Chapter 1?
The father died of cholera. It was then that the 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 a bit sad about his death, but rather about the two frogs that were buried with him. Then my brother 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 realized that my grandmother was 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, bored out of his mind, instructs his young nephew to take a thimble, cuff it red, and put it in the hand of Grigori, an old laborer, intending to scald the old laborer, but instead scalded his grandfather.
Uncle Yakov's son Sasha, though young, also learned to do bad things. He encouraged "me" to take a white tablecloth to the dye bath to dye it blue, and "I" was beaten by his grandfather. After the beating, I lost consciousness and became very sick. During this time, Grandfather brought gifts to visit me at my bedside and told me stories about his youth. Then Ivan came to visit me and taught me how to ease the pain of the beatings.
Chapter 3?
Grandfather and his uncles were trying to get Tzigane to work with them 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. "Little Tsyoka's life: "Little Tsyoka" was an abandoned baby, and his grandmother found him in front of the house on a rainy night. A series of funny stories that "Ibaraki" told me.
There was a lively family dance where Uncle Yakov played his guitar happily, and "Tzigane" danced with his grandmother, who was very entertaining to watch. I was a little afraid of the master's penetrating eyes, but Tzigane told me that the master was a good man and that there was no need to be afraid of him. Tzigane used to go to the market and steal things to save money for his grandfather, and his two uncles always praised him. "The two uncles always praised him for his competence and thought he was a good worker, so Grandpa and the uncles all tried to please him.
"Little Ibaraki" died a horrible death because he was carrying a cross. When "Little Ibaraki" fell while carrying the cross, his two uncles, fearing that they might hurt themselves, rushed to throw away the cross, which resulted in the cross smashing "Little Ibaraki! "The death of Ibaraki was directly related to his selfish and despicable uncles.
Chapter 4
Grandmother often prayed to God and told Him about 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, she was kneeling to pray when her grandfather suddenly came in and said there was a fire.
Grandmother commanded sternly, with a firm voice, while grandfather just whimpered and sobbed. "I" looked at the fire and was terrified, only to see that, in the midst of the people's consternation, she hugged the sulfate and drilled out. Everyone listened to her, and the fire was finally extinguished. Just as she was about to go to sleep, the house was busy again, and her aunt Natalia was going to have a baby.
Then I woke up and learned that my aunt Natalia had died in childbirth. "I felt another piece of something swelling in my head and in my heart, and what I saw in the house was like a loaded car on a winter street, slowly passing over me. I" saw in this house as if it were a loaded car on a winter street, slowly driving over "me" and crushing everything.
Chapter 5?
The uncles split up. 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 came once, but left again. Grandmother tells Alyosha about previous experiences, and Alyosha recalls that he was drinking tea in his room with his 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 6?
One night, when the family was quiet, Yakov Kuju burst in and said that Uncle Michal was drunk at his place and that he was going to kill Grandfather, and Grandfather stormed out on one side, showing great distrust of Uncle Yakov, who mumbled and piled in the corner, and Grandfather became even more furious.
When I heard that my savage uncle was coming to beat my grandfather, I was afraid, and my grandmother told me to go upstairs and "keep watch", and I felt proud again, and I looked down at the window, and I felt bored, bored, and that's when I saw Uncle Michal, and I went to report it to my grandfather, who told me to go back to the attic, and I thought of my mother, and I was even more homesick for her. her even more, and all of a sudden Michal rushed downstairs, ready to squeeze Grandfather and Yaakov into the door.
The fellows, Myriam, together barred him and pushed him out, and finally Michal fell into the street, and the door was locked, and Grandmother sat there motionless, repenting for her son, which reminded me of yet another time when Michal brought some rascals to the house to make trouble, and on that occasion Grandmother's bones were broken by something smashing through the window, and Michal was locked up in a hayloft, and Grandfather was both grieved and helpless.
The seventh time, when I was in the hayloft, I thought of my mother, who had been in the hayloft for a long time.
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 Coe 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 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 am not twisted to look at him, at the same time slutty woman Voronikha is also intimidating later grandmother rescued a small pachyderm, and raised him, but grandfather is extremely disgusted because pachyderms often teased him. The atmosphere in the house is 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 "good things". He was a man dedicated to science, not to dress, but to experiment in his room and make a mess of it.
"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, and after I watched him experiment for a while, I was politely told not to come back. "I was angry and puzzled. My grandfather had despised and even loathed "good things" from the start, because he was always secretive and cluttered up the room.
When there was an entertainment party in the fall, Good Thing was always silent, and only got excited when Grandmother told poetic stories about punishing the evil and promoting the good, and how he longed for the light! Soon, he and I became friends, and the mantra "good things" was on his lips all day long. "He listened to me patiently and told me the truth.
On one occasion, my grandfather and I helped a countryman in the square who was being beaten up by a group of townspeople, and when the Good Thing found out about it, he thought that my grandmother and I had done a good job. But Grandfather and the others became more and more disenchanted. 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 away from "I" and such a good and upright intellectual separated.
Expanded Information
Childhood is the first in a trilogy of autobiographical novels (the other two being On Earth and My University) written by Soviet writer Maxim Gorky based on his own experiences.
The novel tells the story of Alyosha's (Gorky's maiden name) childhood from the age of three to the age of ten, vividly recreates the living conditions of the lower class people in the former Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s, and shows Gorky's understanding of suffering and his unique insights into the life of the society, with an everlasting fervor and strength surging between the lines.
Background
Childhood is the first in Gorky's trilogy of autobiographical novels. As early as the 1890s, Gorky had the idea of writing a biographical work. Between 1908 and 1910, Lenin was a guest at Gorky's apartment on the Italian island of Capri, and Gorky told him more than once about his childhood and adolescence.
On one occasion, Lenin said to Gorky: "You should write everything, old friend, you must! It's all superbly educational, superbly!" Gorky said, "One day in the future, I will write it ......" and soon he fulfilled that promise.
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