英文电影赏析 当幸福来敲门 英文版

英文经典电影赏析
期末小论文
学期：2013-2014-1
专业：英语
年级：12 级
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人文与外国语学院英语系
Abstract
In our life，many factors can contribute to “happiness”. Among them, the dream and responsibility are the two very important things in The Pursuit of Happyness. One has a dream; he will have inexhaustible strength to fight for it. For Gardner, dream gives him hope---the hope of having a smiling face one day in the future. The hope gives him infinite driving forces to overcome the challenges in his life. Responsibility is the other factor. Family means everything for Gardner; even though his wife leaves him, his son or his responsibility for his son is one of the resources of his happiness.
Key words: happiness;dream;responsibility.
Contents
Abstract (i)
I. Introduction (1)
II. Dream and responsibility (2)
2.1 Dream ----one of the resources for happiness (2)
2.2 Responsibility----the other resource for happiness (5)
III. Conclusion (29)
The Pursuit of Happyness
I. Introduction
In 1981 San Francisco, Chris Gardner invested all his money in portable bone-density scanners which could make him, he thought, a big fortune. However, he could hardly sell one within a week, so his family was trapped in a poverty-stricken situation. Then Gardner’s wife couldn’t bear the bitter life anymore and went to New York. With the concerning of incapability of being a single mother, she agreed that their son, Christopher would remain with his father. While trying to sell one of the scanners in downtown, Gardner met Jay Thistle, a manager for Dean Witter and impressed by Gardner’s ability organizing the Rubik’s Cube during a short taxi ride. Chris found that he didn’t have enough money to pay the taxi driver when he was going to get off the taxi, so he escaped, resulting in the taxi driver chasing him into a subway station. In moment of fluster, Chris lost one of his bone scanners.
Then, because of the impression carved in Jay’s mind, Chris earned a chance to be an intern stockbroker. For all that Chris arrived at the office for interview in a unkempt and shabby dress, for he was arrested because of the previously unpaid parking tickets and before that he was painting the landlord’s house as some replacement of the rent, he was offered the internship. While his life was becoming better and better, he was informed that his bank account was garnished by the IRS for unpaid income taxes. Chris became broke and less than thirsty dollars was left in his bank account. As a result, Chris and his son were homeless and had to stay in a restroom at a subway station.
Hardship drove him to find the Glide Memorial United Methodist Church, which provided a homeless shelter for single mothers and their children. Thus, church’s owner
didn’t allow Gardner stay there and Chris would not agree to leave his son there. At last the owner told him another local church, which also provided shelter, but had limited space. Due to the limited rooms, Chris worked very hard in order to finish his work earlier to land a place in line. Several days later, Chris found the bone scanner that he lost in the subway station, and the machine was damaged, but Chris repaired it and sold it.
Knowing that the client contacts and profits was the only way to earn the one paid position, which twenty people were fighting for, Chris worked very hard and found some ways to make phone calls more efficiently. Regardless of all these difficulties, one day Chris was told that he won the coveted full-time position. He was so excited that he rushed to his son’s daycare and hugged him. At last, Chris became a very successful man and formed his multi-million dollars brokerage firm.
II. Dream and Responsibility.
2.1 Dream-one of the resources for happiness.
Wherever is the dream, there is the hope, driving force, or the persistence. When Chris saw the all the people on the street were so damn happy, he made up his mind that one day he would be as happy as the people on the street---his dream, even it was not worth mentioning.
For all that he couldn’t sell a scanner the whole day; for the “happiness” of his family, he still adhered to get up very early every morning to reach the potential buyers’offices before them in order to have a chance to sell his scanners. After his wife went to New York, and he got nowhere to go, he still persisted in working hard. In order to save money, they had to rent a very remote place; as a result, they had to cross the whole city by bus to get home, but he told his son that one day we would be able to have a happy life. Life was tough, but he told his son that:” you have a dream, you got to protect it.” When he got a job as an intern stockbroker without salary during the internship, and he had to be at the risk of being eliminated because only one of the twenty people could get the job, he took the chance for the hope of future happiness. Because of not receiving the rent, the landlord got Chris’ things out of house. Once more he had nowhere to go. Then, Chris went to the subway station with his son, sitting on the bench, facing each other in silence, and later playing a game that was not fun at all: at last, they stayed at a restroom for a night and when a guy knocked the door of the restroom, Chris sobbed, for he had no courage to let people know he and his son slept at a restroom for a night. However, the next morning, he went to work regularly and picked up his son on time and then queued before the church. In order to be employed by the company, he ate with book, slept with book, and when there was no light for him to read book at night, he got up very early to read book by the faint morning sunshine.
It was his dream that gave him the strong persistence to never give up and it was the persistence that gave him the strength to struggle for his future happiness
2.1 Responsibility-the other resource for happiness.
When Chris knew that his wife was going to leave him with taking his son, he begged her leave their little son with him because he promised his son that he would never leave him and he thought that it’s his responsibility to take care his son even though he could hardly earn his own bread. When
his son felt depressed on account of not having gift in basketball, Chris told his son that: “you want something; go get it. People can’t do something by themselves, and they want to tell you that you cannot do it, so don’t let anyone tell you can’t do something, not even me.” When he realized that his son wasn’t educated well in the daycare, he tried his best to negotiate with the owner as he wanted to have a good upbringing for his son, though he didn’t succeed. When they entered a church, which only received single mothers and their children, the owner promised to provide a room for his son and Chris had to find other place to leave, but Chris refused for he couldn’t let his son alone. During the internship, despite the fact that he was rather tired after whole day’s work, he spared on efforts to take after his son, picking up him, feeding him, bathing him, and coaxing him to sleep. When they were not to have a single penny left on, in order to not let his son suffer the hunger, Chris sold his blood to make some bread. When Chris stayed at the station homelessly with his son, for drawing his son’s attention away from the predicament, he lied to his son that the scanner was a time machine and then played the game that they thought it was interesting while in sooth it was very boring. When Christopher asked him whether mom left because of him, Chris told him strongly that mom left because of mom, and there was nothing to do with him.
Responsibility was a meaningful word at that time. Responsibility meant Chris never let his son feel alone, inferior, or self-condemned; responsibility meant that Chris tried his best to provide a better life, a better future for his son; responsibility meant that however tired Chris was, he could still took his son carefully. Without responsibility for his son, I suppose, Chris would never feel happy.
III. Conclusion.
To gain happiness is very difficult, because we don’t know where we should begin to pursuit it. However, to gain happiness is also very simple---do what you should do. You have a dream; go get it and protect it, and then undertake responsibility that belongs to you.。