1. How steel is made: Author: Nikolay Alexeyevich Ostrovsky (1904～1936).

Soviet writer.

Main plot: The protagonist Paul Korchagin was born into a poor railway worker family. He lost his father in his early years and relied on his mother to do laundry and cooking for others to make ends meet.

When he was 12 years old, his mother sent him to the station canteen as a handyman, where he was humiliated.

He hated the big bosses who oppressed the poor, and the rich people who lived and drank.

After the outbreak of the "October Revolution", the imperialists and reactionaries tried to strangle the new Soviet power.

Paul's hometown of Sebetovka, Ukraine, also experienced years of foreign armed intervention and civil war.

The Red Army liberated the town of Sebetovka, but quickly withdrew, leaving only the elder Bushwick Zhukhlai doing underground work in the town.

He stayed at Paul's house for a few days and told Paul many truths about revolution, the working class and class struggle. Zhu Helai was the initial leader who took Paul on the road to revolution.

While fishing, Paul met Tonya, the daughter of a forest officer.

One day, Zhu Helai was captured by the White Army.

Paul searched everywhere for his whereabouts. When the bandits were escorting Zhu Helai, Paul pounced on him, knocked the bandits down in the trench, and escaped with Zhu Helai.

Paul was imprisoned due to a report by Victor, the son of the Polish nobleman Liszhenski.

In prison, Paul withstood the torture and remained unyielding. In order to welcome the white bandit leader Petliura to visit the small town, a second-level officer mistakenly released Paul as an ordinary prisoner.

He was afraid of falling into the clutches of the devil again and did not dare to go home, so he involuntarily came to Tonya's garden gate and jumped into the garden.

Since Paul had rescued Tonya during the last fishing trip, and she liked his "enthusiastic and stubborn" character, his arrival made her very happy.

Paul also felt that Tonya was different from other rich girls. They all felt the vague love.

In order to take refuge, he agreed to Tonya's request and stayed.

A few days later, Tonya found Paul's brother Artem, who sent his brother to Katchadin to join the Red Army.

After joining the army, Paul served as a scout and later as a cavalryman.

He was a capable general who dared to charge forward on the battlefield and was also an excellent political propagandist.

He especially liked to read "Gadfly", "Spartacus" and other works, and often read or told stories to his comrades.

In a fierce battle, he was seriously injured on the head, but he defeated death with his tenacious perseverance.

His physical condition prevented him from returning to the front, so he immediately threw himself into the work of restoring and building the country.

He did regiment work, counter-revolutionary work, and devoted himself selflessly to hard physical labor.

In particular, the work of building railways was particularly difficult; there were autumn rains, mud, heavy snow, and frozen soil. Everyone was short of food and clothing, and had to sleep in the open air. There were also attacks by armed bandits and the threat of disease.

During this period, his love with Tonya was in crisis, and Tonya's vulgar individualism disgusted him.

When I met her again while building the railway, she was married to a wealthy engineer.

When Paul was the secretary of the Youth League Committee at the railway factory, he had frequent contact with Lida, a member of the Youth League Committee at work, and the two gradually developed feelings.

But he mistakenly regarded Lida's brother as her lover, and thus lost the opportunity to fall in love with her.

When the road construction work was coming to an end, Paul caught typhoid fever and developed pneumonia. The organization had to send Paul back to his hometown to recuperate.

On the way, the news that Paul was dead was mistakenly transmitted, but Paul defeated death for the fourth time and returned to the world.

After recovering from his illness, he returned to work and joined the party.

Due to various injuries and illnesses, as well as selfless work and labor, Paul's health became worse and worse and he lost his ability to work. The party organization had to relieve him of his job and have him hospitalized for long-term treatment.

While recuperating on the beach, he met Daya and fell in love with her.

While Paul continued to help Daya improve, he began to study tenaciously and enhance his writing skills.

In 1927, Paul was paralyzed and then blind. The raging disease finally bound this passionate warrior to his bed.

Paul also had the idea of ????suicide for a time, but he quickly got out of the trough.

This man who was paralyzed, blind and had no writing experience began his heroic career - literary creation.

Paul endured great physical and mental pain. He first wrote in a cardboard frame, and later dictated it himself and asked others to record it for him.

With the help of his mother and wife, the novel "Born of the Storm", which he wrote with his life, was finally published!

Paul picked up new weapons and started a new life... Creative purpose and intention: "How Steel Was Tempered" is a story that describes the growth process of new people and reveals their excellent qualities.

When a British reporter asked the author why he took "How Steel Was Tempered" as the title, Ostrovsky replied: "Steel is cast in fire and quenching. Only in this way can it be

Be tough and fear nothing. Our generation has also been trained in such struggles and hard tests, and has learned not to be decadent in the face of life." This title vividly summarizes the thoughts he wants to express.

Content; the growth path and ideological character of one’s own generation.