80天环游世界

假期，我有幸读了儒勒凡尔纳的80天环游世界，读完全书，十分佩服作者的写作功力，贯穿全书的事件被描写得如此精彩，人物的刻画更是栩栩如生，让人看了有身临其境的感觉，令人百看不厌，连声叫好。

读完这部名著我的心情异常兴奋，一种敬佩崇拜之感油然而生。在书中众多人物里，我最喜欢的就是主人公福克先生了，他对人总是彬彬有礼，做事严守时间，虽然家财万贯却从不挥霍浪费，更没有为富不仁，吝啬小气。而且做好事从不留名。他的坚持不懈的精神让我敬佩，为了一个目标，为了证明一个真理，他倾尽全力，耗尽钱财，甚至在最后一刻也从未放弃80天环游世界的梦想。尽管这可能会让他一无所有，但是他依然在坚持奋斗着，与80天的时间比赛着……

光有坚定的信念也许不能品尝到成功的果实，但如果没有一个坚定的信念就一定不会成功。试问若无信念怎有目标?即无目标何来成功可言?如果总是因为看似无法逾越的困难就停下梦想的脚步，那么成功永远离你只有一步之遥。现在的我们就应该学习福克先生，把对于梦想的坚持种在心里，让它根深蒂固，长成参天大树，助我们跨过阻碍，迈向成功。

俗话说：“世上无难事，只怕有心人。”经历了那么多磨练，福克先生总算修成了正果，不仅毫发无伤顺利地返回了伦敦，还娶到了美丽善良的艾娥达，这一趟行程可谓是收获甚多。但这来之不易的成功，光靠不懈的坚持就能得到吗?如果没有严谨周密的计划、冷静机智的决断，80天环游世界谈何容易?如果坚定的信念是铺建通往成功之路的阶梯，那么智慧和冷静则一定是阶梯上必不可少的护栏，有了它们你才能走得更快，走得更稳!

以前，我总以为做什么事情只要坚持和努力就会获得成功，但读完福克先生的故事后，我发现做事一定要学会冷静和运用智慧，只有运用了智慧，那些靠坚持和努力解决不了的难题就迎刃而解。有这样一个故事：从前有一个任性的小王子想要天上的月亮，于是他叫人去建一架通往天上的梯子，可一个月过去了，两个月过去了……一年过去了，梯子还是没有建好，小王子十分伤心，就在夜晚一个人偷偷地跑到河边哭泣。正当他哭得十分伤心的时候，他惊奇地发现梦寐以求的月亮正安安静静地躺在河里。于是他忙跑去捞，小王子这次没有哭泣，他静静地一个人思考着……第二天夜晚，小王子就得到了月亮。原来他通过一夜的思考，发现月亮能被印在水面上。于是，他接满一盆水放在月光下，果然就得到了月亮。

世间的任何成功之路都不平坦，走在上面难免会跌到受伤，但我们千万不要哭泣，要坚持冷静，要懂得用智慧去化解，有了坚持就有了成功的方向，有了冷静就不会因冲动而走错了方向，有了智慧，成功路上的“大石头”，也会被我们自己挪开。

梦想吧!因为我们拥有信念。追寻吧!因为我们拥有冷静。拼搏吧!因为我们拥有智慧。

In 1872, Phileas Fogg, an English gentleman, bets 20,000 pounds that he can travel around the world in 80 days. Remember, there were no airplanes or other types of high speed travel.

Fogg and his servant, Passepourtout, leave from London, England and travel acrofour continents on their trip. In India, they meet a beautiful princeand save her life. She joins them on the journey and falls in love with Phileas Fogg.

They are followed around the world by Detective Fix, who has mistaken Fogg for a bank robber. He causes the group lots of trouble and delays, and finally arrests Fogg on the last day of the journey.

The trip was also delayed by storms at sea, unfinished railroad tracks, and an Indian attack in the American West.

Do you think Phileas Fogg and his friends made it around the world in 80 days?

With all of the delays, the group thought they arrived back at London five minutes too late. However, the next day they discovered they were one day ahead of schedule. This was because they had travelled all the way around the world in an eastward direction, ma-ki-ng them gain an extra day as they travelled acrodifferent time zones.

Oliver Twist, one of the most famous works of Charles Dickens’, is a novel reflecting the tragic fact of the life in Britain in 18th century.

The author who himself was born in a poor family wrote this novel in his twenties with a view to reveal the ugly masks of those cruel criminals and to expose the horror and violence hidden underneath the narrow and dirty streets in London.

The hero of this novel was Oliver Twist, an orphan, who was thrown into a world full of poverty and crime. He suffered enormous pain, such as hunger, thirst, beating and abuse. While reading the tragic experiences of the little Oliver, I was shocked by his sufferings. I felt for the poor boy, but at the same time I detested the evil Fagin and the brutal Bill. To my relief, as was written in all the best stories, the goodneeventually conquered devil and Oliver lived a happy life in the end. One of the plots that attracted me most is that after the theft, little Oliver was allowed to recover in the kind care of Mrs. Maylie and Rose and began a new life. He went for walks with them, or Rose read to him, and he worked hard at his lessons. He felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty.

How can such a little boy who had already suffered oppressive affliction remain pure in body and mind? The reason is the nature of goodness. I think it is the most important information implied in the novel by Dickens-he believed that goodnecould conquer every difficulty. Although I don’t think goodneis omnipotent, yet I do believe that those who are kind-hearted live more happily than those who are evil-minded.

For me, the nature of goodneis one of the most necessary character for a person. Goodneis to humans what water is to fish. He who is without goodneis an utterly worthleperson. On the contrary, as the famous saying goes, ‘The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose’, he who is with goodneundoubtedly is a happy and useful person. People receiving his help are grateful to him and he also gets gratified from what he has done, and thus he can do good to both the people he has helped and himself.

To my disappointment, nowadays some people seem to doubt the existence of the goodnein humanity. They look down on people’s honesty and kindness, thinking it foolish of people to be warm-hearted. As a result, they show no sympathy to those who are in trouble and seldom offer to help others. On the other hand, they attach importance to money and benefit. In their opinion, money is the only real object while emotions and morality are nihility. If they cannot get profit from showing their ‘kindness’, they draw back when others are faced with trouble and even hit a man when he is down. They are one of the sorts that I really detest.

Francis Bacon said in his essay, ‘Goodness, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is the greatest, being the character of the Deity, and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.’

That is to say a person without goodneis destined to lose everything. Therefore, I, a kind person, want to tell those ‘vermin-to-be’ to learn from the kind Oliver and regain the nature of goodness.