Plot, the Important Elements of a Story

As far as I am concerned, the book The Woman in White is worthy of reading twice. It’s an interesting story. And what touched me most is the attractive plot. After finishing this book, I realize that the plot is one of the essential elements for a book to be a best seller.

While I was reading The Women in White, I always guessed what would happen next, and I always failed to make the right conjecture. But it didn’t make me depressed. Instead of being dismayed, I became more and more interested in the book. In my opinion, a fascinating book has to keep its mystery from the first beginning to the end. And the readers never know what will happen next so that they will keep on their readings.

For the book The Woman in White, when I first saw Percival Glyde, the baronet, Laura’s fiancé, I regarded him as a respective, smart, humorous gentleman. I fell in love with the characters at the first sight. I looked forward to his wedding with Laura, and I thought they will have a happy ending. But in the next page of the book, it showed that Mr. Percival was a bad guy. There were much evidence which are relevant to his crime so that I gradually accept the idea that Mr. Percival was involved in some guilty job, but again, it seemed that he was innocent and he was a good man. In order to find out the real character of Percival Glyde, I kept on reading and reading, and I

couldn’t move my eyes from the book until I reach the exactly result.

Take Ann Cathreric, the woman in white, as another example. Ann was in white from the head to feet when she first appeared in the book, and she always dressed herself like that. Because of the book’s title—The Woman in White—I thought that, with no doubt, Ann was the heroine of the book. So I put much attention to her description. But as I moved my eyes from sentence to sentence, I gradually found that Ann isn’t the heroine. Then I was curious about the real heroine, and I looked forward to her debut. By the way, Ann took an important role in the story, anyway. And at the first sight of Ann’s description, I thought she was a pitiful woman who had suffered a lot of misery. I began to guess what had happened to the poor woman and I was in expectation of the author’s explanation of Ann’s bitter fate. But then I knew that Ann escaped form an asylum, and there’s no doubt that she has some medical problem. More or less, I lost my interest in Ann. when I read further, I found that she was lock in the asylum by baronet Percival because Ann knew his crime, and he was afraid that she would let his secrete out of the back. Again, I am curious about Ann’s experiences, and wanted to figure out what happened to her. In the end, it turned out that Ann isn’t a lunatic. But finally, the poor woman died.

In the process of reading, I am usually in confusion and in order to find out the truth, I have to continue my reading. So I think a successful book

should be a mysterious book, and you can’t know the result until you put your eyes onto the last sentence.

Think about that, there are two books—book A and book B. For book A, you can guess the ending of the story when you finish the first several chapters. While for book B, you can’t know the exactly ending until you finish the whole book. Then which book would you like? Book B is the better choice, definitely.

班级：09级英语师范5班 姓名：钟艳莉

学号：222009310011123

第二篇：《女人是一种态度》读后感

读《女人是一种态度》心得体会

张亚芹

假期快结束时偶然从我女儿那里看到《女人是一种态度》这本书，看了几页觉得挺好，三天就看完了，这本书是中央电视台国际中文频道的资深新闻主播徐俐的第一部个人随笔，全书共分“我的职场风云”、“我的爱情婚姻观”、“我的美丽心得”、“我的儿女亲情”四部分，从不同的层面，以富有质感和表现力的文字，表达了丰富的人生经历和由此产生的生命感悟。而正如书名所表述的：女人是一种态度，一个成功的职业女性的魅力人生，更是具有榜样的力量，读来时有会心之感。

在徐俐的《女人是一种态度》中说过淑女要具备的品质，首先是善良，为他人着想，慷慨，愿与他人分享；从来不伤害别人，也不会为达目的不择手段；正直，聪明，不傲慢，有好的教养，象对待自己一样真心对待别人。在我看来她就是一位真正的中国淑女。

好像是约定俗称的看法：漂亮的女人不会聪明，聪明了必然不幸，碰巧幸福的一定资质平平。可是徐俐打破了所有的魔咒。她写书转山过自己的日子，精致美好从容满足，这一切洋溢在她的眉梢眼角字里行间。读她的书吧，她的事业生活爱情也许无法复制，可至少给期待盼望着的人以希望。书中有很多好段，我只摘录了两段。

对于女人，人们有无数种评价的标准，对我而言，无论是自己还是别人，更多的还是判断她的态度，对自己、对他人、对世界的态度。女人如何对待他人，实际是在塑造自己。女人是一种态度。

寻找对等的匹配，不要寄希望于道德感的约束，我尤其主张女性在寻找婚姻匹配的时候，能找到和对方平等的最大公约数，这是自己给自己购买的最安全的保险。我们确实不能寄希望于别人。你要不漂亮，你就别要求对方太漂亮；你要没钱，也别要求对方太有钱，否则凭什么呀。除非你能找到可以与之换算的东西。

最后把书中几句话送给不同年龄的姐妹们，二十岁活青春，三十岁活韵味，四十岁活智慧，五十岁活坦然，六十岁活轻松，七十岁就成无价之宝。