How the Steel Was Tempered｜钢铁是怎样炼成的

原著作者｜奥斯特洛夫斯基 In the early 20th century during the Soviet Russian Revolution The place is Shepetivka a small town in Ukraine Twelve year old Pavel had a very hard life His father passed away early and his mother worked as a cook At a young age he had already taken on the heavy burden of life Unable to bear the priest's bullying He sprinkled tobacco dust into the priest's dough and was finally expelled from school At that time he was full of resentment and quite confused After dropping out of school Pavel became a child laborer and struggled to make a living Until the revolutionary Zhukov appeared and lit up his path forward Zhukov taught him to read and told him revolutionary stories He also told him True courage is striving for the happiness of more people not resisting alone At the age of sixteen Pavel resolutely joined the army and marched to the battlefield Amidst the hail of bullets he charged bravely Even though he was injured and lost his eyesight he never flinched After recovering from his injuries he devoted himself to national construction Volunteered to participate in the most arduous railway construction work In the bitter cold of minus tens of degrees Celsius Everyone slept on the cold ground and ate hard bread They also had to resist wind and snow mud and bandit attacks Pavel was frozen and had a high fever but still took the lead in fighting In the end he fainted by the railway track With strong perseverance he defeated death once again After narrowly escaping death many times Pavel was paralyzed all over and blind in both eyes He once despaired and thought about giving up But in front of his comrades' cemetery he regained his faith He sighed The most precious thing for a person is life One should not regret wasting one's years nor be ashamed of doing nothing Physical confinement never trapped his will He resolved to continue fighting with words and practice his beliefs with his remaining strength Blind he groped to write from memory His wife Darya assisted in taking notes beside him When his manuscript was accidentally lost he gritted his teeth and rewrote it from scratch Even though he was plagued by illness and his fingers were calloused he never stopped writing In the end his novel was successfully published The passion and perseverance in the book moved countless readers This book is like a beacon illuminating people's hearts It made people understand perseverance and responsibility Everyone realized that steel is not a cold metal But a will tempered in hardships and upheld in despair Pavel proved with his life Even if fate is rough and the body is disabled As long as you hold faith in your heart you can ultimately live a wonderful life And become unyielding steel前往小宇宙评论区与主播互动