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Book report of flipped
Book reportIn the second half of 2015,I'm lucky to read a book named flipped,which depicted the peaceful life in that small town. And it also gives us a fascinating insight into the romantic love experience of Juli and Bryce. In the whole novel,girl's romance and kindness and boy's change and growth have been expressed incisively,which touches my heart deeply. So,after reading this book,I just have many things to share with you.At first,I'm going to analyse the plot of the novel.It is in a sunny morning that the story began with young Juli's first sight of Bryce,which immediately made Juli flipped. After that,Juli loved to approach Bryce through various means to show her pure love which,however,was hated by Bryce. At that time,littleJuli was pure and had no judgement of other peopleuntil she experienced some things like the sycamore tree,the father of Bryce,cleaning the yard with Bryce 's grandpa,visiting her disabled uncle and so on. Many different things happened around her and various people showed up around her,which made her grow and recognize whether others are "better than the sum of their parts".And this story also began with Bryce's sight of Juli,which left him a bad expression that almost influenced him for 10 years. In this novel we can find that he has done many stupid things such as beginning a relationship with another girl only to keep distance with Juli,putting up with his father'sprejudice,throwingJuli's eggs and so on. In the 1 to 9 chapters he was abhorrent enough but when he experienced those things together with Juli he grew to change and understandwhat is the most precious of a person.Then I want to discuss the theme of this novel with you.If you read this novel for only one time,you will think it is merely a love story of two young kids. However,after reading it and thinking it deeply,it can be evident that love is absolutely not the only theme of flipped. In my opinion, the main themeof flipped is the growth of child especially in the aspect of mind,which is also where the value of this novel lies.As we can see,growth lies everywhere. Little Juli was learned to find whether someone is "better than the sum of parts"and who is better to get along with. She never stopped seeking for beauty from her climbing up the sycamore tree for the first time to her learning that the most beautiful parts lie in the bottom of one's heart. Little Juli did grow up to a beautiful girl not only because of her flesh but also owing to her spirit to seek for real beauty.Bryce has grown up too. Bryce,the cowardly boy,was stifled by his family and was not dare to make his own choices. But he is lucky to meet Juli whose deeds influenced him and helped him learn to listen to the voice of his own heart. He learned to be brave to seek for his happiness regardless of others' opinion and to be romantic and appreciate the beauty.So we can draw a safe conclusion that this is a story about growth. And I have to say other elements of this novel are fascinating too. The pure love in childhood can remind us of our sweet memories. The description of the peaceful town and itsclose relationship softens our hearts which had been hurt by the cold of steel cities. The lovely grandpa,Juli's disabled uncle,the harmonious family atmosphere and that stanch and tall sycamore tree did touched the softest parts of my hearts.At last,I want quote the words of Juli 's father" Some days the sunsets would be purple and pink. And some days they were a blazing orange setting fire to the clouds on the horizon. It was during one of those sunsets that my father's idea of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts moved from my head to my heart". Closing the book,I seem to have glanced that a little but strong tree stands in the sunset growing firmly and quietly.。
book report of American Political Party And Election(读书报告之《美国政党和选举制度》)
Book report of American political partiesand elections李祥20140795外国语学院2014级英语02班The book show readers how the American party systems actually work, and how the party system shape the American politics. Also, the book shines a light on some of its flaws.The first part explains the context of American elections and political parties. The government depends on the consentof the people through the electoral process which determinedby the institutional framework laid out in the Constitution. “The most important aspects of that framework are the separation of powers, with a single executive separate from and elected separately from the legislature, and the federal system with residual powers left to the states.”(Page 27) We all know that the parties and electorate itself are always changing as the technology important to campaigning has advanced. But at the same time, the electoral process has not changed. It is still about contesting for public support of candidates.The party is organized at each electoral level. What the party functions is to assist their candidates to win the electoral campaign, though the leaders of the party are unable todiscipline public officials elected under the party label. Though many Americans are not clear about the American parties, and indeed, many have no formal affiliation. But most citizens have an impression of the two major parties—the Democratic and the Republican—and consider themselves as one part of each party. Whereas an increasingly large number of citizens claim independence from either party and vote other parties.Americans think the presidential election is an apparent represent of American democracy. It seems that the candidates’ ability to appeal to the electorate on television or find the correct nuance in expressing his or her position on controversial and salient issues counts most in the presidential election. And debates will be held between the candidates where they are always trapped in unfair, irrelevant and still decisive attacks. The public will form opinions and cast their votes based on the debates. Although local politics is often quite detached from national politics, the local elections are largely influenced by the national elections. The paradox exists that local voters always follow the national trend and think the party favorably at the national level is also favorable by locals. The local elections are not competitive because of few quality challengers to the incumbents which may fail to reflect popular will.In the last chapter, the author reveals some flaws of the American political system. Many Americans will not participate the general elections, and some even have no opportunity to do so. The American politics is actually controlled by the two major parties, narrowing others parties’ space for office. Although all citizens are equal in their access to government, money is a huge factor determining who will be elected.Concisely but clearly, the book explains the American political system with such a short introduction and accessible words. Also, the book brings me many thoughts. The biggest character of American political system is checks and balances, like the separation of powers, the separation of powers between federal government and state governments, and the two-party system. Obviously, the checks and balances can offer each branch a way of counteracting and limiting any wrongful action by another branch which is able to prevent tyranny. The separation of powers between federal and state governments can maintain the flexibility and creativity of states under a unified and powerful federal government. However, there’s nothing perfect in the world. The election process in America is too long and costs a lot. The two=party system may result in a divided country. Some always say that American elections aregames of rich and have nothing to do with the poor or ordinary people, which goes contrast with the creed of America—equality.。
Book report of of mice and man读书报告
Book report of of Mice and ManAbout the bookJohn Steinbeck is the author who was born in America in 1902. Graduated in Standford university, he had a gift for literary. In his life, he wrote lots of excellent novels and won the noble prize in 1962. As the most weighty writer in 20s, this novel was published in 1937. This novel is a mirror of that time when the poor lived a hard life, criticizing the rich’s contempt to the poor.About the storyThis is a simple story, telling a story happened in three days. In an American farm, there were two friends helping each other. George was a clever and healthy man while Lennie had something wrong in his mind, a little intellect. For the poor adjustment of Lennie, he caused lots of troubles, which made they always be fired. However, Lennie was very kind to anything even a brood of mice. This time, they worked for tyler ranch to realize their dreams. George told Lennie if he behaved himself, he would have a brood of rabbits. Unfortunately, Lennie killed the member of ranch’s family.and the workers hunt down him. In order to prevented his friend from being abused, George shoot Lennie by himself.My opinionThis book brings a lot of shock and amazement. I can’t imagine the feeling of George when he killed his best friend. Sometimes, hurt someone we loved may be another way to protect them. But the sinister society drives people lost their kindness. They treat the poor as the animals. This contempt to human makes me quite sorry for people in that time. But this story reminds me of the friendship. I think the most significant thing in human’s life is family bond, love and friendship. A true friend will give we his hand when we are in trouble. We are supposed to cherish every friend in our lives. And, when they are in trouble or something, what we need do is accompany with them. As human beings, we always hurt people who love us by incident. so, when we have different opinions withe friends, we should think in their situation. As to the book, its description in the people’s emotion is vivid. It’s a outstanding work.。
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ThebookreportofT...第一篇：The book report of The Great Gatsbay1《了不起的盖茨比》英文读书报告The book report of The Great GatsbayBy F.Scott.FizgeraldThe Great Gatsbay is written by American author F.Scott.Fizgerald, who is considered a member of the “lost generation” of the Twenties.It was first published on 1925.The following is the main plot of the novel.A young man named Nick Caraway, who came to New York City in string of 1922.He became involved in the life of his neighbour at Long Island, jay Gatsbay revealed to Nick, that he fell in love with his cousin Daisy before the war.At that time, he is poor.However, Daisy married Tom Buchanan, a rich but boring man of good social position.But Gatsby was still in love with her.In Gatsby's opinion, daisy was a beautiful and charming that he had never seen.But I think she was also fickle, shallow, hypocritical.She was love with money, easy, and material luxury because she seemed to love Gatsby, but just appearance.Although I know the real Daisy, Gatsby did not know her clearly.This is the main reason why Gatsby could not get what he wanted.Becoming wealthy is the most important for rge fortune was from distributing illegal alcohol and trading in stolen securities.After getting money, Gatsby got luxurious possessions.“And a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden, it was Gatsby mansion.” Besides,Gatsby went to Oxford University to get further study in order to make him more elegant and noble.He changed since his New Haven years.Now he was a study straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.Two shiningarrogant eyes has established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always learning aggressively forward.Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body-he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see a great pack of muck shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat.It was a body capable of enormous beverage-“ a cruel body” in Nick's eyes.Gatsby held sumptuous parties every weekend at his mansion.The party is almost unbelievably luxurious.He made friends who have outstanding fame and high position.Due to natural instincts-vanity, Daisy began to sob helplessly;;I did love him true, but I loved you too." when Gatsby tried to convince her to leave Tom.Gatsby lost Daisy because he had no money, but he still loved her.It was the blinding love that killed him.Daisy, driving Gatsby's car, hit and killed T om's mistress, Myrtle Wilson, Gather knew the truth, but he kept silent to protect her.Afterwards, Tom told Myrtle's husband that it was Gatsby killed his wife.Then Wilson murdered Gatsby and committed suicide.After Gatsby''s dying, almost no people including those who usually attended his parties came to his funeral.Nick was left to arrange Gatsby's funeral, attended only Gatsby's father and the former guests.The woman who ever allowed Gatsby to take the blame for killing Myrtle rather than attend his funeral moved away with her husband finally, leaving no contact address.Gatsby is the typical American youth in the twenties.He regarded Daisy as the symbol of the youth, money and status deeply.He thought innocently: he can receive the last love, his dream after having money.It was a pity.He had misunderstood the girl he loved and the boring society on the surface.So he would never made his dream come true.But, he tried his best.第二篇：了不起的盖茨比读书报告“The American Dream”reflected in The Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F.Scott Fitzgerald.The first time I finished reading it, I treated it as a love tragic story.Gatsby’s love for Daisy was so deep that he loved her for so many years and finally died because of her.However, it is a pity that Daisy was a fickle, shallow girl who only loved money, ease and material luxuty.I feel sorry for Gatsby’s love for a unworthy girl.In fact, the novel involves a much larger and less romantic scope.I came to realize it after knowing more about F.Scott Fitzgerald’s works and the background of the story.The Great Gatsby actually symbolized the disillusion of the American Dream.It shows a vivid picture of the 1920’s with its surface prosperity a nd underlying sadness.The 1920’s is a decade when Americans worship money and ease of life instead of the original American Dream that dreaming of a better, richer and happier life for all citizens of every rank.The tragedy of Gatsby is an example of the failure of the American Dream.It can be analyzed from people’s pursuit of money, status and love.Money was of great importance during that period of time.It can be found from every aspect of people’s life.Firstly, money was a necessity for love and marriage.Gatsby was penniless when Daisy fell in love with him.They could not get married without money.Thus, Gatsby left to make money for his love.However, Daisy didn’t wait for him but married Tom, an arrogant, hypocritical man who had no moral qualms but money.From it we can see that Daisy chose money, not love.Secondly, people can do anything for money.For example, in order to make money, Gatsby chose to smuggle alcohol and do other criminal activities.These activities were of high risks, but Gatsby was willing to do them for money.Thirdly,money was more important than family kinship.At the funeral of Gatsby, his father didn’t show much sorrow for his son’s death, but were more proud of his son’s wealth.In his eye’s, money was more important than his son.Finally, money could make a normal person a celebrity.At the beginning of the novel, the author spent a lot of ink to describe the gorgeous mansion Gatsby lived, the luxurious car he owned, and the grand parties he held.These things made Gatsby popular in the town and these things all came from money.From above it can be concluded that money was the very pursuit of people in that period of time.Status was also a very important thing people try to pursue.Firstly, it can be reflected from Gatsby’s love for Daisy.Why did Gatsby loved Daisy but not other girls? This was because to Gatsby, Daisy represented the paragon of perfection—she has the aura of charm, wealth, sophistication, grace, and aristocracy that he longed for as a child in North Dakota.All her characters were endowed by her status.Secondly, in the novel, the town was divided into East Egg and West Egg.People like Daisy and Tom lived on the East Egg presented American aristocracy(families with old wealth), and people like Gatsby lived in the West Egg presented newly rich industrialists and speculators.Fitzgerald portrays the newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste.Gatsby, for example, lives in a monstrously ornate mansion, wears a pink suit, drives a Rolls-Royce, and does not pick up on subtle social signals, such as the insincerity of the Sloanes’ invitation to lunch.In contrast, the old aristocracy possesses grace, taste, subtlety, and elegance, epitomized by the Buchanans’ tasteful home and the flowing white dresses of Daisy and Jordan Baker.Thus, it can be concluded that the newly rich admired thearistocracy’s status.Gatsby’s pursuit for Daisy also reflected the American Dream.Daisy was beautiful, charmingand grace, but she was also shallow, bored and sardonic.In reality, therefore, Daisy falls far short of Gatsby’s ideals.Daisy proves her real nature when she chooses Tom over Gatsby in Chapter VII, then allows Gatsby to take the blame for killing Myrtle Wilson even though she herself was driving the car.Finally, rather than attend Gatsby’s funeral, Daisy and Tom move away, leaving no forwarding address.With the pursuits corrupted, Gatsby's American dream is inevitably doomed.Gatsby died in line with the disillusionment of the American Dream.Furthermore,Gatsby is merely a typical representative of the thousands of Americans in 1920s.Through the archetypal story of Gatsby, Fitzgerald tells us that the distorted and perverted American dream in 1920s is doomed a disillusionment. 第三篇：了不起的盖茨比读书报告2104070593 2010级王丹Book ReportThis semester, I read a book which is named The Great Gatsby.The Great Gatsby was published in 1922 by F.Scott Fitzgerald.At first glance, the novel appears to be a simple love story, but further examination reveals Fitzgerald's masterful scrutiny of American society during the 1920s and the corruption of the American dream.The author is F.Scott Fitzgerald.Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, and named after his ancestor Francis Scott Key, the author of The Star-Spangled Banner.Fitzgerald was raised in St.Paul, Minnesota.Though an intelligent child, he did poorly in school and was sent to a New Jersey boarding school in 1911.Despite being a mediocre student there, he managed to enroll atPrinceton in 1913.Academic troubles and apathy plagued him throughout his time at college, and he never graduated, instead enlisting in the army in 1917, as World War I neared its end.Fitzgerald was the most famous chronicler of 1920s America, an era that he dubbed “the Jazz Age.” Writt en in 1925, The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest literary documents of this period, in which the American economy soared, bringing unprecedented levels of prosperity to the nation.Prohibition, the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to theConstitution(1919), made millionaires out of bootleggers, and an underground culture of revelry sprang up.He published the novel Tender is the Night, Paradise, The Last Giant and so on.Published over 160 short novels, for example Benjamin's Fantasy Trip, Ice Palace, Winter Dream, Sensible.Back to Babylon and so on.In the 81st Oscar Awards ceremony got three Oscar-winning films Benjamin Button is based on his short novel Benjamin's Fantasy Trip adaptation.The twentieth century, the United States academic community selected 100 the best novels in the river of English literature.The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night are the list.And The Great Gatsby is second.The Great Gatsby shows us a vivid picture of the 1920s with its superficial prosperity and underlying sadness.The failure of American dream and the crisis of value are well reflected in characters and the details of the novel.In The Great Gatsby,Fitzgerald skillfully employed the contrastive techniques in terms of scenes,characters as well as dream and reality.These techniques not only deepen the tragic theme, but also imparted the text a brand-new interpretation and profound artistic glamour.The novel is told us the story of Gatsby by Nick’ tone.Nick is tired ofhis hometow n’ life and came to New York.Rent a small house in the suburb of West Egg.He is Daisy's cousin.The Gatsby is his neighbor, living in luxurious Gatsby mansion.He and Daisy love each other when Gatsby was young.But because of his poor family they were broken up.Then he joined the First World War.While Daisy married torich Kids T om.Five years later, Daisy and her family move to the West from Chicago.Nick started have close contacts with them.Gatsby accumulated great wealth throughillegal means in the five years.Follow Daisy came to New York.Opposite Daisyhome he bought the villa-Gatsby Mansion.In order to attract married Daisy to meet.He held a large part at the villa every weekend.Vain hope to arouse the lost lovebetween them.An occasional opportunity let Gatsby knew that Nick is Daisy's cousin.Asked him arrange a meeting with Daisy.Then they often make date.He gradually found Daisy's vanity, vulgar and selfish.Gatsby's pink dream finally has been broken, but he still insisted it.Still retain any illusion about Daisy, and even lead to histragedies.One day Daisy was in a drunken driving Gatsby's car ran over and caused an accident that killed Tom's mistress.And plan a plot with Tom and cruel to put the blame on Gatsby.Resulting in the victim's husband suddenly burst into the house and shot Gatsby.The murderer eventually also killed himself.And Daisy and Tom were traveling to Europe.Only Gatsby's poor father and Nick attend at the funeral.The story ends up with the Gatsby become victim for selfish and cruel of Daisy.The story begins in 1920s –was named by “jazz” and “money” era.The novel use Nick’ tones tell thestory.Happened as if is Nick’ experience.It is use a unique literary vision and new performance style profoundly revealed the burst reason about American Dream at Jazz and Money Age.After war The US economic prosperity age, the life style trends to money worship are expressed most vividly.But it was under the cover of the selfishness and indifference of human nature.The reason why are Gatsby great because he was sincere and persistent waiting for and pursuing his love at heart.When the social is popular that people indulging pleasure and pride luxury.However, in material-driven environment, whether it is Gatsby, Daisy or Tom.They pursuit, devotion and transfer for love are close linked to money and status.The Great Gatsby is ranked second in the Modern Library’s list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century.But everyone has the different criteria on good books.One point of good books is, I think, when you eat it the taste is what you need.The good books tell you clearly something that lurks in your brain dimly.So you will feel very good if you resonate with the character in books.Another point of good books is, after you have eaten it the taste is so good that you want to eat it again.The good book is amusing and thought inspiring.The Great Gatsby also has a lot of puns and symbolisms.Finally, I hope everyone can be himself.Don’t lose your spirit.As far as I amconcerned even though you love someone, you should not accommodate yourself to him or her too much.Just be yourself.Only if he or her love you sincerely can you have a happy life in the future.第四篇：了不起的盖茨比读书报告A Book Report of The Great GatsbyBy Li LiF.Scott Fitzgerald.The Great : Penguin Books Ltd, 2007187 Pages.Fiction.The Great Gatsby is told us a tragic story in which how Gatsby tries his best for his dreams of love and life but finally he also fails in face of the reality by Nick’s tone.Background InformationThe Great Gatsby is the most famous masterpiece of Fitzgerald’s.It’s also the master piece of American realism fiction in the early period of the 20th century.This work was written in 1925 by Fitzgerald.This period is called jazz age, it’s also the most exuberant period of the a uthor’s creativity.In this period, World War I has already ended up(1918)before Great Depression(1929)arrived.The traditional Puritan ethics crumbled and hedonism began to be popular.With Fitzgerald’s words, ‘this is a miracle of the era, an era of art, a miserly time, but also is a era full of taunt’.Fitzgerald called the age as the jazz age, so he is called ‘the poet laureate’ in this jazz age.As he himself also enjoyed this era warmly, he keenly felt this era for the romantic desire, the surface of the luxury of emptiness and behind is helpless, and in his works these emotions were reflect ed heartily.In his works, the delicate affection quarrel of the young people who are in and out of the golf course, country club and luxurious residence of the high society is an eternal theme, and the leading roles’ frustration and disappointment by money dispelling are everywhere.The Great Gatsby describes a story to represent the desire of the young and idealism.It involves the mercurial feelings including confusion and loss all the time.Fitzgerald thinks it’s the fate of the people’s fate in that era.Plot SummaryEvaluationThe Cause of Miriam’s Tragedy:1.Social cause2.The isolated living environment3.The influence of religion4.Paul and the interference of Mrs.Morel第五篇：了不起的盖茨比英文读书报告[小编推荐]Book Report of The Great GatsbyThe introduction about the author:Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald(September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940)was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself.He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.Fitzgerald is considered a member of the “Lost Generation” of the 1920s.He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, and the most famous one is The Great Gatsby.Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age.The Great Gatsby was first published in 1925, and it has been republished in 1945 and 1953.There are two settings for the novel.The first setting is on Long Island's North Shore and the second major setting is in New York City.The book is set within the year 1922 from the spring to the autumn.Summary of this book: Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner who had graduated from Yale, moved to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business.He rented a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a group who had made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections and who were prone to garish displays of wealth.Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg was a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lived in a gigantic Gothicmansion and threw extravagant parties every Saturday night.Nick was unlike the other inhabitants of West Egg—he was educated at Yale and had social connections in East Egg, a fashionable area of Long Island home to the established upper class.Nick drove out to East Egg one eveningfor dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, an erstwhile classmate of Nick’s at Yale.Daisy and Tom introduced Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynical young woman with whom Nick began a romantic relationship.Nick also leart a bit about Daisy and Tom’s marriage: Jordan told him that Tom had a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lived in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City.Not long after this revelation, Nick travelled to New York City with Tom and Myrtle.At a vulgar, gaudy party in the apartment that Tom kept for the affair, Myrtle began to taunt Tom about Daisy, and Tom responded by breaking her nose.As the summer progressed, Nick eventually garnered an invitation to one of Gatsby’s legendary parties.He encountered Jordan Baker at the party, and they met Gatsby himself, a surprisingly young man who had a remarkable smile and called everyone “old sport.” Gatsby asked to speak to Jordan alone, and through Jordan, Nick later leart more about his mysterious neighbor.Gatsby told Jordan that he knew Daisy in Louisville in 1917 and was deeply in love with her.He spent many nights staring at the green light at the end of her dock, across the bay from his mansion.Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties were simply an attempt to impress Daisy.Gatsby now wanted Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he was afraid that Daisy would refuse to see him if she knew that he still loved her.Nick invited Daisy to have tea at his house, withouttelling her that Gatsby would also be there.After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablished their connection.They begin an affair.After a short time, Tom grew increasingly suspicious of his wife’s relationship with Gatsby.At a luncheon at the Buchanans’ house, Gatsby stared at Daisy with such undisguised passion that Tom realized Gatsby is in love with her.Though Tom involved in an extramarital affair, he was deeply outraged by the thought that his wife could be unfaithful tohim.He forced the group to drive into New York City, where he confronted Gatsby in a suite at the Plaza Hotel.Tom asserted that he and Daisy had a history that Gatsby could never understand, and he announced to his wife that Gatsby was a criminal—his fortune came from bootlegging alcohol and other illegal activities.Daisy realized that her allegiance was to T om, and Tom contemptuously sent her back to East Egg with Gatsby, attempting to prove that Gatsby could not hurt him.When Nick, Jordan, and Tom drove through the valley of ashes, however, they discovered that Gatsby’s car h ad struck and killed Myrtle, Tom’s lover.They rushed back to Long Island, where Nick leart from Gatsby that Daisy was driving the car when it struck Myrtle, but that Gatsby intended to take the blame.The next day, Tom told Myrtle’s husband, George, that Ga tsby was the driver of the car.George, who had leapt to the conclusion that the driver of the car that killed Myrtle must have had been her lover, found Gatsby in the pool at his mansion and shoots him dead.He then fatally shot himself.Nick staged a small funeral for Gatsby, ended his relationship with Jordan, and moved back to the Midwest to escape the disgust he felt for the people surrounding Gatsby’s life and for the emptiness and moral decay of life among thewealthy on the East Coast.Nick reflected th at just as Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was corrupted by money and dishonesty, the American dream of happiness and individualism had disintegrated into the mere pursuit of wealth.Though Gatsby’s power to transform his dreams into reality made him “great,” Nick reflected that the era of dreaming—both Gatsby’s dream and the American dream—was over.。
Bookreport of 《Jane Eyre》
Bookreport of 《Jane Eyre》When teacher tell us to read an Englishbook,I choose this one--《Jane Eyre》,this is a story about a lovely girl,she is really kindness.The story begin with her childhood,which is miserable.She lived with her uncle’s family because she lost both of her parents. After soon,she lost her uncle,thus,she have to stay with her ant-in-low, who don’t like her at all.Beforelong,she was sent to the charity school where she made a good friend.When she grow up,she find herself a job—houseteacher,she went to the castel where our touching story start.But it is a happy ending—ultimately,our hero and heronies live a happy life together and I hope,forever.After reading thebook,I must say this is a really moving story.I think Jane is one of the greatest romantic heroines in the world literature.Actually,she was not pretty,had a plain face-because of her poorness.But Jane have courageous character.Allow me express my admiration,Jane always keep a thankful heart,she works hard.There always been one thing that never change,it called bona.I have to say that I learned a lot from this book.When we face the facts and the difficulties,we should be without any flinching,we should be persistent and dauntless,we should be independent,don’t rely on anyone eles.All in a word,this is a book bear watching.What I believe in is that after you read this novel,you are certain to love it,the book and the heroines—Jane Eyre,which is also the name of this book.。
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A Book Report of a Thousand Splendid SunsWenjing Shi Translation 152 1507042034Brief IntroductionA Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. It is his second, following his bestselling 2003 debut, The Kite Runner. Mariam is an illegitimate child, and suffers from both the stigma surrounding her birth along with the abuse she faces throughout her marriage. Laila, born a generation later, is comparatively privileged during her youth until their lives intersect and she is also forced to accept a marriage proposal from Rasheed, Mariam's husband.The author Hosseini has remarked that he regards the novel as a "mother-daughter story" in contrast to The Kite Runner, which he considers a "father-son story".It continues some of the themes used in his previous work, such as the familial aspects, but focuses primarily on female characters and their roles in Afghan society.The Author ＆BackgroundKhaled Hosseini ( born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California, an occupation that he likened to "an arranged marriage". He has published three novels, most notably his 2003 debut The Kite Runner, all of which are at least partially set in Afghanistan and feature an Afghan as the protagonist. Following the success of The Kite Runner he retired from medicine to write full-time. Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. His father worked as a diplomat, and when Hosseini was 11 years old, the family moved to France; four years later, they appliedThe novel centers around two women, Mariam and Laila, how their lives become intertwined after a series of drastic events, and their subsequent friendship and support for each other in the backdrop of Kabul in the 20th and 21st century. It is split into four parts that focus on individual stories: Part one is about Mariam, part two is on Laila, part three is on the relationship between the two women, and Laila's life with Tariq is in part four. The last section also happens to be the only part written in the present tense.Mariam lives in a kolba on the outskirts of Herat with her embittered mother. Jalil, her father, is a wealthy businessman who owns a cinema and lives in the town with three wives and nine children. Mariam is his illegitimate daughter,and she is prohibited to live with them, but Jalil visits her every Thursday. On her fifteenth birthday, Mariam wants her father to take her to see Pinocchio at his movie theater, against the pleas of her mother. When he does not show up, she hikes into town and goes to his house. He refuses to see her, and she ends up sleeping on the street. In the morning, Mariam returns home to find that her mother has committed suicide out of fear that her daughter had deserted her. Mariam is then taken to live in her father's house. Jalil arranges for her to be married to Rasheed, a shoemaker from Kabul who is thirty-years her senior. In Kabul, Mariam becomes pregnant seven successive times, but is never able to carry a child to term. This is a sad, disquieting reality for both Rasheed and Mariam. Ultimately Rasheed grows more and more despondent over his wife's inability to have a child and particularly a son. As their marriage wears on Rasheed gradually becomes more and more abusive.Part Two introduces Laila. She is a girl growing up in Kabul who is close friends with Tariq, a boy living in her neighborhood. They eventually develop a romantic relationship despite being aware of the social boundaries between men and women in Afghan society. War comes to Afghanistan, and Kabul is bombarded by rocket attacks. Tariq's family decides to leave the city, and the emotional farewell between Laila and Tariq culminates with them making love. Laila's family also decides to leave Kabul,but as they are packing a rocket destroys the house, killing her parents and severely injuring Laila. Laila is subsequently taken in by Rasheed and Mariam.After recovering from her injuries, Laila discovers that she is pregnant with Tariq's child. After being informed by Abdul Sharif that Tariq has died, she agrees to marry Rasheed, a man eager to have a young and attractive second wife in hopes of having a son with her. When Laila gives birth to a daughter, Aziza, Rasheed is displeased and suspicious. This results in him becoming abusive towards Laila. Mariam and Laila eventually become confidants and best friends. They plan to run away from Rasheed and leave Kabul but are caught at the bus station. Rasheed beats them and deprives them of water for several days, almost killing Aziza.A few years later, Laila gives birth to Zalmai, Rasheed's son. The Taliban has risen to power and imposed harsh rules on the Afghan population, prohibiting women from appearing in public without a male relative. There is a drought, and living conditions in Kabul become poor. Rasheed's workshop burns down, and he is forced to take jobs for which he is ill-suited. He sends Aziza to an orphanage. Laila endures a number of beatings from the Taliban when caught alone on the streets in attempts to visit her daughter.Then one day Tariq appears outside the house, and he and Laila are reunited. Laila realizes that Rasheed had hired Abdul Sharif to inform her about Tariq's fake death, so that he could marry her. When Rasheed returns home from work, Zalmai tells his father about the visitor. Rasheed starts to savagely beat Laila. He nearly strangles her, but Mariam intervenes and kills Rasheed with a shovel. Afterwards, Mariam confesses to killing Rasheed in order to draw attention away from Laila and Tariq. Mariam is publicly executed, allowing Laila and Tariq to leave for Pakistan with Aziza and Zalmai. They spend their days working at a guest house in Murree, a summer retreat.After the fall of the Taliban, Laila and Tariq return to Afghanistan. They stop in the village where Mariam was raised, and discover a package that Mariam's father leftStyle ＆TechniqueA Thousand Splendid Suns received significant praise from reviewers, with Publishers Weekly calling it "a powerful, harrowing depiction of Afghanistan" and USA Today describing the prose as "achingly beautiful".Lisa See of The New York Times attributed the book's success to Hosseini "understanding the power of emotion as few other popular writers do".Natasha Walter from The Guardian wrote, "Hosseini is skilled at telling a certain kind of story, in which events that may seem unbearable - violence, misery and abuse - are made readable. He doesn't gloss over the horrors his characters live through, but something about his direct, explanatory style and the sense that you are moving towards a redemptive ending makes the whole narrative, for all its tragedies, slip down rather easily."。
英语语言学读书报告 英文
Book report of Pragmatics: Theories and ApplicationsPragmatics: Theories and Applications was written by Jiang Wangqi who was a famous professor in Pecking University. Professor Jiang has contributed a lot to the development of Functional Linguistics and published more than 30 theses as well as two books in this field. This book is one of his masterpieces. It was published by Pecking University Press in 2000.There are several reasons pushing me to choose this book. Firstly, pragmatics is an important branch in linguistics and many problems in linguistics can be explained by pragmatics. Secondly, pragmatics pays attention to the regular patterns of language use. That’s what interests me. I want to learn more about these rules and use them to explain utterances in our daily life. Thirdly, conversational implicature is the most essential content in this book. I really desire to learn more about relevance theory and prepare to design a paper based on this theory.There are seven chapters in this book. Through these chapters, the author introduces pragmatics from different aspects and tells readers the whole content of pragmatics. It isn’t a book just about theories but also about applications which is different from and much better than other books. Then the author explains these content in detail in the following chapters. The first chapter is the introduction of this book which contains an informal definition and the original of pragmatics. The second chapter is about deixis in pragmatics. I am shocked that there are so many deixis in our daily life but we just ignore them. If we want to find something in Linguistics, we must pay more attention to those details in our daily life. The third chapter and the fourth chapter are the essential parts of this book. They are all theories about conversational implicature. They contain the most famous theories in pragmatics and these are what I am going to talk in the latter report. The fifth chapter introduces presupposition. The following chapter is about speech acts. This is also another field that attracts many researchers and learners in pragmatics. The last chapter is about conversation analysis. It pays more attention to application than other chapters and are very close to our daily studies. After reading these chapters in this book, readers can learn a lot of regular patterns in linguistics and grasp more skills to use language correctly.Among this book, the third and fourth chapters interest me most. Nearly everyone who knows conversational implicature knows the Gricean theory but not the relevance theory. After learning this two chapters, I am more interested in the relevance theory. So in the latter report, I will introduce the relevance theory in detail.Relevance TheoryIn order to explain the conversational implicature clearly, Grice develops his cooperative principle and its four component maxims. Many latter linguists develop their theories based on Grice’s principle but there are also many other linguists against this theory such as Wilson and Sperber. Wilson and Sperber are the founders of relevance theory. Relevance theory is based on a definition of relevance and two principles of relevance which are the cognitive principle and the communicative principle. The central claim of relevance theory is that the expectations of relevance raised by an utterance are precise enough and predictable enough , to guide the hearer towards the speaker’s meaning. In the following part, I will introduce this theory from four different aspects.1 The development of relevance theoryRecognized the problems in Gricean theory, the French linguist Dan Sperber and British linguist Deirdre Wilson published their thesis in this field named Relevance: Communication and Cognition in 1986.After the publication of this thesis, many researchers began to pay attention to this theory. There were many linguists using relevance theory to analyze those problems in pragmatics especially in conversational implicature. Linguists also found some problems of this theory. In order to make their ideas much clearer, Sperber and Wilson published their theses on relevance theory in 1995, 1998, and 2002. Through those theses, they tried to solve those problems that occurred in practice.With the effort of Sperber and Wilson, more and more linguists recognize relevance theory and use this theory to solve problems in linguistics. In abroad, many popular books and magazines treat relevance theory as a very important part. Lingue had published two monographs on relevance theory. Mey and Asher(1998), Crundy(2000) and Marmaridou(2000) are all based on relevance theory. UniversityCollege London publishes some theses on relevance theory in Working Papers in linguistics every year and the school also creates Relevance-List for learners who are interested in relevance theory to communicate.In China , after the population of relevance theory in 1990, many linguists began to analyze relevance theory and published lots of books and theses based on this theory. These works include Gui shichun(1991), Xiong xueliang(1997), Jiang wangqi(2000), He ziran(2002) and so on. Until now many pragmatics theses based on this theory are published every year.2 The main points of relevance theoryThe population of relevance theory is based on its reasonable points. It is not the explanation of Grice’s relevance maxim but a systematic theory.2.1 Relevance and cognitionWe can easily recognize that relevance is not only of utterances and other observable phenomena but of thoughts, memories, and conclusion of inferences. In order to understand the relevance under utterances and phenomena, we must first grasp the cognitive principle.In the cognitive process, people will recognize lots of relevance and produce cognitive effects based on contexts, strengthening, revision or abandonment of available assumptions. Based on the relevance theory, any external stimulus or internal representation which provides an input to cognitive process may be relevant to an individual at some time. The problem is that not all those relevance is useful to people. Only a positive cognitive effect is worthwhile difference to the individual. Then it comes to the issue that how to achieve the cognitive effect. The characteristics of cognition can lead people to find the positive cognitive effect. Relevance theory claims that what makes an input worth picking out from the mass of competing stimuli is not just it is relevant, but it is more relevant than other input at that time. In this circumstance, according to relevance-theoretic terms, other things be equal, the greater the processing effort required, the less relevant the input will be.Based on the cognitive process that we have introduced, we can conclude the relationship between relevance and cognition in order to pick out the most useful information. Firstly, other things being equal, the greater the positive cognitive effectsis achieved by processing an input, the greater the relevance of the input to the individual at that time. Secondly, other things being equal, the greater the processing effort is expanded, the lower the relevance of the input to the individual at that time.After understanding the relationship between relevance and cognition, now we can conclude the cognitive principle of relevance: human cognition tends to be geared to the maximization of relevance.2.2 Relevance and communicationRelevance theory will finally be used in communication and understanding speaker’s intention. So in order to fulfill the purpose of communication, one should learn to analyze and understand the real meaning of the speaker. In relevance theory, there are some parts created just for realizing this purpose such as ostensive-inferential communication, communicative principle of relevance, optional relevance and relevance-theoretical comprehension procedure.The purpose of communication is to express one’s ideas and let others understand. This is called ostensive-inferential communication in relevance theory. Ostensive-inferential communication is not just a matter of intending to affect the thoughts of an audience but a matter of getting them to recognize that one has this intention. It contains two parts. The first part is the informative intention which is about the intention to inform an audience of something. The second part is the communicative intention which is about the intention to inform the audience of one’s informative intention. In a conversation, if the communication intention is fulfilled, understanding is achieved.The fact is that there is a gap between understanding and believing. So in order to achieve the understanding, an ostensive stimulus is used. This can help to attract the audience’s attention and can help the audience to find the maximize relevance. Affected by the ostensive stimulus and the cognitive principle of relevance, the audience can finally grasp the real meaning of the speaker. Based on this process, we can understand the communicative principle of relevance that is every ostensive stimulus conveys a presumption of its own optional relevance.The optional relevance is also connected with the cognition. The audience can use his or her cognitive ability to do optional relevance. There are two principles for the audience to choose an optional relevance. Firstly, it is relevant enough to be worth the audience’s processing effort. Secondly, it is the most relevant one compatible withcommunicator’s abilities and references.After understanding the use of relevance theory in communication, we can easily recognize the relevance-theoretic comprehension procedure: using least effort in computing cognitive effects and stopping when the exceptions of relevance are satisfied.2.3 Relevance and comprehensionThe process of achieving the comprehension of utterances is completely complex. So what the advantages of relevance theory and how to use relevance theory to analyze this issue clearly will be introduced in this part. There are verbal and non-verbal communication. Verbal communication can achieve a degree of explicitness not available in non-verbal communication so the non-verbal communication is much harder to analyze.In the process of comprehension, relevance theory is different from other traditional theories which only pay attention to implicature. Relevance theory focuses on both the explicature and implicature. It points out that the comprehension should base on the meaning of the utterance and the explicit context not the speaker’s intention and pragmatic principles. The hearer’s goal is to construct a hypothesis about the speaker’s meaning which satisfies the presumption of relevance conveyed by the utterance. In order to achieve this goal, Wilson and Sperber point the sub-tasks in the overall comprehension process. The first one is to construct an appropriate hypothesis about explicit content. The second one is to construct an appropriate hypothesis about the intended contextual assumption. The third one is to construct an appropriate hypothesis about the intended contextual implicature. We must understand that these sub-steps are not in sequential order but in a parallel order.In the comprehension process, relevance theory shows clearly the importance of explicature in understanding an utterance. This is different from the traditional theories. In the first place, it treats lexical narrowing as a type of pragmatic enrichment process which contributes to explicature rather than implicature. In the second place, lexical narrowing is a much more flexible and contextual dependent process than appeals to generalized implicature or default interpretations suggest. As for the loose use of language, readers can easily find the problems in Gricean theory. It can not be generally perceived as violating the maxim of truthfulness at all. The speaker may want to say something special through the overt violating of Grice’smaxims. Relevance theory takes this problem into consideration. In relevance theory, this relative indeterminacy to explicature is linked to the relative strength of implicature. It can be distinguished as week implication and strong implication. The distinction between strong and week implicature sheds some light on the variety of ways in which an utterance can achieve relevance.2.4 Relevance and mental architectureAll these theories used to analyze utterances are more or less mentioned mental architecture if authors want to make their theories clear and credible.Grice’s analysis of overt communication which involves the expression and recognition of intentions treats comprehension as a variety of mind-reading or theory of mind. Grice treats pragmatic interpretation as a central, inferential process and dedicates an inferential mechanism or module. The advantage of this mechanism is that it can take advantage of regularities in its own particular domain and contain special-purpose inferential procedures which are justified by these regularities. The disadvantage is also overt that it can only practice in this domain. That is to say it can not be used in other domains and must be inferred again. The approaches to mind-reading also have problems in this aspect for thinking the mind mechanism can be used in the whole domain.As for relevance theory, it questions that speaker’s meaning can be inferred from utterances by the same procedure used to infer intentions from action. So in relevance theory, it evolves a specialized sub-module dedicated to comprehension, with its own proprietary concepts and mechanisms such as the cognitive principle of relevance and communicative principle of relevance.3 Differences between the Gricean theory and relevance theoryIn the first part of the report, I introduce the development of relevance theory. In the second part of the report, I analyze the main points of relevance theory. In the process of writing the two parts, I also introduce many ideas of Gricean theory. In order to understand relevance theory better, we need to grasp the differences between relevance theory and Gricean theory.Grice created the cooperative principle and the following four maxims. Then latter Sperber and Wilson created relevance theory and supposed that the maxims ofGricean theory are redundant. Basted on different ideas, the two theories have differences in many aspects. The most important difference is that the principle of relevance theory is intended to explain ostensive-inferential communication as a whole, both explccaiture and implicature. While Gricean theory is only concerned with implicature. Relevance theory makes it clear that the meanings of utterances are depended on explicit content not speakers’ intention or pragmatic principles. Another overt difference lays in the aspect of dealing with the loose use of language. As for overt violations like lies, metaphor and hyperbole, they can not be generally perceived as violating the maxim of truthfulness at all. These overt violations of maxims must have some implicature but Gricean theory can not solve these problems. On the contrary, the principle of relevance can be used in every step of these complicated processes. The difference of these two theories also lays in the implication scope. Griean theory is used to explain the conversational implicature only of verbal utterance. As for sounds, written marks and even other non-verbal expressions, Gricean theory can not analyze them clearly. While these can be analyzed by relevance theory.Through these differences we can see that relevance theory just tries to solve the problems that Gricean theory can not deal with. There are still many differences between these two theories. Here I just introduce the most important three of them.4 Evaluation of relevance theoryAfter Sperber and Wilson published their thesis about relevance theory, there are fierce discussion about it. Most are about the evaluation of this theory. Whether it is a useful theory in linguistics, which questions it can solve and what are the disadvantages of it are all questions that need people to answer.4.1 Advantages of relevance theoryAs I have already mentioned in this report, relevance theory points out a new way to analyze conversational implicature. In order to fully understand an utterance, people need to explain the ostensive-inferential communication as a whole, both explicit and implicit. In this aspect, relevance theory is different from these traditional theories which just pay attention to implicit side. This has a significant meaning in pragmatics. Affected by relevance theory, many linguists and researchers began torecognize this problem .Relevance theory can be used to analyze different kinds of phenomena. It can be used in many domains of linguistics not just to analyze conversational implicature. For example, interpretation is a domain affected a lot by relevance theory. Interpretation is a language communication process which has close relation with cognitive mechanism. It is not only related with coding but also includes the inference in dynamic context. The inferential process is just based on relevance theory. Different translators may have different expressions facing the same situation or article. Which one is the best and how to choose a better one can also be judged by relevance theory.4.2 Disadvantages of relevance theoryFirstly, It lacks the specific reference coefficient to measure its principles. In relevance theory, it mentions that people intend to get maximal effect with least effort. But the question is how to judge one as a maximal effect. Relevance theory also declares a maxim that is when a person has enough effects to satisfy his expectations of relevance he stops. As for this maxim, how to judge it is enough. In a conclusion, relevance theory is an inane theory. If linguists want to make relevance theory more authoritative, they must make specific researches and get specific data. Only by this way can relevance theory be used in practical situations.Secondly, it doesn’t pay much attention to persons’ subjectivity. The theory only describes the affection of subjectivity from the cognitive structure but ignores some important aspects of subjectivity such as people’s intentions and believes. While these subjective aspects are very important in deciding context effect. So if relevance theory can take these factors into consideration, it will definitely be more scientific and persuasive.5 ConclusionIn this report, I pay all my attention to introduce relevance theory based on Professor Jiang’s book and Sperber and Wilson’s theses. It includes the development of relevance theory, the main points of this theory, the differences between relevance theory and Gricean theory and at last the evaluation of relevance theory. I believe that after reading this report, readers can have a clear understanding of relevance theory.As for this book written by Professor Jiang, it also analyzes many other important theories in pragmatics. If you want to have a whole understanding of pragmatics, I advise you to read this book. The author also mentions lots of his own ideas about these theories. It is a useful and very interesting book to read.。
Book Report of Treasure Island
Book Report of Treasure Island学校：纪台一中班级：七年级六班姓名：张玉玲辅导教师：宋爱凤Book Report of Treasure IslandWhat an exciting book it is !Maybe you ask “why ?” Let me tell you .I read the book , I thought this because it was full of adventure, death, excitement, and a little humor. I also thought the author had a strange but interesting desire to kill off his characters! I haven't read the whole book yet, but I have a dire need to find out what happens in the end. After I have read the whole book, it really did frustrate me because I didn’t understand the hard old languages that were written in the book.I hated the ending of the story because you never really receive some sort of a good feeling. I did learn that the main character Jim becomes a loyal and responsible character though. Overall I didn’t quite enjoy reading the "boring brick" but however I did fancy the plot. Now I have to write a character essay for Jim. But I don’t know how I am going to get all the information on to one sheet of paper. Personally I don’t reccomend people to read this book if they are suppose to write an essay on it, but I do reccomend people to read this book if they are stranded on an island with nothing to do.。
A Book Report of Tom Brown 汤姆·布朗 读书报告,英文读书报告范文
A Book Report of Tom Brown’s SchooldaysBy You Meizhou, Class 1, Grade 2006Tom Brown’s Schooldays is a simplified version which is written by Michael Wister. And the original work is by Thomas Hughes who was born in Berkshire in the south of England. He was not only a writer, but also a politician and reformer.Tom Brown’s Schooldays was published by Shanghai Translation Press in 1857. It was Thomas’ first work and also his most influential work. It is famo us in England as well as in America. The simplified version has totally 128 pages and it is sold at RMB￥5.8.Tom Brown’s Schooldays was set on the eve of the Queen Victoria time. It showed how students felt through the vivid narration of Tom’s and some other students’ life in the Rugby school and the school environment.. Rugby was one of the most influential schools at that time. But the public schools were under bad government. In the school, there was a good deal of bullying, physically punishing students and also quarrels between teachers. The teacher-student relationship was intensive. People thought masters and boys were natural enemies. But after some significant reforms on the school teaching methods by the master Thomas Arnold, the school appeared a new look. It was under such surroundings that leading role Tom was educated and grew up.At first Tom feared the master, but when he knew how anxiously and carefully the master had watched over these students’ lives he looked upon him with love and respec t and thought of him as a very wise and good man. As the book said, “Now Tom’s faith was complete, and if next term the Doctor had stopped all football ad cricket and fagging, Tom would have supported him with all his faith.”So when Tom learnt the news of the Dr. Arnold’s death, he seemed to have lost the center point of his world. We can see how much Tom loved and respected him. And this reminds me of the book Harry Potter. Harry had the same feeling as Tom when he watched his old master killed by the enemies. Harry Potter is one of the books I love most. So when I saw some similarities with Harry Potter in this book, something drove me to read on. And in Tom’s school there were some activities also reminding me of the book Harry Potter. The book interests me in some things more, s uch as the boys’ catching birds, fishing. This shows me the beautiful life they lived and this is what I look forward to.。
book report of harry potter
A book report of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2Harry potter and the Deathly Hallows is a film made from the novel of the same name by Joanne Kathleen Rowling.It is directed by David Yates and released on 7th July .It declared the end of the Harry Potter film series and attracted great attendion all around the world .It is mainly about a battle between Harry Potter who represents justice and vordmort who likes war and darkness .Harry and his two best friend left Hogwarts magic school and started a hard journey at the start of the term . Harry noticed that he could see what vordmort thinks and does .However ,vordmort also noticed that and found Harry was looking for and disdorying his horncrux.To find the last horncrux ,Harry went back to the school.Vordmort knew that and let snap to get ready . The battle startedsoon ,teathers and senior students who were in favor of Harry got together to defend school and justice . With Mirage Harry witnessed Snape was killed by Voldemort, and got his memory.When Harry read and understand himself was Voldemort's another Horcrux, through the resurrection stone saw his parents and friends, with their accompanying he is ready to die.But woke up at a strange environment ,he metDumbledore and knew he can choose die or live .Harry came across when vordemort took his body to school . With application of nawei ,he killed the snake Nagini which is Voldemort's final horcrux, Harry killed Voldemort in the final contest. 19 years passed, Harry's family and the Ron's family go to King's Cross station together,and take their children to the school.The movie clocks in at 2 hours and 10 minutes, but I really wanted it to be much longer than that.I feel ten years this magic career is about to draw a perfect full stop.I love Harry Potter since I was a child because I can learn a lot fromit .When harry choosed to die for others ,when navil pull out the sword ,when everyone fight for the same belief ,it is obvious that victory is belong to them .I learn a lot from it and I will learn more, keep going . In a word , Victory belongs to those who have firm belief.Whatever you suffer today will become the resource of future happiness.I will always remember this word and fight for my own future .Though the final Harry Potter film has been and gone,I will remember what it teaches me and much happiness it gives me forever .A book report of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a film made from the novel of the same name by Joanne Kathleen Rowling.It is directed by David Yates and released on 7th July .It declared the end of the Harry Potter film series and attracted great attention all around the world.It is mainly about a battle between Harry Potter who represents justice and vordmort who likes war and darkness .Harry and his two best friends left Hogwarts magic school and started a hard journey at the start of the term . Harry noticed that he could see what vordmort thinks and does .However ,vordmort also noticed that and found Harry was looking for and destroying his horncrux.To find the last horncrux ,Harry went back to the school.V ordmort knew that and let Snap to get ready . The battle started soon ,teathers and senior students who were in favor of Harry got together to defend school and justice . With Mirage Harry witnessed Snape was killed by V oldemort, and got his memory.When Harry read and understood himself was V oldemort's another Horcrux, through the resurrection stone saw his parents and friends, with their accompanying he is ready to die.But woke up at a strange environment ,he met Dumbledore and knew he can choose die or live .Harry came across when vordemort took his body to school . With application ofnawei ,he killed the snake Nagini which is V oldemort's final horcrux, Harry killed V oldemort in the final contest. 19 years passed, Harry's family and the Ron's family go to King's Cross station together,and take their children to the school.The movie clocks in at 2 hours and 10 minutes, but I really wanted it to be much longer than that. I feel ten years this magic career is about to draw a perfect full stop.I love Harry Potter since I was a child because I can learn a lot from it .When Harry chose to die for others ,when navil pull out the sword ,when everyone fighted for the same belief ,it is obvious that the victory is belong to them .I learn a lot from it and I will learn more, keep going . In a word , victory belongs to those who have a firm belief.Whatever you suffer today will become the resource of future happiness.I will always remember this word and fight for my own future .Though the ultimate Harry Potter film has been and gone,I will remember what it teaches me and much happiness it gives me forever .。
(小说《儿子与情人》的读书笔记)Book Report of Sons and Lovers
Book Report of Sons and LoversWhen I read Sons and Lovers, I feel so amiable and reminiscent. Because some of the extracts in this major novel bring me back to my childhood. As for me, childhood just like a colorful dream, full of curiosity and fantasy; childhood also like the seasoning packet that remind me the sense of the joys and sorrows of life.I believe most of the people will remember the carefree primary school time when be mentioned their childhood. When I read the description about the environment of Hell Row: "Hell Row was a block of thatched, bulging cottages thar stood by the brookside on Greenhill Lane...And the cottages of theses coal-farms and homes,straying over the parish, formed the village of Bestwood." Through I grow up in the city, and do not know exactly how the countryside look like.Yet in my memory, there is a scenic spot near my primary school similar to the description of Hell Row. At that time, this place became our paradise, because little boys and girls always played games there when they finished school. The alleys between the cottages was long and interlaced, so we often played hide-and-seek together. We did not go home until our parents got off their work and took us home. However, the broad road and modern houses replaced this "paradise" when I in grade four. Looking at the bulldozers crashed the cottages and the ruins, I shed my tears and felt very sad, because I lost my paradise forever. Sometimes the beautiful scenery of my paradise would come out in my dream, the cottages, the deep alleys, the old trees and wild flowers, the lovely dogs and cats, and you-- my little friends.... All this precious memories will deeply hide in my heart.When I read the content about the quarrel take place on Arthur, Billy Pillins, , Paul, Alice, Emmie Limb and Eddie Dakin this six children. The writer write:" the six would fight, hate with a fury of hatred, and flee home in terror." I think everyone have the similar experiment that quarrel with our friends or siblings when we were young. No matter how bitter the quarrel is, they would be friends with each other again at last.I remember when I was a little girl, I quarrelled with my best friend who called JiangYan . The reason why we quarrel is that she pushed me and I broken her favorite cup when we play game at her home. She cried and asked me to pay for it, but I refuse her and complain about her fault. And then we did not talk to each other any more. Several days later, we realized we were wrong, we apologized to each other. I bought a new cup for her, and she also sent me a nice dolls. After that the games went on again.... After Jiang Yan moved to the new house, I also move to the new house, then we lost tach to each other. But still miss her, my dear friend. I hope that I will meet you again in somewhere.Although some beautiful things disappear from our life, we should keep your face always to the sunshine and the sadness will fall behind you. Although time and distance separate us, we still remember the purest friendship and blessing. Although childhood is far away from me, but the precious memories would remain my heart forever!ReferenceD. H. Lawrence. Sons and Lovers. Yilin Press, 1996。
Book Report of A Tale of Two Cities
Book Report of A Tale of Two Cities—A story about love and sacrifice in the revolutions in Paris and LondonThe book talks about the things in “the best and the worst of times”,and it makes us to think about lots of things like revolutions、sacrifices、love and so on at that times and our times more further than we did at usual time. After reading the book, I can’t help thinking of how we could deal with our relationships with all kinds of people surrounding us when we get into troubles or are forced to face a tough times in our life. It also tells us that we ought to love each other and it’s love and mercy what work out to make a better world.Book information:Charles John Huffam Dikens. A Tale of Two Cities. Wordsworth Editions Ltd. 1992.Introduction:It’s a book telling a story about love between love, justice and sacrifice in the French Revolutions when laws and regulations were totally ruined into a mess. At that violent time, people all struggled to live a little bit better. The book is beautifully written, because a lot of decriptive words and sentences are used and they make the characters lively for readers. It also uses brief andfunny descriptions, and never makes the readers confused or boring. For example, “they examined the signature by the dingiest of windows,which were always under a shower-bath of mud from Fleet Street…”. In the novel, we can always meet suspensions left which makes it more attractive to readers. There are also showing many striking contrasts that can give readers a strong feeling and deeper impressions. In a word, the book is worth reading.Author Evaluation:Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is one of the most popular novelists of his time, and remains one of the best known and most read of English authors. A Tale of Two Cities is his historical novel during the French Revolution.Charles Dikens is a typical humanitarian, who expressed his humanitarianism completely by his novels. His humanitarianism focused on morality as well as it based on morality. He advised people to be mercy and human, and he is a good example of humanitarian. For an instance, in A Tale of Two Cities, he showed deep sympathy to the poor. On the other hand, he strongly condemned the feudal aristocrats behavior. And he also held a greatest esteem for the love of the human being. He believed that love was always more powerful than resentment.In his opinion, no matter the person was rich or poor, if his behavior agreed with morality, it should be prised. If not, then it should be criticized. Therefore Dikens firmly believed the contradiction could be solved by the great love of human being. Plot Summary:A Tale of Two Cities tells a story that takes places in the siciety before and during the French Revolution. The author, Dikens, portrays the cruel noble and the king, those who do not care the people at all, and enjoy all the benefits and joyful lives. Therefore, the people can not stand for the government’s incompetence, trying to overthrow the government and to control Paris. However, there are still love and forgiveness in such violent times. The hatred and the violencecan not solve and release the sadness. Only the love and forgiveness can overcome all the hardships.Main Characters:Dr. Manette—kind, upright, sympathetic and forgiveness.Ⅰ、“I am a doctor,my poor fellow…let me examine it”, “it was under his hand, and I soothed him to let me move his hand away, the wound was a swordthrust…”Ⅱ、After 18 years in the prison, although he hates the Marquis of Evremonde, but when he knows his daughter falls in lovewith Charles Darnay, he accepts Darnay.Lucie Manette--kind, beautiful ,considerable and just like an angel.Ⅰ、“I think, Charles, Poor Mr. Carton deserves more consideration and respect than you expressed for him, to-night.” Ⅱ、“I would ask you, deare st, to be very generous with him always and very lenient on his faults when he is not by.”Jarvis Lorry--kind,heartwarming but never showing offⅠ、Miss Manete said “when I was left an orphan through my mother’s surviving my father only two years, it was you who brought me to England.”“Miss Manete, it was I. And you will see how truly I spoke of myself just now, in saying I had no feelings, and that all the relations I hold with my fellow-creatures are mere business relations…”Sydney Carton-- Self-sacrificeⅠ、“Miss Manette, I ask for none; I am even thankful that it cannot be.”Ⅱ、“For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there was any opportunity or capacity of sacrifice in it, I would embrace anysacri fice for you and for those dear to you. ”Charles Darnay—descendant“Darnay’s willingness to atone for his family’s wrongs and to work for a living demonstration that eventually something good can come out of evil…”Theme :A Tale of Two Cities is essentially a tale of love ,sacrifice ,and, most importantly ,the resurrection. Dr.Manete, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton all desperate men leading catastrophic lives, make great sacrifices in order to attain true physical, spiritual, and societal resurrection for themselves and the ones they love.For me it’s hard to believe that people especially the main characters could struggle to be kind and would rather sacrifice themselves for the ones they love than being fraudulent to live better when they are in the background of the French Revolution. Dikens wrote humanity through the revolution’s angle. The book displayed the strong power of people and Dikens affirmed the justice and acquired that the revolution should be stopped appropriately.。
Book report of Ulysses
胡天娇2220071669 Book report of UlyssesThe book Ulysses is the most famous novel of Irish writer James Joyce. It is thought to be the first stream-of-consciousness novel and set the template of 1920’s novels. It ranks the first of one hundred best English novels.The writer James Joyce is a writer of great influence in 1920s. He was born in the capital city, Dublin of Ireland. During his lifetime, he stayed in Trieste, Rome and Pairs and made a living as a professor or a copywriter. He never gave up writing and finally became a great master. Ulysses is the magnum opus of his.Ulysses was written between 1914 and 1921. It was serialized in magazine called The Little Review. I was banned midway and was charged of obscenity. After the release of the book, it became famous. Seen from the surface, the novel Ulysses is obscure and massy. It described a day of Bloom and Stephen. Every hour is a chapter. There are totally eighteen chapters.It is said that the story has some relationship with Odyssey. As far as I concern, the story of Ulysses is a shortened Odyssey. Every chapter has some elements which appear in Odyssey. And some characters are reflecting those in Odyssey, such as the tree main characters. But the two stories are totally different. Odysseus is a hero, while Bloom is middle-age man who is anxious and depressed as a common citizen of Dublin without a decent job and a faithful wife. The story of Odysseus is a great adventure, while the day of Bloom is just a depressed wandering. Odysseus which is about ancient Greek is full of wisdom and energy. But Ulysses which belongs to modern society is imbued with the feeling of lost, worry, depression frustration. The world of 1920s is very different from others. It is an age with broken families, religious loss and sex. Ulysses just combined all these characters into one day and showed them by describing what appended on the main characters or seen by them.The structure and writing style of the novel is varied. Every chapter has it own character. In order to echo the mood and condition of Bloom or Stephen, Joyce used corresponding tone and writing style, such as in chapter ten, he used rhythmic tone to reflect the sense of music to coincide with the chapter in Odysseus. And he used obscure style in chapter sixteen to show the tiredness and beaten. While in chapter seventeen, he used formalistic style to make a humorous effect.This novel shows a whole picture of 1920s, from the living style to the thinking habit. By following Bloom’s streams of mind, we get to know these characters. The novel is just reflecting a real day of a common person, so it’s hard to get a comprehensive understanding of what the author want to illustrate. Among all those point, there are four main points giving me strong impression. First is the theme of relationship between father and son. The main character Bloom had a son who diedunnaturally. Stephen’s father is an alcoholic. After his mother’s death, he ran away from his home to live with some friends. So from spiritual level, Bloom wanted a son to take care of. He lived in gloomy mood because of his son’s death, while Stephen needed a father to relay on. Though these two people are independent men, they had their lost part spiritual. So in the end of the novel, they find each other and gained a spiritual satisfaction. The second is the broken families which I believe is a character of modern societies. Such as Bloom, His father and son died which made him lonely and helpless, while his wife is unfaithful with dozens of lovers. To him, there is nearly no family life. His family love was self-deceiving and existed in name only. It is similar to Stephen whose mother died and father became an alcoholic. Even to Molly, she doesn’t have a proper family life, though she got happiness from her lovers. It seemed that all of them were wandering in the world. No wonder why Bloom is so gloomy and depressed. Another is that they have got rid of religion, so that they had no spiritual support. As we can see from the first chapter, Stephen refused to get down to his knees when his mother died, because he had given up his religion. Giving up their religion made them braver and more reasonable. Their spirit is freer. But it also made them feel lost, because they have no spiritual support if they have no strong will or live in a miserable condition. The last one is racial discrimination which is a common theme in large number of novels. In this novel, the author illustrated the discrimination of Jews in Ireland. We can find it not only from the fight between Bloom and the ruffian “citizen”but also other points. Joyce created the character Bloom a Hungarian Jew to indicate this theme. Bloom was sad for being a Jew to vagrant on Dublin’s road. He always thought for it and felt self-pity. Also through Bloom’s wife Molly we can also find it. Molly mentioned her mother and said her face is just like her mother’s Jewish face. From here we can see that Molly is a half-Jew. She didn’t want Bloom know it because she believe is a disgrace. And that is part of the reason why she chose Bloom to marry. By using Bloom’s mouth, the author said “Mendelssohn was a Jew and Karl Marx and Mercadante and Spinoza. And the Savior was a Jew and his father was a J ew. Your God.” He expressed the idea of national equality and praised Jews. From here we find, Bloom’s melancholy had another reason that is the race.Joyce’s change of writing style, tone and space made Ulysses a very distinctive novel. The technique of stream-of-consciousness made the story not a real story but a diary-like stuff. The change from reality to mind and consciousness, like X-ray, gave me a whole understanding of these characters. Though it is hard to grasp the main point of the novel and the purpose of the author, I feel that he is trying to make a common, boring day of some ordinary people philosophical and epic-like and show the condition of them in 1920s’ Dublin.。
Book Report of Madame Bovary(包法利夫人英文读书报告)
Madame BovaryMadame Bovary Madame Bovary(1856) is Gustave Flaubert's first published novel and is considered by many critics to be a masterpiece.When Charles is young, he is a shy, oddly dressed teenager. After he grew up, his mother chooses a wife for him, an unpleasant but supposedly rich widow,.One day, Charles visits a local farm to set the owner's broken leg, and meets his client's daughter, Emma Rouault. Emma is a beautiful, who has received a "good education" Charles is immediately attracted to her.When his wife dies, Emma and Charles are married. After he and Emma attend a ball, Emma grows disillusioned with married life and becomes dull and listless. Charles consequently decides that his wife needs a change of scenery, so they moved to the town, Yonville. Here, Emma gives birth to a daughter, Berthe. She then falls in love with one of the first intelligent young men she meets in Yonville, a young law student, Léon Dupuis. Emma hides her love for Léon and plays the role of the devoted wife and mother. Finally, in despair of ever gaining Emma's affection, Léon departs to study in Paris. One day, a rich and rakish landowner, Rodolphe Boulanger, casts his eye over Emma and decides she is ripe for seduction. But after making a plan to run away with him. Rodolphe ends the relationship with her. The shockis so great that Emma falls deathly ill, and briefly turns to religion. When Emma is nearly fully recovered, she re-encounters Léon in Rouen and developed a abnormal relationship with her. At last, Léon grows bored with Emma's emotional excesses, and Emma grows ambivalent about Léon. Emma purchases increasing amounts of luxury items on credit from the crafty merchant, Lheureux, who arranges for her to obtain power of attorney over Charles’ estate, and crushing levels of debts mount quickly.When Lheureux calls in Bovary's debt, Emma pleads for money from several people, including Léon and Rodolphe, only to be turned down. In despair, she swallows arsenic and dies an agonizing death; even the romance of suicide fails her. Charles, heartbroken, still loved her. When he by chance discovers Rodolphe and Léon's love letters, he still tries to understand and forgive. Soon after, he becomes reclusive; what has not already been sold of his possessions is seized to pay off Lheureux, and he dies, leaving his young daughter Berthe to live with distant relatives and she is eventually sent to work at a cotton mill.After reading the novel, I just show a great pity for Madame Bovary. Madame Bovary is a poor woman, who is eager for genuine love, I think. She can not deal with love affair and real life properly.Also, it occurred to me that much lust or desire can always ruin a man. Vain is a bad quality, especially for a woman. If you seek for much money or a luxurious life, you may lose yourself. At last, I want to say, men in that society is cruel. They treated women as pets, and did something only to satisfy their own desire.。
Book Report of THE LITTLE PRINCE
You are My Fairy TaleBook Report of The Little PrinceThe Little Prince made a stir on October owing to the new movie directed by Mark Osborne. Occasionally, on my twenty-two years’birthday, which just few days after seeing the movie, I received an English version from my good friend. As the 3rd most-translated book in the world, the novella has has only 86 pages. I finished reading in 3 hours after receiving.It is a poetic tale, with watercolor illustrations by the author, in which a pilot stranded in the desert meets a young prince fallen to Earth from a tiny asteroid. Honestly speaking, I focus on the beautiful words at first, while after reading the book twice(one in Chinese, in my senior high school;another in English), I pay more attention to the relation of our realistic life and the story between the lines. The narrator explains that, as a young boy, he once drew a picture of a boa constrictor with an elephant digesting in its stomach; however, every adult who saw the picture would mistakenly interpret it as a drawing of a hat. Whenever the narrator would try to correct this confusion, he was ultimately advised to set aside drawing and take up a more practical or mature hobby. The narrator laments the lack of creative understanding displayed by adults. Everyone is the tragic narrator. Just think it over, have you ever give up something you interested in merely because you failed to get the understanding you deserved? Frankly speaking, I have. So did the narrator. Understanding is the most significant key to unlock the door blocked between two people. Thus, when the prince, who having golden hair, a scarf, and a lovable laugh, interpreted the picture correctly, the narrator was shocked and delighted. Life is a journey, when we grow up through all kinds of roads, what have we lost? Curiosity? Creativity?The time we spend in specific person or thing contributes to a special relation and responsibility. The fox, whom the little prince met in desert, called the process "TAME". "You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."Once you decide to tame or to be tamed, you have to accept the sadness it brings. You spend more time then you hold a greater expectation, thus the risk youwill become depressed is higher. The rule can be employed in all aspect of life. The fox also mentioned another concept "RITE". The rite produces more happiness and extends the length and degree of it."For example,if you come at FOUR in the afternoon, I’ll begin to be happy by THREE...But if you come at any time,I’ll never know when I should prepare my heart...There must be rites." At the first time, I feel the importance of rite, which I always neglect and forget. It is rite that makes one day differ from the other days, a person deffer from the others. And the rite gives justifiable explanations for the meaning of observations.The book is called "a fairy book for adults". Only adults who are mentally mature can taste the insightful words correspondingly relate to their bitter experience of growing up. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eyes." The book is my retreat from struggles ——the confusions, frustration, depression and dilemmas that any adult might be confronted with.。
Book Report of Treasure Island
Book Report of Treasure IslandTreasure Island was written by Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, a novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1850 and died in 1894, only in hi s forties. Stevenson, unlike his father and grandfather, both the famous civil engineers, had eyes only for literature. Although he became a lawyer as the compromise of being an engineer and a writer, according to his fathers’ will, he never reduced his passion of literature and finally achieved his dream. Despite of h is poor health, he created a great number of literary works, including essays、travel notes、novels and poetries. And Treasure Island was one of his most famous works. Besides, in his times, the V ictorian times, there were two popular types of novel,the one dealing with the theme of the navy yarn which places a capable officer in an adventurous situation within a realistic setting and historical events, another one that deal thematically with the desert island romance. The latter one influenced Stevenson’ works most, typically showed in Treasure Island.Treasure Island narrates the unusual sea adventure of a young boy called Jim Hawkins, with his friends, Dr Liversey, squire Trelawney and Captain Smollett. Everything begins when a strange seafaring man, named Sea Dog, lives into Admiral Benbow Inn kept by Jim’ parents. During Sea Dog’living in the inn, Jim is paid a slivery fourpenny per month for keeping his eyes open for a seafaring man with one leg. However, few months later, Sea Dog is killed by Black Dog as well as brings danger to Jim’s village. After the death of Jim’s father and the escape of all villagers, Jim and his mother take a risk to go back the inn and dig for Sea Dog’ sea chest in the purpose of gain back the debate owned by him. And they narrowly come back with a chart in hand. Then, Jim and his friends start their way to Treasure Island.During their voyage, Jim overheards the conspiracy, planned by John Sliver, the one-leg cook trusted、admired and loved by everyone in the ship, especially Jim, that he and his confederates are going to kill others after gaining the treasure. Knowing the truth, Jim and his friends fight with them beneath darkness until reach the island. Jim and his friends together with some hands much less than John’s, try their best to get into the stockade left in the island with some supplies ,battling with enemies. Feeling bored, Jim slips away from the stockade and starts his own adventure. He sneaks into the sailing ship which is guarded only by two seamen and kills one alive after they have a battle, hiding it in a bay, which becomes the key to their successful return later. Startlingly, the stockade is occupied by John and Jim himself finds his way into it. In order to smooth the hands’ indignation of poor situation with no treasure and keep his own life, John saves Jim and all set off for the treasure. With the courage and wisdom of Jim’s camp, they triumph in the battle with these pirates and return full loaded with treasure in the ship hidden by Jim.The plot of this novel is excellent. As the plot in front and behind have close connection with each other and keeps we readers in suspense. When the Sea Dog appears, we are wondering that who is he and why he is afraid of the one leg seaman, that who is Black Dog and what is he looking for. Only we continue to read, can we know that there is chat for treasure. What’s more, we still yearn for the following story, wanting to know whether they get the treasure or not. Thus, the plot crucially attracts the readers. Meanwhile, the characters of the figure in the novel are vivid and realistic. Just like the young hero, Jim, bold and smart as he is, he has the demerits of real person, juveniles’ actually. During the battle with John’s camp filled with blood and wonder as well as smell and heat added by the weather, Jim is sick and bored of all these things and thinks childishly what if he can get out of there, and he do what he thinks, knowing he will disappoint his companions. As “…, with my clothes stuckto the hot resin, and so much blood about me, and so many poor dead bodies lying all around, that I took a disgust of the place that was almost as strong as fear.” The contradiction buried in Jim’s body makes him alive and gleaming. And Long John who is depicted as a kind、polite、bright cook at first, turns out to be a false、greedy、ruthless pirate, which impresses us most. The hardest thing to depict this kind person is how to make readers feel startled when knowing the truth.Furthermore, the written language of the novel is powerful and vivid. We can enjoy the process of reading, excited and expectant. The novel is rich in beautiful and lifelike description for environment and minute description for figures. For example, “The rocks of the Spy-glass re-echoed it a score of times; the whole troop of marsh-birds rose again, darkening heaven, with a simultaneous whirr; and long after that death-yell was still ringing in my brain, silence had re-established its empire, and only the rustle of the redescending birds and the boom of the distant surges disturbed the languor of the afternoon.”It combines the hero’s feelings with the environment and uses rhetoric, like personification, and makes us involved in the environment. And “…, his sea chest following behind him in a hand barrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and the saber-cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.” It tells every details of the man, giving a light of the man’s possible job and character. What’s more, the varied sentence patterns and words add color to the language.Besides, from this novel, we can see what human nature is, greedy、cruel one and sincere、kind one. Although there are people who are really kindhearted, for instance, Dr Liversey, so many people run after treasure, sacrifice everything they can, only ending in death. They betray friends and companions with no sham, kill people with no guilty, seize treasure with full greedy heart. What do they get? Not a single thing, comparing with Jim’s camp. Stevenson uses this contract and tries to tell us what the really valuable thing is. That is the friendship and a kind heart rather than treasure. We can never indulge in pursuing money stuff.All in all, reading this novel, we can enjoy the attractive plot and language while learn the meaningful thing in our life, knowing what should be done and what shouldn’t.。
Book Report of Business in American
Book Report of Business in AmericanPresident Coolidge's statement, "The business of America is business," still points to an important truth today- that business institutions have more prestige in American society than any other kind of organizations, including the government. Why do business institutions possess this great prestige?One reason is that Americans view business as being more firmly based on the ideal of competition than other institutions in society. Since most Americans see competition as the major source of progress and prosperity, competitive business institutions are respected. Competition is not only good in itself, it is the means by which other basic American values such as individual freedom, equality of opportunity, and hard work are protected.Competition protects the freedom of the individual by ensuring that there is no monopoly of power. In contrast to one, all-powerful government, many businesses compete against each other for profits. Theoretically, if one business tries to take unfair advantage of its customers, it will lose to competing business which treats its customers more fairly. Where many businesses compete for the customers' dollar, they cannot afford to treat them like inferiors or slaves.Competition in business is also believed to strengthen the idea of equality of opportunity. Competition is seen as an open and fair race where success goes to the swiftest person regardless of his or her social class background. Competitive success is commonly seen as the American alternative to social rank based on family background. Business is therefore viewed as an expression of the idea of equality of opportunity rather than the aristocratic idea of inherited privilege.。
BookReportofAnimalFarm动物庄园读后感
B o o k R e p o r t o f A n i m a l F a r m Animal farm is the first book I choose to read among the list of BBC Top 100 Novels. The book has aroused strong reaction and became famous since the date it was published. It reveals human reality by telling animals’ story in funny but extremely ironic way.The story begins with a meeting held in one night by the animals in farm. Because of the great dissatisfaction of their owner, animals decide to have a revolution, chasing away the farmers and realize the equality among animals. They make definitions about “friends” and “enemy”, elect the leader- an old pig, who died soon after the meeting and is taken place by two other pigs named “Snowball” and “Napoleon”, and enacted Seven Commandments. The days at the beginning are harmonious. But soon there’s a split between two leaders- Snowball is declared enemy of the revolution. What’s worse, leader pigs abuse their powers and gain benefits for themselves, becoming exploiters as human.It seems ridiculous for animals to have a revolution and for pigs to govern the farm. But when we put it into human’s society, the story makes sense. In fact it reflects on the revolution happened in Soviet in 20th century. Animalism is similar to Socialism, which emphasizes equality a lot, but actually inequality at all. Extreme equality is tend to get into an embarrassing situation like “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Napoleon is also the reflection of Soviet’s leader Si Dalin, who was famous for his arbitrariness and toughness in the history and expelled Trotsky (Snowball reflects on Trotsky).The revolution of animals is based on being treated unfairly by human. Because their enthusiasm and hatred, they success at the beginning. However, they do not know how to remain a steady regime. The key of keeping a regime is to set restrictions to the power. In other words, to legislate. The responsibility and rights of both government and citizens should be showed obviously in the law.Another opinion I have learnt from the book is that, we ought to be tough when tracing our goals. And we shouldn’t give up to our desires. In the book, in the end pigs become something very like human who they were against at first. And in reality, if we don’t keep a clear mind to control our desires and remember what kind of people we want to be, we will be lost and become people that we used to hate.To make a conclusion, George Orwell makes the reveal of politics and humanity in a vivid and simple story, from which readers think much about the history and society.。
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BOOK REPORT OF<THE GREAT GA TABY>5034029007 杨玲I have already read this novel for three times ,each time I found some more ideas . But in fact until now,I have not understood the author ’s meaning totally . This book ’s language is not difficult ,but what the author really intent to tell us is difficult to comprehend.Now ,I only write something about what I have learned from the novel.Mainly it is the story of Jay Gatsby, told by Gatsby's friend and neighbor, Nick Carraway, a bonds salesman in New York. Three other important characters are Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, and Myrtle Wilson. Nick is distantly related to Daisy, whose wealthy husband, Tom, went to college with Nick. Myrtle is married to a mechanic but is sleeping with Tom.After searching for the background of this novel ,I know it is about many things that have to do with American life in the "Roaring Twenties," things such as the abuse of alcohol and the pursuit of other pleasures, including that elusive entity, the "American dream." Much has been made of Fitzerald's relation to his characters. Many of the characters in his novels are based on people from his life. Within the characters of Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby we can see the dueling parts of Fitzgerald's own personality. Gatsby and Fitzgerald are alike by both being self-made men who have achieved financial success. Similarly, they both achieved their financial success for the love of a woman. Gatsby felt that he needed wealth to win the hand of Daisy, and Fitzgerald felt the same about Zelda. The love of a woman was the motivating factor behind virtually all of Gatsby's actions, and many of the young Fitzgerald's. Fitzgerald would spend the majority of his career struggling to earn as much money as possible to maintain the privelaged lifestyle that Zelda desired.From this novel ,we can know that in the Gatsby ’s period ,is filled with extravagancy, vacuity. money can buy them love, friends, and happiness. Gatsby tries to buy Daisy's love throughout the book. In the first part of the book Gatsby holds a number of large parties, hoping Daisy will come to one of them so he can pursue her. Unsuccessful, he manipulates Nick into arranging a meeting between himself and Daisy. Nick has Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby to tea. Subsequently, Gatsby invites them to go for a ride with him. Thereafter, Gatsby tries to drive a wedge between Daisy and Tom, but though she claims to love him, her love is as superficial as the image Gatsby has created with his money. Money itself is neither moral nor immoral, but the use Gatsby puts money to involves moral issues about marriage that go far beyond the mere fact that he is rich and uses his money to gain want he wants.Gatsby also tries unsuccessfully to win friends through his parties. Gatsby is lonely and he tries to fill his loneliness with his parties. In effect, he tries to buy friends with his lavish entertaining. And, although his parties are successful in the number of guests (invited and uninvited) and in their apparent enjoyment of the parties, Gatsby makes no significant friends through these entertainments. Instead, people speculate as to how Gatsby got his money and as to whether or not he is a killer. Indeed, he has got his money illegally--through bootlegging and other immoral ways. And the novel suggests that partly because of this fact Gatsby comes to grief. Though Nick, referring to Daisy, Tom and their friends, tells Gatsby, "'They're a rotten crowd,' . . . . 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together'" (154), he also disapproves of Gatsby and has done so "from beginning to end" (154).Both Tom and Gatsby believe that ,money can buy happiness.But neither of these two persons gain any happiness from money .His affair with Myrtle suggests he is trying to fill theemptiness in his life with something that will satisfy him spiritually, as well as physically. It does not. And after Myrtle is accidentally killed by Daisy in a car accident, Tom immorally initiates a chain of events that end in Gatsby's murder. None of these characters is happy because of his or her wealth, even though those who survive retain their positions in society.In my opinion,Love, friends, happiness--none of these can be bought permanently, but money can maintain one's place in a corrupt society.Next ,I want to mention is my impression of the three main heroes.Gatsby, on the other hand, is larger than life, a hopeless and hopeful "great romantic," who represents the worldly ambitions in all of us. He believes in seizing the "green light" and the dreams of youth, no matter what the cost. Then there is Nick, who insightfully describes both the careless cruelty of the Buchanans and the high-reaching dreams of Gatsby. He chronicles the events in an honest, sometimes breathless fashion, then shovels them all into a pile - for the reader to sort out.You can not judge one character in this novel by good or bad man ,The whole story is happened in that certain period of time .Is Gatsby really a great man ? I don’t think so .He is only a tragic person ,who can only be controlled by the hand of life .。