第一篇：英語演講稿-馬克吐溫著的短篇小說

Good morning.my book is the million pound note.write by Mark Twain.I believe many of you had ever read it.today I will share my feeling with you after reading

Mark Twain's short story of “the million pound note” is a very good

work.It’s a satire of the idea that”money is everything,“ ”money can do anything“it expose the ugly face of some people

”the million pound note" is about a poor, honest man,-henry adams,get a million pound note from a pair of wealthy brothers.the two brothers had

made a bet,they wondered whether a poor, honest people who only had the million pounds note could survive a month.Afther reading, I have my own ideas:

Firstly the reason why people to curry favor with him, is that People are too focused on money.money worship is shameful, ”money isn’t everything, there are many things more important than money.we can not lose principles because of money.When people know that adams had the million pound note they tried their best to please him, people like beggers give adams the free food,free clothes, free accommodation,Secondly Good reputation is an asset, if we want to make friends with others and do business with others, honest is the foundation of success..it is just because honest that adams can get the milliong pound note , improve his social status and finally got a very good job from the two brothers

Thirdly if we are rich, we're going to help other people and help the environmental protection,we shouldn’t waste money,we shouldn’t look down upon the poor people,

第二篇：演講稿——馬克吐溫

演講稿——馬克吐溫

馬克吐溫

馬克·吐溫是其筆名.馬克·吐溫原名塞姆·朗赫恩·克列門斯是美國的作家，亦是著名演說家。他曾被譽為：文學史上的林肯。海倫·凱勒曾言：“我喜歡馬克吐溫——誰會不喜歡他呢？即使是上帝，亦會鐘愛他，賦予其智慧，并于其心靈里繪畫出一道愛與信仰的彩虹?！彼菓延谐嘧又牡念B童，亦是仗義執(zhí)劍的騎士！生平

馬克·吐溫出生在美國佛羅里達一個鄉(xiāng)村的貧窮律師家庭。他是家中7個小孩的第6個小孩。他只有兩個兄弟姊妹在童年過后幸存下來。吐溫11歲時，他的父親死于肺炎。因為家里貧苦，從小出外拜師學徒。當過排字工人，密西西比河水手、南軍士兵，還經(jīng)營過木材業(yè)、礦業(yè)和出版業(yè)，但有效的工作是當記者和寫作幽默文學。辛酸的童工生活，磨練了馬克·吐溫的意志，同時也為他日后成為大作家積累了豐富的寫作素材。

馬克·吐溫是美國批判現(xiàn)實主義文學的奠基人，世界著名的短篇小說大師。寫作風格：熔幽默與諷刺一體，既富于獨特的個人機智與妙語，又不乏深刻的社會洞察與剖析。其思想和創(chuàng)作也表現(xiàn)為從輕快調(diào)笑到辛辣諷刺再到悲觀厭世的發(fā)展階段。

他的早期創(chuàng)作，如短篇小說《竟選州長》（1870）、《哥爾斯密的朋友再度，出洋》（1870）等，以幽默、詼諧的筆法嘲笑美國“民主選舉”的荒謬和“民主天堂”的本質(zhì)

人對他的評價

在馬克·吐溫那個時代的作家中，沒有一個象他那樣接觸到美國生活這么多的方面。他思路闊廣，不安于現(xiàn)狀，不知疲倦，什么事情都要探個究竟。有人說他的幽默不觸及那個時代的弊端，實際情況是：我們經(jīng)過研究之后，發(fā)現(xiàn)他那個時代的弊端很少不被他嘲弄過、諷刺過、譏笑過。政府那些不光彩的事情，??包括賄賂、腐敗、收買、把人民的正義當兒戲等等，他全評論過。在他創(chuàng)作的寬闊范圍之內(nèi)，社會的爛瘡疤他沒有一個不揭的。

在美國，馬克·吐溫似乎有兩個，一個是讀者眼中的馬克·吐溫，一個是批評家眼中的馬克·吐溫。在讀者看來，馬克·吐溫幽默、滑稽、詼諧，夸張得要命，可又蠻真實的，有時還帶點刺兒；他的美國味道很足，男女老少都喜歡讀。在批評家看來，事情就復雜了。馬克·吐溫究竟是一個什么樣的作家？是無害的滑稽家，還是社會諷刺家？他究竟是熱愛美國還是痛恨美國？??這些涉及到對他總評價的問題近一百年以來沒有停止過爭議，是一大研究課題，在美國叫做“馬克·吐溫問題”。名言

不要放棄你的幻想。當幻想沒有了以后，你還可以生存，但是你雖生猶死。

馬克．吐溫：沒有情感的吻，就像在親死豬肉一樣。

永遠說實話，這樣的話你就不用去記你曾經(jīng)說過些什么。

那些有好書卻不讀的人不比無法讀到這些書的人擁有任何優(yōu)勢。

這樣的特質(zhì)可使友誼維系終身（大家猜一下吧）——只要不想對方借錢。

只要具備了無知和自信，你就必然能成功 作品目錄

《競選州長》

《湯姆·索亞歷險記》（1876年）

《乞丐王子》（1882年）

《頑童流浪記》（1884年）

《卡縣名蛙》

《百萬英鎊》

《敗壞了哈德萊堡的人》

《三萬元遺產(chǎn)》

《火車上的噬人事件》

《加利福尼亞人的故事》

《他是否還在人間》

《鍍金時代》

《壞孩子的故事》

《好孩子的故事》插入故事 關(guān)于馬克吐溫的笑話

馬克·吐溫時常講他鄰人的笑話．據(jù)說有一次, 他向他的鄰人借一本書．鄰人說, ｀我的藏書是從來不離開我的藏書室的, 你如果要看, 請在這里看罷．＇后來有一次, 這個鄰人來向馬克·吐溫借用花園里的刈草機．馬克·吐溫也回答他說: ｀我的刈草機是從來不離開我的花園的．你如果要借用, 請在我的花園里用罷．＇

馬克吐溫很不喜歡銀行家，時常要“幽默”他們。他對于銀行家所說的最有名的警句是：“銀行家是這樣的一種人，他在大晴天借傘給你，可是天色一變就立刻要收回?！彼f過一個挖苦銀行家的笑話。據(jù)說有一位大銀行家，花了極大的代價裝了一只玻璃假眼。銀行家有一天向馬克?吐溫說：“我敢同你打賭，你一定看不出我的兩只眼睛，那一只是真，那一只是假，你若是能看得出，我可以輸你五千元。”馬克?吐溫指著他那只假的左眼說，“這不用打賭，我就能看得出，因為只有你的這只眼睛閃耀著人性慈善的光輝”。

車票馬克吐溫一次乘車外出，火車開得很慢。當查票員過來查票時，馬克吐溫遞給他一張兒童票。查票員調(diào)侃道：“我還真沒看出您還是個孩子呢！” 馬克吐溫回答：“現(xiàn)在我已經(jīng)不是孩子了，但我買票上車時還是個孩子哩?！?/p>

馬克吐溫與理發(fā)師馬克·吐溫一次外出做演講，來到一個小城鎮(zhèn)。晚飯前，他先去一家理發(fā)店刮胡子。“你是外地人吧？”理發(fā)師問。

“是的，”馬克·吐溫回答?！拔沂穷^一次到這里來、”

“你來的正是時候，”理發(fā)師繼續(xù)說。“今晚馬克·吐溫要來做演講，我想你會去的，是嗎？”

“噢，我也是這樣想。”

“可票都賣完了，你只有站著了?！?/p>

“真討厭！”馬克·吐溫嘆氣著說?！拔业倪\氣真不好，每次那個家伙

演講時我都不得不站著?！?/p>

馬克·吐溫常常向人說起他小時候的一段傷心往事。據(jù)說，馬克·吐溫出生時是雙胞胎，他和他的雙胞胎兄弟兩人長得一模一樣，連他們的母親也分辨不出來。有一天，為他們洗澡時，其中一個不小心跌入浴缸淹死了，沒有人知道淹死的究竟是雙胞胎中的哪一個?！白罱腥藗牡木驮谶@里。”馬克·吐溫說，“每個人都以為我是那個活下來的人，其實我不是?；钕聛淼氖俏业艿?。那個淹死的人是我。”

通過我的介紹，不知大家對馬克吐溫和他的作品有沒有一點興趣，希望大家有機會可以讀一下馬克吐溫的作品。

第三篇：英語小說讀書筆記

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：英語小說讀后感

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 the invisible man 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.jamaica inn 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.’

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 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 worlds 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.篇二：英文小說讀后感之飄 gone with the wind 飄（又名：傲慢與偏見）簡介： gone with the wind is a romantic drama and the novel written by margaret mitchell, which sets the american civil war as the background.the novels protagonist, scarlett ohara is the daughter of a planter, who is rich and standing in georgia usa.father gerald is an irish immigrant.arriving in georgia, gerald is penniless but he wins the ownership of the manor of tarot by gambling.after that, he began the venture in this red land, weaving his american dream.until 43 years old, he is married with the daughter named ellen of a french immigrant in east coast knot.gerald is good-natured, but bad-tempered and the young wife has a good family education and strict moral values.she manages the day-to-day affairs of the estate as a whole on her own, even sets the black slaves to the doctor.because of these, the couples get the respects from the white manor and won the love of the black slaves.their daughter scarlett is grown up in this environment.《飄》所講述的是一個以美國南北戰(zhàn)爭為背景的愛情故事。小說的主人公斯卡雷特？奧哈拉是美國佐治亞州一位富足且頗有地位的種植園主的女兒。父親杰拉爾德是愛爾蘭的移民。剛到佐治

經(jīng)典語句摘錄： 1.after all, tomorrow is another day.--scarlett.畢竟，明天又是另外的一天呢。2.a glamour to it--a perfection, a symmetry like grecian art.--ashley 那時它富有魅力，像古希臘藝術(shù)那樣是圓滿的、完整的和勻稱的。（艾希禮關(guān)于戰(zhàn)前生活的闡述）3.i was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments, and new.what is broken--and i’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as i lived.—rhett 我從來不是那樣的人，不能耐心地拾起一些碎片，把它們黏合在一起，然后對自己說這個修補好了的東西跟新的完全一樣。一樣東西破碎了就是破碎了--我寧愿記住它最好時的模樣，而不想把它修補好，然后終生看著那些破碎了的地方。4.land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for.because its the only thing that lasts.土地是世界上唯一值得你去為之工作, 為之戰(zhàn)斗, 為之犧牲的東西,因為它是唯一永恒的東西。5.i wish i could be more like you.我要像你一樣就好了。7.i think its hard winning a war with words.我認為紙上談兵沒什么作用。8.sir, youre no gentleman.and you miss are no lady.先生,你可真不是個君子,小姐,你也不是什么淑女。9.i never give anything without expecting something in return.i always get paid.我做任何事不過是為了有所回報,我總要得到報酬。10.in spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, i love you.哪怕是世界末日我都會愛著你。11.i love you more than ive ever loved any woman.and ive waited longer for you than ive waited for any woman.我愛你，比我更愛任何女人。我為你等待的時間比我等任何女人都要長。12.if i have to lie, steal, cheat or kill, as god as my witness, ill never be hungry again!即使讓我撒謊,去偷,去騙,去殺人,上帝作證,我再也不要挨餓了。13.now i find myself in a world which for me is worse than death.a world in which there is no place for me.現(xiàn)在我發(fā)現(xiàn)自己活在一個比死還要痛苦的世界,一個無我容身之處的世界。14.you’re throwing away happiness with both hands.reaching out for something that will never make you happy.你把自己的幸福拱手相讓,去追求一些根本不會讓你幸福的東西。15.home.ill go home.and ill think of some way to get him back.after all, tomorrow is another day.家,我要回家.我要想辦法讓他回來.不管怎樣,明天又是全新的一天。感想：

gone with the wind, an american romantic novel written by margaret mitchell is a reflection of the civil war.what impresses us most is the spirit of a rebellious georgia woman named scarlett ohara and her travails with friends, family and lovers in the midst of the antebellum south, the american civil war, and the reconstruction period.it also tells the story of love those blossoms between scarlett ohara and rhett butler.this is really a kind of moving story.someone said that the most classic scene in the novel was that when scarlett returned her ruined home, holding the earth in her hand, she promised that no matter to steal or to rob she would篇三：英文小說讀后感之飄 漢語：

小說《飄》是美國著名女作家瑪格麗特·米歇爾創(chuàng)作的一部具有浪漫主義色彩、反映南北戰(zhàn)爭題材的小說。主人公斯佳麗身上表現(xiàn)出來的叛逆精神和艱苦創(chuàng)業(yè)、自強不息的精神，一直令讀者為之傾心。這部經(jīng)久不息的小說感動了無數(shù)的讀者。有人說這部電影最經(jīng)典的場面是思嘉在戰(zhàn)爭后回到被毀的家園，在園中手握紅土發(fā)誓，無論去偷去搶都不會讓家人挨餓那段，因為那時她的眼神和表情真的特別震撼人。這樣說我也不反對，因為這實在是一部太經(jīng)典的片子，經(jīng)典的場面太多，各人有各人的偏愛。我倒是情愿選擇這個：以后，明天就是新的一天了。什么是愛？什么是恨？愛和恨可以象兩條永不相交的平行線，愛和恨也可能只需要一縷陽光就可以消融。珍惜擁有的人是幸福的，因為我們總是并不確切知道我們需要的到底是什么。太多的人只有在失去的時候，才知道去珍惜。泰戈爾有一句詩我特別喜歡：如果錯過太陽時你流淚了，那么你也將錯過星星了。歷盡滄桑，你要學會忽略過去。因為——tomorrow is another day。

英語： gone with the wind, an american romantic novel written by margaret mitchell is a reflection of the civil war.what impresses us most is the spirit of a rebellious georgia woman named scarlett ohara and her travails with friends, family and lovers in the midst of the antebellum south, the american civil war, and the reconstruction period.it also tells the story of love that blossoms between scarlett ohara and rhett butler.this is really a kind of moving story.someone said that the most classic scene in the novel was that when scarlett returned her ruined home, holding the earth in her hand, she promised that no matter to steal or to rob she would never allow her family to starve.however, i would rather to chose this, the most beautiful sentence in the book, tomorrow is another day.what is called love, and what is called hate? love and hate can like two lines which will never 《名人傳》讀后感

閱讀了羅曼·羅蘭的《名人傳》，深有感觸。羅曼·羅蘭是20世紀法國著名作家，他的作品是人們強大的精神支柱?！睹藗鳌穼懙氖秦惗喾遥组_朗基羅和托爾斯泰的故事，他們經(jīng)歷了各種的磨難卻沒有向命運屈服，在生命的最后一秒仍不屈不撓的抗爭著，最終成為了偉人。這也告訴了我們一個道理：艱難和挫折是對命運和人生的最好錘煉！在這三位偉人當中，給我留下最深印象的是貝多芬。他對音樂有火一般的熱情，先后創(chuàng)作了許多優(yōu)秀的作品。他的作品深邃而輝煌壯觀，充滿了幻想。但災難還是無情的降臨到了他的頭上，在1802年，他意識到自己的聽力障礙已經(jīng)無法治愈，并且會很快惡化。那意味著他可能再也不能進行創(chuàng)作了!這是多么大的打擊啊！但他卻能頑強的和命運抗爭，這也許是他后期能寫出那么多不朽作品的原因吧。這種對生活對命運永不妥協(xié)的精神正是我們應該學習的，這偉大不屈的靈魂讓黑暗的世界有了光芒，讓生活有了希望。

讀了貝多芬的故事，讓我聯(lián)想到了海倫凱勒——一個同樣有著堅強毅力的人。她的生活同樣是很不幸的，兒時的一場大病，讓她變成了一位又盲又聾又啞的小女孩。在她的世界里，沒有色彩，沒有聲音，也無法表達自己的想法。但命運的不公沒有讓她失去希望，她渴望了解一切，于是她加倍的努力，最終成為十九世紀最有影響力的人物之一。貝多芬和海倫凱勒在生活中遭遇著不同的磨難，但他們卻有著同樣的精神——永不向命運屈服！這不僅讓我敬佩也引發(fā)了我深深的思考。作為21世紀的一名中學生，社會的競爭更加的激烈，我們的功課越來越多，學習上的困難也隨之增多，面對重重的困難與壓力，我們是不是也需要這種精神呢？是！在遇到難題時，在學習成績下降時，讓我們“借著貝多芬的光芒，再一次擦亮我們的眼睛。”用堅定的信念去面對挫折，用頑強的毅力去實現(xiàn)理想 讀《假如給我三天光明》有感

父母、老師常常教育我們：一寸光陰一寸金，寸金難買寸光陰。自從我讀了美國盲聾女作家、教育家海倫．凱勒寫的《假如給我三天光明》，我才更明白這句話的含義。

《假如給我三天光明》這本書寫了海倫對光明那熱切的渴望和對人生的感慨，讓讀過這本書的人和她一起分享海倫人生中的酸甜苦辣。書字里行間，無不洋溢海倫·凱勒對生活的熱愛，她用熱情的態(tài)度勸戒世人應該珍惜享有的一切。她希望擁有三天的光明去看盡世界的一切景觀。海倫·凱勒想看的事物實在是太多太多了，然而這只不過是一個夢。要是人把活著的每一天都當成最后一天該有多好啊，那就更能顯示出生命的價值，然而人利用時間和享受時間卻是有限的如果每個人都可以充分利用每一天的話，那這將會是一件多么令人高興的事情啊!三天光明，對于常人來說只是人生中的短暫的一刻。對于雙目失明的海倫來說，卻是可想而不可及的。三天光明，對于那些碌碌無為的人，無非是在漫無目的地游玩著，他們追求的生活還不如那些乞丐，至少還知道去要飯。而目前青少年學生中也有這么一些人，擁有舒適的生活環(huán)境，良好的學習條件。但他們不是去珍惜自己擁有的一切，而是吃不得半點苦，把學習當成一大苦差，無心向?qū)W。對于學習，他們總是不屑一顧，不是以積極的態(tài)度去勤奮學習，努力拼搏，而是哀嘆命運對于自己的不公，責怨上天沒有賦予他們聰穎的天資、超人的智慧，讓他們能一舉成名天下知。現(xiàn)在的社會是靠知識才能生存的社會，沒有知識的人是不可能在社會上有一席之地。如果我們可以好好學習，讓學問把大腦給 占據(jù)的話，就可以為以后的道路鋪上一層石頭了！海倫·凱勒雙木失明，她還能用自己的殘疾的身軀寫出《假如給我三天光明》這樣聞名于世的書。

第五篇：英語小說讀后感

英語小說讀后感---A Rose for Emily

時間:2010-12-11 15:41來源:浙江師范大學外國語學院08級 作者:任吉丹 點擊:1966次

《獻給愛米麗的一朵玫瑰花》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