英语读书报告----《本杰明.富兰克林自传》 本杰明富兰克林读后感英文

      In today’s knowledge-exploiting world, we no longer want for things to see, hear, read or learn as our ancestors did .  Indeed, so many things are emerging everyday, but most of which just flash past, disappear, and are never remembered again. And the same can be said of books. If you enter any bookstores or libraries, you will find it more and more difficult to choose what you want to buy or read, each book on the shelves seeming to be waving towards you and trying to convince you that he is a better choice. Gradually, I incline to be a little conservative when confronting the embarrassment and hesitation on choosing books, that is to pick up a classic-only attitude. If a book can preserve itself for more than a century, t

      here must be some reasons to go through it . On the contrary, a best-seller today may have a life for no more than a decade. I don’t think someone can be more intelligent or wiser than history itself, which thus may be a better guide for what should read or whom we should listen to. Yet this may take the risk of missing the original rising of contemporary classics, I still think it deserved considering another risk of contributing my time to something worthless or even bad. Forgive me ,my dear teacher, for saying so much as irrelevant to the required “book report”. In fact, I am always swimming in books as you kindly expected. And the above feeling is just my little happy and also miserable story between me and books.

       Well, back to the theme, the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is here what I would like to reflect on, which demonstrates my principles as for choosing books -----“the older, the better”.

      Benjamin Franklin ,as we all have already known, was a most successful thinker, politician, diplomat, scientist and entrepreneur in American history. In his Autobiography, which was originally written by him to his son as an education for all his posterities, Franklin showed all of us how he emerged from poverty and obscurity to a state of affluence and reputation all over the world. He was born in a soap-boiling family and was bred a soap-boiler by his father and brother all through his childhood. Unlike his

      brothers ,sisters and most of other contemporaries, Franklin’s curiosity was not in the career his family had designed for him. In fact , like any children, he interested himself in so many things ,most in reading. Many who have read his Autobiography will say, that what separated him from any others was reading and thinking, this answer being not enough to satisfy myself . Personally, I concluded that it was his constant unsatisfaction with contemporary being and pursuit of truth that fundamentally led to his great success: It was for this reason that he made use of all his leisure time to read books of history, philosophy, literature, natural science and economics etc., and to learn by himself Fre

      nch, German, Italian, Portuguese and Latin language; it was for this reason that he escaped home to Philadelphia to make his own living before adulthood and finally set up his own printing-house; it was for this that he could list thirteen virtues as a lifelong pursuit to continually perfect himself when he was just twenty-three years old; it was for this reason that he established so many organizations such as Junto , proposed so many reforms of the city and made so many inventions which all improved people’s living standards; and most importantly, it was for this reason that he , along with such great figures as George Washington and Thomas Jerferson, led the Americans throu

      gh the Independence Revolution and laid the foundation of prosperity for America.

      Great books won’t fade away with time passing by. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin has long been a best-seller in the world’s publishing history for its over 200-year existence, during which it has influenced countless people and helped them to change their life road forever. Maybe that is where the force of classics lies, so old ,so strong…… 

                                                          Written by Yangxiaoqiang