英语名著读后感1
I believe that one of the factors that makes a piece of literature or even a movie a masterpiece is how well the reader can relate to the story. this is definitely a book everyone can relate to.
The adventures of tom sawyer is a literary masterpieces, written in 1876 by the famous author mark twain. tom sawyer is a mischievous young boy who lives in the small town on the mississippi river called st. petersburg. the story line is simple, the book reads like a biography or a memoir of a summer in tom sawyer's life.
Tom sawyer seems to be the precursor of and the template for misfit kids such as dennis the menace, malcolm in the middle, and calvin and hobbs. what makes this story great is that tom sawyer represents everything that is great about childhood. the book is filled with tom's adventures playing pirates and war with his friend joe harper. tom has a trusted friend, huck finn, who few of the adults approve of. the book is filled with ideas of how the world works, such as how pirates and robbers work, that are so innocent, they could only come from a child. it is a story filled with action, adventure, ingenious ideas, love, and schoolyard politics. the whole story is seemingly a complication of what people did or wish they did during their childhood.
The book is a little difficult to read at first. personally, it takes me a little while to get used to the 19th century dialect in the book. other than referring to persons of african decent in derogatory terms (which i'm sure uses terms even young children already know), the book would be an enjoyable read for people of all ages. i highly recommend this book for anyone looking to feel young again, if just for a few hundred pages.
英语名著读后感2
Those beautiful flowers
---book review: “camille”
I read the chinese version of “camille” a few years ago. at that time i was deeply moved by the main character marguerite gautier. “camille” or “the lady of the camellias” by alexandre dumas, fils, is the story of marguerite gautier, a young courtesan, or kept woman, in paris in the mid 1800's, and how she falls in love with a young man, armand duval, and then tries to escape from her questionable past. unfortunately, it comes back to haunt her and she ends up returning to that life and dies painfully and alone, but with the knowledge that she was a noble woman at heart. when i first began to read the book, i did not care for marguerite or her attitude or lifestyle, but as i got further into the narrative, i realized that her saucy attitude was a front to cover the lonely woman that she really was. she felt used, abused and unloved, until the gentle armand duval came into her life and showed her that he loved her as a person and not for what she could do for him. it must have taken great courage for marguerite to leave the life she had lived for so long, knowing all along that it was probably too good to be true and would not last indefinitely. and it also showed that marguerite really loved armand duval for she could even change herself for him.
However, happiness didn’t last for long. when m. duval, armand's father, came to her, pleading for her to leave armand to save both armand's reputation and that of his younger innocent sister, marguerite saw a way to become pure of heart, if not in body. she felt that it was her duty, because she loved armand so much, to do this even though it meant giving up her own happiness and hurting armand temporarily. she reluctantly returned to her former life, knowing that some day armand would forgive her. sadly, she died in debt and basically alone, except for her one female friend, julie duprat, who helped her during her illness. she had her journal sent to armand after her death, explaining why she had made the choices she had. i think dumas's last few lines about marguerite being the exception, not the rule were quite true, and i also agreed with his view that while her lifestyle could not be condoned, we as a society assume that all of these type of women are cold and heartless, while this may not always be the case. a person can make the wrong choices in life when they are young, and try to redeem themselves, but sometimes past situations prevent them from changing their lives, even though they desperately wish to do so. this applies to both men and women in many different types of circumstances: involvement in crime; drug or alcohol abuse; gambling; prostitution; financial problems; poor marriage choices; etc. and this is the fact, which exists in the whole society.
As far as the other characters in the book, i think marguerite was right in saying that no one truly cared about her, but only wanted something from her, the only exceptions being armand and julie duprat. of course, the comte de g. and comte de n. wanted her body and appearance. the duke needed to “wake up and smell the coffee” and realize that she could never replace his dead daughter. if he truly cared, he could have helped her leave her lifestyle without “keeping” her himself. and lastly, prudence was a blood-sucking leech who used marguerite almost worse than the men. i also think she was jealous of the fact that marguerite had so much more courage than herself and someone truly loved her.
Last morning, when tiding my bookshelf, i took this book out of the shelf, and a dried flower flew away from the book. it was pale blue, very transparent, with thin fine veins. a dried flower flew away from the book. it was pale blue, very transparent, with thin fine veins. i held it against the morning light and blew on it. the soft breeze carried it away. camille is just like the camellia, she could never escape from the destiny of withering. but it wasn’t her fault; it’s because of the evil of capitalism and the hideousness of that society.
Suddenly, i remembered a saying: “women are like the flowers”. those pretty women are like those beautiful flowers; their delicate beauty makes people feel they are the miracle of life. however, even the god envies their beauty. it seems that beautiful women always have tragic endings. as we are normal persons, even we can see the hideousness of humanity that results in their fate of withering, we can at most ask quietly in our hearts: where have those beautiful flowers gone? where have they gone?
英语名著读后感3
I've just fininshed reading the first 4 harry potter books for about the 5th time through, and they're just as magical and affecting as they have ever been. everything is in here: suspense, adventure, mystery, humour, danger. there's even some pretty satisfying paybacks. the characters are fantastic and fantastically realistic. there are bad people who turn out to be good guys and good people who turn out to be bad guys, just like life.
I think the thing i like best about these books is the message that it's okay to be different - to be not "normal." i would love for everyone in school to have hear that message. it would probably reduce the bullying around the school.
These books value real thoughts. much has been made of harry's rule breaking, but only once in the series so far does he break a rule for arbitrary personal gain. most of the time he makes a decision that what's right is more important than what's written. and you know what? life's like that sometimes. i think it's great that kids are getting an example of how to do what's right even when it involves breaking rules. the potter books also show that there are consequences for rule breaking. if not getting caught and getting a detention, then a spell going wrong and someone getting turned into a cat. this shows that when you make a decision to go against the rules that things may not go as you expected and you have to take responsibility for the outcome.
英语名著读后感4
Oliver twist, one of the most famous works of charles dickens’, is a novel reflecting the tragic fact of the life in britain in 18th century.
The author who himself was born in a poor family wrote this novel in his twenties with a view to reveal the ugly masks of those cruel criminals and to expose the horror and violence hidden underneath the narrow and dirty streets in london.
The hero of this novel was oliver twist, an orphan, who was thrown into a world full of poverty and crime. he suffered enormous pain, such as hunger, thirst, beating and abuse. while reading the tragic experiences of the little oliver, i was shocked by his sufferings. i felt for the poor boy, but at the same time i detested the evil fagin and the brutal bill. to my relief, as was written in all the best stories, the goodness eventually conquered devil and oliver lived a happy life in the end. one of the plots that attracted me most is that after the theft, little oliver was allowed to recover in the kind care of mrs. maylie and rose and began a new life. he went for walks with them, or rose read to him, and he worked hard at his lessons. he felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty.
How can such a little boy who had already suffered oppressive affliction remain pure in body and mind? the reason is the nature of goodness. i think it is the most important information implied in the novel by dickens-he believed that goodness could conquer every difficulty. although i don’t think goodness is omnipotent, yet i do believe that those who are kind-hearted live more happily than those who are evil-minded.
For me, the nature of goodness is one of the most necessary character for a person. goodness is to humans what water is to fish. he who is without goodness is an utterly worthless person. on the contrary, as the famous saying goes, ‘the fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose’, he who is with goodness undoubtedly is a happy and useful person. people receiving his help are grateful to him and he also gets gratified from what he has done, and thus he can do good to both the people he has helped and himself.
To my disappointment, nowadays some people seem to doubt the existence of the goodness in humanity. they look down on people’s honesty and kindness, thinking it foolish of people to be warm-hearted. as a result, they show no sympathy to those who are in trouble and seldom offer to help others. on the other hand, they attach importance to money and benefit. in their opinion, money is the only real object while emotions and morality are nihility. if they cannot get profit from showing their ‘kindness’, they draw back when others are faced with trouble and even hit a man when he is down. they are one of the sorts that i really detest.
Francis bacon said in his essay, ‘goodness, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is the greatest, being the character of the deity, and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.’
That is to say a person without goodness is destined to lose everything. therefore, i, a kind person, want to tell those ‘vermin-to-be’ to learn from the kind oliver and regain the nature of goodness.
英语名著读后感5
"The kerwick unauthorized biography" is the dickens's first novel, is also one of his outstanding representative works. this work had reflected the extremely broad life picture, described the early 19th century's british society really, what the story writes is a single old gentry mr. kerwick, is one “the celebrities”, is also one “the scholar”, is also by his surname naming mass organization “kerwick society” creator. he brings several “the kerwick faction” to exit to travel for pleasure. a group has bumped into all sorts of funny laughable people and the matter, passes through for about two years, his follower and he thought that travelled for pleasure has sufficed, “kerwick society” also announced has dismissed, mr. kerwick implemented “retired”, the story also in light of this finished. the complete plot is along with kerwick et al. the travel what one sees and hears and the bitter experience launches, therefore the structure is quite sloppy, but therefore can also more give the reader by new and the nimble feeling. the author especially has also arranged one for the entire story take mr.
Kerwick and the hoodlum gold mr. ghale's contradictory conflict as the content master line, from the beginning runs throughout the tail. also presses “completely” the spirit finally in the entire book, book in whole show's fate, as soon as has made the confession. but this work is not eventually by the vicissitudes of life, winding complex story win that one kind. causes the people excited, to cause the people to undergo for a long time does not forget, is these many and varied typical characters, these concise vivid life picture, they give the human by the extremely rich inspiration. superficially, take golden ghale's turning a new leaf as the symbol, this work's main thought is an abstract old formula: “nicely finally defeats evilly”, but this is also is suitable for dickens's many work common formulas. but in fact, author's thoughts and feelings as well as the work content, certainly not so is actually withered and vulgar, but extremely is rich and moving. reads "the kerwick unauthorized biography", the people everywhere can by these ingenious, vivid and the profound satire description attract. these marvelous satire art, is precisely author's thoughts and feelings nature reveals. the target of attack, is precisely under the capitalist system is in power the character. the author harbors the mood which abhors, has portrayed at that time british upper circles of society's all sorts of characters from each aspect, like aristocrat, landlord, capitalist, politician, serviceman, wife, young lady, manager, pastor and so on, has exposed their ugly souls and the disgusting life really. the people saw that another acts like a fool the portrait and the genre painting, also cannot stop the hatred and the loathing in any event. but,
In all satires in the objects, the author attacks repeatedly specially emphatically, is overtop structures and so on capitalism law, legal system, jail, as well as bourgeoisie's judge, attorney, government official and so on. about these aspect's description, has accounted for the massive lengths in the book and the most important position, this is this book characteristic. but this is also the work true subject is. "kerwick unauthorized biography" is simply to capitalism legal system's one most vivid, the powerful complaint book! , the author is oppressed on the other hand to the capitalist system under and small and weak which harms and common laborer's sincere sympathy, in the work is also obvious. specially the author with the interlude form these independent small stories which says to the reader, for example “becomes an itinerant wushu performer the play this article's story”, “turns over to the story which imprisons”, “the church janitor's story” and so on, very vividly touching described many have experienced suffering the misery lower level good character's images, was nearly holds tear of the sympathetic to narrate the capitalist society completely to add in their spiritual life and the material life tribulation, this with to these bourgeoisie pet's taunting, forms the incisive comparison. is natural, we are not difficult to see that although dickens's this article hatred is intense, down to although he in this book to ugly and the unreasonable capitalism law, the legal system the entire political life's attack is brave and powerful, but because in his world outlook is containing the very big contradiction, therefore also maintains regarding the bourgeoisie was fantasizing, is holding the reformism thought to the capitalist system. he denied the bourgeoisie law then, actually placed hopes in one kind of impractical moral education. in his opinion, that law (and all accessories) indeed are the insignificance,
Is not only insufficient to punish warns and transforms “the unprincipled person”, instead will harm (lawsuit namely its of example which “the good person” for example mr. kerwick will encounter), in fact only will be other worse “the unprincipled person” (e.g. class of a grandson and the fogg) uses to make the wicked tool. but, he thinks the basic question because in the society has “the unprincipled person” the existence, therefore the law is also used continually by them does the misdemeanor. then, how to manage? outlet what in? his answer is: moral education. therefore, he when finished entire book lets mr. kerwick influence golden ghale with the good conduct, and rescued him the jail (in his opinion jail is in itself evil), but also has argolden ghale also thoroughly rectifies misdeeds,
Learned sincerely, has realized author's ideal. this is dickens's petty bourgeoisie humanitarianism thought and the social class compromise-ism thought performance, is also his basic weakness is. at the same time, in dickens thought's weakness in the artistic performance is also very obvious. he always in this article creation some his mind's ideal character manifests his abundant this article, the equality, good, honest and so on abstract idea, with the aim of achieving “the moral education which” he believes in goal. but nearly without a single exception, such is defeated diligently. this book's mr. kerwick, is originally one describes the very much successful villain, but as a result of the author world outlook's contradiction, he wrote gradually him a positive character, takes on “ideal ranged the work and the outlet for him.