1、Black BeautyBlack Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she was confined to her house as an invalid. With Sewells detailed observations and extensive descriptions of horse behavior lending the novel a good deal of verisimil
2、itude. The story is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by a horse named Black Beautybeginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hard
3、ships and recounts many tales of cruelty and kindness. And at last, his hope became true. He met the stableman who had taken care of him when he was a pony, and began his happy life with this kind man. Each short chapter recounts an incident in Black Beautys life containing a lesson or moral typical
4、ly related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses. “Black Beauty“ uses offensive language, a story about a beautiful story for every time people have felt the story: animal-human nature, how we treat animals, how animals would treat us. They see who is good for him, who pay
5、 attention to him; he is reported to show a picture of the same repay you. The Black Beautys story and his personnel experience tell us that what the significance of perseverance and hope is.Treasure IslandTreasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a t
6、ale of “pirates and buried gold“.It developed from an imaginary map that Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne had devised on holiday and this goes some way towards explaining the books appeal among children. Moreover, the famous antihero Long John Silver was the invention of Stevensons friend, W
7、illiam Henley. Nonetheless, the tale is the archetypal nineteenth century ripping yarn. Our narrator is Jim Hawkins, son of a guesthouse owner on the west coast of England sometime in the eighteenth century. To the inn come firstly an old buccaneer who has a map of Captain Flints treasure, and secon
8、dly a group of pirates under the command of ominous blind man Pew. Jim Hawkins, our hero, in an act of bravery and cunning gets hold of the map before this rabid mob gets it. He delivers the map to Squire Trelawney, and together they set off for Treasure Island in the Squires schooner. The rest of t
9、he crew, apart from Dr Livesey (a friend of the squire) is a company collected by Long John Silver. The latter and his men try to mutiny and get hold of the treasure themselves but Jim intervenes and through a series of enthralling adventures we find ourselves on Treasure Island with the marooned Be
10、n Gunn and ever closer to the treasure itself. The end of the adventure was that we removed the treasure to the ship, and left the tree pirates on the island. Silver went back with us because Dr Liversery had promised to him.After reading this book, I have learned many things from Jim, like brave, r
11、esource, accommodating and so on. At the beginning of the voyage, Jim was only a waiter in the cabin. But he was able to fight with enemies, and recapture the ship from the enemies at last. Jim in this book sets a great example for us and tells us that if we also have the spirit that Jim has, many d
12、ifficult questions must be readily solved.Robinson CrusoeRobinson Crusoe is one of the worlds most popular adventure novels. Crusoe leaves England, setting sail on a sea voyage in September 1651, against the wishes of his parents, who want him to stay home and become a businessman. This journey ends
13、 in disaster as the ship is taken over by pirates, and Crusoe becomes the slave of a Moor. He manages to escape in a boat. With the help of a ship captain, Crusoe becomes owner of a plantation in Brazil. Years later, he joins an expedition to bring slaves from Africa, but is caught in a storm about
14、forty miles out to sea on an island. His companions all die. Having overcome his despair, he takes arms, tools, and other supplies from the ship before it breaks apart and sinks. He starts to build a house near a cave. He keeps a calendar by making marks in a wooden cross, hunts, grows corn, raises
15、goats, etc., using tools created from stone and wood which he harvests on the island, and even adopts a small parrot.(After a few years, he discovers native cannibals who visit the island to kill and eat prisoners at times. When a prisoner manages to escape, Crusoe helps him and keeps him as his sev
16、enth.)He names his new companion “Friday“ after the day of the week he appeared. Crusoe then teaches him English and other skills. Several months later, an English ship appears. Crusoe and the ships captain strike a deal, in which he helps the captain retake the ship from the mutineers. They leave t
17、he worst of the mutineers on the island. Crusoe leaves the island on December 19th, 1686, and arrives back in England on June 11th, 1687.The book is a really excellent adventuresome novel. Robinson was a great person, he conquered countless and unimaginable hardships. In fact, we also need the spirit of being undefeatable indefatigable like Robinson. If we believe in ourselves, never give up and do we best, we must be successful! This is the significance of the study of Robinson Crusoe.