Three 2000-word sample essays after reading

2000-word essay sample 1

"Notre Dame de Paris" is the masterpiece of the famous French writer Hugo in the 19th century. The novel describes the bizarre life in Paris in the 15th century. The author uses contrasting techniques to depict a group of characters with distinctive, vivid and artistic appeal, and analyzes the rich and complex world of human nature through their intricate conflicts, entanglements and tragic fates.

The first set of characters is the gypsy girl Esmeralda and the bell ringer Quasimodo. The 16-year-old Esmeralda was stunningly beautiful, innocent and kind, and could sing and dance well. However, in the society at that time, such a flower-like life was sadly destroyed by the ultra-conservative and decadent church forces. The 20-year-old Quasimodo was extremely ugly and severely disabled. As soon as he came into the world, he was abandoned first by his relatives and then by the entire society. However, despite his ugly appearance, he has a beautiful and pure heart. He protects Esmeralda with his pure and unadulterated love, trying to keep her away from all harm. But in the face of powerful social prejudice and evil forces, the power of an individual is really insignificant. In the end, the powerful Quasimodo had no choice but to choose the tragic ending of favoritism. These two protagonists have unfortunate life experiences that are intertwined. The huge contrast in appearance cannot conceal their pure and kind nature. Under the illumination of their perfect and beautiful nature, other characters in the novel are exposed. of despicable nature.

Frollo, the deputy bishop of Notre Dame, also fell in love with the beautiful Esmeralda, but his love with Quasimodo was very different. Frollo was cloaked in the sanctity of a clergyman. The halo is sanctimonious, but in the heart he is unable to extricate himself due to conflicts, until his soul is twisted and filled with evil desire for destruction, which ultimately destroys Esmeralda and himself. Hugo profoundly analyzed the dark and twisted soul of this character with a compassionate attitude. The other two featured characters are Captain Phoebus, who has a gorgeous appearance but is a mess on the inside. He is a rough and shallow playboy who plays with the infatuated Esmeralda in extremely bad ways; The other person is the down-and-out poet Glangouo, a guy who lives in the cracks and can abandon love, dignity, and responsibility in order to survive. The author's description of these two characters is also full of contempt and ridicule.

This novel not only reveals the nature of the dark society at that time from a humanitarian perspective, but also tells us many profound principles of life: First of all, a person's appearance does not determine everything. It is the heart that plays a more important role than the appearance. People should not pursue appearance beauty too much. Purity and sincerity of the soul is what we need to have in our life. Similarly, measuring a person must also start from his inner qualities and cannot judge people by their appearance. Because beneath the ugly appearance, there may be a fiery and innocent heart; beneath the handsome and beautiful face, there may be a dirty, shameful, despicable and twisted human heart. The characters in the novel have vividly demonstrated this. Their results are also a warning to us. Secondly, when people live in the world, they must have positive life ideals and goals. They must not drift with the crowd and waste away. At any moment, they must have personal dignity and be able to clarify their own tasks. Don't let your responsible mind be polluted by indulging yourself. Finally, we must learn to cherish the feelings between people: family, friendship, love? Respect everyone around us, and don't regret it after these highlights that make life wonderful pass away. These characters in the story all show us thought-provoking negative and tragic consequences.

Finally, Hugo’s magnificent description of the scenes, his meticulous description of the characters, his exquisite metaphors, wonderful descriptions, and capture of details all add a lot to the novel and make others happy after reading it. These techniques can also be used for reference in our daily writing to make the article more exciting!

In the French literary world with bright stars in the 19th century, Victor Hugo can be said to be the brightest one. star. He was a great poet, a well-known playwright, a novelist, and the standard-bearer and leader of the French Romantic literary movement.

This great work "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is his first romantic novel that caused a sensation. Its literary value and profound social significance make it still popular after nearly two centuries. Today it has been reprinted and reprinted over and over again, and thus came into my hands.

While I was reading this book, I felt a strong contrast between beauty and ugliness. The characters and events in the book, even if they originate from real life, have been greatly exaggerated and intensified. Under the author's strong colors, they form a gorgeous and strange picture, forming a sharp, even incredible, story of kindness and kindness. The contrast between evil, beauty and ugliness.

The plot of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" always revolves around three people: the kind and beautiful girl Esmeralda, the cruel and hypocritical deputy bishop of Notre Dame Claude Frollo and the ugly but noble heart. Quasimodo the Bell Ringer.

Bohemian girl Esmeralda is the darling of the homeless in Paris and makes a living by performing on the streets. She is innocent, compassionate and willing to help people. Because she couldn't bear to see an innocent man being executed, she accepted the poet Gringoire as her nominal husband to save his life; when she saw Quasimodo being whipped under the scorching sun, only she would sympathize with him and bring him water. to the lips of the bell-ringer who cries out of thirst. Such a noble-hearted girl was slandered as a "witch" and a "murderer" by the church and the court, and was sentenced to hanging. The author portrays this character as the embodiment of beauty and kindness, completely unifying her inner beauty with her external beauty, so as to arouse readers' infinite sympathy for her, and thus generate strong resentment against the feudal church and royal power.

As for the Archdeacon Claude and the bell-ringer Quasimodo, these are two completely opposite images. On the surface, Claude is sanctimonious and lives a life of austere and ascetic practice, but in his heart he longs for sexual pleasure and is full of envy of worldly enjoyments. Selfish, insidious, and unscrupulous. And Quasimodo, this hunchbacked, one-eyed, deaf and lame deformed man, has been discriminated against and bullied by the world since he was a child. It was with Esmeralda that he experienced the warmth of people's hearts for the first time. This weirdo with a vulgar and savage appearance has since then placed all his life and passion on Esmeralda, and can go through fire and water for her. Sacrificing everything for her happiness.

This extreme contrast between beauty and ugliness, the absolute opposition between nobility and evil, gives the novel a shocking power that can sweep away all our thoughts and emotions. This may be the charm of romantic novels.

In "Notre Dame de Paris", the author describes the lowest class people, vagrants and beggars in Paris with great sympathy. They were ragged and rough in their manners, but possessed virtues far superior to those of the so-called educated and civilized world. The virtues of mutual help and friendship, integrity, courage and self-sacrifice. In the novel, the scene in which the homeless people of Paris attack Notre Dame to save Esmeralda is tragic, fierce, generous, and thrilling. It is obviously integrated to a certain extent with the heroic spirit displayed by the Paris people in the July Revolution and the destruction of Saint-Germain by the Paris people. Events at the cathedral of Mann and the Archbishop's Palace of Paris. At this point in the novel, the characters also predict that the people will rise up and destroy the Bastille, hinting at the outbreak of the Great Revolution in 1789.

2000-word sample essay 2

I probably heard about the world famous book "Les Miserables" when I was in middle school, but I haven't read it for many years. The main reason is that I don't like reading it. The descriptions, narrations and discussions in foreign novels are too long-winded and boring, and they hardly resemble novels.

What prompted me to read this masterpiece this time was the many people and events I have heard and witnessed over the past thirty years.

This masterpiece shows us a relatively comprehensive picture of the miserable life of the people at the bottom of France more than 100 years ago. It is tear-jerking and thought-provoking.

The protagonist Jean Valjean is a hard-working and poor honest man. He stole a piece of bread because he could not bear the hunger of his nephew and niece, and was sentenced to 5 years in prison. He escaped from prison many times and his sentence was increased to 19 years. The long-term persecution in prison gave him the idea of ??revenge against society.

After he was released from prison, he stole the silverware of Bishop Miriam who kindly stayed with him, and also took a child's money. Not only did the bishop not report him, but he also gave him a pair of silver candlesticks and advised him to repay evil with kindness and give generously to others.

Under the teachings of the bishop, Jean Valjean’s kindness after being tortured for many years sprouted and he was reborn. After wandering to a city, he made a fortune and built a factory because of his innovation in a technology. After getting rich, he devoted himself to helping the poor. He was widely praised and promoted to mayor. Fantine, the mother of a poor little girl Cosette, was forced to become a prostitute because she lost her job and could not afford to raise her child. She also received selfless help from Jean Valjean. However, the good times did not last long. He was finally found guilty of stealing the bishop's silverware and seizing money from children, and was arrested and imprisoned again. Of course, the result was that the poor people he helped began to live miserable lives again.

Hugo, the author of this book, believes that this is caused by the abominable law.

He said in the preface of this book: As long as social oppression caused by laws and customs still exists, Hugo believed that the cause of social misery is the oppression of laws and customs, even if it is just The enforcers of law and justice are also the cause of social misery. Hugo tried to tell us in the book: If the great philanthropist Mayor Jean Valjean had not been arrested for a little theft, this society would be different? Just laws while safeguarding the interests of a few people have created greater misery . We have to say that this understanding makes sense to a certain extent, but we also have to say that this is a limitation of the author's understanding.

Hugo was a man who pursued freedom and praised revolution. He also believed that the lack of freedom and equality was also the cause of social misery. He has a bit of romantic fantasy, and he optimistically believes that if society gives people freedom and equality, coupled with charity, then this society will be very beautiful and no longer miserable. We must also say that this is also a limitation of the author.

In fact, what causes social misery is not the law, not bad customs, or the lack of freedom and equality, but the economic system. The root cause is the economic system and has little to do with politics.

Whether it is miserable or not is an economic matter. The reasons for economic matters should be found in the economic system, not in politics. Zhang San is sick, so don't treat Li Si.

The economic system is divided into two types: private ownership and public ownership. Private ownership is the fundamental system of private ownership society, and public ownership is the fundamental system of public ownership society.

Private ownership is precisely the fundamental cause of the misery of private ownership society. As long as this system exists, the society will be a miserable society and the world will be a miserable world, regardless of whether a democratic revolution occurs or not; as long as this fundamental reason exists If it is not eliminated, the world will remain miserable forever, regardless of whether the people are free and equal. In the autocratic society 2000 years ago, private ownership existed, so it was a miserable world before 2000. It was not just France more than 100 years ago that was a miserable world; in Denmark more than 100 years ago, private ownership existed, so there were match sellers. The little girl? It’s not just that Cosette in France was a poor little girl more than 100 years ago; today? A thousand years later, if private ownership still exists, the world will still be miserable, and exactly the same thing will still happen, with some Without democracy, it does not matter whether there is freedom and equality.

Hugo also said in the preface of this book: Poverty makes men depressed, hunger makes women degraded, and darkness makes children weak. ?Is this sentence correct? Of course it is.

If young Jean Valjean had not been poor, he would not have stolen bread. However, Hugo did not delve deeper into this sentence. What causes poverty, hunger and darkness? How to eliminate poverty, hunger and darkness? He did not delve into it. Or did he dig deeper and get the wrong answer? He believed that freedom, equality and charity could eliminate poverty, hunger and darkness.

He didn’t know that it was private ownership that caused poverty, hunger, and darkness. If private ownership is not eliminated, poverty, hunger, and darkness will exist forever, and tragic stories will repeat themselves over and over again. .

In private ownership, it is certainly possible to put forward the slogan of freedom and equality, and freedom and equality can certainly be made in a decent way. However, freedom and equality without public ownership is a tree without roots and a castle in the air. Empty.

In private ownership, after the democratic revolution, although the autocratic hierarchy was abolished, and although there are no hierarchy or various restrictions stipulated by law, freedom and equality are limited by money. Every penny is worth a penny. Freedom and equality, if you have two cents, you have two cents of freedom and equality. Can poor people enter a five-star hotel? Although the law allows it, poor people still cannot enter. Although under the hierarchical system, the law does not allow the lower class to enter. This system is abominable. However, after the democratic revolution, the hierarchical system was abolished and the poor are still unable to enter. Isn’t this kind of freedom and equality empty and slogan-like? In private ownership A democratic revolution can certainly abolish unreasonable laws, but it cannot abolish the money of the rich.

Can charity change the miserable world? Hugo said in the book: "The fraternity of the upper class of society can never match the poverty of the lower classes." This means that charity from the government is a drop in the bucket and of no avail. What about charity from the private sector? Hugo admired Jean Valjean's charitable behavior. It seems that he thought it was okay. Maybe he thought that if all capitalists could be as charitable as Jean Valjean, then the society would be beautiful. Can this actually be the case?

Don’t say that not all capitalists have good intentions. Even if they all have good intentions, they still can’t do it.

Private ownership for thousands of years has always had an unknown hidden rule in the distribution of wealth. This hidden rule is: workers are not allowed to be rich. Why? Because knowledgeable people believe that if workers are paid so much that one year's wages cannot be spent in two years, and they can earn enough in one lifetime to spend in two lifetimes, then workers will lose the motivation to work and they may go to work. Tourism, self-cultivation, etc. Then no one will create wealth, and capitalists will not be able to recruit workers. This is very scary.

Therefore, workers can only be given extremely low wages, so that they can only support their families. They have to earn money after spending it, and they can only work continuously. Everyone knows that those who release ospreys do not give the ospreys enough to eat. The ospreys will stop catching fish after they are full. Does the osprey think so too? Of course, it is absolutely impossible for the person who releases the osprey to consider the issue from the osprey's point of view. Therefore, some people simply shouted blatantly: "The differentiation between rich and poor is conducive to social development. An olive-shaped social structure is the best."

Therefore, a private ownership society does not allow everyone to be rich, nor does it allow people to be equal in economic status. In other words, the poverty and misery of some people are due to knowledgeable people or this private ownership society. What has been planned long ago must exist. As mentioned at the beginning of this article, Jean Valjean is a hard-working but poor man. Why is he said to be hard-working but poor? For more than 30 years, we have been taught that hard work leads to wealth. Logically speaking, hard work cannot be linked to poverty. It should be Only eating, drinking, whoring, gambling, idleness and poverty can be linked. However, the fact we see is that the majority of hard-working workers and farmers are poor. Why? It is the Osprey principle. In this way, can we still expect private property to eliminate misery? It does not save as much misery as it creates.

Looking at it today, although this masterpiece has some limitations, it still has great significance for progress. It uses realism to depict to us the miserable lives of the people at the bottom and actively explores solutions. Its realism alone and its description of the miserable lives of the people at the bottom are enough for many authors to learn from. We have all read many novels, and watched many dramas and movies, but we have rarely seen those that focus on the people at the bottom and reflect the tragic lives of the people at the bottom. I know that I only read a few books more than 30 years ago. Are they the Four Great Classics? No. Especially now, there are a lot of romance, fantasy, weird, comedy, and fighting movies, but there is nothing like this. The authors have no sense of social responsibility, they all just want to make money and get rich, and they always cater to vulgar tastes.

The people at the bottom constitute the majority, so why are there no books written about their reality? Authors please be more realistic, less romantic, and have a sense of social responsibility. Of course, failure to publish may also be a reason.

2000-word sample essay 3

Everyone knows that Mr. Gorky’s autobiography trilogy is world-renowned, and one of them, "Childhood", is even more of a masterpiece. , I just finished reading it some time ago and I was deeply impressed. The full text highly summarizes Mr. Gorky's childhood life. During the reign of the Tsar, a poor child, Amusa, lost his father at a very young age, and then his mother, his only relative. His grandfather also fell into financial difficulties, but he still embraced him. The rough and miserable life of a heart that seeks knowledge is touching!

After seeing the last sentence, I put down the book. My mood was so complicated. Why is a poor child's childhood so sad? Why? There was no trace of laughter in his childhood, just full of hatred and anger? Was the Soviet society really that dark at that time? However, I know that all of this is the result of the dark political struggle in capitalist society! It was a society of the jungle, A society in darkness, a society in which the working people at the bottom of the country can never stand up! This is Mr. Gorky’s criticism, and this is a wonderful way of seeing the big from the small! A society that is so dark that it can make people bad must not make us afraid, I feel even more that the brightness of the socialist system is what allows us to live such a happy life. It is a symbol of justice and peace. It is the rising sun that illuminates the land of China and warms people’s long-frozen hearts. Realizing that a happy life is hard-won, should we study hard and cherish it?

"Childhood" is the first part of the autobiographical trilogy of Russian writer Gorky, and is known as one of the best autobiographical novels in Russia. . "Childhood" was written in 1931. It shows readers Gorky's childhood life at his grandfather's house and records Gorky's mental journey under the rule of the Tsar. The book has successfully created several characters, especially the role of the grandmother. She is called "one of the most distinctive and poetic images in the history of Russian literature." The novel truly describes the face of Russian society from the 1870s to the 1990s, showing a suffocating life full of cruelty, barbarism, ignorance, and filth. When reading "Childhood", we can truly understand the corruption and ugliness of the Tsarist autocratic system, the servility and numbness of the people who are in the dark and unaware of it, and the suffering process of the younger generation resisting darkness and slavery and pursuing freedom and light.

The painful childhood life of the protagonist Alyosha moved me: he lost his father at the age of four, and followed his grief-stricken mother and kind grandmother to the house of his grandfather, the boss of Xiaoranfang who was on the verge of bankruptcy, but he was often attacked. A beating from my violent grandfather. But his kind grandmother protected him everywhere. At his grandfather's house, he met many "quiet" relatives, including two selfish, greedy uncles Mihailo and Yakov who were desperate to separate the family, and two others named Sara. cousin. The simple and loving little Gypsy (Ivan) always used his arm to block the whip his grandfather hit on Alyosha, even though he would be red and swollen from the whip. But he was so strong that he was crushed to death while helping his second uncle Yakov carry the cross.

Alyosha spent his childhood in a typical Russian philistine family: greedy, cruel, and ignorant; intrigues between father and son, brothers, and husband and wife; often quarreling over trivial matters over property, Fighting? But in this dark family, there is a hardworking, strong and kind grandmother. She often told Alyosha pleasant fairy tales, and subtly taught him to be a person who did not want to surrender to ugly phenomena.

Alyosha’s childhood was dark, just like his family. There were too many cruel things happening around him, and sometimes even he himself couldn't believe that such a thing could happen. But fortunately, I have my grandmother, the spiritual support of the whole family. Alyosha also knew many other people: several tenants after moving into the new house, the third young master next door, and so on. Alyosha vaguely understood some truths from some "strange" actions of his family.

Compared with Alyosha, our childhood was brilliant and colorful; it had no worries and pains, and it was even more carefree. There are so many children who don’t even know what “beating” is because we have never experienced what it feels like to be beaten or whipped with a whip. That may be an unimaginable pain. Of course, in addition to this, there are very few greedy and vicious things in our lives such as intrigues between family members and fights over property. There will be no unthinkable "horror incidents" such as cruelly torturing an innocent person to death for no reason.

Oh my god, in comparison, our childhood is very different from Alyosha's. We live in a honeypot every day, soaked in sweet water and piled with golden money? How happy we are! We never have to think about food, clothing, housing and transportation. It is enough for adults to worry about it, and it is not our turn.

But with these, we are not satisfied. We always want more. Because, in our eyes, it is so easy for adults to make money, it seems effortless. How naive we are. Indeed, we don’t have to be like Alyosha who went to the world alone at the age of eleven. But after reading "Childhood", we should regret the luxury we once had, we should no longer waste it, and we should learn to cherish it.

There is a section in "Childhood" that I like. It is about a chemist? Good things?. When the young protagonist has not been completely absorbed by the old culture, he has a relationship with a chemist. It is clear that strange people teach friends. This will definitely make Amusa's grandfather beat him up again. This is simply because in the society at that time, not serving the Tsar meant doing nothing and was evil. I believe that this It will make many people laugh, but more importantly, they are thinking, was the social truth at that time so difficult to accept? Maybe there were too many such things, and many scientists sacrificed their lives for this, but the wise Mr. Gorky His brief friendship showed both joy and regret. This also let me know that the existence of darkness is based on people's innocence and ignorance, and whether people should take the initiative to learn. You should know that people with knowledge are smart people, and only people like Zhe can uphold justice. and the truth!

"Childhood" is a good book, a novel that reveals the truth. I have thought about writing my own "Childhood". Even if I can't, I will treasure this book forever. The book is worth cherishing because of its wonderful writing techniques, simple language, and profound meaning!