hard times的英文简介
Graham Law is an associate professor of English Studies at Waseda University, Japan. Law is widely published on the subject of nineteenth-century suspense novels and also the editor of two other Broadview Literary Texts series editions: Great Expectations (with Adrian Pinnington) and The Evil Genius. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. By 1854, when Hard Times was published, Charles Dickens' magisterial progress as a writer had come to incorporate a many-sided, coherent vision of English society, both as it was and as he wished it to be. Hard Times. a classic Dickensian story of redemption set in a North of England town beset by industrialism, everywhere benefits from this vision - in the trenchancy of its satire, in its sweeping indignation at social injustice, and in the persistent humanity with which its author enlivens his largest and smallest incidents. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
用英文写的读后感，50个词左右，最后带上中文
I’m the king of the castle by Susan Hill If you like a horror story and suspense, then you would enjoy Susan Hill’s book ‘I’m the King of Castle’. It reminds me of ‘Lord of the Flies’ as it shows the cruelty of the children and the terror that they can create. It is a really wonderful and educational book for young teenager around 13 to 15 years old pupils and they can learn a lot in this book. In this story, Susan Hill creates a little poor boy called Charles Kingshaw who is from London. His mother Helena Kingshaw finds a work as a housekeeper for Mr Joseph Hooper and his son Edmund in their large country house which called Warings. We soon learn Edmund is a very strange and deviant boy who wants his house to himself ‘nobody must come here’. When Charles and Helena arrived, Edmund immediately starts to make Charles feel unwelcome and scared. Edmund is greeted with a hostile paper ‘I didn’t want you to come here.” He frightens Charles in many ways such as throwing the rocks into Charles’ room, putting the dead crows on Charles bed to make him feel frightened and letting Charles touch the sample of moth. Also, they usually have lots of argument. Edmund hates and envies Charles has a beautiful and competent mother Helena, so he often says Charles is a baby “my little darling, dear my little baby-boy, Mummy loves her little baby-boy.” We discover Edmund is also a lonely boy; he needs his mother’s love.But poor Charles cannot stand this afflict, when he knows his mother Helena has been fallen in love with Edmund’s father Joseph, he cannot bear this fact, he feels hopeless. He chooses escaping. Poor Charles drowns himself in the river. The terrible ending is even worth because his mother is kind to Edmund and treats him like her son. Edmund destroys Charles and he wins a new mother. “I don’t want you to look, dear, you mustn’t look and be upset, everything is all right.”When I finished this book, my first impression is ‘the ending is so sad, how poor Charles is!” Charles is just eleven years old, and he would lose his anima. I like this book very much, it shows the psychology of two boys who have different characters. This story let me bethink when I was twelve years old, I often teased the children who were younger than me, it is wrong. The children are so frail, if we cannot bring them up very well, they will not get a perfect spirit. Although, when the readers have the first approach to this novel, they will be shocked and surprised about Charles decision over his own life. As we cannot find this experience in our life, nobody will kill himself when he is unhappy. However, as the story has exposed more about Charles’ personal life. We will feel more sympathy for him. His life is an incredible tragedy. Charles loses his father barely, he wants some comfort from Edmund who has the same age as himself, but since Edmund does not have mother, he begins to make Charles feel frighten instead and let Charles admit Edmund is the king of the castle. Charles cannot get any comfort from family or friends but only terrify and laughing. His mood changes a lot. Though he had never been willing to come to the castle, yet he is not in such despair. After he comes through all the horrible things that caused by his ‘companion’ Edmund, and in the end, his discover that even his mother has fallen in love with Joseph Hooper. Their parents Joseph Hooper and Helena Kingshaw purpose to get married, but they have not imagined Charles cannot endure it. They do not know how much grievance does Charles has been sustained. They do not know how much sadness and trepidation Charles has. For an eleven-year-old boy like him, Charles cannot bear these terrible things. They have not tried to understand their sons really and truly, it induces a tragedy in the end without the comfort of human being. He has lost all his fondness to the world. And then, it seems to be reasonable for his decision Edmund, he wins, he wins a mother and loses a person who he hates very much. Edmund has not had any compunction and he realizes ‘I’m the king of the castle.’ But he cannot get any happiness because he does not have humanity, he loses a good friend and partner. Susan creates a really dramatic and attractive story between two boys in an isolated and mysterious setting. Edmund like a devil, he occupy Charles’ life, let him feel frightened and mortuary. In this dark and void castle, the combat and argument between Charles and Edmund make this castle become more horrific rather than more alive. This castle like a hell, make Charles cannot breathe and have a lot of pressure.This book is very contradictory. It is also a good ending for Charles, he can shake off Edmund’s afflict, he wants to get free when he chooses kill himself. Another, Edmund, Joseph and Helena can live together happily. I do not like this ending because for Charles it is not fair. He bears a lot of agony but has got nothing good in return. Overall, this book shows us we need to know the children’s psychology. It may not the principle that Susan Hill wants to express, but this story tell me mostly that children’s felling may be more susceptive than adult. We need to protect them very careful, or they will hurt themselves. This is a really wonderful story, I propose you do read it.是我之前写的
beat friends make good times better and hard times easier啥意思
我们老师也让写呢，我是自己写的 Generations of children have treasured the story of Sara Crewe, the little girl who imagines shes a princess in order to survive hard times at Miss Minchins London boarding school. Now, this classic novel is available in two beautiful new collectors editions. With Tasha Tudors enchanting black-and-white illustrations, and lovely details like a satin ribbon marker and glorious full-color plates in the hardcover, these new editions of A Little Princess are must-haves for anyone who wants to rediscover the magic of this beloved story. (小公主）
wild swans读后感
When times are hard,if we are sick，have lost a partner or a job，then it’s not always easy to be thankful. Yet those can actually be the very best times to give thanks for the things we do have,not to complain about those we don’t have.当日子艰难的时候,如果我们生病了,失去了伴侣或工作,那么它并不总是容易感恩。
然而这些实际上可以最好的次感谢我们所做的事情,不要抱怨我们没有。
For example，take a moment right now to appreciate the chair you are sitting on as you read this. Just consider what went into the making of this chair—the wood，cotton，wool or other fibers，the trees and plants made into these materials and so on；because of all these you can be sitting here now.例如,现在花点时间欣赏你坐在椅子上你读这篇文章。
只考虑进这个主持木材、棉花、羊毛或其他纤维,树木和植物制成这些材料等等;因为这些你现在可以坐在这里。
You can apply this to everything as every single thing is a part of everything else and all are needed to make a whole. There’s just an endless stream of connectedness that has come together to enable you to be here right now. And you still don’t think you have anything to feel grateful for or worth appreciating?你可以把这个作为每一件事都是一切的一部分,都需要一个整体。
只有无穷无尽的连通性,聚在一起,让你现在来到这里。
你仍然不认为你有什么觉得感激或值得欣赏吗?Appreciation must also include yourself. This is often the hardest part，as it’s so easy to ignore. If you can’t appreciate yourself，then how can you appreciate anyone else?升值还必须包括你自己。
这往往是最难的部分,因为它很容易被忽视。
如果你不能欣赏自己,那么你怎么能欣赏别人?
