Why does the author call his nanny a "good mother"?

Alyosha's influence, as Gorky later wrote: "Before she came, it was as if I were sleeping in the darkness, but as soon as she appeared, she woke me up and led me into the light. ...... It was her disinterested love for the world that enriched me and filled me with strength to cope with a difficult life. troubled life." In addition, there is optimism and simplicity of the small Tzigane, honest old workers Grigori, dedication to science, intellectuals "good thing", have given Alyosha with the strength and support, so that he still maintains the courage to live in a dark and dirty environment and confidence, and gradually grow into a strong, courageous, honest and full of love people.

As an autobiographical novel, Childhood tells a heavy childhood story of the writer. For the people and events that he has experienced and left painful memories in his heart, those "lead heavy scandal", the writer in the narrative, the mood can not be light, so the tone of the novel in the overall serious, low. But on the other hand, the novel is described from a child's point of view, which gives a layer of innocent color to one scene of tragedy, and it is sad but not too heavy to read, so that people can see the light in the darkness, the goodness in the evil, and the light of human nature in the ruthlessness, and they can feel the great power of people to overcome the tragedy of their destinies in the atmosphere of the tragedy.

Excerpted from the personal website of Bai Yun of Gao Shi Ya Middle School in Fugu County