A Book “Floats” into My Life

—— Gone with the Wind Book Review

“Gone with the Wind” floated to me from the library. It’s a thick book. However, I read some pages every day and finally I was surprised to find that I have finished reading it.

The book has lots of themes. It shows me the destiny ofthe beautiesin the troubled times, the disappearance of the American Southern culture. The heroine's thoughts and emotions are deeply affected by the American Civil War. The war changes the women. They protect their own land in the flames and smoke.They are brave, strong andpersistent because they do believe that “Tomorrowisanotherday”. At the beginning, I’m a bit angry aboutScarlett. She is mean, cruel and even sinister.Not long after the beginning of the novel, Scarlett seduces Melanie’s brother in order to revenge Ashley in the engagement party of Ashley and Melanie. And soon Scarlett gets marry and gives birth to a son. I’m so indignant. And her arrogance, greed, vanity are showed in the following chapters. What’s more, she uses all means to achieve her aims. For example, in order to get the rent of Tara, she tries to cheat Rhett Butler but fails. Then she turns to her sister’s fiance who is a wizened old man but has a small sawmill and can offer her the rent. As for the good and the evil in my life, I dare not make improper comments because, after all, I am still walking in the road of my life. As a

girl of twenty, the ideas of mine may be very naive. In all fairness, I have little sympathy for Scarlett, for her"unscrupulousness" and "self-seeking behaviors". Because perhaps she has got to do what she has got to do in the cases like that, all for a living.But after thinking quietly,it’s really understandablethat in aturbulent era, Scarlett, a weak woman, can’t feed a family. Additional, friends also can’t help her to retain Tara. Scarlett uses the money that she earned through “cruel” and “stingy” ways to exchange a new life not only for herself but also for people around her.

However, she also has something that makes me love her. She longs for love in spite of all secular concepts and pursues her love bravely. What’s more, Scarlett treats Melanie really well, with her best care. Maybe at first, she does it because she loves Ashley. But it totally changes later. They are two women with completely different characters but reach a lifetime friendship. It’s really a miracle.

Although "Gone with the Wind" is just a novel, I have a better understanding of the American Civil War as well by reading it. Judged from a historical perspective, the North defeating the South, is not only a kind of historical progress, but also an inevitable social development. Butfrom the views of moral judgment, slavery in the southalso has feelings of warmth and love. The war that the north declares onthe south, to some extent, is an aggression, destroying the relationship and

order of the south, intensifying the ethnic conflict between the black and the white.

I pick two of my favorite sentences after reading it. Now I want to share with you in the end of my book review.

“Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful. ”

“No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won’t make you cry.”

Skimming hastily can never let me understand the true meaning. Maybe the more times I read it, the more essence I will harvest.

 

第二篇：英文读后感之飘读后感

英文读后感之飘读后感

Scarlett , a very personality figures ，the two mans she

love ,neither does she know about.To her, I was compelled to admire, admire her strong and brave, admire her to lay down in the

environment, farm workers previously suffered education, admire her to disregard the community to create their own expression of the cause .She is in the whole story, all a person full of fighting will full of vitality . I appreciated most , it is this " Tomorrow is another day of hers. " . Promising forever, full of fighting will , will never give up, never desperate. I think I'm moved by her.So, whenever I meet difficulty, the mood is not good, I will tell oneself : " Tomorrow is another day. " 'Gone with the Wind' is absolutely a good book that is worth sampling repeatedly, the

characters are graceful , the plot rises and falls, exciting boldly and unconstrainedly, though the subjective factor because of the author among them , the appraisal on U.S.A.'s Civil War is not

objective and overall, but as to angle of literature, this one fine piece of writing generation definitely absolutely, worth visiting. Author: Antoine de St-Exupery

Main Characters: the little prince, the pilot, the rose, the fox, the snake, etc.

Despite I’ve not in my childhood yet, I still prefer reading fairy-tale stories. the tales, which accompany with me in my old days, often make me think of some precious experience and sensation which only belong to children. This summer I’ve review this kind of tale, which was published in 1940. It’s the world-famous fairy-tale by the French author, Antoine de St-Exupery, The Little Prince.

As many other fairy-tales, the outline of The Little Prince is not very complex. “I”, the narrator of the story, is a pilot whose

plane has something wrong and lands in the Sahara. In this occasion, the pilot makes the acquaintance of the little prince, a little boy from another planet, the Asteroid B612. The little prince has escaped from his tiny planet, because he has some quarrel with a rose, which grows on his planet. In that case he left his own planet and took an exploration at some neighbor asteroids.

On his all-alone journey, the little prince meets different kinds of people, which includes a king, a conceited man, a tippler, a

businessman, a lamplighter and a geographer. From these people he gets a conclusion that the grown-ups are very odd. Following the instruction of the geographer, he descends in the Sahara, on the earth.