Reading and Writing 2

HARRIS

Book Report 1 on THE TIME MACHINE

21,Mar.2013

THE FUTURE

Besides a scientific visionary, H.G.Wells was a well-known social prophet. He always tended to sandwich the social reality into his works and The Time Machine was his maiden scientific book, with which he explored a new territory of science fiction. Two kinds of creatures, the Eloi and the Morlock, which he wrote in the book, was referred to the rich and the poor. The conflicts and problems between these two classes were revealed vividly by his careful describe. While nowadays, the developments of these groups of people still matter a lot to our society, and even the future of us, mankind. Though we can `t predict that what will happen in the future, we still should pay more attention to each step we take, because every decision we make can decide what we are and where we head on.

Too many things emerged from my mind when I read this book, and I was pretty sure that it made a profound sense to our current society, though it was written over one hundred years ago. Morlocks, who live in the underground and are afraid of the sun shine, make every thing, including foods, clothes and machines, for Elois, but they are feed on Elois. On the contrary, Elois are very frail and they do nothing everyday but savor the convenience Morlocks bring about, even at the risk of being eaten. One way in which Elois is similar to

Morlocks is that they `re all prefer to stay what they are, rather than to make a change, to give up the tiring work everyday, to get out of the darkness and enjoy the sunshine, to cut out killing time with nothing to do, to insure their security from being eaten. Unfortunately, the situation does not merely occur in 802701 years later in scientific novels. Nowadays, our society is never short of these two types of people. Some businessmen produce certain foods, which are harmful to our health, in order to make great profits, instead of being grateful to make contributions to our society. Also there are certain people with no jobs, who live in a remote area of our society, tending to be cynical and doing things to pay back our society. There is no doubt that these two kinds of people are holding back the development of our society.

I am not meant to judge anyone in our society, but actually some businessmen take a bad effect on our life and leave us great damages to our mental and physic health. For instance, everyday many gossip news ran into the corner of our eyes about the extravagant lives of the rich-second generation. Holding parties at ships, driving famous cars, and being accompanied by several fashion models is just a staple food for them. What ` worse, some of them even are dropped out of school due to taking drugs or breaking the lawn. In addiction, their behaviors are leading a tread of luxury in the new generation and greatly influenced the view of our world of many teenagers. Besides this kind of leavening influence to our teens, some businessmen with no responsibilities to our folks, caused great damages to our society directly. Sanlu Group could be a typic example. It built a nice fame

after years of hard-working, yet it broke our hearts with the Sanlu milk powder incident. More than thirty thousand babies suffered from kidney calculi, which was a type of disease in kidney. While the Sanlu group was just concentrated on making more money and ignored the future of those babies. So selfish and cold-hearted it was that I could not stop connecting them with Elois. Living in the sunshine and savoring the entertainment everyday, they care about themselves more than anyone else. Even their parents are killed by Morlocks, they still think there is nothing to do with them. Luckily, the whole world they live in is in the darkness without share and love in the novel, but ours is not.

It really hard to explain why the world tended out to be like that in 802701 years later, but we probably can figure out what is wrong with the rich. The reason why the rich-second generation is going beyond their way lies in the education. A research made by the China Center Education Development Office showed that only fifteen per cent of parents payed enough heed to their children ` education. Most of them seldom help their children with homeworks, seldom have family dinner on Friday night, even seldom have a chat with with their children over a cup of coffee in order to get high profits at their work, but the fact is the parents is the best teachers and take a great effort on them. There is no wonder that children are easier to step on a wrong road without the accompany of their parents. As far as those parents are concerned, they have totally been money-making machines without a heart of thanksgiving. As an old saying goes that “the more you

can get, the more you want to get”. Money is so full of magic that it can make you forget who you are and who is always support you quietly behind your back. Just like Sanlu group forgot the people stand by them and made the fake milk powder to pursue higher profits. Maybe Elois degenerates out of the similar reasons.

To the opposite sites of the rich, still many people are straggling for a way out to get other `s recognition though tons of difficulties. Being isolated from the crowded in a modern city must be really miserable for them. The convenient subway, the green parks, and the pubs, everything is great but not for them. Once the fence of their hearts break up, they will spare every effort to destroy all of this which do not belong to them to rebuild the balance of the world. I have heard several tragedies that someone broke into the kindergartner and killed those innocent kids. It is unbelievable that our personalities can develop into so cruel. Apparently they don `t fight against their fates stickily. They just stay where they are, and sometimes they set a fire to ensure that everyone know they are here. Fortunately, they are not Morlocks, and some measures need to render before it happen.

“what will I be?”. It is the actor `line in the film UNDERWORLD. I think it is a question that has buffered people for thousands of years. But the only answer can be given is “the future”. This also reminds me about the poet, Qu Yuan, and his famous saying “I see road, and I will search up and down”. The future is unpredictable and what we are sure is the road we step on, and the direction it will lead us to. The future still remains to be seen.

 

第二篇：《礼物》读后感

你的心微笑了吗？——读斯宾塞.约翰逊《礼物》有感 2012-02-10 23:39:00| 分类： 默认分类|字号 订阅

一般字典上对快乐下的定义多半是：觉得满足与幸福。德国哲学家康德则认为：“快乐是我们的需求得到了满足”。的确，快乐是一种美好的状况，也就是没有不好或痛苦的事情存在。然而我们会发现自从我们告别童年后，快乐似乎离我们越来越远，原本简单快乐的孩童变成了现今的怨妇怨郎。原何？该是源于我们对快乐的理解已经不再简单；源于我们的心已经不会微笑了；源于我们把一份重要的“礼物”遗失了！

庆幸在一个彷徨的时候遇到了斯宾塞·约翰逊的《礼物》。书中通过一个少年和一位充满智慧的老人之间的对话带给人们关于快乐的重新理解，令我对生活、对工作，特别是对快乐有了新的感悟。原来我们可以生活得这样幸福，原来那个可以带给我们无尽快乐的“礼物”一直就在我们的身边，只是我们大多数人已经遗忘或是还没有发现。

“学习过去、把握现在、计划未来”一个大家都懂的道理，虽然简单做到却似乎很难，因为人们常常沉浸在过去的失败中或陷入对未来的绝望中，而忽略了对现在的把握。 过去已经发生，再如何后悔都无用，因为没有时间机器，一切已经无法改变，不是有“舍得”之说吗！舍得舍得有舍才有得！生命中总有来来往往不同的人也发生着形形色色的事，没有人会在别人的生命中永远驻足，只是停留的时间长短不一而已；没有哪件事是永远处于发生的那一刻，只是过程长短不同而已。曾经想抓住所有的人，结果发现错的是自己，任何个体都有其的独立性，后来懂得了珍惜所有出现在生命中的人，不管是好的、坏的、还是擦肩而过的，毕竟都是缘分，珍惜现在！曾经也想着改变已经发生的事，结果发现无非是再添一件错事，把手握紧里面什么都没有，把手敞开，拥有的是全世界！对于过去我们应该学会放手，当然不是提倡大家彻底舍弃，而是从过去的失败中吸取经验教训。对于过往的一切不再耿耿于怀，包袱减轻了，人自然轻松快乐了。 未来还没有发生，于是对于未来，对于它的未知性，人们心生恐惧，人们感到绝望。 我不是神，不能控制未来，我不是诸葛亮，也不能预测未来，因此对着未来我杞人忧天、我庸人自扰，如此非但把握不了现在，更是陷入妄想。其实想着再多又怎样，想和现实永远是有距离的，海市胜楼美吗，美！乌托邦好吗，好！可是这些终究不是此时不是此刻能把握的，当然对于未来做些计划却是必要的，所谓不打无把握的仗既是如此吧！ 在不能改变环境的时候，改变自己；在不能看清周围的时候，看清自己；工作、生活上都是如此。面对工作，我时常觉得枯燥，其实是自己没有真正投入，对于昨天的工作，今天往往会想昨天是不是还有什么没有完成，对于明天的工作，今天又在想是不是留点明天做；永远不想去适应环境，

永远不把自己准确定位，永远不想现在该做什么，于是工作陷入被动，进而影响工作积极性，如此日复一日、年复一年，永远没有好的心态，永远找不到工作的快乐，于是成了工作的奴隶，成了怨妇怨郎浩荡大军的一员，把那个能带来无尽快乐的“礼物”早已不知遗忘在哪个角落了，如今斯宾塞·约翰逊先生通过一个简单的故事让我再次找到了它，让我的心微笑了！ 快乐嘛，就是时时问问自己，你的心微笑了吗？当回答是肯定的时候，相信那个时候你就找到了“礼物”，找到了那个能让你享受生活、享受工作的“礼物”！