Chapter VII Childhood

Chapter 7 of Childhood can also be divided into two parts. The first part is about my spiritual pillar and ideological environment, and the second part is about my daily life and social environment at home and abroad.

The first part mainly talks about two different gods, grandma and grandpa. Grandma's God is merciful, bless mankind, dominate everything and have insight into everything. Grandpa's god is overbearing, powerful, strict and cruel, and everyone is afraid. This contrast is expressed through vivid literary descriptions, and there is no conceptual preaching at all, which is very exciting and intriguing.

The next part mainly wrote about the painful feelings after what I saw and heard in the street, and also mentioned the distress of staying at home. I lived and grew up in such a family and social environment.

Childhood thoughts:

Gorky truly described his miserable childhood in this book, reflecting some typical characteristics of social life at that time, especially vividly describing the customs of Russian petty bourgeoisie. It not only exposed those "lead-like scandals", but also portrayed many outstanding ordinary people around the author.

Among them, the image of grandmother is one of the most brilliant and poetic images in Russian literature. It is these ordinary people who have given the young Gorky a good influence, so that he has developed a character that does not bend his knees to ugly phenomena and has become a strong and kind person through exercise.