1、1A book report consists of three main parts: (1)information about the author and his times, (10-20% of total words) (2)a summary of the book (20%-30% of total words). Usually, it is written in the present tense, (3)comments on the book. (50-70% of words)Your opinion is the most important part of the
2、 report. It may be either your immediate reaction to the book or a judgment based on further study. In either case, your opinion should be definite and clear. It should be supported with facts. You will want to comment on characterizations, plot, and recurring themes. Compare or contrast it to other
3、 books youve read. The discussion should of course center on the content of the book, but the authors writing style and techniques of presentation, if interesting, can also be touched upon.总字数：500 字以上Deadline：第一篇在第 7 周末；第二篇在第 14 周末。题目统一为: A Book Report of +书名，如： A Book Report of Thirty-Nine Steps内容的
4、三个部分可以分开写，但不要出现 1，2，3 字样。英文中没有书名号, 书名的实词首字母大写， 虚词首字母不用大写，但开头第一个单词无论实词虚词首字母都大写。英语省略号为三点。常见的表达法：简写本: simplified version/abbreviated version故事大意如下: The gist of the story is as follows主人公: leading role/ leading character/ hero/ heroine以为背景 It is set on the eve of/ It is set on the background that下面是一篇样本
5、：Comment l1: 小四，times new rome, 加粗Comment l2: 小四，times new rome, 1.5倍行距2A Book Report of The Sun Also Rises (小三，加粗，居中)姓名： 学号： 成绩：An introduction to the authorThe book is written by Ernest Miller Hemingway, who once sailed to Europe to serve as a volunteer for the Red Cross during World War. On the f
6、ront, Hemingway suffered a serious injury. This incident provided the inspiration for his novel. After returning from the war, in 1921, he became the European correspondent for the Toronto Daily Star and moved to Paris. There, Hemingway became friends with some famous prominent expatriate writers an
7、d artists living postwar Paris. Hemingways reputation began to grow both as a journalist and as an author of fiction. His novel The Sun Also Rises, published in 1926, established him as one of the preeminent writers of his day. Plot summaryThe Sun Also Rises set in Paris, it describes the lives of s
8、ome so-called Lost Generation, who once fought and worked in the World War I. After the war, they suffered great moral and psychological aimlessness.There are three main characters in the novel. Jake is an American veteran of World Warworking as a journalist in Paris, where he and his friends engage
9、 in an endless round of decadent drinking and parties. Although Jake is the most stable of his friends, he struggles with anguish over his love for Lady Brett Ashley, his impotence, and the moral vacuum that resulted from the war. In fact, Lady Brett Ashley loves Jake, but she is unwilling to commit
10、 to a relationship with him because it will mean giving up sex. One of Jakes fiends, Cohn, is quite taken with Brett, and he gets angry when Jake tells him that Brett plans to marry Mike. Brett is unwilling to commit fully to any of the men who become infatuated with her, though she has affairs with
11、 a number of them. In the end, Jake seems to have reached a more realistic appreciation of their situation as well as his own.3My CommentsBefore the novel opens, Hemingway quotes two epigraphs. The first one is “You are all the lost generation”. The other one is “The world endures, and the sun conti
12、nues to rise and set despite the inevitable passage of each human generation into death”. These two epigraphs produces an ambivalent tone. On the one hand, there is hope, because there will be a new generation after the aimless generation that populates The Sun Also Rises, On the other hand, there i
13、s bitter irony, since every generation is lost, in one sense because, each generation will eventually die. In this novel, Hemingway portrays the lives of Lost Generation, the group of men and women whose early adulthood was consumed by World War I. This horifick conflict in War, set new standers for
14、 death and immorality. It shattered many peoples beliefs in traditional values of love, faith, and manhood. Without these long-held notions to rely on, their lives become aimless.Nearly all of Jakes friends are alcoholics. Wherever they happen to be, they drink, usually to excess. Often, their drink
15、ing is a form of escaptiom. Drunkenness allow Jake and his friends to endure lives severely lacking in affection and purpose. However alcohol frequently brings out the worst in their mental and emotional turmoil.The coversations among Jake and his friends are rarely direct or hoest. Their friendship
16、 is false. They hide true feelings behind a mask of civility. Although the legacy of the war toments them all, they are unable to communicate this torment. They can talk about the war only in an excessively humours or trite fashion. The moments of honest, genuine communication generally arise only w
17、hen the characters are feeling their worst. Expressions of true affection, on the other hand, are limited almost to all of their coversations.Although Hemingway never explicitly states that Jake and his friends lives are aimless, or that this aimlessness is a result of the war. Instead, he implies t
18、hese ideas through his portrayal of the characters emotional and mental lives. These stand in stark conrast to the characters surface action. Jake and his friends constant carousing does not make them happy. Very often, their merrymaking is joyless and driven by 4alcohol. At best , it allows them no
19、t to think about their innner lives or about the war. Although they spend nearly all of their time partying in one way or another, they remain sorrowful or unfulfilled. Hence, their drinking and dancing is just a futile distraction, a purposeless activity characteristic of a wandering, aimless life.
