"A ship crosses the end of the world and sails for the unknown sea. On the bow, there is a flag, which is still gorgeous even after the storm. On the flag, the word Yunlong dances and shines-beyond the limit! " Author Hemingway commented on his work The Old Man and the Sea.
The Old Man and the Sea created a classic tough guy image. An old fisherman named Santiago in Cuba went fishing alone. After 48 days of nothing, he caught a huge marlin. This is a big fish that the old man has never seen or heard of. It is two feet longer than his boat. The fish was so strong that he dragged the boat for two whole days and nights. During these two days and nights, the old man experienced a difficult test that he had never experienced before, and finally stabbed the big fish to death and tied it to the bow. However, at this time, he met a shark, and the old man fought with the shark to the death. As a result, the marlin was eaten up by sharks, and the old man finally dragged home with only a bare fish skeleton.
Why didn't Hemingway let the old man win in the end? In the words of the old man in the novel, "people are not born to be defeated" and "people can be destroyed, but they cannot be defeated." This is the philosophy that The Old Man and the Sea want to reveal. There is no denying that everyone has defects. When a person admits this defect and tries to overcome it instead of giving in to it, it doesn't matter whether he finally catches a complete marlin or an empty skeleton, because the value of a person's life has been fully reflected in the process of hunting marlin. He once pursued and struggled for his ideal. Isn't he a winner? The old fisherman is a winner who dares to challenge his shortcomings and his courage and confidence. From the perspective of secular victory, the old fisherman is not the final winner, because although he defeated the marlin at first, the marlin was eventually eaten by the shark, and he just returned to the shore with the skeleton of the marlin, which means that the shark is the winner. However, in the eyes of idealists, the old fisherman is the winner, because he never gave in to the sea, marlin and shark. As the music master Beethoven said, "I can be destroyed, but I can't be conquered".
Human nature is tenacious, and human beings have their own limits, but it is precisely because people like the old fisherman have repeatedly challenged and surpassed that this limit has been expanded again and again, and greater challenges have been placed in front of human beings again and again. In this sense, a hero like the old fisherman Santiago deserves our eternal respect no matter whether he succeeds or fails in challenging the limits. Because, what he brings us is the noblest confidence of mankind!
Life is an endless pursuit. Its road is long, difficult and full of bumps, but as long as he bravely meets the challenge with a confident heart, he will always be a real winner!
On The Old Man and the Sea:
San Diego is a poor old man-it seems so. Hemingway created this image with his own refined language. It can be said that Hemingway did not give the old man success, but gave him an elegant and tenacious image under pressure.
After drifting at sea for 84 days without finding anything, the old fisherman caught a huge marlin, which was 2 feet longer than his fishing boat, and was stabbed to death after dragging the fishing boat for two days and two nights. The fate of the old man does not seem to be successful. He met another shark. After a life-and-death struggle, the marlin has only one skeleton left.
Bones are the backbone of the spirit. Hemingway didn't seem to succeed in Diego, Janssen, but he played with the hardness of the old man's life.
"I will accompany you to death"-what the tough guy said when facing the challenge. This is a metaphor for his own heroism and his indomitable strength. At the beginning and end of the story, a boy named Manorine appeared-he hoped to inherit the old man's career. Not only is the cause of fishing to be passed down, so why don't we worship, worship and learn? Why does this child appear in the story of the old man? Youth symbolizes strength and hope. Even old people are young at heart. In this paper, lions are described many times. Lions are laughing and frolicking on the beaches in Africa. They appear in the old man's dream, stay in his heart, and also reveal the old man's will to never grow old.
Hemingway's novels won the Nobel Prize in Literature and Pulitzer Prizes. This tough guy writer with hundreds of shrapnel in his bones writes the power of life just right, telling us how to face birth and death, and how wide our hearts should be, like the sea. The old man is lonely, he is a passer-by on the ideal road, but he is not lonely, because his will is so strong.
Take the shark as a blow and eat your success and happiness. But as the child said, "it didn't hit you, it didn't." ("He didn't hit you. Not a fish. " )
The truly strong can only be destroyed but not defeated ("man can be destroyed but not defeated").
Never give up, this is what the old man and the sea told us.
On The Old Man and the Sea:
After reading The Old Man and the Sea, I have read many famous books, but I have been afraid to comment, not entirely because of cowardice, but more out of a sense of respect. Because as a masterpiece, it actually has its profound side. In the seemingly plain writing, it is revealed that different people have different views. This is why most of the masterpieces handed down from generation to generation are essays and novels. Poetry and criticism have become heroes of the times because of their distinctive personalities and viewpoints, and eventually they are used as tools or vase-like decorations because of the passage of time. Look at the author's comment that there is a cloud floating in the distance under the banyan tree. The youth of A Cloud (I'm just talking about thoughts) makes her/him see that "the iceberg moves solemnly at sea because only one-eighth of it is on the water", and "A Cloud" only sees one-eighth of what Hemingway wrote, which is on the water. Underwater, there are seven-eighths of its foundation; When the old man in San Diego went out to sea to challenge the sea, it was a symbol that human beings would be proud of. He dares to challenge, eager to conquer the vast sea and face the real shark. A boat, an old man, a vast sea; The shark appeared, and the sea only sent his little shark, the old man and the boat, and the little shark from the sea. The old man is the representative of human beings, and the old man is a real shark in his eyes. As a result, the old man was full of energy and launched a life-and-death struggle with the shark, a struggle between conquest and anti-conquest, and a "big fish" and subsequent struggle. After the partial victory, when the old man felt that victory was in his grasp, "the shark suddenly ……", and the old man finally "triumphed" empty-handed. After watching The Old Man and the Sea for the first time, I only sighed that people didn't know what they needed, and finally they were conquered. It's still such a sigh. Around 9. 1 1, George H.W. Bush may have never seen the old man in his hometown and gave him advice. The challenge of The Old Man and the Sea has been conquered unyieldingly, but have you ever wondered if people are creating unyielding problems and then solving them? Who conquered who in the world, what did they do after the conquest, and why did they conquer instead of ... The connotation of China's ancient culture has affinity rather than conquest. Hemingway participated in the heroic thinking of Americans, which emphasized conquest, but after he became blind, he began to think about conquest. As a result of the Vietnam War in the United States, Hemingway was an old man in the Vietnam War, and human survival consciousness was the ocean. If we blindly emphasize the conquest and possession of one life to another, although we are going through an unyielding process, the result is only what Hemingway wrote: "A person is not born to be defeated. You can destroy him, but you will never defeat him." So, what about other life?
Old people and their feelings after reading the sea.
In The Old Man and the Sea, the lonely old fisherman Santiago is not only a tough guy, but also a modern echo of the tragic spirit of ancient Greece. In The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway finally found the soul for his beloved tough guy, which is the eternal value of human beings. Therefore, in The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago's resolute character becomes the surface of the novel. Praising the eternal value of human beings through Santiago's tenacious character has become the real theme of the novel. What eternal values are displayed in The Old Man and the Sea?
The first is people's confidence.
San Diego has been at sea for eighty-four days without catching any fish. However, "those eyes, as blue as the sea, are happy, not depressed." The boy who once went fishing with San Diego said that his father called him to another boat and said, "He doesn't have much confidence." "yes." The old man said, "But we do, don't you think?"
San Diego's self-confidence is absolute self-confidence, self-confidence that does not change with environmental changes, and self-confidence that does not need to be compared with others. In Santiago's philosophy of existence, one can only be confident even in the face of extreme bad luck.
The only certainty of life is death. Besides, there is nothing to rely on. Since people live by accident, only self-confidence supports people's courage to survive. If you lose self-confidence, will San Diego have the courage and perseverance to go fishing after so many days of bad luck? Therefore, people must be confident when they are alive. Not being confident is a luxury that people can't afford. It is because of Santiago's absolute self-confidence that he showed complete tolerance and understanding for the children who were called away. Here, Hemingway shows the connection between self-confidence and tolerance. The main space of The Old Man and the Sea is about Santiago, a lonely old fisherman who struggled with marlin and sharks for three days and nights in the vast sea. Through Hemingway's incisive description, we fully feel the tragedy and sublimity of Santiago's struggle with fate. The last thing the old man dragged home was a fish skeleton 18 feet long. The only thing intact on the skeleton is the head and beautiful tail.
Materially, the old man struggled for three days and nights and failed; But in terms of human spirit, self-confidence and self-esteem, and the courage to fight against fate with all one's strength, Santiago won.
In the final analysis, the real victory of mankind can only be a spiritual victory. No matter how much material achievements people have made, they can't win our high respect. Only the victory of spirit and verve touched us, and made us cry for his tragedy like children who followed the old man.