HOME ——the feelings about Good English 17 After learning Good English 17(Pioneer Girl, the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder), I have some feelings about it. Do you know what Laura said? She said that: “Home was where Pa’s fiddle was hung on the wall. It was wherever Pa put up a shelf for Ma’s china shepherdess. It never got broken.” I’m deeply touched by this sentence. Oh yes, home isn’t only a place for people to live in. But also contains a lot of things in it. What are those? From my point of view, home is a place which full of loves. Family love, affection, friendship will let you not be lonely. They are just like songs, cultivate your sentiment. They are just like rivers, nourish your soul. They are just like sunshine,light up your future. They are just like books, enrich your knowledge. They are just like lighthouses,guide your direction. They are just like shield, protect your safety. They make your life be colourful. Home can also bring you into a world without war,calamity and hatred. So this is why people miss home much when they are in other places, this is why people want to go home in traditional festival, this is why so many poets wrote down lots of poems about missing home. Because they always long for the loves.
Just like Laura, no matter where she was, if she was with her family. She would be happy. So she said that: “I remember Jack, of course, those long wagon journeys, and the wild animals and lonely places. We were poor, but we made the best of what we had. When I look back, I remember one thing most of all-we used to sit round the fire, singing, Pa playing his fiddle. It didn’t matter where we were. If we were together, we were happy.” This is probably the centrality of this English story. “East or west, home is the best.” this famous old saying had already told us this sense: You can’t abandon your home.
Laura’s family travelled a lot of places, so that their house was in different places, in the Big Woods, on the Prairie, on Plum Creek and so on. In that time, they had happiness, they also had hard time: no food in the summer because of the grasshoppers, her younger brother died and her sister Marry became blind because the terrible blizzard froze them. Although they faced lots of trouble, they never gave up; they never gave in to the difficulties. So today we can read this story. Why? Why on earth they can have strong-minded? Because there was always a home behind them, it gave them courage and strength, it made them be more confident.
Yes, home is a part of our life, a long and wonderful life.
Home is a beautiful word, a warm association, it has touched countless people.
Home is the starting point of life, is the harbour of soul.
Maybe you can lose anything, but you ca n’t lose home. If you ask someone what the most important thing in his heart is. He won’t tell you money, he will tell you:
