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406汤姆索亚历险记英语读后感
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+ 加入清单Recently, I read a very interesting book, is the name of the book "Tom Sawyer, I really like the hero inside.
Tom is a clever naughty boy. Tom for feudal life in the family and school in the boring classroom life, felt so tired. To take the risk, so bring your own good friends with all my heart to do the leader of the commander in chief the robber. Because in his eyes, a pirate is hero Robin Hood. He ran away from home, to go to the outside world through a cross, have a look, play time, bold pirate! In this adventure, he met with difficulties, but he didnt lose heart, dont give up, again and again to challenge difficulties bravely, until down with difficulty.
Although Tom naughty, naughty, but he also has a kind heart, he is brave, and also very savvy. Take the second chapter books, for instance. Tom fully display their talents. I paint the walls in order to let the other people to help him, he deliberately performance is very interesting, let he saved a lot of kung fu, also let others willing to give him something, as a reward. In he and huck met that night, two people together witnessed a murder, for the sake of justice, intrepidity Tom stood out, blew the lid off the Injun Joes ugly face, save the potter. This let I think Tom is a brave child.
Tom, Tom rebellious, tired of school life, I think I can understand. I just elementary school, I feel so happy, because there was no pressure, no piles of homework, more relaxed. But suddenly, I was the sixth grade students, homework than in a grade of homework every day. Sometimes, I also want to put down the work to the fullest play, also want to put aside all the classroom life like a bird to fly freely. With this experience, I think, Tom should feel the same way.
After reading this book, I think encounter difficulties do not easily discouraged, and strive to insist on. Tom is full of sunshine in life tells us: as long as there is joy, have a dream, a dream can come true.
最近,我读了一本非常有趣的书,书的名字是《汤姆索亚历险记》,我非常喜欢里面的主人公。
汤姆是个聪明调皮的孩子。汤姆对于家庭中封建的生活和学校中枯燥的课堂生活,都感到无比厌烦。于是带上自己的好朋友一起去冒险,一心要做统帅众强盗的首领。因为在他眼里,海盗就是劫富济贫的英雄。他离家出走,要到外面的世界里去闯一闯,看一看,扮一回胆大包天的海盗!这次冒险中,他遇到了种种困难,但他并不灰心,也不放弃,一次又一次勇敢地向困难挑战,直到打倒困难为止。
汤姆虽然顽皮、淘气,但他也有一颗善良的心,他很勇敢,也非常机智。就拿书上的第二章来说吧。汤姆充分的显示了自己的聪明才智。为了能让别人帮他刷墙,他故意表现的很有意思,让他省了不少功夫,还让别人心甘情愿的给他东西,作为酬劳。而在他和哈克相遇的那天晚上,两人一起目睹了一场凶杀案,为了主持正义,不畏强暴的汤姆站了出来,揭发了印第安乔的丑陋面目,解救了波特。这点让我觉得汤姆是个勇敢的孩子。
汤姆的叛逆,汤姆对学校生活的厌倦,我想我是可以理解的。我刚上小学的时候,就觉得好高兴,因为那时没有压力,没有堆积如山的作业,比较轻松。可转眼间,我就已经是六年级的学生了,每天的作业比在一年级时的作业多多了。有时,我也想放下作业尽情地玩耍,也想抛开所有的课堂生活像小鸟一样自由自在地飞翔。有了这样的体会,我想,汤姆该有同感吧。
读了这本书以后,我觉得遇到困难不要轻易气馁,而要努力奋斗,坚持下去。汤姆充满阳光的生活里告诉我们:只要有欢乐,有梦想,美梦便可以成真。
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篇1:《TheOldManandtheSea》英语名著读后感
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+ 加入清单this semester i studied in novel " old man and sea " of hemingway , famous writer of u.s.a.. i admire the old fishermans will in the novel very much, he lets me understand that a person must have unremitting spirit, could succeed . what the novel is described is an old fisherman almost the sixty years old, when go to sea and fish alone once, have angled to a big fish, but can not draw. after tough fisherman and fish have socialized for a few days, just find this is a big malins fish which exceeds several times of ones own fishing boat, though know perfectly well that it is very difficult to win , does not give up yet. because big malin fish fishlike smell of wound attract odd herds of shark vie for the food again later, but the old man is still unwilling to give up like this, stress the tight encirclement finally , take the large fish back to fishing port , let other fishmen admire it endlessly.
we will be the motherland future, will be supposed to like this old person same mind lofty aspiration, will even better pursue even better, the bigger goal. when i read " the big marlin start fast to gather round the young fishing boat hover, twined the cable on the mast, the old person right hand lifted up high the steel fork, leapt the water surface in it the flash, did utmost throws to its heart, one wail ended the big fish’s life, it was static static floats on the water surface... " i extremely admire old person that kind do not dread, the relentless spirit, although knows the match strength is very strong, but he not slightly flinches, but is welcomes difficultly above. just because had this kind of spirit, the senior fisherman only then achieved this life and death contest success.
we also must study senior fisherman’s spirit in life, handles the matter does not fear the difficulty, only then can obtain successfully. was reading the big fish’s smell of blood is smelled by one crowd of shark fish, struggled swims snatches the food, old person’s left hand happen to in the convulsions, he only could use the right hand, with wooden stick, the mouth and so on all was allowed to use for the weapon self-defense which attacked, and finally expelled this crowd of shark fish. but the big fish’s meat was already eaten one most, but the old person also charmingly criticized oneself the left hand " this work time actually was resting " time, i also was subdued by the old person optimistic spirit. in the life, some losses are inevitable, we should treat by the optimistic manner, cannot be calculating.
finally, the novel sees by one youth the senior fisherman fully has 18 foot long big marlin in the measure, once more described this fish’s hugeness, explained senior fisherman overcomes the difficulty was big, non- was more common than. the novel eulogized the spirit which the senior fisherman fear hard and dangerous diligently did not struggle, we also should like his such, could not satisfy the present situation, should positively to above, do any matter all is relentless, meets difficultly must welcome difficultly above, could give up halfway in no way. only has this, we only then can obtain a bigger success and the victory.
篇2:《红与黑》英语读后感范文
全文共 1445 字
+ 加入清单During this term I have read a novel The Red and the Black. The novel was written by the French writer Stendhal in the 19th century. Marie·Henri Beyle better known by his pen name Stendhal was one of the critical realism French writers in the 19th century . The military and theatrical worlds of the First French Empire were a revelation to Beyle. Known for his acute analysis of his characters’ psychology and reflection of society he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma 1839). Stendhal laid down for himself in a diary entry of May 1804:“regard everything I’ve read to date about man as a prediction; believe only what I have seen for myself. Joy happiness fame all is upon it.” Futurity call it realism creation method. In France Stendhal was the first litterateur to reveal corruption of the bourgeoisie through literature.
The novel marks the beginning of realism. André Gide said that The Red and the Black was a novel ahead of its time that it was a novel for readers in the twentieth century. In Stendhal’s time prose novels included dialogue and omniscient narrator descriptions; his great contribution to literary technique was describing the psychologies (feelings thoughts inner monologues) of the characters resultantly he is considered the creator of the psychological novel.
篇3:傲慢与偏见英语读后感
全文共 1925 字
+ 加入清单I have read some parts of this nover when I was about thirteen years old,but the book was really too thick for me to read over patiently.It’s a pity that I haven’t finished it till now.But fortunately, I have watched the movie “Pride and Predudice”directed by an American film studio several months ago.
The simple but pure plot,the wonderful song,the classical custume, the luxury ball,the scene full of amorous feelings from the British country,the beatiful and stubborn actress,all of these moved me deeply.Mr. Darcy,the actor of the nover,a nobleman from the uper-classes in England,because of this , he has an inborn superiority that he looks down at every person from the lower-classes .
He don’t like neither their life style nor their way to think.Elizabeth,the actress of the nover,an obstinate,wise young girl from the lower-classes of the country.She dosen’t like anyone who is constumelious,she hates the spurs from the pride men. By these, you know,there’er lots of conflicts between them,but at last,Darcy and Elizabeth,the two different even opposite youngsters fall love .That’s very incredible.
In fact,we are always pride and think something in our mind but not right,we assess the others only depend on their background or their color of skin , we hide our true heart and pretend ,we dispise the others without any reason……But why don’t we ask ourselves in our heart or mind: what do we feel in fact? What do we need in fact? What do we hate and love in fact? Why not express our real feelings at once?Why not chase the happy we really want ?
If we can go through the hindrances that set by ourselves,if we can express the true feelings we have and say it out loudly and clearly to somebody we want to tell with, if we can give up the contumely and spurns which block us to get long well wigh the others wo love,if we can live together harmony and sincere, if ……If that day really comes,the love will come too.
篇4:名著《茶花女》高中英语读后感
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+ 加入清单导语:《茶花女》故事讲述了一个青年人与巴黎上流社会一位交际花曲折凄婉的爱情故事。下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文,欢迎阅读与借鉴,谢谢!
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 1800s, 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, Armands father, came to her, pleading for her to leave Armand to save both Armands 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 Dumass 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?
篇5:《小学英语教学游戏100例》1000字读后感
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+ 加入清单小学英语作为近几年新增设的科目,在肩负英语启蒙和为以后进一步学习大基础的重任的同时,又面临着检验匮乏,教学对象年龄小,注意力,接受,分辨能力相对较低等重多困难。那么,怎么才能克服困难,有效良好地进行小学英语教学呢?我认为应在分析学生的年龄特征、心理、注意力等特征的前提下,精心设计组织教学。而其中,游戏的运用尤其重要。现行小学英语教材就充分认识到了这一点,在整册教学内容中,几乎在每课都穿插有游戏。
游戏在小学英语教学中有着多方面的重要的作用。
一、 激发兴趣,活跃气氛,吸引注意力
一节好课不是老师一味的讲,学生一味的听,而应是有静有动,动静相结合的,小学设管内的天性是好动的,要让他们端端正正的坐着听四十分钟,是很难办到的。即使做到了也收不到良好的教学效果。同时还可能压抑了他们的个性,影响了他们的学习兴趣,此外,心理研究表明,小学生的注意力稳定性较差。最好的也只能保持30分钟,况且长时的有意注意容易使人感到枯燥乏味,投入程度也不会高,如果在教学中结合教师的讲解,适当地安排一些游戏,为孩子们提供一个动的舞台,把他们的思维和身体从疲劳、紧张中解放出来,使他们涣散的注意被吸引过来,在轻松愉快的气氛中完成学习任务。例如,在学习人身体部位名称时,刚开始学生们觉得新鲜,兴趣很浓,热情还很高,但随着单词加多,听讲和读的时间加长,他们感到很疲乏,觉得没意思了,注意力也不能很好地集中了。这时,我适时地加入了“听口令,做动作”的游戏,一听说要做游戏,孩子们立刻变得活跃起来,注意力又集中了,在随后“touch your head” “stamp your feet” “wave your arm”的口令中,他们一会摸头,一会跺脚,一会挥胳膊,忙得不亦乐乎,最终在笑声中记住了个部位的名称。
二、 创设情景,加深记忆
一种语言习惯的习得,必须是在一定的语言背景和情景中完成,这些仅靠课文中提供的情景对话是远远不够的。那些对话是别人的,学生只是一个扮演者和朗读者,因为没有心灵的感受和理解,许多人不能很好地融入其中。游戏就弥补了之不足。它不仅为学生提供了情境,语境,还让学生们真正地成为“主人公”亲身经历资:料;来/源,于GZU521学:习;网 http://Gzu521。COm,这对他们的记忆又是一大帮助,如果为了记忆只是一味地重复练习,他们就只能是机械地记忆,而这种记忆是很难保持的,但如果将所学的内容安排在他们积极从事着的活动中去,成为活动的直接对象,这样,因为是他们亲自感受体验,直接参与了的,记忆效果受识记时的情绪状态的影响。情绪状态较佳时对记忆作用明显。这一研究结果提示我们,在教学时,应该重视情境,愉快地教学,这又如何做到呢?游戏便为我们提供了一条捷径。在教学中开展多种多样轻松幽默的游戏,使他们在笑声中学会英语。
三、 训练口语,发展思维
英语的学习不仅仅是记忆、理解、书写,还要能够说出来,能够正确流利地说出来。这是重点也难点。对于初学英语的人来说,更是难上加难。他们往往心理紧张,没有自信,不敢开口。更别说在课后生活中运用了。要攻破这个拦路虎,首先必须给学生一个没有压力的轻松环境,消除内心的紧张与害怕,同时,鼓励他们进行语言交流,在运用语言与其他人互相讲话时,学习的内容会丰富起来,游戏就恰恰能够做到这些。游戏给了学生接近生活,轻松愉快的环境,带给他们描述、表达、说明的欲望,在不知不觉中训练了口语,这些都比学生自己读教材重复教师的话有价值得多。
语言与思维之间存在密切的关系,游戏在联系课本词汇的同时,促使学生准确地表达思想感情,把他们所学的语言词汇合理地组织,适当地安排,准确地表达,这个过程,丰富了他们的词汇,丰富了他们的的感性经验,推动了思维的灵活性、逻辑性的发展。
此外,游戏给了学生想象和思考的空间,激发了他们的想象力和思考能力。如在教学“friendship”时,为了让他们深刻理解记忆这个单词的含义,我采用了画图的游戏,就是把这个单词的意思用画图表示出来。因为“friendship”的概念是抽象的,没有实物可以比拟,这样就不能照猫画虎了。只能凭借自己的脑子去思考去想象。有的学生想象了一个有关友谊的故事,画了一幅漫画,有的想到了恩格斯和马克思的友谊,画了两幅肖像;有的想到了一句古诗“桃花潭水深千尺,不及汪伦送我情”,并且惟妙惟肖地画了出来,以次来体现“friendship”的含义这样,学生们充分发挥了他们的想象和思考的能力,深刻地理解了单词的意义,思维能力也得到了进一步发展。
四、 培养情感,发展能力
在教学中,有趣的游戏活动,可以养成学生热爱生活,开朗乐观的生活态度,能够让学生有机会感受生活的多姿多彩,有机会展现自己的生命活力和丰富想象力,创造力,从而树立自信心和自豪感。在游戏活动中,学生与他人合作交流,使其体验到团结、友爱、互助、荣誉感、责任感,进取心等积极的情感。比如,在角色扮演的游戏中,使其学习表达各种社会角色的情感,在画画游戏中进一步发展了他们的美感,此外,游戏中还存在一个如何协调的问题,如何制定游戏规则和如何违反规则进行处罚的问题,学生们需要自主地讨论和解决这个问题。这个过程中他们的组织能力、协调能力等都得以锻炼,同时这队学生的独立性、正义感都有潜移默化的作用。
以上是游戏在小学英语教学中四方面的作用,除此之外,还有其他作用,这根据游戏形式、内容的不同而异,当然,并不是所有游戏都能起到了这些作用。这就要求我们在教学中精心选择、组织,恰当安排,以使其取得最佳效果。
篇6:小王子英语读后感
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+ 加入清单The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery contains a fairy tale which concludes plentiful things.The first thing we can learn from the book is the innocence of childhood and love.Although disappointed by what his roses said,the little prince still loved them.In the weiter’s opinion ,the roses stand for the pure love.
As the prince growed up,he made a decision to explore other planets and leave his hometown,a planet which just one person lived in.When travelling in the other planets,he discovered that his rose is not the only one of its kind.There are abandunt kinds of roses in the garden,but he still held the opinoion that his rose is special "because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen" .
When he came to the earth ,another significant character ,the fox , teached the little prince to take his own responsibility bravely . What’s more ,the fox is also the little prince’s best friend and help with his understanding of the meaning of friendship.
All the story is told by a piolet ,who is another hero in the tale and met the little prince in the Sahara .At the end of the story ,the little prince died on the Earth with the piolet.
The writer made the story from the child’s view.Actually,what the prince said is what the writer wanted to said.The theme of the story is to criticize the human beings’ drawbacks.As a alien, the little prince could see the human beings’ disadvantages clearly. In my opinion ,The Little Prince is more than a funny book written for the children.It is a kind of profound reflection of humans.Everyone finishing reading the book can form his thought in his mind. Therefore,I’m sure it is worthwhile to spend some time reading the book calmly.
篇7:英语读后感
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+ 加入清单The novel tells us that the best people to increase the dignity of life is love. Novels by the end of the row that this is such a life. Although I think this kind of outcome is too perfect, so perfect a little superficial, but I still respect this author The ideal of a better kind of life. Is to increase the dignity of love. In modern society, few people will like Jane Eyre, for the love for the character and abandon all, and without looking back.s Whole-hearted pursuit of pay, and pure like a glaof ice water ……
Let me tell what I feel after reading the great work Jane Erye.I was really move by Jane Erye after closing the book.What a kind and good woman!Mrs Eyre had a heart of gold.She really loved everyone around her,and gave others help sincerely(真诚地)。She respected herself and did her best to do everything.I really love her.She are both a great teacher and a good friend of mine.Sometimes when I am confuse,I will think of her.I will imagine what will she do if she is I.Why not read Jane Erye my friends!
篇8:失落的世界英语读后感
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+ 加入清单For the first time to read novels GanChangMing teacher, is a very the cause of the accident. Along the river started to sing, sing sweet teacher I heaven like a snowflake, timbre round, high bright, clean voice without a bit of noise. The passionate singing let me deeply impressed.
Teacher deep in conversation, and I learned that teacher sit compose all the year round. So I put forward to gump teacher can read book. The teacher very readily agreed. A moonlight night such as water, we are on the Banks of the river in the three gorges, yichang to continue the violin of qu yuan as the singing, the teacher coming, sit quietly drops. Waiting for you the songs medley finished, in the beautiful melody of "unforgettable tonight, say the teacher take out brought novella. I took it to browse and HangShuTi GongGongZhengZheng pen, powerful and strong. What the style is the man! After breaking up, I went home in the moonlight, leaning on the bed with orange lights, read, wanting more, absorbing read. From the bottom of exhaled a voice: its a good absorption of novels. Havent read this novel. "Looking for the lost world", the novel has a very unique book title, a story is fascinating, among them the protagonist ShuCan and Ye Li, the emotional entanglement between the Guo Shuang plot ups and downs, sharp complicated conflicts between love and interests; The conflict between traditional ideas and modern concept, is in place.
Read it again, if we could not bear, but also want to read. May be time to rush, I read not carefully, but already felt between the lines in the novel are revealed with thick life breath, the drawing account, like one of his friends, or a loved one, tell yourself in life experience, his side of the story, there is no strangeness, no proper affectation, elegant, pure and fresh, has a delicate emotions, author have read and reflection on the life, is a very good work!
第一次读甘长铭老师的小说,是一个很偶然的原因。在长江边拉琴唱歌,甘老师高歌一曲《我像雪花天上来》,音色圆润,高亢明亮,干净的嗓音不带一点杂音。充满激情的演唱让我深深地折服。
我和甘老师深入交谈中,得知甘老师常年笔耕不缀。于是我向甘老师提出能否拜读大作。甘老师很爽快地应承了。一个月色如水的晚上,我们在三峡宜昌长江边畔的屈原像下继续拉琴唱歌时,甘老师走来,静静滴坐在一旁。等候大家歌曲联唱表演完毕,在《难忘今宵》的优美旋律里,甘老师取出随身带来的中篇小说。我接过来浏览了一下,工工整整的钢笔行书体,遒劲有力。真是字如其人啊!分手之后,我踏着月光回家,倚在床上就着桔黄色的灯光,一口气读完,意犹未尽,不忍释卷。从心底呼出一个声音:真是一片吸人眼球的好小说。很久没有读到这么新颖的作品。这篇小说《寻找失落的世界》,有一个很独特的书名,故事也引人入胜,其中主人公舒灿和叶丽、郭爽之间的情感纠葛情节跌宕起伏,爱情与利益之间的矛盾冲突尖锐复杂;传统观念与现代理念的冲突,揭示的很到位。
读过一遍,欲罢不忍,还想再读。也许是时间仓促,我读的不够仔细,但是已经感受到小说中字里行间都透露着浓浓的生活气息,那娓娓道来的叙述,像是自己的一个朋友,或者是一个亲人,在述说自己生活中的经历,自己身边发生的故事,没有陌生感,也没有矫柔造作之词,文笔优美,文字清新,有作者细腻的情感,也有对生活的品读和反思,是一篇很不错的作品!
篇9:《傲慢与偏见》英语读后感
全文共 1691 字
+ 加入清单Love seems to be the perpetual theme all over the world. But actually what is love? For most girls in 20s, love may mean everything to them. They seek for love bravely no matter what difficulties they may face. In their eyes, love is pure or even holy. However, those are just an ideal situation, n real life; people tend to find a balance between love and property.
Pride and prejudice is Austin’s great work. Through the discussion of the different marriages and love, the writer demonstrates her concept about love and marriage: love and marriage is closely associated with property and society, however, love and marriage can not only be decided by the property and social status. An ideal marriage should be based on mutual affection, respect and the same interest. She rejects the marriage based only on wealth.
Different people have different ideas upon marriage. By the description and discussion of the four marriages in the novel, we can see that Austen fully expresses her views on love and marriage. Only by appreciating the marriage founded on the basis of mutual understanding and true love, but also by satirizing the marriage founded on the basis of origin and desire.
The marriage based on social position and money can’t bring happiness in life. Aimless marriage and love are unpractical.
Everything goes wrong for poor couples. Marriage based on wealth is not a fault. At least, it can offer us a better condition of life. Property is not everything in the life but without it, we can do nothing. This is called reality. But if you only married for wealth, you sell your liberty. The rest of your life might be miserable, and your marriage will filled with endless bitterness.
篇10:老人与海英语版读后感
全文共 2646 字
+ 加入清单the novel describes is nearly 60 year, when the fisherman fishing, senior alone in a big fish, actually not pull. senior fisherman socialization, after a fish that this is a big marlin, beyond your fishing several folding, though clearly hard to win, but dont give up. later in the big marlin wound bring some of the fish suspicious of sharks smell groups, but the old man still snatch food hope not give up, and finally emphasizes surround close, returned to the big fish, let the other fisherman fishing is admired.
when i read the "senior fisherman thought: heres coast is really too close, maybe there will be a bigger fish in further..." i appreciate this senior fishermen, because now he has cast in some fish, but he still was not solved, the present situation, but very close to goals. look, we often encounter a slightly is difficult, we are complaining nonstop. in the future, we will be the motherland, so it should be the old ideas, will be more lofty aspiration, for a better, more goals.
when i read "the big marlin began to rapidly around the young fishing boats, cable suspension of mast twisting, old man exalted to the right hand of gangcha, leapt high flash, and the maximum throw it to heart, wail over fish, it is the life of the static static float on water......" i also like the stone falls in together. i appreciate the old man do not fear, unremitting spirit power, although know this game is very strong, but he isnt popular flinches slightly, but more intractable. just because of this spirit, to finish the senior fishermen life and death of the competition. we must also learn advanced fishermans spiritual life, do not fear the difficulty, the only thing that can succeed.
reading the big fish smells blood is the crowd, sharks swam grab food, the old man left, he can just twitching, with a stick with your right hand, mouth are permitted use of weapons to attack and defend the expelled the sharks. but the big fish eat meat has a most, but also his left hand charmingly criticized the work time is actually "time, i also subject to old optimism. in our life, some losses are inevitable, we should take an optimistic attitude toward to compute.
finally, through a youth novel looked for 18 feet of senior fishermen, describe the marlins up the fish hugeness, explained the senior fisherman is not difficult, more common.
the novel extol spirit senior fisherman fear hard and dangerous to fight, we will not like him, who cant satisfy the present situation, should actively, do anything is relentless, difficulty, may be welcome difficult never stop halfway. only in this way can we achieve greater success and victory.
篇11:《夏洛特的网》的英语读后感
全文共 1235 字
+ 加入清单Impressions after reading Charlottes Web
Charlottes Web is a wonderful and entertaining book, which written by E B.White. It mainly talks about the friendship between a spring pig and a spider.
A spring pig, just a simple pig wants to see the winter snow. But it should be killed at the Christmas dinner. The pig lived in the farm, where also lived many other kinds of animals, such as horses, cows, geese, a rat and a spider. And who is Charlotte ? It is the spider. At first, when the little pig came into the house, other animals didn’t like him, except a spider. She asked him be quiet so that she could work hard at night, and she would like to make friends with the pig. It made the pig so happy that he had a nice sleep. And then they became good friends. The pig told the spider that his dream, then the spider promised that she would help him to make his dream come true. In the way she made some miracles to make people know the pig cannot be killed. At last, the pig saw the winter snow but the spider died. However, the pig knew the spider was always living nearby him.
The spider said that she wasn’t the maker of those miracles but the pig was, because of the friendship, the great friendship. It is so moving.
篇12:《阿甘正传》小说英语读后感
全文共 3450 字
+ 加入清单Forrest gump is a very obedient child, he have to remember these words, he said, stupid people have stupid people. When Jenny told him to run, he stumbled to his feet and ran away the first pair of magic shoes in his memory, also discovered his first potential: run. He has been running, the first run, and later he ran to the football team, and then ran into the university, ran got a degree. In the Vietnam war battlefield, he is still remember Jenny, ran back to his own soul, and ran back to honor and friendship.
You have to admit that, in fact, the success of a lot of things has its accidental factors, it will not because of your deliberate and closer to the finish line, but will when you inadvertently, for your efforts to one of the most appropriate praise of the reward. His loyalty, so he was alone in the Vietnam war out of danger, he still ran back to the jungle to find his comrades. He and trustworthy, he promised his comrades to buy a shrimp boat, but his comrades died, but he was incredible in the eyes of him reach his wishes, also won the huge wealth for themselves. His perseverance, so he will be a run for three years after Jenny left, across the whole of the United States, has been kept, he told you that he just wanted to run, he ran measurement of life, it doesnt need a peaceful freedom or any grandiose things for reason. He is friendly, after his lieutenant save lives, lt has been losing his legs to oneself cant die in the battlefield to drag out an ignoble existence still with deformed body and shame, and anger, because lt is such a person: he saw honor above all else, he cant stand, is forrest gump with friendly back his confidence in life, he found that, even without legs, life can still be alive.
Forrest gump is not great ideal, he also has a lot of lost, he had little friends, he was always laughed at by a wise man, he loved mother and Jenny has left him... But to him and because of that and sinking, love continues, he also have their own children, a clever little forrest gump, his life continues, he is not clever, but he always know how to make life full of hope. So he also won the honor, wealth and love, these ordinary people may never have it all.
The film why so popular? Although gumps IQ is only 75, but on him, we see the loyal, honest, persistent, friendly these in human nature most yi yi is unripe brightness, outstanding valuable quality, see the persistence of life, to the life of hope, of faith in the firm. Ordinary life, no ordinary life.
When we grow old, looking back from, if you can for yesterdays all regret, then you already have a very successful life.
阿甘是个非常听话的孩子,这些话他都记住了,他说,笨人有笨人的作为。当珍妮叫他快跑的时候,他跌跌撞撞地跑了起来,跑散了他记忆中第一双神奇的鞋子,也发掘出了他的第一项潜质:跑。他一直在跑,开始是逃跑,后来他跑进了橄榄球队,再后来跑进了大学,跑得了学位。在越战战场上,他仍是牢记珍妮的话,跑回了自己的性命,也跑回荣誉和友情。
你不得不承认,其实很多事情的成功是有其偶然因素的,它并不会因你的处心积虑而更接近终点,却会在你不经意的时候,给你的努力以一个最恰当的褒赏。他忠诚,所以在越战中他独自脱离了危险的时候,他仍然跑回丛林中去找他的战友。他守信,他答应了战友要共买一艘捕虾船,但战友死了,他却在旁人不可思议的眼神中为他实现了遗愿,也为自己赢得了巨大的财富。他执着,所以他会在珍妮离开后一跑三年,穿越了整个美国,一直不停,他告诉你,他只是想跑,他用跑步丈量人生,这不需要以和平自由或任何冠冕堂皇的东西为理由。他友善,在他救回中尉的性命后,失去了双腿的中尉一直对自己不能战死在战场上却仍以残废之躯苟且偷生而羞愧,而恼怒,因为中尉是这样一种人:他视荣誉高于一切,他不能忍受平凡,是阿甘用友善唤回他对生命的信心,使他发现,即使没有双腿,人生依然可以充满生机。
阿甘并没有远大的理想,他失去的也有很多,他很少有朋友,他总是被聪明人嘲笑,他最爱的母亲和珍妮先后离开了他......但对他并因为如此而沉没,爱还在延续,他还有自己的孩子,一个聪明的小阿甘,他的人生还在继续,他不聪明,但他永远知道如何让生命充满希望。所以他也就赢得了荣誉,财富和爱,这些常人可能永远不能兼得的东西。
这部电影为什么如此深受喜爱?虽然阿甘的智商只有75,但在他身上,我们看到了忠诚,守信,执着,友善这些人性中最为熠熠生辉,优秀可贵的品质,看到了对生命的执着,对生活的希望,对信念的坚定.平凡的生命,不平凡的人生.
当我们年华老去,回首来路,如果你可以对昨天的一切无悔,那么你已经拥有了非常成功的一生。
篇13:有关简爱读后感英语版
全文共 5533 字
+ 加入清单I first read "Jane Eyre" in eighth grade and have read it every few years since.
It is one of my favorite novels, and so much more than a gothic romance to me, although thats how I probably would have defined it at age 13.
I have always been struck, haunted in a way, by the characters - Jane and Mr.
Rochester.
They take on new depth every time I meet them...and theirs is a love story for the ages.
Charlotte Brontes first published novel, and her most noted work, is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story.
Jane is plain, poor, alone and unprotected, but due to her fierce independence and strong will she grows and is able to defy societys expectations of her.
This is definitely feminist literature, published in 1847, way before the beginning of any feminist movement.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the novel has had such a wide following since it first came on the market.
It is also one of the first gothic romances published and defines the genre.
Jane Eyre, who is our narrator, was born into a poor family.
Her parents died when she was a small child and the little girl was sent to live with her Uncle and Aunt Reed at Gateshead.
Janes Uncle truly cared for her and showed his affection openly, but Mrs.
Reed seemed to hate the orphan, and neglected her while she pampered and spoiled her own children.
This unfair treatment emphasized Janes status as an unwanted outsider.
She was often punished harshly.
On one occasion her nasty cousin Jack picked a fight with her.
Jane tried to defend herself and was locked in the terrifying "Red Room" as a result.
Janes Uncle Reed had died in this room a little while before, and Mrs.
Reed knew how frightened she was of the chamber.
Since Jane is the narrator, the reader is given a first-hand impression of the childs feelings, her heightened emotional state at being imprisoned.
Indeed, she seems almost like an hysterical child, filled with terror and rage.
She repeatedly calls her condition in life "unjust" and is filled with bitterness.
Looking into the mirror Jane sees a distorted image of herself.
She views her reflection and sees a "strange little figure," or "tiny phantom." Jane has not learned yet to subordinate her passions to her reason.
Her passions still erupt unchecked.
Her isolation in the Red Room is a presentiment of her later isolation from almost every society and community.
This powerful, beautifully written scene never fails to move me.
Mrs.
Reed decided to send Jane away to the Lowood School, a poor institution run by Mr.
Brocklehurst, who believed that suffering made grand people.
All the children there were neglected, except to receive harsh punishment when any mistake was made.
At Lowood, Jane met Helen Burns, a young woman a little older than Jane, who guided her with vision, light and love for the rest of her life.
Janes need for love was so great.
It really becomes obvious in this first friendship.
Helen later died from fever, in Janes arms.
Her illness and death could have been avoided if more attention had been paid to the youths.
Jane stayed at Lowood for ten years, eight as a student and two as a teacher.
Tired and depressed by her surroundings, Jane applied for the position of governess and found employment at Thornfield.
The mansion is owned by a gentleman named Edward Fairfax Rochester.
Her job there was to teach his ward, an adorable little French girl, Adele.
Over a long period the moody, inscrutable Rochester confides in Jane and she in him.
The two form an unlikely friendship and eventually fall in love.
Again, Janes need for love comes to the fore, as does her passionate nature.
She blooms.
A dark, gothic figure, Rochester also has a heart filled with the hope of true love and future happiness with Jane.
Ironically, he has brought all his misery, past and future, on himself.
All is not as it seems at Thornfield.
There is a strange, ominous woman servant, Grace Poole, who lives and works in an attic room.
She keeps to herself and is rarely seen.
From the first, however, Jane has sensed bizarre happenings at night, when everyone is asleep .There are wild cries along with violent attempts on Rochesters life by a seemingly unknown person.
Jane wonders why no one investigates Mrs.
Poole.
Then a strange man visits Thornfield and mysteriously disappears with Mr.
Rochester.
Late that night Jane is asked to sit with the man while the lord of the house seeks a doctors help.
The man has been seriously wounded and is weak from loss of blood.
He leaves by coach, in a sorry state, first thing in the morning.
Janes questions are not answered directly.
This visit will have dire consequences on all involved.
An explosive secret revealed will destroy all the joyful plans that Jane and Rochester have made.
Jane, once more will face poverty and isolation.
Charlotte Brontes heroine Jane Eyre, may not have been graced with beauty or money, but she had a spirit of fire and was filled with integrity and a sense of independence - character traits that never waned in spite of all the oppression she encountered in life.
Ms.
Bronte brings to the fore in "Jane Eyre" such issues as: the relations between men and women in the mid-19 century, womens equality, the treatment of children and of women, religious faith and hypocrisy (and the difference between the two), the realization of selfhood, and the nature of love and passion.
This is a powerhouse of a novel filled with romance, mystery and passions.
It is at once startlingly fresh and a portrait of the times.
Ms.
Bronte will make your heart beat faster, your pulse race and your eyes fill with tears.
篇14:《小公主》读后感英语作文900字
全文共 3080 字
+ 加入清单A Little princess is a touching novel written by Frances Hodgson Burnett—a famous novelist and dramatist. It obviously contains lots of fancied plots, but the parts it talks about creating miracles, can really reach the bottom of my heart. The book can bring me into a world that is more than reality while reading it. The extraordinary story makes me ponder a lot and gives me a deep impression that every girl can be a princess.
In my opinion, it is impossible for every rich girl to act like a well-behaved princess, but Sara, the heroine of the novel, did it! She was an imaginative little girl who had such intelligent small face and such perfect manners. Sara was a very nice girl who had a gentle, appreciative ways of saying, such as “If you please” “Thank you” which was very charming. So, not only her teachers and classmates liked her, but also her servants liked her. There was a time when Sara became a poor and pitiful servant insulted by the snobbish headmaster of the school. In spite of this, she had never complained to anyone about the horrible suffering she had endured. Sara was confident, brave, optimistic and kind-hearted just like before and she had never given up her enthusiasm of life. No matter when, Sara acted like a princess, and on account of this, she had accomplished a GREat deal of miracles over and over again.
After reading this outstanding book, I was shocked by Sara, a little girl who suffered such unimaginable pain and tortures, but still had an opposite attitude towards life. What impresses me most is that Sara put on her act of being a princess when she wore thin bottom shoes, wading in the street of London. From my point of view, her spirit of being so strong-minded when she was in hard times is worth admiring.
Truly, every girl is a princess coming into common life. the “princess” I mean is not a princess living in the palace and being regarded as the apple of everyone’s eye. As the matter of fact, the “princess” is at heart. I am in the belief that every ordinary girl in the world can be a princess. The way for a girl to be a princess is quite simple. Just suppose! You can suppose yourself to be a princess, and go about your business confidently without caring how the others would treat you. If you want to have more resemblance to a princess, be more kind and try your best to help the people in need. The most important thing you are supposed to do is that to feel like a real princess at any occasion, particularly when you are involved with enormous melancholy. Do not feel the conditions you faced are extremely wretched and attempt to get rid of the feeling of hopelessness and uneasiness. The less you look like a princess, the more you need to feel like a princess at heart.
Every girl can be a princess if she can do all I mentioned, no matter she is rich, beautiful or not. To speak truthfully, I cannot do as well as Sara. However, I will exert myself on being a princess mentally.
Do not feel depressed any more, to be a well-thought-of princess like Sara. You can do it, because Every Girl Can Be A princess.
篇15:《理智与情感》英语读后感1200字
全文共 2068 字
+ 加入清单【英文】 Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinors hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister.
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinors growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Mariannes disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure.
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【翻译】
理智与情感是第一次出版的简奥斯丁。虽然她最初称它为Elinor和玛丽安,但奥斯丁的标题和书信方式最初是,但保持了基本主题:激情和理性之间寻找一个可行的中间地带的必要性。故事围绕达什伍德姐妹,埃莉诺和玛丽安。前者是明智的,理性的人,她的妹妹是疯狂的浪漫——一个提供的特性为讽刺和同情的奥斯丁许多范围。评论爱德华Ferrars,为埃利诺的潜在的追求者,玛丽安承认,她“温柔地爱他,”她发现他令人失望的是他妹妹的一个可能的情人。
然而不久,玛丽安遇到一个人符合她的理想:威洛比先生,一个新邻居。所以激动地冲到玛丽安她的行为开始边境上的丑闻。然后威洛比抛弃了她;与此同时,埃利诺对爱德华日益增长的感情经受了考验,他承认他秘密与童年的心上人。两个姐妹反应他们的浪漫的不幸,他们画之前,最后皆大欢喜的核心形式的小说的教训。虽然玛丽安无视社会公约并愿意考虑失去爱情的世界可能会吸引现代的读者是谁,埃莉诺奥斯丁自己最显然对;一个真正幸福的婚姻,她告诉我们,只有理性与感性满足并以适当的方式混合。
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篇16:《呼啸山庄》英语读后感
全文共 1829 字
+ 加入清单My Feelings after reading Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights is a well-written tragedy of love. After reading the whole story, I would like to talk about the main characters of the story—Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff love each other very much, but they do not have the right attitude towards love, which leads to the tragedy.
In Catherine’s life, she made a very foolish decision---marrying to Edgar. In fact, her love for Edgar can never be compared to that for Heathcliff. She did so, because she thought the wealth of Edgar would be useful to Heathcliff. But in reality, it did not work. She did not have a good understanding of love, which is something pure and saint. If anyone add any purpose into love, love itself lost its meaning. Catherine’s wrong decision hurt two people who love her, and even destroyed the happiness of their offspring.
Heathcliff is a man full of retaliation. He loved Catherine very much, but what he did, on the contrary, added to the misery of Catherine. In my opinion, if he really loved Catherine, he should not walk into Catherine’s life again after his disappearance. Further more, after the death of Catherine, what Heathcliff did brought agony to Catherine’s daughter, as well as his own son.
After reading, I have a better understanding of love. If you love really someone, his or her happiness is the thing that most matters.
《呼啸山庄》是一部写得很好的爱情悲剧。读完整个故事,我想谈谈故事的主人公——凯瑟琳和希斯克利夫。凯瑟琳和希斯克利夫非常相爱,但他们没有采取正确的态度对待爱情,从而导致悲剧。
在凯瑟琳的生命中,她作了一个非常愚蠢的决定——和埃德加结婚。事实上,她给埃德加的爱永远不可能与给希斯克利夫的相比。她这样做,是因为她认为埃德加的财富会对希斯克利夫有用。但实际上,它没有用。她不懂得爱情,爱情是圣洁的。如果有人给爱情添加任何目的,爱情本身就失去了意义。凯瑟琳的错误决定伤害了两个爱她的人,甚至破坏了他们的后代的幸福。
希斯克利夫是一个充满复仇心的男人。他非常爱凯瑟琳,但他的所作所为恰恰相反地增加了凯瑟琳的痛苦。在我看来,如果他真的爱凯瑟琳,他不应该在他消失之后再次走进凯瑟琳的生活。此外,凯瑟琳死后,希斯克利夫给凯瑟琳的女儿以及他自己的儿子带来了极度的痛苦,。
读后,我对爱有了一个更好的理解。如果你真的爱某人,他或她的幸福绝对经得住所有困难的考验。
篇17:关于巴黎圣母院英语读后感精选
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+ 加入清单The 19 th-century French writer "Notre Dame DE Paris" describes how the heroine grew up into a bell, and being abused...
While another hero esmeralda beauty unsurpassed, pure good, good, she and her brilliant kid is give a person with infinite daydream in the whole novel the romance of luminescent spot, is the embodiment of beauty and freedom, but in the asceticism in the s, such as a flower of beautiful life is in the middle ages the lamentable to collapse too.
Life is like a piano, someone pops up on the keys in the spring of hope, shade in the summer, the autumn harvest, the joy of winter, which made us read the two characters together again with misfortunes.
Life the good teacher every day with you, with you, you just havent found.
法国19世纪着名作家《巴黎圣母院》描述了主人公如何长大变成一个敲钟者,又被他人辱骂……
而另一个主人公爱斯梅拉达却美貌绝伦、纯真善良、能歌善舞,她和她那绝顶聪明的小山羊是整部小说中给人以无限遐想的浪漫亮点,是美丽和自由的化身,但在禁欲主义盛行的年代,这样一朵鲜花般美丽的生命却在中世纪令人惋惜地陨灭了。
生活就像一架钢琴,有人在琴键上弹出了春的希望,夏的绿荫,秋的收获,冬的喜悦,这使我们读出了这两个主人公有纠结再一起的不幸身世。
生活这位良师天天跟着你,伴着你,你只是没发现罢了。
篇18:英语名著读后感作文
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+ 加入清单On Sister Carrie Carrie was such an ordinary rural girl at the beginning of the story. Sitting on the seat of a bus she couldn’t help feeling exciting at the sight of the metropolis’ spectacle. She was impressed deeply by large crowd on the avenue the spacious square or tall buildings. Far more different from other heroines Carrie was not a plain pure angel like Snow-white nor was she brave enough to be a heroine of revolutionist or even a reformer nor was she so clever as to be a successful career woman who start from scratch.
What attracted her most after her entering this huge metropolis was the incredible fineries fashion shoes smart handbags displaying in the shop windows the jewellerys shining brightly behind the glass. She dreamed that one day she could wear all of these jogging gracefully into the most luxurious hotel with focused sights of admiration. And this was not merely a dream. Because she had large eyes which can earn others’ sympathy even love. She had wonderful figure which can win others’ hearts. However anything she got anywhere she reached had not come from her ambition.
Things happened and then she accepted. That’s what she had just done ? just to accept willingly from the bottom of her heart. She was not at all an evil woman who would give anything for the fortune or fame. However she would give uo something for a better life when her instinct defeated her intellect.
That was Carrie a girl had her own desire a human being just like many others in the realistic world.There’s one sentence written in chapter VIII:” When this jangle of free-will instinct shall have been adjusted when perfect understanding has given the former the power to replace the latter entirely man will no longer vary.” However how many people can go that further.
篇19:老人与海英语读后感
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+ 加入清单When I was a middle school student, I’ve finished this book in Chinese.But when I read it in English,I really gain something new both in the way of expression and the spirit it shows to us.May be different ages to read the same book we will learn different things from it.At least, for my part, that is true.
Firstly,I would like to review some information about this book.Such as the background,major characters and the topic of it.
The Old Man and the Sea is a story by Ernest Hemingway, written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.
The Old Man and the Sea served to reinvigorate Hemingways literary reputation and prompted a reexamination of his entire body of work. The novella was initially received with much popularity; it restored many readers confidence in Hemingways capability as an author. Its publisher, Scribners, on an early dust jacket, called the novella a "new classic," and many critics favorably compared it with such works as William Faulkners "The Bear" and Herman Melvilles Moby-Dick.
This book gives me a deep impression especially the description about the man’s braveness and persistence.
In this book, in order to suggest the profundity of the old man’s sacrifice and the glory that derives from it, Hemingway purposefully likens Santiago to Christ, who, according to Christian theology, gave his life for the greater glory of humankind. Crucifixion imagery is the most noticeable way in which Hemingway creates the symbolic parallel between Santiago and Christ. When Santiago’s palms are first cut by his fishing line, the reader cannot help but think of Christ suffering his stigmata. Later, when the sharks arrive, Hemingway portrays the old man as a crucified martyr, saying that he makes a noise similar to that of a man having nails driven through his hands. Furthermore, the image of the old man struggling up the hill with his mast across his shoulders recalls Christ’s march toward Calvary. Even the position in which Santiago collapses on his bed—face down with his arms out straight and the palms of his hands up—brings to mind the image of Christ suffering on the cross. Hemingway employs these images in the final pages of the novella in order to link Santiago to Christ, who exemplified transcendence by turning loss into gain, defeat into triumph, and even death into renewed life.
The major characters in this book are also vivid and lively.
Santiago?,the old man of the novella’s title, Santiago is a Cuban fisherman who has had an extended run of bad luck. Despite his expertise, he has been unable to catch a fish for eighty-four days. He is humble, yet exhibits a justified pride in his abilities. His knowledge of the sea and its creatures, and of his craft, is unparalleled and helps him preserve a sense of hope regardless of circumstance.
The marlin?,Santiago hooks the marlin, which we learn at the end of the novella measures eighteen feet, on the first afternoon of his fishing expedition. Manolin?,a boy presumably in his adolescence, Manolin is Santiago’s apprentice and devoted attendant. The old man first took him out on a boat when he was merely five years old. Due to Santiago’s recent bad luck, Manolin’s parents have forced the boy to go out on a different fishing boat. Manolin, however, still cares deeply for the old man, to whom he continues to look as a mentor.
Joe DiMaggio, although DiMaggio never appears in the novel, he plays a significant role nonetheless. Santiago worships him as a model of strength and commitment, and his thoughts turn toward DiMaggio whenever he needs to reassure himself of his own strength. Perico ?,Perico, the reader assumes, owns the bodega in Santiago’s village. He never appears in the novel, but he serves an important role in the fisherman’s life by providing him with newspapers that report the baseball scores. This act establishes him as a kind man who helps the aging Santiago.
Martin,like Perico, Martin, a café owner in Santiago’s village, does not appear in the story. The reader learns of him through Manolin, who often goes to Martin for Santiago’s supper. As the old man says, Martin is a man of frequent kindness who deserves to be repaid.
From the very first paragraph, Santiago is characterized as someone struggling against defeat. He has gone eighty-four days without catching a fish—he will soon pass his own record of eighty-seven days. Almost as a reminder of Santiago’s struggle, the sail of his skiff resembles “the flag of permanent defeat.” But the old man refuses defeat at every turn: he resolves to sail out beyond the other fishermen to where the biggest fish promise to be. He lands the marlin, tying his record of eighty-seven days after a brutal three-day fight, and he continues to ward off sharks from stealing his prey, even though he knows the battle is useless.
Because Santiago is pitted against the creatures of the sea, some readers choose to view the tale as a chronicle of man’s battle against the natural world, but the novella is, more accurately, the story of man’s place within nature. Both Santiago and the marlin display qualities of pride, honor, and bravery, and both are subject to the same eternal law: they must kill or be killed. As Santiago reflects when he watches the weary warbler fly toward shore, where it will inevitably meet the hawk, the world is filled with predators, and no living thing can escape the inevitable struggle that will lead to its death. Santiago lives according to his own observation: “man is not made for defeat . . . [a] man can be destroyed but not defeated.” In Hemingway’s portrait of the world, death is inevitable, but the best men (and animals) will nonetheless refuse to give in to its power. Accordingly, man and fish will struggle to the death, just as hungry sharks will lay waste to an old man’s trophy catch.
The novel suggests that it is possible to transcend this natural law. In fact, the very inevitability of destruction creates the terms that allow a worthy man or beast to transcend it. It is precisely through the effort to battle the inevitable that a man can prove himself. Indeed, a man can prove this determination over and over through the worthiness of the opponents he chooses to face. Santiago finds the marlin worthy of a fight, just as he once found “the great negro of Cienfuegos” worthy. HSantiago, though destroyed at the end of the novella, is never defeated. Instead, he emerges as a hero. Santiago’s struggle does not enable him to change man’s place in the world. Rather, it enables him to meet his most dignified destiny.
While it is certainly true that Santiago’s eighty-four-day run of bad luck is an affront to his pride as a masterful fisherman, and that his attempt to bear out his skills by sailing far into the gulf waters leads to disaster, Hemingway does not condemn his protagonist for being full of pride. On the contrary, Santiago stands as proof that pride motivates men to greatness. Because the old man acknowledges that he killed the mighty marlin largely out of pride, and because his capture of the marlin leads in turn to his heroic transcendence of defeat, pride becomes the source of Santiago’s greatest strength. Without a ferocious sense of pride, that battle would never have been fought, or more likely, it would have been abandoned before the end.
Santiago’s pride also motivates his desire to transcend the destructive forces of nature. Throughout the novel, no matter how baleful his circumstances become, the old man exhibits an unflagging determination to catch the marlin and bring it to shore. When the first shark arrives, Santiago’s resolve is mentioned twice in the space of just a few paragraphs. Even if the old man had returned with the marlin intact, his moment of glory, like the marlin’s meat, would have been short-lived. The glory and honor Santiago accrues comes not from his battle itself but from his pride and determination to fight.
Santiago dreams his pleasant dream of the lions at play on the beaches of Africa three times. The first time is the night before he departs on his three-day fishing expedition, the second occurs when he sleeps on the boat for a few hours in the middle of his struggle with the marlin, and the third takes place at the very end of the book. In fact, the sober promise of the triumph and regeneration with which the novella closes is supported by the final image of the lions. Because Santiago associates the lions with his youth, the dream suggests the circular nature of life. Additionally, because Santiago imagines the lions, fierce predators, playing, his dream suggests a harmony between the opposing forces—life and death, love and hate, destruction and regeneration—of nature.
This book gives me courage of conquering all kinds of difficulties .And I have the belief that the most beautiful thing is the process that we make our best to achieve our dream,and never say give up .