reading report (the secret garden)秘密花园 英语读后感

The Secret Garden

Plot

?

In

each

case,

the

heroine

of

your

book

finds

herself

in

unfamiliar

surroundings.

Describe the circumstances in which she arrived there.

Mary i

s sent to her uncle’s

manor with many gardens. The Misselthwaite Manor is so

large that there is two miles of avenue to pass through a long dark vault. Passing through

the vault, there is an immensely long but low-built house on a clear space. The room where

Mary lives is curious and gloomy. The walls are covered with tapestry with a forest scene

embroidered on it. Out of a deep window she can see a great climbing stretch of land which

seems to have no trees on it and to look rather like an endless, dull sea. There are many

gardens in the Misselthwaite Manor. But Mary cannot help thinking about the Garden which

no one has been into for ten years. In order to find the Garden, she goes to many different

gardens. The first garden which she goes to is a great garden with wide lawns, with tree,

with an old gray fountain; the second garden is a kitchen garden where the vegetable and

fruit growing……until she f

inds a garden whose door cannot open, she thinks she finds the

Secret Garden. The Garden is still and almost nothing on it. All the ground is covered with

grass of a wintry brown and out of it grew clumps of bushes which Mary thinks are surely

rosebushes if they were alive. Mary decides to change the lifeless Garden with her efforts.

Finally, she succeeds and also changes herself and other people.

?

Choose your three favorite chapters and write a summary of them.

Which chapter is impressed me firstly is in the chapter of There Is No one Left (Chapter

1). Because of the cholera, her parents and servants are died and the few native servants

who

have

not

died

also

have

left

the

house

as

quickly

as

they

can.

None

of

them

even

remembers

that

there

is

a

Mary

left.

When

I

see

Mary

is

left

lonely,

I

feel

so

sad

and

sorrowful.

Poor

little

kid! Even

if

Mary

is

a

tyrannical,

selfish

and

bad- tempered

girl,

she

cannot have had this tragic result. I admit she is queer and odd but this is mostly due to her

parents and the circumstance where she has lived. If her parents love and care about her so

much and always accompany her in her childhood, maybe she will have a happy childhood

and healthy personality. In a word, she just is a lonely and love-short girl.

Second chapter impressed me is

the chapter of “Might I Have a bit of Earth?”

(Chapter

10).Why I like this chapter because I see the huge change of Mary in this chapter. What is

the impression that Mary gives me most is a yellow- face, thin-body and selfish, tyrannical

and

bad-tempered

girl.

When

his

uncle,

Mr.

Craven

asks

her

what

she

wanted,

Mary’

s

answer

is

beyond

my

expectence.

She

just

wants

a

bit

of

earth,

not

toys,

dolls

or

other

things.

This

is

the

answer

which

Mary

who

I

know

will

never

give.

I

feel

Mary

is

unconsciously changing. What makes her change? The Secret Garden does, or in another

word, the nature does. All these changes are owing to the “magic” of

the Secret Garden, or

of the nature. What

’s more, Mary’s uncle, Mr. Craven, is first to appear on the scene

. I have

a good impression on him: an ugly appearance but a kind heart.

Third

Second

chapter

impressed

me

is

the

chapter

of

“I

Shall

Live

Forever

----

and

Ever----and Ever

！

”

(Chapter 18). Collin looks forward to go the Secret Garden and in this

chapter, his dream comes true. When Mary brings Collin outside, he sees the arch of it looks

very

high

and

the

small

snowy

clouds

seem

like

white

birds

floating

on

outspread

wings

below its crystal blueness. The wind sweeps in soft big breaths down from the moor and is

strange with a wild clear scented sweetness. How beautiful and charming the

Garden is.

Collin opens his eyes wild and is absorbed by the beautiful scenery, even me ----- I cannot

help imaging

the “magic”

G

arden. The “magic”

Garden gives Collin energy and hopes and

makes him crying

out, “I shall get well! I shall get well! And I shall live for

ever and ever and

ever”. From this, I s

ee a boy who is healthy, happy and optimistic and totally different from

what he is before.

Characters

?

Describe

the

heroine

of

your

book.

What

is

she

like

in

terms

of

personality/appearance? Does she change in the course of the story, and if so, how?

Give two examples of her actions that reveal her character.

Mary is the heroine of the book. She is born in a wealthy family, but her parents do

n’t