What do you mean, the poor play with ten steel hooks in the cross street, but they can't hook their relatives?

"The poor play with ten steel hooks in the cross street, but they can't catch the flesh and blood of their loved ones" means that the poor can't get close to their loved ones even if they try hard. In contrast, rich people not only have relatives around them, but also many people who use their wealth.

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Lev tolstoy's novel The Poor Man was published in 1869. The novel tells the life and experience of the protagonist Macard alexeyevich Koznetsov, and depicts the poverty, hardship and living conditions of the Russian rural people at that time.

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"The poor make ten steel hooks in the Cross Street, but they can't hook their relatives; The rich, even if they live in deep forests, will have a large group of friends who eat and drink wine and meat as long as they want to entertain guests. "

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Poor people play with hooks in the street, but they can't hook their relatives and friends; Rich people, even if they live in deep mountains and forests, will have a large group of fair-weather friends as long as they want to entertain guests.

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This sentence mainly reveals the gap between the rich and the poor and social injustice. No matter how hard the poor try, they can't change the status quo of poverty, while the rich can gain more wealth and resources through capital accumulation and personal connections. Through this sentence, the author expressed his criticism of social reality and sympathy for the situation of the poor.

Creation background

The Poor Man is one of Tolstoy's representative works and an important literary work of Russian democratic reform movement at the end of 19. At that time, Russia was in a period of political, economic and social turmoil, and the social class gap was very obvious. As a descendant of the nobility, Tolstoy has a deep understanding and sympathy for the life and experience of the people at the bottom of the countryside. He reveals social injustice and the suffering of the poor by creating the poor.

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Hook is an agricultural tool, similar to a hook fork, used for farming and fishing.

Fair-weather friends refer to those who like to eat and drink, do whatever it takes, and often please the rich to get benefits.

Enlightenment of life

This sentence expresses the depth of poverty and loneliness by depicting the huge gap between the poor little people and the rich class.

In real life, we can also see a similar phenomenon. When we encounter difficulties, we may find that our relatives and friends don't give us as much help and support as we expected. They may have their own considerations and interests, and they can't support us as selflessly as we thought.

When we are rich, we may find many people around us, but that doesn't mean they are real friends or relatives. They may come to us only because of our wealth or social status, and once these things disappear, they may leave us.

So this sentence reminds us to cherish true friendship and affection, instead of blindly pursuing superficial support and vassal relationship. No matter what situation we are in, true friends and relatives will give us support and care when we need it most.