The big fish dragged the boat to the sea, but the old man still clung to it. Even without water, food, weapons, assistants and cramps in his left hand, he was not discouraged at all. After two days and two nights, he finally killed the big fish and tied it to the boat. But many little sharks immediately came to snatch his booty; He killed them one by one, leaving only a broken tiller as a weapon.
As a result, big fish can't escape the fate of being eaten up. Finally, the old man dragged back a pair of fish bones exhausted. He went home to lie in bed and had to look for the good old days from his dreams to forget the cruel reality. Although the old fisherman was old, he was unlucky and failed. But he still keeps working hard, and he can win by failure.
This novel shows a struggling outlook on life. Even in the face of unconquerable nature, people can still win spiritually. Maybe the result is failure, but in the process of struggle, we can see how a person can become an indomitable spirit.
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The novel The Old Man and the Sea is based on a true story. After World War I, Hemingway moved to Cuba and met an old fisherman, gregorio fuentes. 1930, Hemingway's ship sank in the storm, and fuentes rescued Hemingway. From then on, Hemingway and fuentes forged a deep friendship and often went fishing together.
At the beginning of the novel, Hemingway vividly described the living environment of the old fisherman. An old man with a thin and gaunt neck, deep wrinkles and brown spots on his face and cheeks jumped into the reader's sight. Everything about him is as old as an ancient wasteland in the desert. He is lonely and has few friends except a little boy.
But his eyes are as blue as the sea and full of happiness. Even if he got nothing for 84 days in a row, he still believed that he would catch a big fish under the ridicule of others. With the development of the plot of the novel, the quality of the elderly is also reflected step by step.
Santiago, an old man in The Old Man and the Sea, struggled at sea for three days and was finally dragged to the coast by a huge fishbone shelf. In fact, the old man is the winner who gets nothing. And in the future, people can't believe that this exhausted old man can overcome the raging sea.
In Hemingway's view, life is a war that can't be won, just like the old man's "old sail repaired with many flour bags looks like a flag that will never fail." But the old man never stopped acting. It is a kind of pursuit in the face of great sadness, death and failure, which is also tenacious and persistent.
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