呼啸山庄英文赏析[定稿]

第一篇：呼啸山庄英文赏析[定稿]

Wuthering Heights which has long been one of the most popular and highly regarded novels in English literature, it has a secure position in the canon of world literature.As a shattering presentation of the doomed love between the passionate Catherine and Heathcliff, it remains one of the most haunting love stories in all of literature.In Wuthering Heights, Nature is represented by the Earnshaw family and especially Catherine and Heathcliff.These characters are governed by their emotions, not by reflection or ideals of civility.Wuthering Heights symbolized a similar wildness.On the other hand, Thrushcross Grange and the Linton family represent culture, refinement, convention, and cultivation.Wuthering heights, through a love tragedy, presented a picture of deformity of the social life and Outlines a kind of humanity twisted by society and all kinds of terrible events.The story ended with Heathcliff’s suicide.He died for love and his death shows his love to Katherine.He gave up the revenge to the younger generation after he knew that young Catherine and Harleton had fallen in love with each other shows that he was kind in nature.It was the cruel reality that twisted his humanity and made him become brutal and heartless.This kind of recovery of humanity was sublimation in spirit and it glared a kind of humanitarian ideal of the author and endows the terrible love tragedy some hope.Therefore, Heathcliff’s change of “love---hate---revenge---a recovery of humanity” is not only the essence of the novel but also a clue throughout the whole novel.According to the clue, the author arranged an unpredictable scene for us.Sometimes it was the moor full of clouds, sometimes it was courtyard with a sudden rain and wind.The story has always been shrouded in a kind of mysterious and horrible atmosphere.The novel is actually structured around two parallel love stories, the first half of the novel told about the love between Catherine and Heathcliff, while the rest dramatic second half told developing love between young Catherine and Harleton.In contrast to the first, the latter tale ends happily, restoring peace and order to Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.The most important feature of young Catherine and Harleton’s love story is that it involves growth and change.Early in the

novel Harleton seems brutal, savage, and illiterate, but over time he becomes a loyal friend to young Catherine and learns to read.Catherine and Heathcliff’s love, on the other hand, is rooted in their childhood and is marked by the refusal to change.In choosing to marry Edgar, Catherine seeks a more genteel life, but she refuses to adapt to her role as wife, either by sacrificing Heathcliff or embracing Edgar.Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based on their shared perception that they are identical.As Catherine declares, “I am Heathcliff,” while Heathcliff, upon Catherine’s death, said that he cannot live without his “soul,” meaning Catherine.Catherine’s betrayal and her bitter destiny was the turning point of the whole story.It made Heathcliff change his love to hate.After Catherine died, the hate became the motivation of his revenge.He successfully attained his objective.Not only he let Edgar and the Linton died in desolation and possessed their property but also let their innocent younger generation experience the hardships.This kind of crazy revenge clearly showed his uncommon and rebellious behavior.This special spirit of revolt was formed by the special environment and his special character.Heathcliff’s love tragedy was a tragedy of the society and that time.Wuthering Heights was known as “most strange novel” in the history of English literature and it was an unpredictable “strange book”.The reason is that it was different from the sentimentalism that lies in the works of the same age.It replaced the deep sadness and depression with intense love, brutal hate and ruthless revenge.It just like a strange lyric poem, imagination and intensive emotion existed among the words and between the lines and it had a kind of amazing artistic power.

第二篇：呼啸山庄英文赏析

Wuthering Heights which has long been one of the most popular and highly regarded novels in English literature, it has a secure position in the canon of world literature.As a shattering presentation of the doomed love between the passionate Catherine and Heathcliff, it remains one of the most haunting love stories in all of literature.In Wuthering Heights, Nature is represented by the Earnshaw family and especially Catherine and Heathcliff.These characters are governed by their emotions, not by reflection or ideals of civility.Wuthering Heights symbolized a similar wildness.On the other hand, Thrushcross Grange and the Linton family represent culture, refinement, convention, and cultivation.Wuthering heights, through a love tragedy, presented a picture of deformity of the social life and Outlines a kind of humanity twisted by society and all kinds of terrible events.The story ended with Heathcliff’s suicide.He died for love and his death shows his love to Katherine.He gave up the revenge to the younger generation after he knew that young Catherine and Harleton had fallen in love with each other shows that he was kind in nature.It was the cruel reality that twisted his humanity and made him become brutal and heartless.This kind of recovery of humanity was sublimation in spirit and it glared a kind of humanitarian ideal of the author and endows the terrible love tragedy some hope.Therefore, Heathcliff’s change of “love---hate---revenge---a recovery of humanity” is not only the essence of the novel but also a clue throughout the whole novel.According to the clue, the author arranged an unpredictable scene for us.Sometimes it was the moor full of clouds, sometimes it was courtyard with a sudden rain and wind.The story has always been shrouded in a kind of mysterious and horrible atmosphere.The novel is actually structured around two parallel love stories, the first half of the novel told about the love between Catherine and Heathcliff, while the rest dramatic second half told developing love between young Catherine and Harleton.In contrast to the first, the latter tale ends happily, restoring peace and order to Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.The most important feature of young Catherine and Harleton’s love story is that it involves growth and change.Early in the novel Harleton seems brutal, savage, and illiterate, but over time he becomes a loyal friend to young Catherine and learns to read.Catherine and Heathcliff’s love, on the other hand, is rooted in their childhood and is marked by the refusal to change.In choosing to marry Edgar, Catherine seeks a more genteel life, but she refuses to adapt to her role as wife, either by sacrificing Heathcliff or embracing Edgar.Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based on their shared perception that they are identical.As Catherine declares, “I am Heathcliff,” while Heathcliff, upon Catherine’s death, said that he cannot live without his “soul,” meaning Catherine.Catherine’s betrayal and her bitter destiny was the turning point of the whole story.It made Heathcliff change his love to hate.After Catherine died, the hate became the motivation of his revenge.He successfully attained his objective.Not only he let Edgar and the Linton died in desolation and possessed their property but also let their innocent younger generation experience the hardships.This kind of crazy revenge clearly showed his uncommon and rebellious behavior.This special spirit of revolt was formed by the special environment and his special character.Heathcliff’s love tragedy was a tragedy of the society and that time.Wuthering Heights was known as “most strange novel” in the history of English literature and it was an unpredictable “strange book”.The reason is that it was different from the sentimentalism that lies in the works of the same age.It replaced the deep sadness and depression with intense love, brutal hate and ruthless revenge.It just like a strange lyric poem, imagination and intensive emotion existed among the words and between the lines and it had a kind of amazing artistic power.

第三篇：(呼啸山庄)Wuthering-Heights-英文介绍及赏析

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Wuthering Heights transcends its genre in its sophisticated observation and artistic subtlety.The novel has been studied, analyzed, dissected, and discussed from every imaginable critical perspective, yet it remains unexhausted.And while the novel’s symbolism, themes, structure, and language may all spark fertile exploration, the bulk of its popularity may rest on its unforgettable characters.As a shattering presentation of the doomed love affair between the fiercely passionate Catherine and Heathcliff, it remains one of the most haunting love stories in all of literature.Today, Wuthering Heights has a secure position in the canon of world literature, and Emily Brontë is revered as one of the finest writers—male or female—of the nineteenth century.Like Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights is based partly on the Gothic tradition of the late eighteenth century, a style of literature that featured supernatural encounters, crumbling ruins, moonless nights, and grotesque imagery, seeking to create effects of mystery and fear.But Wuthering Heights transcends its genre in its sophisticated observation and artistic subtlety.The novel has been studied, analyzed, dissected, and discussed from every imaginable critical perspective, yet it remains unexhausted.And while the novel’s symbolism, themes, structure, and language may all spark fertile exploration, the bulk of its popularity may rest on its unforgettable characters.As a shattering presentation of the doomed love affair between the fiercely passionate Catherine and Heathcliff, it remains one of the most haunting love stories in all of literature.Analysis of Major Characters Heathcliff Wuthering Heights centers around the story of Heathcliff.The first paragraph of the novel provides a vivid physical picture of him, as Lockwood describes how his “black eyes” withdraw suspiciously under his brows at Lockwood’s approach.Nelly’s story begins with his introduction into the Earnshaw family, his vengeful machinations drive the entire plot, and his death ends the book.The desire to understand him and his motivations has kept countless readers engaged in the novel.Heathcliff, however, defies being understood, and it is difficult for readers to resist seeing what they want or expect to see in him.The novel teases the reader with the possibility that Heathcliff is something other than what he seems—that his cruelty is merely an expression of his frustrated love for Catherine, or that his sinister behaviors serve to conceal the heart of a romantic hero.We expect Heathcliff’s character to contain such a hidden virtue because he resembles a hero in a romance novel.Traditionally, romance novel heroes appear dangerous, brooding, and cold at first, only later to emerge as fiercely devoted and loving.One hundred years before Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights, the notion that “a reformed rake makes the best husband” was already a cliché of romantic literature, and romance novels center around the same cliché to this day.However, Heathcliff does not reform, and his malevolence proves so great and long-lasting that it cannot be adequately explained even as a desire for revenge against Hindley, Catherine, Edgar, etc.As he himself points out, his abuse of Isabella is purely sadistic, as he amuses himself by seeing how much abuse she can take and still come cringing back for more.Critic Joyce Carol Oates argues that Emily Brontë does the same thing to the reader that Heathcliff does to Isabella, testing to see how many times the reader can be shocked by Heathcliff’s gratuitous violence and still, masochistically, insist on seeing him as a romantic hero.呼啸山庄

It is significant that Heathcliff begins his life as a homeless orphan on the streets of Liverpool.When Brontë composed her book, in the 1840s, the English economy was severely depressed, and the conditions of the factory workers in industrial areas like Liverpool were so appalling that the upper and middle classes feared violent revolt.Thus, many of the more affluent members of society beheld these workers with a mixture of sympathy and fear.In literature, the smoky, threatening, miserable factory-towns were often represented in religious terms, and compared to hell.The poet William Blake, writing near the turn of the nineteenth century, speaks of England’s “dark Satanic Mills.” Heathcliff, of course, is frequently compared to a demon by the other characters in the book.Considering this historical context, Heathcliff seems to embody the anxieties that the book’s upper-and middle-class audience had about the working classes.The reader may easily sympathize with him when he is powerless, as a child tyrannized by Hindley Earnshaw, but he becomes a villain when he acquires power and returns to Wuthering Heights with money and the trappings of a gentleman.This corresponds with the ambivalence the upper classes felt toward the lower classes—the upper classes had charitable impulses toward lower-class citizens when they were miserable, but feared the prospect of the lower classes trying to escape their miserable circumstances by acquiring political, social, cultural, or economic power.Catherine The location of Catherine’s coffin symbolizes the conflict that tears apart her short life.She is not buried in the chapel with the Lintons.Nor is her coffin placed among the tombs of the Earnshaws.Instead, as Nelly describes in Chapter XVI, Catherine is buried “in a corner of the kirkyard, where the wall is so low that heath and bilberry plants have climbed over it from the moor.” Moreover, she is buried with Edgar on one side and Heathcliff on the other, suggesting her conflicted loyalties.Her actions are driven in part by her social ambitions, which initially are awakened during her first stay at the Lintons’, and which eventually compel her to marry Edgar.However, she is also motivated by impulses that prompt her to violate social conventions—to love Heathcliff, throw temper tantrums, and run around on the moor.Edgar Just as Isabella Linton serves as Catherine’s foil, Edgar Linton serves as Heathcliff’s.Edgar is born and raised a gentleman.He is graceful, well-mannered, and instilled with civilized virtues.These qualities cause Catherine to choose Edgar over Heathcliff and thus to initiate the contention between the men.Nevertheless, Edgar’s gentlemanly qualities ultimately prove useless in his ensuing rivalry with Heathcliff.Edgar is particularly humiliated by his confrontation with Heathcliff in Chapter XI, in which he openly shows his fear of fighting Heathcliff.Catherine, having witnessed the scene, taunts him, saying, “Heathcliff would as soon lift a finger at you as the king would march his army against a colony of mice.” As the reader can see from the earliest descriptions of Edgar as a spoiled child, his refinement is tied to his helplessness and impotence.Charlotte Brontë, in her preface to the 1850 edition of Wuthering Heights, refers to Edgar as “an example of constancy and tenderness,” and goes on to suggest that her sister Emily was using Edgar to point out that such characteristics constitute true virtues in all human beings, and not just in women, as society tended to believe.However, Charlotte’s reading seems influenced by her own feminist agenda.Edgar’s inability to counter Heathcliff’s vengeance, and his naïve belief on his deathbed in his daughter’s safety and happiness, make him a weak, if sympathetic, character

Themes, Motifs

Themes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.Moreover, Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based on their shared perception that they are identical.Catherine declares, famously, “I am Heathcliff,” while Heathcliff, upon Catherine’s death, wails that he cannot live without his “soul,” meaning Catherine.Their love denies difference, and is strangely asexual.The two do not kiss in dark corners or arrange secret trysts, as adulterers do.Given that Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based upon their refusal to change over time or embrace difference in others, it is fitting that the disastrous problems of their generation are overcome not by some climactic reversal, but simply by the inexorable passage of time, and the rise of a new and distinct generation.Ultimately, Wuthering Heights presents a vision of life as a process of change, and celebrates this process over and against the romantic intensity of its principal

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characters.As members of the gentry, the Earnshaws and the Lintons occupy a somewhat precarious place within the hierarchy of late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century British society.At the top of British society was the royalty, followed by the aristocracy, then by the gentry, and then by the lower classes, who made up the vast majority of the population.Although the gentry, or upper middle class, possessed servants and often large estates, they held a nonetheless fragile social position.The social status of aristocrats was a formal and settled matter, because aristocrats had official titles.Members of the gentry, however, held no titles, and their status was thus subject to change.A man might see himself as a gentleman but find, to his embarrassment, that his neighbors did not share this view.A discussion of whether or not a man was really a gentleman would consider such questions as how much land he owned, how many tenants and servants he had, how he spoke, whether he kept horses and a carriage, and whether his money came from land or “trade”—gentlemen scorned banking and commercial activities.Considerations of class status often crucially inform the characters’ motivations in Wuthering Heights.Catherine’s decision to marry Edgar so that she will be “the greatest woman of the neighborhood” is only the most obvious example.The Lintons are relatively firm in their gentry status but nonetheless take great pains to prove this status through their behaviors.The Earnshaws, on the other hand, rest on much shakier ground socially.They do not have a carriage, they have less land, and their house, as Lockwood remarks with great puzzlement, resembles that of a “homely, northern farmer” and not that of a gentleman.The shifting nature of social status is demonstrated most strikingly in Heathcliff’s trajectory from homeless waif to young gentleman-by-adoption to common laborer to gentleman again(although the status-conscious Lockwood remarks that Heathcliff is only a gentleman in “dress and manners”).

第四篇：呼啸山庄英文读后感

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte's only novel.and was first published in 1847.It is not narrated by the author directly but firstly narrated by Ellen(Nelly)Dean who is the housekeeper of Wuthering Heights.The main characters of this novel are Heathcliff and Catherine.Except them,there are also several secondary characters such as Hindly Earnshaw、Edgar Linton、Isabella Linton、Catherine Linton and Hereton Earnshaw.This novel mainly narrated the love between Healthcliff and Catherine,the hatred between Healthcliff and Hindly.Heathcliff was adopted by Catherine's father Mr Earnshaw when he was a child,during their childhood.Hindly,who is Catherine's brother,always asked Heathcliff to do many hard works ,laughed at him , teased him and kooked down upon him.While his sister Catherine loves Heathcliff ,they had a secret“palace”on the hill.Unfortunately,when they all grew up ,Catherine met Linton,who was the lord of Thrushcross Gange,he was not only very handsome but also very gentle and most importantly,he loved Catherine ,too.Facing the preventing of his brother and considering Healthcliff's condiction,Catherine choose to marry Linton.In fact,she wanted to marry Heathcilff.It maked Healthcliff decide to go to another place to make money and then come back to revenge everybody who have ever prevent he marry Catherine.Several years later,he came back,in order to revenge Linton,he married Linton's sister Isabella and tormented her everyday.One day he was informed that Catherine would die,he went to see her,she has born a little girl but she died.Healthcliff was extremely sad.It added his hatred towards Linton and Hindly.After both of them died,Heathcliff adopted their daughter Little Catherine and Hereton.He treated Hereton in the same way of Hindy had ever used and forced Catherine married his own ill son.He became the owner of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange and inherited the property of both of them.Soon,his son died ,and Catherine became a young widow.little Catherine and Hereton loves each other,but Heathcliff did not allow them become couple.But when he saw little Catherine's eyes,he thought Catherine, at last,he allowed them marry.I get two kinds of ideas of this novel after I read it.One is about the choice of Catherine.She loves Heathcliff but she chose another man.In fact,we have to face many choices during our lives.In most cases,it is difficult and impossible for us to make a perfect choice in that when we chose this one we have to quit others.There is no choice in the world always being right or wrong,we often make a choice according to our needs or interests.While ,sometimes,we have to make choices based on others attitudes,it is because that we dare not to be criticized by the public or do not want to bear the responsibility of the choice we chose.What should we do when we have to make a choice?In my opinion,we should make a choice that we will not regret later and we mostly want to chose.The second idea is about hatred of Heathcliff..Most of his life were spent revenging others,in fact he was not happy at all,although he succeeded in revenging the persons he hated,he got nothing at all at last, except hatred.When we are hurt by someone,what we should do is not to think of some ways to revenge them but to ignore their faults and concentrate on more important things.A person who just knows hatred will never feel happy and will lose his or her own aim of life.2007年3月30号

看着手上玩具的价签，萨迪·奥康奈尔暗笑了一下。“他们拿什么塞满这玩意儿？钞票吗？”她把玩具扔回了货架，转向了身边那个高个长腿女人，“你打算送萨姆什么生日礼物呢？”

她这位最好的朋友她咧嘴笑了一下。“我能送他什么？你的孩子什么也不缺呀。” “别这么说，我的朋友。”

但是利亚说得没错。萨迪和菲利普真是太过分宠溺萨姆了。也难怪，生萨姆之前，他们可是盼星星盼月亮似地盼了很长时间的孩子，至少萨迪是这样的。在经历了两次流产之后，萨姆的降生无疑就成了一个奇迹，一个值得他们千般宠爱的奇迹。利亚大叫起来，“天啊，这里简直就是个动物园。”

埃德蒙顿玩具区挤满了热情高涨的顾客。每年春天里的第一个打折促销季，人们总会成群结队地赶来购物。神经紧绷的父母们拥进玩具商店，偶尔会拍一下任性的孩子——就像拍打一只盯着烧烤架的讨厌的小黄蜂。一位苦恼的父亲满通道里找寻自己的儿子，很明显，孩子趁他一转身的工夫，就溜走了。每个通道里，都有父母在喊叫自己的孩子，他们威胁孩子，哄他们，祈求他们，最终还是会缴械投降。

“那是谁把动物们放出来的呢？”萨迪说，环顾了一下店里。

购物车轮子发出的尖锐刺耳声，交织着走累了的小宝宝们此起彼伏的哭闹声，这一切都让她感到头疼，她但愿自己呆在家里没有出来。

“抱歉。”

一个胖胖的女人，满头卷发已然褪色，她满脸歉意地看了一眼萨迪，然后从她俩中间挤了过去。女人推着辆婴儿车，里面坐着个外国小人儿尖声哭叫着。刚走了几英尺，她就停下来，弯腰擦掉了小孩嘴角流出来的东西，看起来像是凝固的大米布丁。

萨迪转向利亚说：“谢天谢地，萨姆已经过了这个阶段。”

马上就六岁的萨姆是她的掌上明珠。实际上，简直就是她的宝山。萨姆是个十足的淘气鬼，身材瘦长，有着乱蓬蓬的黑发，宝石蓝的眼睛和漂亮的弓唇。萨姆长得像极了母亲，又有与父亲截然相反的脾气。他性情温和柔顺，充满爱心，而父亲菲利普则缺少耐性，为人冷淡，淡到几乎不说“我爱你”之类的话。她盯着结婚戒指想：我们怎么了？

但实际她知道发生什么事了。作为一名辩护律师，菲利普的事业非常成功，滚滚而来的金钱与名利已经冲昏了他的头脑。他变了，不再是她所爱的那个男人和梦想家了。取而代之的是一个她几乎不认识的陌生人，一个有了孩子却觉得根本不想要孩子的陌生人。也许对妻子也一样。

“这个怎么样？”利亚问，用肘轻轻推了她一下。

萨迪看了眼那个黄色的翻斗车，上面装满了毛茸茸的蝙蝠。她想萨姆肯定会觉得这个很好玩。

她的儿子迷恋于蝙蝠，几乎到了可笑的地步。他总是将家里的电视机转到探索频道上，不断地搜索着关于这些毛皮动物的节目。

“菲利普这个家伙送什么给他？”利亚冷冷地问道。“一组新的跳蛙模型”

“我简直不能相信小孩子能做那个。” 撒地笑了笑说：“我也觉得难以置信。”

萨姆的脑子就像个海绵一样，他吸收信息非常的快，简直是过目不忘。他有很强的观察力，只是看过萨迪怎么开门，他就学会了，为此菲利普不得不在门上另加了一个门栓。三岁时，萨姆已经学会了使用遥控器和DVD播放器，而萨迪连开电视机都还有些困难。萨姆，我的宝贝，聪明的小天才。

“也许我会给他买部电影，”利亚说，“《蝙蝠侠5：开战时刻》怎么样？” “他马上才6岁，不是16岁。” “哦，我可不懂，我又没有孩子。”

34岁的利亚·温特斯是个苗条迷人的女子，有着黑色的头发和深色的皮肤。她有着热情多面的气质，浓密的眼睫毛掩映着淡褐色的眼睛, 笑意里有透着性感，喜欢年轻男子。相比之下，萨迪的脸色苍白，鼻梁和脸蛋上还有着点点雀斑，而利亚那晒成了棕褐色的肤色，则显得干净透亮。

八年来，她是萨迪最好的朋友，俩人算是知心姐妹了。有次，她心血来潮给萨迪发了封邮件，咨询有关写作和出版的事情。她们约定在“图书之尾”见面，那是埃德蒙顿一家很受欢迎的书店，利亚以为她们只是去喝杯速溶咖啡而已。结果俩人却十分投机，很快就热络起来，几乎聊了将近五个小时。开始利亚还以为萨迪是个自命不凡的作家，不可能把白天的时间浪费在她身上，结果萨迪却给了她更多的时间，甚至把心都掏给她了。后来俩人还经常以此开玩笑。

那个通道里，有个健壮英俊，长相酷似科林·法瑞尔男子从他们身边经过，利亚从后面一直盯着他，那眼神都开始放光。

“我会抓到这样一个家伙的，”她低低咕哝了一句，“走着瞧吧。” “在玩具店里，你可找不到命中的另一半，”萨迪冷冷地说，“这里的男人一般都是有主的人了。我也不觉得你在卡玛里能找到他。”

克拉伯卡玛是怀特大街上一家有名的夜总会。它鼓吹自己有埃德蒙顿最好的女士之夜，有靠类固醇变身肌肉男的脱衣舞者。利亚是那里的常客。“为什么找不到？”

萨迪眨了眨眼睛。“因为卡玛里满是浑身汗臭、浅薄自负的年轻人，他们只对一件事情感兴趣。”

利亚白了她一眼。

“他们只想和你上床，”利亚补充说，“老实说，我不知道你在那个地方看到了什么。” “什么，你是个傻子吗？”利亚拱起了眉，笑得有些过分。“我可是把它当做我的公民责任。肯定有人在告诉这些年轻的家伙怎么做。” “也应该有人教教菲利普。”萨迪咕哝道。“怎么了？他不行吗？” “天哪，利亚！” “恩？你就承认吧。”

“等一下。我们歇会，喝杯咖啡吧。” 利亚看了一眼手表。“还去老地方吗？”

“当然。你觉得维克多能原谅我们去了别的咖啡馆吗？”

利亚咯咯地笑了。“不，如果我们当了叛徒，他会克扣我们的奶油。哎，你想好给萨姆买什么了吗？”

“看见合适的就买。我等着上天的启示。” “你就迷信命运这个东西。”

萨迪耸耸肩，“有时候你不得不信这种事情。”

她们继续沿着通道往前走，俩人都在为她们所认识的那个最可爱的孩子寻找礼物。当萨迪看到了一个她确定萨姆会喜欢的礼物时，叫了一声，看了利亚一眼，一副“我说会如此”的表情。

“这辆自行车棒极了。星期一才是他的生日，到时候我再给他。反正星期一的生日聚会上他会收到很多礼物。”

但她不知道的是，萨姆根本看不到这辆自行车的。他没法拿到这辆自行车了。

∞ ∞ ∞

“整整两周没看见你了，”维克多·关说，“再多一天我就要打911了。”

“这周很忙啊，”萨迪边回答，边把钱包放在了柜台上，“生意怎么样，维克多？” “又一次寒流，生意不错。”

这个年轻的中国男人是一杯卡布奇诺咖啡馆的老板，这家咖啡馆与萨迪的家只隔着几个街区。咖啡馆里有燃气壁炉，轻松的氛围，当地的音乐家们，像杰西.格林和亚莉克希亚.梅尔尼恰克也经常光顾此处。维克多不仅能提供最好的自制汤和乳酪凯撒沙拉，摩卡拿铁咖啡的味道也堪称绝妙。

利亚直奔洗手间。“你知道我要什么。” 萨迪点了一份沙伊，一份摩卡。

“你看到今天早上的大雾了吧？”维克多问道。

“看到了，我冒着大雾开车送萨姆去学校，几乎看不见我前面的车。” 她颤抖了一下，维克多关心地看着她。

“有猫走过你家墓地了还是怎么着？”他问道。“没，我只是讨厌冬天。”

她从书架上拿了一份报纸，走到楼上。壁炉边的沙发还空着，她坐到那里，把报纸扔在了桌子上。

头版的大标题让她倒吸一口凉气。“大雾再次来袭。” 她感到呼吸紧蹙。“上帝呀，不要再来一场大雾了。”

一张照片占据了头版的位置，照片里是一个坐在混凝土台阶上的金发、蓝眼睛的女孩。她是八岁的科特涅·邦妮克，来自埃德蒙顿北部地区，已经失踪。报上说，这个女孩是午夜失踪的，家里没有暴力闯入的迹象，也没有证据能显示是谁带走了他。但是调查人员确信，疑犯肯定就是带走其他孩子的同一个人。

萨迪把报纸翻到了第三版，报道在这里继续写下去。她很同情那个女孩的父亲。他是个单身爸爸，离开安大略省，在埃德蒙顿工程施工处找了份工作。马修·邦妮克到这里来是为了生活能够好点。在房地产市场火爆的情况下，这是个很不错的决定。但是现在马修只是希望自己的女儿能够平安归来。

“你的咖啡。”维克多说着，在桌子上放下了两个杯子。“多谢。”她说，头也没有抬起来。

她的眼睛紧紧地盯着邦妮克和他父亲那张更小的照片。他个男人笑得很灿烂，她的女儿则吐着舌头，摆了一个傻傻的姿势。

“爸爸的小女儿。”萨迪悲伤地想。

利亚一屁股坐在了她旁边的椅子上。“这个大块头是谁呀？” “他的女儿昨晚被劫走了。” “太可怕了。”

“是呀。”萨迪说，边端起杯子轻轻抿了一口。“有目击者吗？” “没有，”她盯着利亚说，“除了大雾。” “难不成他们以为是大雾?”

萨迪浏览了一下那篇报道，“目前还没有人要赎金，听起来真的像是雾干的。” “见鬼，一共失踪了„„什么„„6个孩子？” “7个。三个男孩，四个女孩。”

“又要有一个男孩失踪了。”利亚的声音里透着恐惧。

绑匪知道，大雾总是在死寂的夜晚或黎明时分，披着浓密的雾衣，悄悄潜来。他也把自己伪装得跟雾气一样，让猎物无法察觉。来无踪，无无影。他抓走了孩子们的灵魂，盗走了父母们的希望与梦想。在过去四年，每年春天都要失踪一个男孩，一个女孩。

萨迪翻着报纸。“我们换个话题吧。”

她扫视了一眼屋子里，发现维克多有着形形色色的顾客。楼上的角落里，坐着三个十几岁的男孩在打扑克，还有一个男孩站在边上观战，每次一有朋友赢了，他就会高声叫喊。萨迪对面坐着一个红发女子，穿淡紫色运动衫，在笔记本电脑的键盘上奋力敲打着，不时地停下来厌恶地白一眼那些吵吵闹闹的男孩。在楼下，一位常客——老拉菲正在从头至尾地读每一份报纸。每看完一页，他就呷一口自己的黑咖啡。

“那么„„”利亚翘起了修长的双腿，拉长了声调说，“避孕丸菲利普怎么样了？” 萨迪神色黯然。“我也想知道他怎么了。他说他整夜整夜都在公司工作。” “然后你就想他在到处鬼混？是不是？” 利亚说话总是直来直去，任何事情都不例外。“也许他只是在辛苦地工作。”利亚说。

萨迪摇摇头，“今天他是凌晨两点回来的，整个人香气、酒气熏天。”

“他的公司不是正在做那个油井的案子吗？我打赌肯定所有的合伙人都在熬夜。” 萨迪哼了一声，“也包括布丽奇特·莫瑞。”

布丽奇特是菲利普的得力女助手，他经常提起这个女人。可见这个新人在弗莱明·沃纳律师事务所的重要性。这个身材苗条、肤色白皙、胸部明显花钱整过金发女律师从来不离菲利普的左右。

萨迪好奇布丽奇特要上厕所时会怎么做。“可能根本没那回事。”利亚说。

“就是的。我在派对后的讨论会上看到他们俩在一起，没瞎说他们。布丽奇特挽着菲利普的胳膊，就好像她拥有菲利普一样。而菲利普则在笑着，跟她咬耳朵。”她咬咬嘴唇，“他的合伙人都同情地看着我，可怜我。我在他们的脸上能看到这种表情。甚至连他们都知道这事。”

利亚赶紧打断她，“你跟他挑明了吗？” “我问她是不是又在到处鬼混了。” 就在萨姆出生之间，菲利普承认出有个两次婚外情。据他说，两次都是办公室调情。“都没什么。”并且菲利普还把责任都推给怀孕的她，说她性趣索然。

“他怎么说？”利亚问，像极了斗牛犬垂涎欲滴地盯着丁骨牛排。

“没什么。他只是暴怒着冲出了屋子。在你来之前，他从公司给我打了电话，说我很荒谬，我对他的指责既伤害了他，又不公平。”她放低了声音，“他问我是不是又喝酒了。”

“真是个混蛋。这下你知道我为什么还在单身了吧。”

第五篇：呼啸山庄英文读后感

呼啸山庄英文读后感

In this summer, I read another book Wuthering Heights.Wuthering Heights is written by Emily Bronte.After reading that book, the love and the hatred between Catherine and Heath Cliff still linger in my head.The story begun with a mistake that made by Lockwood, a temporary resident.He is seeking shelter from the blizzard he staggers through the door of Wuthering Heights, finding the atmosphere inside is just as cold as ice.The master of the house, Heath Cliff, provides a bed reluctantly and it seems like that he feels ill at ease with his visitor’s coming.There's a sad tale behind his indifference, one which the elderly housekeeper Nelly Dean is happy to share.Forty years ago, Wuthering Heights was filled with light, warmth and happiness.Mr.Earnshaw, a congenial gentleman farmer, lives happily with his boisterous children Cathy and Hindley.However, being a kind and generous fellow, he can't help rescuing a poor starving wretch off of the streets of Liverpool, a gypsy child named Heath Cliff.In time Heath Cliff becomes one of the family, loved by all people except Hindley，the son of Mr.Earnshaw.Cathy is an especially good childhood friend, spending many a happy day playing on the moor with Heath Cliff.Unfortunately Mr.Earnshaw dies suddenly;Hindley is able to express his enmity with damning cruelty.In order to air his grievance, he reduced Heath Cliff to a servant.Later, Catherine is forced to marry Edgar.Heath Cliff’s heart is broken, so he leaves Wuthering Heights.After three years, he comes back to Wuthering Heights with wealth.Catherine has married Edgar, but not happiness.Heath Cliff begins to revenge crazily.He takes away Hindley’s belongings by gambling.Then, Hindley gets drunk and die, his son Hareton became slaves.Heath Cliff also marries Edgar's sister Isabella deliberately and persecute her in all the ways.Catherine is miserable inside and then dies of dystocia.Ten years later, Heath Cliff makes Edgar’ daughter Catherine marry to his dying son Linton.Edgar and small Linton dies, Heath Cliff owes Edgar’s property finally.Heath Cliff revenges successfully, but he couldn’t stop missing the dead Catherine, and then he dies.Small Catherine and Hareton inherit all the property and they finally fall in love with each other.Actually, there isn’t such a character that I really like in Wuthering Heights.Every character seems teemed with agony and animosity, especially Heath Cliff.Heath Cliff is an orphan before Mr.Earnshaw adopts him, and in the novel, Mr.Earnshaw treats Heath Cliff even nicer than his own son, Hindley Earnshaw.It’s quite amazing that in spite of Earnshaw’s nice treatment, Heath Cliff has no gratitude at all, he revenged Hindley and Catherine, even their heirs.After reading Heath Cliff’s story, my feeling is complicated, although he is the avenger who dominate the whole story by using his vengeful machinations, he is also the most pitiful guy in Wuthering Heights;he doesn’t know what is love and don’t know how to love.Heath Cliff has lived with the Earnshaws for more than 10 years, but there is no attachment between him and the whole family except Catherine.However, even Catherine was died because of Heath Cliff’s torture.When he is torturing others, he is also giving himself a suffering.Catherine, the heroine in the book, is described as a capricious and selfish girl.She is just like Heath Cliff, doesn’t know how to love at all.Anyway, Wuthering Heights left an indelible impression on me, cold and withering.However, at the end of the book, the author shows us that the human being’s kindness is not diminished at Wuthering heights, even though the wind can break off a tree, that doesn’t mean it can break off the whole forest.Even though hatred destroyed Heath Cliff, Catherine, Edgar and Elizabeth’s happiness, that doesn’t mean Cathy and Hareton’s happiness.