The story of the nobility (ordinary people

/kloc-At the end of 0/9 century, slavery that destroyed human dignity prevailed in the United States. This kind of slavery will inevitably forcibly escort blacks from backward areas such as Africa to the New World to do business similar to livestock.

The story of this book happened in this background of this era, a very touching and thought-provoking story.

At the beginning of the story, Uncle Tom and another black child will suffer the fate of being sold. In order to save the child, the mother of the child fled with the child overnight. In order to help them, and at the same time to repay his good master, Uncle Tom covered the runaway mother and son regardless of the danger, leaving him alone to wait for the fate of being sold.

On the ship bound for the slave market, Uncle Tom met a father and daughter. An accident, the little girl suddenly fell into the water, and Uncle Tom jumped into the water to save her. His bravery and kindness were appreciated by the little girl's father, and he was bought back as a housekeeper out of gratitude. From then on, Uncle Tom became a member of that family.

After a while, Uncle Tom was well treated by his master in this family, and he also had a father-daughter relationship with that lovely little master, and his life was very peaceful and warm. However, God's favor did not last long. The young master died of illness, and the kind man died unexpectedly. Uncle Tom was sold to the ranch to do rough work, treated inhumanely by vicious ranchers, and lived a life of hell on earth. But the kind uncle Tom has no resentment in his heart. Until his death, he prayed for the rancher, hoping to alleviate his sins.

Uncle Tom's Cabin not only describes slaves with different performances and personalities, but also describes the faces of different types of slave owners. It focuses on the story of Tom, a slave who accepted the Christian spirit instilled by slave owners and resigned himself. They also created rebellious slaves, such as Eliza and her husband george harris, who were unwilling to let the slave owners decide their own lives and deaths. At the same time, it also reveals that the inner world of various slave owners is not exactly the same as that of slave owners. Through the description of Tom and george harris, two slaves with different personalities, this book tells readers that Tom, who was resigned to the fate of slave owners, could not escape the fate of death, while George and his wife, who dared to resist and fight, were reborn.

Therefore, Uncle Tom's Cabin has played a positive role in social development, especially in the victory of the American abolitionist movement and the just side represented by Lincoln in the American Civil War. This is why it is called "the greatest victory in the history of literature" by the famous American poet henry longfellow as a literary work.

Captain grant's children

Jules verne [France]

The story of Captain Grant's children took place in 1864. Sir granner Wan is a Scottish aristocrat and the owner of the cruise ship Duncan. He obtained a document from the drifting objects at sea, from which he learned that Captain Grant, a Scottish navigator who was killed and disappeared at sea two years ago, was still alive, so he resolutely took the captain's daughter Mary and son Robert and others to drive his own cruise ship to find and rescue. After they arrived in South America, they crossed the American continent and finally found that the captain was killed on the Australian coast. After they arrived in Australia by boat, they met Elton, the captain's original sailor, who was taken in by the pirate leader and crossed the Australian mainland. After being captured by the natives, he was in a desperate situation. After they escaped, they decided to abandon Elton on the desolate island of tabor in the Pacific Ocean, only to meet Captain Grant on the island, so they successfully returned to Scotland together. The book also describes people's adventures in nature, including earthquakes, hurricanes and wolves; Hundreds of cows fell into the mire together, and the raging flood turned the plain into an ocean; Some of them fled from trees hit by lightning and met crocodiles lurking in the water; It's really dangerous and exciting. What is even more touching is that Captain Grant sacrificed himself in the Pacific Ocean to find an immigrant island for Scottish expatriates in order to oppose English slavery to Scotland, while Sir Granawan spared no effort to save his compatriots. They are brave, tenacious and fearless, which embodies Verne's progressive thought of opposing slavery and colonialism, and shows the noble quality and lofty humanitarian spirit of maintaining social justice.

Oliver Twist

Charlie Dickens

Oliver Twist is Dickens' first social critical novel. Oliver, the abandoned baby of the rich, struggled in the orphanage for nine years and was sent to the coffin shop owner as an apprentice. Unbearable hunger, poverty and humiliation forced Oliver to flee to London, and he was forced to become a pickpocket. He was once taken in by the rich Mr Blair, but unfortunately the pickpocket found him in the thief's den again. Nancy, a kind female pickpocket, told Blereau that Oliver was the grandson he had been looking for for for a long time in order to rescue Oliver, regardless of the surveillance and threats of thieves. Nancy was killed by the thief's den leader and the police immediately surrounded the thief's den. Oliver was finally reunited with his relatives.

David Seth Kotkin

David copperfield, the eighth novel of British novelist Charles Dickens, is called his "favorite child". During the period of 1849- 1850, this book was published 20 times a month, with a first-person narrative tone, which incorporated many of the author's own life experiences. Dickens came from the bottom of society, and his grandfather and grandmother worked as servants in Lord Crewe's house for a long time. His father, New John, is an employee of the Navy Quartermaster's office. When Dickens was twelve years old, unable to pay his debts, he took his wife and children to the debtor prison in western Mashal. At that time, Dickens worked as a child laborer in Warren Black's shoe polish workshop on the Thames, and his sister Fanny, who was two years older than him, studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music. Only two people in the family don't live in prison. After his father was released from prison, Huggins went to Wellington School and soon dropped out of school permanently because of his poor family. /kloc-at the age of 0/5, he became an apprentice in a law firm. Later, he learned shorthand and was hired as a case recorder by the London Civil Lawyers' Council. 183 1- 1832, Dickens served as a reporter for Parliamentary Mirror and Zhenyang in Parliament. These experiences will help him to embark on the road of writing in the future. He received less than four years of school education in his life, and his success depends entirely on his genius, diligence and hard life. 1836, Dickens finally became famous in the world with his novel The Story of Pickwick, when he was only 24 years old.

1848, Fanny died of tuberculosis. Her death made Dickens very sad, because among many brothers and sisters, only they were very close in talent and interest. Both of them have excellent acting talents. When they were young, they went to the Miltel Hotel in Rochester with their father, and stood in front of the big table to perform singing and dancing, which won everyone's admiration. After Fanny died, Dickens wrote a 7000-word reminiscence article, which recorded the difficult childhood they spent together. Behind Dickens, based on this memory, his good friend Foster revealed Dickens' early years and masterpieces to the public for the first time in Dickens Biography. Dickens wrote this memory in order to write an autobiographical novel. The hero in his novel took many names, and finally thought of "david copperfield". Foster cheered at once, because the abbreviation of this name is the author's name. So he decided the name of the hero of the novel.

Dickens' early works are mostly "the legend of tramp" with loose structure, which is inspired by improvisation. This book is his mid-term work, and proper restrictions pay more attention to structural skills and art. In the eleventh chapter of this book, Dickens summarizes his creative method as "experiencing imagination and integrating into one". When he writes novels, he doesn't stick to copying what actually happened, but gives full play to his imagination and makes use of life materials to make new creations. Although the scene of David learning letters from his mother as a child in the book is his own personal experience, after his mother remarried, David was reading books at his age in an extremely lonely environment. After his mother was tortured, David was sent to work as a child laborer, the same age as Dickens. But the novel is completely different from the fact: Dickens is not an orphan, and David in his works is a "posthumous child". At the same time, Dickens introduced some characters of his parents to David's landlord and salesman Micawber.

The chapter "Early Life of David" shows us a childhood world that has long been forgotten by adults from the psychological perspective of children, which is very real and touching. For example, David is hostile to Maud Si Tong. He is a cold, cruel and greedy businessman who pursues his mother with the sensitivity peculiar to children. When Maud Si Tong reached out and patted David insincerely, he found that the hand touched his mother's hand impudently and pushed it away angrily. David told his mother about modern Si Tong taking him out to play. When he said that a friend of modern Si Tong always mentioned a "beautiful little widow" in conversation, his mother smiled and asked him to tell the scene over and over again. The narrative is entirely from the perspective of naive children. The child doesn't know that others are talking about his mother, but the young widow's ardent longing for a happy life is vividly on the paper. Another example: David mentioned to nanny Guo Pei that her brother Mr. Pei Guoti was a fisherman. When David came back from work at sea to wash his face, he felt that he was somewhat similar to shrimp and crab, because his black face turned red as soon as he was scalded by hot water. This strange association is full of childlike interest and Dickens' unique humor.

The Old Man and the Sea

Hemingway (1899- 196 1), an American novelist, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. His winning work is The Old Man and the Sea. Based on the real experience of a Cuban fisherman, this novel records the whole fishing process of Santiago Aguo, an old man, with camera-like realism, and creates an image of an old man who is still elegant and invincible under heavy pressure. This novel set an unprecedented record in the history of human publishing: 5.3 million copies were sold in 48 hours! His works won the Pulitzer Prize that year and the Nobel Prize two years later.

Santiago Aguo is an old fisherman in Cuba. When he was young, he was very good and strong. He once struggled with a black man for a day and a night, and finally defeated his opponent. In his later years, his experience and reaction were not as good as before. After his wife died, he lived alone in a humble cottage by the sea.

Once upon a time, the old fisherman fished alone in a small boat. He fished for 84 days, but he didn't catch any fish. Originally, a boy named Manorine accompanied him all the time, but after a long time, Manorine's parents thought the old man was unlucky and ordered his children to take another boat to sea. Sure enough, they caught three good fish in the first week. Every time the child sees the old man go home by boat every day, he feels very uncomfortable and always helps him with his things.

Santiago Aguo is thin and gaunt, with wrinkles on the back of his neck and pimples on his face, but his eyes are as blue as the sea, without a trace of melancholy. He and his children have forgotten each other. The old man taught his children to fish because the children loved him very much. Many fishermen in the village make fun of the old man because he can't catch fish, but in Manorine's eyes, the old man is the best fisherman. They fish not only to make money, but as a hobby. The children prepared meals for the old man and commented on the softball game with him. The old man especially worships the softball player DiMaggio. He is the son of a fisherman. Although he has a bone spur in his heel, he is full of energy when playing ball. The old man realized that he was old and his physical strength was not as good as his prime, but he knew a lot of fishing tricks and was determined, so he was still a good fisherman.

The day after the old man and the children met, that is, in the early morning of the 85th day, they went out to sea together. That night, the old man had a dream that when he was a sailor, he sailed to Africa and saw lions playing on the beach. After waking up, he stepped on the moonlight to wake up the children. They took two boats separately and sailed for the sea area of their choice after leaving the port.

The old man has put down the bait before dawn. The belly of the bait is wrapped in the handle of the hook, and the protruding part of the hook is wrapped with fresh sardines. The bait is delicious and fragrant.

While Santiago was staring at the fishing line, he saw a green pole sticking out of the water and soon attached to it. He gently pinched the fishing line with the thumb and forefinger of his right hand. Then the fishing line moved again, but the tension was not strong. The old man knew that a marlin was eating sardines caught by a fish at a depth of one hundred fathoms. He felt a slight pull on the bottom and was very happy. After a while, he felt something hard and heavy, obviously the weight of the marlin, and he decided that it was a big fish. This aroused his determination to challenge it.

The old man let go of the fishing line first, then shouted and tried his best to take it in, but the fish refused to give in easily. It didn't swim up an inch, but swam slowly. The old man carried the fishing line on his back to increase the tension on the marlin, but it didn't do much. He watched the ship drift northwest. The old man thought that the fish would die soon if he pushed too hard, but four hours later, the fish dragged the boat to the vast sea, and the old man still carried the fishing line on his back without any slack. They are fighting.

At this time, the old man looked back and saw that the land had disappeared from his sight. The sun sets in the west and the sky is full of stars. According to the observation of the stars, the old man judged that the big fish had not changed direction all night. It was very cold at night, and the old man's sweat dried up. He felt cold all over. He put a sack under the fishing line on his shoulder to reduce friction, and then bent down and leaned against the bow. He felt much more comfortable. In order to persist, he kept talking to fish, birds and the sea, constantly recalling the past and thinking about Manorine. He said to himself loudly, "if only the child were here, so that he could help me and look at all this."

It was very cold the day before dawn, and the old man leaned against the wood to keep warm. I can keep it as long as it wants. He said loudly in a gentle tone, "Fish, as long as I don't die, I will fight you to the end." After the sun rose, the old man found that the fish was not tired, but the inclination of the fishing line indicated that the fish might jump, which was exactly what he wanted. He said, "Fish, I love you and respect you very much. But I must kill you before dark today. " The fish began to get restless, and suddenly it rocked the boat. The old man touched the fishing line with his right hand and found that his hand was bleeding. After a while, his left hand began to twitch again, but he tried his best to stick to it. He ate several pieces of tuna meat to strengthen his strength against big fish.

Just then, the fishing line slowly rose and the big fish finally surfaced. In the sun, it is bright and dazzling. It is 18 feet long, which is bigger than his boat. Its beak looks like a softball bat and is as sharp as a slender sword. After its sickle-shaped tail entered the water, the fishing line dropped rapidly.

The old man and the big fish kept at loggerheads until sunset, playing for two days and one night. The old man can't help recalling the experience of playing with a wrench with a black man in Casablanca when he was young. They put their elbows on the table with chalk lines drawn, their forearms straight and their hands clenched, so they embraced each other for a day and a night. After eight hours, there will be another referee every four hours, and they will take turns sleeping. He and the black people are bleeding under their fingernails.

Once a black man tried to push his hand down nearly three inches after drinking liqueur, but Santiago pulled his hand back to its original position and pulled it down again at dawn the next day. Since then, he has become a hero in people's minds.

The protracted war between the old man and the big fish lasted from night to dawn. The big fish jumped a dozen times and began to circle around the boat. The old man was dizzy and saw the black spot shaking in front of him, but he still clung to the fishing line tightly. When the fish swam to him, he put down the fishing line, stepped under his feet, then held the harpoon high and plunged into the fish. The big fish jumped up, fully demonstrated its beauty and strength, and then fell into the water with a bang, splashing all over the old man and wetting the whole boat.

The fish turned upside down, its silver belly was up, and the blood from its heart was red with blue water. The old man tied the big fish to the side of the ship and successfully returned home. But after more than an hour, the shark smelled the blood of the big fish and followed it to grab the fish. The old man saw the blue back of the first shark that swam over. He prepared the harpoon and tied it with a rope. When the shark approached the stern and bit the tail of the big fish, the old man killed two invading sharks with a knife, but in the subsequent struggle, the knife broke and he used a short stick. However, when sharks came in droves in the middle of the night, he was at a loss.

When the ship sailed into the small port, people saw the huge white fish spine beside the ship. Looking at the skeleton, the old man asked himself what defeated him, and the conclusion was: "Nothing, just that I went too far out to sea."

The next morning, the child came to visit the old man, so tired that he couldn't sleep and couldn't help crying. When the old man woke up, the child brought him a steaming cup of coffee. The two met in a few days and went fishing together. The child said that he still had a lot to learn. After the child left, the old man fell asleep. He dreamed of lions in Africa.