How Is Steel Made?

How Steel Was Tempered describes how Paul Korchagin, as the son of an ordinary worker, experienced the harsh life of World War I, the October Revolution, the Civil War and the recovery of the national economy, and transformed his spontaneous resistance to the old life into conscious class will. Paul's growth is not "self-development of character", but as the author said when recalling his life: "Steel is made in raging fires and sudden cooling... Our generation is also tempered in struggles and hard tests." Paul's heroism is the rational sincerity of the early Bolsheviks, and the conceptual harmony between personal values and collective cause. The novel not only portrays the protagonist through one dilemma after another, but also directly expresses this sincere feeling through exciting monologues and thought-provoking aphorisms. Once, when Paul came to the tomb of the martyrs to mourn his comrades who died for the revolution, he thought silently: "The most precious thing for people is life. It is given to us only once. A person's life should be spent like this: when he looks back on the past, he will not regret for wasting his years, nor will he be ashamed of being inactive. In this way, when he is dying, he can say: "I have dedicated my entire life and all my energy to the most magnificent cause - the struggle for the liberation of mankind. " Classic beautiful articles This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.