1500字的英文读书笔记【篇一：老人与海英文读后感1500字】impression of “the old man and the sea”when i was a middle school student, i’ve finished this book in chinese.but when i read it in english,i really gain something new both in the way of expression and the spirit it shows to us.may be different ages to read the same book we will learn different things from it.at least, for my part, that is true.firstly,i would like to review some information about this book.such as the background,major characters and the topic of it.the old man and the sea is a story by ernest hemingway, written in cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. it was the last major work of fiction to be produced by hemingway and published in his lifetime. one of his most famous works, it centers upon santiago, an aging cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the gulf stream.[1]the old man and the sea served to reinvigorate hemingways literary reputation and prompted a reexamination of his entire body of work. the novella was initially received with much popularity; it restored many readers confidence in hemingways capability as an author. its publisher, scribners, on an early dust jacket, called the novella a new classic, and many critics favorably compared it with such works as william faulkners the bear and herman melvilles moby-dick.this book gives me a deep impression especially the description about the man’s braveness and persistence.in this book, in order to suggest the profundity of the old man’s sacrifice and the glory that derives from it, hemingway purposefully likens santiago to christ, who, according to christian theology, gave his life for the greater glory of humankind. crucifixion imagery is the most noticeable way in which hemingway creates the symbolic parallel between santiago and christ. when santiago’s palms are first cut by his fishing line, the reader cannot help but think of christ suffering his stigmata. later, when the sharks arrive, hemingway portrays the old man as a crucified martyr, saying that he makes a noise similar to that of a man having nails driventhrough his hands. furthermore, the image of the old man struggling up the hill with his mast across his shoulders recalls christ’s march toward calvary. even the position in whichsantiago collapses on his bed—face down with his arms out straight and the palms of his hands up—brings to mind the image of christ suffering on the cross. hemingway employs these images in the final pages of the novella in order to link santiago to christ, who exemplified transcendence by turning loss into gain, defeat into triumph, and even death into renewed life.the major characters in this book are also vivid and lively. santiago ,the old man of the novella’s title, santiago is a cuban fisherman who has had an extended run of bad luck. despite his expertise, he has been unable to catch a fish for eighty-four days. he is humble, yet exhibits a justified pride in his abilities. his knowledge of the sea and its creatures, and of his craft, is unparalleled and helps him preserve a sense of hope regardless of circumstance. the marlin ,santiago hooks the marlin, which we learn at the end of the novella measures eighteen feet, on the first afternoon of his fishing expedition. manolin ,a boy presumably in his adolescence, manolin is santiago’s apprentice and devoted attendant. the old man first took him out on a boat when he was merely five years old. due to santiago’s recent bad luck, manolin’s parents have forced the boy to go out on a different fishing boat. manolin, however, still cares deeply for the old man, to whom he continues to look as a mentor.joe dimaggio, although dimaggio never appears in the novel, he plays a significant role nonetheless. santiago worships him as a model of strength and commitment, and his thoughts turn toward dimaggio whenever he needs to reassure himself of his own strength.perico ,perico, the reader assumes, owns the bodega in santiago’s village. he never appears in the novel, but he serves an important role in the fisherman’s life by providing him with newspapers that report the baseball scores. this act establishes him as a kind man who helps the aging santiago.from the very first paragraph, santiago is characterized as someone struggling against defeat. he has gone eighty-fourdays without catching a fish—he will soon pass his own record of eighty-seven days. almost a s a reminder of santiago’s struggle, the sail of his skiff resembles “the flag of permanent defeat.” but the old man refuses defeat at every turn: he resolves to sail out beyond the other fishermen to where the biggest fish promise to be. he lands the marlin, tying hisrecord of eighty-seven days after a brutal three-day fight, and he continues to ward off sharks from stealing his prey, even though he knows the battle is useless.because santiago is pitted against the creatures of the sea, some readers cho ose to view the tale as a chronicle of man’s battle against the natural world, but the novella is, more accurately, the story of man’s place within nature. both santiago and the marlin display qualities of pride, honor, and bravery, and both are subject to the same eternal law: they must kill or be killed. as santiago reflects when he watches the weary warbler fly toward shore, where it will inevitably meetthe hawk, the world is filled with predators, and no living thing can escape the inevitable struggle that will lead to its death. santiago lives according to his own observation: “man is not made for defeat . . . [a] man can be destroyed but not defeated.” in hemingway’s portrait of the world, death is inevitable, butthe best men (and animals) will nonetheless refuse to give in to its power. accordingly, man and fish will struggle to the death, just as hungry sharks will lay waste to an old man’s trophy catch.the novel suggests that it is possible to transcend this natural law. in fact, the very inevitability of destruction creates the terms that allow a worthy man or beast to transcend it. it is precisely through the effort to battle the inevitable that a man can prove himself. indeed, a man can prove this determination over and over through the worthiness of the opponents he chooses to face. santiago finds the marlin worthy of a fight,just as he once found “the great negro of cienfuegos” worthy. hsantiago, though destroyed at the end of the novella, is never defeated. instead, he emerges as a hero. san tiago’s struggle does not enable him to change man’s place in the world. rather, it enables him to meet his most dignified destiny.while it is certainly true that santiago’s eighty-four-day run of bad luck is an affront to his pride as a masterful fisherman,and that his attempt to bear out his skills by sailing far into the gulf waters leads to disaster, hemingway does not condemn his protagonist for being full of pride. on the contrary, santiago stands as proof that pride motivates men to greatness. because the old man acknowledges that he killed the mighty marlin largely out of pride, and because his capture of the marlin leads in turn to his heroic transcendence of defeat, pride becomes the source of santiago’s greatest strength. without a ferocious sense of pride, that battle would never have been fought, or more likely, it would have been abandoned before the end.santiago’s pride also motivates his desire to transcend the destructive forces of nature. throughout the novel, no matter how baleful his circumstances become, the old man exhibits an unflagging determination to catch the marlin and bring it to shore. when the first shark arrives, santiago’s resolve is mentioned twice in the space of just a few paragraphs. even if the old man had returned with the marlin intact, his moment of glory, like the marlin’s meat, would have been short-lived. the glory and honor santiago accrues comes not from his battle itself but from his pride and determination to fight.santiago dreams his pleasant dream of the lions at play on the beaches of africa three times. the first time is the night before he departs on his three-day fishing expedition, the second occurs when he sleeps on the boat for a few hours in the middle of his struggle with the marlin, and the third takes place at the very end of the book. in fact, the sober promise of the triumph and regeneration with which the novella closes is supported by the final image of the lions. because santiago associates the lions with his youth, the dream suggests the circular nature of life. additionally, because santiago imagines the lions, fierce predators, playing, his dream suggests a harmony between the opposing forces—life and death, love and hate, destruction and regeneration—of nature.this book gives me courage of conquering all kinds of difficulties .and i have the belief that the most beautiful thing is the process that we make our best to achieve our dream,and never say give up .【篇二：读书笔记30篇(1500字)】读书笔记1、《海底两万里》读后感 (1)2、《活着》读后感 (2)3、《简爱》读后感 (3)4、《质数的孤独》读后感 (4)5、《平凡的世界》读后感 (5)6、《云漂》读后感 (6)7、《朝花夕拾》读后感 (7)8、《红楼梦》读后感 (8)9、《骆驼祥子》读后感 (9)10、《在路上》读后感 (10)11、《钢铁是怎样炼成的》读后感 (11)12、《名人传》读后感 (12)13、《邓小平文选》读后感 (13)14、《如何掌控自己的时间和生活》读后感 (14)15、《围城》读后感 (15)16、《等待戈多》读后感 (16)17、《人间词话》读后感 (17)18、《百年孤独》读后感 (18)19、《小王子》读后感 (19)20、《伊豆的舞女》读后感 (20)21、《母亲》读后感 (21)22、《茶花女》读后感 (22)23、《堂吉诃德》读后感 (23)24、《追忆似水年华》读后感 (24)25、《夏至未至》读后感 (25)26、《麦田里的守望者》读后感 (26)27、《老人与海》读后感 (27)28、《傲慢与偏见》读后感 (28)29、《安妮日记》读后感 (29)30、《雾都孤儿》读后感 (30)1、《海底两万里》读后感打开《海底两万里》,我怀着好奇的心情和书中的主人公探险家尼摩船长一起乘坐着鹦鹉螺号潜水艇开始了充满传奇色彩的海底之旅.这部作品叙述法国生物学者阿龙纳斯在海洋深处旅行的故事.这事发生在一八六六年,当时海上发现了一只被断定为独角鲸的大怪物,他接受邀请参加追捕,在追捕过程中不幸落水,泅到怪物的脊背上.其实这怪物并非什么独角鲸,而是一艘构造奇妙的潜水船.潜水船是船长尼摩在大洋中的一座荒岛上秘密建造的,船身坚固,利用海洋发电.尼摩船长邀请阿龙纳斯作海底旅行.他们从太平洋出发,经过珊瑚岛,印度洋,红海,地中海,进入大西洋,看到许多罕见的海生动植物和水中的奇异景象,又经历了搁浅,土人围攻,同鲨鱼搏斗,冰山封路,章鱼袭击等许多险情.最后,当潜水船到达挪威海岸时,阿龙纳斯不辞而别,把他所知道的海底秘密公布于世.书中的主人公尼摩船长是一个带有浪漫,神秘色彩,非常吸引人的人物.尼摩根据自己的设计建造了潜水船,潜航在海底进行大规模的科学研究,但这好像又不是他这种孤独生活的惟一目的.他躲避开他的敌人和迫害者,在海底探寻自由,又对自己孤独的生活深深感到悲痛.这部作品集中了凡尔纳科幻小说的所有特点.曲折紧张,扑朔迷离的故事情节,瞬息万变的人物命运,丰富详尽的科学知识和细节逼真的美妙幻想融于一炉.作者独具匠心,巧妙布局,在漫长的旅行中,时而将读者推入险象环生的险恶环境,时而又带进充满诗情画意的美妙境界;波澜壮阔的场面描绘和细致入微的细节刻画交替出现.读来引人入胜,欲罢不能.作者的惊人之处不但只是他写的夸张,动人而富有科学意义的小说,更惊人的是他在书中所写的故事,尽管在二十一世纪的今天已不足为奇,但是在凡尔纳的时代,人们还没有发明可以在水下遨游的潜水艇,甚至连电灯都还没有出现,在这样的背景下,凡尔纳在《海底两万里》中成功的塑造出鹦鹉螺号潜水艇,并在小说发表25年后,人们制造出的真实的潜水艇,与小说描写的大同小异,这是怎样的预见力,所以说凡尔纳作品中的幻想都以科学为依据.他的许多作品中所描绘的科学幻想在今天都得以实现.更重要的是他作品中的幻想大胆新奇,并以其逼1真,生动,美丽如画令人读来趣味盎然.他的作品情节惊险曲折,人物栩栩如生,结局出人意料.所有这些使他的作品具有永恒的魅力.鹦鹉螺号的尼摩船长是一个谜一样的人物,他性格古怪,但看到朋友死去却会无声地落泪;他知识渊博,会收容所有厌恶陆地的人;他会把上百万黄金送给穷苦的人;他会把整口袋的珍珠送给可怜的采珠人;甚至还为法国政府偿还几百亿国债;他还会逃避人类,对他人施行可怕的报复??尼摩船长对人类有根深蒂固的不信任感,他心中充满无尽的痛苦,却仍是个善良的人.我怀着一种崇敬的心情,开始和书中的主人翁探险者博物学家阿尤那斯,乘坐鹦鹉螺号潜水艇,开始他充满传奇色彩的海底之旅.鹦鹉螺号从日本海出发,进入太平洋,大洋洲,然后到达印度洋,经过红海和阿拉伯隧道,来到地中海.潜艇经过直布罗陀海峡,沿着非洲海岸,径直奔向南极地区.然后又沿拉美海岸北上,又跟随暖流来到北海,最后消失在挪威西海岸的大旋涡中.在将近十个月的海底旅程中,鹦鹉螺号以平均每小时十二公里的航速,缓缓行驶.在引人入胜的故事中,还同时告诫人们在看到科学技术造福人类的同时,重视防止被坏人利用,危害人类自身危机的行为;提出要爱护海豹,鲸等海洋生物,谴责滥杀滥捕的观念.这些至今仍然热门的环保话题,早已在两百年前就有先知者呼吁,可见留下有关人类正义更深层次的思考,才是此书让读者感受丰富多采的历险和涉取传神知识后,启发我们以心灵更大的收获.并不是每一本科幻小说都像《海底两万里》一样富有强烈的可读性,它作为一本不是凭空捏造而是远见加博学累积成的小说,不但为对海底知识了解不详尽的读者解读了他们的旅程,更让后人看到了古人的智慧与文明.2、《活着》读后感一个偶然的机会看了余华的小说《活着》,它讲述了一个叫徐福贵老人的一生,他是一个历尽世间沧桑和磨难的老人.作者平实的叙述中,诉说着主人公的一生的苦乐哀愁.看完后掩卷沉思,内心沉重,感觉有说不出的悲——悲凉,悲哀,悲伤??似乎人生所能经历的不幸都降临到了主人公身上.想着主人公的经历,禁不住疑问:活着的意义究竟是什么？徐福贵出生富贵,却是个败家子,从小到大干尽了荒唐事，让自己从一个阔少爷变成了穷光蛋.他唯一做对的事就是娶了家珍做老婆.这个同样出生富贵的富家千金没有一句怨言的包容了迷途丈夫,撑起了日后苦难的天空.从地主到赤贫,徐福贵也不是没有恨过,恨这个,恨那个,最后恨的还是自个,有道是自作孽不可活。