once when i was six years old, i saw a magnificent picture in a book,called true stories from nature, about the primeval forest. it was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. here is a copy of the drawing.

in the book it said:" boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. after that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion."

i pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. and after some work with a colored pencil i succeeded in making my first drowing,my drawing number one. it looked like this:

i showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.

but they answered:"frighten? why should any one be frightened by a hat?"

my drawing was not a picture of a hat. it was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. but since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, i made another drawing: i drew the inside of the boa constrictor,so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. they always need to have things explained. my drawing number two looked like this:

the grown-ups response,this time, was to adviseme to lay aside my drawing of boa constrictors,whether from the inside or the outside and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. that is why, at the age of six, i gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. i had been disheartened by the failure of my drawing number one and my drawing number two. grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it si tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

so then i chose another profession, and learned to pilot airplanes.

i have flown a little over all parts of the world:and it is ture that geography has been very useful to me. at a glance i can distinguish china from arizona. if one gets lost in the night,such knowledge is valuable.

in the course of this life i have had a great many encounters with a great many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. i have lived a great deal among grown-ups. i have seen them intimately, close at hand. and hasn't much improved my opinion of them.

whenever imet one of them who seemed to me at all clearsighted, i tried the experiment of showing him my drowing number one. which i have always kept. i would try to find out, so, if this was a person of true understanding. but, whoever it was, he ,or she, would always say:

"that is a hat."

then i would never talkto that people about boa constrictors, or primeval forest, or stars. i would bring myself down to his level. i would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. and the grown-ups would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.

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“a tale of two cities” is one of dickens’s most important representative works.the novel profoundly exposed the society contradiction before the french revolution,intensely attacks the aristocratic social class is dissolute and cruel,and sincerely sympathizes with the depressed classes.the novel also described many magnificent scenes like the revolt people attacked bastille and so on,which displayed people’s great strength.

the novel has portrayed many different people. doctor manette is honest and kind but suffers the persecution actually , lucie is beautiful and gentle ,charles is graceful and noble,lorry is upright and honest ,sydney is semblance of indifferent, innermost feelings of warm,unconventional but also selfless and lofty,miss pross is straightforward and loyal,evremonde brothers are cruel and sinister…the complex hatred is hard to solve, the cruel revenge has made more hatreds, loves rebirth in the hell edge,but take the life as the price.

as an outstanding writer,in dickens’s work,the language skill is essential.each kind of rhetoric technique,like the analogy,the exaggeration,the contrast,the humorous,and the taunt are handled skillfully,and the artistry of the work is also delivered the peak.”a tale of two cities” has its difference with the general historical novel, its character and the main plot are all fictionalizes.with the broad real background of the french revolution,the author take the fictional character doctor manette’s experience as the main clue,interweaves the unjust charge, love and revenge three independences but also incident cross-correlation stories together,the plot is criss-crossed,and the clue is complex.the author use narrates,foreshadowing,upholstery and so many techniques,causes the structure integrity and strictness,the plot winding anxious and rich of theatrical nature,it displayed the remarkable artistic skill.the style “a tale of two cities” is solemnity and melancholy,fills indignantion,but lacks the humor of the early works.

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one of dickens most enduringly popular stories is oliver twist, an early work published 1837-8. like many of his later novels, its central theme is the hardship faced by the dispossessed and those of the outside of tolite society. oliver himself is born in a workhouse and treated cruelly there as was the norm at the time for pauper children, in particular by bumble, a parish council official or eadle the story follows oliver as he escapes the workhouse and runs away to london.

here he receives an education in villainy from the criminal gang of fagin that includes the brutal thief bill sikes, the famous artful dodger and nancy, bill whore. oliver is rescued by the intervention of a benefactor - mr brownlow - but the mysterious monks gets the gang to kidnap the boy again. nancy intervenes but is murdered viciously by sikes after she has showed some redeeming qualities and has discovered monk sinister intention.

the story closes happily and with justice for bumble and the cruel monks who has hidden the truth of oliver parentage out of malice. accusations were made that the book glamorised crime (like the ewgate group of the period) but dickens wisely disassociated himself from criminal romances. his achievement was in fact in presenting the underworld and problems of poverty to the well-off in a way rarely attempted previously.

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jane eyre was published in 1847 under the androgynous pseudonym of "currer bell." the publication was followed by widespread success. utilizing two literary traditions,the bildungsroman and the gothic novel,jane eyre is a powerful narrative with profound themes concerning genders,family,passion,and identity. it is unambiguously one of the most celebrated novels in british literature.

born in 1816,charlotte bronte was the third daughter of patrick bronte,an ambitious and intelligent clergyman. according to newsman,all the bronte children were unusually precocious and almost ferociously intelligent,and their informal and unorthodox educations under their father’s tutelage nurtured these traits. patrick bronte shared his interests in literature with his children,toward whom he behaved as though they were his intellectual equals. the bronte children read voraciously. charlotte’s imagination was especially fired by the poetry of byron,whose brooding heroes served as the prototypes for characters in the bronte’s juvenile writings as well as for such figures as mr. rochester in jane eyre (2). bronte’s formal education was limited and sporadic – ten months at the age of 8 at cowan bridge clergy daughters’ school (the model for lowood institution in jane eyre),eighteen months from the age of 14 at roe head school of miss margaret wooler (the model for ms. temple) (nestor

3-4). according to newman,bronte then worked as a teacher at roe head for three years before going to work as a governess. seeking an alternative way of earning money,charlotte bronte went to brussels in 1842 to study french and german at the pensionnat heger,preparing herself to open a school at the parsonage. she seems to have fallen in love with her charismatic teacher,constantin heger. the experience seems on a probable source for a recurrent feature in bronte’s fiction: “relationships in which the inflammatory spark of intellectual energy ignites an erotic attraction between a woman and a more socially powerful man” (newman 6). the brontes’ efforts to establish a school at the parsonage never got off the ground. still seeking ways to make money,charlotte published,with her sisters,the unsuccessful poems by currer,ellis,and acton bell. her first effort to publish a novel,the professor,was also unsuccessful. jane eyre,published in october 1847,however,was met with great enthusiasm and became one of the best sellers. as “currer bell” bronte pleted two more novels,shirley and villette. she married reverend william bell nicholls in 1854 and died nine months later,at the age of thirty-nine in 1855 (nestor 4-5).

the story of jane eyre takes place in northern england in the early to mid-19th century. (“jane eyre” 151) it starts as the ten-year-old jane,a plain but unyielding child,is excluded by her aunt reed from the domestic circle around the hearth and bullied by her handsome but unpleasant cousins. under the suggestion of mr. lloyd,an apothecary that sympathizes jane,mrs. reed sends jane to lowood institution operated by a hypocritical evangelicalist,mr. brocklehurst,who chastises jane in front of the class and calls her a liar. at lowood,jane befriends with helen burns,who helps the newly arrived jane adjust to the austere

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many people in the world are trying to find a perfect companion.some of these may marry and not know what their new husband or wife is like.this kind of situation often leads to separation or hostility. other situations may develop between two friends that stem from jealousy, desire for revenge, uncaring parents, etc. emily bront's wuthering heights displays several characteristics of destructive relationships. three of these are uncaring parents, marriage without knowing the person, and jealousy.

uncaring or unsympathizing parents are shown throughout this story to be an element of destructive relationships. because heathcliff gained all the attention from mr. earnshaw, hindley became disassociated from his father. this separation continued until after mr. earnshaw had died.another example is between hindley and hareton. hindley became such a drunk and a gambler that he could not properly care for young hareton. this led to a separation between hareton and his father as well. one primary example of an uncaring parent is shown between heathcliff and his son linton.heathcliff did not even want his son for anything except enacting a part of his revenge. this is shown by linton's fear of heathcliff and heathcliff's enmity toward his son. linton even says "... my father threatened me, and i dread him - i dread him!"(244) to express his feeling about heathcliff.the hostility and separation between father and son in this book shows that uncaring parents can cause serious damage in relationships with their children.

this element of destructive behavior may stem from an unhappy marriage in which the husbands or wives don't know each other. this had happened between isabella and heathcliff. isabella did not really know heathcliff when she married him, but after she had married him she saw that heathcliff was not a gentleman at all. to declare her feelings she wrote "is heathcliff a man? if so, is he mad? and if not, is he a devil? i shan't tell my reasons for making this inquiry; but i beseech you to explain, if you can, what i have married ..."(125). another example of this is when catherine married edgar linton. although she had been happy at the beginning of the marriage, she thought having parties all the time was going to be fun. yet, after a while, she became bored. she also realized that she loved heathcliff more than edgar and would always love heathcliff.this enlightenment created separation between edgar and catherine during the final hours of cathy's life. an additional marriage which was made that was doomed was the one between catherine and linton. because this was a forced marriage, cathy had not yet learned all she could about linton.because she did not know until after the marriage that linton was selfish and inconsiderate, she became distressed and grew isolated in the house.these three failed marriages described in this novel show that knowing the person you will marry is very important.while these marriages took place, jealousy also took a hold in some relationships. one example of this is when mr. earnshaw starts to favor heathcliff over his own son, hindley. because of this, hindley becomes jealous of young heathcliff and sets out to make heathcliff's life a nightmare. hindley's jealousy becomes evident when he says ,"... be damned you beggarly interloper! and wheedle my father out of all he has; only afterwards show him what you are, imp of satan."(35). jealousy was also found very notably in the relationship between heathcliff and edgar linton.

the jealousy between them is expressed when heathcliff and edgar start a hostile conversation after cathy's homecoming at christmas near the beginning of the book. as the story progresses these two become bitter enemies who will not speak to one another. another relationship which jealousy ruined is the one between hareton and linton. these two become jealous of each other over cathy's affections. this relationship ends as hareton and linton hating each other. these relationships show that jealousy can ruin a relationship very quickly.

the jealousy, neglect, and unprepared nature of the many relationships in this book indicates that many of the relationships in this book have gone "sour". in spite of all these destructive elements one relationship may succeed. this is the one between cathy and hareton.

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