第一篇：骆驼祥子英语书评
《骆驼祥子》书评
前几天刚看完老舍的长篇小说——《骆驼祥子》这本书，心里可谓感慨很多。“祥子的命运真叫人同情啊!”
这本书主要讲述了主人公祥子生活的三起三落。来到北平当人力车夫，苦干三年，凑足一百块钱，买了辆新车，后来连人带车被宪兵抓去当壮丁，理想第一次破灭;他想方设法逃出去后，卖骆驼，拼命拉车，省吃俭用攒钱准备买新车，干包月时，祥子辛苦攒的钱也被孙侦探搜去，第二次希望破灭了;虎妞以低价给祥子买了邻居二强子的车，祥子又有车了，可为了置办虎妞的丧事，祥子又卖掉了车，理想第三次破灭。后来疾病缠着他，他也陷入了生活的陷阱，自甘堕落。总结祥子的命运三部曲就是“精进向上--不甘失败--自甘堕落”。
书中的主人公祥子来自农村，他老实，健壮，坚忍，如同骆驼一般。他自尊好强，吃苦耐劳，凭自己的力气挣饭吃。但最后，经历了三起三落，祥子已经失去了生活的信心。他已经变成了麻木，潦倒，狡猾，好占便宜，吃喝嫖赌，自暴自弃的行尸走肉。一个曾经是那么要强的头等车夫，最后却还是没有挣扎出悲惨的命运。祥子是旧社会贫苦劳动人民的缩影，他反映了旧社会劳动人民生活苦难与无奈。
书中通过直接对祥子拉车时的样子进行描写，并间接对其他拉车人的样子进行描写，直接描写与间接描写相结合，从而生动形象的写出了祥子是一个老实、健壮、坚忍的人;通过对祥子细致的人物描写，和大量的对周围环境的生动的描写，人物描写和环境描写相结合，从而生动传神的写出祥子的坚忍不拔、吃苦耐劳;通过对祥子的语言、动作、神态、心理和肖像进行描写，各种人物描写相结合，生动形象的写出祥子以前的积极向上、为梦想努力拼搏变成后来的麻木、潦倒、狡猾、好占便宜。在不合理的社会制度对下层劳动者生活空间的威压下，从农村来的原本憨厚老实、坚韧、自尊好强、吃苦耐劳的祥子最终变得自甘堕落。
本书是以一个人力车夫祥子的行踪为线索，以二十年代末期的北京市民生活为背景，以人力车夫祥子的坎坷悲惨生活遭遇为主要情节，深刻揭露了旧中国的黑暗，控诉了统治阶级对劳动者的剥削、压迫，表达了作者对劳动人民的深切同情，向人们展示军阀混战、黑暗统治下的北京底层贫苦市民生活于痛苦深渊中的图景。从祥子力图通过个人奋斗摆脱悲惨生活命运，最后失败以至于堕落的故事，告诫人们，城市贫农要翻身做主人，单靠个人奋斗是不行的。
读了这本书，我的感触很大，祥子是一个悲剧。祥子的悲剧，是他所置身的社会生活环境产生的。小说，真实的展现了那个黑暗社会的生活面目，展现了军阀、特务、车厂主们的丑恶面目。如果不是他们的迫害，祥子也不会从充满希望走向堕落。一个曾经勤劳坚忍，有着自己目标的人最后却沦为了
社会垃圾。也许这才是现实，残酷、悲哀、无可奈何。然而祥子的悲剧也是一个社会悲剧，他的“做一个独立的劳动者”善良愿望的最终破灭，带有历史的必然性。军阀的乱兵、反动政府的侦探、车行老板的强取豪夺，是中国社会半殖民地化过程中的产物，而生存权利的最终被剥夺，则是下层劳动者无法规避的历史命运。祥子的悲剧又是一个精神悲剧，小说立意要由车夫的内心状态观察到地狱究竟是什么样子，从城市下层劳动者的性格与精神弱点中去探索其悲剧命运的内在原因。
整部小说语言生动，文笔刚劲有力，小说里充斥着的悲凉发人深省，故事离奇感人。虽然这一切离我们现在有几十年了，并且小说也肯定有艺术加工的成分，但文学总是来源于生活的，是千千万万百姓生活中的一曲。在当时老舍先生想表达的是旧社会剥削阶级对下层劳动者的残酷剥削和压迫，同时提出了城市劳动人民如何争取解放的重要问题。而他想告诉我们和历史的是――这样的一个社会就发生在不久前的中国，发生在这雄鸡病危的年代。就是让那个水深火热的年代永远的写在历史上，用过去激励今天的步伐;让今天的强大去扶平过去的伤痛。
第二篇：骆驼祥子书评
《骆驼祥子》读后感
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老舍先生是一位非常著名的小说家和剧作家，我们经常接触到他的作品。早在初中时候就听说过老舍及其优秀的代表作---《骆驼祥子》
这个寒假，我品味了老舍先生的《骆驼祥子》。浓郁的古都风情，市井气息在老舍先生的妙笔生花下使京腔京韵的《骆驼祥子》散发出不可替代的艺术魅力。它真实地描绘了北京一个人力车夫——祥子的悲惨命运。
车夫的圈子，大杂院的生活，随同祥子的命运走向绝望，走向暗淡。祥子带着中国农村破败凋敝的大背景，带着农民的质朴和固执，也带着自己一份勤劳与坚忍走向了我们的生活。似乎他身上有令人欣喜的希望，但是当时社会军阀混战，人心不安，他们容不得祥子的希冀与幻想，风雨吓不倒祥子，他倔强地反抗着命运，克己地拉车重新白手起家。
天有不测之风云，人有旦夕之祸福。正如俗语所言，人生的道路并不都是那么平坦的，千辛万苦得来的积蓄被洗劫一空，圆车梦再次成为泡影。为了追求自己一直向往的理想，他再一次拥有了自己的车子，但这一次是以与虎妞成就畸形的婚姻为代价的。好景不长，虎妞死于难产，祥子人车两空。加之又失去他喜爱的小福子，连遭生活打击的祥子再也无法鼓起生活的勇气，它不再像从前那样以拉车为豪，它厌恶拉车，厌恶劳作。他本想用自己的努力来实现自己的梦，但经历了打击，他丧失了对于生活信心，自甘堕落，变得懒惰狡猾、极端自私，最后禁不住夏太太的诱惑，得了一身脏病，成为一堆行尸走肉。
这个小说是一个洋车夫的苦难史，更是一个悲剧，彻彻底底的悲剧。它描绘了旧社会如何把一个正直，好强，淳朴善良，自食其力的洋车夫从肉体到灵魂加以毁灭的过程。一个曾经勤劳坚忍，有着自己目标的人最后却沦为了社会垃圾。从前的祥子善良淳朴，正直诚实，对生活有着像骆驼一般积极和坚韧。他不断地追求，追求成功，追求幸福。然而即使是这样，也终究没有改变他最后的悲惨结局。
当时旧社会的黑暗和不合理是成就祥子悲剧人生的最重要因素，从积极上进，有理想愿奋斗，有追求的祥子，到丧失了对于生活的任何乞求和信心，从上进好强而沦为自甘坠落。这个悲剧有力地揭露旧社会把人变成鬼的罪行。深刻地揭示了生产这个悲剧的原因。书中说：“苦人的懒是努力而落空了的自然结果，苦人的耍刺儿含有一些公理。”“人把自己从野兽中提拔出，可是现在人还把自己的同类驱到野兽里去。祥子还在那文化之城，可是变成了走兽。一点也不是他自己的过错。”
也许这才是现实，残酷、悲哀、无可奈何。理想和现实总是充满了矛盾，它们往往不能调和，然而它们却又同时存在。社会是现实的，它不会为了一个人的理想而改变，也不会是完美无瑕的。人们为了自己的理想不断奋斗，最终却不一定能够真正获得成功。就像祥子一样，他努力，就是为了寻求美好的生活，但是结局却是那样得悲惨。
大漠孤烟很直很直，犹如一个大大的耸插苍穹的感叹号，叙说着无言的沧桑;长河落日好圆好圆，苍凉和悲壮一览无遗地泻在茫茫戈
壁上;驼队，总也络绎不绝，负重跋涉在漠漠沙原上，不甘寂寞的驼铃在夕阳下，叮叮当当………
祥子渐行渐远，但是在他的背影中洒下的叹息却依旧拉动着冗长的呼吸………
第三篇：骆驼祥子书评
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第四篇：《骆驼祥子》书评之浅谈人性
浅谈人性—《骆驼祥子》书评
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漫漫中华五千年的璀璨文化，“人性”一词始终是作家笔下亘古不变的永恒主题，大到高读孔夫子“三人行，必有我师”的好学人性,小到一本小说中体会到的人性感悟，我们不可否认，品读老舍先生笔下的人物是帮助我们探索和感悟人性的最好借鉴者。
《骆驼祥子》无疑是老舍先生成功塑造人物的代表作品之一。全书用祥子三起三落的买车经历，从祥子性格的变化为我们细腻而传神地展示和揭露了人性的转化和社会的罪恶。
文中的祥子是一个从农村走向城市的朴实青年，自信、年轻、健壮的他选择了拉车这一职业。他的生活理想单纯朴实：拉一辆属于自己的车。为了买车，祥子省吃俭用，起早贪黑拼命干活，他用自己血和汉换来的钱买了一辆崭新的车。可是好景不长，他的车在兵乱中丢了。他没有灰心，一如既往地努力赚钱，在理想之门眼看就要向他打开时，他的钱却又被奸诈的孙侦探敲诈走了。祥子买了几次车，不是因为被抢就是因为遭勒索，还有苦于生计被迫卖掉的。处处受到压迫的祥子开始怀疑自己许下的信念，他开始把自己浸泡在烟酒中，企图麻痹自己，以至于后来自己被虎妞设计，稀里糊涂地就娶了虎妞。祥子最终用虎妞的钱买了一辆新车，这刚燃起的斗志在随着虎妞难产而死的现实中再一次被浇灭，小福子的死更是彻底的他推向了深渊。祥子跨了，他绝望了。生活与愿望的破灭使他彻底成了一个堕落的、自私的而又不幸的“行尸”和“走肉”。
看完《骆驼祥子》最初给我的感受是积压在胸口的难以舒缓的一股沉闷之气，这股堵在胸口的气我想只要是读过《骆驼祥子》的人都能够体会到，这是一种难以抒发的对祥子这个人物报以的同情、遗憾和心痛。祥子的经历真正的印证了“人之初，性本善”的真理。
我们不会完全毫无根据的一味谴责祥子的堕落，相反在祥子人性堕落的背后谁又能理性的去一层层剥下伤痛的外衣，揪出幕后的罪魁祸首，我想这一点老舍先生做到了。老生先生他用自己灵魂的御笔写照出了黑暗社会的罪恶，细腻生动的语言和刚劲有力的文气为我们揭露了谁是罪魁祸首———黑暗的旧社会。
我们无法真切的处于当时的社会，老舍先生則是真实的站在人们的底层，给我们一个真实的旧社会车夫的生活，用一个祥子让我们看到了那个年代真真实实的人民生活。**的年代是那个年代造成人们自私、狭隘人性的最主要原因，为了生计人们早已不会理会何为人性。
如果说从一个朴实的祥子到一个堕落的“行尸走肉”是旧社会衍生出来的产物，那么在如今这个大体和平的年代里，我不禁感慨在如今这个高速发展的社会里，温饱的我们还能否保持人性的纯真。竞争的压力，工作的压力无不充斥着我们生活的每一个角落，于是时不时的我们总会发出一两句的抱怨。其实我们又有什么好抱怨的呢，相对于祥子来说这或许是他想都不敢想的事。
有人说祥子的结局是注定的，他的悲剧是那个社会的必然。一方面一个人的社会地位决定了他生的处境，像祥子这样一个处于旧中国社会中的底层人物，他注要受人欺凌;另一方面祥子本身只是一味的顺从和服从现实的软弱性亦促发了故事以悲剧收场的结局。
祥子是不幸的，万恶的旧社会扼杀了他淳朴而善良的人性，而回到现实的人们是否又意识到社会是造成祥子万恶的根源这一道理呢。回望现实，人性善变永远也不会停息。在我们嘴边挂着“平平淡淡才是真”的时候，那些一味的每天出现在新闻报纸上的丑陋行径又代表了什么呢?生活的无奈和周围环境的变迁，许多人不得不披上一层属于自己的“保护色”，纯真的人性也在日转星移的时间当中渐渐流逝，此时罪恶悄然临门。
人的天性是善良的，这一点我们无可否认，只能说后天的是决定一个人的关键因素。不管是祥子、虎妞还是奸诈的孙侦探，善良的小福子，无不在呐喊诉说环境的罪恶和人性的扭曲。我想这也是老舍先生想向大家传达的一点吧。
祥子是旧社会的代表，我们是新中国的未来;祥子的生命没有结束，我们的生活也还要继续。人性的复杂我们停不了探索的脚步，只希望每一个人牢记现在的自己，铭记书中的祥子，不要失去真实的自己，独属于自己的生命本色!
第五篇：越狱英语书评
"Prison Break" Review
Even though the 2005-2006 TV season doesn’t officially start until September 19 (the day after the Emmy Awards), one network has decided to start their season early. That said network would be FOX, and their first show is the prison drama “Prison Break.” Despite having a slightly unbelievable concept, it is a great way to start the season off on a good foot.
Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) is a desperate man. His brother, Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell), a death row inmate confined to Fox River State Penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois, is scheduled to die in a little over a month for the murder of the Vice President’s brother, Terrence Steadman (David Lively.) Michael has an elaborate plan to break Lincoln out of jail, and in the opening scene of the pilot, he is seen having the last of a series of tattoos applied to his body. Those tattoos are the blueprints for Fox River. In 1999, he was involved in a retrofitting job of the prison, and he still has all of the plans of the building with him. After doing all the extensive research, and adding those notes to his tattoos, he gets rid of all of the evidence.
The next day, he goes into the downtown Chicago branch of United Savings Bank and attempts to steal over a half million dollars. When he is arrested, he is put on trial for armed robbery. He pleads no contest to the judge (Cheryl Lynn Bruce), despite the objections of his lawyer and childhood friend Veronica Donovan (Robin Tunney.) The judge sentences him to five years, with parole in two and a half. Michael has requested to be sent to Fox River, which the judge grants. Veronica still doesn’t understand why Michael is doing this, because he isn’t violent and he doesn’t need the money. Also, he was the only positive influence for LJ (Marshall Allman), Lincoln’s son. LJ lives with his mother, Lisa Rix (Jessalyn Gilsig), and her husband Adrian (Philip Rayburn Smith.) He has been getting into trouble lately, having been busted for possession of marijuana, and Lisa doesn’t know what to do about it.
When Michael gets to Fox River, Captain Brad Bellick (Wade Williams) greets him, and tells him that he has nothing coming to him. Michael meets his new cellmate, Fernando Sucre (Amaury Nolasco.) Sucre is engaged to his girlfriend, Maricruz Delgado (Camille Guaty), though a friend of hers named Hector (Kurt Caceres) has been making a play for her. He just wants to do his time and get out so that he can get married.
Meanwhile, Veronica is still troubled by the case. She is engaged to an investment banker named Sebastian Balfour (Anthony Starke), though it appears that she still thinks about Lincoln, who used to be her boyfriend.
Back at Fox River, Sucre tells Michael about Charles Westmoreland (Muse Watson), whom everyone whispers is actually the infamous D.B. Cooper, who parachuted out of a plane thirty years ago with a million and a half in cash (he actually only got away with $200,000.) Charles has a cat named Marilyn who was grandfathered in b
efore Fox River prohibited pet ownership.
Michael tells Sucre that Lincoln, or as the other inmates call him, “Linc the Sink” (because he’ll come at you with everything but the kitchen sink), is his brother. He wants to know how to get to Lincoln. Sucre tells him that the only way to do that is through “P.I.,” or Prison Industries (meaning the inmates who behave get to do work for the prison.) Former mob boss John Abruzzi (Peter Stormare) runs P.I., and he is the only one who can get Michael approved for it. Michael later asks Abruzzi if he can be hired for P.I., giving him a paper origami swan and telling him that he has something to offer the mob boss. Abruzzi scoffs at this new “fish” and throws away the swan. Michael does have something to offer Abruzzi though. Fibonacci is a mob informant whose testimony put Abruzzi behind bars, and he, along with mobsters Gavin Smallhouse (Gianni Russo), Philly Falzone (Al Sapienza), and Maggio (Rich Komenich), are very interested in finding the man, who is currently in witness protection. His testimony could land all of them in jail, and Falzone specifically threatens Abruzzi with harm to his kids if he doesn’t find Fibonacci.
Michael visits Dr. Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies), the prison doctor. Sara is the daughter of Illinois Governor “Frontier Justice” Frank Tancredi, a fact that she doesn’t like to tell many people about, because she differs with her father in their political beliefs. Michael has to go the infirmary for his regular insulin shots, because he has Type I Diabetes.
In Washington D.C., Special Agent Paul Kellerman (Paul Adelstein) and Special Agent Danny Hale (Danny McCarthy) are trying to thwart the efforts of anyone who might free Lincoln. A man named Bishop McMorrow (Chelcie Ross) has a lot of influence with the Governor and may persuade him to grant a stay of execution. They decide to visit him and “persuade” him to back off by accusing him of tax fraud. McMorrow won’t be bullied, but later in the episode, he is shot and killed in his bed.
Back at Fox River, Warden Henry Pope (Stacy Keach) asks to see Michael. He knows that Michael is a structural engineer, so he offers him three days of work a week in Pope’s office helping him build a model of the Taj Mahal made out of toothpicks. It is for his wife for their fortieth wedding anniversary, but he can’t seem to get the proper reinforcements to keep it from collapsing, and that is where Michael comes in. Michael turns down the offer at first, but a few days later, he accepts the offer when the warden threatens to throw Michael in the SHU (solitary confinement) for ninety days for fighting. The reason he was fighting was that Abruzzi got a call from Maggio that they received a picture of Fibonacci and a folded up swan. He realizes that Michael does have information about Fibonacci, and he demands that the fish tell him where the informant is. Michael will tell Abruzzi the information, but not until they are both safe outside the walls of the prison. Abruzzi takes offense to this, and he has his goons beat Michael up (he later ends up supplying Michael with his P.I. work card though.)
Back in Veronica’s office, she finds out that McMorrow has been killed, and she realizes that Michael was right when he told her that Lincoln had been set up.
Michael needs PUGNAc, an insulin blocker, because he is only pretending to be diabetic so that he can spend more time in the infirmary getting things ready for his and Lincoln’s escape. He approaches a black inmate named C-Note (Rockmond Dunbar) about supplying him with some PUGNAc.
Michael then looks for a bolt on a specific set of bleachers out in the yard. He has the serial number for this specific bolt tattooed on his forearm, and he finds it, but before he can screw it out of the bleacher, Theodore Bagwell, a.k.a. T-Bag (Robert Knepper), stops him. He is the leader of the Alliance for Purity, a white supremacist gang, and he has his submissive partner May Tag (Brian Hamman) with him. T-Bag says that a race war is around the corner, and he offers his protection. Michael turns him down, which ticks T-Bag off, forcing Michael to leave the bolt half-unscrewed.
Veronica finds Tim Giles (Keith Diamond), Lincoln’s public defender, and asks him about a man named Crab Simmons (Tab Baker), who could have cleared Lincoln’s name. Crab is a five-time felon, so it would be a waste of time. The next day, Tim visits Veronica in her office and gives her a surveillance video of the parking garage where Lincoln had allegedly killed Terrence Steadman. It was meant to be a form of closure for her. She watches it, and then she visits Lincoln in jail to ask him about it. He tells her that he never fired his gun, and that she should do some more research.
Michael goes back to finish unscrewing the bolt, but T-Bag and May Tag catch him again. T-Bag makes Michael hand over the bolt, who gives it to May Tag. Michael later goes to Abruzzi to ask him about shaking down an inmate, which he tells him he will do, as soon as Michael tells him where to find Fibonacci. Michael further frustrates Abruzzi by telling him that he will do that once they escape.
Bellick does a search of Michael and Sucre’s cell (Sucre is in the SHU for having a shank during a previous shakedown) and finds the serial numbers for the bolt (he doesn’t know what those numbers mean though yet.) The numbers are accompanied by a name: “Allen Schweitzer.” He has a fellow C.O. look up the name, but he comes up with nothing.
Michael searches for the bolt in May Tag’s bunk, when he is caught by T-Bag and May Tag again (they are everywhere…aren’t they?) He tells them that he wants T-Bag’s protection, and that he needs the bolt to protect himself. C-Note sees this and gets mad. He later shows Michael the bottle of PUGNAc, but tells him that he chose the wrong side of the race war, causing Michael to leave empty-handed.
Veronica finds Crab’s residence and runs into Crab’s mother, who tells her that Crab is dead. Back in her office, Veronica gets a call from Leticia Barris (Adina Porter), Crab Simmons’ ex-girlfriend. She meets with Leticia, who tells her that she believes that the same people who killed Crab are trying to kill Lincoln. Veronica thought that Crab had O.D.’d, but Leticia said that Crab had a bad heart and would never touch drugs. He conveniently died a week after Lincoln had killed Steadman.
Hale and Kellerman had already questioned Tim about his visit to Veronica, and now they have witnessed her meeting with Leticia. Kellerman calls a mysterious woman, who instructs him to “do what you need to do to make this go away.”
During a prison riot, another inmate fatally stabs May Tag, but Michael is able to get the bolt away from him. T-Bag assumes that Michael had done the stabbing, and he vows revenge. Michael sharpens the point of the bolt to become an Allen wrench, which is the perfect size to fit into a bolt underneath a toilet (we later see in the coming attractions that behind the toilet is a tunnel, which I assume is the escape route.)
C-Note gives Michael back his PUGNAc, because he realizes that Michael wasn’t in cahoots with the Aryan Nation. Michael takes the medicine, and Sara later administers her test. She confirms that he does have diabetes, but she is a little confused as to why he is so happy about it (Michael has a horrible poker face.)
On the way out of the infirmary, Abruzzi and his thugs grab Michael and force him to give up the location of Fibonacci by putting one of his pinkie toes into the path of some pruning shears. He refuses, and the episode ends with one of the thugs cutting off the pinkie toe.
The director of the Rush Hour movies, Brett Ratner, executive produces and directed the first hour of this show. Paul Scheuring, the writer of the 2003 Vin Diesel movie A Man Apart, created this series and wrote its first two episodes. They have constructed a show that is a little bit far-fetched, but interesting. The fact that Michael conveniently goes to the same prison as Lincoln, and that Sara is only mildly inquisitive to Michael’s diabetes problem is a little hard to believe. Also…when are they going to explain why Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows have two different last names? Are they half brothers?
The acting is great though. It’s amazing how alike Miller and Purcell look. Maybe it’s the buzz cuts, but I could actually believe that they were real brothers. Stormare always makes a great bad guy in movies, so he is giving us another good one on the small screen. Knepper plays a very creepy bad guy, and he is very effective at it too. The two love interests are good, but they don’t have a lot of time to establish their romances with their respective men yet. Callies is obviously going to fall f
or Miller, and I seriously doubt that Tunney will be seeing a wedding in the end with her fiancé.
“Prison Break” reminds me of ABC’s “Lost,” in which I like the concept, but I can’t see it going beyond a season. “Lost” proved that it could provide an ongoing plotline that will last its inaugural season, so I’ll have to have faith that this one will do it as well. This show had so many questions yet unanswered in the first two episodes, and the durability of it might be one of those questions. Welcome to the fall season!