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And The Sea

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The Old Man And The Sea is so concise and comprehensive,which say an old Cuban fisherman who has gone for 84 days without taking a fish.Finally found a salmon weight more than 1500 pounds at the 85th day, the big fish finally exhausted floating on the surface of the water and killed by him after the fight for three days and three nights.But on his way to home, the come across sharks as much might and many weapons as he can summon, but only to find a giant skeleton of his marlin left after his desperate defense. At last, Santiago, having lost what he fought for, reached the shore and struggles to his shack.

This is not only a profound classic tragedy novel,but also a heroic symphony. Hemingway said: "I was trying to describe a real old man, a real child, the real sea, a genuine fish and a lot of genuine shark. However, if I can write realistic enough, they can also represent a lot of other things." The story about Santiago is a man of bad luck who didn't catch fish for 84 days, while other fisherman regarded him as a failure.But it seemed to herald the beginning of a battle, and sure enough, on the 85th day, he really found a 1500 - pound salmon whose strength is stronger than him,but he is determined to fight to the end. He said to the fish: "I shall get to you!" And succeeded in the end. After the old man worked so hard to get the fish, challenge was not over yet. Fish is so big and long, he had to put the fish in the side of the ship.,when he turn back, the big fish ’s smell of blood drew the shark ’s attacks again and again.So he used up all means to fight back. Harpoon was taken away by sharks, he tied the knife on the oar disorderly. The knife is broken, he used short stick. Short stick is lost, he used rudder to fight back.Although fish are bitten, but nothing can wrecked his brave willpower.God seemed to be not pity for such a great man, and fell bad luck again and again to the old man,.Finally ,his perseverance and eventually failed to get good results, and only fish head fish and a spine left when came back to the harbor.

Why didn't Hemingway make the old man win in the end to reflect the hero’s great? The old man's story is not only a symbol of the relationship between human and nature, but also a symbol of the whole human spirit indestructible. In reality,

though he was fail, but in spirit, he was a winner, his tenacious fight spirit showing the nobility and dignity of the people. See all the life, even more successful people ,who hasn't experienced a failure? The cause of the failure can vary, but the failure is always let you unbearable. Went to sea again, you will have the hope of victory. I think, this kind of dangerous life environment and the tenacity of life attitude is the reason that this work is more and more attractive.

Life is an endless pursuit, in the story the old man said, "but man is not born for defeat, a man can be destroyed, but not defeated." This sentence reminds me of the destiny symphony of Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven once said: "I can be destroyed, but I can't conquer." They illustrate the meaning of hero, the meaning of life. And in this paper, the words also point out the ideas of the article,people must face the failure bravely. From this aspect, this book is not a fable but a realistic work.It is the value of the person's life is more important than victory in the novel. the old man who dared to challenge the limit, beyond time and time again.we have to admire, he brings to human a kind of self-confidence and a strong spiritual power. I extremely admire in the novel the senior fisherman's will, he let me understand one person certainly must have relentless spirit, only then could obtain successfully. the novel description is one year near sixty years of age senior fisherman, when alone goes to sea in one fishing, fished one big fish, actually did not pull. the senior fisherman socialized several days after the fish, only then discovered this was the big marlin which one surpassed the oneself fishing boat several fold, although knew perfectly well very difficult to win, but still did not give up. afterwards and further because in the big marlin wound fish fishy smell brought in several crowds of shark fish snatches the food, but the old person still did not hope like this to give up, finally highlighted encircles tightly, returned to the big fish belt the fishing port, lets other fishermen not admire already.

when I read " the senior fisherman think: here to the seacoast really was too near, perhaps could have a bigger fish in a farther place... " when, I extremely admire this senior fisherman, because he by now already projected on some fish, but he had

not settled to the present situation, but was approaches the bigger goal advance. again has a look us, usually meets one slightly is difficult, we all complain incessantly. we will be the motherland future, will be supposed to like this old person same mind lofty aspiration, will even better pursue even better, the bigger goal.

when I read " the big marlin start fast to gather round the young fishing boat hover, twined the cable on the mast , the old person right hand lifted up high the steel fork, leap the water surface in it the flash, did utmost throws to its heart, one wail ended the big fish's life, it was static static floats on the water surface... " when, my heart also liked together the big stone falls. I extremely admire old person who do not dread the relentless spirit.Although knows the match strength is very strong, he is not slightly flinches,and welcomes difficultly above. We also must study senior fisherman's spirit in life, and handles the matter does not fear the difficulty, only then can obtain successfully.

The Old Man And The Sea gives me a lot of inspiration in life. What is a failure, the failure is to summon up courage to climb up when you fall down,and start to climb up again and again. We must never lost hope and dream for life.What is a hero, a hero is dare to face setbacks, challenge setbacks and conquer themselves.The man who overcome setbacks have the courage to complete their dreams which may fail many times,deserve to be called hero. I like Hemingway's the old man and the sea very much, and also know Hemingway's life all of obstacles.He experienced the war, disease and mental torture, he pulled through again and again. But in the end, he chose to commit suicide to end his own life, maybe he has his own reason, but he broke The Old Man And The Sea of failures and hero, it is a pity.It is not the failure but the yield to the failure is fearful.Once you yield, all dreams won't achieve.It is of great significance in real life. I think life is just like the old man fishing who was brave to face,we will not regret for life even without success, because we will be stronger in the life, our life will be wonderful because of our efforts.

Reading the book “The Old Man And The Sea”, I felt I was added the courage and strength to overcome difficulties. Whether how many thorns of the life , how

many setbacks in the future, I believe that as long as there is the old man ’s indomitable quality, I will be the stronger in the life. The Old Man And The Sea is a book worth savoring from which we can get the courage before the storm,and access to power. It makes us to face difficulties confidently .We must stick to it and never flinch.Let us shout to the world "I am a hero!"

The Old Man and the Sea earned its author the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1952, and was instrumental in winning him the Nobel Prize for literature two years later. It starts with the details to discuss the indispensable roles of the boy in the novel. It is him who helps the old man get out of the troubles in spiritual; It is him who becomes the old man ’s comfort and motivation especially when the old man faced afterwards defeat and his optimistic, generous life attitude was worthy tasting by people carefully; It is him who plays the role of leading, inspiring to the readers, and increasing the appeal of the work, enriching the content of the work.

The first roles of the boy in the Old Man and the Sea are to highlight the humanity in the work of Realism. At the beginning of the novel，Santiago had gone eighty-four days without catching a fish and had become the laughingstock of his small village ．Everybody thought that Santiago must meet some bad fortune especially when the boy who went fishing initially with the old man was obliged to go with another boat and luckily caught three good fishes in the first week. And then they all didn’t want to contact with the old man except the boy who still believe in the old man and show his kindness and mercy to the old man. So when the old man was trapped by giant marlin on the sea and almost lost his life, he always thought of the boy and wished Mandolin could have been there with him. Comparing with others, the boy is the symbol of humanity in some terms, and highlights the deep theme of the realistic work by this literary character. With the help of this character Hemingway shapes the old man with more real and full. As a realistic literary work, it shows the cruel and tough environment of society or existence, so in the work we can hardly come cross the feelings of warm humanity, however, the work of the Old Man and the Sea helps us to feel the sparks of humanity and shocks our inner side.

The second roles of the boy in the Old Man and the Sea are to help show the old man’s pressure and his grace showed under those pressures. One of the brightest spots in The Old Man and the Sea is the perfect expression of Hemingway’s quality of grace under pressure, which is composed of two factors: pressure and grace. And pressure is the premise: only under the background of pressure will the hero have the elegant manners in the real significance. These two factors are mostly shown by the little boy. To show pressure, Hemingway describes the background of the story in four levels by picturing the details when the little boy leaves the old man. In this way, he stresses the heavy pressure at the very beginning of the novel, which lays a necessary premise and an atmosphere for the so-called grace. To show the grace, Hemingway describes several details when the old man gets together with the little boy under the pressure at the beginning and the end of the novel, drawing the image and targets in describing the image of the old man.

There are three layers of pressure in the work. At the beginning, the old man and the little boy sailed together every day, but they do not catch any fish for more than 40 days, which is quite “unlucky ”, this is the first layer of pressure. At this time, the boy is forced to leave the old man and catches on another boat followed his parents ’ order, thus the old man is left alone in his boat which is a symbol of his failure. Obviously, failure and loneliness is the second level of pressure. The boy began to learn to fish following the old man when he is only five. The old man’s wife passed away several years ago, so the child is actual his only companion in his lonely life, and the departure of the little boy at this unfortunate moment is undoubted a heavy blow to him. Previously, it has said that the little boy does not appear in the material on which the story based. The little boy is imaged by Hemingway as the sole partner and assistant of the old man, and then takes him away from the old man mercilessly, which is the so-called “giving it before taking it”. In this way, the old man ’s miserable situation becomes even worse. Moreover, after the boy’s leaving, the old man does not catch any fish for 44 days which makes bear an almost desperate feeling. This is the third level of pressure. Although the first and third level of the

pressure having nothing to do with the little boy, the boy’s leaving divides the 84 days into three levels to increase the pressure layer by layer, thereby creating a sense of more and more, dignified.

In this novel, the third important role of the boy is that he leads and inspires the readers. Hemingway’s direct describing of the little boy does not only reveal the boy’s simple and complex emotion towards the old man, but also portray the boy ’s personality in order to enhance the effective of the work and rich the content of the work In the Old Man and the Sea, in a certain extent, especially at the beginning and the end of the novel, the boy is much close to the readers than the old man. So the boy ’s feeling is inevitable to lead and impact the readers emotion. There is nothing in the boy’s inner state but the old man. His attitude and emotions towards the old man affects the readers’ emotion for the old man quietly and gradually. So Carlos Baker once said that the boy has a role to make people pay more sympathy to the old man. Because at the beginning and the end of the novel, we see the old man in the boy’s eyes which fills with respect and sympathy. But in fact, the boy ’s respect and sympathy towards the old man is not static in his inner state ode mind. His emotion goes along a deeper and deeper trajectory which is from sympathy to heartache,and such kind of feeling becomes stronger and stronger, at last rising to the peak and bursting out, “he started to cry” The fluctuations of the boy’s inner world affect the readers ’ emotion unknowingly.

"Vessel crossed the end of the world, into the unknown sea, hanging on the side of the bow while wind and rain erosion-stricken still incomparably beautiful flag, banner, brandishing a Yunlong general words glittering - beyond the limit "This is the author of Hemingway's evaluation of his work" The Old Man and the Sea ". Life itself is an endless pursuit. It's a long road, difficult and full of bumpy, but as long as their indomitable courage and self-confidence to a heart to meet the challenge, he will always be a real winner!