英国文学格列佛游记（gulliver′s travels）英文读后感Readingreaport.doc

Reading ReportEnglish Literature Reading ReportName Class Number “Gullivers travels” Reading ReportFrankly speaking， I dont like to read novels before.，I dont have the habbit to read books in my spare time. The novels I have ever read are very few. So when Miss Yu asked us to read an English literature work, I thought its a burden to me. So by the day to hand in my reading report coming, I have no choice but to find a book to read. In the library, I choose the book named “Gullivers travels” written by Jonathan swift .I choose it because I though its just a journey like the “Robinson crusoe” which is among the few novels I have ever read. But after I began to read it, I found I was attracted by the story which is full of sarcasm. What attracts me is not only the fairy tales in the story, but also the soul of itThe sharp sarcasm. The master of the novel is Gulliver who is a British surgeon, and later was promoted as the captain; he was well educated and have a good head on both occupation and politics. But in essence of himself, he is just a ordinary people.And Swift just use this essence to satirize.The book has four parts,in every part Gulliver will experience the unusual circumstance. The first part tell us what happened in Lilliput which is a “small” country.The people of Lilliput is just 6 inches which is just twelfth of Gullivers height.Gulliver is a giant among them.At first,he was bundled by the Lilliput people.But later,because he behave in a gentle way, and promise to accept some certain conditions,the king of Lilliput agreed to set Gulliver free.And at that time, Lilliput is attacked by another “Lilliput”Blefuscu. Gulliver forded the channel and captured almost all of the enemys warship.Then the enemy state send ambassador to ask for peace.Even though Gulliver made contributions to Lilliput,then because Gulliver offended the king because something,the king decided to blind him in both eyes,and starve him to death. Gulliver knew this new, he escape to the nearby country, the he fixed his boat and sailing to home.The second part is the story happened in Brobdingnag. In this part, When Gulliver sailed out to sea another time, he encountered the storm, he was blew to a land which is named Brobdingnag.The people is just like a high tower.In here, In front of the Brobdingnag people, Gulliver was a dwarf,he is like the people of Lilliput in front of himself.He is only twelfth of the Brobdingnags.Compare to the farmer fo Brobdingnag,Gulliver is small as a mole and he was taken home by the farmer as a joy.To make money,he was taken to the market,he was forced to play tricks for the peoples fun.And then he was bought by the queen.Then he has the chance to get along with the king.Gradually, he become more and more missed his hometown.One day,he lied that he was sick when the king was touring the bored. He went to the seaside to take a fresh breath.When he entered into a wooden case,a hawk carry off the woolen case.And then the case dropped into the sea,and found by passed boat,and finally he returned to Britain. The third part described the story in Laputa,Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan. After Gullivers ship was attacked by pirates, he is marooned near a desolate rocky island, near India. Fortunately he is rescued by the flying island of Laputa, a kingdom devoted to the arts of music and mathematics but unable to use these for practical ends.Laputas method of throwing rocks at rebellious surface cities also seems the first time that aerial bombardment was conceived as a method of warfare. While there, he tours the country as the guest of a low-ranking courtier and sees the ruin brought about by blind pursuit of science without practical results, in a satire on the Royal Society and its experiments.Gulliver is then taken to Balnibarbi to await a Dutch trader who can take him on to Japan. While waiting for passage, Gulliver takes a short side-trip to the island of Glubbdubdrib, where he visits a magicians dwelling and discusses history with the ghosts of historical figures, the most obvious restatement of the ancients versus moderns theme in the book. In Luggnagg he encounters the struldbrugs, unfortunates who are immortal, but not forever young, but rather forever old, complete with the infirmities of old age and considered legally dead at the age of eighty. After reaching Japan, Gulliver asks the Emperor to excuse my performing the ceremony imposed upon my countrymen of trampling upon the crucifix, which the Emperor grants. Gulliver returns home, determined to stay there for the rest of his days.I was attracted by the story of Lilliput ,Brobdingnag and what happened in the third part.But the most impressed me is what happened in the fourth part.In Houyhnhnm,Gulliver knew the merciful,honest and friendly people of Houyhnhnm.In there country,there is no“lying”and “deceit ” and this kind of words.They do not understand the meaning of these words.They do not understand what is suspect, what is distrust.In their life ,everything is real and visible.Gulliver spend a precious time in the Bright Country.And he is completely fit in their daily life.This became a sharp constract with Yahoos who are metaphor the human.They always doubted his honest which makes Gulliver feels down and he began to disgust the humans.I really admire Gulliver can have the chance to get into the Houyhnhnm,which is the ideal place we pursued.At there you dont need to spent a lot of efforts on whether what people said is true or not,because they are all truth.In our real life,there are a lot of things we do not wish to see happened.Some people use the sweet words to gain others money by cheating;some peopleabduct and traffic children to seek extravagant profits,some people even abandon their parents just because of money.No wonder our parents ,our teachers always taught us that we should be alert,dont