警察与赞美诗的英文读后感1
第一篇：警察与赞美诗的英文读后感1
The Cop and the Anthem
The key word:Cop/vagrant/crime/prison/winter/arrested.The Cop and the Anthem is one of O.Henry's reprentative works.This novel
describes a vagrant who is jobless, homeless and commits crime on purpo so that he can be put into prison in winter.However,things don't goes as he expected.But when he makes up his mind to give up evil and return to good, he is arrested.Bad on the whole text, the author's humor is prent in various ways, one of
which is through irrationality during the development of plots.soap, the vagrant who has stirred up trouble for six times, is eager to go to prison.But he is always out of luck and get policeman's forgiveness.When soap 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 ma
nifesting social reality profoundly.We can e something gloomy, desperate,but simultaneously, we can't help laughing when reading the vivid description.Once, soap wants to reach his goal by molesting a woman, soap 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.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 to his oak soap.Besides, soap steals an umbrella from a neatly dresd customer, but the umbrella is ill-gotten originally.''Of cour,''said the umbrella man''that is—well, you know how the mistakes occur—I—if it’s your umbrella I 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.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 beautif
ul 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 Soap's behavior and the
rationality of the cop's judgment is one of the important reasons for Soap's “misfortune”.For example, soap 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 law’s minions then he excludes soap.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 celebrate’ the goo egg they give to the Hartford College.Noisy;but no harm.We have instructions to lave them be.His abnormal conducts is determined by his distorted mentality, which exactly reflects torture and agony both in life and mind oft he low-class.When the poor guy intends to do good the moment he is moved and inspired, the cop believes a vagrant will never something to do with the quiet
atmosphere around a church, the soft lamplight and the touching music.Conquently, soap is caught unexpectedly.“What are you doing here?” asked the officer.''Nothing,'' said soap''Then come along.''said the policeman.''Three months on the Island.'' said the Magistrate in the Police Court the next morning..It is the accident that mirrors confusion of truth and falhood, black and wright.Needless to say,there are many ways to reprent humor, they have one thing in
common--where there is humor, there is specific implication.The writing style of the author is humorous, the disclosure of the society is deepgoing, the reflective life andmental distress are mirky.O.Henry us a quantity of comparison and humor to fully display the character's wretched fate and cruelty of capitalist society.AboutTheAuthor
O.Henry is one of the most famous American critical realist short story
writers, and one of the world's top three masters of the short stories.O.Henry's
real name was William Sydney Porter.O.Henrywas born in Greensboro, North Carolina o
n September 11,1862.At age of 20(1882)he moved to Texas, where he had various jobs.He married Athol Estes in 1887, in 1894 while working for First National Bank
in Austin, Porter was accud of stealing $4000.He went to prison in Columbus,Ohio for 3 years eventually.While in prison Porter first started to write short
stories and believed that he has found his pudonym there.After Porter was
relead from the prison in 1901, he changed his name to O.Henry and moved to
New York in 1902.From December 1903 to January 1906 o.Henry wrote a story
a week for the New York World magazine, and published veral short stories in
other magazines.O.Henry's short stories are famous for their surpri endings, his wit, wordplay
and humor.He wrote such classic short stories as The Ransom of Red Chief, The
Gift of the Magi, The Furnished Room, The Four Billion, Cabbages and Kings,The Last Leaf, The Cop and the Anthem,etc.In his last years O.Henry had financial and health problems.An alcoholic, O.Henry died on June 5, 1910 in New York City, virtually broke.
第二篇：警察与赞美诗的英文读后感
Wang1 Wang Mengmeng
Professor Li Kang
English 09110314March 2012
