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One of the trilogy of autobiographical novels created by the author based on his own experience

Hong describes the childhood life of Heliaosha from the age of three to ten, vividly reproduces the living conditions of the lower classes of the Russian Empire in the 1870s and 1880s, and writes about Gorky's understanding of suffering and his unique insights into social life. There is a constant desire and strength between the lines.

"Childhood" is the first in the trilogy of Gorky's autobiographical novels. As early as the 1890s, Gorky had the idea of ​​writing biographical works. Between 1908 and 1910, Lenin visited Gorky's apartment in Capri, Italy, and Gorky told him more than once about his childhood and youthful life. Encouraged by Lenin, Gorky began to write.

With the innocent eyes of children, through thinking and perception, express the joy of childhood and the hardships of life.

Use the method of alternating use of children's perspective and adult perspective to describe. The main observation and description of life from the perspective of children makes "childhood" rich and vivid and full of childlike fun; on the other hand, writers may occasionally comment on life from the perspective of adults, making the meaning of the words in their writing clearer and more profound, more thoughtful and philosophical.

It truly describes his miserable childhood and reflects some typical characteristics of social life at that time, especially a real and vivid picture of the customs and human feelings of the Russian petty-communist class.

Gorky expressed his love and praise for these people in his works, and praised them through Alyosha's passion for dating with them. Through the description of Alyosha's childhood experience, the work also exposes the reality of society at that time.

Alyosha

Grandpa

grandmother

Little Gypsoon

"Good thing"