What is the main content of childhood?

Main content of Chapter 1:

My father contracted cholera and died. At this time, the mother gave birth to a little brother. After my brother was born, "I", my grandfather, and my mother went to bury his father together, but "I" did not feel the least bit sad about his father's death, but expressed sadness for the two frogs that were buried with his father.

Later, my younger brother also died. On the way to my grandfather's house by boat, my mother and grandmother took my younger brother and buried him. At that time, "I" had already realized that they didn't want me anymore, so I fell asleep sadly. After waking up, "I" found my grandmother sitting next to me.

It took several days before we arrived in Nigeria. As soon as we arrived, my mother became excited and introduced their family to "me" enthusiastically. But I don't like "my" grandfather and his yard very much.

Extended information

Gorky, a great writer in the former Soviet Union and one of the founders of proletarian literature. His original name was Alexey Maxim Vinay Pishkov.

"Childhood" is the first of a trilogy of autobiographical novels written by Gorky based on his own experience. It tells the vivid story of Alyosha's childhood life from the age of three to eleven. It perfectly reproduces the living conditions of the lower class people in Russia in the 1870s and 1880s, and writes about Gorky's understanding of suffering and unique insights into social life. There is an endless desire and strength in the lines.

The author uses his own childhood experience to tell us a childhood full of sorrow and heaviness.

It starts from the beginning when "I" lost his father when he was young and went to seek refuge with his grandfather with his mother, and ends when his grandfather asks "me" to go to the world to make a living. He became worthless due to his deeds, and even his elderly grandmother could not escape the beatings and scoldings of his grandfather.

In such a dark night sky, he was depressed and stumbling in search of a bright light. In the endless suffering and tenacious struggle against the evil forces, the kind, smart and capable grandmother was like a bright light, illuminating Alyosha's sensitive and lonely heart. Her folk stories of pity for the poor and praising justice and brightness made him grow up when he was young. Young hearts can feel warm in this frozen world.

The upright old workers and intellectuals devoted to science gave him strength and support, like little stars in the darkness illuminating his confused spiritual path.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Childhood