《雾都孤儿》读后感

七年级八班 于潇龙

《雾都孤儿》这本世界名著讲述的是发生在19世纪的一个动人故事。

书中的主人公奥利弗.特威斯特是一位孤儿，他出生于一个济贫院，出生后不久妈妈就去世了。10年后奥利弗成了棺材店的学徒。他不堪店老板的虐待，逃到雾都伦敦，不幸落入贼帮手中。小小的孤儿在逆境中挣扎，幸而他本性善良，得到了善良人们的帮助，他一次次化险为夷，终于和爱他的亲人团聚。最终，他神秘的出身也真相大白。

最令我感动的情节是奥利弗逃离强盗集团的那一部分。奥利弗在路上走了7天7夜，饥饿和疲倦威胁着他。他遇到了杰克.道金斯——一个小偷。杰克把奥利弗带到了贼窝，小偷们想把奥利弗也训练成一个和他们一样的小偷，但奥利弗宁愿逃出贼窝，过继续流浪的艰难生活，也不愿做一个靠盗窃为生的坏人。读完，一种油然而生的敬佩之情在我的心中久久徘徊着。奥利弗是一位多么坚强、多么正义的孩子啊！虽然他只有十岁，和我们是同一个年龄段，但他的坚强，他的勇敢，却是我们很难相比的!

读完这本书，我的心久久不能平静。可怜的奥利弗，在已经失去家人的痛苦及这么多折磨下，真不知道在他瘦弱的身躯下，有着怎样的意志能使他坚持不懈，使他在饥饿、孤独、悲伤、痛苦下顽强地斗争，向美好的生活前进！

如今，我们生活在蜜罐里、福窝里，却总是抱怨，总是不满足。但是你们可曾想过，在世界上，还有许多孩子，正承受着巨大的痛苦，正和饥饿、寒冷、疾病做斗争，正过着失去亲人、漂泊流浪的生活。他们对生命充满着渴望，对生活充满着热爱，可是苦难却和他们作对。作为和他们一样活生生的生命，我们难道能视而不见吗？不，我们不能！让我们伸出热情的双手，来帮助他们，让他们也过上和我们一样的美好生活！

 

第二篇：雾都孤儿读后感英文版

The feelings after reading Oliver Twist Oliver Twist is based on the experience of its author Charles Dickens, who wrote many popular novels such as Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House and so on. And the book is mainly about the experience of an orphan named Oliver.

Oliver’s mother dies just after his birth, so he has to spend his first nine years in a badly run home for young orphans and then is transferred to a workhouse for adults. After the other boys bully him into asking for more gruel at the end of a meal, the parish beadle, Mr. Bumble, offers five pounds to anyone who will take the boy away from the workhouse. Oliver narrowly escapes being apprenticed to a brutish chimney sweep and is eventually apprenticed to Mr. Sowerberry who is a undertaker. Oliver attacks his other apprentice because the guy makes disparaging comments about his mom, and he incurs the Sowerberrys’ wrath. Desperate, Oliver runs away and travels towards London.

Oliver is starved and exhausted when he meets Jack Dawkins, who talks and dresses like a grown man though

he isn’t older than Oliver. Jack offers Oliver shelter in the London house of his benefactor, Fagin. It turns out that Fagin is a career criminal who trains orphan children to pick pockets for him. After a few days of training, Oliver is sent on a pickpocketing mission with two other boys. When he sees them swipe a handkerchief from an elderly gentleman, Oliver feels horrified and runs off. He is caught but narrowly escapes being convicted of the theft. Mr. Brownlow, whose handkerchief was stolen, takes the feverish Oliver to his home and nurses him back to health. Mr. Brownlow is struck by Oliver’s resemblance to a portrait of a young woman that hangs in his house. Oliver blossoms himself there, but two adults in Fagin’s gang, Bill Sikes and his lover Nancy, capture Oliver and return him to Fagin.

Fagin sends Oliver to assist Sikes in a burglary. Oliver is shot by a servant of the house and is taken in by two women, Mrs. Maylie and her adopted niece Rose. They grow fond of Oliver and spend an idyllic summer with him in the countryside. But Fagin and a mysterious man named Monks are set to recapture him. Meanwhile, it is revealed that Oliver’s mother left behind a gold locket

when she died. Monks obtains and destroys it. When the Maylies come to London, Nancy meets secretly with Rose and informs her of Fagin’s designs, but a member of Fagin’s gang overhears the conversation. When word of Nancy’s disclosure reaches Sikes, he brutally murders Nancy and flees London. Pursued by his guilty conscience and an angry mob, he inadvertently hangs himself.

With the Maylies’ help, Mr. Brownlow confronts Monks and wrings the truth about Oliver’s parentage from him. It is revealed that Monks is Oliver’s half brother. Their father, Mr. Leeford, was unhappily married to a wealthy woman and had an affair with Oliver’s mother Agnes Fleming. Mr. Brownlow forces him to sign over Oliver’s share to Oliver. Moreover, it is discovered that Rose is Agnes’ younger sister, hence Oliver’s aunt. Fagin is hung for his crimes. Finally, Mr. Brownlow adopts Oliver, and they retire to a blissful existence in the countryside with the Maylies.

After reading the book Oliver Twist, I don’t think Oliver is a believable character. Although he is raised in corrupt surroundings, his purity and virtue are absolute. On the other hand, Oliver speaks in proper King’s English while

other pauper children use rough Cockney slang.

Compared with Oliver, I appreciate the character Nancy more. She is immersed in the vices condemned by her society, but she also commits perhaps the most noble act when she sacrifices her own life in order to protect Oliver. Nancy’s moral complexity is unique among the major characters in Oliver Twist. The novel is full of characters who are all good and can barely comprehend evil, such as Oliver, Rose and Mr. Brownlow, and characters who are all evil and can barely comprehend good, such as Fagin, Sikes and Monks. Only Nancy comprehends and is capable of both good and evil. Her ultimate choice to do good at a great personal cost is a strong argument in favor of incorruptibility of basic goodness, no matter how many environmental obstacles it may face. Nancy’s love for Sikes exemplifies the moral ambiguity of her character. As she herself points out to Rose, devotion to a man can be “a comfort and a pride” under the right circumstances. But for Nancy, such devotion is “a new means of violence and suffering”—indeed, her relationship with Sikes leads her to criminal acts for his sake and eventually to her own demise. The

same behavior, in different circumstances, can have very different consequences and moral significance. In much of Oliver Twist, morality and nobility are black-and-white issues, but Nancy’s character suggests that the boundary between virtue and vice is not always clearly drawn.

To be honest, Oliver Twist is worth reading.