警察与赞美诗的英文读后感

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Wang Mengmeng

Professor Li Kang

English 09110314

12 March 2012

The Cop and the Anthem

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Based on the whole text, the author's humor is present in various ways, one of

which is through irrationality during the development of plots. Soapy, the vagrant who

has stirred up trouble for six times, is eager to go to prison. But he is always out of

luck

and

get

policeman's

forgiveness.

When

Soapy

is

touched

by

the

anthem

and

wants to be a good citizen, he is arrested for groundless reasons. This way is a kind of

black

humor

manifesting

social

reality

profoundly.

We

can

see

something

gloomy,

desperate,but

simultaneously,

we

can't

help

laughing

when

reading

the

vivid

description.

Once,

Soapy

wants

to

reach

his

goal

by

molesting

a

woman,

Soapy

straightened the lady missionary’s ready

-made tie, dragged his shrinking cuffs into

the open, set his hat at a killing cant and sidled toward the young women(20).but

the

seeming

virtuous

and

quiet

woman

begin

to

seduce

him

in

reverse.

“Sure,

Mike,” she said joyfully, “if you’ll blow me to a pail of suds. I’d have spoke to you

sooner, but the cop was watching.”With the young woman playing the clinging ivy

to

his

oak

Soapy

(22).

Besides,

Soapy

steals

an

umbrella

from

a

neatly

dressed

customer, but the umbrella is ill- gotten originally.''Of course,''said the umbrella

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man''that is

—

well, you know how these mistakes occur

—

I

—if it’s your umbrella I

hope

you’ll excuse me—

I picked it up this morning in a restaurant

—

If you recognise

it as yours, why

—I hope you’ll—

''(31).So the modest and lady and gentleman turn

out to be someone that we cannot imagine, which is not rational. Nonetheless, as a

matter of fact, they just hide their dirty acts under a beautiful veil and a small sign

can

indicate

a

great

trend,

we

can

learn

that

the

so-called

noble

upper

class

goes

more serious than the two. These plots reveals awful mood of that capitalist society.

In addition, the conflict between the irrationality of Soapy's behavior and the

rationality

of

the

cop's

judgment

is

one

of

the

important

reasons

for

Soapy's

come and arrest him, but the cop reckons that a man who commits evil won't sit

and wait for arrest,

men who smash windows do not

remain to

parley

with

the

law’s minions

then he excludes Soapy. Besides, he wants to break the peace by

virtue

of

kicking

up

a

fuss

in

the

street,

identically,

the

cop

deems

that

only

college students dare to be so unbridled and boisterous''Tis one of them Yale lads

celebratin’ the goose egg they give to the Hartford College. Noisy; but no harm.

We’ve instructions to lave them be

.''(25). His abnormal conducts is determined by

his distorted mentality, which exactly reflects torture and agony both in life and

mind oft he low-class. When the poor guy intends to do good the moment he is

moved and inspired, the cop believes a vagrant will never something to do with

the quiet atmosphere around a church, the soft lamplight and the touching music.

Consequently, Soapy is caught unexpectedly.

“What are you doin’ here?” asked

the

officer.

''Nothing,''

said

Soapy(42).

''Then

come

along.''said

the

policeman(43).

''Three

months

on

the

Island.''

said

the

Magistrate

in

the

Police

Court the next morning.(44). It is the accident that mirrors confusion of truth and

falsehood, black and wright.

Needless to say,there are many ways to represent humor, they have one thing in

common--where there is humor, there is specific implication. The writing style of the

author is humorous, the disclosure of the society is deepgoing, the reflective life and

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mental distress are mirky. uses a quantity of comparison and humor to fully

display the character's wretched fate and cruelty of capitalist society.