欧·亨利若是仅靠他的“意料之外，情理之中”的结局而出名，那他也不会成为短篇小说之王了。在他的笔下，友谊、爱情，人性的光辉与黑暗，都具备引人注目的特色，并且令人常读常新。
《感恩节的两位绅士》就有一种似乎矛盾的特点——幽默中带着哀伤。故事讲述一个流浪汉每年都会在感恩节时得到一位老绅士的施舍——一顿美满的午饭。但在这一年的感恩节，这位流浪汉在路过一个富人家时，意外地被请进去。因为那富人为了庆祝感恩节，决定请一个穷人吃午饭。当流浪汉吃饱喝足，坐在公园的长椅上时，他看到那老绅士向他走来，一如既往地请他吃饭。为了不让老绅士失望，体验到行善的快乐，流浪汉硬撑着吃了第二顿“饱餐”，随后在回去的路上倒地而亡，被送至医院。出人意料的是：不久后那位老先生也被抬入医院，他快饿死了——为了省下请流浪汉吃饭的钱，他已经三天没吃东西了。
老绅士与流浪汉可能太拘泥、太刻板了，所以他们互相为对方做出了无私奉献的同时，却导致了悲剧的结局——一个撑死，一个饿死。如果故事是这样：一个贫穷的老绅士倾其所有，救助了一个饥饿的流浪汉，自己却饿死了，那么这种故事我们会很容易感动。为什么？因为读起来简单，因为老绅士牺牲了自己可以换来流浪汉的生存。
现在欧·亨利给我们讲述了这样一个令人哭笑不得的故事，我们该怎么去读？这个迥然不同的结局让人觉得荒诞，老绅士的牺牲似乎是那样地不值，而流浪汉的迁就又是那样地可笑。但是这个貌似滑稽的'故事却让我笑不出来。他们都是那种为了体谅他人的尊严和快乐，宁愿自己忍受痛苦的人——也许这就是作者称他们两位“绅士”的原因。结局虽然是这种牺牲的不值，但我更多的是理解他们，那颗体谅和善良的心，让我们读来笑中含着泪，而泪光中却又能浮现出心中的赞美。
从我的角度，欧·亨利告诉我们：无论造成了多么糟糕的后果，为人奉献、自我承受仍是应被支持与夸赞的事，因为它本身是一种美德。
当阅读了一本名著后，你心中有什么感想呢？记录下来很重要哦，一起来写一篇
初中生英语读后感1
Lord of the flies , William Golding’s first novel, was published in London in 1954.
This novel shows the internal evil in people’s minds. It is deliberately modeled after R.M.Ballantyne’s 1857 novel The Coral Island. That novel shows the external evil out of people’s minds which has great differences between Lord of the flies.
The story of Lord of the flies took place in an imagine World War. A group of children landed in a deserted island .At first , they could get on well with each other but then the internal evil started to grow which made children believe that there was a beast nearby. Then they began to kill each other and were finally rescued by the navy officer.
Golding tried to make people believe that evil is internal in minds for that human was evolved from the beast and remained lots of wilderness.
Golding’s father doesn’t believe in religion but believe in science very much. Golding was influenced by his father and had a rational thinking before World War 2. But his dream broke when WW2 started. He joined in army and was a navy during the War. By being influenced of this crazy bloody war he wrote his novel Lord of the flies which is a word from baalzebub （Hebrew language） which means the biggest evil.
In his novel, we can see a very very cruel story. The four main characters or five of them show us how the evil in people’s mind grow. Ralph is the leader on the island who is tall , fair-haired and handsome. He makes an obvious choice to lead the band of children. In fact, Ralph is far from the ideal leader. He did not do anything when Jack wanted to get his power. Jack is the leader of the band , the hunter or the killer. His spear is the meaning of the wilderness. Piggy is the symbol of civilization and his glasses is the most important tool of making fire. His mistake was depended on science too much. Simon is a mysterious man of them. He may be a symbol of religion and being a far seer. He made a lot of great prophesies which were all correct. And the last of them is Roger, a helper of jack who was a shy boy at first but was the most important helper of Jack at last and killed Piggy with his hands.
This novel shows at last the wilderness beat the civilization. It shows that when people were in the worst circumstance they will become a beast. And a beast has less rules, they just fight against each other with the body. In my opinion , I think Golding is too realistic that is become not such more reality. I don’t think this will happen if this is a true story. But it could happen if everyone was exactly the same as the one under the describe of Golding. If Ralph can be smarter, if piggy can be more stronger even Jack can be weaker, the things will change. But it really take place during the second WW. I think in most of the circumstance rules is a good thing for the whole group. But when a lot of people disagree with that for their interests , that would be different. Jack isn’t danger at all, the things which worried Ralph was the group of hunter. I believe that Jack made his government a quite sure thing, for he is the most strongest child and he isn’t stupid ,he just couldn’t control his wilderness just like Hitler. If he can be more self-collected he can lead the children much better than Ralph. Piggy is smart but he doesn’t know how people’s mind think. When Jack came to get his glasses he still thought that they are going to steal the conch. That we can see his stupid. Simon is the far seer which has everything as same as all far seer in every book . Ralph didn’t make a good rule that he didn’t think of the need of the meet. Jack get that and use the need and the wilderness to make the children became more original. Then his strong body can use as the weapon to get the leadership. Violent may be the best method to rule the island ,for the children was like a lot of slaves without education, but no one find that.
Will it be much better? We don’t know. Golding believes that adults are the same like that, but I don’t think so. Maybe they could do it much better. Who knows?
初中生英语读后感2
This summer holiday,I made a good friend --- Robinson though ‘ROBINSON CRUSOE’. ‘ROBINSON CRUSOE’is a classical masterpiece which attracted me very much,and brought me much enlightenmet.I really lerned a lot of things from the eternal opus.
The ‘ROBINSON CRUSOE’have been authored by famouse English writer---Defoe. It’s about dramatis personae Robinson who met a frightful wind while he sailed on the sea. He was the only survinal, but he drifted to a uninhabited island. He bravely struggled, industriously worked and combated with barbarians. Robinson lived alone on the island for 28 years. He experienced many difficulties and dangers.
Robinson was a great person, he conquered countless and unimaginable hardships. If I stayed on a lonely island, I absolutely couldn’t vanquish dangers. I maybe would lose confidence for life. I respect Robinson very much, he is a real hero in my heart.
He lived on the island for about 30 years without any food, tool or habitation. He must depend by himself. Robinson wasn’t afraid of hardships, he had the fortitude spirit .He was brave in adventure and was good at labor. He used his head and hands to struggle all the time. I admire his courge very much, because these were not easy, work at all.
In fact, we also need the spirit of being undefeatalle indefatigable.
Like Robinson. If we believe in ourselves, never give up and do we best, we must be successful!
Robinson was a great miracle, he achieved mumerous. ‘impossible things’。 ‘Robinson Crusoe’ was an immortal novel, because it gave us a courageous, intrepidity, diligent, indefatigable and wise ordinany person, a vanquish nature, a hero who exploited nature. The book is a really excellent adventuresome novel,
There is no perfect life in the world, but we can change our fate. If we have confidences and work hard, we absolute will be victorious, and the most important thing is ‘Never give up’！
Some time ago read "the old man and the sea", "the old man and the sea" is Hemingway written in Cuba in 1951, a medium-length novel, was published in 1952. The old man and the sea is one of Hemingway's most famous works, he tells the story of an old man fishing on the sea all the year round. Once he caught a big fish, but he had met on the way back to groups of sharks, the old man work hard and struggle, but failed in the end, the shark ate all of the meat, the old man dragged a pair of big fish skeleton back.
Novels of all time is very compact, before and after only four days: the day before at sea, the old man returned from the sea, with reference to play around the characters one by one, the relationship between the group and the old man, a love he, with his children learn fishing manolin; A pair of very selfish parents; A group of respected him, but always can't understand his fishing; A concerned about his hotel owners. The old man lived in such a character groups, by contrast, he had a significantly different with others, he is very optimistic, open-minded, is an experienced, the industrious and brave and confident, adventurous, deeply loves the life of a simple Cuban fisherman. At the same time, also can produce the hub-and-spoke structure clue clear, central focus highlight, the effect of the story is concise and lively.
The old man said: "a man is not born to defeat, you can destroy it, but can't beat him." Such never-say-die spirit inspires us, we should not learn this spirit?
前一段时间读了《老人与海》深有感触，《老人与海》是海明威于1951年在古巴写的一篇中篇小说，于1952年出版。《老人与海》是海明威最著名的作品之一，他讲述了一位常年在海上打渔的老人。有一次他钓到了一条大鱼，但他在返回的.路上遇上了成群的的鲨鱼，老人使出浑身解数与其搏斗，但最后还是失败了，鲨鱼把肉全吃掉了，结果老人拖着一副大鱼骨架回去了。
小说的全部时间非常紧凑，前后只有四天：出海的前一天，一老人从海上归来为引子，让周围的人物一个个出场，交代了他们与老人之间的关系：一个热爱他，跟他在一起学习钓鱼的孩子马诺林;一对非常自私的父母;一群尊敬他，但永远不能理解他的打渔人;一个关心他的酒店老板。老人就生活在这样的人物群体中，相比之下，他与众人有着明显的不同，他很乐观，心胸开阔，是个
老人说：“一个人并不是生来就要给打败的，你可以消灭它，却不能打败他。”这种永不言败的精神激励着我们，我们不应该学习这样的精神吗?
