Gorky's childhood

The arrival of Alisha's mother caused a fight between her eldest brother Mikhail and her younger brother Yakov. They were afraid that their mother would come to beg for a dowry, so they split it up and the family became a ball. Alesha first realized that the atmosphere of mutual hatred pervaded her grandfather's family. Big JIU played a trick on Gregory, an old tailor, and asked his nephew to put a hot thimble on Gregory's hand. Unexpectedly, it was accidentally put on by his grandfather, who slapped his grandson. Aletha was severely beaten by his grandfather for putting the tablecloth in the dye vat. During the beating, everyone gloated. Even his mother was afraid to stop him because she was afraid of his grandfather. Only his grandmother protected Alisha. After playing in Alesha, my grandfather came to see him and told him about his time as a tracker on the Volga River when he was young. Alisha thinks my grandfather has grown up like a cloud, from a thin little old man to a Hercules in a fairy tale. After being beaten, Aletha met a young man, Zigang, who became Aletha's best friend. Every time Alisha is beaten, he always reaches out to help him. Every Saturday, he takes Alisha to play all kinds of games. He is good at dancing and dreams of having a good voice. Aletha loved him very much, but he was forced by two uncles to carry a load-bearing oak cross to the cemetery. After stumbling halfway, he was crushed by a cross and bled to death.

After Tzgang's death, Aletha became more attached to her grandmother. Before going to bed, I played a joke with my grandmother, who told him the story of God and imp. Grandma is Alisha's favorite person.

"Before my grandmother arrived, I seemed to fall asleep, as if hiding in the dark. Her appearance awakened me and made me see the light. She connects everything around me and weaves colorful lace patterns. She soon became my lifelong friend and my closest person. She knows me best and is my most precious person, because she is full of selfless love for the world. This kind of love has enriched me and filled me with great power in difficult years. " Grandma knows countless stories, poems, legends and fairy tales, and Aletha is fascinated by them. One night, there was a sudden fire at home, and the whole family panicked. Grandma is very brave. She covered her head with an empty bag and was covered with a horse quilt. She rushed into the fire without fear, took out a bottle filled with sulfate as big as a bucket and calmly directed others to put out the fire. After the fire, I endured great pain to deliver the baby.

In early spring, my uncles separated, my grandfather bought himself a new house, and alessa lived with his grandparents. It was a gentle day, and only my grandparents were in contact with Alisha. Grandma told him about her life. Grandma is an orphan and her mother is poor and disabled. In order to make a living, she followed her mother around begging, and later made a living by weaving lace. Grandpa also talked about getting along with French soldiers when I was a child. Grandpa began to teach Alisha to read during this time. Grandpa relapsed and beat grandma, which made alessa feel unbearable.

The quiet days were soon broken. In order to divide grandpa's property, two uncles joined forces to make trouble at his grandparents' house, especially the big uncle Mikhail, who made trouble when he was drunk, wandered around the house all night, pulled out all the marlin bushes and sour chestnut trees with his help, damaged the bathroom and broke the glass. Once he hit the door with a thick wooden root, and grandpa called two tenants and the wife of the hotel owner to deal with him. In order to help her son, my grandmother's arm was broken by my uncle. Aletha hates my uncle very much.

Then another monotonous day. Grandma prays every day, and grandpa prays every day. Alessa thinks that grandma's god is kind and merciful, but grandpa's god keeps people away, which is daunting. Alisha likes grandma's god, hates grandpa's god, and deliberately catches grandpa's mistakes in prayer and plays tricks on him. In the meantime, Aletha often fights with children in the street, because the practical jokes of these children make him unbearable. At this time, grigori, an old craftsman who worked for my grandfather all his life, became a beggar because he was blind and was fired by my uncle. Alisha was embarrassed by this.

Grandpa suddenly sold his original house and bought a house elsewhere. Alisha has met many people here. There are tenants nicknamed "Good Things", Uncle Peter who robbed the church disguised as a coachman, and three children of Ovsin Nico's family. Alisha has established friendship with them all, but the relationship with "good things" is the closest. "Good thing" is a pharmacist who is busy doing experiments all day. He has a thorough understanding of life and often instructs Aletha to observe the details of life and teach him the truth of life. "In my opinion, this yard is bland, and there is nothing worth noting. But as long as he pushed it gently, or gave me a few words of advice, everything I saw was different, as if all these things had a unique meaning and left a particularly deep impression on me. " But the "good thing" was finally driven away by my grandfather because it was not understood by people around me. Aletha was very angry, but there was nothing he could do.

Bored, mom is back. After staying in several cities for a long time, she gave birth to another child. She returned to her grandfather's house and had no choice. She began to teach Aletha to read and made him recite many poems. Grandpa forced his mother to remarry, and her mother resisted desperately. Grandpa was so angry that he passed his anger on to grandma, gave her a good beating, and stuck her hairpin deeply in her scalp. Aletha avenged his grandmother by cutting her grandfather's favorite saint into pieces.

Aletha was sent to school by his mother, but was soon forced to drop out of school because of chicken pox. Worried about her mother's marriage, grandma began to drink heavily and told Alisha about her father's and mother's past. Soon, my mother took a fancy to a surveying and mapping student and insisted on marrying him. Alisha doesn't like her stepfather and new grandmother, and she doesn't want her mother to remarry, but there's nothing she can do. After her mother remarried, Aletha continued to live with her grandparents. He began to grow up and have his own confidence. Aletha went back to school, but the teacher didn't like him, and only the bishop appreciated him. He was beaten by his mother because he bought a fairy tale book with a ruble. The stepfather was very unkind to his mother and kicked her. Alisha and her stepfather worked hard and were sent back to grandpa's house.

Grandpa went bankrupt, and Alisha and grandma lived alone. After passing the third grade exam, he stopped going to school and began to support himself. He made many friends. They helped each other, collecting junk and pulling wood together. In August, my mother died, and my grandfather said that Aletha was not a medal and could not be hung around her neck all the time. So Alisha went to the world and went out to make a living.

Childhood is the first part of Gorky's autobiography trilogy, which mainly describes Aletha's childhood. The other two in the trilogy, On Earth and My University, mainly describe alessa's adolescent experience. In order to let readers have a complete understanding of Aletha's growing process, here is a brief introduction of the contents of the last two works. On Earth depicts Alisha's experience of going out to make a living when she was/1years old. He has suffered a lot from life, done all kinds of labor, been bullied, insulted, fooled, even beaten and framed, experienced the hardships at the bottom of social life and realized the ugliness of human nature. However, grandma's kindness, chef's integrity and La Reine Margot's erudition made him see the bright side of life. His contact with cultural relics appraisers, firefighters and carpenters also made him feel that human nature is multifaceted and complicated. He loves books so much that he reads all the books he can meet whenever he has the chance, which makes him suffer a lot. My university described his activities and growing experience in Kazan. He 16 years old came to Kazan with the hope of going to college, but his dream could not be realized. The slums and docks of Kazan became his social university. He has no place to live and shares a bed with others. Working in docks, bakeries and grocery stores. Later, due to contact with college students, middle school students, members of secret groups and revolutionaries exiled from Siberia, their thoughts changed. He read works of revolutionary democracy and Marxism until he took part in revolutionary activities. Under the guidance of revolutionaries, he got rid of the mental crisis of suicide. During his four years in Kazan, his thoughts, knowledge and social experience have made great progress.