The terminal

A poor fool

Viktor Navorski, a poor fool from Krakozhia, met not the democracy and freedom in Uncle Sam’s publicity when he came to United States but rejection. He was forbidden to come into his dream state because of the rebellion in his motherland. Without the passport, he couldn’t come back to Krakozhia and come into New York City. He was trapped on the island of politics and indifference. Faced with this dilemma, he must adapt to this environment and survive from it. He was the modern Robinson.

The system and the human nature.

In Chinese proverb, we have a saying that” Nothing can be accomplished without norms or standards.” A family, a department, a company and a country all need a system to maintain the operation.

The system is the law of doing things, but it is not perfect and has a variety of flaw. John Rawls, the famous political intellectual, said:” Any behavior of sacrificing interests of few people for the most public is immoral.” Although our system is built on the basis of safeguarding the interests of most people and is immoral in the words of Rawls, we couldn’t do non-compliance of the system and blame our mistakes on imperfection. Let us imagine that what will happen when the system meets people’s feelings. Our Chinese people always say that Law is no more than human relationship, is it true? In the movie, Viktor helped this man keeping his father’s saving drugs with his wit when the Russian man was detained by the Customs and Border Protection for some so-called illegal things. We all criticize the indifference of the

director, Frank Dixon and praise Viktor for his wit and courage. But the officers strike on their principles and safeguard the system, are they wrong? We break a running well system just for one’s adversity, are we right? In our real life, most good system is damaged because of the pretence of sympathizing with others. So I argue that the officers do nothing wrong. We can sympathize with the week, but not at the expense of damaging our running well system.

Waiting

The title of this movie is the terminal, what does it mean? Perhaps it means that Viktor can return to motherland after finishing his father’s last wish. Perhaps it means that Viktor and his compatriots have suffered their painful life. Perhaps it means the end of Viktor’s journey.

Waiting, the most frequent word that

Viktor mentioned in the movie. When Frank Dixon cheated that he could sneak into New York, Viktor said I would wait. When he talked with the airhostess, Amelia Warren, Viktor said “I am waiting”. Waiting may be a negative way to solve one thing, but in some cases could be the most effective one. Faced with unexpected difficulties, the indifference of people around and the irony of the fate, Viktor used the approach of waiting to struggle. He warmed people’s cold hearts. He let the lost people find themselves. He encouraged people who were teased by the fate to choose resistance. He told us the truth, “the terminal is the starting point.

@@@@The story is Directed by 斯蒂文?斯皮尔伯格 Steven Spielberg , Actor 汤姆?汉克斯 Tom Hanks

Story takes place in the last

century, the late 80s, Victor (Tom Hanks) is an inter-Coscia people, in order to complete his father's wishes, to be the first jazz band Dream 57 signatures to the United States .He learned of the motherland at the airport, the news of the war.

Victor's passport and identity documents, and immigration documents are all lost their usefulness. Victor neither go back to his country nor to USA, he was detained at the

airport,suddenly,he has no home,no country,and his english is so poor,at the begaining he has no money to eat,no one to ask help.

In desperation, he could only stay at the airport, sleeping in the hall chair, taking a bath in the bathroom, servicing for the passing passengert to make money. He now has only its own freedom in the body, as well as a small suitcase was filled with washed clothes, a razor, and a disposed of identity documents.

I like this story because the hero is very clear what causes difficulties, knowing his own strength could not change anything, All he can do is to adapt to the situation. At the airport, he met a lot of trouble, Fortunately, his indomitable spirith help him found a lot of support from his friend,and these guys are all worked at the airport.

We can learn o lot from this

story ,Life is waiting.when there was something wrong in our lives,we should

konw that complain will help nothing,and in this story Voctor just facing,and never say a Negative word .

真d

Threat because the then customs Secretary, the character played by Tom Hanks, said that if he does not return to boast Waukesha (his homeland), took to help his old cleaners repatriation (because the old cleaners hadown

motherland killing a policeman, go back to take a seven-year jail), the

distribution of food, we should also just married that guy expelled.

When the the old cleaners know is because of their own reasons, Tom Hanks must return home and can not step into the New York, he firmly heading for the plane about to land, so that he will have to attack aircraft suspect must be

investigated the results of the survey can be imagined, he will certainly be repatriated. He did so in order to let his friends can reach a desire. Really great friendship.

第二篇：《红字》英文读后感

《红字》英文读后感

The Scarlet Letter offers an extraordinary insight into the norms and behavior of the 17th century if American Puritan society. The basic conflicts and problems of its main characters, however, are familiar to readers in the present. The female protagonist, has borne a child out of wedlock and has been jailed for over three months and sentenced to wear a symbol of her adultery, a scarlet “A” on her dress at all times. It concerns about the moral, emotional and

psychological effect of the sin on people in

general. It’s not simply a love story or a story of sin. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the scarlet letters to symbolize the harshness of Puritan society, showing how they brand sinners for life.

The story happened in Boston about 200 years

ago. It narrates love affairs between three persons. The punished woman. Hester Prynne and his husband. Who called himself Roger Chillingworth . He is an old misshapen man and a doctor. Hester does not love him at all. Another man is a young minister, Dimmesdale, who has a high position among ministers and is highly respected among his people in town. Hester and Dimmesdale love each other. But their love is forbidden in that time . It is sinful. Due to this,Hester is punished by society with a letter

A on her chest, which considered an evil, a shame. In this novel, the mainline seems to be around the letter A. Hester is brave enough to face the

cruel reality. She is always with a mind of courage. She has been alone with her child for so long , with litter communication. Shame! Hopelessness! Loneliness! Hester has to wear the letter A day after day, seven years as for punishment and ill fame.

When a woman has lived through a difficult

experience, her character changes a great deal. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will leave her .Hester’s charitable deeds and quiet humility have earned her a reprieve from the scorn of the community. The letter on her chest represents her work on earth , always helping others, without expecting any thanks. Never afterwards, does that scarlet letter leave her

chest. The townspeople no longer view the letter as a punishment , but rather as representing her great strength and bravery and thy say it means “Able”. But Arthur Dimmesdale, his sin against Hester and Pearl is that he will not acknowledge them as his wife and daughter in the daylight. He keeps his dreadful secret from all those under his care in the church for seven years for fear that he will lose their love and will not be forgiven. He is too weak to admit his sins. He suffers from mysterious heart trouble, seemingly caused by psychological distress. What’s worse, he is an advisor to the townspeople about their sins.

After Mr. Dimmesdale’s death , no one changes more in appearance than Roger Chilling worth. All his strength and energy has been used to harm his

patient . This unhappy man has made his aim in life to add to the suffering of the young minister. When the evil old man no longer has such a purpose, the devil takes him back to the hell . It is a curious subject of observation, however, whether hatred or love are not of the same place. Each takes a great deal of emotion from one person. The two feelings seem basically the same, expect that one is smiled upon by God, while the other is worshipped by the devil.

The two lovers has ever decided to flee to Europe, where they can live with their dauthter Pearl as a family .They feel a sense of release there. However, their plan fails?? When Hester dies, she is buried next to Dimmesdale. The two share a single tombstone, with a deep colored letter A shining brightly.

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