一、《悲慘世界》英語讀書筆記

　　" les miserables " (1862) is representative works of victor hugo,as one of the most famous novels in the french literature.

　　the novel basic plot is ran a rang pitiful life history. he originally is one poor family background worker, because the income insufficient family member gets by, by one time stole the bread is arrested is put in prison. passed 19 years firm prison and the bitter service life. the punishment completely after also has the larceny behavior, but benevolent bishop in the rice the sorrowful influence, the transformation is one shed oneself manner person. he uses an alias is madland, works as the entrepreneur, and is pushed for mayor. but soon and further because exposed the status is arrested is put in prison, after escapes rescues the deceased female worker fantin's daughter cosette match from one bastard hand special, went to paris. afterwards again unceasingly encountered police's pursuit. the ran a rang entire life fills is imprisoned the pain which the bitter service and drifts about destitute, this is the novel main clue.

　　" les miserables " is the work which one realism and the romanticism unifies, the very many chapters glitter the realism glory, such as , in 1832 paris's street barricade war all wrote is quite real. but the romanticism technique quite was also obvious in the plot arrangement, writes the many extraordinary events. if ran a rang lets lie down is lifted in the coffin the monastery, he rescues from the street barricade marilius, all is strange, molds, environment description, symbolic and contrast technique aspect and so on utilization in the character image, also manifests the romanticism the characteristic.

　　this report is written to ms millie of class four. oliver twist is written by charles dickens. it is made up by 232 pages which are published by guangming daily press. this masterpiece is the sixth edition since . i chose it as the first reading novel this semester is just because one of my best friends said she was totally touched by plot. what’s more, oliver twist is the first english novel published in the united states.

　　oliver twist, our main character, was born into a life of poverty and misfortune since his mother’s death and his father’s unexplained absence.

　　after many roundabout ways, oliver ran away from london and finally restored to a life of happiness and health. as soon as oliver twist arrived in london, he was cheated by a bang of thieves whose leader is fagin. they set him up, but oliver was proved innocent and was served in mr. brownlow’s where oliver lived freely for some months. it’s a book that depicting the old society in justified shoes.

　　dickens gives a truthful presentation of the sufferings of the poor and oppressed and make a bitter and complexed exposure of the terrible conditions, charles dickens makes him the most popular english novelist of the victorian era at that time.

　　after reading ode to a nightingale, i felt my blood boiled, i was on fire and full of enthusiasm and just could not calm down. it is so romantic and i had been touched so much. in fact, although the title of the poem is “ode to a nightingale”, throughout the poem, it has basically little words describing the nightingale directly however the writer mainly uses the graceful image of nightingale to express his own feelings. it is said that a nightingale will die on a full moon night. and at midnight, it will fly to the highest rose-tree, and uses the thorn scratch its chest, then makes out a sonorous sound, singing loudly until the blood of the heart dries and reds the roses on the branches. meanwhile this sound of singing seems like could penetrate everywhere and everything and keep an eternal life. i see the energy and hope of life and a bright future, and suddenly get courage and become positive. i think the poem makes me feel in that way.

　　and the author of ode to nightingale is john keats who is a romantic poet from uk. he was born at a poor family in the end of 18 century in london. in 1818, when keats was 23 years old he got tuberculosis while also was deeply in love with miss fannie boone. just under such a terrible condition which between agony, poverty and sweetness, keats was quite enthusiastic, full of grief and indignation and kept the desire for life in his heart. therefore, he wrote the poem ode to a nightingale on a sober night and companied with the loud sound of the birds.

　　yesterday, i read a book, the name of the book is《dr bethune》.

　　dr bethune was a famous doctor from canada. in 1938, he came to china. at that time , china was at war with japan. he worked as a doctor in the chinese army and saved many soldiers’ lives. he worked very hard and became sick. dr bethune died in 1939. he was only 49 years old. he was a good man and we remember him today.

　　i think the book is very, very good!

　　written by wu qingxiang

　　mar. 31,

　　how to do research

　　-------reading after a science pa-pe-r

　　these days , i am busy preparing my dissertation which is about web usage mining . i read some english pa-pe-rs and learnt much from them . and now , i want to say something about a pa-pe-r titled “web usage mining ：discovery and applications of usage patterns from web data”.

　　this is the first english pa-pe-r i read about dissertation and gave me great help .

　　this pa-pe-r is a review about web usage mining. it introduced web usage mining in detail . although it is a little old for it was published in , its contents are very useful today . it is organized according to the sequence of web usage mining and the six main parts are introduction which tells me what is web usage mining , the sources and abstraction of web data , the three steps of web usage mining , taxonomy and project survey , websift overview , privacy issues . the third and fourth parts are most important . it had a list of existing project about web usage mining which i saw many times in other pa-pe-rs , but this pa-pe-r is the one creating this list . besides , it has been referred for more then twenty times . as we all know that , the higher the referred number is , the more important the pa-pe-r is , so i consider this pa-pe-r to be an important and successful one in this region.

　　the red and the black is a profound and witty book about the rise of a poor, handsome and intellectually gifted, young provincial into the salons of high society in paris.

　　handsome and ambitious, julien sorel is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins and make something of his life-by adopting the code of hypocrisy by which his society operates. julien ultimately commits a crime-out of passion, principle, or insanity-that will bring about his downfall. the red and the black is a lively, satirical picture of french restoration society after waterloo, riddled with corruption, greed, and ennui. the complex, sympathetic portrayal of julien, the cold exploiter whose machiavellian campaign is undercut by his own emotions, makes him stendhal's most brilliant and human creation-and one of the greatest characters in european literature.

　　i really enjoyed this book. unlike many reviewers, i feel the book does transcend time. american people and culture today, computers and all, are a lot like those in stendhal's 19th century france.

　　the main characters strike me as real, and quite complex. julien is a typical adolescent/ young adult: idealistic, searching and unsure of himself. to me, it is amazing to what how the world interacts with and alters his self-image. mathilde is equally interesting. she reminds me of a flighty alternative girl, looking for a dream of simmering romance. and mme de renal is a wonderful, believable woman, falling in love late in life, victim of the missing husband syndrome.

　　background of jane eyre

　　jane eyre is the masterpiece of charlotte bronte, an english woman author in 19th century. the works possess romanticism and realism. it is also thought that this book is author’s autobiography.

　　introduction of jane eyre

　　jane was a pure and thinkable woman, who lived in substrata of society and struck with life. but she was fractious and the sprite of perusing happiness. the works sing the love respecting each other and break away from conman customs and preoccupation. the most successful of this book is to figure a female image who dared to gainst and try for liberte and egalite.

　　characteristics of characters

　　jane eyre was a born resister, whose parents went off when she was very young, and her aunt，the only relative she had，treated her as badly as a ragtag. she had a terrible childhood but it’s not affected her future because she is poor but aspiring, small in body but huge in soul, obscure but self-respecting girl.

　　jane was also a thinkable woman in her love, she thought love is equal, free and respecting, so she gain a happy ending with beautiful personality.

　　my thoughts of jane eyre

　　jane owns goodness for her lover, rochester, who lost arms and eyes, and also for someone who had hurt her.