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小王子英语的读后感

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I’ve been wondering where one’s childlike purity has gone when he or she grows up. To find the answer, I read The Little Prince, which is a fairy tale for adult and fable about life, written by Antoine de Saint Exupéry.

The story of The Little Prince is about a prince from an asteroid named B-612, which is a fairly small one, with three volcanoes and a rose on it. The prince spent his days caring for his "planet", sweeping the volcanoes and pulling out the baobab trees that would make his little planet turn to dust if they were not removed. However, he was lonely. He watched the sunset every time he was down. He had seen the sunset forty-three times in a day, for endless loneliness and sadness filled up his heart. Fortunately, a beautiful rose enriched his life. She loved the distressed prince, while the prince loved her sincerely as well. Unluckily, the sensitive prince once doubted about love due to the rose’s anger, and he left his rose as well as his planet to start his lonely journey.

After visiting six other asteroids, he came to the earth. He met a fox and tamed it. It was the fox who taught the prince that his rose was in a class by herself. The prince began to realized that he was tamed by his rose, he responsible for her. As a result, he was eager to see his rose again, but he found himself unable to leave the earth. Finally, the prince chose to go back to his asteroid with the snake’s bite, though he felt afraid of pains.

Every time I read The Little Prince, I am moved by the prince’s attitude toward the world. It is his attitude that brings my sincerity and innocence back. Because of the story of the little prince, I have learnt to live a peaceful life with hope, gentleness, touching, and responsibility about tameness in my heart.

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篇1:安徒生童话英语读后感

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There are many parts I like:"The Ugly Duckling" tells of a homely little bird born in a barnyard who suffers abuse from his surroundings until, much to his delight (and to the surprise of others), he matures into a beautiful swan, the most beautiful bird of all. The story is beloved around the world as a tale about personal transformation for the better." The Angel"?, which about an angel and a dead child gathering flowers to carry to Heaven, reminds us of the punishment which we would accumulate on the ill-use and under-use of our talents and situations.

"The Little Mermaid lifted her glorified eyes towards the sun, and felt them, for the first time, filling with tears.” The Mermaids sacrifice is not incidental, or because she made the mistake of loving a human, or because she wanted a soul, or be a complete human, or as her final rite of passage.

Obviously ,as human beings and ‘children of God’, we should possess the essential goodness. The fairy tales show us about the importance of kindness, of perseverance, of obedience which we should follow in life.

I love the theme of Andersens Fairy tales : "There is no love greater than this: That someone gives his life for his friend." It also points out the importance of wisdom in a persons life. we can see more important aspects of life.

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篇2:老人与海英语读后感

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Santiago, an old man about sixty years old, fished alone with nothing caught in eighty four days. No one would like to talk to him for his extremely bad luck except a boy who always came to help after the day and finally left to another boat under the pressure of his parents. Ignoring the contempt from the younger fishermen and sympathy from the older, on the morning of the 85th day, the old man started his fishing with determination and rowed his old boat very far in the sea where he believed there would be big fish. Fortunately the old man met with a big fish as he had wished and finally defeated the big Marlin with two days and nights struggle after overcoming great difficulties. But more unfortunately there were many sharks coming after his boat attracted by the smell of the blood of the big Marlin. After death-and-life struggle, when he finally got rid of the sharks coming after the boat, the big Marlin was bare skeleton.

The Old Man and the Sea tells a frustrated experience of the old man who fishes alone in the sea in plain languages. Through the simple lines, a “tough guy” image is shaped and heroism is praised. The whole story starts with a peaceful beginning which is some trivial of life and talking with the boy, and suddenly turns to its climax which is the dangerous fighting with the big fish and sharks alone in the sea, and ends with the old man’s return with the bare skeleton of the big Marlin. Though the boy only appears at the beginning and the ending in the novel, he plays an indispensible role, it is his inspiring and supporting that helps the old man to be “graceful under heavy pressure”.

In the book, the old man prepared his fishing properly and preciously than any other fishermen so that “Then when luck comes you are ready” as the old man thought to himself. In reality, some of us keep complaining that they are born in wrong time or good luck never knocks their doors. In fact, good luck sometimes just comes when they are not ready. Taking Newton for example, if he had not acquired a lot, millions of apples could never make him discovery the gravity. So if we just keep studying as much as we can, good luck will finally find us and a bright future is ahead of us. The old man never gives up hope. When all of people think he is doomed, he still strongly believes that he will get a big fish. And he does. So never giving up hope is very important to us. This reminded me of the sentence in Churchill’s speech “Never give up, never, never, never…”. “But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated” has always been inspiring me when I counter with some setbacks in my life. Setbacks are inevitable in pursuit of our goals, but we should never be frustrated and should be “graceful under heavy pressure” like the old man. It is his relentless pursuit that contributes to the victory.

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篇3:钱钟书围城读后感

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有的报道说,方鸿渐就是作者的化身,甚至有的人还怀疑作者的博士单位是否也是虚构的。但无论如何,方鸿渐是个典型的知识分子形象这句话是无容置疑的。但正因为他是知识分子,而且是那种带着玩世的态度处世又有点良心的知识分子,才构成了他一生的第一圈“围城”。他希望做个大人物,这样的性格,似乎就决定了他的一生。

方鸿渐的第二圈“围”就是给他带来多灾多难的假学位。方鸿渐到底是个知识分子,在买假文凭之前,他也问问良心,他为自己起了最好的籍口:“父亲是科举中人,要看‘报条’,丈人是商人,要看契据。”以他自己的口气,就是“说了谎话,还要讲良心。”说谎就说谎嘛,讲了良心这谎话就变得不伦不类了。既然讲良心,就干脆别买学位了。既然都不讲良心了,就干脆把学位发扬光大吧?害得自己当个副教授忍气吞声的,两头不着岸。

方鸿渐一生的第三圈“围城”,我想没有人会反对,是他在处理感情问题时候的玩世态度。也许从第—,圈“围城”建立时,就决定了会有第二圈围城,就决定了会有第三圈围城了。在那个到处是“小人物”的时代,做个大人物并不是每个人都有能耐的。可是他还是希望做个大人物,买文凭时,希望自己能够使家翁感觉光耀门楣;买了文凭,又觉得有损道德。要知道,社会上只有两种人能够混得好。

—种是真正大写的入,他们有他们独特的才能,他们有他们高尚的情操。他们是因为他们近乎模范的举止,才赢得别人的尊重。而另—种,则是完全相反的。他们用旁门左道,说谎时,能够令自己都骗过来。他们深有城俯,他们的行为举止有时真是没有良心可言。而社会上更多的,是后者,从古到今都是如此。袁世凯用了多少手段才当上大总统?乾隆是如何登上皇位的?就连现在的企业在商场上竞争,也用尽手段,不是你死就是我亡。

可是,并不是所有人面对这些时都能够狠下—条心的。多数的人都像方鸿渐—样,有那么一点的良心,有那么—点的虚荣。他们处处做小人,又不得处处提防小人。他们也知道世道的艰险,可是并没有好好地去接纳它。他们尝试去改变,就好像方鸿渐想知道韩学愈文凭的真伪,以此找回自己的公道一样。熟不知道,人家早就设定了陷阱等他踩进去。

或许《围城》的文学价值也正在此。它写出了人们不愿意正视的,真实的社会环境。

世道的艰险,可是并没有好好地去接纳它。他们尝试去改变,就好像方鸿渐想知道韩学愈文凭的真伪,以此找回自己的公道一样。熟不知道,人家早就设定了陷阱等他踩进去。

或许《围城》的文学价值也正在此。它写出了人们不愿意正视的,真实的社会环境。

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篇4:《老人与海》暑假英语读后感

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This year summer vacation, I read the American well-known writer Hemingways novel " old person and sea ". I extremely admire in the novel the senior fishermans will, he let me understand one person certainly must have relentless spirit, only then could obtain successfully.

The novel description is one year near sixty years of age senior fisherman, when alone goes to sea in one fishing, fished one big fish, actually did not pull. The senior fisherman socialized several days after the fish, only then discovered this was the big marlin which one surpassed the oneself fishing boat several fold, although knew perfectly well very difficult to win, but still did not give up. Afterwards and further because in the big marlin wound fish fishy smell brought in several crowds of shark fish snatches the food, but the old person still did not hope like this to give up, finally highlighted encircles tightly, returned to the big fish belt the fishing port, lets other fishermen not admire already.

When I read " the senior fisherman think: Here to the seacoast really was too near, perhaps could have a bigger fish in a farther place... " When, I extremely admire this senior fisherman, because he by now already projected on some fish, but he had not settled to the present situation, but was approaches the bigger goal advance. Again has a look us, usually meets one slightly is difficult, we all complain incessantly. 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 fishs life, it was static static floats on the water surface... " When, my heart also liked together the big stone falls. 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 fishermans spirit in life, handles the matter does not fear the difficulty, only then can obtain successfully.

Was reading the big fishs smell of blood is smelled by one crowd of shark fish, struggled swims snatches the food, old persons 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 fishs 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 fishs 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.

今年暑假,我读了美国著名作家海明威的小说“老人与海”。我非常佩服小说中高级的渔夫的意志,他让我明白一个人一定要有不屈不挠的精神,才可能获得成功。

这部小说描述一年近六十岁的高级渔夫,当独自一人去海上钓鱼,钓一条大鱼,其实没有拉。高级的渔夫社会化几天后鱼,才发现这是超过了自己的大马林鱼渔船几折,虽然知道很难取胜,但仍不放弃。后来又因大马林鱼伤口在几个成群的鲨鱼鱼鱼鱼腥味带来一阵食物,但老人还是不希望这样放弃,最终突出环绕,返回到大鱼带渔港,让其他渔夫不钦佩了。

当我读到“高级的渔夫想:这里的海岸真的是太近,可能会有更大的鱼在更远的地方……“时,我非常佩服这个高级渔夫,因为他现在已经预计在一些鱼,但他没有解决现状,但方法更大的目标前进。再看看我们,通常遇到一个略是困难的,我们都不停地抱怨。我们将是祖国的未来,应该像这样老人相同心灵崇高的愿望,将更好的追求更好,更大的目标。

当我读到“大马林鱼开始快速聚集年轻的渔船盘旋缠绕电缆在桅杆上,老人右手高举高的钢叉,跳跃水面flash,并最大限度抛出其心,哀号一结束了大鱼的生命,它是静态的静态漂浮在水面……“当,我的心也喜欢一起大的石瀑布。我非常钦佩老人那种不恐惧,无情的精神,虽然知道比赛实力很强,但他没有略就会闪躲,但欢迎上述困难。只是因为有了这种精神,高级的渔夫才取得了这生死比赛成功。我们还必须学习高级渔夫的精神生活,做事情不怕困难,才能取得成功。

阅读大鱼的血的气味是由一群鲨鱼闻到了鱼,挣扎着游一阵食物,老人的左手正好在抽搐,他只能使用右手,用木棒、嘴等一切可以用来攻击的武器自卫,并最终被这群鲨鱼的鱼。但大鱼的肉已经吃了一大部分,但是老人也快乐地批评自己的左手“该工作时间实际上是休息”,我也被老人的乐观精神迟滞。在生活中,有些损失是不可避免的,我们应该以乐观的态度对待,不能计算。

小说最后,看到一个青年高级的渔夫充分衡量有十八英尺长的大马林鱼,再次描述这条鱼的巨大,说明老渔夫克服了困难很大,非是更常见。

小说歌颂高级的渔夫的精神恐惧艰难和危险的努力没有斗争,我们也应该像他这样,不能满足于现状,应该积极,做任何事都是无情的,遇到困难必须欢迎以上困难,绝不中途放弃。只有这样,我们才可以获得更大的成功和胜利。

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篇5:小王子英语读后感

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"The Little Prince" is a clear book, as clear as the water. It’s writes for adults, teenagers and children. It is a book about life and the lives of the fable. As the book said, the water on the heart is beneficial. And "Little Prince" can make people feel warm and fresh.

The story is about a boy. He lives on a small planet. He is the only person of the planet. He is a lonely prince. Fortunately, a beautiful rose came in his life. They loved each other. But a little argument separated them. He left the planet which he lives, starts traveling. He went to many planets and met many different people. He likes to watch the sunset when he was sad. He found that people wanted happiness, but always pushed away happiness rudely.

At last, he understood how to love each other. Love and life is a very important thing. He is very regret. He wanted to return to the planet which he lives. But he didn’t know the road. He chose to drank snake venom end his life because he thought it will be able to cast off his bulky body to go back.

Every time, when I read "The Little Prince", I always moved about it. In real life, we often busy in the whole day, such as a fly without soul. The passage of time, childhood away, we grew up and took away a lot of memories, but we also have an oasis in the heart.

Because ‘The Little Prince’ story, we live in quiet, the heart has a hope and love, have touched on the responsibility of the life.

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篇6:《白雪公主》英语读后感

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Today, I read "Snow White." Major topics of a queen to give birth to a snow-white skin, red lips, a daughter and she gave birth to a daughter, as she wished the Princesss skin white as snow, lips red, so named Snow White. Snow White Queen, when the living dead. The king married a new queen, the new Queen, there are side mirror on the wall, the new queen every day, asking who is the worlds most beautiful Mirror, mirror on the wall said: It is you. This would ask the mirror each day the Queen. One day, mirror on the wall is you, but no Snow White, the United States several times more than you. The Queen is very angry, so she sent to kill Snow White, but the Queen sent Snow White, who do not have the heart to kill, but to put Snow White. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs encountered, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs shelter, the queen that Snow White did not die, they start with himself. Although the queen won. But the prince saved Snow White. Queen also dies eventually.

This fairy tale tells us that we should not have a jealous heart, to do a good people, good will overcome evil with evil means will not achieve victory. To stay competitive to compete on the open and aboveboard.

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篇7:围城读后感中学作文

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围城》是钱钟书先生的一部经典之作。在此书中,他以幽默的语调揭露了民国时期封建思想与崇洋思想盲目结合所带来的弊端。“围城”取自书中人物苏文纨所说的一句话:“城中的人想出去,城外的人想冲进来”。我们的生活也就像是一座大围城,人永远也逃不出无形的四堵墙下无尽的压力和束缚。

钱老在这本书中把当代社会的封建,留学生的傲气,事业的争斗以及朋友之间迂腐的恭维写得淋漓尽致,让我们看清了当代社会的光明与黑暗。友谊、亲情、学历的重要给与了我们压力,这些压力又转化到激烈的勾心斗角的社会竞争中去。我们不能逾越社会这座大围城,我们只能尽全力,充满自信地去拼搏,并始终保持一颗积极的心态。只有这样,我们才能在这座围城中创造属于自己的价值。

我们的生活何尝不是一堵城呢?小时候,我们就像一根线牵着的风筝,可以自由地观赏城外的风光,肆无忌惮地做任何事,但始终都有一根线引导着我们,伴我们成长。后来,这根线越变越短,我们开始有了来自学习的压力、父母的压力还有责任的压力。我们的内心被压抑在这四角冰冷的城里。可不管怎样,我们始终都要面对这种人生,面对这里面激烈的竞争,压力的束缚。而我们需要做的,是在这座城里创造异彩,增添一些自己的光亮。

读完《围城》这本书,我的感悟就似书中的最后一句话:“这个时间落伍的计时机无意中包涵了对人生的讽刺和感伤,深于一切语言,一切啼笑。”

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篇8:钱钟书的围城读后感

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很早就听说过这么一句话:婚姻是一座围城,围在城里的人想逃出来,城外的人想冲进来,《围城》读后感800字。最近终于有机会读了钱钟书的著作《围城》,让我对这本书有了更加深刻的认识。

《围城》描写了形形色色的人物,正是形形色色的人物,真实再现了半殖民地半封建社会的中国知识分子灵魂的空虚和精神上的病态。但在这众多的配角中,主角的个性是最鲜明突出的。此书中的主人公方鸿渐可是给我留下了及其深刻映象,似乎他的每一次出场都会给我一种新的认识。

方鸿渐是一个典型的知识分子,但是他为人不求上进,游戏人生,最要不得的就是此人极度虚伪。买了假文凭,却从来不向别人炫耀;明明不愿和苏小姐白头偕老,却又扭扭捏捏,屡次给苏小姐希望。似乎每一次的谎言,他都会因为自己良心的谴责而为自己量身订作一个冠冕堂皇的理由来说服自己,而且他总是能够那么成功的将自己骗过来。尽管他是出国国的"先进知识分子",但他对外国侵略者对中国带来的破害也是直言不讳的。在阴差阳错的演讲之中,他强烈批判了外国侵略者向中国引入的鸦片和梅毒,说这是最不合理的,这样一来,显的他还有那么点让人赞同的地方.。

开始有越来越多的人逃避婚姻,尤其在这个流行闪婚的年代。我不知道这是社会的进步还是退后,我只是觉得这是一种不负责任的表现。因为害怕而不去面对,难道能这样躲藏一辈子吗?婚姻是两个人的事情,或者说不仅仅是两个人的事情,它将两个本来无任何联系的家庭紧紧地绑在一起,所以我觉得有时候婚姻并不是有爱情就可以的。更多的时候它是两个家族的交融。

其实这个社会上并没有那么多完美的人,多数的人都像方鸿渐-样,有那么一点的良心,有那么-点的虚荣.他们处处做小人,又不得处处提防小人。他们也知道世道的艰险,可是并没有好好地去接纳它。他们尝试去改变,就好像方鸿渐想知道韩学愈文凭的真伪,以此找回自己的公道一样。熟不知道,人家早就设定了陷阱等他踩进去。

这部书最大的成功之处就在于它写出了人性的本来面目,他没有刻意的将人物进行美化,而是从一个事实的角度刻画人物,这就容易引起读者的感慨从而产生共鸣。

我相信不管怎样还是会有很多的人相信爱情,我也希望有情人可以终成眷属。

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篇9:《安妮日记》英语读后感范文

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Not long ago I just read the English version of "Diary of Anne Frank." In fact this is not the first time I read this book. When I first read it in elementary school and read the Chinese version. Then still small still can not read that means nothing. Now it seems there feeling very deeply.

Anne Frank was a Jewish girl. She could and ordinary girl living a happy life but she was not hiding different parents attic. Anne all day hiding in dark little attic to escape the Nazis killing. She could not get close to nature can not be friends like before play. In the shadow of the shadow of death Anne only keep a diary to get through tough every day. For her the diary as her friends her only friends can rely on and talk. She wrote in her diary a lot there are silent on the racial discrimination complaint more of the outside world the natural yearning for thinking about life.

From her diary I can imagine she was helpless fear but a more leisurely and calm. This is a great girl.

After reading the "Diary of Anne Frank" my heart is very heavy. Nazi racial discrimination maiming and killing innocent pretty much the same as Annes children. War is always nasty it makes human experience is a market catastrophe.

Thank you "Diary of Anne Frank" and let people see the ugliness of war to get people to think about and condolences for the unfortunate people.

Do not like history repeating itself pray for world peace forever.

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篇10:鲁滨逊漂流记英语读后感带翻译

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A few days ago, I finished reading "Robinson Crusoe" this brilliant novel, the image of a tall, always emerge in front of my eyes, he is brave explorer, navigator Robinson. He by tenacious perseverance, the spirit of never give up, to realize their dream of sailing. In particular, his spirit of never give up inspired me deeply

"Robinson Crusoe", is the main content; A little boy named Robinsons fascination with navigation very, he especially fond of adventure. Opposition from parents, but Robinson in left home at the age of 19, he started his career of navigation. But his fantasy and vision of navigation was washed away by the storm, he met the beach. Lucky is, however, he was huge waves sent to a deserted island. From then on, oneself start work self-reliance, Robinson created a piece of his own heaven and earth.

I have to admit that his weak and incompetent. From born to back schoolbag, parents, school laid for us in the way of growth. I feel at ease in the flat avenue passed year after year, no one. In fact, I dont chew the bitterness of life, I was in the sugar water bubble. In the happiness, however I didnt realize can eat satisfied wear warm, back schoolbag go to school, every day to accept the love of people, attention is a kind of great happiness.

After watching "Robinson Crusoe" this book, let me with emotion. We need to have that Robinson of the spirit of hard struggle. Learning about everything he didnt give up his spirit. Our study also is same, have to believe in yourself have the ability to learn every subject well, so that in the learning process will have a dynamic constantly prompted us forward. At the same time, must also do a good job in every thing done to extract.

"Robinson Crusoe", showed me the confidence, Robinson self-reliance, self-esteem, self-improvement, never satisfied, unwilling mediocre spirit; Tell me: Robinson on their own honesty, kindness, wisdom and perseverance, to create, to develop. His spirit is worth us to learn. Also time to inspire me forward.

前几天,我读完了《鲁滨逊漂流记》这本精彩的小说,一个高大的形象时时浮现在我的眼前,他就是勇敢的探险家,航海家鲁滨逊。他凭着顽强的毅力,永不放弃的精神,实现了自己航海的梦想。特别是他那永不放弃的精神深深的激励着我

《鲁滨逊漂流记》的主要内容是;一个叫鲁滨逊的小男孩对航海非常痴迷,他特别喜欢探险。却遭到父母的反对,但鲁滨逊还是在19岁那一年离开了家,开始了他航海生涯。但是他对航海的种种幻想和憧憬都被狂风巨浪冲走了,他遇上海滩。不过侥幸的是,他被巨浪送到了一座荒无人烟的岛上。从此,鲁滨逊自己动手自力更生,创作出来一片他自己的天地。

我不得不承认自己的软弱与无能。从呱呱坠地到背上书包,父母,学校为我们铺设了成长的道路。我心安理得地在这条平坦的大道上走过了一年又一年,没有挫折那个。其实我根本没有咀嚼过生活的苦涩,我是在糖水里泡大的。然而幸福中的我根本没有体会到能吃饱穿暖,背上书包去上学,每天接受人们的关爱,社会的关注是一种莫大的快乐。

看了《鲁滨逊漂流记》这本书后,让我感慨万分。我们需要具备鲁滨逊那样的刻苦奋斗的精神。学习他对任何事情都不放弃的精神。我们的学习也一样,必须相信自己有能力把各个学科学好,这样在学习过程中才会有一股动力不断促使我们前进。同时,还必须在做好每一件事后力求精。

《鲁滨逊漂流记》向我展示了鲁滨逊自信,自立,自尊,自强,永不满足,不甘平庸的精神;告诉我:鲁滨逊靠自己的诚实,善良,智慧和坚毅,去创建,去开拓。他的精神值得我们去学习。也时刻地激励着我前进。

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篇11:小王子初中英语读后感

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Main Characters: The little prince, the pilot, the rose, the fox, the snake, etc.

Despite I’ve not in my childhood yet, I still prefer reading fairy-tale stories. The tales, which accompany with me in my old days, often make me think of some precious experience and sensation which only belong to children. This summer I’ve review this kind of tale, which was published in 1940. It’s the world-famous fairy-tale by the French author, Antoine de St-Exupery, The Little Prince.

As many other fairy-tales, the outline of The Little Prince is not very complex. ―I‖, the narrator of the story, is a pilot whose plane has something wrong and lands in the Sahara. In this occasion, the pilot makes the acquaintance of the little prince, a little boy from another planet, the Asteroid B612. The little prince has escaped from his tiny planet, because he has some quarrel with a rose, which grows on his planet. In that case he left his own planet and took an exploration at some neighbor asteroids.

On his all-alone journey, the little prince meets different kinds of people, which includes a king, a conceited man, a tippler, a businessman, a lamplighter and a geographer. From these people he gets a conclusion that the grown-ups are very odd. Following the instruction of the geographer, he descends in the Sahara, on the earth.

Traveling on the earth, the little prince, who sees a garden of five-thousand roses, is overcome with astonishment and sadness, as he considers his rose is unique in the universe before. At that time a fox appears. The fox, who tell the little prince about the meaning of the word ―tame‖, becomes his new friend. At the time to say farewell, the fox makes him know that his rose is unique because she is his rose and tamed by him. From that the little prince begins to treasure friendship and be responsible to his rose.

At the anniversary day of his descent of the earth, rejecting the pilot’s advice, he goes back to his own planet by bite of a snake. ―It’s too far. I can not carry this body with me. It’s too heavy.‖ he said. He tells his friend, the pilot, he must be responsible for his rose, so he has to go back. At the end the author doesn’t tell us the ending directly. Maybe it’s more significant for us to imagine, and for more, think over.

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篇12:秘密花园英语读后感

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The protagonist in the secret garden called Marie a mediocre appearance. Irascibility。 Everyone tired of the little girl, but her life is very unfortunate, in a plague, the plague killed by mom and Dad, Marie only one person, therefore, Marie became a lonely and helpless orphans.

Finally, by her uncle shelter, Marie found in a large hall, there is a secret of the abandoned garden, even find the door to. Marie had no intention of unwittingly digging the key of the garden out of the earth and finding the hidden door in the secret garden. The capricious little girl fell in love with the garden and met many good friends. They were playing and playing in the garden, watching all kinds of grass grow out of the ground, just like what was enchanted. A garden full of roses, gentian, delphinium, and bell like the lily of the valley; animal; foxes, squirrels, crow and Robin red breast. Everything thrived in the sun, and Marie and her companions removed all the unpleasant bad things and grew into beautiful girls and strong young men. They owe all this to the magic of nature.

Listen to the melody of nature in the childrens story, like layers of clouds, find your own secret garden, everyone has a secret garden, the garden with many beautiful flowers in full bloom, the flowers bloom in the depths of your heart, waiting for you to see light suddenly, until you see these wonderful Secret Garden, you will find that nature is full of fun like a garden colorful. Nature is taking the love in our heart, bathed in the brilliant sunshine, let us enjoy the magical world of nature with touching tears, and set foot on the clouds, watching the beauty of the rainbow.

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篇13:老人与海英语读后感

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The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingways most enduring works and may very well become one of the true classics of this generation. It played a great part in his winning the Pulizer Prize in 1953 and the 1954 Novel Prize for Literature and confirmed his power and presence in the literary world. Hemingway is also one of my favorite writers. Besides The Old Man And the Sea, I have read some of his other works, such as The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and The Snow of Kilimanijaro. But The Old Man and the Sea is the one that left the deepest impression on me.

I first read this book when I was in my fifteens. And now I remember it just as well as if I had read it yesterday.

On summer vacation of this year, 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. The old fisherman thinks that as I read ": It is really too close from here to coast, perhaps there are bigger fish in the farther place ……" When,admire very much because this old fisherman in the persons, because play not for some fishing he already at this moment I, but he is not satisfied with the existing state of affairs , but advance towards greater goal. Seeing us again, meet some little difficulties at ordinary times , all of us complain bitterly. We are the future of the motherland, should be as ambitious as this old man, go to pursue well , greater goal. Read as me " big Malin fish is it enclose light fishing boat move about , is it get mast to twine cable fast to begin, old man right hand hold steel fork high , jump out in a flash , affording to try ones best above water in it, a sound of wail has finished the life of the loud fish, it floats on the surface of water silently ……"When,the I one heart is too fall like pieces of stone not big. I admire that kind of fearing of the old man at all , unremitting spirit very much, though know rivals strength is very strong , but he has not shrunk back at all , meets the difficulty. Just because there is this kind of spirit, the old fisherman has obtained the victory of the trial of strength of this life and death. We should study the old fishermans spirit too in life, do the thing and is not afraid of the difficulty , could achieve success . Read big blood offensive smell of fish smell one shark , fall over each other to visit to vie for the food, left hand of old man pull a muscle just, he can only use right hand, can weapon attacked to used for defend oneself with stick , mouth of swordfish that catch everything, and has driven away this herd of shark finally. But big meat of fish take into big half already, but old man criticize ones own left hand " when the work this when have a rest " humorously also, I am subdued by old mans optimistic spirit too. In life, some losses are unavoidable, we should treat the optimistic attitude , cant worry about petty gain or loss . Finally, the novel sees with a teenager that old fisherman has 18 feet of big long Malins fish totally in the tolerance , the ones that have described this fish are enormous again, prove that old fishermans difficulty overcome is big, than ordinary. Old fishermans spirit that makes great efforts to struggle fearless of danger and difficulty that the novel has been extolled, we should be like him too, can t be satisfied with the current situation , should be positive upwards, it should be unremitting to do anything, it must not give up halfway to meeting difficulty should meet the difficulty. Only in this way, we could obtain greater success and victory .

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篇14:典范英语读后感

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上学期,我们集体购买了《典范英语6》,通过一年的学习,我们的英语是在提高,学习了许多知识。

我们每次学习前都先听录音,这大大提高了我们的英语听读水平,使我们的听力题成绩有了一些提高,是我们受益匪浅。

二是我们在看,在读时,有许多生词,老师也让我们自己猜,然后自己查,这给我们下了很深的印象,也比老师告诉我们要好得多。

三是我们由教材中的故事,自己改编成话剧,有一些同学表演,更是英语融入了我们的生活。

总而言之,这套教材给我们留下了许多知识,是我们受益匪浅。

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篇15:动物庄园英语读后感

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Animal Farm tells a story that one day the animals overthrow the farmer Mr. Jones, and found their own regime, called Animal Farm They adopt Seven Commandments of Animalism, of which the most important is All animals are equal。 Pigs are the leaders of the operation of the newly start-up farm.Thanks to the right lead of the pigs and selfless and hardworking of all animals, the Animal Farm develops good enough to their demands.

However, the leaders separate into two factions soon after. As a result, Snowball is expelled by Napoleon as a betrayer. Although many animals remember that Snowball is a brave leader, they firmly believe they were wrong and Snowball is a bad animal indeed after brainwashing Napoleon offered. What’s more, the Seven Commandments of Animalism had also been changed. Finally, the Animal Farm becomes quite different from what they hope it to be at the beginning.

From the novel; I expressively feel the great power of faith. With the faith of Animalism, they finally found their regime, and struggle the equal from humans. And because of the faith, Napoleon can still rule the wretched animals, even though Snowball has gone. In our daily life, faith is indispensable as well. Faith just as flame, guiding us and supporting us when we feel frustrated as well as every time we need power to keep going ahead. When the Animal Farm is in mess, the animals still believe in their faith and Animalism. As to us, this believing is needed. Sometimes we may think we are in a wrong road to our dream, or we lose heart of ourselves, considering we aren"t as well as respect, we need believe. A b faith just likes a protection, and we are protected by it from kinds of difficulties.

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篇16:高中生围城读后感600字

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不知道是自己最近忙得失去自我了,还是其它缘由,读《围城》,对于方鸿渐的经历,潜意识里总觉得不真实,总觉得是假的,读到小说的最后了,还是觉得故事在铺垫,没有进入正文。也可能和我最近(不是最近,是一直)的生活状态有关系,我总觉得这个生活不是我的,我总在期待另外一种生活,期待另外一个我,另外一个他。

倒是最后钱钟书的夫人杨绛女士的附言更觉真实,不过也确实是写实。

方鸿渐之与四个女人鲍苏唐孙(鲍小姐,苏文纨,唐晓芙,孙柔嘉),其中主要的是唐和孙,虽然和唐小姐没有结婚,和孙结了婚,但是倒不能说她更爱谁。只是觉得男女之间的种种误会太可怕了,因为误会,因为面子,本来相爱的两个人竟然各奔东西。

偶然想到《婚姻保卫战》里面,最后的总结也是,夫妻之间不要死要面子,要互相体谅,该说的软话就要说,心里要时刻为多方着想。

围城,外面的人想进去,里面的人想出来。但是从很多幸福的人夫妻,前辈,朋友的眼里,我相信还是要结婚的,婚姻的幸福是值得追求的。看了杨绛写钱钟书,就觉得很是羡慕。我就特希望我的先生也是一个才华横溢的人,但是又总怕自己没有能力去欣赏他的才华,不像杨绛女士那样有才气。在她的眼中,钱钟书的很多在常人看来的缺点,她都爱称为“痴”气,这其中凝聚着多少爱,多少包容啊,夫妻能做到这样,也就心满意足了。万万不能像方鸿渐和孙柔嘉那样,本来心里还是想着对方的,但是在一起的时候,就互相伤害,什么硬话都能出口。

夫妻间,不能什么话都说的,伤感情的话尤其不能说。

引用一篇别人的书评,要比我的深刻得多,我这只是看到了表面的荒谬,没有体会到内里的深刻。

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篇17:关于《飘》英语读后感模板

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I felt that I was deeply fascinated by it soon after I had read it.

I first read it in a summer. I did not finish it at a single sitting. However, the moment I finished it, near midnight in a sweltering August day, with my body poured with sweat, held my breath to turn the last page over, shut the book and heaved a sigh of relief, I just could not express how I felt. All were over: trouble was over; lives were over; hopes were over. I was shocked how such a small book could contain such a complicated story. Never were wars, diseases and starvation ever nakedly exposed to me like this. The turns in plots were surprising but natural.

It was a tragedy: Just as its name suggested, everything was gone with the wind, including families’ touch, friends’ support, sweethearts’ gaze and youth with vigour. The story reminds us of valuing all we were possessing. A life lasts for a short time and anything in it lasts shorter. We always lose something unconsciously and then feel regretful when we need them later.

Characters in the story were so vivid as if they had been going to jump out of the story, as if they had been existed in the real life at first.

“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for ‘this the only thing in this world that lasts, and don’t you be forgetting it’ this the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for——worth dying for.” Said Gerald, an Irish man who loved his soil more than his own life, let us know that life can be born out of land.

“But Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out? Mine wore out, against Ashley Wilkes and your insane obstinacy that makes you hold on like a bulldog to anything you think about.”

“Scarlett, I was never one to patient pick up broken fragment glue them together and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken——and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.” Said Rett Butler, a man who love Scalett as much as a man can love a woman. Loving her for years before he finally got her, he loved her crazily but did not let her know it for fear of being hurt. But at last he still could not escape from hurts. “My dear, I don’t give a damn.” Look, he did not care about it at all. He was a man who disguised himself so much.

“I mustn’t bawl; I mustn’t beg. I mustn’t do anything risk his contempt. He must respect me even——even if he doesn’t love me.”

“I’ll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I’ll think some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.”

Said Scalett O’hara, the most wonderful woman I’ve ever seen. She was hard and greedy and unscrupulous, a brave, frightened, bull-headed child. Though she only thought about how to attract man’s attention and did not do anything useful before the war, she did surprise me when I read about her doings after the war. At that time, her Tara was just reduced to ashes. Everyone sketched out their hands and asked her for food. She bravely faced the reality and rebuilt Tara with her own hands. What a tough woman, I thought. Though those she loved were all gone, she was still full of hope. When Rett didn’t love her anymore and wanted to leave her, she said “I mustn’t bawl… even if he doesn’t love me.” A woman’s dignity could be seen from what she have said and done. That’s why I appreciate her.

This novel gave me too much to think about and I can not fully express myself in English. It is true that reading an origin is more vivid than the translated ones. However, my English level limits me to understand the origin well without the translated. But I will work hard in order to understand better.

The novel is my treasure, forever, because I find myself in Scarlett and find the world I live in inside the story.

That’s really an excellent novel, with an ending from which you can see hope rising from despair.

我觉得我被它深深地着迷于不久之后我读过它。

我第一次读它在夏天。我没有完成它一次。然而,当我完成它,接近午夜八月份的一个闷热的一天,与我的身体倒汗,屏住呼吸把最后一页结束,关闭这本书叹了口气,我只是无法表达我的感受。都在:麻烦结束了;生活;希望都结束了。我很震惊如此小的书如何包含这样一个复杂的故事。从来没有被战争、疾病和饥饿这样赤裸裸的暴露在我。情节出人意料但自然的转。

这是一个悲剧:正如它的名字暗示,一切都随风而逝,包括家庭,朋友的支持,情侣的目光和青春与活力。这个故事提醒我们的评估我们所拥有的全部。生活持续很短的时间内,任何时间短。我们总是在不知不觉中失去一些东西,然后后悔当我们需要他们。

人物故事非常生动的好像是要跳出故事,好像是存在于现实生活中。

“土地是世界上唯一的东西,对“这持续的唯一在这个世界上,你可别忘了,“这唯一值得你去为之工作,为之战斗,为之牺牲。”杰拉尔德说,爱尔兰人爱他的土壤超过他自己的生活,让我们知道生活可以出生的土地。

“但斯佳丽,你过没有,即使是最不灭的爱可以穿出去吗?我穿着,对希礼·威尔克斯和你疯狂的固执,让你保持像斗牛犬任何你想。”

“思嘉,我从来不是一个耐心捡起碎片粘合在一起,告诉自己,整个修补是像新的一样。什么坏了坏了,我宁愿记住它,因为它是最好的比修复它,看到破碎的地方,只要我活着。”Rett巴特勒说,一个人爱斯佳丽一个男人可以爱一个女人。爱她多年,他终于得到了她,他爱她疯狂但没有让她知道害怕被伤害。但最后他还是无法逃避伤害。“我亲爱的,我一点也不在乎。“看,他并不关心。他是一个伪装的人这么多。

“我不能放声痛哭,我不能乞求。我不能做任何风险他的轻蔑。他必须尊重我,即使他不爱我。”

“明天我想到这一切,在塔拉。我可以忍受。明天,我要想办法让他回来。毕竟,明天又是新的一天。”

斯佳丽奥哈拉说,我见过最美妙的女人。她是困难的,贪婪和无耻的,勇敢的,害怕,任性的孩子。虽然她只想到如何吸引男人的注意,不做任何有用的战争之前,她确实让我吃惊当我读到她的行为。当时,她的塔拉只是化为灰烬。每个人都描绘了他们的手,问她。她勇敢地面对现实,用自己的双手重建塔拉。是一个很坚强的女人,我想。虽然她爱的人都走了,她仍然充满希望。当Rett不爱她了,想要离开她,她说“我不能放声痛哭…即使他不爱我。“一个女人的尊严可以看到从她所说的和所做的。这就是为什么我欣赏她。

这本小说给了我太多的思考和我不能完全用英语表达自己。的确,阅读一本比翻译的更加生动。然而,我的英语水平限制了我理解的起源没有翻译。但是我会努力工作,为了更好地理解。

这本小说是我的宝,永远,因为我发现自己在斯佳丽并找到我生活的世界里的故事。

这真的是一个很好的小说,结局可以看到希望从绝望。

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篇18:《野性的呼唤》英语读后感

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The story sounds like just a dog tale at first--a dog, Buck, is kidnapped from his comfortable life in California and sold as a sled dog for the Alaskan gold rush. While he endures the wilderness and the other dogs, Buck learns that survival comes only with tooth and fang. This lesson brings him very close to his forbears, the wolves.

If you look deeper, Call of the Wild is as much a story of humans as it is a dog tale. Buck encounters various incompetent masters who try to break his spirit. Are we like this? But Buck also learns to trust a master who is gentle and gives love. We can be like this, too.

Call of the Wild is not a story for the squeamish or very young. By involving us in the characters lives, Jack London tells the truth. It is a life-and-death war between the harsh land and the soul every day. There is blood, death, cruelty--but its the truth.

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篇19:《小公主》英语读后感

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Every Girl Can Be A Princess

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.

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篇20:老人与海英语读后感

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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 .

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