老人与海

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway′s most satisfying works. It is the crystallization of Hemingway′s personal world outlook and outlook on life.

《The old man and the sea》

• The authors introduce
  • Ernest Miller Hemingway
    • American writer and journalist, considered one of the most famous novelists of the 20th century
• Introduction of the novel
  • The Old Man and the Sea is set in mid-20th century Cuba. The main character is an old fisherman in San Diego, and the supporting character is a child named Manolin. The old Fisherman went eighty-four days without catching a fish, and was nearly starved to death; But still he refused to give up. He kept fighting, and on the eighty-fifth day he hooked a big marlin that was eighteen feet long and weighed fifteen hundred pounds. The fish pulled the boat out to sea, but the old man held on even though he had no water, no food, no weapon, no helper and a cramp in his left hand. After two days and nights he finally killed the fish and tied him to the side of the boat. But at once many young sharks came to rob him of his spoil; He killed them one by one, until at last only a broken tiller was left as a weapon. As a result, the big fish was still eaten up the fate of the end, the old man exhausted to drag back a pair of fish bones. He went home and lay in bed, dreaming of the good old days and forgetting the cruel reality.
• Characters
  • San Diego,
    • Old Cuban Fisherman
  • Manolin
    • The old fisherman′s apprentice
• The creation background
  • The novel The Old Man and the Sea is based on a real person and event. After World War II, Hemingway moved to Cuba, where he met an old fisherman, Gregorio Fuentes. In 1930, Hemingway′s ship was wrecked in a storm, and Fuentes rescued Hemingway. From then on, Hemingway and Fuentes formed a deep friendship, and often went fishing together. In 1936, Fuentes went out to sea and caught a big fish. But the fish was so big that it dragged at sea for a long time. On the return trip, he was attacked by a shark and came back with only a skeleton. Hemingway published a newsletter "On the Blue Ocean" in "Master" magazine to report on this event. At the time, Hemingway was deeply touched by the incident and realized that it was good material for fiction.
• Work effect
  • It established Hemingway′s prominent position in world literature. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
  • The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway′s most satisfying works. It is the crystallization of Hemingway′s personal world outlook and outlook on life. It is one of the most influential novels in European literature in the 20th century and has a great influence on promoting the development of European literature.
• Classic sayings
  • A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
  • A man is not born to be defeated, you can wipe him out, but he is not defeated.
  • Life is always let us black and blue all over, but later, the injured place will become our most strong place.