英文三国演义读后感

“Then Sun Ch‟uan asked Lü Meng, saying, …If he fly to a distance, how can he be captured?‟ …The divination exactly fits in with my schemes,‟ replied he, …and though Kuan had wings to soar to the skies he would not escape my net.‟” I‟m reading in my living room on a comfortable rocking chair with my feet on a little footrest. I can smell the pages of the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms; they have that nice “old book” smell like dried-out leaves in autumn. I‟m reading about a chaotic time in Ch ina, and numerous characters and events, but I can find myself only thinking about Kuan Yu, the man that Sun Ch‟uan and Lü Meng are plotting against. The great and invincible Kuan Yu, with his hundred-pound halberd and his long flowing beard, giving him the nick-name “Kuan Yu of the beard.” This is the end of the chapter, so I close the book and put it on the ledge next to me. I slouch down in my rocking chair, knowing full well that these two imps could never defeat the great Kuan Yu.

After slouching comfortably for a minute or two I get up to walk around, and take some pacing steps around my living room. The warm carpet feels nice and relaxing on my socked-feet. I‟m not pacing in anxiety or anything, just getting the blood flowing again. I‟ve been in that chair reading for about an hour now and just felt like moving. I can hear the soothing sounds of the rain hitting the roof. I feel secure in this room. The room has this nice warm lighting, where it‟s not too bright, nor too dark; that‟s why I always do m y reading in this room. “Maybe,” I think, “I‟ll just read another chapter before going to bed.” I stretch my chest, and feel a nice, light pulling in the front of my shoulders.

I return to the chair and ease into it, putting my feet back on the little footrest.

I pick the book back up from the ledge, open it up and smell that sweet autumn fragrance emanating and lingering. “When Kuan Yu mustered his fighting men in the city, he had but three hundred, all told.” I let out a little chuckle. These would seem like dire straits to anyone who was not familiar with the hardships that the great Kuan Yu has overcome in his lifetime. This is the man that road out of a kingdom alone and had to slay six officers in order to escape. This is the man that knowingly went to a banquet designed to assassinate him, and walked out unscathed holding the host in the air. His enemies, the country of Wu, is led by Sun Ch‟uan and his adviser Lü Meng. They have devised a ploy to make Kuan Yu‟s entire troop defect to Wu.

Their plans are working out fine for them, but I‟m still comfortable in my chair knowing that Kuan Yu is worth a thousand soldiers. However, to hold a city you‟ll need more men and resources than they have. They decide to retreat by a certain path leading out of the c astle. “Wang Fu opposed it, pointing out that they would surely fall into an ambush. The main road would be safer. …There may be an ambush, but do I fear that?‟ said the old