梁晓凤 《格列佛游记》 读后感

​Gulliver's Travels

As we all know, reading gives us an alternative view of life, different opinions and sometimes different perspectives on what we have been led to believe. Today I am going to share my understanding of Gulliver's Travels with you. Gulliver's Travels was written by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift. It tells us that Gulliver respectively ever had four voyages to Lilliput, Floating cities and islands, Brobdingnag and the Land of the Houyhnhnms. After my reading, I am deeply impressed by Gulliver's wisdom, courage and spirit of adventure. He is an unusual man and cannot contain the adventure impulse in his heart when sees the sea, and I am given many excitements by him. It seems like I am the hero who loves travelling and adventure.

What impressed me most is the first and second voyages. During his first voyage, Gulliver was washed ashore after a heavy shipwreck. What's more, he was surprised to find that he became a prisoner of inhabitants of the island country of Lilliput who are shorter than 6 inches. In the second voyage, Gulliver was abandoned by his companions and was left on a peninsula on the western coast of the North American continent. It was unbelievable that grasses of the land there were as tall as the trees, and finally a 22-meter-tall farmer found him in the grassland. How amazing is was!

As far as I concerned, Jonathan Swift used his marvelous imagination to show us a wonderful and vivid adventure of Gulliver. The adventures not only show us a different life and culture that we have never experienced, but also describe Gulliver’s integrity, braveness and fearlessness. Besides, this book is both a satire on human nature and a literary genre of "traveler's stories". Jonathan said that the purpose of writing the book Gulliver's Travels is to vex the world rather than divert it. In my opinion, our society need more ambitious people like Jonathan who will encourage us to make the world better with our continuous efforts.