Learn to be a generous man 雾都孤儿读后感 英文版

Learn to be a generous man

----------Oliver Twist 《雾都孤儿》是伟大现实主义学家查尔斯狄更斯的一部巨著。它主要描述了主人公小奥利佛的悲惨遭遇，故事中他遇到了各型各色的人，有的加害于他，也有的帮助过他。而他在此期间也表现出了各种各样的特点。本论文主要介绍了奥利佛的性格特点。这些特点可从他对待人和事物的态度上表现出来。他的天真既帮助过他逃离灾难，但也使他陷入过困境，但总体来说，他的天真是难能可贵的，尤其是处于当时的社会背景之下就更弥足珍贵了。虽然他生活的很艰难，但是他还是本着自己善良的本性慷慨帮助他人。

关键词：奥利佛 善良 天真 慷慨

Oliver Twist is a famous book of Charles Dickens, who is a great critic of reality. This story mainly describes the miserable lot of little Oliver Twist. He met with various peoples, some of them either treat him bad or involve him into crime. They are bad men. However, some persons always help him and treat him well. During that time, he shows many kinds of characters. In this thesis, it mainly introduces Oliver’s characters, and they are all showed from his attitudes towards the peoples and things around him. Through the analysis, we can see that his innocence not only helps him escape from the calamity, but also involves him into difficulties, but generally speaking, his innocence is valuable, especially for that society. Althouhgt his life is very hard,he also help others

generously due to his kindness.

Key words: Oliver Twist ; Kindness ; Innocence ; generous

Oliver Twist, is known as its tragic stories by people. The writer

Charles Dickens who wrote this novel is aim to revealing the hardship faced by the dispossessed and the ugly masks of those cruel criminals in Britain. And this novel is Charles Dickens’ second long novel, but the first fully crafted novel.

The author who himself was born in a poor family and he wrote this

novel in his twenties when he was bursting with youthful vigor , imbued with vitality and optimism , which became the main drift and purpose of his literary production to the letter. While ruthlessly exposing the dark corners of life and fiercely attacking the cynical reality , he showed us the good trend in the development of the society rather than depicted it as pitch -dark. So from his novel, readers have a strong sense that life is not utterly hopeless. Because of this, Dickens had always been our country and the former Soviet union scholars defined as \represents\ People consider Dickens as the most popular English novelist of the Victorian period. Actually Dickens’ experience is also tragic. With his father in debtors' prison, he was withdrawn from school and forced to work in a factory at 12. This deeply affected the sensitive boy. Though he returned to

school at 13, his formal education ended at 15. Then he began working as an office boy for a law firm. By 1828 he became a reporter for the lay courts of Doctors' Common. By the age of twenty, Dickens was one of the best Parliamentary reporters in England. During this same period Dickens' interest began to change from journalism to literature. And he published a large amount of works. Many of these are still popular.

The main character of the novel is Oliver Twist who was born of a

dying mother in a parish workhouse and then sent to an infant farm, run by Mrs. Mann. Until he was nine years old, at which time he was then returned to the workhouse again. Where he suffered a lot of enormous pain, such as hunger, thirst, beating and abuse. At last, he can not stand the boss’ abuse, he escaped to London. As soon as he reached London, he was noticed by a thief gang. The head of the gang tried to make Oliver work for him. One day, when Oliver and a member of this gang called Bates were walking in the street, Oliver was arrested by the police because of a misunderstanding that a gentleman named Brownlow thought he had stolen his handkerchief. Infect Brownlow is one of his father’s friends. At last, he was set free until the owner of the bookshop proved that he was innocent. In the prison, he got badly hurt and Mr. Brownlow felt very guilt after he was set free. So Mr. Brownlow took him to his home to look after him. In Mr. Brownlow’s home, Oliver experienced the warm of the family. But before long, the head of the thief gang called Fgain. To ensure that Oliver wouldn’t leak their secret, Fgain let

Nancy and Sikes to catch Oliver back. While Mr. Brownlow went out one day, Nancy and Sikes caught Oliver. To make he work for him, Fgain asked him to steal a big house. To tell the owner, Oliver went the house though the window. But unluckily, the steward thought he was a thief and shoot at him. The real thief ran away and Oliver was abandoned. With a hurt body, Oliver crawling in the snow, did not know the way, he came back to the house again. At last, the owner Merry and her adopted daughter Ross take him in and offer shelter for him. Coincidentally, Merry was his aunt and they do not know each other. One day, a person called Monks came to Fagin and told him that Oliver is his brother. His father left a large heritage and decide to give it to Oliver because of his unfilial unless Oliver was an unfilial as him that the heritage is given to Monks. To reach the goal, he let Fagin to help him to make Oliver an incurable criminal. While they were talking, Nancy heard it by accident, and he told it to Ross.

When Ross was thinking how to deal with it, Oliver came to tell her

that he found Mr. Brownlow. Then Ross and Mr. Brownlow began to discuss it. They met Nancy once again and to Mr. Brownlow got a surprising new that Monks is his old friend’s son. So he decided to talk with Monks, but what they talks was heard by Fagin and Fagin killed Nancy cruelly. The death of Nancy made the thief gang came to an end. Fagin was arrested and died soon. Mons was caught by Mr. Brownlow and he told everything. With the truth came out Mr. Brownlow adopted Oliver.

Although the end is fragrant, most of the people may think the plots

of the novel are complicated and Oliver’s experience is misery. He had to face the tragic fate by himself. And since the childhood he experienced so much pain. But the people touched me most is not Oliver but Mr. Brownlow. A well-off, erudite gentleman who serves as Oliver’s first benefactor. Since Oliver lived with Mr. Brownlow, Mr. Brownlow treated him as if he were his own son. But one day Mr. Brownlow asked Oliver to return some books to the bookseller and to send some money for the new books that he had already collected. The thief Oliver once stayed with kidnapped him. After that he disappeared in Mr. Brownlow’s life. Searching for a while, Mr. Brownlow had to believe the fact that he had run away with his money. But dramatically, they came across each other again a few years later. Without hesitation, Mr. Brownlow took Oliver home for the second time not caring if he had done something evil.

What a generous man! Maybe most of people confused why Mr. Brownlow tried to help someone once cheated him. But that is the thing we should learn form Mr. Brownlow. In our modern life, people become more and more self-fish, they never forgive others’ mistakes. Jesus said in the Bible. “Forgive not seven times, but seventy-times seven.” What’s the meaning of the saying? It means forgiveness is our ability to remove negative thoughts and neutralize them so our energy may be spent on doing what we came here for. We cannot move forward in our future if past issues cloud our thinking. So we

should learn to be generous. Just like another character of the novel--- Nancy. At the very beginning, she was a member of the Bates. But when she heard someone wants to kill Oliver. She told Ross immediately. In effect, she gives her life for Oliver when Sikes murders her for revealing Monks’s plots.So no matter what she did before, I believe many readers may forgive her at last and think she is a kind girl. Nobody is perfect. Everyone may make mistakes, including ourselves. When we do something wrong, we ask for other’s forgiveness. So we should learn to forgive people’s mistakes.

Then there are Mrs. Maylie and Rose, Oliver’s other benefactors.

Maybe the reason they cared Oliver was not because of forgiveness. In my point of view, it was trust. They had faith in Oliver when he was considered to be a filthy burglar who tried to break the front door of Maylie’s at midnight. But this wasn’t how these two ladies saw the whole thing. They denied Oliver’s crime immediately and listened attentively to Oliver’s own description of his miserable life. They were deeply touched by Oliver’s strong perseverance and astonishing vitality. Accordingly, they remedied Oliver’s body and heart and turned him into a different boy. He began to wear appropriate and clean suits which were tailor-made for him and receive education.

After read this novel we can know what helped Oliver through all the

difficulities. There are love of forgiveness, love of trust and so on. When someone tells you he’s deceived you, forgive him anyway, when someone tells you what he’s done, trust him anyway . Sometimes trust can even lead us to

miracles, which we often expect to come about, so why not trust? Trust yourself, trust others, and you’ll salute miracles every single day.

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There are many “Oliver” surrounding us. We can do as Mr. Brownlow and Mrs. Maylie do, love them and care them, which cost nothing but save much. They enrich those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. They can be certain smallest words or actions, but the memory of them sometimes last forever. When we were children, our parents and teachers always teach us to be a generous man. This is not only about material but also the heart. Sometimes it is very hard to forgive one’s mistake. But we should believe human nature is good. No one wants to cheat you deliberately. Maybe we can give them a chance to explain.

You control your beliefs and that is how you ultimately control your life. It’s all dictated by your attitude. Try to be generous to others, I believe that will only make our life more easily.

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