英文读书报告参考 book report

第一篇：英文读书报告参考 book report

A Book Report of a Thousand Splendid Suns A Book Report of a Thousand Splendid Suns

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Brief Introduction A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini.It is his second, following hisbestselling 2003 debut, The Kite Runner.Mariam is an illegitimate child, and suffers from both the stigma surrounding her birth along with the abuse she faces throughout her marriage.Laila, born a generation later, is comparatively privileged during her youth until their lives intersect and she is also forced to accept a marriage proposal from Rasheed, Mariam's husband.The author Hosseini has remarked that he regards the novel as a “mother-daughter story” in contrast to The Kite Runner, which he considers a “father-son story”.It continues some of the themes used in his previous work, such as the familial aspects, but focuses primarily on female characters and their roles in Afghan society.The Author ＆ Background Khaled Hosseini(born

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4，1965)

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Afghan-born American novelist and physician.After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California, an occupation that he likened to “an arranged marriage”.He has published three novels, most notably his 2003 debut The Kite Runner, all of which are at least partially set in Afghanistan and feature an Afghan as the protagonist.Following the success of The Kite Runner he retired from medicine to write full-time.Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan.His father worked as a diplomat, and when Hosseini was 11 years old, the family moved to France;four years later, they applied for asylum in the United States, where he later became a citizen.Hosseini did not

A Book Report of a Thousand Splendid Suns return to Afghanistan until 2001 at the age of 36, where he “felt like a tourist in hisown country”.Hosseini visited Afghanistan in 2003, and “heard so many stories about what happened to women, the tragedies that they had endured, the difficulties, the gender-based violence that they had suffered, the discrimination, the being barred from active life during the Taliban, having their movement restricted, being banned essentially from practicing their legal, social rights, political rights”.This motivated him to write a novel centered on two Afghan women.Title

The title of the book comes from a line in the Josephine Davis translation of the poem “Kabul”, by the 17th-century Iranian poet Saib Tabrizi: “Every street of Kabul is enthralling to the eye Through the bazaars, caravans of Egypt pass

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs And the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls”

In an interview, Khaled Hosseini explains, “I was searching for English translations of poems about Kabul, for use in a scene where a character bemoans leaving his beloved city, when I found this particular verse.I realized that I had found not only the right line for the scene, but also an evocative title in the phrase 'a thousand splendid suns,' which appears in the next-to-last stanza.”

Summary The novel centers around two women, Mariam and Laila, how their lives become intertwined after a series of drastic events, and their subsequent friendship and support for each other in the backdrop of Kabul in the 20th and 21st century.It is split 2

A Book Report of a Thousand Splendid Suns into four parts that focus on individual stories: Part one is about Mariam, part two is on Laila, part three is on the relationship between the two women, and Laila's life with Tariq is in part four.The last section also happens to be the only part written in the present tense.Mariam lives in a kolba on the outskirts of Herat with her embittered mother.Jalil, her father, is a wealthy businessman who owns a cinema and lives in the town with three wives and nine children.Mariam is his illegitimate daughter,and she is prohibited to live with them, but Jalil visits her every Thursday.On her fifteenth birthday, Mariam wants her father to take her to see Pinocchio at his movie theater, against the pleas of her mother.When he does not show up, she hikes into town and goes to his house.He refuses to see her, and she ends up sleeping on the street.In the morning, Mariam returns home to find that her mother has committed suicide out of fear that her daughter had deserted her.Mariam is then taken to live in her father's house.Jalil arranges for her to be married to Rasheed, a shoemaker from Kabul who is thirty-years her senior.In Kabul, Mariam becomes pregnant seven successive times, but is never able to carry a child to term.This is a sad, disquieting reality for both Rasheed and Mariam.Ultimately Rasheed grows more and more despondent over his wife's inability to have a child and particularly a son.As their marriage wears on Rasheed gradually becomes more and more abusive.Part Two introduces Laila.She is a girl growing up in Kabul who is close friends with Tariq, a boy living in her neighborhood.They eventually develop a romantic relationship despite being aware of the social boundaries between men and women in Afghan society.War comes to Afghanistan, and Kabul is bombarded by rocket attacks.Tariq's family decides to leave the city, and the emotional farewell between Laila and Tariq culminates with them making love.Laila's family also decides to leave Kabul, but as they are packing a rocket destroys the house, killing her parents and severely injuring Laila.Laila is subsequently taken in by Rasheed and Mariam.3

A Book Report of a Thousand Splendid Suns After recovering from her injuries, Laila discovers that she is pregnant with Tariq's child.After being informed by Abdul Sharif that Tariq has died, she agrees to marry Rasheed, a man eager to have a young and attractive second wife in hopes of having a son with her.When Laila gives birth to a daughter, Aziza, Rasheed is displeased and suspicious.This results in him becoming abusive towards Laila.Mariam and Laila eventually become confidants and best friends.They plan to run away from Rasheed and leave Kabul but are caught at the bus station.Rasheed beats them and deprives them of water for several days, almost killing Aziza.A few years later, Laila gives birth to Zalmai, Rasheed's son.The Taliban has risen to power and imposed harsh rules on the Afghan population, prohibiting women from appearing in public without a male relative.There is a drought, and living conditions in Kabul become poor.Rasheed's workshop burns down, and he is forced to take jobs for which he is ill-suited.He sends Aziza to an orphanage.Laila endures a number of beatings from the Taliban when caught alone on the streets in attempts to visit her daughter.Then one day Tariq appears outside the house, and he and Laila are reunited.Laila realizes that Rasheed had hired Abdul Sharif to inform her about Tariq's fake death, so that he could marry her.When Rasheed returns home from work, Zalmai tells his father about the visitor.Rasheed starts to savagely beat Laila.He nearly strangles her, but Mariam intervenes and kills Rasheed with a shovel.Afterwards, Mariam confesses to killing Rasheed in order to draw attention away from Laila and Tariq.Mariam is publicly executed, allowing Laila and Tariq to leave for Pakistan with Aziza and Zalmai.They spend their days working at a guest house in Murree, a summer retreat.After the fall of the Taliban, Laila and Tariq return to Afghanistan.They stop in the village where Mariam was raised, and discover a package that Mariam's father left behind for her: a videotape of Pinocchio, a small sack of money, and a letter.Laila reads the letter and discovers that Jalil had regretted sending Mariam away.Laila and

A Book Report of a Thousand Splendid Suns Tariq return to Kabul and use the money to fix up the orphanage, where Laila starts working as a teacher.Laila is pregnant with her third child, and if it is a girl, Laila has already named her Mariam.Comments After reading the novel,I am deeply touched and shocked.I am touched by the patience and suffering of Mariam and the friendship between Mariam and Laila.I am shocked by the violenceand abuse of Rasheed.It is a beautiful, heart-wrenching story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond and an indestructible love.Although Mariam and Laila suffer many pains, yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.In the end it is love that triumphs over death and destruction.Love may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you consider the war-ravaged landscape of Afghanistan.But that is the emotion—subterranean, powerful, beautiful, illicit, and infinitely patient—that suffuses the pages of Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns.As in his best-selling first novel, The Kite Runner, Hosseini movingly examines the connections between unlikely friends, the fissures that open up between parents and children, the intransigence of quiet hearts.Nowadays,there are still many wars in this land threatening the lives of the people stay there.And I wonder how will these Afghan women do, and more important, what can WE do.A Book Report of a Thousand Splendid Suns Style ＆ Technique A Thousand Splendid Suns received significant praise from reviewers, with Publishers Weekly calling it “a powerful, harrowing depiction of Afghanistan” andUSA Today describing the prose as “achingly beautiful”.Lisa See of The New York Times attributed the book's success to Hosseini “understandingthe power of emotion as few other popular writers do”.Natasha Walter from The Guardian wrote, “Hosseini is skilled at telling a certain kind of story, in which events that may seem unbearableare made readable.He doesn't gloss over the horrors his characters live through, but something about his direct, explanatory style and the sense that you are moving towards a redemptive ending makes the whole narrative, for all its tragedies, slip down rather easily.”

第二篇：双城记英文简介 bookreport专用

A Tale of Two Cities It was the year 1757, the doctor Manette lived in Pairs.And one day he treated a young woman who was hurt by ME family.And the young woman’s husband was killed by them.The doctor felt very angry when he heard the young woman’s miserable experiences.He decided to claimed crimes of ME to the king’s court.So he wrote a letter to the court.Some days later, several men came to Manette’s house and asked him to treat a patient.Manette agreed and followed these men.But these man were ME members.They put Manette into prison.Manette’s family didn’t find him anywhere.Just several months later his wife gave birth to a baby called Lucie.18 years had passed.It was 1775.The doctor’s daughter Lucie was 18 years old.At that time she lived in London.She just was brought up by Miss Spross, because when Lucie was 2 years old her mother was dead.One day she suddenly received a letter that said she should immediately went to Pairs for getting some information about her father.She felt shocked and went to Pairs as soon as possible.On the ways to Pairs, Lucie met other main character in this book--Charles.He was a son of the ME’s leader.But he hated his father and relatives’ cruel actions to low class people, so he moved to England and exchanged his name to Charles.At that time, no one knew his real identity.He fell in love with the beautiful Luciel.When Lucie arrived in the Pairs, she met her father’s old friend Mr.Lorry.Mr.Lorry brought Lucie to meet her father’s former servant--Ernest Defarge.At that time Defarge and his wife Madame Defarge ran a bar in Pairs.Through all people’s effort, Lucie met her father at first time.Her father was weak and filthy.When Manette knew he had a daughter in the world he held his daughter and cried.Then Mr.Lorry, Lucie and her father came back to London.Lucie and her father had a harmonious and peaceful life in London.Lucie took care of her father very well.And her father recovered, he became a doctor again.After 5 years, Charle whom I told you before Lucie met him on the way to Pairs was sued.Lucie who was a witness also joined the trial.In the trial, Charle’s lawyer Carton discovered remarkable details for proving Charle was innocent.Finally the jury announced the verdict –Charle was not guilty.During the trial, the lawyer Carton who perceived Lucie’s golden quality and beauty also fell in love with her.Some days later, Charle took courtship to Lucie and Lucie accepted.During the wedding, Charle told Lucie’s father, who is the doctor, his real identity that he came from ME and so on.The doctor felt shocked.He stayed prison for 18 years just for ME.But doctor decided to keep this secret because he was more concerned about his daughter’s happiness.After the wedding, Carton still kept very close relationship with the young couple.In his mind, his happiness is not marrying her but knowing her happiness.In 1789, the revolution erupted in France.When Chale got this news, he had to go back to France to help his old friends in Pairs.But when he just arrived on Pairs, he was arrested for he was an/the Emigrant.Because revolutionist hated the English Emigrant very much, he was put into the prison.In London when Lucie, Manette, Carton and Mr.Lorry heard the bad news, they rushed to Pairs.The revolutionists welcome Manette due to his suffering in Bastill.Soon, at Charle’s trial, by a unanimous vote, Charle was freed.But a few hours later, Charle was arrested again for his real identity.And he was denounced by Madame Defarge.Several days later, the court announced that Charle was one of ME, a former noble man, and an enemy of the Republic, one of family of tyrants that lived off the blood of the people!Court decided to execute Charles by guillotine in twenty-four hours.Everyone felt painful and hopeless except Madame Defarge.Someone can ask why Madame Defarge hated Chale so much and why she still wanted to kill him? Now, please look at block broad.Can you remember that ME hurt a young lady and killed the lady’s husband? Madame Defarge was the last survivor in this pathetic family.Until now, whole things became clear and reasonable.When Carton saw Lucie’s pale face and hopeless eye, he felt some swords penetrated into his heart.He made a holy and brave decision.He decided to save Charles who was in prison and replaced him to die because of loving Lucie.At that time, Madame Defarge was saturated into revenge, so she brought pistol to Lucie’s apartment.She not only wanted to kill Charles, but also wanted to kill his whole family.She had been deeply indulged in the revenge.On the fight between Madame Defarge and Lucie’s servant, Defarge was killed by her pistol.Soon Carton went to the prison and bribed a prison official to let him go into the prison.Then, he drunk Charles and exchanged their clothes.Finally, the prison official brought Charles to Lucie’s apartment.The last minute came and Carton was brought to the guillotine.As his cart rumbled toward the platform, he turned his eyes toward London and said: I see them holding a special place for me in their hearts, remembering me with love.Yes, this is a far, far better thing that I am doing than anything I have ever done in my life.END 因为爱情 简单的生长

依然随时可以为你疯狂

因为爱情 怎么会有沧桑

所以我们还是年轻的模样

第三篇：英文读书报告

Class: 08本二班

Name：李秀清 NO：200841010234 page: 1

Afterthought of “Shuang Leng Chang He”

Friendship

Recently, I read a book named „Shuang Leng Chang He‟which is written by Yu Qiuyu.There are some essays about philosophic theory of human life in this book.However, I was attractive by the essay of friendship for I was told the essence of friendship and learnt how to make friends with others.Friendship is an eternal theme we examine and explore.But what is friendship? What is the real meaning of friendship? As we know, friendship is a life-long treasure.With friends, we share our joys and tears.Friendship is not a commodity with a price, nor should we alienate our friends by questioning or judging their virtues.In traditional culture of China, most of the literary men admire the friendship between Yu Boya and Zhong Ziqi.They hold the point that mountain stream with a knowing ear is the luckiest thing and looking forward to this kind of friendship in their whole life.However, a bosom friend is not easy to find in the real world.It usually comes that the person is your friend today, and tomorrow would be your enemy.Even more, when a person was deceived or betrayed by his friends, he would never trust any friends.Usually, people will try their best to help their friends, even their lives when needed.However they find it hard to forgive the friend who betrayed them.Hence, how to establish friendly relationship is very important and necessary for human beings.There is a Chinese saying goes, you depend on your parents when you stay at home, and you depend on your friends when you go out.This kind of saying indicates that the importance of friends, at the same time it means the value of friends is for dependence.Therefore, will you make friends with a person who has no use for you? Or anyone helped you can become your friends? What do we expect from our friends? From my point of view, a real friend does not care your background, your wealth, your appearance.The truest friend of all is one that reads your very soul, one who is always there when needed.A real friend does not expect something from their friends or depend on his friends.Friendship is an in-depth relationship combining trust, communication, and understanding.Some people hold the idea that finding a friend is like coming home.When you come “home” to a friend, you can relax;unbosoming you pains and sorrows and you needn‟t pretend or act tough.But do not forget one point that is keeping distance between you.Most people of China are likely to ignore this kind of problem, which sometimes causes some unnecessary troubles.From my point of view, we should better keep proper distance with our friends if you want keep a stable relationship.Generally, as a Chinese, people would rather receive excessive kindness than say “NO‟‟ to their friends.In their opinion, a good friend should not turn down their friends, if this happened, their friends would be regarded that they were looked down by their friends and felt loosing face.For example, one of your friends is afraid of exam and he asks for your help during the examination.What would you do? To be or not to be? Even though you are unwilling to cheat in the exam, you still promise to offer help and endure the suffering yourself from treating.Every man alone is sincere.At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.Emerson said “A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.I do not wish to treat friendship daintily, but with roughest courage.” From these words, we know that friendship is built on sincerity, and sincerity is based on equality of personality.Without sincerity and equality of personality, people will not trust others and make friends with others in heart.In addition to this, Aristotle also said that wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.Maybe it only takes one second time to be friends, but you will spend more time to establish friendly relationships.Pure friendship without judgment can enrich our life.We have our own judgments on our friends according to their virtues.Though you find virtues in your friends, he was your friend before you found them.If you choose your friends on the ground that you are virtues and want virtuous company, you are no nearer to true friendship than of choosing them for commercial reasons.Though you may choose the virtuous to be your friends, they may not choose you as a friend.Nevertheless, without judgment does not mean that you should ignore what is right and wrong to support you friends without condition.Unquestioning support will bring disaster finally.From this article, people may feel that it is not easy to find a real friend.In fact the problem is we require too much from friendship, such as the sense of belonging, obligation and other virtues.If we get rid of this kind of demand and fetter, we will understand the friendship clearly and enjoy it completely.Friendship is just like a seed which we should look after carefully.Cherish is a virtue.A friend is a friend;you should cherish the relationship maintain it with hearts.What‟s more, we should

learn how to keep distance, how to keep the independence of spirit and personality;learn to distinguish what is right and what is wrong and make the exact choice.Person whom possesses his own idea and character would win the real friendship.Last but not least, no matter how eager we are to make friends with others, we should not forget the point, that is, action is one of the best ways of expression of your sincerity.Beautiful words do not give any sense.An action is better than thousands words.2011年 3月20日

第四篇：老人与海 读书报告 英文

《老人与海》读书报告

Book Report of The Old Man and the SEA

The Old Man and the SEA is a midium-length novel written by Ernest miller

Hemingway ,who was born in America.Hemingway went through a quite rough life.He experienced two wars.The wars brought lots of honor to him, followed by 237 scars of wounds and frightening memories which can never be driven away.As far back as 1939, Hemingway began to prepare for the novel.But in fact, the novel was not be published until 1952.“A man is not made for defeat.” “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”After reading the book The Old Man and The Sea , my brain is filled with these two

sentences.Santiago is a true man who taught me to face difficulties bravely and to be confident in my life.The Old Man and the SEA is a story that a old fisherman, Santiago, did not catch any fish in 84 days.At first, a boy named Manolin used to go fishing with Santiago.But after 40 days without any fish ,his parents arranged the boy to go to another boat, because they thought it would unlucky to let the boy stay with the old man.However, in the eighty fifth day ,the old man rowed the boat far away in the early morning ,and to his surprise, he caught a marlin which was bigger than the boat.The old man struggled with the big marlin in the following two days, and finally speared it.However, the injured fish left a trace with blood, leading hundreds sharks to

battle.The old man tried his best to fight with sharks, but when he arrived at

harbor ,the old man fell down exhaustedly ,only to find there was just a huge fishbone left.The boy came to visit the old man and he believed the old man was not a loser.He told the old man "He did not beat you.Not the fish.That afternoon, the old man slept.He met a lion in his dream.In the story, Santiago is the symbol of those who will never give in to the

difficulties no matter how hard they are.The sharks stands for some resistance, even disasters.Santiago showed his optimism.Even if he just caught a fish born, he still a winner in spirit.After reading the novel, we can understand what is true brave.We may meet

various of difficulties and challenges in our life.Facing to them, what should we do? Santiago has given us a powerful answer.I think the old man is the lion in his dream __a lion that will never give up ,no matter what difficulties he met.Never give up__ that'swhat The Old Man and the Sea told us.

第五篇：傲慢与偏见读书报告英文

读书报告

I.Introduction

The English author Jane Austen lived from 1775 to 1817.Born on December 16th, 1775 at Steventon, Hampshire, England.Austen was one of eight children of an English clergyman, and given the accomplishments of her novels.She was educated mainly at home.At an early age she began writing sketches and satires of popular novels for her family's entertainment.As a clergyman's daughter from a well-connected family, she had ample opportunity to study the habits of the middle class, the gentry, and the aristocracy.She lived a remarkably quiet and domestic life in the rural south of England.She never married and was only 41 when she died.Jane Austen's novels were witty, warm and ironic portraits of the privileged classes of 18th-and 19th-century England.Her novels are highly prized not only for their light irony, humor, and depiction of contemporary English country life, but also for their underlying serious qualities.Novels

      Sense and Sensibility(1811)Pride and Prejudice(1813)Mansfield Park(1814)Emma(1815)

Northanger Abbey(1817)(posthumous)Persuasion(1817)(posthumous)Short fiction

 Lady Susan(1794, 1805)Unfinished fiction

  The Watsons(1804)Sanditon(1817)Other works

     Sir Charles Grandison(1793, 1800)Plan of a Novel(1815)Poems Prayers Letters

II.Summary The story shows the British society's life at that time by describing the marriage problems.It mainly describes the love story of Bennet ’s several daughters.Mr.Bingley is newly from London and falls in love with the biggest daughter, Jane.His friend Darcy is sweet upon the second daughter Elizabeth, but their marriage moves slowly for some reasons.After a range of interesting troubles, the misunderstandings are finally removed.With Darcy overcomes his pride, and Elizabeth overcomes her prejudice, they get together finally.By describing different marriages, Austin expresses her opinions of the marriage which insist on the understanding to each other.To a certain extent, this novel also reflects the wish for the independent marriage for women at that time.Mr.Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife.The Bennets 5 daughters: the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia.Unfortunately for the Bennets, if Mr.Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security are dependent on the daughters making good marriages.Life is uneventful until the arrival in the neighborhood of the rich gentleman Mr.Bingley, who rents a large house so he can spend the summer in the country.Mr.Bingley brings with him his sister and his friend Mr.Darcy.One night, at a dancing party, Mr.Bingley is well-received in the community;but Mr.Darcy is very proud and indifferent to other people.Mr.Bingley falls in love with Jane immediately, and so does Jane.Mr.Bingley and Jane Bennet begin to grow close relationship despite Mrs.Bennet's interference and the opposition of Bingley's sister.Because of Mr.Darcy’s pride, Elizabeth is stung by his haughty rejection of her and decides to match his coldness with her own wit.Sometime later, Mr.Darcy begins to develop interests in Elizabeth.At another dancing party, Mr.Darcy invites Elizabeth to dance only to be refused.Mr.Darcy is in a difficult position.At the same time

Elizabeth begins a friendship with Mr.Wickham, a militia officer who relates a prior acquaintance with Darcy.Wickham tells her that he has been seriously mistreated by Darcy.Elizabeth immediately seizes upon this information as another reason to hate Darcy.Bingley's sister has pursuit Mr.Darcy for a long time, but when she finds that Mr.Darcy is fond of Elizabeth.The anger makes her prevent the development of their relationship.In addition, Mr.Darcy also dislikes Elizabeth’s mother and sisters for their vulgarism.Finally, Mr.Bingley leaves London under the persuasion of his sister and Mr.Darcy.Before Bingley leaves, Mr.Collins, the male relative who is to inherit Longbourn, makes a sudden appearance and stays with the Bennets.He is a recently ordained clergyman employed by the wealthy and patronizing Lady Catherine de Bourgh.Collins has another reason for visiting: he wishes to find a wife from among the Bennet sisters.Mr.Bennet and Elizabeth are amused by his self-important and pedantic behavior.He immediately enters pursuit of Jane;however, when Mrs.Bennet mentions her preoccupation with Mr.Bingley, he turns to Elizabeth.He soon proposes marriage to Elizabeth, only to be refused again.Collins quickly recovers and proposes to Elizabeth's close friend, Charlotte Lucas, who immediately accepts him.Once the marriage is arranged, Charlotte asks Elizabeth to come for an extended visit.In the spring, Elizabeth joins Charlotte and her cousin at his parish in Kent.The parish is adjacent to Rosings Park, the grand manor of Mr.Darcy's aunt, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, where Elizabeth frequently invites.While calling on Lady Catherine, Mr.Darcy encounters Elizabeth.She discovers from a cousin of Darcy that it is he who separates Bingley and Jane.Soon after, Darcy admits his love of Elizabeth and proposes to her.Insulted by his high-handed and insulting manner of proposing, Elizabeth refuses him.When he asks why she should refuse him, she tells him the story of Bingley and Jane, furthermore, she also takes Mr.Wickham’s story as an example to blame Mr.Darcy.Deeply shaken by Elizabeth's vehemence and accusations, Darcy writes her a letter justifying his actions and decides to change himself.In the letter, he says that it is Wickham who uses up all the legacy-settlement.As for Bingley and Jane, Darcy justifies his actions from having observed that Jane does not show any reciprocal interest in his friend;thus his aim in separating them is mainly to protect Bingley from heartache.Darcy admits he is concerned about the disadvantageous connection with Elizabeth's family, especially her embarrassing mother and wild younger sisters.After reading the letter, Elizabeth begins to question both her family's behaviors and Wickham's credibility;she concludes that Wickham is not as trustworthy as his easy manners would indicate, and that her early impressions of Darcy may not have been accurate.Soon after receiving the letter Elizabeth returns home.Some months later, during a tour of Derbyshire with her aunt and uncle, Elizabeth visits Darcy's estate.There they meet again, and Darcy is different from before.He becomes friendly and modest, which leaves Elizabeth a good impression.Some good things happening between Darcy and Elizabeth when news arrives that Elizabeth's younger sister Lydia has run away with Wickham.Elizabeth is convinced that Darcy will be angry with her.However, Darcy does the opposite thing.With the help of Darcy, Lydia and Wickham are found and married.Bingley and Jane are together after a lot of hardships in the end, but Darcy’s aunt Lady Catherine travels to Longbourn with the sole aim of confronting Elizabeth and demanding that she never accepts such a proposal of marries Darcy.Elizabeth refuses to bow to Lady Catherine's demands.When the news reaches Darcy, it convinces him that her opinion of him has changed.When he visits, he once again proposes marriage.Elizabeth accepts, and the two become engaged.In the end, all the people in the novel are happy, and this is the happy ending.III.Comments

In my opinion, this book is an illustration of the society at that time.It perfectly reflects the relation between money and marriage at her time and gives the people in her works vivid characters.The characters have their own personalities.The most important part of the novel is the love story between Elizabeth and Darcy.Elizabeth is a smart and beautiful girl born in a middle class family who is persistent and brave in the pursuit of love.The story’s spread leads on Elizabeth’s feeling to Darcy: from detestation to admiration and then love.In addition, other people’s happiness also appears during this period of time.Jane Austen writes this for the purpose of showing the thinking of the women’s love, marriage and expectation at that time.Now let me talk something about the marriage in the novel briefly.Elizabeth and Darcy’s marriage is based on both money and love, and love is more important.This is the perfect marriage.The only purpose of Collins and Lucas’ marriage is pursuit.Only by

marrying someone can Lucas feels safety.Jane and Bingley’s marriage is based on beauty and money.This is also a kind of good marriage.They will be happy.Lydia and Wickham’s marriage is only based on passion.They only care about the appearance.We can image whether their life will happy or not.Jane Austen thinks that it is wrong for people to marry for money and social statues;on the other hand, she also disagrees to the marriage regardless of the former aspects.So Jane Austen calls on the reasonable marriage, and the marriage should be based on love.In modern society, although the marriages of economic needs have decreased rapidly, the concept of “money determines everything” is still rooted in some people’s mind.A lot of parents try hard to interfere their children’s marriages.Education background, possessions, jobs remain the main reason that may influence one’s marriage.Marrying for money is still a big problem in our society.We can’t help thinking: can money determine everything? Austen left this problem for us to think.The genius of Jane Austen lies in this perfect simplicity, and the simplicity that reflects big problems.Although Austen was only 21 when she wrote “Pride and Prejudice”, her sharp observation of social lives makes the style of this book surprisingly mature and lively.The plots in her works are always very natural.The development of the plot is as inevitable as a problem in mathematics.I think the depth of Pride and Prejudice is the reason that makes this book prominent and classic.Today, her book still can be the guide telling us the economic relationships both at her time and in modern time.I really learn a lot from the book, which makes me think a lot.It is one of the best books that I have ever read.Furthermore, I think it is one of the best books that have ever been written.The reason that I have such feelings maybe I really read too few books.So, there are still many wonderful books in front of me waiting to be read.Keep reading, keep moving.