror to scrutinize and reflect himself, and finally reflected the glitter of life.