after reading Article call 'The Painting Named Thief

After Reading Article C all 'The Painting Named Thief’
宜兴市实验中学初一（7）班曹羽成指导老师：朱彩霞Today, I read an interesting article called ‘The Painting Named Thief’. This article says that: Once upon a time, a rich man asked a young painter to draw a portrait for him.
After a week, the portrait was done. The rich man came to take the painting as agreed on. At this moment, the rich man hit on an evil idea of bullying the unknown young artist, so he refused to pay the remuneration. So the rich man said,‘I will only pay 3,000 dollars to buy this painting.’The young artist was stunned ,for he had never come across such things .He strongly argued on just grounds, expecting the rich man to abide by the agreement and to be a trustworthy man. But it was no use. The young artist knew the rich man deliberately went back on his word, so he felt indignant. He said in a firm tone ,‘No. I would prefer , not to sell the painting rather than to be humiliated by you. Today you break your words and someday you must pay 20 times.’ The rich man looked very disdain.‘Well, we＇d better wait and see!’the young artist said to the rich man who left angrily.
More than a dozen years later, he finally blazed a new way and became popular in the circle of art. In his exhibition of paintings, he exhibited the painting. It is so ridiculous that the title of the painting is Thief.’ The rich man had to quickly apologized to the artist and pay 2000,000 dollars to buy back the portrait.
This is the end of the story. The young man was Pablo Picasso. I can not help but think: in such a predicament, Picasso with an undefeated ambition, made the rich man bend his head.There are more people like Picasso. Ha Lunde Sandoz is another good example.
Now the whole world knows KFC＇s founder in the beginning and experienced many
twists and turns. But he said,‘One success is enough for me!’
When he was five years old, his father died of illness without leaving him any property. Since then, his mother worked outside while he had to stay at home and take care of his siblings. He learned cooking since then.
When he was twelve, his mother married another man. His step-father treated him strictly and often beat him when his mother was away.
When he was fourteen, he dropped out from school and began his life of roving.
When he was sixteen, he lied about his age to participate in the expedition. During the voyage, he was terribly seasick and deported back to his home ahead of time.
When he was eighteen, he married a girl, who, however, sold out all his properties and went back to her home several months after their marriage.
When he was twenty, he changed his job from electrician to ferry staff to railway worker. All his jobs were tough for him.
When he was thirty, he did sales work in an insurance company. But before long, he fell out with his boss due to the bonus problems.
When he was thirty-one, he learnt law by himself and began working in law with the litigant in court.
When he was thirty-five, misfortune again befell him. When he was driving across a huge bridge, the steel ropes along the edge of the bridge were broken and he fell into the river with his car. He suffered such severe injuries that he could no longer continue his job of promoting tires.
When he was forty, he opened a gas station in a town. However, he came into dispute because he beat his rivalries due to the billboard hanging problems.
When he was forty-seven, he divorced his second wife, which had deeply stricken his three children.
When he was sixty-one, he campaigned for a senator but failed at last.
When he was sixty-five, his on-growth restaurant was dismantled by the government due to road renovating. He was compelled to sell out all his facilities at a very low price.
When he was sixty-six, he made a living by promoting his chicken-frying technics to various restaurants in different places.
When he was seventy-five, he felt powerless to maintain his company, so he transferred his brand and patent to others. The new owner suggested giving him ten thousand stock shares as part of the purchasing price. But he turned down the suggestion. Later the price of the stocks of the company soared and he lost the chance of being a billionaire.
When he was eight-three, he opened another fast-food restaurant but fell into
a lawsuit due to trademark and patent issues.
When he was eight-eight, he achieved great success and became well- known to whole world.
He experienced failure many times in his life, but he never gives up.How valuable is the indomitable spirit! He often said,‘people always complain about the bad weather. Actually the weather is not bad at all. As long as you are optimistic and confident all the time, you will have good weather everyday.’With this spirit, Pablo Picasso and Ha Lunde Sandoz achieved themselves in the world.
After reading, I finally understand：‘Only if we have the spirit like theirs, we can succeed.’
《每天读点英语励志好故事》。