The book report

The book report of The Sorrows of Young Werther The hero of The Sorrows of Young Werther written by Goethe was the young man named Werther. He was sentimental and brilliant. When he was a teenager, Werther lived a trouble-free and happy life in the village. He loved nature and advocated pure human nature. But his life changed after he met Charlotte. He was deeply in love with the beautiful and kind-hearted Charlotte. However, Charlotte was engaged to Albert at that time. Werther did not want to disturb their peaceful life, so he tore himself away from his hometown and came to the city. There he became a clerk at the legation. But worldly bosses, colleagues and artificial aristocrats made him feel alienated from society. At the same time, more profound thoughts of Charlotte lead to him making up his mind to resign and return to his hometown, that small village. He began to contact with Charlotte again. Albert sensed an affair between Werther and Charlotte and grew distant from Werther. The fact that Charlotte did not belong to him added to Werther’s sorrow and grief. Charlotte gradually found herself in love with Werther. Things were getting more and more complicated. Werther’s spirit was on the edge of collapse and his inner struggle was draining himself tremendous energy. He was no longer a quick-witted and energetic man and became irritable and bad-tempered. His world-weariness and melancholy made him generate a death-wish. Perhaps only in this way could he find another way of exit in life. “This is definitely not a reckless, extreme behavior. I want to complete it with a beautiful vision, peace of mind, and firm and persistent attitude. At last, he shot himself. “There would be far less suffering among mankind, if men did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, but bore their present lot with equanimity”. When I read this sentence, I understood such a truth:”Yesterday is a history; Tomorrow is a mystery. But the most important thing for us is today. We go from the past to the present. Maybe we have a miserable past. Maybe we have a happy past. What we should cherish is today. And we often dwell on the pain of past, forgetting that the most important thing is not to remember the suffering of yesterday, but to make ourselves of today. Seize today and strive, we will not be disappointed in life, pessimistic about life, irresponsible for life. What we have will be colorful and splendid days. “I will no longer, as has ever been my habit, continue to ruminate on every petty vexation which fortune may dispense. I will enjoy the present, and the past shall be for me the past”. Werther understood their truth, but as Charlotte came into his life, he also realized that it was only the heart that made people happy. He finally chose death as the way of paying homage to love. Life is not supposed to be like this. Kinship, friendship and love, every kind of feelings from the bottoms of our heart can  enrich our life. Love is the richness and extension of life, not the reason of ending our life. To see light the love that does not belong to ourselves is to be kind to love. Life inevitably has countless ups and downs, but no hardship can make people give up the right to live. Being alive, in fact, is a kind of happiness while death can only leave more people suffering. If a teenager who should have a wonderful life has the courage to commit suicide, how can he not have the courage to live. Life is our own. To live is wonderful.