英语读书笔记

the Reports of English

I. Introduction

Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man. We got a lot of fun from reading. Reading could not only enrich our minds but also entertain the souls.

In the short term, by reading the short stories of the famous worldwide writers like Ernest Hemingway, Edgar, Allan Poe, Mark twain, I got a better understanding about them.

ments on the Stories

Simple words and common stories feature largely in the novels of Ernest Hemingway. But it is not difficult to find that, only by pondering could we uncover the truth hidden by the appearance of the brief words. For example, A Clean Well -Lighted Place, in this story there are no complicated words, no magnificent sentences and even no attracting plots. But it was the simple story reveals the nada of life. An old man, who wants to drive away the loneliness, always drinks in the bar. Two waiters, one is young and newly married, hurried to go home every night. The other one, who is older, along could feel sympathy and understand the old man. The depressing and gloomy setting, the vivid characters and the arrangement of the plot even the refined words make the theme clearly .People would like to get rid of the nada of life. They need communication, they want understanding and they hate loneliness.

While Edgar Allan Poe who was well known for his short stories, wrote about seventy stories which fall into two categories: those of mystery and horror; and those of ratiocination, which might be said to have set the standard for the modern detective stories. The Tell Tale Heart, one of Edgar Allan Poe‟s most famous short stories, is a psychological portrait of a mad narrator who kills a man and aferterward hears his victim‟s relentless heartbeat.

At the very beginning, the plot of the story: “True! Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and I am.” Attracts the reader‟s heart and fixes our eyes on the next plots. The narrator told us such a story that is how a guy planned and killed an old man but finally ,he was defeated by himself .In the whole story, a large number of psychological description created a terroristic atmosphere .The weird and exciting content shocked us again but the beautiful words feast our eyes.

However Mark Twain is an outstanding humorist and satirist. H wrote many volumes during his long life time .In his later years ,he began to focus on human greed ,cruelty and questioned the humanity of the human race ,one of his most famous stories “Is He Living or Dead‟‟ include several obvious themes .First , the riches are cold and detached and crazy about the luxury. Second, the relationship between the sacrifice and rewards. Third, the great importance of the medium‟s function. The whole passage developed around the three themes which acted the important clues. Finally, it reflected Mark Twain‟s humorous and ironic writing style.

Young Goodman Brown was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne who was an