Reading Experience

It was my first time to have been exposed to English literature, so it was a fresh experience for me.

I was curious about this book at first when I read the first chapter. The tense, grammar, even the words are incorrect and I could hardly read it. But if you continue to read this book, you can accustom yourself to it.

It's the second English book that I have read. Be frank with you, it is quite difficult for me to finish the whole book. Besides the new words, there also exist some wrong words, so I can not tell whether they are new or wrong. It all depends on my instinct. What's more, the way that the author thinks is quite different from me. So it was a tough time, but I'm glad that I have finished reading this book.

To be honest, I was a little nervous at the beginning because there were too many wrong words, sentences and expressions. Compared with the last book, it was a little more challenging and difficult for me to understand the plot. However, nothing can stop me from going on. Through reading aloud and imagining, I feel great pleasure and enjoyment, which meakes me very excited. In fact, after the process of the reading, I really enjoy this reading experience, for I have a sense of achievement and gain more things rather than know more words.

In a word, I'm so interested in the book. It allows me to know a completely different culture and to understand the pain of unprivileged people. Thank you for your recommendation.

Theme

In my opinion, Of Mice and Men is meant to reveal the deep gap between dream and reality. Lennie and George had their little dreams and tried their best to chase their dream. However, dreams never came true in reality because the society was full of inequality, injustice and discrimination. It was not only a tragedy of low-class people but also a nightmare of the dark age.

In the book, what moved me most was that George shot Lennie to enable him to pass away with happiness. Lennie's death was so romantic but sorrowful.Maybe death was the last hopeful way to gain happiness in such a society and it was the last rebellion to the world filled with despair.

Happiness is easy to get. Happiness is difficult to get. ... For Manual laborers in America at that time, happiness was still on the shaky ground. ... It has nothing to do with the poor. “

Of Mice and Men is a book including a long story happened within a very short time. It uses many details to present a short and dramatical story with ups and downs which happened in a few days.

The title is about mice and men, but the story is really about men. It seems talking about the two main characters George and Lennie, but it is talking about the entire human beings. And also, it is about dream and reality, about love and evil, about life and death.

The mice die in the hand of the man who loves them the most. Also, a man dies in the hand of another who loves him the most. Did the author damage the approved love or complete the self-righteous love? Lennie killed the mice by incaution, and George killed Lennie by intention.

I don't know how to comment on George. If I were him I wouldn't give Lennie that shot. But I understand the struggle of George - I just feel so upset. Actually, I don't like this story. It doesn't have straight violence or darkness, but is is full of gloom and sorrow. “

Lennie is a simple boy with no evil intention. Mentally he is a baby while physically he is as strong as a machine. A machine ban be motivative if conducted by an adult; however, it would be dangerous if it is conducted by a baby. In spite of the fact that Lennie is kind, he is always driven by his instinct instead of by his logic. His only rules are George's orders which only work when George is present. ... Maybe we can draw a conclusion that Lennie's death is the best ending for both Lennie and George.

After reading this book, I was really sympathetic with the bottom of our society. They need to shoulder heavy pressure of work and also carry on their difficut and challenging life. They are easily content with pleasure. They never go out of their small circle and experience the world outside. They even die without a name...

From my perspective, the story can be concluded like it's about a group of lonely people in a cruel world. Candy was lonely and helpless. He once had a friend, his dog, but it was killed for it was too old and could hardly survive. Crooks, the colored man, was lonley, too. Few people on the farm talked to him thus he read books and stayed alone. Curley's wife was as lonely as them. She had hoped to become a star when she was a tennager but she became Curley's wife at last. In another word, she married a man she didn't love. ... I felt sad after finishing reading the story.

《人鼠之间》是我非常喜爱的一本书，只有八万字，六章内容，短小精悍。作者是1962年诺贝尔文学奖获得者——约翰.斯坦贝克。斯坦贝克曾做过工人和记者，对贫苦人民的生存状况非常了解，《人鼠之间》就出版于1937年经济大萧条时期，主人公就是生活贫困的工人。

初次看到书名的人可能以为是有关人和鼠之间发生的故事，实则不然。书名是取自苏格兰诗人罗伯特.彭斯的第一部诗集《致小鼠》，里面有这样一句诗：无论人与鼠，再周详的计划都可能事与愿违。在20世纪30年代的美国，工人的生活状态与老鼠并无二致。他们处于社会最底层，备受欺凌，为求生存，四处做工，生命脆弱的随手一捏就会消逝。何者为人？何者为鼠？本是容易区分的物种，却在那样一个时代被混为一谈。“鼠”是底层工人的象征，书名《人鼠之间》就是对底层工人生活状态的最好描述。

书中的主人公莱尼是一个爱摸软毛、头脑笨拙、四肢发达的傻大个。而乔治是一个絮絮叨叨、察言观色、头脑聪明的小机灵。两人相依为命，四处漂泊打工，艰难的生活着。莱尼和乔治心中始终有个梦想，希望有一天能有自己的一小块地，一间小屋，一头牛，一只兔笼，一些小鸡，这些梦想中的东西在他们压抑的农场打工生活中，给他们了无数希望。在新的农场里，他们认识了新的朋友，憧憬着美好生活的到来。然而命运对他们是不公的，莱尼天生神力，但是智力低下，对于自己的力气大小认识不够，所以常常惹来麻烦。对自己真爱的.东西，总在不经意间把它毁坏，好比第一次他不经意间捏死了老鼠，第二次是一只可爱的小狗，虽然他的出发点是喜欢和它们玩，但是动物失去了生命。直到第三次，莱尼不小心扼死了农场主人的儿媳，闯下了大祸，农场主人的儿子必定要对莱尼进行残暴的处罚，报复莱尼，于是乔治在没有法子的情况下，亲手结束了莱尼的性命，因为这样，莱尼才能免受折磨。随着枪声响起，所有人的梦想破碎。

在阅读时，我隐隐约约的预见了这是个悲剧的故事，但仍然被作者的文笔所吸引，最后被结局震撼到无话可说。也许这就是作家的高明之处。除了乔治和莱尼，书中出现的各个人物都色彩鲜明，作者对“希望”、“苦难”、“孤独”、“友谊”等主题的阐释，让人印象深刻。其实我们又何尝不像书中的人，总在做着梦，梦想或许会有一条岔路，人生就会与众不同。现实与理想，在每一个时代，每一个人的生活中，都是这样交织着相互较劲。

《人鼠之间》这个悲剧故事的发生，是时代的烙印，也是资本主义社会的发展，所造成的社会底层的悲凉命运，在人命如鼠的年代，梦想总归是梦想，当现实照进来的时候，带给梦想的是破灭。幸而现如今的社会不是当初黑暗布景下的环境，不是以前那种愚昧和无知的时代，人们不需要靠他人的施舍，只靠自己的努力，就可以实现梦想。所以，在现实社会里，不管梦想有多远，也不管结局是什么样，我们所能做的是通过不竭的努力，不断地奋斗来尽力实现目标，或许人生的结局我们无法知晓，但我们能左右的是人生的过程。

当阅读完一本名著后，想必你有不少可以分享的东西，需要好好地就所收获的东西写一篇

the novel opens with the famous line, "it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.". and ends with two marriages: jane and bingley's, as well as darcy and elizabeth's. both couples are assumed to live happily ever after.

elizabeth (lizzy) bennet is the core of the family. elizabeth is the second of mr. and mrs. bennet's five daughters, and is an intelligent, bold, attractive twenty-year-old when the story begins. in addition to being her father's favourite, elizabeth is characterized as a sensible, yet stubborn, woman. misled by his cold outward behaviour, elizabeth originally holds mr. darcy in contempt. however, she finds that mr. darcy improves on acquaintance, more so than she would expect.

fitzwilliam darcy (commonly known as mr. darcy) is the central male character and elizabeth's second love interest in the novel. he is an intelligent, wealthy, extremely handsome and reserved 28-year-old man, who often appears haughty or proud to strangers but possesses an honest and kind nature underneath. initially, he considers elizabeth his social inferior, unworthy of his attention, but he finds that, despite his inclinations, he cannot deny his feelings for elizabeth. his initial proposal of marriage is rejected because of his pride and elizabeth's prejudice against him; however, at the end of the novel, after their relationship has blossomed, he is happily engaged to a loving elizabeth.

role of women in the 18th century

in late-18th-century england, women were relegated to secondary roles in society with respect to property and social responsibilities. for example, women were not permitted to visit new arrivals to the neighbourhood (such as mr. bingley in pride and prejudice) until the male head of their household had first done so. women were under enormous pressure to marry for the purpose of securing their financial futures and making valuable social connections for their families. therefore, marriage, though romanticised, was in many ways a financial transaction and social alliance rather than a matter of love. although jane austen did not condone loveless marriages (she stayed single all her life), she did approve of matches having equality in various respects, including wealth, social status, love and character. in pride and prejudice, wealth, social status, chastity (and the perception of chastity) and physical attractiveness are depicted as factors affecting a woman's chances for a good m