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The protagonist is an old fisherman named Santiago, and the supporting role is a child named Manolin. The frail old fisherman failed to catch a fish for eighty-four days, but he still refused to admit defeat. Instead, he was full of fighting spirit. Finally, on the eighty-fifth day, he caught a fish that was 18 feet long and weighed 1,500 pounds. A hundred pound marlin. The big fish dragged the boat toward the sea, but the old man still held on. Even though there was no water, no food, no weapons, no assistants, and his left hand was cramped, he was not discouraged at all.

After two days and two nights, he finally killed the big fish and tied it to the side of the boat. But many sharks immediately came to snatch his trophy. He killed them one by one, until in the end only a broken tiller remained as a weapon. As a result, the big fish could not escape the fate of being eaten up. In the end, the old man was exhausted and dragged back a pair of fish bones. He returned home and lay on his bed, having no choice but to look back at the good old days in his dreams to forget the cruel reality.

2. Introduction to the author

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961), was born in the United States An American writer and journalist from Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, who is considered one of the most famous novelists of the 20th century.

Hemingway won many awards during his life. He was awarded the Silver Medal of Valor during World War I; in 1953, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his book "The Old Man and the Sea"; in 1954, "The Old Man and the Sea" won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. . In 2001, Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell to Arms" were included in the "100 Best English Novels of the 20th Century" by the Modern Library of America.

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Evaluation of the work

1. "The Old Man and the Sea" is an extremely powerful and concise work, with an irresistible The beauty.

——Holstaum, Academician of the Swedish Academy of Literature

2. "The Old Man and the Sea" is a pastoral poem. The sea is the sea, not Byronic or Maier. Wellesian, like Homer's handwriting: the writing is calm and moving, like Homer's poems. A true artist neither symbolizes nor allegorizes—Hemingway was a true artist—but any true work of art exudes symbolism and allegory, and this one is short but not insignificant. The same goes for masterpieces.

——American art historian Berry Sun

3. "The Old Man and the Sea" tells the story of an old fisherman, but in this story it reveals the commonality of human beings. fate. I admire the old man's courage, his indomitable fighting spirit, and Hemingway.

——Contemporary writer Wang Xiaobo

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