Daddy-Long-Legs长腿叔叔英文读后感.docx

Not Just a Fairy Tale-Sentiment after reading Daddy-Long-LegsDaddy-Long-Legs, a best-known novel by the American writer Jean Webster, was written in the form of epistles, altogether 82 letters from our protagonist Jerusha “Judy” Abbott. All these letters were written to her benefactor the so-called “Daddy-Long-Legs” whose true name was Jervie Plendleton. A monthly letter to report her study was the only requirement of the wealthy asylum trustee “Daddy-Long-Legs” to finance orphan Judys college life, after he noticed Judys writing talent from her essay - Blue Wednesday.Dedicated To You, the first person narrative novel leads readers, myself included, to the illusion that we are actually the receiver of Judys letters and the one she regarded as family. When reading the novel, we feel like the witnesses of Judys growing in the college. We cant help worrying when the letters told us her ill or shes in derision, delighting when she obtained a college scholarship, upsetting when she had to deny the genuine love of Jervie. Take it one step further; the reading process is like peeking at a girls diary, inducing a subtle excitement inside readers. Meanwhile, we are able to puzzle out, more or less, whom Daddy-Long-Legs is, but apparently Judy knows nothing about it. Its a quite amusing and interesting experience to watch her gradually falling into the well-arranged “love trap” set by Jervie. Ultimately, Judy wrote her last letter in the novel but the first love-letter to her beloved Daddy-Long-Legs Jervie, which is the end of the novel but a beginning of Judy and Jervies new life, a promising one.Admittedly, it is the romantic and pure love story that brings the novel a reputation of fairy tale for adults, but the theme is not made up of love only. What the growing of Judy reflects is the core of the book.Brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage, Judy encountered quite a few tribulations during college years. Lack of good education resulted in her exposure of ignorance in the class. Judy was ridiculed by classmates because she had no idea about who Michelangelo is and she even never heard of Jane Eyre. Once Judy realized her inadequacy of literature knowledge, which seemed more like a common sense to college students, she made up her mind to enlarge her readings rather than gloomily cry in the dorm. In the following letters, we can see Judy growing more independently. She was fed up with “Jerusha” - a name randomly picked up in a directory. Therefore, she named herself “Judy”, a brand new and Judy-fashioned name. Such behavior could be considered as her first step of independent consciousness. After that, her trying using scholarship to pay her college fee also proved that Judy was determined to change the sponsor-recipient relationship. The moment when Judy repaid Daddy-Long-Legs 1000 dollars through selling her own novels announced her completely financial independence. That is the way how Judy treated Daddy-Long-Legs to be grateful. As for spiritual independence, except for Daddy-Long-Legs, Judy did make two more pen friends, which meant she was not the little girl merely relying on dear Daddy-Long-Legs anymore. Judy got her own network of contacts, Sallie McBride in real life and pen friends in mental world. Also, her view towards John Grier Home transmitted from detest to a more positive attitude. Judy began to realize how lucky she was and to appreciate life itself. The gratitude towards life made her lending a hand to a poor family. Judy, our protagonist, finally became a mature, virtuous and independent lady despite the fact that she was an orphan bought up in tough conditions.Frankly speaking, there is no young girl in this world but not feel envious of Judy, for she is such a lucky lady who successfully won the love of a charming gentleman. She is another Cinderella indeed! However, I would not feel jealous at all because I know the reason why Jervie fell in love with her is not a coincidence. We have been touched by Judys attractive personal character, so has Daddy-Long-Legs. If she were not such an optimistic, independent, humorous and even self-mocking girl, I doubt whether Daddy-Long-Legs would love her. While reading, the most pleasant thing for me is to observe the world through Judys view. I have to say it is reasonable that Judy is said to have talents in writing. Her lively words lighten up my dark mood after studying a long day; her clumsy paintings always make me laugh; her unique perspectives inspire me in many ways; her courage teaches me a lesson how to return in songs when the world has kissed her soul with its pain.It is a book worth reading and even re-reading, especially suitable for bedtime reading. Try not to only focus on the love story in the novel. The essence to have true