第一篇：Book Review： A Little Princess
Book Review: A Little Princess
——to live nobly
In this holiday, I have read a book, which is named A Little Princess.This is a story of the 19th century, by Frances Hodgson Burnett.This book was later made into a film entitled The Little Princess.Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was born in November 24, 1849, and died in October 29, 1924.Burnett’s father died when she was young.And her family was very poor, so she had to earn money to contribute her family.When she was 18 years old, she published her works on magazines.Burnett’s first best-seller book is That Lass O’ Lowries, which be published when she was 28 years old.Burnett was an English playwright and author.She devoted herself to her writing, and had written more than 40 novels.Many works of Burnett had been choose as many countries’ school’s text, such as Britain, The United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and South Africa.She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy.This three books have been popular for some time.A Little Princess is a Cinderella-style children’s novel.The little heroine is a British girl, Sara Crewe.When she was born her mother died.And her father, captain Crewe was very rich in India.Sara lived in India.But when she was 7 years old, she was sent to London by her father, and studied in Women's noble boarding school which be opened by Maria Minchin.When Sara entered school, everyone treated her as a princess.However, at that day, which is Sara’s birthday, she had got a bad new—Sara’s father went to bankrupt and
died.Meanwhile, Miss.Minchin changed her attitude towards Sara.And she thought that Sara is trouble.So Miss.Minchin transformed a little princess into a humble maid.What’s more, Miss.Minchin drove Sara from the beautiful room to a cold and crude attic.Although Sara’s life was very hard, she always helps other people.There was no doubt that Sara missed her father very much.No matter what difficulties she confronted with, she could persist in.Sara lived with her friend, Becky, who went to school to be a little maid when Sara was 9 years old.They helped and comforted each other.To everyone’s surprise, Sara’s father left a major pen of inheritance for her.Her father’s friend passed by complicated, and found out her finally.So Sara became a little princess again and be took away from Miss.Minchin’s school, which made Miss.Minchin very irritated.This book not only depicted kind and strong girl—Sara, but also satirize Miss.Minchin’s snobbish attitude.Sara was a little girl, but her heart was very strong.Facing to suffering, she imagined her as a heroine who served a sentence in the Bastille to get strong power to live.Facing to hunger and ragged clothes, she was shy to get alms.But when she was very hungry, she gave bagger 5 breads, and just left one bread for herself.This is because Sara always told herself,” I am a princess”.Facing to dilapidated attic, she liked to watch sunrise and sunset, and liked to lie on the balcony to look “the big family”.Sara always can find some meaningful things to make up the hard life.It is just like a sentence which from this novel:” If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart, and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and
you can give things out of that-warm things, kind things, sweaty things-help and comfort and laughter”.Sara just was a little girl.When she was a true princess, and had beautiful clothes and all kinds of toys, she helped her little partners who are ragged servants.And she told stories to them.When she became a maid who lived in dilapidated attic even lived with mousse, she told herself,” Although I wore rags, I am a princess in my heart.” She believed that” I am a princess.All girls are, even if they live in tiny old attics;even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young.They're still princesses.” This belief accompanied her to spend the hardest time in her life.I can remember a sentence that said by Sara:” When people are insulting you, there is nothing so good for them as not to say a word-just to look at them and think.”
A Little Princess is a story which can teach me that how to be a nobly girl.Never look down upon myself.Maybe, I can believe that, however, there must have magic to make me look golden light in dark.No matter what difficulty we get, I should told myself,” I am a princess, I must live nobly”.英语1001班
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第二篇：呼啸山庄英文读后感bookreview on wuthing heights
Wuthering Heights is a , and the onlyby.First published in 1847 under theEllis Bell, a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister.The name of the novel comes from themanor on theon which the story centers(as an adjective,is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather).The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love betweenand , and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.Now considered a classic of , Wuthering Heights met with mixed reviews by critics when it first appeared, mainly because of the narrative's stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty.Though Charlotte Brontë'swas initially considered the best of the ' works, many subsequent critics of Wuthering Heights argued that its originality and achievement made it superior.Wuthering Heights has also given rise to many adaptations and inspired works, including , , television dramatisations, aby , , , and(notably thehit “").The novel is narrated by Mr.Lockwood, who also takes a subsidiary role in the action.His housekeeper, Nelly Dean, provides a secondary narrative that is embedded within Lockwood's.Lockwood relates his arrival in the year 1801 at Thrushcross Grange, a grand house on thethat he is renting from Heathcliff, also the master of nearby Wuthering Heights.Visiting the Heights to greet his landlord, Lockwood is treated rudely and coldly by its inhabitants, whose hostile relationships with one another he does not understand.Snowed in, he is forced to stay overnight, and, unable to sleep, reads the diary of a girl named Catherine Earnshaw, learning that she was a close childhood friend of Heathcliff.Later, he has a terrifying dream in which the ghost of a young girl appears at his window and begs to be let in.As he struggles to keep her out of his room, Heathcliff is awakened by Lockwood's shouts and enters.Upon hearing of
Catherine's ghost, he asks Lockwood to leave the room.Standing outside the door, Lockwood hears Heathcliff sobbing and calling for 'Cathy' to come in.The next morning, after returning to Thrushcross Grange, Lockwood asks the housekeeper,Nelly Dean, to tell the story of Heathcliff, Catherine, and Wuthering Heights.She takes over the narration and begins her story thirty years earlier, when Heathcliff, a ”gypsy“ from the streets of Liverpool, is brought to Wuthering Heights by the then-owner, Mr.Earnshaw, and raised as his own.Both Earnshaw children, Catherine and Hindley, initially resent Heathcliff, however
Catherine and Heathcliff swiftly become inseparable.Her brother Hindley continues to hate and physically abuse him, seeing him as an interloper and rival for his father's attention.When Mr.Earnshaw dies three years later, Hindley, by this time married to a woman named Frances, inherits the estate.He brutalises Heathcliff, forcing him to work as a hired hand.Catherine becomes
friends with the neighbouring Linton family who live at Thrushcross Grange, and they mellow her wild personality.She is attracted to the refined, mild, and young Edgar Linton, whom Heathcliff takes an immediate dislike to.A year later, Frances dies from ”“ shortly after giving birth to a son, Hareton.Hindley takes to drinking and becomes dangerous, at one point dropping the baby Hareton from the stairs where he is rescued by Heathcliff.Some two years later, Catherine informs Nelly that she wishes to marry Edgar Linton, as it will give her status and allow her to protect Heathcliff from her brother.Nelly disapproves of Catherine's attraction to only Edgar's physical person and status.Heathcliff overhears the conversation at Catherine's explanation that it would be
”degrading“ to marry him and leaves Wuthering Heights, before hearing Catherine profess her love for him.After realizing Heathcliff has left her, Catherine becomes desperate and is struck down by a fever.When she is moved to Thrushcross Grange so that the Lintons may care for her, Mr.and Mrs.Linton contract the fever and die.Edgar's attentions slowly return Catherine back to health, and some years later she marries him.She lives in apparent happiness for a few months, until Heathcliff returns, apparently transformed into a wealthy, respectable gentleman.Through loans he has made to the wayward Hindley that cannot be repaid, Heathcliff takes ownership of Wuthering Heights upon Hindley's death.Intent on ruining Edgar, Heathcliff elopes with Edgar's sister Isabella when he learns of her attraction to him.When they marry and return to Wuthering Heights, Edgar disowns his sister and she is abused by Heathcliff.Catherine is initially ecstatic at seeing Heathcliff again, but then becomes very ill after a harsh argument with Heathcliff regarding Isabella.They reconcile a few hours before her death,however, reaffirming their feelings for one another.Catherine dies after giving birth to a daughter also named Catherine, or Cathy.With no male heir, the Linton estate passes to Catherine.Heathcliff becomes more bitter and vengeful towards those around him.Isabella flees her abusive marriage a month later and subsequently gives birth to a boy, Linton Heathcliff.At around the same time, Hindley dies.Heathcliff takes ownership of Wuthering Heights and vows to raise Hindley's son Hareton with as much neglect as he had suffered at Hindley's hands years earlier.Heathcliff chooses to ignore paternal emotions(he identifies with Hareton's plight)so that he might continue to degrade Hareton as Hindley degraded him, thereby achieving his revenge.Twelve years later, the dying Isabella asks Edgar to raise her and Heathcliff's son, Linton.However, Heathcliff finds out about this and takes the sickly, spoiled child to Wuthering Heights.Heathcliff has nothing but contempt for his son, but delights in the idea of him ruling the property of his enemies.Cathy, accompanied by Nelly, and Linton, accompanied by Hareton, meet while Cathy is riding on the moors.Linton treats Hareton, who is , with equal disrespect and contempt as his father does, believing Hareton to be an imbecile.Nelly is appalled by the state of Hareton, remembering him as a bright, loving toddler.Cathy feels sorry for Linton, who knows his father despises him and is utterly miserable.Heathcliff uses his son to issue Cathy invitations to Wuthering Heights, but Edgar senses a trap and refuses to let Cathy go.Cathy's nature is much sweeter than her mother's and she reluctantly obeys her father.But when she receives news that Linton has fallen ill, she refuses to stay at home and hurries to Wuthering Heights to see if she can be of help.Heathcliff attempts to persuade her to marry Linton.With Linton's health diminishing swiftly, he puts Cathy under house arrest and forces the two to marry.Soon after, Edgar Linton dies, followed shortly by Linton Heathcliff.This leaves Cathy a widow and a virtual prisoner at Wuthering Heights, as Heathcliff has gained complete control of both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.It is at this point in the narrative that Lockwood arrives, renting Thrushcross Grange from Heathcliff, and hears Nelly Dean's story.Shocked, Lockwood leaves for London.During Lockwood's absence, events, described to him by Nelly upon returning, reach a
climax;Cathy gradually softens toward her rough, uneducated cousin Hareton, just as her mother was tender towards Heathcliff.She teaches him to read and he allows her to open up again after becoming so bitter from Heathcliff's brutal treatment.When Heathcliff is confronted by Cathy and
Hareton's love, notably Hareton's determination to protect the defiant Cathy from Heathcliff's attacks, he seems to suffer a mental breakdown and begins to see Catherine's ghost.He seemingly abandons his life-long vendetta and dies, having ”swallowed nothing for four days".Nelly
describes finding Heathcliff's corpse as lying on the bed, stiff with , with the window open and rain pouring in through it, soaking Heathcliff's body.Only Hareton mourns Heathcliff's death.He is buried, according to his wishes, next to Catherine in the graveyard, with Edgar's grave on the other side of Catherine's.Lockwood hastily leaves Nelly and on his walk home he visits the graves, noting the tranquillity of the spot, sharply contrasting with the turbulent lives of the characters.
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