what can anyone say about don quixote that hasn"t been said? the book"s been around for four hundred years, has inspired virtually every literary movement from the eighteenth-century picaresque to the most obscure works of twenty-first century postmodernism.

don quixote is one of the few books that merits casual references with the definite article （the quixote）， and additionally is one of the few books to spawn a universally-recognized adjective （quixotic）.how to even approach a book like don quixote, a book that has been, at some time or other, all things to all people? how to evaluate a cultural monolith? the simplest way, of course, is just to pay attention to the fact that don quixote, four hundred years after its initial publication, is still a hell of a read!

sure, there are rough patches, yet: the mini-novels that interrupt the narrative of the first part for a hundred-odd pages would have been easy targets for some modern publisher"s blue pencil, the long essays on arms or piety can ring strangely to reader sensibilities, the descriptions are sometimes a vague mess, and yet the basic story, the basic concept holds up.

it"s hard to stay mad at don quixote: as frustrating as the plot can be at times, some archetypal lure lurks within the world of cervantes"s spain, some magic that draws us in, much like the world of chivalry that continues to draw quixote himself through the progressively more painful wringer of situations.

the concept of the novel is simple: alonso quijano, landowner from la mancha, is obsessed with his library of chivalrous books. driven mad by the inconsistencies of plot, character and philosophy that fill each volume of these seventeenth-century precursors to the fantasy novel, quijano resolves to restore dignity to the lost profession of knight-errantry, assembles a rudimentary sword, suit of armor, and horse （the eternally-suffering-and-spavined rocinante）， and sets out into spain in his quest for glory.

in return for this act of hysterical faith, he finds violent innkeepers, malevolent thieves, cynical shepherds, sadistic nobility, and even （due to avellaneda"s false sequel to the book"s first volume, one of the most famous pieces of fan-fiction ever written） an inferior （and, in the novel, invisible） quixote impostor.

the first few scenes involve quixote alone against the contemporary world, but before a hundred pages have elapsed cervantes introduces sancho panza, quixote"s gullible, bloated and homily-spouting squire, who in conjunction with quixote provides the spark for endlessly bizarre discussions in which quixote"s heightened, insane conception of the world is brought crashing to earth by sancho"s sly pragmatism （discussions which occasionally end with quixote threatening to pummel sancho in order to shut him up

once joined together, it"s very difficult to imagine don quixote and sancho ever being split apart: the two are the original comic duo, locked into perpetually and mutually exclusive views of the world, and in and of themselves--whether sancho is being asked to give himself hundreds of lashes in order to disenchant quixote"s swineherd love interest, dulcinea, or whether quixote is mixing a potion based on olive oil and bitter herbs that will, in theory, cure all of sancho"s quixote-caused earthly wounds--the knight and the squire personifies the thematic conflict that propels the work.

in general, this is why don quixote remains one hell of a read--even today. the reader faces, in the same moment, an ideal view of the world （the world as enchanted, antiquated, idyllic） and the brutal facts of the actual world （the world as material, modern, loath to believe in knights.）

quixote hacks at the belly of ogres in an inn basement, and is rewarded by a jet of wine in his face and a hefty bill for damages. he tries to rid the land of giants, and is spun, lance-first, by a powerful windmill he spears in the attempt. he attempts to liberate a statue of the virgin mary, which he believes to be a damsel in distress, from her captors, and in return is beaten up by priests.

throughout, sancho is there to say exactly what the reader is likely thinking--those aren"t giants; dulcinea isn"t beautiful; none of this can be real--only to be rewarded with a lecture from don quixote about how he is beset by enchanters, who frustrate his every move by replacing the facts of his world, at the last moment, with devil"s illusions that bear an uncomfortable resemblance to our own reality. it"s a single joke repeated across a thousand pages, and yet it"s b enough to bring a laugh every time.

quixote"s insistence on his own madness in the face of innumerable arguments to the contrary, many of which take the form of cat scratches, cracked bones and missing teeth, makes him an interesting character because we know--or we think we know--that quixote is just wrong. yet, despite all of the pain he suffers in pursuit of that wrong, he continues to believe that he"s right. so we read on page-after-page, waiting to see how much more the man who believes himself a knight is able to take before he gives in--whether, in the end, quixote will give in at all.

we read not only for page-after-page, but for year-after-year, century-after-century, pulled by the cognitive dissonance that surrounds the knight like his own cloud of malicious enchanters. in the process, just as quixote builds his castles from inns and criminal campfires, so we build castles of speculation from what we find in cervantes"s spain, at once so brutally real and so dream-like, the realm of archetype and myth founded on dreary life. we, like don quixote, are driven to hallucinate by what might be, in the end, just a very good story.

with don quixote, cervantes has accomplished an enduring act of literary alchemy: just as quixote is combined with sancho, so is fantasy combined with reality, the eternal with the everyday, and like the combination of matter and anti-matter, the explosion of aesthetic power is, in magnitude, infinite, propelling readers from the earth--at first facing inward at what was left behind on the page, then, forgetting the earth, outward into meaning--farther and farther toward the dream-like stars.

读英语书的读后感篇2

hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry is where harry potter and his friends learned about magic.main characters:harry potter is an 11 year old boy who’s parents died, and he goes to hogwarts.ron weasley is an 11 year old boy who has 5 brothers and 1 sister, and he goes to hogwarts.

hermione is a 10 year old girl who likes learn a lots , and she goes to hogwarts.quirrell is hogwarts’s teacher,voldemort’s helper.voldemort is an evil guy of the magic world.

climax:harry never thought quirrell was helping voldemort. quirrel cought harry and let him to get the philospher’s stone, but when harry got it, he didn’t give it to quirrell, and voldemort came out,from the back of quirrell’s head!and voldemort orderd quirrell to catch harry and get the stone, but when quirrell touched harry, his body dissolved,and then he died.

conclusion:harry defeated voldemort, and the year has finished,it’s time for the school cup,gryffindor was in last , but 4 more things let them win!

first is for ron, because he play the best game of chess hogwarts has seen in many years,he got 50 points.second is for her mione,for the use of cool logic in the face fire,she got 50 points.third is for harry, who defeated voldemort, get the stone, he got 60 points for that!last, for neville,he got 10 points for his moxie,and gryffindor won!

读英语书的读后感篇3

the little princess is written by frances hodgson burnett, who was born in manchester in england in 1849. in order to support her family she had began to write since she was 18. then she was famous for the best selling book little lord fauntleroy. she wrote about 50 novels and stories.

the representative ones are the secret garden, little princess, little prince and so on. she was good at writing fiction and children"s stories. her books often show sentimental, romantic color, plus full of childlike plots and the nature of light and warmth, which makes her works not only popular among the children but also the adults.

the little princess is just like the modern cinderella. sara crewe, the protagonist of the novel was a little girl but acted as an adult and she loved telling stories to others. when she was 11, her dad sent her to a girls’ boarding school because of his father’s business. at first, sara lived like a real princess and she was loved by everyone. she could get whatever she want because her father was rich. but on her birthday party, she got a bad news about her father was dead. from that moment, sara’s life was totally changed. she didn"t understand why the teachers and students treat her so bad. she had to work 16 hours a day. she began to taste the hardships of life with no money. sara and her partner becky lived together and they helped each other, support each other. there’s an old saying, when one door shuts, another opens. so, after a long time, she met her father’s partner who was searching for her for years because her father found a gold ore and earned lots of money. then she lived with this kind man and becky became her exclusive maid.

when i finished reading the book, i feel inspire. what impressed me most are sara’s kindness and the spirit of brave. when facing difficult, she is still very optimistic and is kind to everyone. she always has a b will and never gives up. i think whenever i face difficult i will think of sara, then i will feel inspire and overcome it bravely.

读英语书的读后感篇4

今天，我读完了《希腊神话故事》这是德国施瓦布写的一本文学宝藏。出自于公元前十二世纪到公元前八世纪，古希腊是世纪文明古国之一，客观存在为人类留下了一笔灿烂的文化财富，这个神话对我的印象十分深刻。

古希腊神话故事充满智慧和神奇的色彩，讲述的是宙斯统治天国时期，围绕诸神和英雄们发生的曲折跃富的故事。相传最初的世界只是一片混沌状态，在混沌之中有道先产生了大地女神—该亚以及老一代的神，该亚生下天父龙拉诺斯。之后，该亚与夫父结合生下六男六女，称作十二泰坦神。父亲担心儿女夺权，就把孩子都打入地狱，唯有小儿子克洛诺斯在该亚的保护下，幸免于难。克洛诺斯长大后打败父亲，成为了新一代的神。我最佩服的.是母亲，母爱是一种伟大的爱。

古希腊神话中的英雄具有神的超人的力量，但他们不是神。只有少数的英雄经过奋斗得到宙斯的肯定后，才能升入天庭成为神。他们体力过人，勇敢无比战天斗地，克服了一个个艰难险阻，上演了一幕幕神与神、神与人、人与人以及由于不同的神支持的英雄们之间的可歌可泣的战斗。把人物形象深刻画得非常逼真，在他们的故事里我读到了战争的血腥，也读到了和平的美好，读到了勇士的志诚……

希腊神话的众神与中国的不同，他们有着人一样情感，而中国的神仙是不可以有感情的。特别是神仙和凡人发生感情就是犯天条。我国古代的牛郎织女很动人，但结局很凄惨。

这本书让我看到了希腊政治。文化、历史，让我对文学精点产生兴趣，让我受益匪浅。懂得了很多做人的道理。

读英语书的读后感篇5

duckling , once again to the cygnet when one was young what experience sobs, feel sincere being glad to marvelous change of ugly duckling , just start a loving heart to self ugly child but feel to the ugly duckling mother. ugly duckling in culture is bitten by the duck , the group is pecked at by chicken, that woman servant person the poultry farm is kept watch on kicks, suffer hardships within winter. but, he had better been thinking of a heart being thankful all the time: oh, thank god! i be so ugly as to even hunting dog not have bitten me! ; and, he is to be full of hope"s all the time: i go up to think that i still go to the extensive world well . i need to fly to them , fly to these elitist bird ! behind reason why , setback having suffered innumerable time in him, he finally has become a swan from ugly duckling: but he is that are one clumsy no longer, oxford gray"s , the duck both ugly and make people dislike that, be one swan ! thereupon, i have known: face the setback that self suffers, we ought to have a heart being thankful to thank parents having given birth to us , thank nature giving us the chance existing down; we ought to all the time be full of hope that we need to firmly believe that the setback is temporary , the road is circuitous , future is bright, always have the bright spring day a sheet of to belong to us! be considerate, i think of: we face the people who suffers reverses in course of , are still anybody disregarding the colleague who is us , our student,we do not ought to go to bite ugly duckling like the duck , not ought to go to peck ugly duckling like chicken , not ought to go and kick ugly duckling, but be to ought to believe in like the poultry farm woman servant people , he also will be as so young , so good looking as self one day!

读英语书的读后感篇6

over the course of this semester，i read a moving book:the little prince.it impressed me a lot，especially，the pure but deep emotion（love） between the characters such as the pilot and the little prince，the rose and the little prince，the fox and the little prince.the book remind me of the pure and nice emotion only found in childhood.

the main character our little prince live on a planet named b612 acpany with there volcanoes an a rose who falls in love with him but can not understand each other.consequencely，he leave his planet and his endless travelling.during this period，he e across a diversity of people. from these people he gets a conclusion that the grown-ups are very odd.then he enter earth and found thousands of roses alike.the little prince discovers thathis rose is notthe only ，plenty of her kind are everywhere， but then he realizes that his rose is special "because it is she that i have watered; because it is she that i have put under the glass globe; because it is she that i have sheltered behind the screen" . then he fall across the fox. she teaches the prince "it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye ".

what impresses me the most is the fox’s words.love is a strange stuff.sometimes we see it but can’t grasp it.yet， true love may be， to some extent， invisible in surface but may last permanent.apart from love， others as well.indeed，sometimes what we consider right turn out to be wrong，what we consider real proves fictitious，what we confused may just turn out to be the truth.the path in searching for truth may long and time-consuming，we should harbour conviction，strong will and high hope.no matter what barriade in front of us，we ought to be couragous and face up to the challenge.

读英语书的读后感篇7

a piggy named wilbur and a spider named charlotte became friend. the future of this poor piggy is a delicious course of the christmas' feast. though ever considering escaping, yet after all he is only a pig. while charlotte--although be viewed as small and insignificant--said, "let me help you!" whereupon she used her silk to weave words such as "some pig" and "terrific" in her web, which are regarded as a marvel by human beings. those marvelous words alter wilbur's destiny, and finally earned him a happy and peace future. nevertheless, at that moment, the life of charlotte almost completed its span...

the most impressive episode of this book is the notable friendship between charlotte and wilbur. a spider is a threat to a piggy at first glance, but loneliness suddenly makes wilbur be familiar with charlotte and surprisingly he found that this spider is extraordinary warmhearted.

what impressed us deeply is the words "you never die, i'll save you!"by charlotte when wilbur was wailing "i don't wanna die! i don't!" to fulfill her promise, charlotte devoted all her lifetime and asked no rewards, until the moment she died.

such kind of friendship is pure and clean, only leaving the selfless love and pure kindness. when this sort of emotion has already been lacked seriously in contemporary society, this story undoubtedly moves the readers. maybe every reader envies that charlotte has a wilbur, and wilbur has a charlotte.

the word "goodbye" has already gone with the wind, accompanied by her silk, only leaving a charlotte's web in everyone's heart.

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