love of life《热爱生命》的英文版读后感.docVIP

Book title: Love of life, 2010, Author: Jack London, American, 1876-1916 Background:1907 Summary: This book tells a story like this: A gold digger went to west America to look for gold. After having found lots of gold and on the way back home, the protagonist was abandoned by his friend, Bill. As winter was approaching, he traveled alone on the vast expanse of wilderness with a full bag of gold, injured leg, bleeding feet and little food. He was hunger-mad to feed himself with tasteless roots and raw small fish to survive in prairie covered with swamps, hills, streams and other wild animals. Unfortunately, as time went on, he became weaker and weaker. Suddenly, he found a sick wolf was following and licking his blood trail behind. And from then on, the two dying creatures began to hunt each other. To come back home alive, and to defeat the sick wolf, he as a human being threw away all of the gold and other worldly possessions in order to struggle forward the boats on the coast. With unbelievable perseverance and human potential, after several desperate fight, the man finally killed the wolf with teeth and drank its blood. Luckily, on the coast there were some members of a scientific expedition on the whale-ship, and the man was saved by them. Comment: Jack London is a famous American realist writer, he has also been known as the “Father of American proletarian literature.” In the short life, he left to the world a lot of valuable works, like “Call of the Wild,” “Sea Wolf” and “Martin Eden” and etc. which have become classics people familiar with. However, among his numerous works, “Love of Life” is my favorite short story. This work has brought me a lot of inspiration of life, and also has taught me a lot of life philosophy. Jack London wrote: “When life becomes tiresome and painful, death will come to coax you to sleep a deep slumber. Through his works and his own life, Jack London revealed a tragedy that a person in distress can rely on dreams to persist, but o