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 other necessities. But we must know that there are many things which can’t be bought with money such as love or friendship. So in my opinion, money may be important to us, but not the most important. We need to build up the correct sense of money.
To sum up, this story is a really good work of Mark Twain. The lesson I’ve learnt from it makes me want to be an honest man sincerely and lets me not to worship money too much. I begin to regret not reading it earlier.
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王珊紅
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篇二：百萬英鎊英文觀后感
Mark Twain”s short story of "one million pounds" is a very good work. The article on the "money is everything," "money is omnipotent," the idea of a satire, to expose the ugly face of capitalist society.
"One million pounds" is about a poor, honest man, that is, the he-ro-in-e of this story has received a pair of brothers, the letter sent to him inside one million pounds. The brothers had made a bet, gambling, if a poor, honest people who come knocking on the door received the one million pounds, he will be what kind of results Brother that he would starve to death because he could not prove that the money was his own, will be subject to other people”s doubts, and even the banks do not let him save money. His younger brother that he would lead a very good, and therefore they have the brothers of one million pounds will be loaned to check the poorest people, and spent 30 days abroad. Did not expect that during this period of time, people have the rare fortune suddenly rich, has tried to cozy up to him, from the free food, buy clothes, free accommodation, like a beggar, like to please him, and continue to improve his social status until the exception of the highest outdoor Wang Duke on! Not only that, he also has been a good wife and 30,000 pounds of bank interest, and finally from two brothers got a very good job. Lived a very, very happy life.
See here, I am so envious of the "lucky" the he-ro-in-e, but at the same time I would like to: people reason to curry favor with him, not just because when people value money too it Worship of money is shameful and should not be reaping more! Money is not omnipotent, the world than money, there are many more important things … 。
馬克吐溫著的短篇小說《百萬英鎊》是一部很好的作品。文章對“金錢就是一切”“金錢是萬能的”的想法進行了諷刺，揭穿了資本主義社會的醜惡面容。
《百萬英鎊》是講一個貧窮、誠實的人，也就是這個故事的主人公收到了一對兄弟的信，信裡面送給了他一百萬英鎊。原來這對兄弟打了一個賭，賭如果一個貧窮、誠實的人收到天上掉下的一百萬英鎊，他會有怎樣 的結果？哥哥認為他會餓死，因為他無法證明這些錢是他自己的，會受到別人的懷疑，連銀行都不會讓他存錢。弟弟則認為他會過得很好，於是他們兄弟倆將一百萬英鎊的支票借給了這個貧窮的人，並出國呆了三十天。沒想到在這段時間內，人們對這位突然暴富的罕見富翁，竟拚命地拉攏他，從免費吃飯，買衣服，到免費住宿，一個個像乞丐一樣討好他，並不斷提高他的社會地位，一直到了除王室外最高的公爵之上！不光如此，他還得到了一位好妻子和三萬英鎊的銀行利息，最後還從兩兄弟那兒得到了一份很好的工作。過着非常非常幸福 的生活 。
看到這兒，我很羨慕這位如此“幸運”的主人公，但同時我又想：人們之所以討好他，不就是因為當時人們太看重金錢了嗎？拜金主義是可恥的，不勞而獲更不應該！金錢不是萬能的，世界上還有許多比金錢更重要的東西……
拓展閱讀：百萬英鎊英文梗概介紹
This novel is called "The Million Pound Banknote" written by Mark Twain. Through humorous and sarcastic language, Mark Twain successfully depicted a fortuitous adventure of Henry Adams, a poor American lad in London. Two rich men in London had a bet on him and wanted to see what would become of him a month later if they gave him a million pound banknote which couldn”t be cashed. A month later, Henry wasn”t starved nor arrested, but became a millionaire. What”s more, he even won the love of a pretty lady. This is a brief introduction to the story.