美国文学读书报告（共五则）第一篇：美国文学读书报告外国语学院《美国文学》课程读书报告 beloved 《宠儿》ⅰ、the thought of from my perspective ∏、basic information name of the book: publishing house: random house books for young readers publishing time : 1987 isbn: 978-037541156 reading date: winter vacation, 2012 ⅲ、introduction to the author toni morrison(born chloe ardelia[1] wofford on february 18, 1931), is a nobel prize-winning american author, editor, and professor.her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters;among the best known are her novels< the bluest eye>< song of solomon> ,which won the pulitzer prize for fiction in 1988.in 2002, scholar molefi kete asante listed toni morrison on his list of 100 greatest african americans.ⅳ、summary of the novel this story set in 1873 just after the american civil war(1861–1865), it is based on the story of the african-american slave, margaret garner, who escaped slavery in 1856 in kentucky by fleeing to ohio, a free state.a posse arrived to retrieve her and her children under the fugitive slave act of 1850, which gave slave owners the right to pursue slaves across state borders.margaret killed her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to be recaptured.beloveds main character, sethe, kills her daughter and tries to kill her other three children when a posse arrives in ohio to return them to sweet home, the plantation in kentucky from which sethe had recently fled.the daughter, beloved, returns years later to haunt the house in which she was killed, sethes home at 124 bluestone road, cincinnati.the story opens with anintroduction to the ghost: 124 was spiteful.full of a babys venom.ⅴ、details in a traditional narrative, morrison strengthens the impact of the novel and its brutal revelations.symbols of water, rain, snow, and ice connect the disparate scenes, and the use of shadows and the ghostly character of beloved keep the reader on tenterhooks until the action is eventually resolved.a powerful, atmospheric, and shocking novel, beloved is also a searing indictment of slavery and the damage it has done to the fabric of life, damage that cannot be repaired until it is fully recognized through novels such as this.n mary whipple.the writing is craftful and the imagery masterful.the depiction of slavery and its malevolent effects on everyone is poignant and convincing without ever being maudlin or preachy.what could have been a sad tearjerker is much too real, too convincing, calloused over with the hardness that the characters are forced to develop when everything they love, from their spouses to their children are beaten, raped, taken away, or killed at the whim of the whiteman.but while i can appreciate the story, the structure, and the way it was written, i found it extremely tedious to read.it hangs on the thinnest of narrative thread, and whenever a plot threatens to develop, the scene ends and we find out what happened later as an aside.most of the 275 pages are dense interior monologues, frequently repetitious, that sometimes degenerates into what seemed like random text.the characters are drawn with detail, each distinctive and real.i feel i could recognize them on the street if one walked past.but they are as closed to us as they are to themselves.while they evoke my sympathy, they never gain my empathy.we study them, we hear them, we even feel them, but we never are them.外国语学院《美国文学》课程读书报告 the relation between human nature of moby dick 论《白鲸》小说人与自然的关系学生姓名：李丹班级：09级英语本科4班学号：09280421 完成日期：2012年4月28日 and the relation between human and nature of moby dick i、basic information name of the book: moby dick publishing house: bantam classics publishing time: 1981-02-01 isbn: 0553213113 reading date: winter vacation, 2012 ii、introduction to the author melvilles roving disposition and a desire to support himself independently of family assistance led him to seek work as a surveyor on the erie canal.this effort failed, and his brother helped him get a job as a boy(a green hand)on a new york ship bound for liverpool.he made the voyage, and returned on the same ship.redburn: his first voyage(1849)is partly based on his experiences of this journey.iii、summary of the novel in this book, moby dick is the whale’s name, several conflicts appeared in the story, the main conflict is the one between the captain and the whale called moby dick.the captain made his mind to kill the whale in order to take his revenge, but at last, the big whale was the final winner, he killed all the people almost.besides, another conflict is that exist between the captain and his sailors, they couldn’t work together harmoniously, the captain always got his sailors into embarrassing situation by taking advantage of his authority, which lead sailors to set their duties aside in order to give out their anger, so, they failed to kill moby dick at last.moby-dick has been classified as american romanticism.it was first published by richard bentley in london on october 18, 1851, in an expurgated three-volume edition titled the whale, and weeks later as a single volume, by new york city publisher harper and brothers as moby-dick;or, the whale on november 14, 1851.the book initially received mixed reviews, but moby-dick is now considered part of the western canon,and at the center of the canon of american novels.iv、the relation between human and nature（symbolism）moby dick is a giant albino sperm whale and the main antagonist of the novel.he bit off ahabs leg, leaving ahab to swear revenge.the cetacean also attacked the rachel and killed the captains son.at the end of the story he kills the entire crew of the pequod, with the exception of ishmael.the story does not tell whether or not he survives his own wounds after that.although he is an integral part of the novel, moby dick appears in just three of the 135 chapters and the reader does not have access to his thoughts and motivations.moby dick is considered to be a symbol of a number of things, among them god, nature, fate, the ocean, and the very universe itself.the symbolism of the white whale is deliberately enigmatic, and its inscrutability is a deliberate challenge to the reader.ishmael describes the whale’s forehead as having wrinkles and scars on it that look like hieroglyphics, and recounts: if then, sir william jones, who read in thirty languages, could not read the simplest peasant’s face in its profounder and more subtle meanings, how may unlettered ishmael hope to read the awful chaldee of the sperm whale’s brow? i put that brow before you.read it if you can.—moby-dick, ch.79 all the reader can know is that the white whale symbolizes many things to various characters in the novel.it is their personal interpretations of moby-dick, in addition to their individual ruminations on the gold doubloon ahab has nailed to the mast to motivate his crew, that serve as a further clue to their own inner makeup.篇三：美国文学读书报告 091112班黄茜茜美国文学选读book report ——my view of walden since i have finishedreading the unbearable lightness of being last year, i suppose it is the best.but when i get walden, my heart is caught again.to be honest, when i first hear about walden, i have no idea what it is concerned about.after my teacher introduces a bit about it, then i know it is a quiet book.there are many researches on walden, the themes contain ecological significance, aesthetic value, relationship between walden and china, and so on.but, my heart just follow the words.i read it twice.when i think of seclusion, i think of tao yuanming.when i think of prose, i think of zhu ziqing and his moonlight over the lotus pond.it is said that the writing style of wei an ultimately from poetry to prose because of walden.i am indulged in thoreau’s thought and the words of walden.the book is fresh, healthy and inspiring.i love it.i like the second chapter of it most.in this chapter, the author explains why he choses to live alone in a small, simple cabin at walden pond, and why he writes this book.he thinks many of his contemporaries do not understand the real meaning of life.he describes the beauty of nature, some ideas of transcendentalism and his philosophy of life--”simplicity, simplicity, simplicity”.i love these sentences although we can not like thoreau to appreciate the lonely forest life now, walden has never disappeared.nothing can prevent us to have a clear walden in our hearts.it always can let the hearts be elutriated, according to thoreau, to your inner exploration.the book is eternal.i love walden, such a quiet book.篇四：英美文学读书报告格式读书报告格式on wordsworth and emerson’s conception of nature（题目字居中，加粗times new roman小三）空一行yu lianjun, class 2, 2008, foreign languages school（居中，加粗times new roman小四号）空一行 i.introduction in the introduction part, informationabout the book, the author, and his times should be covered.a brief acco unt of the author’s life should be given together with a description of his times.the latter should include the circumstances that led to the writing of the book under discussion and the historical and social background related to the content of the book.tell the reader the main thesis or argument of the book ii.the story or a summary of the book in this part, the writer expresses his or her own views on the book, names its merits and demerits, and discusses its relevance to the present time.the discussion should of course center on the content of the book, the author’s style and techniques of writing, if interesting, can also be touched upon.书写格式及装订要求 1.论文必须用计算机排版，用a4纸打印，装订好（页面设置为：左2.8，右2.5，上2.5，下2.5，行距1.5，单面打印）。
