Review
Recently I have read a book named The Old Man and the Sea. This is a novel which written by Ernest Hemingway .The book was written in 1951 and published in 1952. It main tells us a story about a fight between a elderly Cuban fisherman and a giant marlin offshore in a place far away from the coast. The writher is one of the most famous American novelist. Hemingway’s distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement and had a significant influence on the development of 20th century fiction writing. Because of this book, Hemingway received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
The Old Man and the Sea is based on the true story. This is a book about the old fisherman who lived alone in sea fishing. After the 84 days with nothing，he caught a huge marlin. It had never been seen and heard of for the old man. The fish was at least two feet longer than his boat. The fish was very large, and dragging the boat drifted for two days and nights, the elderly was in a never suffered through a difficult test in these two days and two nights. Finally the fish was stabbed and tied to the bow. However, it was unfortunate that some sharks suddenly turned up in returning, the elderly and the Shark had a desperate struggle. Finally, the giant marlin was eaten up by sharks. After some bitter, the old people dragged home only a bare and a skeleton of the injury, but he still be appreciated.
Santiago dreams his pleasant dream of the lions at play on the beaches of Africa three times. The first time is the night before he departs on his three-day fishing expedition, the second occurs when he sleeps on the boat for a few hours in the middle of his struggle with the marlin, and the third takes place at the very end of the book. In fact
, the sober promise of the triumph and regeneration with which the novella closes is supported by the final image of the lions. Because Santiago associates the lions with his youth, the dream suggests the circular nature of life. Additionally, because Santiago imagines the lions, fierce predators, playing, his dream suggests a harmony between the opposing forces—life and death, love and hate, destruction and regeneration —of nature.
All time the novels of is very compact, the whole are only four days: the day out with the old man returning from the sea, with reference to play around the characters one by one, the relationship between the group and the old man: a love for him, with him to learn fishing boy manolin; A pair of very selfish parents; A group of respected him, but always can't understand his fishing; A concerned about his hotel owners. Old man is living in such a character groups, by contrast, he clearly has a different with others, he is very optimistic, open-minded, is an experienced and full of confidence, the industrious and brave, risk-taking, deeply loves the life of a simple Cuban fisherman. At the same time, it also can produce the hub-and-spoke structure clue clear, center concentration and effect of concise and lively story.
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’s future, will be supposed to like this old person same mind lofty aspiration, will even better pursue even better, the bigger goal.
My heart also liked together the big stone falls. I extremely admire old person that kind do not dread, the relentless spirit,
although knows the match strength is very strong, but he not slightly flinches, but is welcomes difficultly above. Just because had this kind of spirit, the senior fisherman only then achieved this life and death contest success. We also must study senior fisherman’s spirit in life, handles the matter does not fear the difficulty, only then can obtain successfully.
The novel eulogized the spirit which the senior fisherman had. And I think we should learn from him in some extent. To begin with, we should never give up when faced with the fear and dangerous. When we make a decision to overcome and try our best to do something, I firmly believe that we will win. Secondly, Life itself is a kind of endless pursuit. It is the road long, difficult and full of ups and downs. But as long as our own tenaciously to a brave heart to meet the challenges of self-confidence, we will always be a real winner!
What is more, I think the false beliefs about the weakness of the elderly can be turned around only if society looks much harder at their abilities and their goals. We must begin to see that although they may not have great physical strength, they still have a mind that is capable of many things. There are many jobs that they can hold in the workplace and many things they can do to help society of which we, the younger generation, are not aware. We must realize that they have gone through many experiences that we have not and that they hold a vast amount of knowledge about the world around them. There will come a time when one's age does not determine the value of one's life, but we can change that dream to reality only if we try.
All in all, Hemingway is a good writer and the book The Old Man and the Sea is worth reading. I hope you will read this book and learn something useful from the old man. I believe that if read this
book carefully and seriously, you will find that this book is interesting and worth reading. And you will be grateful to read it.
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Review
Recently I have read a book named The Old Man and the Sea. This is a novel which written by Ernest Hemingway .The book was written in 1951 and published in 1952. It main tells us a story about a fight between a elderly Cuban fisherman and a giant marlin offshore in a place far away from the coast. The writher is one of the most famous American novelist. Hemingway’s distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement and had a significant influence on the development of 20th century fiction writing. Because of this book, Hemingway received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
The Old Man and the Sea is based on the true story. This is a book about the old fisherman who lived alone in sea fishing. After the 84 days with nothing，he caught a huge marlin. It had never been seen and heard of for the old man. The fish was at least two feet longer than his boat. The fish was very large, and dragging the boat drifted for two days and nights, the elderly was in a never suffered through a difficult test in these two days and two nights. Finally the fish was stabbed and tied to the bow. However, it was unfortunate that some sharks suddenly turned up in returning, the elderly and the Shark had a desperate struggle. Finally, the giant marlin was eaten up by sharks. After some bitter, the old people dragged home only a bare and a skeleton of the injury, but he still be appreciated.
Santiago dreams his pleasant dream of the lions at play on the beaches of Africa three times. The first time is the night before he departs on his three-day fishing expedition, the second occurs when he sleeps on the boat for a few hours in the middle of his struggle with the marlin, and the third takes place at the very end of the book. In fact
, the sober promise of the triumph and regeneration with which the novella closes is supported by the final image of the lions. Because Santiago associates the lions with his youth, the dream suggests the circular nature of life. Additionally, because Santiago imagines the lions, fierce predators, playing, his dream suggests a harmony between the opposing forces—life and death, love and hate, destruction and regeneration —of nature.
All time the novels of is very compact, the whole are only four days: the day out with the old man returning from the sea, with reference to play around the characters one by one, the relationship between the group and the old man: a love for him, with him to learn fishing boy manolin; A pair of very selfish parents; A group of respected him, but always can't understand his fishing; A concerned about his hotel owners. Old man is living in such a character groups, by contrast, he clearly has a different with others, he is very optimistic, open-minded, is an experienced and full of confidence, the industrious and brave, risk-taking, deeply loves the life of a simple Cuban fisherman. At the same time, it also can produce the hub-and-spoke structure clue clear, center concentration and effect of concise and lively story.
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’s future, will be supposed to like this old person same mind lofty aspiration, will even better pursue even better, the bigger goal.
My heart also liked together the big stone falls. I extremely admire old person that kind do not dread, the relentless spirit,
although knows the match strength is very strong, but he not slightly flinches, but is welcomes difficultly above. Just because had this kind of spirit, the senior fisherman only then achieved this life and death contest success. We also must study senior fisherman’s spirit in life, handles the matter does not fear the difficulty, only then can obtain successfully.
The novel eulogized the spirit which the senior fisherman had. And I think we should learn from him in some extent. To begin with, we should never give up when faced with the fear and dangerous. When we make a decision to overcome and try our best to do something, I firmly believe that we will win. Secondly, Life itself is a kind of endless pursuit. It is the road long, difficult and full of ups and downs. But as long as our own tenaciously to a brave heart to meet the challenges of self-confidence, we will always be a real winner!
What is more, I think the false beliefs about the weakness of the elderly can be turned around only if society looks much harder at their abilities and their goals. We must begin to see that although they may not have great physical strength, they still have a mind that is capable of many things. There are many jobs that they can hold in the workplace and many things they can do to help society of which we, the younger generation, are not aware. We must realize that they have gone through many experiences that we have not and that they hold a vast amount of knowledge about the world around them. There will come a time when one's age does not determine the value of one's life, but we can change that dream to reality only if we try.
All in all, Hemingway is a good writer and the book The Old Man and the Sea is worth reading. I hope you will read this book and learn something useful from the old man. I believe that if read this
book carefully and seriously, you will find that this book is interesting and worth reading. And you will be grateful to read it.
http://baike.baidu.com/view/37668.htm
http://www.tianyabook.com/waiguo2005/h/haimingwei/001/002.htm
http://wenku.baidu.com/view/d3b1d8300b4c2e3f572763b1.html