Writing background: It happened in the early 1960s. At that time, the country was in a difficult period, and most people's families were very difficult, but they were poor but not bitter. It was not easy to buy a book for one yuan and fifty cents at that time.

In the novel, the author tells the story of my mother's frugality, supports and encourages me to read extracurricular books under extremely difficult living conditions, and shows the loving mother's affection for her children and the children's love for her.

This is the first text in Unit 3, Second Term, Grade Five, a new textbook.

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The main content of loving mother

The text tells the author Liang's yearning for his beloved novels when he was a teenager. He has been delirious all day. Despite the dissuasion of colleagues, his poor and hardworking mother took out a handful of wool tickets with her chapped fingers and gave me money to buy books without hesitation. The author is deeply disturbed. He bought a bottle of canned fruit for his mother with this one yuan and fifty cents, and was scolded as a result.

Later, my mother scraped together a dollar and fifty cents, and the author had his first novel. From this little thing in daily life, I show a deep maternal love. The article is exquisite in description, sincere in feelings and easy to understand in language. By describing the mother's support for her son's study, the article praises the great and selfless maternal love and expresses the deep ocean between mother and son.