Burned by fire, extracted by cold water, and in the baptism of fire and water, indestructible steel is produced.

——Inscription

I have owned the book "How Steel Was Tempered" for a long time, and I know the sentence "A person's life should be spent like this, when he looks back on the past "When the time comes, don't be ashamed of being inactive, and don't regret wasting your years." The famous saying was earlier, but I made up my mind to read this book twice, but I didn't stick to it.

? Because this book is really not a book that girls love. The plot is not twists and turns and vivid, and the characters are not gentle and affectionate. Schools, canteens, power plants, and battlefields are full of constant oppression and danger; wars, counter-revolutionaries, road construction, and ideological struggles are a headache and heartache; revolution, ideological struggles, workers, businessmen, and rich people , which makes people feel boring. So I kept reading and reading, and kept reading, but I didn’t even finish reading it. However, the image of Paul Korchakin who was not too handsome but too serious, who struggled to fight against fate but had a bad fate, also left in his mind.

However, after all, I didn’t read it in one breath, didn’t pick it up, and felt like I couldn’t put it down. Instead, I felt confused about “Why are the famous books recommended by experts so hard to read?”

This time, let the students read. I have made up my mind that I will no longer be a layman, and I will no longer dictate and let the students accumulate, excerpt, recite, and write their thoughts after reading. Therefore, after half-listening to Himalayan experts reading, and hearing touching details, I then read the book. Only when I really entered the book did I realize that people are biased because they don’t understand enough. After understanding it, I deeply understood that Paul was a flower. Brilliant steel flowers blooming on the soil of suffering: In elementary school, he was just studious and inquiring, but the narrow-minded priest took revenge; he helped Zhu Helai escape, but was informed by Victor and was arrested, imprisoned and tortured; On the revolutionary road, shrapnel fragments injured his head, causing blindness in his right eye; participating in the Anti-Revolutionary Committee, the busy work damaged his originally injured brain; while building the road, a bomb dropped by the white bandit opened up behind him. Flowers, flying stones hurt his waist, and later he got pneumonia and typhoid fever; facing paralysis and blindness, he realized the value of his life by writing "Born of the Storm". The acclaimed manuscript was lost, and he continued to write... Although he almost committed suicide due to the pain of the disease, in the end, he bravely fought against fate, grabbed it by the throat, and did what he wanted to do. things, realizing the meaning of one’s life.

Through careful reading, I re-recognized Paul’s bravery and responsibility, Paul’s self-discipline and self-requirement. Compared with Paul, the difficulties and setbacks we encounter in life are simply a drop in the bucket. Thinking about the wasted time in my life, doing nothing and wasting my time, I really feel ashamed of the youth I still have!

However, there is one detail that made me think deeply. Originally, Paul and Lida fell in love, but later due to a misunderstanding, and even more so because Paul learned from the protagonist of "The Cowman", in order to devote himself to the revolutionary cause, he actually gave up love and took a multiple-choice question that made him have his cake and eat it too. , which reminds me of Mencius’ words: “It is better to have no books than to believe in books.” Books are like medicine, which can cure stupidity. If you copy them completely, you will become stupid and a nerd. When reading, we must analyze the choices, select the essence and discard the dross. Paul later realized that love and revolution can be obtained at the same time, but the opportunity cannot be missed, and it will never come back, so that he will regret it for the rest of his life.

I put down the book gently, but I deeply engraved Paul in my heart. Brave, strong, kind-hearted Paul, you are an example for me to learn from: burning in fire, calm reflection, each of us can be tempered into steel, as gorgeous as a flower!