《追风筝的人》读后感英文汇集20篇

我总是糊里糊涂地想，自己怎么总能成为幸福的人，一次又一次在感情相连的书中获得满足。我也讨厌阿米尔的不够勇敢，但是那不是缺点，生活本就要顺其自然，你何必要强加虚伪的东西来蒙蔽旁人的双眼，自己的真实。

突然之间，发觉自己的泪腺不是好久不用，而是未曾如此感动，为哈桑的忠诚，为索拉博的那一句厌倦了感动。我深刻地记着这世界最大的罪恶是盗窃，当你杀了一个男人，你就剥夺了一个儿子的父亲，一位妇人的丈夫。而说谎更是剥夺了旁人知道真相的权力。可每个想要，并且竭力要生存的人，谁不是这当中的罪人，不是这般就是那般。

文中那些战争是多么的可怕，杀人狂魔的眼里除了鲜血再没有别的，我讨厌坏人，也一直在心里期盼阿塞夫可以为这送命，可好人总是没有神的庇佑，反倒是反反复复遭人唾弃的坏人时常粉墨登场，虽然他最后的结局是如我所愿，可那么多条被他残害的生命他是尝还不起的。看了这么久，才幡然醒悟，有钱的人又能如何，在战争面前依旧是落魄的。高尚的教授随时能变成乞丐，受人尊敬的医生，工程师，法官为了生存也变成了跳瘙市场的一员。没有人是可以一生都能春风得意，人们能接受的不过是生存带来的一切征兆。它让我看到了真实，人们身上的突如其来，看到了战争，那扭曲的狂欢，看到了空虚，在救赎与被救赎之间的搏斗。原来生活就是这样，意料之外，没有情理之中。

Elizabeth resourcefulness, have courage, visionary, have very strong self-respect, and be good at thinking. It is because of this quality, just make her have independent opinion on the emotional problems, and prompted her and the darcy composition content family.

Books as the name implies, pride and prejudice, and in the book is male leading the obstacle of the love, but in the real society is also a communication barriers between people, but also in the right attitude towards themselves, treat things in a stumbling block. In real life, we will also often because of his unilateral idea but myself with others, so we have to overcome the "pride and prejudice", take the initiative to understand others. Each person actually are easy to be driven by their own subjective impression, and therefore easy to incorrect comment on other people, thus caused the misunderstanding between each other. A man give first impression is can affect many things, but not must not change, want to have a more in-depth understanding, in order to have a more objective point argument, just like the heroine of the story of darcys view, is because understanding just change. The book reaction of social reality is so hit the nail on the head, she is about marriage, has nothing to do with love.

伊丽莎白聪敏机智，有胆识，有远见，有很强的自尊心，并善于思考问题。正是由于这种品质，才使她在情感问题上有独立的主见，并促使她与达西组成美满的家庭。

书如其名，傲慢与偏见，在书中是男女主角爱情上的障碍，但在现实社会中也是人们相互之间交流的障碍，更是在正确对待自己，对待事物上的绊脚石。在现实生活中，我们也会经常因为自己单方面的想法而是自己与他人隔开，所以我们要克服“傲慢与偏见”，主动了解他人。每一个人其实都很容易被自己的主观印象所驱使，因而容易对别的人下不正确的注解，进而造成了彼此之间的误会。一个人所给予的第一印象固然可以影响到很多事，但并非一定不会改变，要有更加深入的了解，才能有更客观一点的论点，就好像故事中女主角对达西的看法，就是因为了解才有所改变。此书反应的社会现实确是如此一针见血，她讲的是婚姻，与爱情无关。

阿富汗，一个在曾经在我们的印象中只有战火纷飞、颠沛流离的地方。而《追风筝的人》却为我们呈现了一个真正的阿富汗——一个有欢乐，有情谊的国度。

小说从阿米尔与他的父亲仆人的儿子哈桑的亲密友情开始，这段感情成为了贯穿整本小说的线索。他们一起所放的风筝，既象征了心中的理想和向往，又象征着他们之间关系的脆弱，在漫长的岁月中，饱经磨练。

书中并没有充斥着大量的，华丽的词藻，没有无病呻吟，而是用细腻的、丰富的语言为我们真实的叙述。阿米尔和哈桑在这片土地上生活的是那样幸福。虽然身份与种族的差异不时扰乱两人的友谊，但是谁也无法忽视这之中令人艳羡的美好。他们一起看电影，读书，玩耍。当阿米尔第一次写的故事被他父亲发现后，他的父亲对他很不满意，但哈桑一直鼓励着、支持者着阿米尔。每当那些邻居的孩子来欺负阿米尔的时候，总是哈桑挺身而出，将他们挡回去。一次，他们被阿塞夫拦住，是哈桑用他手中的弹弓，吓退了阿塞夫，保护了阿米尔。

还记得在追风筝前，哈桑所做的那个梦，人们说湖里有一个鬼怪，都不敢下水，而阿米尔却一头扎在了湖中，说“湖里没有鬼怪。”哈桑也跳了下去。人们知道了，湖里没有鬼怪，只有湖水。“没有鬼怪“这四个字安抚了阿米尔在追风筝前不安焦躁的心。阿米尔终于不负他的父亲所望，赢了这比赛，在阿米尔要求哈桑追回那只蓝风筝时，又听到了那句经典，有最感人的一句”为你，千千万万遍。“然而，就像小说中所说，一本好的书中，总有一些悲剧。在那小巷中，阿米尔眼睁睁的看着哈桑被阿塞夫折磨，没有勇气上前相救，因为先前的嫉妒而转身离去。与哈桑的梦境相反，湖里面有一只鬼怪，他将哈桑拉入水中，而那只鬼怪就是阿米尔。“他知道我看到了小巷里面的一切，知道我站在那儿，袖手旁观。他明知我背叛了他，然而还是再次救了我，也许是最后一次。那一刻我爱上了他，爱他胜过爱任何人，我只想告诉他们，我就是草丛里面的毒蛇，湖底的鬼怪。”跟着风筝一起坠落的，还有他们的友谊。

还有许多令人难忘的景象：一个为了养家糊口的男人在黑市上买他的腿;足球赛中场休息时，人们围观一堆通奸的男女被石头活活砸死;一个个被拐卖的恤孤院里的孩子……还记得阿米尔父亲所说的：“当你杀害一个人，你偷走一条生命，你偷走他妻子身为人妇的权利，夺走他子女的父亲。当你说谎，你偷走别人知道真相的权利。当你诈骗，你偷走公平的权利。没有比盗窃更十恶不赦的事情了。”终于，在朋友的指引和劝导下，阿米尔知道了真相，他冒着生命危险回到阿富汗，拼了命从塔利班手中救出哈桑饱受折磨的儿子索拉博。而此时的哈桑早已死在了塔利班的魔爪下，阿米尔能为昔日友人所做的，就只有为他可怜的孩子找回一颗心，一颗过去的心，一颗未来的心。这心，又何尝不是阿米尔与哈桑之间的延续?

才开始看《追风筝的人》时，也许会想：“那风筝是什么?是谁在追着那风筝?”但到小说结束，一切就清晰了起来，人的一生都有一个风筝，它也许象征着友情、爱情、亲情理想或者其他，即使面对再多的阻碍，困扰，迷茫，也要追着那个风筝，成为一个追风筝的人。

导语：《瓦尔登湖》梭罗在书中详尽地描述了他在瓦尔登湖湖畔一片再生林中度过两年又两月的生活以及期间他的许多思考。下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语读后感，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

read through some of the more than half of the "walden pond", to be honest look at a lot of paragraphs do not really understand, but say it is fun sections of animals that people read fresh.

the first animal is the rooster attention, and that the most common birds, however the authors pen in the air all of a sudden and very poor. thoreau is the author described them this way: the rooster, pheasant was originally, and their chirping is the worlds most beautiful music, better than all the other animals, but most of the time to fill the gaps in their voice is their wife - the mother chickens are noisy, its no wonder that they ultimately can only be the poultry, not to mention what kind of a chicken egg. these words can not help people desperately want to remember the music chenming rooster, the result was a loss, except in writing from the mechanical "oo" sound. as for the hen, they can only remember them after the end of each time it is under the "giggle" to stop the called.

walden pond, how can there are so many wild animal? every day it seems that the author and not the name they say hello. are familiar with ant, but where the ants are like the soldiers how to ah, make that an ant war was afraid to read the small bio of contempt. lovely fledgling partridge destitute people, they only obey the instinct of mothers and their own oh, the fullness of their long feathers of the body of small branches and leaves together to maintain the same posture, where to stay motionless, it picked up when a stranger or follow it, it continues to stay as motionless, or take your eyes clean. scary, of course, most diving birds, and it always sent laugh, when it is from this lake first dive, the observer much hunting or after a lot of fun. what it is, you can go to the bottom of the lake to fish in the bird.

after all the human animal is, ah, just high-level animals. the author predicted that the result of human progress must be to give up meat, as the savage to the civilized around after people give up bad habits, like eating. i do not know human beings are not one day give up meat, it is very curious about the rabbit call. in the book, the author said: rabbit to the end, the truth was a child cry. on rabbits, the most profound impression that the tree hit a hare, but there is no written record of our had been a poor hunt rabbits.

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阅读一些超过一半的“《瓦尔登湖》”,诚实地看很多段落并不真正理解,但说它是有趣的部分动物,人们读新鲜。

第一只动物是公鸡的注意,而最常见的鸟,然而作者的笔在空中突然和非常贫穷。摘要:梭罗是作者这样描述的:公鸡,野鸡,他们的鸣叫是世界上最美丽的音乐,比所有其他动物都好,但大部分时间是他们的妻子-妈妈的鸡吵闹,难怪他们最终只能是家禽,更不用说什么鸡了。这些话不能帮助人们迫切想记住的音乐公鸡,结果是一个损失,除了书面从机械的“oo”声音。至于母鸡,他们只能记住他们在每次结束后,它是在“咯咯”的“咯咯”停止呼叫。

《瓦尔登湖》,怎么能有这么多野生动物?每天似乎作者,而不是他们说的名字。对蚂蚁很熟悉,但是蚂蚁就像士兵一样如何啊,使蚂蚁战争害怕阅读轻视的小生物。可爱的羽翼未丰的鹧鸪的人,他们只服从母亲的本能和自己的俄亥俄州,身体的长的和叶子的丰满,保持着相同的姿势,在那里别动,当一个陌生人或跟随它时,它继续保持不动,或者把你的眼睛干净。可怕,当然,大多数潜水,它总是发出笑声,当它是来自这个湖的第一次潜水,观察员很多狩猎或之后很多乐趣。它是什么,你可以到湖底去钓鱼。

毕竟人类的动物是啊,只是高级动物.作者预测,人类进步的结果必须是放弃肉食,正如野蛮对待文明的人之后,人们放弃坏习惯,如吃饭。我不知道人类没有一天不放弃肉,它对兔子的叫声很好奇。在书中,作者说:兔子到最后,真理是一个孩子的哭声。对兔子来说,最深刻的印象是树撞上了一只野兔,但没有我们曾经是一个可怜的兔子的书面记录。

那一句为你千千万万遍，成为多少人心中挥之不去的记忆，我想这不仅仅是个故事，每一遍的看，总会有无以复加的感动。

哈桑，那个兔唇的男孩，他是所谓的哈拉扎人，是个甚至目不识丁的奴仆。但恰恰与之形成对比的是，他的正直忠诚和善良。在哈桑心中没有金钱和等级观念，我看到的只有一颗赤子之心。

而对于哈阿米尔来说，哈桑是他最忠诚的伙伴，她分明知道，却不愿承认在别人面前，他碍于面子;在自己心中，也极为别扭与矛盾。出于对父爱的渴望，受等级观念的束缚和自身性格的懦弱，在悲剧发生的时候，他没有出手制止。然而他的本性又是善良的，因此他多年忍受内心的痛苦煎熬，因此当拉辛汗说“那儿有条再次成为好人的路”时，他选择接受，踏上了人性的救赎之路。

我们都是追风筝的人。风筝不仅仅是阿米尔与哈桑童年的玩物，更是存于心中的正义，是亲情、友情、爱情，是阿米尔，也是我们在追逐的。控制着风筝的鱼线，连接着风筝和卷轴，是机会，也是割伤手指的凶器。痛却依旧不肯放手，就像拉辛汗对阿米尔说的真正十恶不赦的人是不会感到愧疚的，所以那些不肯放手的都是心存善意，希望悔改的人。只有追到了风筝，才能找到归属，成为那个自我期许的阿米尔，成为内心健全的人。

最初因哈桑追风筝时酿下的悲剧苦种，到最后索拉伯看到追风筝的阿米尔时的微笑，这颗背叛的种子，终于完成了它的使命—救赎，开除了人性的真善美。

“为你，千千万万遍”，就算再艰难，再凶险，为你，我追。愿我们都能找到属于自己的风筝。

The Scarlet Letter attained an immediate and lasting success because it addressed spiritual and moral issues from a uniquely American standpoint. In 1850, adultery was an extremely risqué subject, but because Hawthorne had the support of the New England literary establishment, it passed easily into the realm of appropriate reading. It has been said that this work represents the height of Hawthornes literary genius; dense with terse descriptions. It remains relevant for its philosophical and psychological depth, and continues to be read as a classic tale on a universal theme.[6] Another consideration to note having to do with the books popularity is that it was one of the first mass-produced books in America. Into the mid-nineteenth century, bookbinders of home-grown literature typically hand-made their books and sold them in small quantities. The first mechanized printing of "The Scarlet Letter," 2,500 volumes, sold out immediately, was widely read and discussed to an extent not much experienced in the young country up until that time. Copies of the first edition are often sought by collectors as rare books, and may fetch up to around $6,000 USD.

---Book Review: “Camille”

I read the Chinese version of “Camille” a few years ago. At that time I was deeply moved by the main character Marguerite Gautier. “Camille” or “The Lady of the Camellias” by Alexandre Dumas, fils, is the story of Marguerite Gautier, a young courtesan, or kept woman, in Paris in the mid 1800s, and how she falls in love with a young man, Armand Duval, and then tries to escape from her questionable past. Unfortunately, it comes back to haunt her and she ends up returning to that life and dies painfully and alone, but with the knowledge that she was a noble woman at heart. When I first began to read the book, I did not care for Marguerite or her attitude or lifestyle, but as I got further into the narrative, I realized that her saucy attitude was a front to cover the lonely woman that she really was. She felt used, abused and unloved, until the gentle Armand Duval came into her life and showed her that he loved her as a person and not for what she could do for him. It must have taken great courage for Marguerite to leave the life she had lived for so long, knowing all along that it was probably too good to be true and would not last indefinitely. And it also showed that Marguerite really loved Armand Duval for she could even change herself for him.

However, happiness didn’t last for long. When M. Duval, Armands father, came to her, pleading for her to leave Armand to save both Armands reputation and that of his younger innocent sister, Marguerite saw a way to become pure of heart, if not in body. She felt that it was her duty, because she loved Armand so much, to do this even though it meant giving up her own happiness and hurting Armand temporarily. She reluctantly returned to her former life, knowing that some day Armand would forgive her. Sadly, she died in debt and basically alone, except for her one female friend, Julie Duprat, who helped her during her illness. She had her journal sent to Armand after her death, explaining why she had made the choices she had. I think Dumass last few lines about Marguerite being the exception, not the rule were quite true, and I also agreed with his view that while her lifestyle could not be condoned, we as a society assume that all of these type of women are cold and heartless, while this may not always be the case. A person can make the wrong choices in life when they are young, and try to redeem themselves, but sometimes past situations prevent them from changing their lives, even though they desperately wish to do so. This applies to both men and women in many different types of circumstances: involvement in crime; drug or alcohol abuse; gambling; prostitution; financial problems; poor marriage choices; etc. And this is the fact, which exists in the whole society.

As far as the other characters in the book, I think Marguerite was right in saying that no one truly cared about her, but only wanted something from her, the only exceptions being Armand and Julie Duprat. Of course, the Comte de G. and Comte de N. wanted her body and appearance. The Duke needed to “wake up and smell the coffee” and realize that she could never replace his dead daughter. If he truly cared, he could have helped her leave her lifestyle without “keeping” her himself. And lastly, Prudence was a blood-sucking leech who used Marguerite almost worse than the men. I also think she was jealous of the fact that Marguerite had so much more courage than herself and someone truly loved her.

Jane. Love living in a parents, sponsor, grew up under the environment of treatment with peers, aunt abandon, cousin contempt, cousin insults and beating of a child… this is the dignity of the ruthletrample, but perhaps because it all, Jane. Love and faith of infinite indomitable spirit, a kind of inner personality can win.

In rochester, she never because he is a teacher and the family status meanness, but that they feel inferior is equal. Should not because she is a servant, but not respected by others. Also because of her integrity, noble and pure heart, no pollution, secular society for the shock, and rochester her as a spiritual and equality in the conversation, and slowly and deeply in love with her.

Jane eyre itself to us is a kind of simplified, is a fanpiaoguizhen, is a kind of pursuit of whole heart feeling, is a kind of simplified feelings and neglected, it is like a cup of water, purify every readers heart, also cause readers, especially female readers

第一次看这本书已经是我初中的时候，转眼已是大一即将转入大二的时候，我又借着读书小组读书分享的机会把这本书重温了一次。

这本书是阿富汗作家卡勒德胡塞尼的小说的处女作，讲述了两个阿富汗少年的故事。阿米尔善于将别人的风筝割断，他的朋友哈桑则善于去追风筝。阿米尔善与写作，却充满懦弱与欺骗，哈桑诚实善良，勇敢，正直无私。两人成为鲜明对比。

然而坏人本性也是好的，他们只是缺乏一个把他们引向善的指明灯。就拿阿米尔来说，当拉辛汗好说歹说让他“重新做人”，他严词拒绝，当拉辛汗亮出底牌告诉他，哈桑是自己同父异母的兄弟时，他才决定去找哈桑的遗子。

在现在这个充满铜臭味儿的时代，坏人虽然存在，但若追根起源，大多数本性不恶，只是童年或者后成年时期缺乏引导罢了。还记得这个故事吗?一个大盗在被刽子手押向断头台的时候，他请求见他母亲最后一面，要求吮吸最后一次的母乳，他的母亲毫不犹豫地答应了，最后这个大盗咬断了他母亲的乳头，一旁的人都很诧异，把他拉开。这个大盗临死前对他母亲说的最后一句话是：“若不是你不阻止我之前无数次的小偷小摸，我也不至于落得如此田地。”

这里的大盗就是阿米尔的翻版。在我们的生活中有许许多多的阿米尔，“复旦投毒事件”，“我的爸爸叫李刚”，“小悦悦事件”等等都是善与恶真实的写照。

那么问题来了，我们又如何引导恶人往从善之路走呢?

我想教育应该是重中之重。谈及教育，老师和教育模式又是一大关键。现如今的应试教育都比较重效率、重结果，不注重质量、过程。因此，大多数的小孩思想发育还不完全，整天都埋入题海，缺乏素质教育。曾经我在某个书城等待开门，碰见几个小学生，年纪虽小，却已满口脏话，说着一些与他们年龄大相径庭的话，令我很是诧异。或许真的是快节奏的生活让他们也快速“成长”了吧。

老师是教育的启蒙者，但是家长却是除了老师能和孩子呆在一起时间最长的人。现如今，家长们都忙于赚钱，忽略了孩子们的感受，导致有些孩子性情冷淡，有的又是双重性格，自己却仍无法发现这一问题的导火索。若有那天真出了事故，那才追悔莫及呢。

除了老师和家长以外，社会也应当扮好引路人的角色。政府、企业也都应该大力支持，多加重视人格的培养。放慢我们生活的节奏，细化我们的优点和不足，多多赞美和激励“哈桑”，多多关注“阿米尔”，找出他的问题所在，一一攻破，这样才能建设更好的幸福安康的和谐社会，营造一个美好的明天，创造一个充满希望的未来。

他停下来，转身，双手放在嘴边，说：“为你，千千万万遍!”然后露出一脸哈桑式的微笑。1975年冬天，那个飞奔着追逐蓝风筝的影子，消失在了阿米尔的视线里，也很快消失在了他未来的生活中。

这部由美国作家卡勒德·胡赛尼根据自己幼年时期在阿富汗真实的生活经历而改写的小说，勾勒出有关阿富汗富家少爷阿米尔的亲情与友谊、背叛与救赎的一系列故事。这本书里充满了对人性的善与恶以及面对犯下的错误的思考，它像一个振聋发聩的警钟，令人震撼，也发人深省。

20世纪的阿富汗，人的命运从一出生就已注定。生于富家的阿米尔是理所应当的地享有着荣誉和尊敬的少爷;而天生兔唇的哈桑是忠实的仆人。阿米尔开口的第一个词是“爸爸”，而哈桑开口的第一个词是“阿米尔”——哈桑从会说话的那一刻起，就将阿米尔视为生命中最重要的人。但阿米尔以他的优越为傲，不断地嘲弄讽刺哈桑，甚至让哈桑吃土以表忠诚。

阿米尔参加了风筝比赛，不负众望击败了一个个对手，但只有把风筝追回来，才能真正获得最后的胜利。哈桑就是那个追风筝的人。那天直到天黑，阿米尔找到了死胡同里被一群恶棍欺负的哈桑，但哈桑毫不妥协，誓死捍卫风筝。阿米尔的懦弱在这时显现，他并没有像哈桑在他每次遇到困难时一样挺身而出，在冲进小巷和跑开这两个选择中，他选择了后者。哈桑拖着风筝回来了，洁白的雪地染上了黑色的血，格外刺眼，阿米尔却对他被扯破的衣衫和伤口视而不见。他在逃避自己懦弱犯下的错，那一刻他已负罪。

后来，定居美国的阿米尔听到哈桑离去的消息回国，历经艰险找到他的儿子并将他收养，那一刻阿米尔终于完成了自己的救赎，追到了他的风筝。

少年的阿米尔，是否希望时光重回到他站在巷口的时候，重新做出选择?是否深深后悔过自己的所作所为?我曾在网上看过一句话——“世界上总有那么一两个人毫无理由理由的爱你，但如果你没有珍惜，从此以后再也不会有了。”就像阿米尔对哈桑的遗憾一样。我们总是不懂得珍惜眼前的人和物，自然地将所拥有的一切看做理所应当，殊不知越不会珍惜的人往往失去的越多。

其实绝大多数人都像少年的阿米尔一样，“懦弱”、“逃避”、“自私”、“恐惧”这些我们讨厌的字眼也时常出现在我们身上。面对生活中的艰难总想着逃避，在做出抉择前恐惧且犹豫不决，面对犯下的错只想着掩盖事实。可那只不过是在自欺欺人罢了!为什么不选择成为一个像哈桑一样的人，真诚坦荡地去面对一切呢?能为家人和朋友付出，敢于承认自己的错和担当应有的责任，坚定地走自己的路，这样的你，未来一定会收获一个完美的人格，得到心灵的释放，不为任何一个选择而后悔。

风筝是整个故事的一个重要线索。一千个读者眼里有一千个哈姆雷特，风筝所代表的可以是很多不同的东西，但不变的是，作为追风筝的人，我们，要一直一直紧紧追在它的身后。追风筝，就是追着你的梦想拼搏，是坚定追寻你的信念不抛弃不放弃，是为了弥补曾经的过错而努力付出。

万恶中多数皆有救赎之法，许多错误都可以弥补，每个人的一生就像是一场风筝比赛，在一次次比拼中胜或败。败下的风筝在天空中划出一道夺目的弧线，比赛却并没有结束，我们此刻应该做的，是奋力奔跑着去追那正下落的风筝，去争取那除了留到最后的冠军的另一种胜利。这不像是错误的弥补吗?就像阿米尔最终历经艰难找到哈桑的儿子并收养他一样，心底对哈桑的亏欠终于有了弥补，那一刻他终于追到了自己的风筝，完成了自己的救赎。

无论何时，无论你是否犯下过错，去追寻你心底那份最初的美好吧，像追寻天空中那只属于你自己的风筝一样。愿你能像春日里的第一抹暖阳，在融化寒冬之时唤醒大地;愿你能以自己的真心真情，弥补可以挽回的过错，珍惜眼前的家人、朋友和美好的万物;愿你在未来的日子里，也可以遇见能对你说出“为你，千千万万遍”的人，成为一个像哈桑一样真诚勇敢的人。愿我们都能一直一直追着我们的风筝，奔跑下去。

Read "the old man and the sea" this article, I could not help secretly for Hemingways masterpiece. Image lifelike the story describes how an old man with a firm belief deftly will be a big fish to his humble, and how to get rid of "invasion of the enemy" -- a shark. Although he failed to bring the whole fish back, but his spirit is worth our learning: people must have the self-confidence, he will say to yourself "I can do it!" . You think about it, if the old man caught a fish, 7, 8 times more than himself he saw was afraid, put the fish, he can put the fish back to Hong Kong? No, no, he relies on ordinary people to accept such determination, to catch the big fish.

In our class, there is learning of poor students, they are lack of confidence to oneself, plus others ironic, then, they have no interest in learning, thus make grades decline gradually, falling...

Now the society developed, if can clone the self-confidence, that I must have a clone, send it to lack of confidence friend!

读了《老人与海》这篇文章，我不禁暗暗为海明威的巨作叫好。这个故事形象逼真的描写了一个老人是怎样靠着坚定的信念灵巧地将一头大鱼捕到自己那简陋的船上，又是怎样赶走“来犯之敌”――鲨鱼。虽然他没能将整条鱼运回去，但他的精神值得我们学习：人要有自信心，遇事要对自己说“我能行!”。大家想一想，如果这位老人钓到了一条比自己大上7，8倍的鱼，他见了就害怕，把鱼放了，那他能将鱼运回来为自己争光吗?不，不能，他正是靠着这样常人难以接受决心，才能捕到这条大鱼。

在我们班上，有学习差的同学，他们就是对自己信心不足，再加上旁人的讽刺，这时，他们对学习毫无兴趣，从而使学习成绩逐步下降，下降……

现在的社会发达了，如果能克隆自信心的话，那我一定克隆一份，将它送给信心不足的朋友!

为你，千千万万遍。

世事总是如此，那些枉顾正直与善良的人往往都能过得很好。

一个人，若是想要一生堂堂正正，不畏人言就不能有懦夫的行径，此时的怯懦，就可能造成彼时莫大的遗憾，或许终生都将沉溺在悔恨的泥淖里无法自拔，想要去弥补就得跋涉千山万水，耗费一生的时光。

阿米尔是幸运的，同时也是不幸的。幸运之处在于他遇见了那个愿意“为你，千千万万遍”的哈桑，抛却所有外界的身份与地位不说，哈桑的情意是无可取代的，就像他自己所说的“哈桑对我的情意，之前没有过，以后也不会再有”，哈桑对他始终保持着一种刚刚好的距离，从来不会去计较旁人对他们关系的挑拨，也不会怨恨阿米尔对他的疏远，甚至伤害，既然你不想被打扰，那我就默默离开，成全你想要的生活。

相比之下，阿米尔却太过薄情，即使后来他弥补了过错，却也留下了永久的遗憾。当他看到哈桑被伤害选择了旁观的时候，就注定了这一生终将活在自责之中，即使那时的他只是个孩子，那哈桑又何尝不是，哈桑在面临选择的时候毅然决然地选择了保护为他追回的风筝，却让自己遭受了如此大的伤害，这又岂能以他是一个孩子来作为理由去原谅呢，越是艰难的选择才越能考验人真正的情意，哈桑自始至终都不曾怪过他，而他却因内疚不敢面对而迁怒于哈桑，这未免太过自私绝情，这一份伤害并不是他后来的弥补所能消弭的，遗憾总归是留下了。

请一定珍惜那个肯“为你，千千万万遍”的人，一时的伤害或者就会留下一生的遗憾，我心愿每一个像哈桑一样的朋友都能平安喜乐[爱心]

Its a short story by O.Henry that has moved me for a long time.Maybe most of you are familar with its name,that is,The Gift of the Magi.I have read it many times but every time I like to read it slowly and deliberately.I think "The Gift of the Magi"

is meant to be savored.

Maybe there is no necessity for me to repeat the main idea of the story.But Im

so fascinated with the short story that I want to retell it yo you,and to myself.

It happened to a very poor but blissful young couple named Jim and Della in the end of 18th century in England.Because of the maladies of that society and the effect of economic crisis,they worked hard but earned little.Life is very hard for them.Despite of this,their love to each other and the enthusiasm for life didnt changed at all.When Chrismas day was approuching ,Della used the money she got from selling her beautiful hair which she treasured very much to give Jim a fob for his grandfathers pocket watch.But Jim had already sold that watch to buy Della tortoiseshell combs to wear in her long hair,not knowing shed cut it off.

It appears that the gifts they gave each other have been useless.But I think they gave each other the best of what they had to make the other happy.Isnt that true love?We can image,in such rough conditions,as it said in the story,"Life is made up of sobs,sniffles,and smiles,with sniffles predominating."Itst absolute reasonable for them to be beaten by the misery.But the fact is that no matter how tough life had been,they wouldt lose heart.With strong faith and their love ,they did their best to make the other pleased."Whennever Mr. James came home and reached his flat ,above he was called Jimand greatly hugged by Mrs. James."Maybe this account is the best description of their love and struggle against hard life.It was said that the povertier life is ,the firmer and truer love is."Actually,theyd given the very best they had out of love.

"They are too foolish children in a flat,who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house.But in a last word,to the wise of these days,let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest."Said the writer in the last paragraph.Yes,they are wisest.They are the magi.Are there any reasons for us not to show respect for the young couple?

I remind my grandparents.They have spent fifty years together.No romantic words,no stirring behaviours,just comman even pedestrian life.But I can say love exists in every detail of their life.They have gone through war period,three years natural disasters,cultural revolution and so on.But no matter what happens,they are always considering for the other.Even now both of them have become old step by step,they still cared about each other.My grandparents,in my opinion,is a pair of lovers forever.

Love has nothing to do with money,possession or status.Its consideration,tolerance and respect.Its giving ones best to the other even it means sacrifice.Its affection which connects two persons hearts,and its reinforced by adversities.

Struggle against adversities.Nothing did they have,at least they owened love.Never give up as long as love exists.From"The Gift of the Magi",from Jim and Della and from my grandparents,I have learned a lot about love,life and hope.

Notre Dame DE Paris is the French Victor Hugo wrote. First of all, he is bell ringers Quasimodo ugly, hes ugly, let a person feel afraid: horseshoe mouth, in the right eye is covered with a large tumor, big buck teeth... . Quasimodo is deaf, kyphosis, and the lame, and cruel and unreasonable, who saw all hate him.

Gypsy girl esmeralda has fairy beauty, love as long as she appeared, would have caused a sensation. All the men in the book saw she will fall in love with her. She was very kind, in order to save the poor poet and his false get married, she gave her money to busk income homeless children.

This book mainly to write only listen Quasimodo raised by his vice bishop Notre Dame DE Paris, but vice bishop assassinated, esmeralda royal captain of love, also forced love, esmeralda to marry her, or she was hanged. When love the esmeralda condemnation of that day of, Quasimodo brave love, esmeralda to Notre Dame tower. But the king sent against the cathedral of Notre Dame, and the girl hanged. Quasimodo grieving, and finally find love, esmeralda bones, committed suicide in beside her.

巴黎圣母院是法国维克多.雨果写的。首先他讲的是敲钟人卡西莫多的丑陋，他的丑陋让人感到 害怕：马蹄形的嘴巴、右眼被一个大瘤遮盖，大龅牙……。卡西莫多也是个聋子、驼背和瘸子，而且凶暴、蛮横，谁见了都讨厌他。

吉普赛少女爱森梅拉达有仙女般的美貌，只要她一出现，就会引起轰动。这本书中所有男人一见到她就会爱上她。她非常善良，为了救穷诗人和他假结婚，她把自己卖艺所得的钱都分给流浪孩子。

这本书主要写卡西莫多只听抚养他长大的巴黎圣母院副主教的话，但副主教刺杀了爱森梅拉达爱的皇家卫队长，还逼爱森梅拉达嫁给她，否则将她绞死。当爱森梅拉达受刑的那天，卡西莫多勇敢的把爱森梅拉达举到圣母院的钟楼上。可国王派人攻打圣母院，并将姑娘绞死。卡西莫多悲痛欲绝，最后找到爱森梅拉达的尸骨，在她旁边自杀了。

Love, can give new life; love, you can give people the sun-like warmth; love, you can give people unlimited happiness and joy.

This is a story about a small puppet - the old carpenter Ze Pide will laugh cry a piece of wood can be carved puppets, and to obtain life as the son of a small puppet. T-shirt to sell the old carpenter for a small puppet school. But the little puppet bent on fun, deceived many times and experienced the frustration again and again ... Finally, he fell into a large whales belly, the old carpenter Pi Panuo meet with an accident, after this adventure, Pino Cao has finally grown up, he becomes an honest, hardworking, kind, has become a real boy.

Although most of this story is about a small puppet setbacks in the process, but that the reader can think of this story contains a strong love. Pinocchio is no textbooks, old carpenter Pi Panuo own shirt for a book to a small puppet, despite their being affected by cold, but also with the greatest power to bring a small puppet happy, what a great father ah.

My childhood, love is the mother, because she is always guarded, love me, but my father was only concerned about a few. As I was growing up, and gradually understanding father. Mother to the warmth of love, and my father but it is tough to love.

Even my fathers work very hard for me to learn he would not be negligent. As I progress, I did not praise, but only a "test better next time, for the best results of their own"; if I was losing, they will like the ancient emperor issued a "decree"; "next some point to do! "then that is a few long-winded, but at this time, in his words, not a lot of criticism, but about encouraging ... ...

In fact, every father loves his children are not directly shown, but from the heart silently hope that their children can be sensible, healthy and happy ... for the happiness of children, although work to hard, do not complain a word.

You cherish the love of your father. In the future, rely on their own achievements to return his father to express his gratitude to you and your love strong

I learned from Pinocchio to be afraid of the difficulties and face.

《 Float 》 , is my favorite book.Like the beauty of si brave strong, like the rui especially of tactful is resolute, like the outside of the meilanrui soft inside just.

For the beauty of si this person thing, my felling is self-contradict, is to dislike the but again and have to respect and admire her.She is a person for having the character very much, loving two men in her whole life, but she didnt an is an understanding of.If she understands the rare gift of a, that she will not love him;If she understands the rui especially, that she will not lose him.She always is to be ungrateful to the rui especially of, she is just not to stop the rare gift of prince- a who make track for oneselfs in a dream.She is just to think the characteristics that loves by herself that the rare gift of a have, she just does a gorgeous clothes, letting rare gift of a put on, being in love with him and then.But fact is, she love just that clothes.

For her, I am to have to admire of, admire her strong, admire her to the persist of land, admire her ability under the education that that in environment under let go of before be subjected to the farmland stem live, admiring the speech that she can neglect the society but founding own business.Her life contain a few souls, an is her mother.His mother is a madam with expensive very able and gentle and soft typical model, is the person who she respect and admire most .But, mother typhoid for saving the person but ising infect, die.Another, is her more than ten in the last years favourite of person- a rare gift.Her ability stands up in the adverse circumstances, have very greatly a part of reason is a rare gift of a .She the rare to a gift persists unusually.Still have a, is the meilanli .More than ten years that struggle together in, the meilanli has already become her life in the indispensability of a part.

I feel that the beauty of si is like a child, persisting to the thing that oneself want unusually, but to the thing that oneself own but disdain to on attend to.An at try very hard to make the oneself happy, a push the happiness to leave constantly again, push the lover toward abyss.

The beauty of si is loving is a rare gift of a , but,a rare gift but dont want her.Be like the rui to especially say of, the rare gift of a is a gentleman, just wasing born in an and he inharmonious ages.He still uses the rules of the game of the old world life, will bump only rejection.The beauty of si doeses not understand the a to hope the gift, so she loves him, think that exhausted whole wayses get him, but when she recognize pure he, she did not love him any further.

The beauty of si is a contradictory body, can have again who not is a contradictory body?She is in the life of road up all the way walk, be when she face the difficulty, she chooses the accolade, be when she face the responsibility, she chooses to carry, can be she face loving choice is, at first, he choose to hoodwink the oneself, being her to recognize finally pure, to face, but is already the hour already late.But she, at incapable is a dint, will tell the oneself, tomorrow is new day, everythings will like tomorrow, the Tomorrow is another day.She is all an in the whole story full of fire, be filled with the person of the will to fight.I enjoy most of, would be her this" Tomorrow is another day.".Was filled with the hope forever, be filled with the will to fight, can never give up, can never despair.This spirit, the most worthy of I study.So, whenever I meet the difficulty, mood not good, I will tell the oneself then:" Tomorrow is another day.".The another in book make the female that me admire very, would be the meilanli .She is an outside soft inside just of female, she almost owned the whole virtue that female can own.Positive if the rui especially says of, she is a that a handful of expensive madam that he saw win.She is strong, she is patriotic, she uses her heart love nearby all people.When her husband fight, she silent in the rear guard the hon, do the business of her what lies in ones power, be the north guy to beat in the city and she again soon about to deliver child, she still the town settle, being the next stem of the her body infirmity and nobodies to live soon didnt When the rice eat, she similar to beauty of si , let go of past education for be subjected to and sense of superiorities, trail weak of body next stem live, be she see the beauty of si kill a north guy, she did not be rattled, but help to bury the corpse, searching the money, wiping the blood stain, being the war finally end, north guy soldier whom she hate bitterly before arriving at her door request to look after and themselves also have no excessive food, she still fulfil her ability the ground helped them, because she hopes to also have the north guy woman of a good heart afar to her just at homing a rice of husband eat.

Such strong female, the but again is a such gentleness kind and considerate.She persists the ground to believe the rare gift of beauty of si and as, even someone see with own eyes they hug together, also persisting the ground to believe them, protection si beauty.She knows perfectly well pain and sufferings that own body cant bear again to grow, but persist the ground to want to hope the gift to give birth to a child for the a again, end leave she loved the close relatives of the lifetime.

Is really too great, looking at themeilanli, make me thought of much more Chinese ancient times females of, they are also such dociles, work hard in spite of criticism, assist husband and bring up children, then silent unknownly old go to and depart from this life.

In the whole book, I is a rui for the person that like most especially.He is brave and persists, he can love the beauty of si so and deeply for more than ten years constant.He wants to protect the beauty of si , the doter si beauty, look after the beauty of si, let her everything feel happy, but the beauty of si refused.He says, again the time that eternal love also will dub out, but his love, drive beauty of si, drive rare gift of a , was dub out by the adherence that the si beauty is stupid of.His heart, die.When his daughter leaves him, his heart, return any further not to come.He says, he has always been to have no that patience shear the ground pants and sew and like, then tells the oneself this is similar to lately, just deceive yourself as well as others.Ground is ground, return and dont go to any further, even make allies, the top still stays the crack, is not originally any further that.

《飘》是美国女作家玛格丽特·米切尔(1900—1949)十年磨一剑的作品，也是惟一的作品。以下是小编带来的《飘》英文读后感，希望对你有帮助。

Scarlett , a very personality figures ，the two mans she love ,neither does she know about.To her, I was compelled to admire, admire her strong and brave, admire her to lay down in the environment, farm workers previously suffered education, admire her to disregard the community to create their own expression of the cause .She is in the whole story, all a person full of fighting will full of vitality . I appreciated most , it is this " Tomorrow is another day of hers. " . Promising forever, full of fighting will , will never give up, never desperate. I think I’m moved by her.So, whenever I meet difficulty, the mood is not good, I will tell oneself : " Tomorrow is another day. " ’Gone with the Wind’ is absolutely a good book that is worth sampling repeatedly, the characters are graceful , the plot rises and falls, exciting boldly and unconstrainedly, though the subjective factor because of the author among them , the appraisal on U.S.A.’s Civil War is not objective and overall, but as to angle of literature, this one fine piece of writing generation definitely absolutely, worth visiting.

Title: The Little Prince

Author: Antoine de St-Exupery

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.

也许每个人心中都有一个风筝，无论它意味着什么，让我们勇敢地追，让我们一起追寻那人格的风筝。

12岁的阿米尔是一位阿富汗的富家少爷。他本与仆人哈桑手足同情，但在一次风筝比赛后，发生了一件让阿米尔无比痛苦，无比自责的事。因为那件事，他逼走了哈桑，不久后自己也随父亲去了美国。成年后的阿米尔因无法原谅自己对哈桑的背叛而再次踏上故土，却发现了一个惊天谎言。他一点点探索着，看着战争中阿富汗的惨状，历经千辛万苦终于找到了已经故去的哈桑的儿子，拉回了那只他丢弃了的人格的风筝。

说实话，我并不喜欢这样带“悲”的作品，但在长长的叹息之后，我却感受到了无比的震撼，那只飘荡着的风筝线也悠悠晃晃地系在我的心上。在书中，阿米尔追寻着的似乎是他与哈桑的友谊，是他不再内疚的，变得勇敢起来的心。

原本的阿米尔是懦弱的，无法保护也无法面对自己的伙伴，好在追寻中他还是找回了失去了的心。可是，在生活中，每一次伤害都可以弥补吗？不是的，有的风筝将再也寻不回来。不得不说阿米尔是幸运的，而我也曾有过类似的幸运的遭遇：那件事发生在2009年的暑假，我刚刚学会站立的小表弟来我家玩。一次没人时，我的脚不小心扫到了他，还站得不是很稳的他一屁股坐在了地上，哇哇大哭。面对妈妈的责问，我违心地说：“是他自己摔的……”还好，我最后还是说出了真相，拉回了那只差点飘离的“风筝”。

细细想来，我似乎比阿米尔更幸运，因为他与哈桑是再也回不去了的，他的“风筝”已是残缺。而在这“风筝”的背后，附着的是人性，是诚实、勇敢、善良的品质，是我们人格的一部分。只有不失去我们的“风筝”，才能算一个真正的“人”。

像原本少年时的阿米尔，他那懦弱的表现使他的“风筝”丢失，在日后的几十年中他都是在后悔与自责中度过，这也是惩罚。直到他重踏故土后，他那不顾一切的救赎才让正义回归，但“风筝”还是残了，这也意味着他在今后的日子里还得一刻不停地追寻，追寻那只对他来说无比重要的“风筝”

阿米尔的“风筝”丢了，又被追回。而你的呢？你可曾丢失了你那只带有你人格的“风筝”？在那飘荡的风筝上也有着一份对人命运的掌控。不论因什么，也不论为什么，让我们一起去追寻吧！一起找回我们的那只“风筝”，并将它好好保存，永远不再丢失。你愿意么？

让我们一起追寻那只人格的风筝。

Agam is a mentally retarded child. The first time to see Agam ，I was laughing.Agam has funny actions, funny look and he is too silly. But for the second time, I start think. Agam is so serious about every sentence of his mother ,he listens carefully and remember it. So serious and persistent, Agam eventually become a millionaire. Since a fool can be serious and successful, why cant we?

阿甘是个弱智儿童。第一次看这个电影的时候我一直都在笑，阿甘那些搞笑的动作、神情和他的傻让我捧腹大笑。但是第二次看的时候，我就开始思考了。阿甘是那么的认真，妈妈说的每一句话他都认真的记住并做到。凭着这种认真和执着，阿甘最终成为了百万富翁。既然一个傻子都凭着认真而成功，我们为什么不能呢?

A Tale of Two Cities is one of Dickens’s masterpieces; the story is an exposure of the contradiction before France Revolution-the appealing of “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” by France lower class.

The main clue of the novel is based on the terrible experience of Dr. Manette, the plot is very complex, attracting, and exciting. Lying at the heart of which we can see the themes from different people.

Sydney Carton

When I read the chapter pertaining to interrogation on Charles Darney, intuition tells that the lawyer assistant who feels at ease with his eyes fixed on the ceiling must be a very special man, which turned out to be right when I finished the whole book. He seems indifferent about everything, even his love. He is brilliant but he thinks otherwise, or rather, he thinks he is inferior to others. Even his master thinks that if he worried about this or that, he would make a great success. Feeling of humbleness is the fatal point leading the loss of his beloved one. If Lucie Manette lives with him, he thinks, she would sustain much hardship. At the end of the story, he sacrifices his life for his love willingly.

Many people say that love is selfish and egocentric, but the temperament of Sydney Carton tells us that love can be sublime and pure. Through this, Dickens tells us loving someone doesn’t mean you should live together with him or her. You can help your beloved one silently, even sacrifice for love. This is universal fraternity, I think, which is the sublimation of normal love. And also, Dickens may indicate that true love really exists, regardless of the situation is full of commotion or not.

Charles Darney

He’s born at a family of royal lineage-the son of Marquis. Regret and abomination fill in his mind for the cruelty and the crime his family have done to the poor. He determines to quit the right of inheritance of his family and moves to England to acting as a French teacher. When he comes back to France, his notorious and sadistic uncle who holds the succession of the family doesn’t welcome him. His uncle is doomed to death because of his cruelty. When he returns to England, he proposes marriage to Lucie Manette. He knows his proposal may not be accepted by Dr.Manette, for he is the son of the enemy of Dr.Manette. After the France Revolution breaks out, he returns to France again to save a servant. But unfortunately, he’s cast into prison.

Lucie Manette

She goes to France with Jarvis Lorry to take her father back, she shows great sympathy to Sydney Carton, and she prayed his husband would get an early deliverance from captivity.

She is a kind-hearted lady made of love and sympathy; she is also the incarnation of elegance.

Dr.Manette

As a victim of the gloom society, he lives a miserable and contradictory life. After releasing from prison, the only thing he does is making shoes, which become worse when he comes across a harsh situation. He loves his daughter just as she does to him, even when he knows that Charles Darney is the son of his enemy, he allow the proposal. And when he notices his daughter was totally down to know the fact that her husband was put into prison, he promise to her that he will rescue him out. He spares no effects to do that, in vain, though.

From this person, Dickens may tells that love between the lower-class family members are as pure as crystal.

Jarvis Lorry

An elderly manager at Tellsons Bank and a dear friend of Dr. Manette. He is very loyal to Dr. Manette. He accompanies them all the time without considering his own life.

Couple Defarge

They’re the leader of the revolution. Ernest Defarge, to some extent, is a good man. He was the servant of Dr.Manette, he provides accommodation for him. But his wife, Madame Defarge, is really a wicked woman. She knits all the time, she wants to kill all the people who lead a richer or happier life just out of envying and revenge. The result turns out to be dramatic: she’s killed by herself as a consequence that the gun goes off by accident.

Resurrection maybe is the main theme in the novel. Dickens here implied that he doesn’t agree the upper class treat the poor badly, meanwhile, he doesn’t agree the lower-class to overthrow the upper class. He hopes that they can live in harmony with each other. Underneath the lines, Dickens wants his readers to be careful that the same sort of revolution that so damaged France wont happen in Britain, which is shown to be nearly as unjust as France. But his warning is addressed not to the British lower classes, but to the aristocracy. He repeatedly uses the metaphor of sowing and reaping; if the aristocracy continues to plant the seeds of a revolution through behaving unjustly, they can be certain of harvesting that revolution in time. The lower classes do not have any agency in this metaphor: they simply react to the behavior of the aristocracy. In this sense it can be said that while Dickens sympathizes with the poor, he identifies with the rich: they are the books audience, its "us" rather than its "them". Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

I first read "Jane Eyre" in eighth grade and have read it every few years since. It is one of my favorite novels, and so much more than a gothic romance to me, although thats how I probably would have defined it at age 13. I have always been struck, haunted in a way, by the characters - Jane and Mr. Rochester. They take on new depth every time I meet them...and theirs is a love story for the ages.

Charlotte Brontes first published novel, and her most noted work, is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story. Jane is plain, poor, alone and unprotected, but due to her fierce independence and strong will she grows and is able to defy societys expectations of her. This is definitely feminist literature, published in 1847, way before the beginning of any feminist movement. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the novel has had such a wide following since it first came on the market. It is also one of the first gothic romances published and defines the genre.

Jane Eyre, who is our narrator, was born into a poor family. Her parents died when she was a small child and the little girl was sent to live with her Uncle and Aunt Reed at Gateshead. Janes Uncle truly cared for her and showed his affection openly, but Mrs. Reed seemed to hate the orphan, and neglected her while she pampered and spoiled her own children. This unfair treatment emphasized Janes status as an unwanted outsider. She was often punished harshly. On one occasion her nasty cousin Jack picked a fight with her. Jane tried to defend herself and was locked in the terrifying "Red Room" as a result. Janes Uncle Reed had died in this room a little while before, and Mrs. Reed knew how frightened she was of the chamber. Since Jane is the narrator, the reader is given a first-hand impression of the childs feelings, her heightened emotional state at being imprisoned. Indeed, she seems almost like an hysterical child, filled with terror and rage. She repeatedly calls her condition in life "unjust" and is filled with bitterness. Looking into the mirror Jane sees a distorted image of herself. She views her reflection and sees a "strange little figure," or "tiny phantom." Jane has not learned yet to subordinate her passions to her reason. Her passions still erupt unchecked. Her isolation in the Red Room is a presentiment of her later isolation from almost every society and community. This powerful, beautifully written scene never fails to move me.

Mrs. Reed decided to send Jane away to the Lowood School, a poor institution run by Mr. Brocklehurst, who believed that suffering made grand people. All the children there were neglected, except to receive harsh punishment when any mistake was made. At Lowood, Jane met Helen Burns, a young woman a little older than Jane, who guided her with vision, light and love for the rest of her life. Janes need for love was so great. It really becomes obvious in this first friendship. Helen later died from fever, in Janes arms. Her illness and death could have been avoided if more attention had been paid to the youths. Jane stayed at Lowood for ten years, eight as a student and two as a teacher. Tired and depressed by her surroundings, Jane applied for the position of governess and found employment at Thornfield. The mansion is owned by a gentleman named Edward Fairfax Rochester. Her job there was to teach his ward, an adorable little French girl, Adele. Over a long period the moody, inscrutable Rochester confides in Jane and she in him. The two form an unlikely friendship and eventually fall in love. Again, Janes need for love comes to the fore, as does her passionate nature. She blooms. A dark, gothic figure, Rochester also has a heart filled with the hope of true love and future happiness with Jane. Ironically, he has brought all his misery, past and future, on himself.

All is not as it seems at Thornfield. There is a strange, ominous woman servant, Grace Poole, who lives and works in an attic room. She keeps to herself and is rarely seen. From the first, however, Jane has sensed bizarre happenings at night, when everyone is asleep .There are wild cries along with violent attempts on Rochesters life by a seemingly unknown person. Jane wonders why no one investigates Mrs. Poole. Then a strange man visits Thornfield and mysteriously disappears with Mr. Rochester. Late that night Jane is asked to sit with the man while the lord of the house seeks a doctors help. The man has been seriously wounded and is weak from loss of blood. He leaves by coach, in a sorry state, first thing in the morning. Janes questions are not answered directly. This visit will have dire consequences on all involved. An explosive secret revealed will destroy all the joyful plans that Jane and Rochester have made. Jane, once more will face poverty and isolation.

Charlotte Brontes heroine Jane Eyre, may not have been graced with beauty or money, but she had a spirit of fire and was filled with integrity and a sense of independence - character traits that never waned in spite of all the oppression she encountered in life. Ms. Bronte brings to the fore in "Jane Eyre" such issues as: the relations between men and women in the mid-19 century, womens equality, the treatment of children and of women, religious faith and hypocrisy (and the difference between the two), the realization of selfhood, and the nature of love and passion. This is a powerhouse of a novel filled with romance, mystery and passions. It is at once startlingly fresh and a portrait of the times. Ms. Bronte will make your heart beat faster, your pulse race and your eyes fill with tears.