Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was born in 1812, in Portsmouth, England. When he was a child, his family was very poor. Although Charles Dickens attended school for a time, his formal education was cut short. It was his mother who taught him to read and helped him develop a deep love of books. Eventually, he became the best-known characters in English literature. Charles Dickens wrote twenty novels, some of them are famous worldwide, for instance, five ‘Christmas book’ and Oliver Twist.
Oliver Twist is the name of a young child whose mother dies giving birth to him and he is brought up in a workhouse, always hungry and cruelly treaded. After working for a time for an undertaker, Oliver runs away to London where he meets a young thief, the Artful Dodger, and his friends. The band of pickpockets works for and lives with the evil Fagin, who welcomes Oliver to his home. When Oliver realizes what the boys are doing, he tries to escape. Fagin hires Bill Sikes, a violent criminal, to get the boy back again, but Oliver has made new friends who want to protect him. The struggle between these friends and the evil man who want to silence Oliver becomes an exciting and dramatic adventure.
Oliver Twist is the first foreign novel which appeals to me most, and also it is the first book which I am eager to know the end. I am not interested in it until I read to Page 80. At first, I think this is a tragedy: Oliver Twist may die. However, Charles Dickens makes a good finale: Mr. Brownlow unveils Charles Dickens’s identification, a son of his brother-in-low. Oliver owes a lot of money and lives with his kind-hearted friends who have helped him when he got into trouble. Besides, justice has been done: the evils are died. The end of this story is beyond my expectation but seems reasonable.
Like many other works of Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist reflects life in mid nineteenth century very well. Charles Dickens displays a great understanding of human nature, a strong sympathy for young people and a keen for people and places. His works are full of passion and he expresses his virtual ideals in them. When writing Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens employs characteristical language the words said by thieves and prostitutes are fit for their status. In addition, Dickens uses his sympathetic imagination in this book. He describes a thing, a person or even an action in details. For instance, when Fagin is waiting to be sentenced, he watched at the ceiling to the floor, he can imagine all the eyes are fixed on him. And he even notices somebody in the crowd eating and a young painter painting him. By describing things in details, Dickens portrayed characters vividly.
Words
apprentice n.学徒，徒工 vt. （常与to 连用）使做学徒
dodger n.躲避者, 逃避者 draft dodger 逃避兵役的人
contemptuous adj. 傲慢的，轻蔑的
sausage n. 香肠，肉肠
miser n. 吝啬鬼；守财奴；（石油工程上用的）凿井机
Sentences
1. She caught Oliver’s hand and, blowing out the candle, pulled him behind her up the stairs.
The door was opened quickly by someone unseen in the darkness, and was quickly closed when they had passed out.
2. The words no sooner escaped her lips than Mr. Brownlow, who had been reading a large book
that lay on the table, upside it with a great crash and, falling back in his chair, gave a cry of great wonder.
3. The weather was unpleasantly cold, and a sharp wind was blowing.
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
(Book Report)
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. All of which circumscribe her life and position when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious, sardonic and attractive Mr Rochester.
However, there is great kindness and warmth in this epic love story, which is set against the magnificent backdrop of the Yorkshire moors. This book, Jane Eyre, tell us that Jane?s life is filled with pains and suffering until the time of youth, but lastly she herself wins truly love. Jane?s father is a poor reverend. Unfortunately, her parents passed away when she was just a very young girl. Jane is sent to her aunt?s home, at the hands of her rich aunt and cousins, she suffers a childhood with no respect and dignity, as “a position even lower than the servants” is described in the book. Later, Jane is sent to Lowood School to receive education. Although her life was even harder and more miserable, she found love and care from Helen Burns and Miss Temple. Jane, as an orphan, suffered all kinds of obloquy and ignominy, and then she turn into a girl of self-help, self-respect and self-assurance. After she graduated, she stays on the school as a teacher, and only two years she leaves the school, due to its solitude and apartness, and then finds a work as a private governess in Thornfield. Jane becomes free and independent, just as spring has come into her life. Jane not only finds respect, love, friends and money, but also develops a strong relationship with the cold and bad-tempered master, Mr. Rochester. They fell in love with each other. Like a flower, their love starts to bloom. Shortly, they decide to get married. On the day of the wedding, Jane finds out that Mr. Rochester has a wife, a mad woman, living on the top of the tower, who makes weird laughter at night. She decides to leave him although he desperately begs her to stay. 《简爱》被列为最伟大、最受欢迎的英语小说作品不断。虽然贫穷但勇敢的女主人公是外在面貌质朴,她有一种顽强的精神,一把锋利的机智和极大的勇气。她不得不对抗一个残暴的监护人本人因公常到海外出差,严厉的用人单位与严酷的社会秩序。所有这些限制她的生活,她成为家庭位置时的女儿神秘而迷人的罗切斯特先生了。
然而,有极大的慈爱和温暖在史诗般的爱情故事,这是反对华丽的背景中约克郡荒野上。这本书,《简爱》,告诉我们,简的生活中充满痛苦和痛苦,直到时间的年轻人,但是最后她赢得真正的爱。简的父亲是一个可怜的牧师,不幸的是,她的父母去世时,还只是一个非常年轻的女孩。简·爱被送到姑姑家,在她的手中有钱阿姨和堂兄妹,她遭受童年和不尊重和尊严,作为“一个位置甚至低于的仆人”进行了这本书。后来,简·爱被送到罗沃德学校接受教育。虽然她的生活是再接再励,更悲惨,她发现爱和关怀来源于海伦烧伤和坦普尔小姐。简,作为一个孤儿,受到各种obloquy和耻辱,然后她变成一个女孩的自助、自尊和自信。在她毕业之后,她呆在学校作为一个教师,只有两年,她离开了学校,因为它的孤独和apartness,然后找到一个工作是一个私人家庭教师在桑菲尔德了。简成为自由和独立,就像春天已经进入她的生活。
简不仅发现尊重、爱、朋友和金钱,同时发展一个强大的关系与冷,脾气都很坏的主人,罗切斯特先生。他们爱上了对方。像一朵鲜花,他们的爱开始开花。不久,他们决定结婚。在当天的婚礼,简发现罗切斯特先生哈哈
For me, the nature of goodness is one of the most necessary character for a person. Goodness is to humans what water is to fish. He who is without goodness is an utterly worthless person. On the contrary, as the famous saying goes, ?The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose?, he who is with goodness undoubtedly is a happy and useful person. People receiving his help are grateful to him and he also gets gratified from what he has done, and thus he can do good to both the people he has helped and himself.
To my disappointment, nowadays some people seem to doubt the existence of the goodness in humanity. They look down on people?s honesty and kindness, thinking it foolish of people to be warm-hearted. As a result, they show no sympathy to those who are in trouble and seldom offer to help others. On the other hand, they attach importance to money and benefit. In their opinion, money is the only real object while emotions and morality are nihility. If they cannot get profit from showing their ?kindness?, they draw back when others are faced with trouble and even hit a man when he is down. They are one of the sorts that I really detest.
Francis Bacon said in his essay, ?Goodness, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is the greatest, being the character of the Deity, and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.? That is to say a person without goodness is destined to lose everything. Therefore, I, a kind person, want to tell those ?vermin-to-be? to learn from the kind Oliver and regain the nature of goodness.
对我来说,处于善性的品德是其中一个最必要的个性的一个人。善良是人类就像鱼儿离不开水一样。他是一个谁是没有善尽毫无价值的人。相反,正如著名的谚语所说,“香味的手总是待在给玫瑰”,他与善良无疑是一种快乐和有用的人。收到他的帮助是感恩的人,他也得称心的从他所做的,他做的好事,因此两人,他帮助和他自己。
令我失望的是,如今,一些人似乎怀疑中善良的存在的人性。他们瞧不起人的诚实善良,思维是很愚蠢的民众的热心。作为一个结果,这些数据并未显示出同情那些身处困境的人,很少提供帮助别人。另一方面,他们重视金钱和利益。他们认为,钱是唯一真正的对象,而同时情感和道德是虚无。如果他们无法获利显示了他们的爱心”,就退后了,当别人面临麻烦,甚至落井下石。他们是种类,以致于我真的讨厌。
弗朗西斯·培根在文章中说:“良善,所有的美德与尊严的头脑,是最大的,是神的性格,没有它,人是一个忙,调皮,可怜的东西,没有比一种害虫。“这就是说一个人没有良善是注定要失去一切。因此,我,一个善良的人,想告诉那些“vermin-to-be的学习和恢复类奥利弗处于善性的品德。