《警察与赞美诗》作者简介+背景（英文）[五篇]
第一篇：《警察与赞美诗》作者简介+背景(英文)
作者简介: William Sydney Porter(September 11, 1862—June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O.Henry, is one of the American famous short－story writers.He was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina.O.Henry published 10 collections and over 600 short stories during his lifetime.His novels expo the darkness of capitalism from different angles, describe the difficult life of lower class, prai their sincere friendship, love and desire to blesd life.He always write a comedy ending to express deep social meaning, rious social reality and higher level.Furthermore, it points out the inevitability.背景：
Critical realism in Western Europe began to decline when the United States profound changes in social reality cau changes in literature, which is development of realism.It appears in the United States is increasingly decaying stage of capitalism, the transition from capitalism to the era of imperialism.Between the society and class conflict is intensifyin红绿灯怎么画
g.In this period,some small bourgeois writers, from their own class, condemn the evils of the capitalist system, describe the miry of the people, reflect people's grievances against bourgeois regime.But when the turbidity of imperialism came, they despair with the emotional exploration of fate and destiny.However, the spread of Marxist thought, also caud great shock.Some writers took part in the labor movement, and began to create some advanced literature.The works draw materials from real life, reflected lower working people's mirable life, and accud the rulers percuting people.西欧批判现实主义文学开始衰落的时候，美国现实社会的深刻变化引起文学的变化，这就是现实主义的兴起和发展。它出现在美国资本主义日趋腐朽的阶段，即由自由资本主义过渡到帝国主义的时代。当时社会贫富对立，阶级矛盾日益激化。这时期一些出身于中小资产阶级的作家，从自身的阶层出发，谴责资本主义制度的罪恶，描写人民的悲惨生活，反映人民对资产阶级统治的不满情绪,可是当帝国主义的浊流来到时，他们又怀着悲观绝望的情绪探索个人的命运和归宿。然而，马克思主义思想的传播，也引起较大震动，一些作家参加工人运动，开始创作一些较先进的文学作品。作品取材于现实生活，反映了下层劳动人民的悲惨生活，控诉了统治者对人民的迫害。
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第二篇：《警察与赞美诗》英文梗概
A New York City hobo named Soapy,who ts out to get arrested so he can avoid sleeping in the cold winter as a guest of the city jail.Soapy's ploys伎俩include swindling诈骗a restaurant into rving him an expensive meal, breaking the plate-glass window of a luxury shop, repeating his eatery exploit at a humble简陋的diner, xually harassing a young woman, pretending to be publicly intoxicated喝醉to make troubles, and stealing another man's umbrella.However, all of the attempts are quickly expod as failures.Bad on the events, Soapy despairs of his goal of getting arrested and imprisoned.As O.Henry describes events, the small church has a working organ机构and a practicing organist风琴演奏者.As Soapy listens to the church organ play an anthem圣歌, he experiences a spiritual epiphany 神灵显现then he resolves决定to cea停止to be homeless, end his life as a tramp afflicted苦恼with unemployment, and regain his lf-respect.As Soapy stands on the street and considers the plan for his future, however, a policeman taps him on the shoulder and asks him what he is doing.When Soapy answers “Nothing,” his fate is aled未知: he has been arrested for loitering闲荡.In the magistrate’
s法官court on the following day, he is convicted定罪of a misdemeanor行为不端and is ntenced to three months in Blackwell's Island, the New York City jail.
第三篇：警察与赞美诗的英文读后感
Wang1 Wang Mengmeng
Professor Li Kang
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The Cop and the Anthem
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Bad on the whole text, the author's humor is prent in various ways, one of
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which is through irrationality during the development of plots.Soapy, the vagrant who has stirred up trouble for six times, is eager to go to prison.But he is always out of luck and ge
t policeman's forgiveness.When Soapy is touched by the anthem and wants to be a good citizen, he is arrested for groundless reasons.This way is a kind of black humor manifesting social reality profoundly.We can e something gloomy, desperate,but simultaneously, we can't help laughing when reading the vivid description.Once, Soapy wants to reach his goal by molesting a woman, Soapy
straightened the lady missionary’s ready-made tie, dragged his shrinking cuffs into
the open, t his hat at a killing cant and sidled toward the young women(20).but
the eming virtuous and quiet woman begin to duce him in rever.“Sure,Mike,” she said joyfully, “if you’ll blow me to a pail of suds.I’d have spoke to you
sooner, but the cop was watching.”With the young woman playing the clinging ivy
一心一意的反义词to his oak Soapy(22).Besides, Soapy steals an umbrella from a neatly dresd
customer, but the umbrella is ill-gotten originally.''Of cour,''said the umbrella
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man''that is—well, you know how the mistakes occur—I—if it’s your umbrella I
国难日hope you’ll excu me—I picked it up this morning in a restaurant—If you recogni
it as yours, why—I hope you’ll—''(31).So the modest and lady and gentleman turn
out to be someone that we cannot imagine, which is not rational.Nonetheless, as a
matter of fact, they just hide their dirty acts under a beautiful veil and a small sign
can indicate a great trend, we can learn that the so-called noble upper class goes
more rious than the two.The plots reveals awful mood of that capitalist society.In addition, the conflict between the irrationality of Soapy's behavior and the
rationality of the cop's judgment is one of the important reasons for Soapy's
“misfortune”.For example, Soapy breaks the glass and wait for the policeman to
come and arrest him, but the cop reckons that a man who commits evil won't sit
and wait for arrest, men who smash windows do not remain to parley with the茶叶鹌鹑蛋
law’s minions then he excludes Soapy.Besides, he wants to break the peace by
virtue of kicking up a fuss in the street, identically, the cop deems that only
college students dare to be so unbridled and boisterous''Tis one of them Yale lads自闭症孩子的特征
