汤姆叔叔的小屋英语读后感200个单词（合集20篇）

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.

It allows us to see the ancients of the intense emotional attachment, Desolate sorrow the United States, driven by the strong spirit of demonstrating their love in the spirit of the force on the texture. We see Jing Zhonghua, in the water, on hazy, mysterious feeling hazy realm of birds. They kind of mental, physical emotional blur, all with their own stupid Han Yun, feudal in detention so that they have become slaves of love, history, the role of emotion in tragedy. Between people are full of alienation and indifference. Turned away, only those left behind is their bleak, tragic, even pathetic, pathetic footprints. In their own time and space in the world and with his brilliant performance but also lose the taste of the emotions. Unfortunately, even if it does have its own mental irrigation; even sad, but they have their own spiritual sustenance; even if poor, they have the sympathy and pity for the others later sigh; even history, but also has a world of endless post- worship and praise.

then man treat GREat event in ones life with punishing， Demonstrate different attitudes to the love question of the marriage of young girl of the family origin of middle class of villages and towns， Thus reflected authors oneselfs marriage view: It is wrong to get married for the property， money and position; Get married and does not consider that above-mentioned factors are unwise too .

So， she objects to getting married for money ， objecting to regarding the marriage as a trifling matter . She emphasizes the importance of the ideal marriage ， and regard men and womens emotion as the foundation stone which concludes the ideal marriage.

the woman protagonist in the book Elizabeth comes from the little landlords family， reaches the west to have deep love for for the rich and powerful people sons and younger brothers. Reach the disparity of ignoring family status and wealth of the west， propose to her， but is refused. Elizabeths misunderstanding and prejudice to him are a reason， but a main one is the arrogance that she dislikes him.

Reach the thes of the west in fact status the reflections of difference， exist this kind arrogant， Not having common thoughts and feelings between he and Elizabeth， the marriage that can not have lofty ideals . Elizabeth watches conducting oneself in society and a series of behavior of reaching the west personally afterwards， See he change the proud conceited expressions of passing by， dispel misunderstanding and prejudice to him， Thus concluded the happy marriage with him.

更多热门文章：

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.

[《夏洛特的网》的英语读后感

Western literature has no equivalent to The journey to the West. Imagine Dante mixed with Kabala, and peopled by Daniel Boone, Mother Teresa and Wile E. Coyote. This sixteenth-century epic is both one of the half-dozen most venerated works in classical Chinese literature and a staple of popular culture. Its ubiquitous characters and stories appear in comic books, advertisements, even postage stamps. It is, simultaneously, a dragons-and-demons adventure, an allegory of self-mastery, a political satire, an anthology of rich, symbolic poetry, and an esoteric alchemical recipe book. Its picaresque, fantastical, wise. And hilarious.

In the process of the development of Latin American literature more than hundred years, there have been many different schools, these schools have deeply changed the world literature. Famous writer Garcia and Colombia. Gabriel Garcia marquez, with their magical thinking of the real world and, created the magic realism of this literary genre, and the author also won the Nobel Prize for literature.

Just started reading "one hundred years of solitude", we will find two strange place, one is to tell the story in the book are ridiculous; The second stage is the repeated work in the name and repeat the same thing. In real life could not have lasted more than four years of rain, an elderly father could not only drink a mouthful of cocoa can float in the air, the dead will not because to bear loneliness is to return to the earth... But it all happened in the family. More surprisingly, in the book the way across the hundred years in the family, man isnt called al jarno in dior is called ole, and all kinds of strange things in the family, the familys first generation of the founder al dior until the last guardians of the ray in jarno repeated happening. Linked to the creation of the author s and living environment, it is easy to see what this symbol.

The author in the one hundred years of solitude with fantastic language describes the entrepreneurial hardships, the emergence of civilization, reproduction and survival, love and betrayal, glory and dream, the production of capitalism, the outbreak of the civil war, the entry of monopoly capitalism, such as the fight for democracy and republic, could influence the Latin America is to let them more concentrated in a small named Malcolm in the country. Every member of the Brian dia home are deeply involved in. At the end of the story. In the last of the guardian aurelio jarno read records the fate of the family in one hundred after the parchment said: "it all, I have seen, is already know!" The author is through the summary of the character, expressed his view of history of one hundred years in Latin America, the modern Latin America more than hundred years of history is repeated, the development of Latin America and history are stagnant.

"One hundred years of solitude" is an interesting work, she didnt have the mammoth plot, the development of the story is more puzzling. When you read him, plumcakes with ChangSi, but you can feel the author repeat of history. In Latin America alone in one hundred. And couldnt help but indulge among them.

在拉美文学百余年的发展过程中，出现过许多不同的流派，这些流派都深深的改变了世界文坛。而哥伦比亚著名作家加西亚。马尔克斯，则以其对现实世界魔幻般的思索和诉说，开创了魔幻现实主义这一文学流派，而作者也因之获得了诺贝尔文学奖。

刚刚开始阅读《百年孤独》时，我们会发现作品中有两处奇怪的地方，其一是书中诉说的故事大都荒诞不经;其二是作品中人名的反复出现和相同怪事的重复发生。在现实生活中不可能会有持续了四年多的雨，一个老年神父不可能只喝了一口可可茶就能浮在空中，死者更不会因为耐不住寂寞就重返人间……但这一切都发生在了这个家族的身边。更令人奇怪的是，书中这个绵亘了百余年的世家中，男子不是叫做阿尔卡迪奥就是叫做奥雷里亚诺，而家族中各种奇怪的事情，在家族的第一代创始人阿尔卡迪奥直到家族的最后一个守护者奥雷里亚诺的身上反复的发生着。联系到作者的创作年代和生活环境，我们不难发现这象征了什么。

作者在《百年孤独》中用梦幻般的语言叙述了创业的艰辛，文明的出现，繁衍与生存，爱情与背叛，光荣与梦想，资本主义的产生，内战的爆发，垄断资本主义的进入，民主与共和之争等足以影响拉美的大事，却让他们集中发生在一个小小的名叫马尔孔多的乡村中。把布莱恩迪亚家的每个成员都深深的牵扯了进去。在故事的结尾时。家族的最后一个守护者奥雷里亚诺阅读了记载这个百年世家的命运的羊皮卷后说：“这里面所有的一切，我都曾经看到过，也早已知道!”作者正是借这个总结性的人物之口，表达了自己对拉丁美洲百年历史的看法，即近代拉美百余年的历史是重复的，拉美的发展和历史进程都停滞不前。

《百年孤独》是一部有趣的作品，她没有波澜壮阔的情节，故事的发展更是令人费解。当你读完他，掩卷长思，你却可以感受到作者对历史的重复。对拉美的孤独百年的思考。并情不自禁的沉浸其中。

导语：《穆斯林的葬礼》通过一个穆斯林家族六十年间的兴衰,三代人命运的沉浮,描写了两个发生在不同时代、有着不同内容却又交错扭结的爱情悲剧。下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的英语读后感，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!​

Novels written by very real, whether history, religion, arts and crafts, or peoples feelings. Although I dont know about a lot of history, the Muslim religious culture, I dont know much, but finish reading this book, just think, a lot of things seem so real in front, big to a funeral, small to a piece of jade.

Said the authors in the order of the hero and I live together. From morning till night and day and night. I joy and happiness for them, for their suffering and pain. I have to and I separated. When I send them one by one from the world, I was unbearable with life and death to leave." In the story, however, still want to leave, one after another, lined up and slowly to leave. Tragedy is inevitable.

The deepest impression is that tze-ki hon in London to send home to the letter. A letter, but also is simply a word - "we are still alive. You still alive?" Still alive... In such a turbulent years of the war, written letter is such, so greetings, my in the mind a burst of sad, a drop of tears to fall.

In the thick book, you can see two generations of beautiful love, see the love of the helpless and sad. Sometimes we are really in love with, but also because of love, would feel helpless, make something hurt others also hurt yourself.

【参考译文】

小说写的很真实，无论是历史，宗教，手工艺，还是人的感情。虽然有关很多历史我都不太清楚，穆斯林的宗教文化我也不甚了解，但是看完这书，就是觉得，很多东西好像就那么真真切切的放在面前，大到一个葬礼，小到一块玉。

作者在后序中说，“我和主人公一起生活。每天从早到晚，又夜以继日。我为他们的欢乐而欢乐，为他们的痛苦而痛苦。我已经舍不得和我的人物分开。当我把他们一个一个地送离人间的时候，我被生死离别折磨得痛彻肺腑。”然而故事中的人，还是要离开，一个又一个，排着队似的，不紧不慢地离开。悲剧故事都不可避免的如此。

印象最深的是，韩子奇身处英国伦敦时给家里寄去的那封信。说是一封信，却也只是简单的一句话——“我们还活着。你们还活着吗?”还活着吗……在那样一个战争动乱年间，信竟然是这样写的，如此的问候，我心里一阵凄凉，一滴眼泪往下落。

在这本厚重的书里，可以看到两代人的凄美爱情，看到爱情中的无奈和悲哀。有时候我们确实是爱着的，但也因为爱着，才会感到无奈，做出些伤到别人也伤到自己的事。

《悲惨世界》是由法国大作家维克多·雨果在1862年所发表的一部长篇小说，涵盖了拿破仑战争和之后的十几年的时间，是十九世纪最著名的小说之一。下面来看看语文迷网整理的英语读后感吧。

" Les Miserables " (1862) is representative works of Victor Hugo,as one of the most famous novels in the French literature.

The novel basic plot is Ran A Rang pitiful life history. He originally is one poor family background worker, because the income insufficient family member gets by, by one time stole the bread is arrested is put in prison. Passed 19 years firm prison and the bitter service life. The punishment completely after also has the larceny behavior, but benevolent bishop in the rice the sorrowful influence, the transformation is one shed oneself manner person. He uses an alias is Madland, works as the entrepreneur, and is pushed for mayor. But soon and further because exposed the status is arrested is put in prison, after escapes rescues the deceased female worker Fantins daughter Cosette match from one bastard hand special, went to Paris. Afterwards again unceasingly encountered polices pursuit. The Ran A Rang entire life fills is imprisoned the pain which the bitter service and drifts about destitute, this is the novel main clue.

" Les Miserables " is the work which one realism and the romanticism unifies, the very many chapters glitter the realism glory, such as , in 1832 Pariss street barricade war all wrote is quite real. But the romanticism technique quite was also obvious in the plot arrangement, writes the many extraordinary events. If Ran A rang lets lie down is lifted in the coffin the monastery, he rescues from the street barricade Marilius, all is strange, molds, environment description, symbolic and contrast technique aspect and so on utilization in the character image, also manifests the romanticism the characteristic.

"I am a dog, I the wisdom of the people, but only because of lack of the two fingers, I do not open the door, open the box, press the remote control board, write the word... just because missing thumb, I can only do a dog. Although I the wisdom of the people, but I always just a dog......" the modest, at the beginning of the text, who became the first let a person standing read on reason. Its called enzo, a hybrid terrier.

I wait for you in the rain with a dog, tells the story of it, master enzo and Danny together through wind and rain vicissitudes: lonely when Dannys wife died, when her parents against him, when he is in chains and body was suddenly arrested, or when he got sick was disabled car, whether it is happy time, difficult years, still standing watch, no sweet without sweat, zorn, and Danny to each other all the, they through the exchange of mind, convey love each other, and the power of love for each other, let the tragedy to contain. When I closed the book, and her eyes filled with tears, heart like lens at the love scenes.

Enzo eyes, let a person see the ordinary in the warm happiness, weak consistency; So implicit yet affectionate and so difficult but insisted that the value of life is so beautiful, are thick. "I will wait for you in the rain" is a book of gently flap tranquil, but meaningful. "

It "said:" your heart decides what you see. We are the creators of our own destiny."

A lot of things, all in the setback, as long as you have your willpower, your strong, even if there is difficulty you can pass, after the storm, a rainbow will appear, no matter what to do, we strive to the end. Beat all want to overthrow their frustration, defeat fear, go forward!

Why cant do? Because your heart give you draw a line: I must do it. So, you see is the failure of himself. Why dont you open your heart, to find the ideal himself, to one of your goals in the past, it doesnt matter fell, fate is not held by yourself? Climb up, then you will be in front of a piece of light; Decadent, you couldnt get to the end forever.

To have such a pole vaulter, he is very severe, every game can refresh record, world record is created. He once said: "if I knew from the start to do this, then I must cant jump so high now." Yes, because he opened his heart, there is no limit to yourself, to be beyond the limit!

Your heart, decide what you see. We are the creators of our own destiny. Close your books, enzos face seemed to be just around the corner. "Dad, lets go to play." Skill not how, I picked up the racket, heart full of confidence and courage, as tender and considerate enzo looking at me, smile...

“我是一条狗，我有人的智慧，只可惜单单因为缺了两个指头，我拧不开门，开不了电视，按不了遥控板，写不了字……只因为缺了大拇指，我只能做一条狗。虽然我有人的智慧，但我永远只是一条狗…… ” 这种温和的开头文字，成为了让人痴痴读下去的第一个理由。它叫恩佐，一条杂交梗犬。

《我在雨中等你》以一只狗的口吻，讲述了它，恩佐和主人丹尼相依度过的风雨悲欢：当丹尼的妻子凄凉死去， 当岳父母和他反目成仇，当他镣铐加身被突然逮捕，或当佐恩得病遭车撞行动不便，无论是幸福时光、困顿岁月，还是痴痴守望、苦尽甘来，佐恩和丹尼彼此之间自始自终不离不弃，他们通过心灵的交流，彼此传递着爱，给对方爱的力量，让悲剧得以遏制。当我热泪盈眶地合上此书，心中涌动的是一幕幕爱的镜头。

恩佐的眼，竟让人看见了平凡中的温暖幸福、脆弱坚毅;如此含蓄却又深情，如此困难却又坚持，生命的可贵因之美丽，也因之厚实。《我在雨中等你》是一本轻轻撩动心海的书，却意味深长。」

它“说”过：“你的心，决定你看见的。我们是自己命运的创造者。”

很多事情，都于挫折并存，只要你拥有你的毅力，你的坚强，即使有困难你都可以通过，经历了暴风雨，彩虹才会出现，不管做什么事，我们都要努力到底。击败所有想打倒自己的挫折，击败内心的恐惧，勇往直前!

为什么会做不到?正是因为你的心给你划定了界限：这件事我一定做不到。所以，你看到的只是那个失败的自己。为什么不敞开心扉，找到那个理想中的自己，向你的目标冲过去，跌倒了也不要紧，命运不是由自己来掌握的吗?选择爬起来，那么你的前面将是一片光芒;颓废下去，你永远走不到终点。

有那样一位撑杆跳运动员，他很厉害，每一次比赛都能刷新记录，世界纪录都是他创造的。他曾经说过：“如果我一开始就知道这次要跳这么高，那我一定跳不到现在这么高。”是啊，正因为他敞开了自己的内心，没有限制自己，才会超越极限!

你的心，决定你看见的。我们是自己命运的创造者。合上书，恩佐的脸庞仿佛就在眼前。“爸爸，我们去打球。”球技不怎么的的我，拿起了球拍，心中充满了自信和勇气，仿佛温柔又善解人意的恩佐正看着我，微笑……

暑假里，我读了一本好书---《汤姆叔叔的小屋》，翻开扉页，一幅幅插图映入我的眼帘，一个皮肤黝黑的奴仆，他有着浓密的卷发，厚厚的嘴唇，虽然他受到了折磨，但他眼中的坚毅之光、善良之光、思乡之光感动了我，使我爱上了这本书。

这本书讲了一位奴仆汤姆被他贫穷的主人卖给了残忍的海利先生，经过几番周折，他落到了善良的奥古斯丁家，在那里汤姆受到了优待，但好景不长，主人就去世了，暴躁的女主人把他卖给了心狠手辣的奴隶主雷格里，在那里他每天都受到挨打，流着血的伤口惨不忍睹，但他却用坚强的力量克服疼痛，用善良之心为主人的暴行祈祷，但最终，汤姆因不愿做监工而被打死了。读到这里，我的眼眶里盈满了泪水，我不仅为汤姆的死感到伤心，而且为雷格里的暴行感到愤恨。

读完了这本书，我脑海里浮现出汤姆受到折磨时的景象，一个身强力壮的黑人奴仆穿着破破烂烂的衣服，身上伤痕累累，脚上戴着铁链，虽然他过着艰苦的生活，但他不屈服，总是十分善良地做着一个虔诚的基督教徒，他的眼神中总是流露着坚毅和真诚。

汤姆是不幸的----他竟生活在一个歧视黑人的国家中，被奴隶主压迫着，辛勤地干着重活，既没有自由，又没有优待，这是多么不公平啊!但汤姆却在残酷的社会中表现出善良之心---在主人的折磨和欺压下，他原谅了主人并让他忏悔自己的行为，救赎自己的灵魂。

在那个种族歧视的年代，汤姆用自己的坚强的力量，激励了周围的黑人们勇敢地面对生活，做一个善良的人，而他自己用爱感化世间，善良的原谅他人，他真是爱的化身。

汤姆叔叔这个善良的黑人告诉我们，人生是一个五味瓶，当挫折来临时，就应该把它当作对自己的考验，拿出坚毅顽强的精神去克服它!我现在是一位中学生，在成长的道路上，绊脚石迎面而来，有一次竞选班干部，我十分想当英语课代表，但马上要演讲了，我内心十分忐忑，我在不断思索：是冲还是放弃。在那个矛盾的时候，我想到汤姆叔叔克服困难的情景，他仿佛在激励我，让我用勇敢者的气魄对自己说一声:

“战胜困难，勇往直前!”汤姆叔叔鼓励我，给了我前进的勇气，最终我竟如愿以偿，当上了英语课代表。

读了这本书，我明白只要有着坚强的力量，才有可能到达成功的彼岸，而放弃则意味着失败!

第三篇：汤姆叔叔的小屋读后感

暑假里妈妈向我推荐了一本好书，那就是美国女作家斯托夫人笔下的《汤姆叔叔的小屋》。这是一本曾深刻影响了美国历史的世界文学名著。

《汤姆叔叔的小屋》，又译作《黑奴吁天录》和《汤姆大伯的小屋》，作者是美国女作家比彻·斯托夫人(1811—1896)。比彻·斯托出生在一个牧师家庭，曾经做过教师。她在辛辛拉提市住了18年，与南部蓄奴的村镇仅一河之隔，这使她有机会接触到一些逃亡奴。奴隶们的悲惨遭遇引起了她深深的同情。她本人也去过南方，亲自了解了那里的情况，《汤姆叔叔的小屋》便是在这样的背景下写出来的。此书于1852年首次在《民族时代》刊物上连载，立即引起了强烈的反响，受到了人们无与伦比的欢迎，后来被译为20多种文字在世界各地出版。评论界认为本书在启发民众的反奴隶制情绪上起了重大作用，被视为美国内战的起因之一。林肯总统后来接见斯托夫人时戏谑地称她是“写了一本书，酿成了一场大战的小妇人”，这一句玩笑话充分反映了《汤姆叔叔的小屋》这部长篇小说的巨大影响。

主人公汤姆是个心地善良、笃信上帝的黑人，正因为这个黑人身份，才决定了他悲惨的命运。十九世纪末叶，美国盛行着一种毁灭人性尊严的奴隶制度。这种奴隶制度，是将非洲等落后地区的黑人，强制押解到新大陆，做家畜式的买卖。黑人就像牲畜一样任那些白种人随意买卖，根本没有人身自由。他们成为白人的私有财产，生活在地狱中，过着牛马不如的生活，不仅平时象牲畜一样不停地劳作连温饱都保证不了，而且命运把握在主人手上，每一次被贩卖都意味着与家人的生死离别和自己前途命运的未卜。索性的是奴隶制已经废除，但愿全世界的人们都能和平友好相处，世界将会变得更加美好。

According to most analyses, The Catcher in the Rye is a bildungsroman, a novel about a young character’s growth into maturity. While it is appropriate to discuss the novel in such terms, Holden Caulfield is an unusual protagonist for a bildungsroman because his central goal is to resist the process of maturity itself. As his thoughts about the Museum of Natural History demonstrate, Holden fears change and is overwhelmed by complexity. He wants everything to be easily understandable and eternally fixed, like the statues of Eskimos and Indians in the museum. He is frightened because he is guilty of the sins he criticizes in others, and because he can’t understand everything around him. But he refuses to acknowledge this fear, expressing it only in a few instances—for example, when he talks about sex and admits that “[s]ex is something I just don’t understand. I swear to God I don’t” (Chapter 9).

Instead of acknowledging that adulthood scares and mystifies him, Holden invents a fantasy that adulthood is a world of superficiality and hypocrisy (“phoniness”), while childhood is a world of innocence, curiosity, and honesty. Nothing reveals his image of these two worlds better than his fantasy about the catcher in the rye: he imagines childhood as an idyllic field of rye in which children romp and play; adulthood, for the children of this world, is equivalent to death—a fatal fall over the edge of a cliff. His created understandings of childhood and adulthood allow Holden to cut himself off from the world by covering himself with a protective armor of cynicism. But as the book progresses, Holden’s experiences, particularly his encounters with Mr. Antolini and Phoebe, reveal the shallowness of his conceptions.

I was very favor of a section of music in its balls. It’s pretty brisk, liked a wonderful song of a bird. Regarding to the characters, I liked Elizabeth, the he-ro-in-e,though I didn’t think she’s beautiful. But she’s smart. However, I didn’t pay much attention to the plot. I thought it’s so long that it made me impatient and bored. By now, I haven’t read the whole story in English or its Chinese version, either. I owe it to my prejudice. In fact, I didn’t understand the story at that time. I didn’t know why it called Pride and Prejudice. Of course someone was pride, but I didn’t find where’ s the prejudice. I thought it’s normal, the way people treated each other in that. I considered prejudice would be very disgusting. But to the movie everthing was OK in my minds, except its length. Now, I think I have understood more about it. I’m a prejudiced person so I can’t find where’s wrong.

I merely like to do the things I like. Everytime I meet somebody or something,my thinking about he or it all depends on my foregone experience and my mood of the time.

Everyone is the god of his own. If you have succumbed to yourself, then who can be your savior all through the world? ---Form The Shawshank Redemption

The story begins with the trial of a young banker called Andy, who victimized by circumstantial evidence and be put into the Shawshank prison. Ellis and many other prisoners had been in the prison for so many years that they had accustomed to this kind of life. Even they did not want to go out. It’s not only because they can’t, but also that they lived here for years without hope. You see, they lived just in the small prison living a boring life, it’s a gray world where nobody knows what their dream was, what their hope was.

However, as the old man said: Some birds arent meant to be caged, but most birds will choose to stand it. Though they tried too many times, they never finished it, so they gave up. Nonetheless, Andy tried. He has the smart brain, the never fading persistent, as well as the most important

thing----hope. With a small hammer to dig through the tunnel to drainage pipe, and then climb over the drainage pipe outside to the river, Andy succeed in escaping the constraint

The scene impressed me most is when Andy got out of jail, he extended his arms in front of him in the heavy rain as if he were welcoming the fresh air and the freedom. At that moment, I saw the confidence win the darkness, bright light dazzles the eyes in the dark blue sky. Under the light, I could feel my recreant heart being shivering as his voice said: “Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies!”

It’s obvious that hope is a good thing. Whatever difficulty it is, we can’t lose the hope. Hope is enduring. Why we study? Because of the hope. We don’t hope us to be the man who nobody knows, so we go ahead for the dream. That it is , hope is worthy to be kept on the way to realize our dreams.

每个人都是自己的上帝。如果你屈服于自己,那么谁能成为你的救世主整个世界?———肖申克的救赎

这个故事开始于一个名叫安迪的年轻银行家的审判,那些受害者通过间接证据和投入肖申克监狱。埃利斯和许多其他囚犯在监狱了这么多年,他们已经习惯了这种生活。即使他们不想出去。不仅因为他们不能,但也多年没有希望,他们住在这里。你看,他们就住在小监狱生活枯燥的生活,这是一个灰色的世界里,没有人知道自己的梦想是什么,什么是他们的希望。

然而,正如老人说:有些鸟儿是永远关不住的,不但是大多数鸟类会选择忍受。虽然他们尝试过太多次,他们没有完成这项工作,所以他们放弃了。尽管如此,安迪。他有聪明的大脑,永不褪色的持久性,以及最重要的

的事情——希望。用一把小锤子挖隧道排水管道,然后爬过外面的排水管,安迪成功地逃避约束

我印象最深的场景是当安迪出狱,他双臂伸展在他面前的大雨好像欢迎新鲜空气和自由。在那一刻,我看到了信心赢得了黑暗,明亮的灯光闪烁的眼睛暗蓝的天空。在光下,我能感觉到我的怯懦的心作为他的声音颤抖的说:“记住,希望是美好的,也许是件最好的东西,而且从没有一样好东西会消逝!”

很明显,希望是一件好事。无论什么困难,我们不能失去希望。希望是长久的。我们为什么学习?因为希望。我们不希望我们的人没有人知道,所以我们继续梦想。是,希望是值得继续去实现我们的梦想。

Usually, we have contact with many world-famous novels, telling the essence of life. The stories of characters’ life move us give us a lot of enlightenment. However, Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty is a different one, as its main character is a black, handsome horse called Black Beauty. Sewell has spent 6 years on this book, while she was seriously sick. Unfortunately, she died soon after her only book in her whole life was published. As Sewell was crippled and unable to walk since a young age, she by nature had sympathy on the poor animals. Therefore, Black Beauty it is not a fairy tale, but a book which seriously talks the issue of the abuse of animals. And this story is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir by Black Beauty himself. In this way, it becomes easier for readers to understand the whole story better and more clearly. When I begin to read this book, I am absorbed in this book immediately, as if I were the horse, experiencing his life with difficulties and set-backs.

Black Beauty, who has changed his name for several times during different periods of lifetime, is a handsome horse with a life full of both happiness and suffering. He has been well trained, so he always tried to behave well. However, then he was sold from one owner to another, he began to realize how tragic his fate is. His life story has moved all the readers deeply. The author started this story by Black Beauty describing his memory about his happy childhood, when he was accompanied by his mother and taught to be a good horse. At the age of 2, Black Beauty witnessed an accident of hunting for a hare, which caused the rider falling from the horse, dead. Later that wounded horse was killed. And at the age of 4, Black Beauty was old enough to begin the use of saddle, bridle, carriage harness and shoes. Then he was sent to Birtwick Park and named of Black Beauty by Mrs. Gordon. Birtwick Park became his first pleasant home for three years, where he grew strong and met many friends with different characteristics and experiences. One of his friends was Ginger, who was ill-tempered because of a hard life with previous owners. And as a result, Ginger often got wild and bit others. Sir Oliver got a shortened tail because his previous owner thought it was fashionable. Also, there was a groom, little Joe Green. At first, he was too young to know how to properly how to take care of the hot and tired Black Beauty after an emergency, making Black Beauty seriously sick. Grieved, Joe began to do his best to learn hors care. However, soon, the Gorgons had to move because of Mrs. Gordon’s health, so they sold Black Beauty and Ginger to Earlshall Park.

In Earlshall Park, the use of bearing rein made Ginger and Black Beauty painful, so finally ill-tempered Ginger rebelled. Then she was used as a hunter, but Black Beauty was much praised because once he saved Lady Anne. However, his unfortunate life has not changed since then. Our poor Black Beauty got his knees ruined because Mr. Rubber Smith, who was drunk, took Black Beauty on a dangerous ride and at last killed himself after falling down. As a result, Black Beauty was sold as a job horse. Although, he was arranged by a smart customer to be sold to a gentleman afterwards, he still had a hard life, because the groom stole the oats in his food. Tired of the trouble of keeping a horse, the gentleman sold Black Beauty again,

This time, Black Beauty was lucky to have a kind-hearted new owner; a cab driver in London called Jerry. What’s more, Jerry’s families were all kind-hearted, which made Black Beauty happy to bear the hard work of pulling a cab every day. By chance, he met Ginger. She was mistreated as a cab horse; in such a great pain that she was longing for death. And soon, it came true. At the same time, Jerry became weaker and weaker, and finally he was ill in bed after waiting for two customers on a bitter cold night. After his recovery, Jerry was told not to work as s cab driver any more, so Black Beauty was sold again.

Black Beauty’s new owner, a corn dealer, was kind to him, but the dealer’s foreman, Jakes, often overworked the horse and used the bearing rein. Once advertised by a kind lady, Jakes was easier on Black Beauty. However, the dark stables nearly made Black Beauty blind. After sold to work as a cab horse again, Beauty was too old and too weak. Once he was exhausted because of the heavy load. Saved from being put down by a doctor, Beauty found a new owner, a farmer. With full effort, he rejuvenated Beauty and sold him to Miss Ellen and Miss Blomefield. To Beauty’s surprise, he met Joe Green there. Form then on, Black Beauty began a happy life at his last home.

After reading this book, one may admire Black Beauty’s strong will, persistence, and loyalty, or feel sympathetic on him and feel happy for him to get a happy ending. However, it needs our deeper thinking, a much deeper thinking. In fact, Sewell doesn’t only focus on showing Black Beauty’s great characteristics. By telling Black Beauty’s whole life story, she aimed at revealing the hard life of animals at that time and altering us the crime of those who abuse animals.

From Beauty’s suffering during his whole life time, we can see the tragic life of animals at that time. Some people ran after the so-called fashion blindly. In order to satisfy their own vanity，they ignored animals’ great pain. For example, Sir Oliver’s shortened tail. What the so-called fashion gave animals is great pain rather than a beautiful appearance. Some people knew nothing about how to keep animals, and were always making them work all day long. They abused the animals to make as much money as possible until they died. Therefore, on the day when the animals died, their holiday was on the way. For example, the poor Ginger that died for overwork. Though some people kept animals well, their main purpose was to have fun and to show off. They were more abominable. For example, in order to hunt for a hare, the rider killed himself at last and caused the wounded horse’s death. As Beauty said, it wasn’t worthwhile, wasn’t it? Those people who abuse d animals showed no sympathy or love on the poor animals at all. When they needed animals, they kept animals; when they didn’t need animals, they killed animals ruthlessly. To them, all animals were toys, from which they could make fun, or tools, from which they could make money. And the fate of animals at that time, like horses, was being sold from one owner to another, experiencing different kinds of suffering in the whole life. From the standpoint of animals, it must be terrible to be sold again and again.

Let’s see what the result is. Sir Oliver got great annoyance and discomfort because of its shortened tail. Ginger was ill-tempered and bit others often. What’s more, numerous animals died because of over work. What a tragedy！

In fact, the abuse of animals not only happened in the past, but also today, maybe right at this moment, a civilized age. Years ago, I got to know that a few girls cut down a cat’s feet, and then threw it on the street, leaving it bleeding to death. And the year before, it was reported that a student from QingHua University, gave black bears sulfate to drink, which gave black bears a great pain. As to the facts that some old or sick animals are abandoned, it has been very common. Although some organizations aiming at protecting animals have been set up, the abuse of animals can not be prevented. Maybe nowadays the abuse of animals was caused by life pressure, but life pressure can not be an excuse to abuse animals. Those people who live under life pressure should find other ways to solve the problem, but not avoid it by hurting animals.

However, if one can treat animals kindly, the result will be different. Kind people who love animals, such as Mrs. Gordon, Joe, Jerry, get animals’ love and respect in return. As they were friendly to horses, horses are friendly to them and would like to do as much work as they can for them, even sacrifice themselves when their owners were in danger.

I am sure, animals and human can become good friends. No animals will do harm to human, if human have not frightened them first. If you would like to try to have a close and friendly touch with animals, whether tigers or dogs, you will find that they are lovely. Its true that we are much cleverer than animals, but our intelligence should not act as the tool to dominant animals. In fact, we human and animals have the same feeling, because we are all created by one nature, and share one nature together. Therefore, human have no right to abuse them, or kill them. On the contrary, we should protect them, which is our real sacred and glorious obligation.

Do not put the “bearing rein” on the animals. It is cruel.

Do not always focus on our own happiness. It is selfish.

Try to open our eyes to animals that are suffering a hard life.

Try to understand The Black Beauty, and the author.

Try to give a hand in ending the abuse of animals.

At last, I want to conclude by a sentence from this book,“there is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it dose not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a shame”

Everybody has read a famous masterpiece - "treasure island", Treasure Island English reading. The book revolves around an adventure story, in which a young man was born in a poor home to make a living in a hotel. The boy is the hero of the book, Jim. Hawkins. He stumbled upon a map of a desert island where old pirates hid gold and silver. So, he and other friends to discuss, with a group of seaman embarked on a trip to find. But soon, they were a group of seaman mutiny, the two sides keen on the battlefield, they launched a thrilling fight with the enemy. Finally, because all the efforts of the crew, charged to victory, Jim soon, they carried the wealth jubilantly with the home.

Although I did not go there in person adventure, but in my mind, always emerge a picture, Jim his honest face always appeared in his side, he is so noble, kind, brave, he is always able to subdue the pirates, victory, he is so brave! When I heard him this sentence shaking shock, such as this one: we see the land that night, I was in the apple barrel, I heard you, John, and Dick Johnson. - you, it is a Chinese, he is now at the bottom of the sea, I am still a little while, every word you said the report, the "treasure Island" in English reading. As for the schooner? It made me cut off the ropes of the ship. It was I who killed you on the ship...... When I saw these, I was very shocked, a juvenile can have so much courage to say these, which I admire.

Of course, I admire people who have a resentment of the people, such as Silver as the representative of the people, in their body are hypocritical, presumptuous, evil, they kill the lives of others for themselves, they do not feel guilty for what you have done, but more and more rampant. Think of the money the brain is empty, finally only kill the idea, to a mans throat cut, run amuck. Let my mind they all come out with a pair of ferocious terror ningxiao eyes with a seaman knife killed many people crazy, only for their own benefit and loss of humanity.

Although the novel is genuine, his work embodies a sharp confrontation between good and evil. I think the story warns us not to do anything selfish, because it is the wrong way in your life, and Jim is a kind of spiritual wealth represented by justice.

She was seduced by a so-called gentleman—Alec, and from then on her life totally changed from this loss of innocence. People looked down on her and respected her no more. Actually she did nothing wrong because before she was seduced she knew nothing of men. She was just a girl when she first met that terrible man.

She was forced by the gossips and the church to blame herself for this accident, so she thought she deserved nothing good. In order to get rid of the past she decided to go to a distant dairy farm but was still saying to herself that she was wrong. Maybe God didn’t aGREe with that, because the Lord gave her someone she loved with her whole heart and life—Angel Chare. Angel popped the question to her but she refused him without saying why. She said she loved him deeply and perhaps no one in the world could love him more than she did but she could not marry him for some unspoken reason. Angel wasn’t satisfied with this vague answer and did his best to win Tess. Somehow she agreed and they soon fixed the wedding day. Soon after their wedding Angel confessed the crime he committed to a woman long time ago and asked for Tess’s forgiveness. Tess was not at all angry and forgave Angel at once; in fact she was rather happy and excited for she also had things to confess.

She sat and told everything to Angel, hoping he would forgive her as he was forgiven but she was wrong. She was not forgiven, not as she thought she was. The woman pays.

Without Angel’s love, nothing meant anything to her. The result wasn’t important now. Tess was arrested for her murder of that so-called gentleman. Why? She still loved Angel and when he finally went back to her and asked for HER forgiveness, after he reGREtted what he had done unfair to Tess, she was desperate. That was too late—Alec had always told Tess that Angel would never come back so he won Tess’s trust. Unluckily Angel did come back and found Tess.! Everything was too late!

Tess was deceived and she lost Angel for the second time! The strengh of her love was so strong that she had forgotten the difference between right and wrong. Before that she had done nothing wrong but when she killed Alec, everything really changed! She became a criminal! How could it be? She was as pure and innocent as the good wife in the Bible. Her whole character was honest and faithful. Angel figured out at last that a person should be judged not only on what he has done but also on what he wanted to do!

Tess didn’t want to be seduced by man and she had no power to defend herself so she lost her innocence and that’s all! Angel also did the wrong thing and it was even more serious than Tess’s crime but HE was not blamed for it. Why it is always the woman who pays? Why they are always hurt? Why was Tess’s girlish purity lost? Why does the wrong man take the wrong woman? Why do the bad often ruin the good? Why is beauty damaged by ugliness? Women are too weak! Thousands of years of history have shown us that women have always been treated unfairly!

In old China there was a culture, which didn’t think of women as human beings. If you asked one if he was the oldest in his family, he would probably answer “the oldest one” even if he had some elder sisters. If you asked why then he would say, “Ha, they are not included!”

People gave birth to many girls in order to have only one boy to keep the family name going. They thought girls had no use for the family. They would be married and go to live with their husbands’ home and be their wives some day sooner or later. So they were extremely hard on girls.

Girls should be hard working, faithful, loyal, intelligent, and virtuous and the most important thing was she must be a maiden! If her husband was the first man who touched her then she was a good girl, a good wife no matter how she thought. If she wasn’t, then she would gain a very bad reputation and nobody would dare to go near her. What about men? People did not care whether he was an experienced man or not, nor did they care about his character. They thought man equals power and power equals rights…

Now let’s not be so bitter. Nowadays women’s situations have become much better. Some are because of the change of society and some are because of civilization. Just let those poor painful women like TESS be just a memory.

《三国演义》是中国古典四大名著之一，是中国第一部长篇章回体历史演义小说，全名为《三国志通俗演义》(又称《三国志演义》)，作者是元末明初的著名小说家罗贯中。以下是小编带来的三国演义英语读后感，希望对你有帮助。

Rolling the Yangtze river east a mill, the waves are gone all heroes. Exciting, the third time I open the classical literary classics of The Three Kingdoms.

The story is the main content of the wisdom and brave in turn to launch, but I think that wisdom is always better than brave. For example: in the west, KongMingYong KongChengJi scare the sima yi of one hundred and fifty thousand troops led. This example for infinite in number.

But in the story also has "wisdom not delimit stratagem, brave enemy, the improper doesnt take the pen, wu fixed gun". Like han room LiuChan, gaily all day, ignore the palace, and is willing to give the shu, finally had staged let one of sneer at things, ran. Who would have thought of a countrys rulers can make such a ShiYiSuYi things to come?

Foolhardy, the big enemy be current, the only desperate battle. Lyu3 bu4, YanLiang are typical example: if BaiMenLou obey the counselor in lyu3 bu4 idea, why should be hanged on the city gate cao? If YanLiang put in hebei things and liu bei guan yu clearly, where as for the chop down by guan yu is nothing?

If in the three countries on the strongest wage, a little too much. Cao cao is a unique way, sima yi is more YongBingRuShen. But both have their own weakness: cao cao suspicious, sima yi too dangerous. Besides shu, the will is various ge bright. His prodigious wit, skilled BingZhen, all let posterity alike. And like chicken, concubines Victoria, seo young pang tong accidental sugarcane and so on some characters, but I think all not equal to the bore is clear. Wu, a occupy sanjiang county of six nation, can calculate on a strategy, also is the week yu, young period of the week yu will read books, proficient in formation. After some hard work, and finally, when the very big paper, the President marines. But he is too too jealous, dead at all twenty-six.

From these characters and state we can see that the importance of ones character. Character relationship with success.

Each people all have own goal, as long as dependable walk good for success in the process of each section of the road, believe that success will not far. When we looked at others envy success, often ignored him on the road to success pay difficultly. Like bing xin said: the success of flower. People got only act she present mingyan! But when her yaren, soak the struggle leiquan, a sacrifice xueyu blood rain!

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 .

Today, I see the this book again.

This story is in the Zootopia. When animals start to go missing in Zootopia, officer Judy,the city#39;s first bunny cop jumps at fhe chance to solve the mystery. Judy and scam-artist fox Nick are forced to team up and discover even natural enemies can become best friends.

I like this book very much. Because this is a motivational book, about to also can achieve the great dream, finaly become a hero of the story. I like in a word therein "This is Zootopia, and anyone can be anything."

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.

Published in 1847, Wuthering Heights was not well received by the reading public, many of whom condemned it as sordid, vulgar, and unnatural--and author Emily Bronte went to her grave in 1848 believing that her only novel was a failure. It was not until 1850, when Wuthering Heights received a second printing with an introduction by Emilys sister Charlotte, that it attracted a wide readership. And from that point the reputation of the book has never looked back. Today it is widely recognized as one of the GREat novels of English literature.

Even so, Wuthering Heights continues to divide readers. It is not a pretty love story; rather, it is swirling tale of largely unlikeable people caught up in obsessive love that turns to dark madness. It is cruel, violent, dark and brooding, and many people find it extremely unpleasant. And yet--it possesses a grandeur of language and design, a sense of tremendous pity and GREat loss that sets it apart from virtually every other novel written.

The novel is told in the form of an extended FLASHback. After a visit to his strange landlord, a newcomer to the area desires to know the history of the family--which he receives from Nelly Deans, a servant who introduces us to the Earnshaw family who once resided in the house known as Wuthering Heights. It was once a cheerful place, but Old Earnshaw adopted a "Gipsy" child who he named Heathcliff. And Catherine, daughter of the house, found in him the perfect companion: wild, rude, and as proud and cruel as she. But although Catherine loves him, even recognizes him as her soulmate, she cannot lower herself to marry so far below her social station. She instead marries another, and in so doing sets in motion an obsession that will destroy them all.

Wuthering Heights is a bit difficult to "get into;" the opening chapters are so dark in their portrait of the end result of this obsessive love that they are somewhat off-putting. But they feed into the flow of the work in a remarkable way, setting the stage for one of the most remarkable structures in all of literature, a story that circles upon itself in a series of repetitions as it plays out across two generations. Catherine and Heathcliff are equally remarkable, both vicious and cruel, and yet never able to shed their impossible love no matter how brutally one may wound the other.

As the novel coils further into alcoholism, seduction, and one of the most elaborately imagined plans of revenge it gathers into a ghostly tone: Heathcliff, driven to madness by a woman who is not there but who seems reflected in every part of his world--dragging her corpse from the grave, hearing her calling to him from the moors, escalating his brutality not for the sake of brutality but so that her memory will never fade, so that she may never leave his mind until death itself. Yes, this is madness, insanity, and there is no peace this side of the grave or even beyond.

It is a stunning novel, frightening, inexorable, unsettling, filled with unbridled passion that makes one cringe. Even if you do not like it, you should read it at least once--and those who do like it will return to it again and again.