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关于组织参加20xx年全国英文读后感评选活动的通知
各区县教研室外语室：
北京外语教学与研究出版社拟举办20xx年全国英文读后感评选活动，旨在通过阅读“原汁原味”的英语读物，开阔视野，领略不同国家的优秀文化和风土人情，促进英语学习。为了丰富我市中学生英语学习生活，进一步培养和提升学生的英语学习兴趣，全面提高学生的英语听、说、读、写能力，探讨对中学生通过多种渠道发展性学习的指导途径，经市教研室研究决定组织我市中学生参加该项活动，由市教研室外语学科室负责具体实施工作。现将有关活动安排通知如下：
一、活动简介及参评对象
全国英文读后感评选活动由外语教学与研究出版社组织，其前身是“全国大中学生英文读后感大赛”，已连续举办七届。该活动以其服务学子成才的公益性，深受广大学生的喜爱，成为学生英语学习的“加油站”。该评选活动分初、高中组同时进行，凡参加并阅读指定读物的学生和英语学习爱好者均有资格报名参加，评选活动不收取报名费及其他费用。
二、组织机构及奖励办法
外语教学与研究出版社与市教研室共同组成天津分区组委会，具体负责本地区初级评选工作。各区县教研室外语组负责向本区县学校及教师介绍该项活动的相关事宜，并做好相应的宣传介绍及组织工作。外语教学与研究出版社向参评选手提供阅读书目（网上资源），邀请专家组织初级评审及终评工作，负责组织全国英语读后感总决赛，向获奖学生颁发各级证书、奖牌及奖品。
通过初级评审，本次活动将评出一、二、三等奖和优胜奖若干名（详见分区奖项设置），其中一、二、三等奖获得者将直接参加全国英语读后感总决赛，同时相关教师将获得优秀指导奖，相关学校及所属区县教研室将获得优秀组织奖，各级证书、奖牌及奖品均由外语教学与研究出版社提供。一等奖获奖名单将通过
外语教学与研究出版社网站和《阳光英语》向公众展示，部分作品将通过外语教学与研究出版社网站和《阳光英语》刊物发表。
三、参评方式及稿件要求
1. 网上阅读
凡参加20xx年英语读后感评选的学生可以直接登陆天津教研网（.cn）英语学科网页友情连接栏目（左下角）“英语读后感评选” 获取登陆地址，经在相关网站注册后，可选择并阅读该网页所提供的英语文章（文章均选自书虫·牛津英汉双解读物、轻松英语名作欣赏系列和“悦读联播”系列，由外语教学与研究出版社提供。没有网上阅读条件的参选者也可以通过其他阅读方式参评，所选文章可以超出网上指定文章范围），根据所读内容，写出读后感后参加评选（详见稿件要求）。
2. 网上投稿
本次评选活动的有效时间为20xx年4月至20xx年11月20日以前。所有参加评选的的稿件须在20xx年11月20日前填写《20xx年全国英文读后感报名表》并提交参赛作品，过期不予受理。本次评选活动的截稿日期为20xx年11月20日（以提交作品时间为准）。
3. 稿件要求
1）本次评选活动的参与者可以进行多种主题和体裁的写作，即每个参与者的参选文章数目不限，但所选主题和体裁不得有重复。要求全部用英文撰写，字数：初、高中组各在500-1000之间。
2）参评稿件可自由命题，但主题必须围绕本次活动所列读物展开，超出此范围的将视为无效稿件。
3）参评文章需连同参评报名表一同投递方为有效参赛作品。
4）参评的部分获奖作品将在《阳光英语》上发表，并在外语教学与研究出版社网站发布或结集出版；故获奖作者均被视为同意授权外语教学与研究出版社发表其作品，版权归外语教学与研究出版社所有。
5）参评作品必须为参评者原创，如有舞弊，一经查出立即取消参赛资格，并由当事人承担由此引起的一切后果。
6）参赛者所提交稿件及相关材料恕不退还，请作者自留底稿。
四、分赛区奖项设置及奖品
一等奖 10名 《朗文当代高级英语辞典》
二等奖 15名 《外研社英汉多功能辞典》
三等奖 20名 《外研社柯林斯英汉汉英词典》
优胜奖50名：证书
优秀指导奖5名（一等奖选手指导教师）《朗文当代高级英语辞典》或《高级英汉百科图解词典》
优秀组织奖5名（奖牌）
以上奖品、奖牌及证书均由外语教学与研究出版社提供。
五、注意事项
本活动的解释权为天津市中小学教育教学研究室。各区县教研室接到通知后可根据本区县工作实际，及时通知学校并做好相关学科及学段的组织报名工作。
联系人：张宏丽、陈少梦
联系方式：28278276
天津市中小学教育教学研究室
外语学科室
2010-3-5
第二篇：关于组织20xx年暑期高中学生英文读后感征文活动的通知
关于组织20xx年暑期高中学生英文读后感征文活动的通知 各高中学校、各位英语老师：
20xx年暑期我市第二次组织参加了高中学生全国英文读后感大赛，在各学校支持下、各英语教师的指导下、广大学生的努力下，大赛获得圆满成功。学生的英语阅读与写作能力有了较大的提高，更为可喜的是学生从此培养了英语阅读兴趣，形成英语思维与表达的习惯，提升了其英语综合运用能力。
为进一步落实我省深化素质教育，加强我市省英语实验课题的实施，提高学生英语听、说、读、写综合应用能力，过一个有意义的暑假，经研究，今年继续组织暑期学生英文读后感征文活动。
一、征文目的：
鼓励高中学生养成良好的阅读习惯，提高中学生英语阅读能力和写作水平，增强我市中学生的文学素养和综合素质，促进我市中学英语教学的改革和提高教学质量。
二、 稿件要求
1. 本次大赛欢迎参赛者进行多种主题和题裁的尝试，即每个参赛者的参选文章数目不限，但所选主题和题裁不得有重复。要求全部用英文撰写。字数：高中组1000个单词左右。
2. 参赛稿件自由命题，但主题必须围绕大赛所列读物展开，超出此范围视为无效稿件。
3. 参赛文章需连同参赛报名表一同在外研社上注册投递或邮寄方为有效参赛作品（违者，作品视为无效）。
4. 比赛的部分获奖作品将在外研社主办全国优秀期刊《阳光英语》上发表，并在外研社网站发布或结集出版；故获奖作者均被视为同意授权外语教学与研究出版社发表其作品，版权归外
研社所有。
5. 参赛作品必须为参赛者原创，如有舞弊，一经查出立即取消参赛资格，并由当事人承担由此引起的一切后果。
6. 参赛者所提交稿件及相关材料恕不退还，请作者自留底稿。
三、征文对象：
我市在读普通高中一、二年级学生。
四、征文方式：
1.各校学生通读指定读物，写英文读后感。每个学生完成1或多篇；每篇字数在1000单词左右。
2. 网上投稿：
网址：
参赛者在外研社悠游网上（）上进行注册，并完成读后感大赛所需的必要信息。然后选择参赛者所在组别的指定图书，在线阅读部分章节。阅读之后，点击“我要写读后感”，就可以发表文章了。在截稿日期之前，参赛者都可以编辑自己的文章。
3. 邮寄投稿：
邮寄地址：北京市西三环北路19号（北京外国语大学）外研社大厦南楼511室
邮政编码：100089
收信人：20xx年全国英文读后感大赛组委会
4．9月30日前各校在自行评比的基础上，将评选出的优秀稿件（3-5篇）上交教研室。
五、指定阅读书目：
书虫 牛津英汉双解读物、轻松英语名作欣赏系列、悦读联播系列、不可不知的莎士比亚名著系列。
附：
1．20xx年全国英文读后感大赛征文格式。
2．20xx年全国英文读后感大赛我市获奖情况通报及部分获奖作品。
淄博市教研室
20xx年7月
1．20xx年全国英文读后感大赛征文格式。
姓名：崔静
地址：山东省桓台第一中学06级19班
邮编：256400
指导教师：王新奎
A Review of “A Tale of Two Cities”
“A Tale of Two Cities”, one of Dickens’ works, is a well-known long story. And it has a great influence on the society at that time. When I saw the title at first, I thought it might tell something about the developing process of two cities, which might be no fun. However, after reading it , I found I had been wrong.
It portrays a brutal, bloody and revengeful society as well as love and friendship.
It happened before and after the Revolution in France. The ruthless and cruel landowners and noblemen exploited the miserable people who owned nothing, but these poor people worked for others day and night. Noblemen had the power that one word would doubtlessly send others to prison. As time passed by, the noise of the coming-up revolution storm in Paris was growing louder and louder. At last, it was on the fourteeth of July, 1789 that the revolution borke out. “The Bastille and its officers were in the hands of people, and the people wanted revenge and blood.” The true Freedom of France came. “The Guillotine, the new machine of death, cut off the heads of many, many people—not only the powerful and the cruel, but also the beautiful, the innocent, and the good.” Among the good, there was a man called Darney. Even though his father, wife and friends knew he was innocent, the people thought he was the enemy and would go to the Guillotine.
In spite of a shadow of fear and hate here and there, we can also see the great and kind persons. I think the greatest person is Mr Manette who had been a prisoner in the Bastille for eighteen years. What he suffered was difficult to imagine, but he was still kind and loved his daughter. He did his best to save his son-in-law, whose father and uncle were the men that had ever sent him to prison. Another great man is the lawyer, Sydney Carton, a friend of Darney. Before Darney went to Guillotine, Mr Carton changed places with him and he said, “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever know.” Besides, the story is full of love, including the love between father and daughter, the love between husband and wife, the love among friends and so on. In short, only if you have love in your heart, the life is meaningful. At the same time, the revenge will run away with you, freedom
and happiness will be around you.
There is no doubt that Charles Dickens is one of the greatest writers in English. From this book, I see some true lives and moving stories from the old ages. I reckon you must feel the same as me that we don’t want to live in that condition. To be frank, we all look forward to living in a peaceful and love situation. Though the present life has improved a lot, there are still wars in some places. All that we need is to solve the problems in peaceful ways instead of by force. So let’s work hard together in order to make our life much more meaningful and happier, make our society more harmonious.
2．20xx年全国英文读后感大赛我市获奖情况通报及部分获奖作品。
20xx年淄博市暑期高中英语读书征文获奖名单 优秀组织学校：
桓台第一中学
淄博实验中学
沂源一中
淄博七中
临淄三中
桓台二中
全国一等奖 1名
姓名 学校 指导教师
田恺 淄博实验中学 邢萍
全国二等奖 2名
姓名 学校 指导教师
郭晓晓 淄博实验中学 王淑华
杨本国 沂源一中 任相霞
全国三等奖 4名
姓名 学校 指导教师
张月 淄博实验中学 鞠波
刘文佳 淄博实验中学 吕新华
王晓云 沂源一中 刘明玉
田月 桓台一中 田瑞富
部分获奖作品
姓名：田恺（全国一等奖）
地址：山东省淄博市实验中学08级19班
邮编：255000
指导教师：邢萍
A Review of “Hamlet”
It is the proverb “1000 eyes of 1000 individual Hamlet” that attracted me to read Hamlet, the head of Shakespeare’s Four Tragedies. I couldn’t help thinking whether Hamlet is so special as to cause everyone to have different thoughts of him? Does he possess any fine qualities that can move us? With these questions, I open the book, and find myself entering an interwoven world of good and evil. What strikes me most are Hamlet’s courage displayed in his revenge, his integrity and the humanism in him, etc.
Revenge
Revenge is the clue of the whole play. The story began with a murder. The king of Denmark died mysteriously and his brother came to power. Hamlet, the son of the previous king, felt that his father’s death was very strange. Moreover, to his surprise, his beloved mother married his uncle
soon after his father’s death. After some investigation, a shocking result came to Hamlet that his father was murdered by his uncle. Out of anger, Hamlet began to revenge. In the course of his revenge, Hamlet appeared very calm, patient and courageous. To achieve his goal, he even and eventually succeeded in killing his enemy.
It’s hard to imagine what a tough revenge that must be! I don’t mean to show my support for this kind of revenge, but I dare say that the qualities Hamlet showed during the course such as patience, honesty, justice and courage worth learning. Just like Hamlet facing his enemy, I may also face with many challenges, problems or difficult situations in my life, I should cool down at first to analyze whether I have the ability to deal with them at the present time. If not, what I should do is just accumulating experience and knowledge, then I will do what I can to achieve my goal. Hamlet can wait for a few years in order to revenge, why can’t I wait for even shorter time to solve a problem?
Humanism
Humanism shines in every part of the book, especially in the image of Hamlet. “Courtier’s eyes, scholar’s tongue, soldier’s sword, flower filled with the country’s hope, mirror of the era, model of the human relations and the center of worldwide attention.” Ophelia’s this description exactly summed up the humanism in Hamlet. Hamlet desires equality and believes the kindness of humanity. For example, Hamlet gives equal weight to his servant and the courtiers and treats his servant as his friend. Meanwhile, as a practitioner of humanism, Hamlet is very kind. He is kind to everyone including his enemies.
The flash of humanity! One can give equal weight to his close friends, but how about strangers? One can be kind to someone he is familiar with, but how about others? In this play, Hamlet gives us the answer that everyone is born equal and should be treated kindly. It’s no wonder Hamlet has become such a remarkable image in literature. It is from Hamlet that I learn how to be a approachable person.
Love
Love is a permanent topic of literature. The roles shaped by Shakespeare always have complex characters, but they have one thing in common: they all know what love is and how to love. Hamlet is a typical representative.
Someone may say Hamlet is so indecisive that he misses many opportunities to revenge. But little to they know, he is afraid of hurting his mother because he loves her so deeply. I think it’s the most shining part of him and the most striking thing I admire. Hamlet can discard all just for his mother, why can’t I? From now on, I will try everything I can do to make up for what I owed my mother. I’d love to share her toil and sorrow. I’d love to see her laugh because it is the most beautiful in the world. I’m willing to devote my time to staying with her. Tiny though the things are, I still expect to show my pure love to my mother. In this sense, all I’ve decided to do are enough, completely enough.
Love is also displayed in the love affairs between Hamlet and Ophelia. They are both not accepted by the world because their behaviors are more than a little different from ones in tradition. However, they are against all the odds and get determinedly together. Their love is born to be a tragedy, but they don’t regret at all. It is enough as long as they have owned. This is what true love is.
Finishing reading this play, I involuntarily want to express my thanks to Shakespeare for writing this great play in which Humanism shines. I also want to thank Hamlet for his reminding me of the true meaning of love and setting a example for me. Many thanks also go to my dear mom, thank her for her unselfish and endless love!
姓名：郭晓晓（全国二等奖）
地址：山东省淄博实验中学08级9班
邮编：255090
指导教师：王淑华
A review of “ Jane Eyre”
This is a story about a special and unreserved woman who has been exposed to a hostile environment but continuously and fearlessly struggling for her ideal life. The story can be interpreted as a symbol of the independent spirit.
It seems to me that many readers’ English reading experience starts with Jane Eyer. I am of no exception. As we refer to the movie “Jane Eyer”, it is not surprising to find some differences because of its being filmized and retold in a new way, but the spirit of the novel remains----to be an independent person, both physically and mentally.
Jane Eyer was a born resister, whose parents went off when she was very young, and her aunt，the only relative she had，treated her as badly as a ragtag. Since Jane’s education in Lowwood Orphanage began, she didn’t get what she had been expecting——simply being regarded as a common person, just the same as any other girl around. The suffers from being humiliated and devastated teach Jane to be persevering and prize dignity over anything else.As a reward of
revolting the ruthless oppression, Jane got a chance to be a tutor in Thornfield Garden. There she made the acquaintance of lovely Adele and that garden’s owner, Rochester, a man with warm heart despite a cold face outside. Jane expected to change the life from then on, but fate had decided otherwise: After Jane and Rochester fell in love with each other and got down to get marry, she unfortunately came to know in fact Rochester had got a legal wife, who seemed to be the shadow following Rochester and led to his moodiness all the time ----Rochester was also a despairing person in need of salvation. Jane did want to give him a hand, however, she made up her mind to leave, because she didn’t want to betray her own principles, because she was Jane Eyer. The film has finally got a symbolist end: Jane inherited a large number of legacies and finally returned. After finding Rochester’s misfortune brought by his original mad wife, Jane chose to stay with him forever.
I don’t know what others feel, but frankly speaking, I would rather regard the section that Jane began her teaching job in Thornfield as the film’s end----especially when I heard Jane’s words “Never in my life have I been awaken so happily.” For one thing, this ideal and brand-new beginning of life was what Jane had been imagining for long as a suffering person; for another, this should be what the audiences with my views hoped her to get. But the professional judgment of producing films reminded me to wait for a totally different result: There must be something wrong coming with the excellence----perhaps not only should another section be added to enrich the story, but also we may see from the next transition of Jane’s life that “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you would get.” (By Forrest Gump’s mother, in the film “Forrest Gump”)
What’s more, this film didn’t end when Jane left Thornfield. For Jane Eyer herself, there should always be somewhere to realize her great ideal of being independent considering her
fortitude, but for Rochester, how he can get salvation? The film gives the answer tentatively: Jane eventually got back to Rochester. In fact, when Jane met Rochester for the first time, she scared his horse and made his heel strained, to a certain extent, which meant Rochester would get retrieval because of Jane. We can consider Rochester’s experiences as that of religion meaning. The fire by his frantic wife was the punishment for the cynicism early in his life. After it,
Rochester got the mercy of the God and the love of the woman whom he loved. Here we can say: human nature and divinity get united perfectly in order to let such a story accord with the
requirements of both two sides. The value of this film may be due to its efforts to explore a new way for the development of humanism under the faith of religion.
Life is ceaselessly changing, but our living principles remain. Firmly persisting for the rights of being independent gives us enough confidence and courage, which is like the beacon over the capriccioso sea of life. In the world of the film, we have found the stories of ourselves, which makes us so concerned about the fate of the dramatis personae.
In this era of rapid social and technological change leading to increasing life complexity and psychological displacement, both physical and mental effects on us call for a balance. We are likely to find ourselves bogged down in the Sargasso Sea of information overload and living unconsciousness. It’s our spirit that makes the life meaningful.
Heart is the engine of body, brain is the resource of thought, and great films are the mirrors of life. Indubitably, “Jane Eyer” is one of them.
姓名: 杨本国（全国二等奖）
地址：山东沂源一中08级2班
邮编：256100
指导教师：任相霞
No Sleepwalking
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction ------Mark Twain
“Did you say the stars were worlds,Tess?”
“Yes.”
“All like ours.”
“They seem like our apples—most of them good, a few bad.”
“Which do we live on? A good one or a bad one.”
“A bad one.”
This is one of the most beautiful dialogue of Tess and her sister, which expresses everyone’s thought at that time in England and it also makes us think a lot about ourselves.
It was Thomas Hardly that wrote the book in 1891.Up to now, it has been the most classical novel that describes the thoughts and feelings of the girls. It’s a sad book: A young girl was destroyed little by little but it was really true. The person who destroyed her was not her enemy, but the people who claimed to love her, why? For her beauty?
Tess should have been happy. Her mouth was like a flower, and her eyes were large soft , sometimes black, blue or grey, sometimes all three colors together. In the novel, the suitable person hesitate while the unsuitable person destroyed her. We may can’t help shouting: “Don`t leave.” But it’s late. We feel unable, because of the society : the only criminal . I think all seemed to be in the dream until Tess’s father found out her family history. Her family was stuck in difficulty. In order to support her family,Tess started her new life: a sad dream.
The story happended one century ago. Everyone in that time took it for granted.As time passes by, it’s reappearing today .Watching the rapidly-changing world, we can’t escape from the reality . The only thing we can do is to equip ourselves with sel-respect and confidence. Beautiful Tess’ escaping from sadness caused more sadness, but it wasn’t her mistakes.It was just a bad dream. For us, being chearheaded all the time can help us avoid a great number of bad things. Get
a grip and don`t let anger get the best of you. “I am ready”, the last word Tess left us, has been waiting for us to wake. Compared with old days, the society now is more complicated, we seem to sleepwalk: we are dreaming.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not you brain. We should be our own masters and try our best to do everything perfectly by heart not by brain. Because of heart, our world
becomes loving. Because of brain, there is more sadness in the world. As we all know, the heart is the most beautiful thing in the world, which requires us to develop in daily life. Broken wings, flying heart. Tess’ disturbed world led to her madness and let her lose love. For us, what we should do is to forget sadness and regard every day as a new start.
Tess’kindness and her story remind us of the women`s rights in society.Almost all the people focus their attention on this problem.Until then, it has been hot topic in public.Wherever you are, taking good care of girls is our duty .On no condition should we maltreat them.Only we can wake society by showing “ladies first”.
Tess’ struggles against difficulties failed .She lost herself. But we also admire her for her courage .At that time, she was really she was, though failed. She had spent months regretting her experience and crying over it but suddenly decided that the past was the past .Her shame and herself would be forgotten, meanwhile the sun shines just as brightly as before. Life went on. Be awake, everyone! A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but not this day. Because Tess has told us: no sleepwalking, we are ready.
姓名：张月（全国三等奖）
地址：淄博实验中学18班
邮编：255090
指导教师：鞠波
When Love And Revenge Embrace
Perhaps yesterday we are still a group of children full of love. But from today, we must take up weapon and begin to revenge, even have to become cruel and degenerate, how should we do? And now I will tell you my thoughts on reading Wuthering Heights, the book written by Emily Bronte. This is a story about love and revenge.
I spent half of a month finishing reading Wuthering Heights. I can not help but marvel. How can the writer who resided deep in the mountains and almost never came into contact with the outside world write such a novel to make us love and hate? I found some information which showed that the writer Emily’s life was brief, and she was not educated and had no practical experience of love and marriage. So people are confused about this. Some said maybe she was a genius at writing, while others said this was she belonged to Celtics, a romantic nation. We cannot know the reason, but this is a fact that she created the novel.
At the beginning of the novel, Mr. Earnshow brought back an unidentified child and named him Heathcliff. Mr. Earnshow gave him all his favor and made the little master Hendry and his sister Catherine hate the baby. This planted the seeds for later story. Several years later, after the death of Mr. Earnshow, Heathcliff was persecuted in every possible way and even had to see his loved girl Catherine marry Linton. Next part is the most important part. Heathcliff began to crazily revenge. He used all kinds of finesses to kill everyone, including Catherine. And at last, he also missed Catherine and died painfully.
The arrival of Heathcliff caused the family to lose balance. Hendry would naturally be dissatisfied because he losed love from his father. We cannot request such a child to tolerance, in fact, few people can truly do this. So a series of revenge followed. Harringtong became the victim of Hendry, Isabella became the victim of Linton. Just because of hatred, Heathcliff preferred to watch his son feel painful and eventually died. He was out of control. Of course, he also had love, the love to Catherine. They loved each other but couldn’t be together, this led to the hatred between Heathcliff and Linton. Sometimes love and hate are far away, but sometimes they are so close.
The choice of love and hate, Heathcliff was a tragedy. I cannot imagine that when he plunged into the memories of the past with the love to Catherine, how painful he was! But in the end, he was maybe happy----he died with a smile----he should have been freed from hate.
There are three graves in the hill: Catherine’s was in the middle, the right was Linton’s, the left was Heathcliff’s. When love and revenge embrace, maybe this is the most beautiful interpretation of love and hate.
姓名：刘文佳（全国三等奖）
地址：山东省淄博市实验中学08级16班
邮编：255000
指导教师：吕新华
The Great Love from a Dog
The Call of the Wild is either an interesting book or a moving book. Once you start to read it, you can’t stop. The story is too attractive. I think everyone will like it just like me. Now let me tell you what the story is about.
Buck was an excellent dog. He was strong, nice and clever. He had lived with the Mr. Millers in the sunny Santa Clara valley up to the age of four. He was happy and relaxing there. However in 1897, men and dogs were hurrying to north-west Canada to look for gold. So Buck was sold to these men and was carried to the cold north. There he learned to pull the sledge and run on the thick snow. He also knew the law of club and tooth. If he wasn’t hard-working enough, he would
be beaten by the clubs and if he wasn’t strong or quick enough, he would be bitten by the teeth. In this case, Buck soon got stronger and cleverer.
The men who led the dogs were not all good at their job. Under the command of the good men, Buck and his team worked easily. Opposite, under the command of the bad ones, they worked hard and tiredly. So they often kept working day by day and didn’t be allowed to rest. The poor Buck was just skin and bone after pulling for over five thousand kilometers. When he was hit by a wild man, John Thornton saved him. Thornton was kind, and he took very good care of Buck. In face, he looked on Buck as his own child. He was always talking to Buck, holding his head and shaking it lovingly. In answer, Buck liked to take Thornton’s hand gently in his mouth. Buck slowly got fatter and stronger.
The days passed very happily, and for the first time, Buck learned to love. He had never loved a man before, but now he loved Thornton deeply, and him alone. He would obey Thornton’s any order, even a crazy one. And he would protect Thornton in any case. As we had known, Thornton saved Buck, and in return, Buck saved Thornton several times. One time, Thornton was hit by a man who was fighting with another man, and he nearly fell. Buck flew through the air at the man’s throat immediately. Another time, Thornton’s boat turned over, and he was thrown into the water. Buck jumped in at once and swam to him. Thornton held on to Buck, and Buck swam to the bank as hard as he could. When they were safe, both of them seemed more dead than alive.
Buck was more and more like a wild animal, and his dreams were filled with other animals―dogs, half-wolves, and wild wolves or a strange hairy man sitting next to him. They seemed to call him into the forest. But every time when he wanted to answer the call and went into the trees, his love for Thornton brought him back. Buck’s love for Thornton was too strong. Thornton was more important than any other things for Buck.
One day, bad things took place. Thornton, his friends and the other dogs were all killed by the Yeehats with arrows. When Buck came back from the forest, he was astonished. And soon he was filled with a wild burning anger. He threw himself on the Yeehats like a mad dog. He moved like a storm among them, tearing, biting, and destroying, in a madness that he had never known before. He finished his revenge.
Later, Buck went into the forest and led a pack of wolves. He became a real wild animal and he was larger than any wolf. But the love for Thornton was in his heart all the time. In the moonlight, he always remembered Thornton and felt quite sad.
I like Buck, and respect Buck. He was the best dog in the world because he owned love. For the love, he was willing to do anything. He was more a man than a dog. Love is the greatest thing in this world, and nothing could stop it. Love was equal to anyone, either human beings or animals. So we should measure the different love with animals, take good care of animals around us. The love from an animal means much.
姓名：王晓云（全国三等奖）
地址：山东省沂源县第一中学08级32班
邮编：256100
指导教师：刘明玉
FIGHT WITH THE HARDSHIP, GO FOR THE HAPPINESS
—After reading Jane Eyre
Guess what? The first time I read the title of the book, I even thought it might be a story about love. But when I finished reading the novel, I knew I was wrong. It tells us a good story, and it’s said the writer, Charlotte Bronte, was the original shape of the character, Jane Eyre. She lived lonely under the press of her severe father. When the book was published, she had to use a pen name —Bell, which is a boy’s name. It proved to be a hit. When Charlotte Bronte’s identity was announced, it caught more people’s attention.
What impresses me most about Jane Eyre?
Her Childhood: If you ask me find a word to cover it, I must say it is “hardship”. She lived in Aunt Reed’s house, but the member of the family didn’t care for Jane at all. They spoke ill back of her, criticized her and even hit her. But what had done to her didn’t defeat her but just made her stronger and stronger, just as the proverb says “When God closes the door, he also opens a window for you.” Something came better when she came to the school Lowood. At first, I feel happy for Jane, but in fact it wasn’t easy for her to earn a living. Without love of parents, enough food, good medical care, they couldn’t fight with the cold winter and terrible illness. She once had friends but lost them in the end. Fortunately, the sad life didn’t hit her; on the opposite, she became more intellectual, more active and even more powerful.
Her arrival at Thornfied: Several years passing by, she became a private teacher in Thornified. She enjoyed it a lot. She lived a happy life for three months. When she met Rochester, the master of Thornified, she was attracted by him. They got along well with each other. During these days, she found everything was so nice. Maybe, she fell in love. But at a party, they happened to meet on the field, some misunderstandings produced. They talked and then quarreled. Jane cried: “Do you think I don’t have any feelings? Do you think it’s all right to say any thing at all to me because I’m not rich or beautiful? If I were not plain, I would make it difficult for you to leave me, just as it’s difficult for me to leave you now!” What she said appeared that she was an independent、rational girl; she was eager for equality, and seeking for the true love.
The wedding: Finally, they became reconciled, and then, they held a wedding. However, at the wedding, someone announced that “Rochester has already had a wife” , which hurt Jane deeply. She chose to leave. Then she had a difficult time earning her life, which was so hard, painstaking, and helter-skelter. After experiencing a lot, she came back in the end. All things changed. There was a house that had been burned in the middle of a dark forest. It’s Thornfied! She ran into it rapidly, she couldn’t forget the garden、the life in Thornfied and—Mr. Rochester. Of course, in the end, all problems were solved: they got married and lived a happy life. They were surrounded by happiness.
The moving story of Jane makes a deep impression on me. Although the life was hard, she faced it and fought against it. Although at that time, women couldn’t be equal to men, she longed for freedom and equality.
She is strong, not afraid of any danger; she is optimistic, cannot be defeated by the hardship;
she is really independent, never gives up. She wants to find her own way. There are also many heroines today, who all have confidence in common. Without it, Helen won’t write Give me three days if the bright; without it, Hillary won’t be the secretary of State. They not only help themselves get to the top, but also set good examples to others.
As the proverb says, “Without ideal, there is no direction. Without direction, there is no success”, life won’t be easy all the time, and you won’t always be the lucky dog. Hope is always available to us, but when we feel discouraged, we need only take a deep breath and say “I can make it!”.