i have spent about two months in reading
eugenie grandet. in my opinion, it is really a good novel for us which is
worthy to be read. after reading, i know that money can buy something but not
everything. for better understanding of the novel, i will divide this reading
note into three parts.
firstly, in order to make you understand
this novel quickly, i will introduce you the major characters. there are three
persons we need deep analysis. they are grandet, his daughter eugenie and
charles.
the novel thesis puts their emphasis on
grandet. grandet was one of the central roles in the novel. he was terribly
greedy. he was the representative of greed and money. in his mind, money was
everything, and he could not live in the world without money. he had a strong
desire to possess money, though he had an abundant of money. he always left
himself in a back room, and appreciated money for a long time. when he was
dying, he asked his daughter to put money on the table, and money could make
him feel warm. in order to collect money, he lost human
nature. he considered no love was in the
world, and money is even much more valuable than his life. for example, grandet
had a servant, who had worked for 30 years. but he never received any gift from
grandet, except one old watch. though grandet was a christian, but actually he
was not a real one. in his opinion, the existence of god was for his need. for him,
money was real god and all the hope.
compared with grandet, his daughter eugenie
was very kind and humane. she considered money as a method for helping others.
she devoted her whole life to serving the people. and she had done a lot of
public works. for example, she had built one restroom, eight primary schools
and one library. she used money to help those who need it.
then, we should put our attention on
charles. he was born in a rich family and spoiled. the turning point in his
life was to do business abroad. the change of life condition made his moral
standard and value concept change. he became a very self-fish man. he wanted to
become rich. in order to possess money, he gave up his true love, and pursued a
nobleman’s daughter.
to some extent, his outlook on money was similar to grandet’s. both of them were materialists
and the lovers of money.
secondly, the writer writing this novel
should be introduced
to us for we could realize the background
information and understand it better. honore de balzac (1799-1850) could
perhaps be described as one of the founders of this school that he established
with the human comedy (1829-1850) - a long series of seventeen novels, a vast
panorama of french life that ranged from country life to city from private life
to politics, from military life to psychological studies. it is by no means
easy to choose one or two novels from the human comedy. there is always a
temptation to add one or two more for a better understanding why balzac’s works
have lasted so long. perhaps eugenie grandet best illustrates his
characteristic methods and the secret of his genius and talent. it is a simple
story of a family house in provincial saumur in which lives a miser, grandet
with his wife and daughter eugenie. both suffer continuously under the stifling
shadow of his obsession with gold. but the arrival of her cousin, charles makes
eugenie’s heart turn gently towards thoughts of love and marriage, if only to
get away from the father. but grandet opposes the marriage because so much of
his outrageous gold would be carried away as dowry. the proposed marriage
breaks down. charles goes away to seek his fortunes in the east and eugenie is
left alone to face the future on her own.
quite obviously, a web of intrigue
surrounds mother and daughter. a bunch of ambitious men and adventurers,
careerists and speculators and misers of all kinds congregate, all attracted by
the pale, cold glitter of gold. part of balzac’s continuing success lies in his
portrayal of these modern types of unscrupulous rascals and the mania they have
for social climbing and fortune hunting which he was the first to portray in
modern literature.
third, from the novel, i could see the
shadow of the real life. especially since the opening up and economic reform,
china has been participating in economic globalization to a deeper degree. with
the economic growth, more and more people consider that if you have money, you
can make the devil push the millstone for you. their favorite motto is money
talks. so the only purpose is to make money as much as possible without heart
of charity and humanity. the major role in eugenie grandet, grandet reflects
phenomenon in modern china society. from a great amount of information, some
people think that chinese people are obsessive with money very much, and they
are the lovers of money. for earning money, they break the law. however,
meantime, there are still a lot of people doing charities with money. they
consider money as a means for helping others,
what they have done is the same as grandet’s daughter did.in my opinion,
although many people say that money is the root of evil, every coin has its two
sides; we can analyze the function of money from two sides. it’s a common knowledge that everyone
likes money and needs money. without money, they cannot buy food, clothes and
other daily necessities. without money, they cannot go to school, go to cinema
or other places. in my thesis, the novel analyzes the disadvantages and
advantages of the outlook on money, and gives the methods for dealing with the
disadvantages of the outlook on money in an appropriate way. under the analysis
of the outlook on money, we should regard earning money as a method for perfect
life. money is not the final objective in our life. there are still so many
valuable things that need us to accomplish.
第二篇：英语读书笔记123
第一篇
the old man and the sea 《老人与海》
the old man and the sea is one of
hemingway’s most enduring works.told in language of great simplicity and
power,it is the story of an old cuban
fisherman,down on his luck,and his supreme
ordeal——a relentless,agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the gulf
stream.here hemingway recasts,in strikingly contemporary style,the classic
thene of courage in the face of defeat,of personal triumph won from los.written
in 1952,this hugely
successfully novella confirmed his power
and presence in the literary world and played a huge part in his winning the
1954 nobel prize for literature. the novel is very famous in the world, so lot
of people like this novel. we also
studied it in our chinese class,
hemingway’s novel are always interesting i like his novel much, also in his
novel we can learn a lot by his meanings. it’s really a good novel for people to read.
第二篇
《双城记》
after reading "a tale of two
cities" "a tale of two cities" is one of dickens’s
most important representative works.the novel profoundly exposed the society
contradiction before the french revolution,intensely attacks the aristocratic
social class is dissolute and cruel,and sincerely sympathizes with the
depressed classes.the novel also described
many magnificent scenes like the revolt people attacked bastille and so
on,which displayed people’s great strength.
the novel has portrayed many different
people. doctor manette is honest and kind but suffers the persecution actually ， lucie is beautiful and gentle ，charles is graceful and noble，lorry is upright and honest ，sydney is
semblance of indifferent, innermost
feelings of warm,unconventional but also selfless and lofty，miss pross is straightforward and
loyal，evremonde
brothers are cruel and sinister......the complex hatred is hard to solve, the
cruel
revenge has made more hatreds, loves
rebirth in the hell edge,but take the life as the price.
as an outstanding writer,in dickens’s
work,the language skill is essential.each kind of rhetoric technique,like the
analogy,the exaggeration,the contrast,the humorous,and the taunt are handled
skillfully,and the artistry of the work is also delivered the peak."a
tale of two cities" has its difference with the general historical
novel, its character and the main plot are all fictionalizes.with the broad
real background of the french revolution,the author take the fictional
character doctor manette’s experience as the main clue,interweaves the
unjust charge, upholstery and so many
techniques,causes the structure
integrity and strictness,the plot winding
anxious and rich of theatrical nature,it displayed the remarkable artistic
skill.the style "a tale of two cities" is solemnity and
melancholy,fills indignantion,but lacks the humor of the early works.
第三篇
my feelings after reading wuthering heights
wuthering heights is a well-written tragedy
of love. after reading the whole story, i would like to talk about the main
characters of the story—catherine earnshaw and heathcliff. catherine earnshaw
and heathcliff do love each other very much, but they do not have the right
attitude towards love, which leads to the tragedy.
in catherine’s life, she made a very foolish decision---marrying to edgar. in
fact, her love for edgar can never be compared to that for heathcliff. she did
so, because she thought the wealth of edgar would be useful to help heathcliff.
but in reality, it did not work. she did not have a good understanding of love,
which is something pure and saint. if anyone add any purpose into love, love
itself lost its meaning. catherine’s wrong decision hurt two people who love her, and even destroyed
the happiness of their offspring.
heathcliff is a man full of retaliation. he
loved catherine very much, but what he did, on the contrary, added to the
misery of catherine. in my opinion, if he really loved catherine, he should not
walk into catherine’s life again after his disappearance. further more, after the death
of catherine, what heathcliff did brought agony to catherine’s daughter, as well as his own son.
after reading, i have a better
understanding of love. if you love really someone, his or her happiness is the
thing that most matters.
a tale of two cities occupies a central
place in the canon of charles dickens’s works. this novel of the french
revolution was originally serialized in the author’s own periodical all the
year round. weekly publication of chapters 1-3 of book 1 began on april 30,
1859. in an innovative move, dickens simultaneously released installments of
the novel on a monthly basis, beginning with all of book 1 in june and
concluding with the last eight chapters of book 3 in december. dickens took
advantage of the novel’s serial publication to experiment with characterization,
plot, and theme. he described the work in a letter to his friend john forster,
cited in rudi glancy’s a tale of two cities: dickens’s revolutionary novel, as
"a picturesque story rising in every chapter, with characters true to
nature, but whom the story should express more than they should express
themselves by dialogue." the novel that emerged from his
experimentation is now regarded as one of dickens’s most popular and most
innovative works.
双城记英文读后感
after reading "a tale of two
cities" "a tale of two cities" is one of dickens’s
most important
representative works.the novel profoundly
exposed the society contradiction before the french revolution,intensely
attacks the aristocratic social class is dissolute and cruel,and sincerely
sympathizes with the depressed classes.the novel also described many
magnificent scenes like the revolt people attacked bastille and so on,which
displayed people’s great strength.
the novel has portrayed many different
people. doctor manette is honest and kind but suffers the persecution actually ， lucie is beautiful and gentle ，charles is graceful and noble，lorry is upright and honest ，sydney is semblance of indifferent,
innermost feelings of warm,unconventional but also selfless and lofty，miss pross is straightforward and
loyal，evremonde
brothers are cruel and sinister......the complex hatred is hard to solve, the
cruel revenge has made more hatreds, loves rebirth in the hell edge,but take
the life as the price.
as an outstanding writer,in dickens’s
work,the language skill is essential.each kind of rhetoric technique,like the
analogy,the exaggeration,the contrast,the humorous,and the taunt are handled
skillfully,and the artistry of the work is also delivered the peak."a
tale of two cities" has its difference with the general historical
novel, its character and the main plot are all fictionalizes.with the broad
real background of the french revolution,the author take the fictional
character doctor manette’s experience as the main clue,interweaves the unjust
charge, upholstery and so many techniques,causes the structure integrity and
strictness,the plot winding anxious and rich of theatrical nature,it displayed
the remarkable artistic skill.the style "a tale of two cities"
is solemnity and melancholy,fills indignantion,but lacks the humor of the early
works.
there are two opposite gangs named socs and
greasers. kids whose backgrounds are very rich are called socials, we name it
as socs. the poor kids are called greasers, because their hair are covered with
grease and they often wear greasy clothes. there are full of
contradiction between them. the main
character is ponyboy, he is the youngest greaser, and he hates the socs because
he always gets jumped by them. darry and sodapop are his elder brothers, and
they both
dropped out of school to work in order to
raise money for ponyboy ‘s study. through seeing a movie together with a rich but kind girl,
cherry, ponyboy realizes that not all socs are bad. johnny is his best friend,
he used to be very weak, but after being jumped by 4 socs, he becomes mad and
usually brings a switchblade with him, and if there is anyone who wants to play
tricks on him, he will kill that one. suddenly, in a week, johnny dies in a
fire, bob(his friend) is kill by someone unwillingly, dally(the most violent
greaser) kill himself because johnny’s death. ponyboy grows a lot, realize the love of his families and
friends, and promises to be a good man, and not fight anymore..
this is really a heroic story, and i learnt
a lot from it..
first of all, i realized that we shouldn’t assess anyone just by knowing
about his background. in the book, ponyboy thought that life was unfair-socs
always win, greasers always lose. socs could easily go to college, but greasers
sometimes must drop out of school to work for their livings. so he hated socs
as if from his birth. but he gradually realized that some socs are kind, but
some greasers are alike a hood. so we should also know people deeply before
judging them, and believe the truth more than our subjective things.
secondly, no matter how our backgrounds and
families are, we should have kind and brave hearts. in the story, ponyboy saw
many greasers crime and fight just because of their identify, he thought that
was totally wrong. even his dying friend, johnny told him to
stay gold which means to be kind, simple
and pure in a serious health condition. on the other hand, ponyboy thought
gresers have the same rights as socs, and he never lowered his head in front of
socs.there are also something good about love. at the beginning,
ponyboy thought that dally, his eldest
brother fully concentrated on working and making money, but never cared about
him and sodapop, and he was dislike a young man anymore, more like an adult.
but once ponyboy was sick very seriously, he saw dally crying for the first
time when he was asleep-going-to-waken-up. and when they were having a rumble
with a gang of socs, he was always covered with his two elder brothers. from
that, he knew his small family would never be short of love, and his brothers
loved him much more than he could imagine. in my real life, when my teachers
and parents are strict with me, i shouldn’t think that they don’t love me, it is just another, more deep way to love.
the writer wrote this book when he was only
a teenager as
fourteen-going-to-fifteen, in the same age
as me. so it is more easy for me to get close to him and understand him. but he
truly
experienced all i experienced and something
i have never imagined. so i should learn something good from him, and keep away
from thing bad he had done.
this book really taught me a lot, and i
will spare no efforts to do the good things it bring to me!
第四篇：英语读书笔记
the great gatsby
in fact ,if our teacher don’t require ,i will never be
interested in this kind of story .however ,after my reading ,i have to say it’s so dramatic and profound that i
have already been fond of this story deeply.
"the great gatsby" is
about a story which took place in the 20’s. a poor guy named nick came to new
york and lived next to a millionaire who called gatsby. he began to know the
story of this wealth person and witnessed the voluptuous life of the rich.
gatsby was not wealthy like now when he was young, who was just a lieutenant in
the army. at that time, he lost his heart to a girl called daisy. they loved
each other deeply. but it changed after the first world war, during which
gatsby was dispatched to europe. when he came back, he found the love vanished.
behalf displaced chasteness, love was supplanted by money. he dreamed to
recovery his love, but nothing happened and it only became worse.
one day daisy was in a drunken driving
gatsby’s car ran
over and caused an accident that killed tom’s mistress, and she planned a plot with tom to put the crime to
gatsby. it led to the mistress’husband shot gatsby. gatsby died, only his fathrand nick attended
the funeral.nick witnessed the virtual mood of human reality. at the end, nick
backed to his hometown with a tragedy mood.
it is a novel which has intrigued and
fascinated so many readers.
it is worth noting that fitzgerald never
shows the reader a single scene from gatsby
affair with daisy. the narrative is nick?s
story, and, aside from when they remake each other?s acquaintance, nick never
sees gatsby and daisy alone together. perhapsnick?s friendship with gatsby
allows him to empathize with his pain at not having daisy, and that nick
refrains from depicting their affair out of a desire not to malign him. whatever
the reason, fitzgerald leaves the details of their affair to the reader?s
imagination, and instead exposes the menacing suspicion and mistrust on tom?s
part that will eventually lead to a confrontation. clearly, as a
self-proclaimed "tale of the west", it is exploring questions
about america and what it means to be american. in this sense gatsby is perhaps
that legendary opus, the "great american novel". nick senses
that people everywhere are motivated by similar dreams and by a desire to move
forward into a future in which their dreams are realized. nick envisions their
struggles to create that future as boats moving in a body of water against a
current that inevitably carries them back into the past.“her voice is full of
money.” it’s iconic. at
that time, every one’s voice is full of money. gatsby’ american dream will just be a joke. nick pertinent had pointed out
the false of society and the heartlessness, caused the readers compared to the
american dream necessity which pursued to be disillusioned regarding to gatsby.
of course, it already has a profound impression on me.in the end, i have to say
that after reading the great gatsby, reading his shattered dream of love, of
vanity, i do not only have known the conception of the american society in
early 20th century, but also know that the value of a time, a nation, and an
individual is so significant. there is a very conspicuous symbol in the novel,
the eyes of doctor t. j. eckleburg painted on an old advertising billboard over
the valley of ashes. it is a warning that our development and morality will
always be stared upon and judged by god. remember it.
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