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《了不起的'盖茨比》英语读后感篇1
Recently read "the great gatsby, a story of hegemony set up dawn. The north American continent, is hundred years ago, the economic development of the train sped forward; Friction machines roar, but also too much to hide a moment of the heart. The book, that history is a little mark.
Investigate its likelihood is a person's tragedy, is the tragedy of the society as a whole, may not be important. Wine party smallpox, extravagant luxury residence, colorful gorgeous clothes, just for the sake of his heart love Daisy. Think first, young and beautiful, sketched a period of time; Flies away and alternative fate lane person, in the heart of love is someone else's confidante. The deep love, the injury the farthest, cut; Not reality, immersed in the beautiful dream, but blurred the forward field of vision. Weakness of gunfire, all the dreams and beautiful, vulnerable to burst, scattered in the wind, without trace.
Gatsby, his great, because he was the degree of potential energy, but because of his pursuit of the good feelings. He hasn't done anything wrong, but also had to the empty rooms. A dream, how to do, easy, but also how to away, difficult to achieve. In an age of people pursuit of material, to be backed by real emotions. Buckish, stained with money, odour, lost a condition is a pure heart. Leave a piece of pure land, at that time, doomed to oblivion the audacity of commitments.
Finally wrote: "we continue to strive to move forward, stream, after being constantly push, until the return to the days of the old one."
Heart can not help a Chu. Accustomed to another potential, accustomed to the intrigue, people, really happy? Blundering world, difficult times, disguise the Buddhism, purports to recall the mood like that is like water. This, is the only thing we can do?
"Day after day, excitement consumed by gradually." Reality, kill too much like real unreal image. Those beautiful like a castle in the air, and hollow crowd away already. In between dreams and reality, we go from here?
Gatsby is the choice of the former. Even if the cruel reality, fate, his image is still great; Pure love is hard to stop, right and wrong about his, also make them in a glorious situation across the sphere of a bygone era. Quietly away, few people look at the light. Through one hundred, is the ray of light, to the left a dark era deserves stay have story.
Even if you, in the reality, still mark a dream back without regrets. That is worth pity era, these moving words, bring us infinite daydream.
《了不起的盖茨比》英语读后感篇2
"The great gatsby is a harbor of" American dream "in the literature writer Fitzgerald's works, Fitzgerald said his own extraordinary, with his parents is different also, don't even think of themselves as the son of parents, he has come from the self Platonic idea.
In this article, the hero that gatsby is a unique thought of the people, he also have Platonic love. He put himself as the son of god, he thought he should be god's career service, his pursuit of a "vast, secular, ostentation of beauty", obviously he imagine himself become Christ's character. Seventeen, he decided to change name, from the original James gates to jay gatsby, jay gatsby is said to be English Jesus, God ` s boy pronunciation variation. But the irony is that, from the moment he changed his name, he began to pursue the so-called beauty and kindness, also began his tragic life. He saw Daisy buchanan as he pursues the incarnation of beauty. When he saw her, he knew that she had put his ideal and his life together. He knew his heart to heart with god, must be single-minded, never heart side wu chi. When he kissed her for the first time, "she is just like a flower bloom for him, and the embodiment of this ideal is done." On Daisy, gatsby's dream became flesh and blood. He desire and Daisy together to realize their dreams.
However, Daisy cannot act as the role. She is a just a miss the bourgeoisie for the highest goal in life, no thoughts, there is no sentiment, shallow false, bored, nothing to do. She never to realize gates than his dream to sacrifice their own vested interests. While gatsby himself could not achieve their dreams, of course, his idea is too unreal. He and Daisy's husband Tom buchanan possess wealth, the difference between two people is at least he used his wealth to pursue a kind of "beauty", and try my best to get it. However, he didn't win it, finally, George Wilson, is Tom's mistress's husband in Daisy couple killed gatsby conspired and egged. His dream completely shattered. Gatsby's failure is the fundamental reason is that he did the "American dream" has been out of date, his opportunity had little s dream come true.
I felt sorry for gatsby, he is so single-minded, but in the end was hurt by their favorite woman. Of course he is praiseworthy in some places. He can read the love is beautiful, and not like most people associate love and interests. But he really misled by his ideal, he did not see time and occasion, he shouldn't be on the right people also is reluctant to part with the past memories after married. And Daisy this person too vain, too greedy. To some extent, gates than the final fate has a lot to do with her.
《了不起的盖茨比》英语读后感篇3
There is a dream,rooted deeply in every American,from the very beginning of theMayFlower,that the great grandfathers of all Americans had been contemplatingand seeking,and of all Americans that has been written in the second sentence of theUnited States Declaration of Independence which states that "all men are created equal" and that they are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights" including "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness."The American Dream , is a belief that as long as the United States after a hard struggle will be able to achieve the ideal of a better life, that is, people have to work through their own hard work, courage, creativity and determination to move towards Prosperity,rather than rely on specific social classes and other assistance. This is usually on behalf of the people in the economic success or entrepreneurial spirit.
Yet, the dream has already became a nightmare,that in the money-orienting,power-persuing minds springing up since the Industry Revolution,Americans have fallen in,not only the way of life through which Americans rifling for more luxurious enjoyment, but the morality of heart that they persued prosperity with all costs of which they were oblivious.
Luckly,we had people who saw the reality much more clearly than the blind masses,while those were considered Critics of sorts.They pointed out that many versions of the dream equate prosperity with happiness, and that happiness may not always be that simple. These critics suggest that the American Dream may always remain tantalizingly out of reach for some Americans, making it more like a cruel joke than a genuine dream. Fitzgerald was one of them who went the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James, because he depicted the extolled grandest and most boisterous, reckless and merry-making scene（T.S.Elliot）。
It was five years that Fitzgerald foreseen the latent fatal cancer of Capitalism of American. The Great Gatsby soon came into being,in which first half is comedy,second half is tragidy.In the third--person view,Nike, who learns that his next-door neighbor, who throws lavish parties hosting hundreds of people, is the wealthy, mysterious Jay Gatsby.And the key charactor ,Gatsby, had fallen in love with Daisy in 1917 as an Army Lieutenant stationed near Daisy's hometown, Louisville. After the war, Gatsby came east and bought his mansion near Daisy and Tom, where he hosts parties hoping she will visit.Befor then Gatsby was a man of integrity and honor,who received great respect form the society to his wealth and power.While after his death,he was merely remembered,forgottern in the flew of time and lust. These parties were fashionable, but pointless. It was only a show-off of Gatsby’s riches and material success. The crowds hardly knew their host; many came and went without invitation. The music, the laughter and the faces, all blurred as one confused mass, showed the purposelessness and the loneliness of the party-goers beneath their marks of relaxation and joviality. All this was typical of “the Jazz Age”， when many people lost belief in American dream and indulge themselves in drinking and dancing. The great expectations which the first settlement of the American continent brings vanish, and so despair and doom set in.In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars…On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.
“Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York----every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.” （Chapter 3, 52）
The exavagent life, the noisy people constitute Gatsby’s parties. However, the depiction of the fashionable and meaningless parties served to highlight Gatsby’s tragedy by contrasting the grandeur of his party with his violent death, with the frustration of his dream. Gatsby’s funeral was rather deserted and cheerless compared with his parties. It’s a record of human coldness. Nick had invited some people to come to Gatsby’s funeral. These people were all Gatsby’s so-called friends. They found a lot of excuses for their absence because they knew clearly that Gatsby was no longer useful for them. Gatsby’s generous parties had not brought him even one friend. What’s more, Daisy, once Gatsby’s lover, the real killer, “hadn’t sent a message or a flower”。（Chapter 9, 233）The sharp contrast between the exavagence of the parties and the coldness of the funeral revealed the hypocritical relationship among people and the moral degradation of the Jazz Age.
Gatsby, though his wealth came from his criminal activities,was the typical symbol of American dream in that time,and the whole-hearted dedication of Gatsby and his sincere belief in what he did made him heroic, and this submerged the unpleasant details so that they did not seem important in the final outcome,as has the American dreammer who were so stubborn to believe perspirition would bring what they want.
The real killer who murderred Gatsby was the society,in which people could become rich overnight by non-moral means.A poor beautiful girl could marry a wealthy boy who may not be handsome for the purpose of being rich,and a young man could find a job in which he would do nothing but be paid.While Gatsby, the true heir to the American dream,was killed by Conspiracy of his lover Daisy ,who was actually stimulated by the vanity fair, and lived in luxury at the cost of Gatsby, to whom without mercy. The cruel reality smashed Gatsby’s dream. Fitzgerald’s comment on the failure of Gatsby’s dream was also a statement on the failure of American dream. The contrast of the dream and the reality significantly indicated a moving away from faith and hope in a world where material interests had driven out sentimentality and faith. What is more, dream, even if it persists, is utterly helpless and defenseless against a material society. It can only be defeated. Gatsby was an example. Owing to his unrealistic dream, Gatsby’s fate turned out to be a tragedy. Because he was not conscious of his unrealistic dream of love and he did not correctly handle contradictions between ideal and reality, Gatsby sunk into this kind of unreal dream so deeply that he can’t wake up. And the final result of Gatsby was surely miserable.
The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s finest novel. “sensitive and symbolic treatment of themes of contemporary life related with irony and pathos to the legendry of the American dream.” ——【The Oxford Companion to American Literature】
The sharp contrast between dream and reality not only explains Gatsby’s failure at the end, it also explains the meaninglessness of that age. In a word, these contrasts provide the readers with a panorama of 1920s. And in the contrast, the theme of the novel ----the disillusion of the American dream ----is strengthened. In the mean time,the loss of the American dream reflects the corruption of people’s morality.
《了不起的盖茨比》英语读后感篇4
A Book Report on The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby I read, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the well-known American writer, was published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in 2004, with 225 pages.
The book is a novel. It is a story told by Nick about a man named Gatsby. The author gives the reader a vivid love story with a tragic end. The story can be interpreted many ways. The fall of the American dream is one major theme.
Here are the top four characters. Gatsby, the protagonist, has an obsessive love with Daisy. He struggles for her attention, for her joyance, and most importantly, for her herself. It turns out what he struggles for is only an allusion, a shadow, and a dream, just out reach of his hand. He pays “a high price for living too long with a single dream” (Fitzgerald, 200). Special attention should be paid to Nick, the narrator. He is “one of the few honest people” that we ever known in the novel (Fitzgerald, 70). Therefore, we can, first of all, trust his narration. As Daisy’s cousin and Gatsby’s neighbour, he then exists as a connection of the two. Another function he plays is that being an observer, he can evaluate and criticize our protagonist objectively. Daisy and Tom make a perfect couple. Daisy, though born a beauty, is sensual and “her voice is full of money” (Fitzgerald, 152). Then Tom, both physically and spiritually, is vulgar. Tom and Daisy lead a luxurious and profligate life.
The following is the plot of the novel. Gatsby and Daisy loved each other. However, Gatsby was too poor to marry Daisy. He went to war in Europe. When he came back he found Daisy had married Tom. He earned substantive money illegally, and came to New York City, and bought a house, and held parties, which were luxurious out of imagination, in order to draw Daisy’s attention. Finally he knew Nick, his neighbour, was Daisy’s cousin, and came to him for help. Under Nick’s arrangement, Gatsby met Daisy five years after they parted. After Tom had learned that there was something between Gatsby and Daisy, he attacked Gatsby that the latter did drugstore business in the face of Daisy and Nick, and asked Daisy back to his arms. Later, Daisy, driving, killed Myrtle, Tom’s lover by accident. However, Tom told her husband, Wilson, that it was Gatsby who was Myrtle’s lover and killed her. Consequently Wilson shot Gatsby to death and took his own life as well. After Gatsby’s depressing funeral, Nick decided to go back to the Middle West. After all, Gatsby, Daisy, Tom and he himself were all from the Middle West.
When The Great Gatsby was published, T. S. Eliot praised it was the first step of American novel had token since Henry James. I like this novel, which is not hard to understand but not easy to appreciate. First, it is a novel about dreams. Young men, maybe young women as well, without fortune and outlook may lack everything but dreams. Yet how their dreams will turn out to be is completely another thing. We notice in Chapter 9, Gatsby’s SCHEDULE, which is marvelously similar to Benjamin Franklin’s schedule, and then we are reminded of the American dream. That is a dream, as James Truslow Adams has remarked, “of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement” (“What is the American Dream” ). The generation of Franklin succeeded through their personal struggle. Unfortunately, this was never true to men like Gatsby, who lived in the 1920s America. Gatsby does have ambition, but he is a hero in an improper time where money is the sole criterion of success. Fitzgerald links Gatsby “with a world that no longer exist, a world that has been lost in back rush of time, a world that offers more in promise than has been realized in fact” (Lehan). It is the dream that deceives him into living with sufferings; and it is the dream that even makes him die willingly.
Besides the decline of the American Dream, another theme of the novel, in my opinion, is that there exists no true love in a world where ruthless materialism prevails. Notwithstanding “the love Gatsby has for Daisy seems to be the only pure impulse in a corrupt world” (Lehan), his love has no opportunity to flourish. Daisy finally chooses to follow Tom, and they escape, “and let other people clean up the mess they had made” (Fitzgerald, 222). About love, Fitzgerald says through one of his characters, “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired” (Fitzgerald, 95). The love between Nick and Baker, if it exists, can support this point as well.
In terms of craftsmanship in American literature, The Great Gatsby can be said one of the most consummate. It is a work making good use of symbolism. First, the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock represents Gatsby’s hope and dream for the future. It is yet only an illusory dream which he will never reach. It is not more real than the stars in the sky. Second, the Valley of Ashes symbolizes “the moral and social decay that results from the uninhibited pursuit of wealth” (). Third, the eye of Doctor T. J. Ecklebury’s in a billboard represents “God staring down upon and judging American society as moral wasteland” (). Each symbol has more than one interpretation, with which I will not try to bother here.
Then the language of The Great Gatsby deserves to be mentioned. The language is elegant and graceful, and sometimes it could be compared to a poem’s language. In one of Gatsby’s grand parties, “people disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away”(Fitzgerald, 44). Then when Daisy was singing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, she brings out “a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again” (Fitzgerald, 135). Then Gatsby “stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air …” (Fitzgerald, 191). More examples shall not be quoted. The description of views of the evening and moonlight should be specially noticed.
In relation to our life, how shall we do with our personal dreams? Man, as he grows, becomes realistic. This process is like when we put a piece of paper into a glass of water, the paper is gradually soaked and suddenly falls into the bottom. Then it is like an artichoke flower, peels off one petal after another, and finally withers. However, without dreams, what can man hold? The Pandora’s Box opened; everything flew out, leaving only hope at the bottom. Hope, thence, stays forever for the despairing people, even when they have nothing else.
Finally, the fiction urges me to think about what kind of life we are willing to have? All the four principle characters are from the Middle West and come to live in the East. Many in China come from the countryside and pursue the urban life. Nick never feels he is a part of the East, and if Gatsby has felt, he would not be dead. The relation between countryside and urban life deserves reconsidering, especially in the contemporary Chinese context.
It is my pleasure to recommend this novel to my friends. Another well-known American writer, who was contemporary with Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemmingway’s words are of service, “Gatsby was a great book. I’ve read it twice in the last five years. It gets better with each reading” (Hemingway, Gregory). I would like to read it twice when time is available.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2004.
Hemingway, Gregory. “Lessons.” English Essays 50. Ed. Tao Jie. Nanjing: Yilin Press,2002.354.
Lehan, Richard. “Focus on F. Scott. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.” American Dreams, American Nightmares. Ed. David Madden. London and Amsterdam: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970.
相比之下，我更喜欢影片的英文名：IronWill，钢铁意志，非常紧扣主题，而且更巧的是，电影中男孩名叫WillStoneman。名字很有寓意，Stoneman：石头人，Will：意志。角色的名字含有深刻寓意，紧扣主题，这往往也是一种写作技巧，这部电影的文学价值也很高，配乐与摄影水平也是一流的，演员的表演更是深入内心，虽然这部电影没有获得大奖，但我认为，冠以最佳编剧奖、最佳导演奖、最佳摄影奖、最佳演员奖、最佳配乐奖，对这部电影来讲，都是实至名归。
故事发生在1917年美国南达科他州(Southcarolina)，18岁男孩威尔是在农场长大的孩子，在冰天雪地的冬季，全家人就靠父子俩用雪橇运货赚钱，父亲一直盼望威尔能离开农场去上大学。有一天，威尔收到了大学入取通知书，然而他并不显得十分兴奋，因为学费对家境窘迫的他来讲是一笔不小的数字，因此他想放弃读大学的机会，父亲却坚持让他读大学，去看看农场外面的世界。正在这时，父亲意外地看到北美洲的狗拉雪橇比赛的消息并决定参加比赛获得巨额奖金来支付儿子上大学的学费。
一家人开始沉浸在对未来的美好憧憬之中，深谙雪橇之道而且身强力壮的父亲也开始利用平常和儿子一起拉雪橇运货的机会开始了训练，父子俩一人一辆狗拉雪橇奔驰在茫茫雪原上。却不料在一次训练中，父亲不慎掉进路边水流湍急的冰河之中，拉着雪橇链子的父亲在冰冷的激流中有点力不从心，身体剧烈摇晃，父亲最挚爱的哈奇士狗也在岸上焦急地叫着，威尔立即跑过来拼命拉着雪橇链子想拖父亲上岸，然而雪地湿滑……眼看儿子就要滑入水中，在这危急的关头，父亲为了不让苦苦救他的儿子也跟着掉下去，他毅然抽刀砍断了雪橇链子，在儿子凄厉悲伤的叫喊声中，父亲不幸溺水身亡……
父亲的意外去世令整个家庭失去了方向，威尔和母亲面临着重重困难，前途一片迷茫，债主前来逼债，要母亲拍卖农场，威尔想保住农场，决定不去上大学了，母亲想到父亲的遗愿坚决不让。
这时，威尔想到了自己为什么不去参加比赛呢?这个想法又重新点燃了年轻人的希望，为了实现父亲的遗愿，为了自己的大学学费，为了保住自家的农场，威尔说服了母亲，决定去参加北美洲狗拉雪橇大赛。叔叔开始在半夜里训练威尔并告诉威尔“你唯一取胜的办法是：在别人休息的时候你还在跑!”短短几天的训练之后，威尔怀揣着父亲留下的哨子，带着父亲生前挚爱的哈奇士猎犬和雪橇，还有母亲做的果味儿饼干，踏上了前往比赛地的火车，在威尔的母亲和威尔的同龄小伙伴略带忧虑的目光中，威尔艰难的赛程拉开了序幕……
当威尔赶到比赛地的时候，已经错过了报到的时间，而且所有的选手没有一个人看好他，甚至很多人在嘲笑他，他们都是来自各地的高手，有些选手还是往年比赛的冠军，高手的背后还有各种各样的秘密的支持者和赌局。一开始，主办方和在场的记者们没有一个人愿意为迟到的威尔说话，但是威尔的执著感动了一位报社记者，也许是出于好心，也许更多的是出于对新闻的敏感度和追逐心，这位记者认为如果全程报道这位小伙子参赛，即使他赢不了比赛，也不失为是一项能引人关注的新闻，一定能获得报社老板的青睐。于是，这位记者说服了主办方准许威尔参赛并帮他交了迟到的罚金和报名费，使他获得了参赛机会。
威尔终于带着父亲生前挚爱的哈奇士猎犬和雪橇开始了五百多英里的艰难赛程，一路历尽艰辛。在冰雪丛林恶劣天气中奔跑，他比别人睡得晚，比别人起得早，在别人休息的时候他还在跑;挑战不仅仅来自于大自然，威尔的对手中还有人充满了残暴和卑劣，眼看威尔胜券在握，为了赌局获胜甚至有人放狗咬伤了威尔的领头的哈奇士犬，还游说威尔退出比赛并承诺给威尔一半的奖金，威尔有力回击了对手的暴力威胁，坚决拒绝了的金钱诱惑!历尽千辛万苦，威尔经受住了生与死的考验，因为威尔心里一直想着父亲遗愿，上大学的梦想，家里的农场，还有父亲留下的哨子和曲子、母亲的果味饼干，这一切，都使他对比赛始终充满着信心和力量。
令人感动的不仅仅是威尔顽强的精神，还有他善良的心。在比赛途中的冰雪丛林无人区，威尔冒着被冻僵的危险，也忘记了比赛中的争分夺秒，救了一位濒临被冻死的边缘的竞争对手。他那颗善良的心感动了很多人，也包括那位记者，那位记者又派人到威尔的家乡了解了威尔的背景。这样，一位为了实现梦想，为了保住家园的顽强拼搏的年轻人终于进入了大家的视线，引起了媒体的关注，大赛主办方的重视，还赢得了美国民众的支持：他每到一个小镇，都会受到人们夹道热烈欢迎;会有人给他食物;会有孩子来带他抄近路;全国的报纸头版头条都是他的故事，人们都叫他:IronWill(钢铁威尔);人们把威尔用父亲留下的口哨吹的父亲爱吹的曲子称之为：威尔之歌!终于主办方也为威尔感动，因为在威尔身上他们看到了自己曾经拥有过的宝贵的精神财富----当年赤手空拳创业的艰难困苦中那顽强拼搏的精神和必胜的信念以及成功的过程!报社派人千里迢迢去把威尔的母亲、叔叔和同龄小伙伴们接到了比赛的终点来迎接威尔的胜利。在威尔最后一波三折终于赢得了胜利的时候，我也被感动得情不自禁地站起来跳跃和欢呼!
影片中感人至深的除了顽强的意志，善良向上这样的
影片中让人沉浸其中的不仅仅是跌宕起伏的剧情，感人至深的励志主题以及人与动物之间的信任与温情，还有，同样令人难忘的，是影片的摄影和配乐。影片的摄影，无论是取景还是构图都堪称经典，镜头原景真实再现了美国与加拿大接壤的冰雪荒原的纯净辽阔之美，丛林雪地中狂奔的雪橇，人物表情的刻画……让我眼睛都不愿意眨一下。除了镜头带给眼球和心灵的震撼，还有，影片的配乐会随着剧情的跌宕起伏而潜入你的灵魂深处，无论是最宏大最紧张之处，还是最细微最舒缓之处，管弦乐的演奏与故事的进展都配合得丝丝入扣，非常精准，那种音乐与情节天衣无缝的配合最能震撼人的心灵，也最能让人的心灵与影片中的主角一起呼吸，同甘苦共命运，为他紧张也为他难过，为他高兴也为他担忧，甚至为他起立也为他呐喊……
威尔在茫茫冰雪丛林中奔跑的画面从此永远镌刻在了我的记忆之中……从这画面上传递出一种信念，那就是：人活着就应该为梦想而奋斗。
《决战冰河》是根据真人真事改编的雪地历险故事，时代背景是第一次世界大战发生期间的1917年。主人公威尔(Will Stoneman)的父亲死于一次事故，留下威尔照看整个家。由于需要钱来上大学以及照料父亲在南达科他州的农场，威尔决定去温尼伯(加拿大城市)参加一次在圣保罗(美国明尼苏达州首府)举行的雪橇犬马拉松比赛。在一个叫奈德(Ned Dodd)的人的帮助下，少年威尔克服了生理和
《决战冰河》精彩观后感
电影的英文名叫IronWill，直接翻译成中文就是钢铁般的意志，其实看过之后才知道这还是英雄的主人公在公众心目中的名字，到电影的最后IronWill成为了一个符号，一个象征美国精神的符号，象征梦想和信念的符号。Will只是一个18岁的少年，但是他却以顽强的意志征服了所有人，包括我们这些电影观众。
电影展现给我们的第一个镜头是威尔与火车赛跑。他从小就有一个明确的目标——参加狗拉的雪橇队并拿第一。他的家境不是很好，正在这时他收到了一封大学录取通知书，学费是他们不能承担的。他的父亲为了能让他读大学报了狗拉的雪撬队比赛，如果获得了第一名就能拿到一万元的奖金。但是不幸的事情发生了，父亲在一次训练中经过一条狭窄的冰河时掉进了水流湍急的河里，为了不让儿子也跟着掉下去他毅然地砍掉了雪橇链子。
父亲死了，从那以后威尔消沉了好长一段时间，在这段时间里他迷失了方向，模糊了自己的目标。家里要债的逼得急，母亲情急之下商量着卖掉农场。正在这时威尔看到了父亲留下的报纸——狗拉的雪橇队比赛。他顿时豁然开朗明确了自己的目标，为了实现父亲的遗愿保住农场以及上大学他说服了母亲。
威尔的叔叔在训练他时说了一句很经典的话“你没有足够的实力和经验与别人比，你唯一能够争取的就是时间和毅力。比赛的第一天只能睡五小时，第二天四小时……最后一天不睡觉。当别人在睡觉时你在跑，这样才有机会获胜。不管别人有多出色，只要相信自己做到更好就行。”威尔牢记叔叔的话，带着毅力参赛。
参加比赛的都是些来自各个国家的名人，刚开始没有人瞧得起他，因为没有钱交迟到的罚金而不能参加比赛，在一位记者的帮助下他才获得了这个机会。在强大的对手和恶劣的天气下威尔没有放弃，在威胁和诱惑下他没有放弃。他克服了重重困难，始终牢牢记住了叔叔的话“相信自己，相信自己的狗，当你很难做出决定时把自己交给上帝吧，上帝会帮你的!”在路途中他救了一个对手，他那颗善良的心感染了许多人。
他每天都以铁人威尔的名字上报纸的头版新闻，全美国人都在为他喝彩，许多人还到现场为他加油，他是全美国的英雄和希望。当对手用卑鄙的手段将他的狗弄伤后他没有放弃。这时他的目标远远超过了去获得一万元的奖金，而是金钱以外的东西;他参加比赛远远不是代表自己一个人，而是代表全美国，全美国都在期待着他的好消息。
最后那一刻最让人感动：他实在是太疲惫了，快到达终点的时候他倒下了，眼看着后面的对手追了上来，人们都在为他加油。这时是他的毅力支撑着他，他没有放弃，艰难地爬了起来完成最后的使命。曾经没有一个人预料到他会坚持到终点，事实证明那些人都错了，威尔不但到达了终点而且还拿到了第一名，他的毅力震撼了在场的每一个人。他不但完成了父亲的遗愿保住了农场获得了上大学的资金而且成为了全美国人知晓的英雄。
看了这部影片后我深深的敬佩威尔，他真的是一个了不起的英雄。他有一个明确的目标并为这个目标而奋斗，不管中途遇到多少艰难险阻他都没有放弃，靠着他的信念坚持到最后。年仅十八岁的他怎能与强大的对手比呢，他有的仅是时间，所以在别人睡觉的时候他在跑，就是靠他的毅力坚持到最后。在这一点上我们与他又何尝不是一样呢。也许我们没有别人聪明，也许别人做同样一件事只需要花我们用的一半的时间，为了打败对手拿到第一我们只有多花点时间，在别人睡觉的时候我们在学习，这样我们才会立足于不败之地。
几乎我们每个人都有梦想，只是容易被惰性消磨，我们每天为日常琐事疲于被命，而忽视了我们的梦想。人人都期待成功，但成功往往只属于那么几个人，这是为什么呢?因为只有那么几个人有坚强的毅力和顽强的信念，他们不但有梦想而且还有决心，虽然在前进的途中会遇到许多尴尬甚至是困难，但是他们没有放弃心中的信仰，目标唯一，决心坚定。到了某一个时候你所追求的远远不是你最初的梦想，而是超越梦想的那些更有价值的东西，这才是真正的成功。
路在你自己的脚下，只不过看你自己怎么走罢了!
