1. (P1) "He is an old man fishing alone in a small boat in the Gulf Stream. He has been there for eighty-four days and has not caught a single fish. In the first forty days, there was one The boy stayed with him, but after forty days he hadn't caught a fish, the boy's parents told him that the old man was definitely 'unlucky'..." For an old man or a fisherman, He said that it was very unlucky not to catch fish for so many days, and even used the word "bloody unlucky". As for what the old man will do, the reader is left with room for imagination at the beginning. And the departure of his favorite child also put the old man into an extremely disadvantageous situation.
2. (P16-P17) "It didn't take long for him to become familiar with it. He dreamed of the Africa he saw when he was a child, the long golden beaches and white beaches, dazzlingly white, and the towering promontories. and the brown mountains... He no longer dreamed of storms, no more of women, no more of great events, no more of big fish, no more of fights, no more of wrestling, no more of his His wife. He only dreamed of places and lions on the beach. They played like kittens in the dusk. He loved them as much as he loved the child. "In his dreams, the old man kept dreaming. The psychological beauty of seeing a lion implies the author's basic requirements for rising in life. After considering the context, we can say that this lion will become a force that leads people to struggle. The last line of the passage, "He loves them as much as he loves this child," expresses the old man's spirit of fighting to the end. The lion in the dream is like his life goal and is undoubtedly his motivation. Therefore, the old man "loved it as much as he loved this child."
3. (P41) "'Fish,' he said softly, 'I will accompany you until death.' In my opinion, it will stay with me until death, the old man thought, so he waited for tomorrow. It was just before dawn and the weather was very cold. He pressed his body against the side of the wooden boat to keep warm. I can survive as long as I want, he thought. This was the old man's 85th day. He knew the difficulties, but bravely "sailed further" and finally caught a big marlin that was much stronger than him. fish. However, the scheming marlin used its composure to deprive him of sleep and tortured his body with torture, but the old man who refused to admit defeat was determined to "stay with it until death." The "tough guy" spirit of the old man is vividly portrayed here by the man who "will accompany you until death" - "Pain is nothing to a man." "I will stay with you until the end!" Santiago's " The determination to "stay with me to the end" is exactly the extremely valuable perseverance and frustration in the process of life struggle that the author highly recommends.
And later in this paragraph, the old man encountered another challenge from nature: cold. Instead of complaining, he simply relied on his own body heat to keep warm.
4. (P52) "However, this is unfair, he thought. But I want him to know how capable people are and how much suffering they can endure.' I told the child, I "Unusual old man," he said. "Now is the time to prove it. He has already proved it a thousand times, and now he is about to prove it again." Dusi started over, and when he did so, he never thought about the past. "From the old man's struggle with the sea (rather than his struggle with the fish, it is better to say that he struggled with nature, the sea, and fate), he was full of confidence in himself. With confidence, he always believes that he (humanity) will win the battle. In the passage we can see this sentence: "He has proven it thousands of times, it is nothing." It can be seen that the old man has struggled with himself and the sea and destiny thousands of times, showing the old man's strong character and a strong personality. And "when he did this, he never thought about the past", which further reflects his confidence that he always looks to the future and is full of faith and hope.
5. (P84) "A person is not born to be defeated. You can destroy him, but you can't defeat him." This is what I wrote in the novel "The Old Man and the Sea" A favorite saying. The author Hemingway used the words of the protagonist Santiago to express the belief in survival that he believed people at that time should have - a spirit of not admitting defeat. This is a day-to-day survival rule. I can't help but wonder: "Why can't he be defeated?" By connecting with the previous article, why "can't he be defeated?" A real person is also a tough guy who rises in adversity.
Although the old man is in trouble, he always has a child in his heart and a lion in his dream. The child in the book, Manolin, is just like his strong and powerful self in the past; of course, he will undoubtedly also be the self who will hunt for bigger goals in the future. .
6. (P101-P104) "The child took the can of hot coffee and walked straight to the old man's shack, sat down next to him, and waited for him to wake up...The old man finally woke up...'They took me Down, Manolin,' he said. 'I didn't care. I caught two yesterday, but we're going to fish together now, because I've got a lot to learn.'... The old man on the other side of the road. In the shack, he fell asleep again. He was still lying face down, with the child beside him, watching over him. "In the article, we should not regard the child as a supporting role. When the old man's success suddenly disappeared, only the child said bluntly: "I don't care. I caught two yesterday. But now we have to fish together, because I still have a lot to learn." "Here, the children have actually inherited the old man's perseverance and tough-guy spirit, and the penetrating power of the old man's spirit has affected the children. The old man has experienced setbacks, traumas, and failures, but is able to face them bravely. This is a heroic act, which is what this novel advocates.