Junior high school is the first step for students to enter adulthood. Everyone's reading amount is accumulated bit by bit in daily life. Second grade students can choose "Liberation War", "Water Margin" and other famous works to accumulate their reading ability. Let's take a look with me. What book list is there for everyone’s reference?
What are the recommended reading lists for junior high school students
First semester
1. "Teahouse" (Lao She)
2. "Zuo Zongtang" (Xu Zhipin)
3. "The War of Liberation" (Wang Shuzeng)
4. "Walden" (Thoreau)
5. "The Old Man and the Sea" (Hemingway)
6. "Les Miserables" (Hugo)
7. "O. Henry's Short Stories" (O. Henry) < /p>
8. "How Steel Was Tempered" (Ostrovsky)
Second Semester
1. "Water Margin" (Ostrovsky) Naian)
2. "Wang Yangming, the First Brother of the Ming Dynasty" (Lu Zheng)
3. "Lunar Calendar" (Guo Wenbin)
4. "1911" (Wang Shuzeng)
5. "China in Liangzhuang" (Liang Hong)
6. "Hunting the Chinese Dragon" (Jiang Yong)
7. Shakespeare's four major tragedies "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear", "Macbeth" (Shakespeare)
8. "Jane Eyre" (Charlotte Bronte)
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9. "The Gadfly" (Egel Lillian Voynich)
10. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (Hugo) What story does the old man and the sea tell
This novel is based on the real experience of a Cuban fisherman. It records the whole process of old man Santiago's fishing with a camera-like realistic approach, creating a story of a man who remains elegant under heavy pressure. The image of an old man with grace and spirit who can never be defeated. This novel set an unprecedented record in the history of human publishing: 5.3 million copies were sold in 48 hours! The work won the Pulitzer Prize that year and the Nobel Prize two years later.
The sea and sharks in the novel symbolize the social and natural forces that oppose people, and the old man showed unparalleled strength and courage in his desperate struggle without losing human dignity. Defeat is glorious, but you are not defeated mentally. It can be said that such an image perfectly embodies the author's thought of "You can eliminate him as much as you can, but you can't defeat him." Introduction to "How the Steel Was Tempered"
"How the Steel Was Tempered" is an epic heroic biographical novel that portrays Paul Korchagin's noble personality of persistence and perseverance. Its image transcends time and space, transcends national boundaries, has a worldwide impact, and shakes the heartstrings of generations. In the former Soviet Union alone, this work was printed more than 600 times in 61 languages, with a total of more than 30 million copies.
Ostrovsky (1904～1936). Full name Nikolay Alexeyevich Ostrovsky, Soviet writer. Born into a poor peasant family in the Ukrainian village of Verya, he began working as a child laborer at the age of 11.
Due to his long-term participation in the arduous struggle, Ostrovsky's health was seriously damaged. In 1929, he became paralyzed and blinded. In 1930, he used his own combat experience as material and began to write the novel "How Steel Was Tempered" with his tenacious will. The novel was a huge success and received sincere and enthusiastic praise from its contemporaries. In 1934, Ostrovsky was admitted as a member of the Soviet Union of Writers. At the end of 1935, the Soviet government awarded him the Order of Lenin. In recognition of his creative work and outstanding contributions in literature. On December 22, 1936, Ostrovsky died in Moscow due to a recurrence of serious illness.