A book review of how steel is made, and why the book How Steel is Made is very good

The author, Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky, was born in Ukraine from 1904 to 1936 in a working-class family. He has worked as a child laborer and experienced humiliation. After the October Revolution threw himself into the struggle to defend Soviet power.

In the autumn of 1920, he was seriously wounded in battle, transferred to the labor front, jumped into the Dnieper River to salvage timber, and thus contracted typhoid fever and rheumatism. Later, due to overwork, his health deteriorated day by day, and he was finally paralyzed. Blindness.

With amazing perseverance, he fought against his illness and wrote "How Steel is Made" from his sickbed. In a letter to a friend, he wrote; "There are only people like us, only people like us who love life like crazy, who love struggle, who love the work of building a new and better new world. Only those of us who can understand and see the full meaning of life will not die casually, even if there is only a little chance, we cannot give up life!

In the winter of 1934, he began to write "Born of the Storm". ** Set against the backdrop of the civil war in late 1918 and early 1919, reflecting the heroic struggle of the Ukrainian people to defeat the Polish invaders. The book was originally planned to be written in three volumes, but the author died after completing only the first volume.

How Steel Is Made depicts Paul Kochagin's life as the son of an ordinary worker, who lived through the rigors of the First World War, the October Revolution, the Civil War, and the recovery of the national economy, transforming the spontaneous rebellion against the old life into a conscious class will. Paul's growth is not "the self-development of character", but, as the author recalls his own life: "Steel is a ...... made in a raging fire and a sudden cooling."Our generation has also been tempered through struggle and arduous trials.

Paul's heroism was the rational sincerity of the early Bolsheviks, and individual values and collective causes were in conceptual harmony. Not only does he portray this protagonist through one dilemma after another, but he also expresses this sincerity through stirring monologues and thought-provoking aphorisms. Once, when Paul came to the martyr's tomb to mourn his comrades who died for the revolution, he silently thought:

The most precious thing for a human being is life. It is given to us only once. This is how a person's life should be lived:

When he looks back, he does not regret that he wasted his time, nor is he ashamed of his inaction. So that at the moment of his death, he could say: "I have devoted my whole life and all my energies to the most glorious cause of all—the struggle for the liberation of mankind."

The love entanglement with Tonya, the friendship with Lida, and the sincere feelings for Daya also show the purity of Paul's spiritual world and the special qualities of the character.

The author uses himself as the prototype of the protagonist, but it is not autobiographical. He said; "My long story is first and foremost a work of art, and in this long story I use fictional rights. The author's intention was "to create in the work a typology, a typology of the young revolutionaries of our time, the epoch of the proletarian revolution." ”

How Steel Is Made is an autobiographical book, many of the stories in it are based on the author's personal experiences, making it more authentic and intimate to read. However, the author is not limited to the facts of life, and has made a lot of typical treatment of characters and plots. "How Steel is Made", like Gorky's "Autobiographical Trilogy", made an important contribution to the innovation of autobiographical **.

**All descriptions revolve around the growth of the protagonist, and the structure is compact and natural. When portraying the character of the protagonist, there are different aspects of people to show his excellent qualities. By describing Paul's attitude towards prison, war, work, friendship, love, illness, and frustration, that is, how he treats major issues such as revolution and individuality, public and private, life and death, the image of Paul's iron warrior is particularly full and vivid, and brilliant.

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When you buy a copy of "How Steel is Made", the preface or afterword of the book should have an introduction and evaluation of the book.

This ** let us understand the meaning of life, let us learn to face the tribulations of life with the right attitude, and meet the various challenges of life with iron will and tenacious fighting spirit.

How Steel is Made is written in 1933 by Soviet writer Nikolai Ostrovsky. ** Through the narrative of Paul Kochagin's growth path, it is told that a person can only defeat the enemy and himself in the hardships and hardships of the revolution, and only by putting his own pursuit and ancestry.

This ** let us understand the meaning of life, let us learn to face the tribulations of life with the right attitude, and meet the various challenges of life with iron will and tenacious fighting spirit.

How Steel is Made is written in 1933 by Soviet writer Nikolai Ostrovsky. ** Through the narrative of Paul Kochagin's growth path, it tells people that only when a person fights in the hardships and hardships of the revolution and defeats the enemy and defeats himself, and only when he links his pursuit with the interests of the motherland and the people, can he create miracles and grow into a soldier of lead and steel.

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by Paul. Kochagin's path of growth tells people that only when a person defeats the enemy and himself in the hardships and hardships of the revolution, and only when he links his pursuit with the interests of the motherland and the people, can he create miracles and grow into an iron warrior. Revolutionaries are tempered into steel in the struggle, and this is an important theme of the revolutionary.

By revealing Paul's resolute character of daring to overcome any hardships and hardships for the cause of the party and the people, he vividly tells the younger generation what is the communist ideal and how to work hard for the understanding of communism. What kind of life should a revolutionary soldier have is another theme of **. The passage that Paul said when he mourned the grave of his female comrade-in-arms Walian is a confession of his communist outlook on life, and it is also an elaboration of the theme of **:

The most precious thing of a person is life, and life belongs to a person only once. A man's life should be spent in such a way that when he looks back, he will not regret that he wasted his time, nor will he be ashamed of his inaction.

In this way, at the end of his life, he was able to say: 'My whole life and all my energies have been devoted to the most magnificent cause in the world—the struggle for the liberation of mankind.' ’”

The Old Man and the Sea is a novella written in Cuba in 1951 by American writer Ernest Hemingway** and published in 1952.

The story revolves around an elderly Cuban fisherman who fights a giant marlin in the Gulf Stream far offshore. Although Hemingway's old man is tragic, he has the qualities of Nietzsche's "superman", calmly accepting the idea of loss and defeat, and facing death calmly and bravely. [1]

It established Hemingway's prominent position in world literature, and this article won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.