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百万英镑英文观后感
篇一：
The Million Pound Note
This time I want to talk
about a very famous short story written by Mark
Twain---------
“The
Million
Pound
Note”.
Referring
to
Mark
Twain,
you
must
feel
familiar,
because
we
must
have
read
his
works
before.
I
still
remember
the
article
“
The
Bite
Events
on
the
Train”
in
our
textbook
when
I’m
in
the
middle
school.
What touched me most at that time were
his ironic words. Yes, he is a great
humorist,
novelist, writer
and
orator in America
in
nineteenth century.
During
his 40 years’ writing career, he
created dozens of short or long
stories.
This story tells about a poor but
honest American Adam Henry. When he was
wandering in the street of London, he
was given by two billionaires a letter,
in which he surprisedly found a
￡
1,000,000 pound bank-note.
Later he got to
know
that
the
two
billionaires
who
were
brothers
had
made
a
bet
about
the
results
after
he
got
a
one
million-
pound
note
at
once.
One
of
them
thought
the
note
wound
count
for
nothing to
the poor man
because
he could not
prove
that the money
was
his own while the other considered just
as the opposite.
Dramatically, the plot went just out of
my expectation. Herry went to a
restaurant to have dinner first. The
manager was mean to him at the beginning
but
his
attitude
changed
quickly
when
Herry
took
out
the
note
and
asked
for
change.
Faced
with
a
millionaire,
the
manager
apologized
again
and
again
and
obsequiously
told
Herry
that
he didn’t need to
pay for
the bill
right now. So
Herry
managed
to have a free
dinner. Then similarly, Herry went to a clothing
shop and got
a suit of clothes costing
him nothing.
Like the plot
above, people are curious of such a rich man and
tried every
means to cozy up to him,
from free food
，
free clothes
to free accommodation.
At the same
time, his social status was becoming higher and
higher and finally
higher
than
most
dukes.
Apart
from
that,
he
later
got
a
beautiful
wife
and
200,000
pounds of bank interest. I can imagine
a bright future was waiting for him.
The writing style of this story is so
humorous. Mark Twain used hyperbole
describing
how
our
hero
defeated
snobbishness
repeatedly.
What
I
appreciate
most
is the detailed
description of different people’s ridiculous
actions before
one
million
pounds,
vivid,
funny,
ironic
and
humorous,
which
forms
a
Caricature.
In
terms of the theme, it is apparent that the author
wanted to denounce
the overflowing
mammonism in the society. Even now it gives us an
impressive
lesson.
Yes,
I
cannot
deny
the
importance
of
money
to
a
person
who
wants
to
survive.
We
won’t live without money, with which we get food,
clothes, house and
many