英语小说读后感---A Rose for Emily

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《献给爱米丽的一朵玫瑰花》A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner "A Rose for Emily" is a short story by American author William Faulkner first published in the April 30, 1930 issue of Forum. This story takes place in Faulkner's fictional cit

A Rose for Emily——Rousing Our Sorrowful Emotion for Emily

--------Response to A Rose for Emily

After finishing reading this thought-provoking novel, several questions occurring to my mind, for example why does she chose to ruin her own life in the almost sealing house, I just feel sad for the poor Emily from my heart because she could have a brilliant and sunny, happy and merry, enviable and enjoyable life with her family members. However, the bilateral influences of both his father’s education and her compensations about the attitude to the world outsides totally destroy her life and the life of some innocent persons. What we could do is just rousing our sorrowful emotion for the unbelievable Emily. Thinking over this tragedy carefully, it is of no difficulty for us to realize on point that our sorrowful emotion is deserved to Emily in origin and that her life is inevitably unfortunate because of her continual fear for the outside world and her persistent opinion of in-house being safe.

Her death is not the end of the event, not the end of reader’s thinking. At the end of the story, the narrator mentions the body of Homer Barron in Emily’s house, which gives explanation to all puzzled scenes arranged above, such as Emily buying the poison, she keeping in the house, her servant being mute and so on. All of things could be linked together as the beads are threaded in one line.

We should feel sorrow for the poor Emily when she struggles in the formal education in mental lonely. She has an aspiration for the common and normal life, not the life locked in the terrible house with the friend of loneliness, not the life discarded in the horrible house with the friend of tediousness, not the life littered in the abandon house with the friend of discrimination. She was just a soldier in her in visible war of two contradictory minds, one being out for the dreamy life and the other being in for the safe forever. The appearance of Homer Barron brings the expectation of the new, exciting, hopeful life to Emily. She did enjoy the life with Barron for a certain time as a result of her belief that her brilliant future depends on the Barron. These lead to the tragedy gradually. In my opinion, Emily is really innocent and how stupidly she gambles her future! If she wasn’t addicted in her lover with some rational sense, she will also come out from in-side to out-side and go on enjoy the beautiful life. Unluckily, she chooses

another road of her life when Barron plans to leave away.

We should rouse sorrow for the poor Emily when she chooses the wrong way to deal with difficulty with the originally in-side mind that is the winner of the mental war of In-side and Out-side. She turns back to the in-side minds that her father nurtures and even develops this in-side minds because of her irritation and disappointment of the out-side minds. In her eye of the little and innocent girl, the in-side mind is much better than the cheating out-side mind and the in-side mind is , in final, the most safe way to live, at least, there being no cheats in the only-one-existing world. She wants to take Barron in out-side into in-side, thus only by killing her lover can she bring him into the isolated world separated from the normal world. She keeps her secret keeping no trace of other any person, and making her servant mute. Her mind of safe-in –side makes her crazy and leads the abnormal life.

What happens to Emily is just rousing our sorrowful emotion for her, the poor woman

第二篇：英语小说读后感

The women in white

It is a story of greed and evil, innocence and betrayal, confused identities and cruel deceptions. It also contains love.WhenMr. Hart right and Miss Fairle were separated,they still missed each other much in their own minds and never give up this loyal love.In the end, the gained a happy ending. It reminded me of the things we once loved.Sometimes,we are eager about something,such as hobbies and dreams.We think we can keep it eternally in our mind but if always is impossible.We forget it without thinking when we put our thorough attention on others,such as study or career. At last,we lose too much love we once took possession of. They always are most beautiful things in our life.I do hope we can pay more attention to find and preserve this beauty.

In this novel, I especially admire Laura’s sister Marian. She is kind, calm and clever. Walter is a handsome and capable man, Marian and Laura spent 4 months learning drawing from Walter, I’m sure she loved Walter, but she was selfless and made all her efforts to help the couple be together. She isn’t a beautiful woman, but she is favored by the readers. William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist,playwright, and author of short stories. He was very popular during the Victorian era and wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, 14 plays, and more than 100 nonfiction essays. Collins was a lifelong friend of Charles Dickens. A

number of Collins's works were first published in Dickens's journals All the Year Round and Household Words. The two collaborated on several dramatic and fictional works, and some of Collins's plays were performed by Dickens's acting company. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.

The Invisible Man

The invisible man tells a story about a scientist called Griffin who theorized that people will be invisible with some scientific procedures. He succeeded, but could not become visible again. Instead of applying it to benefit mankind, Griffin tried to use it to control others and make evil gains. Consequently, he was killed by a crowd of people.

This story leads to me thinking about the advanced technology of present-day society. On the one hand, people over the world have profited enormously from the technology innovations and progressions, in terms of both efficiency and flexibility. On the other hand, the staggering advancement of technology is always accompanied by disturbing

phenomenon. In the fist place, technology may breed endless greedless. This is well illustrated with Griffin, who used technology as a tool to make a fortune,even conduct other evil behavior. In the second place, if a scientist does not have a sense of justice and responsibility, misuse will ensure. This scientist is just a case in point, he planed to begin a Reign of

Terror, using his invisibility to terrorize the nation with Kemp as his secret confederate.

In a word, this is both thought-provoking and interesting story.

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Hardy mainly reflects the main character’s tragically fate to illustrate the strong force and blind function of fate. Human beings can never escape from the puzzle and grief, which is manipulated by tragically fate. In the novel, Hardy’s main characters seem to be victims of a blind fate. Hardy’s pessimism is mainly portrayed by Character’s fate.

The failure of Henchard and Lucetta can be reflected Hardy’s view that human beings are never free enough to exert their own will on the universe.

Through reading the novel, the thing impressed me most is Hardy’s deep sympathies are reserved for those people who are unable to protect themselves against fate. Hardy does not see them as helpless victims. Indeed, there are frequent expressions of hope for the future. That is the real significance of Hardy’s pessimism.

Our life is full of difficulties, no one can escape from the destiny. We need the power that comes from our heart and soul to help us, and encourage us to fight against the fate. At the end, one point comes to my mind, “ we can lose everything, but not losing our hope.”

Jamaica Inn

After reading this book,I was touched deeply.Here is some aspects. Firstly,the inequality between the sexes, showing the hardship of women who are the victims. Mary Yellan is a victim from the very beginning of the novel. She is a victim of the event when her mother dies and she is forced to move to her only relative. Mary also becomes a victim at the hands of Joss Merlyn, who treats her roughly, cows her, and involves her as an unwilling witness to his murderous activities. Mary

s Aunt Patience is also a victim to the cruelty of her husband.

Secondly, loyalty and courage.As Aunt Patience is loyal to her husband, so Mary is loyal to her aunt. Mary has courage and strength of character which prevents her from running away from Jamaica Inn. She stays to protect her aunt from Joss Merlyn, and tells him on their first evening that if he ever hurts Patience she will set the law against him. This show of courage saves her from the bully.

In a word , I love this story , respect Mary’s courage and admire the author’s imagination and wisdom.

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Great Expectation

If we never posses anything, we will not mind we lost something. Since we don’t want to be very rich, we will not fell despond because poor. The title o this book is Great Expectation which make an impression on

us that the character would have great expectations just as the title goes. But in fact this title has a tone of sarcastic on the other way around. People always like to compare with their friend. If other people have a lot of money, we also want to be rich. If all the people around us are poor, we never mind that we are very poor, too.

I have learnt a lot from this novel. I believe the real gentlemen are not those who are rich, they should also be generous and kind. And, money may buy many things, but it can’t buy friendship and happiness. It is not worth gaining the money and social position at the cost of losing the precious things.

Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular. His main work including The pickwick papers, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectation and so on.