Comments on The Old Man and the Sea

A ship crossed the end of the world and sailed towards the unknown sea. On the bow of the ship hung a flag that was weathered but still extremely gorgeous. On the flag, four Chinese characters danced like clouds and dragons. Sparkle – beyond the limits! "The author Hemingway commented on his work "The Old Man and the Sea".

"The Old Man and the Sea" creates a classic tough guy image. An old fisherman named Santiago in Cuba, alone A man went fishing and after 48 days of catching nothing, he caught an extremely huge marlin. This was a fish that the old man had never seen or heard of, a fish that was two feet longer than his boat. He was so strong that he dragged the boat drifting for two days and nights. During these two days and nights, the old man went through a difficult test he had never experienced before, and finally stabbed the big fish to death and tied it to the bow of the boat. However, at this time, he encountered a shark. , the old man fought desperately with the shark, but the big marlin was still eaten by the shark, and the old man finally dragged home only a bare fish skeleton.

Why didn't Hemingway let the old man finally let it go? What about victory? In the words of the old man in the novel: "A person is not born to be defeated." "People can be destroyed, but they cannot be defeated." "This is the philosophy that "The Old Man and the Sea" wants to reveal. It is undeniable that everyone will have flaws. When a person admits this flaw and works hard to overcome it instead of succumbing to it, no matter he catches a fish in the end It doesn't matter whether the complete marlin is still an empty skeleton, because the value of a person's life has been fully reflected in the process of chasing the marlin, and he has worked hard to pursue and fight for his ideals. Isn't he a winner? The old fisherman is the winner who dares to challenge his own shortcomings and his own courage and confidence. From the perspective of secular victory, the old fisherman is not the final winner, because even though he defeated the big marlin at the beginning. , but in the end the big marlin was eaten by the shark, and he just returned to the shore with the white skeleton of the big marlin. In other words, the shark is the winner. However, in the eyes of idealists, the old fisherman is the winner. The winner, because he never compromised or surrendered to the sea, the big marlin, or the shark. As the music master Beethoven said, "I can be destroyed, but I cannot be conquered."

Human nature is strong, and humans have their own limits, but it is precisely because people like the old fisherman challenge the limits again and again and surpass them that this limit is expanded again and again, and greater challenges are faced again and again. In front of mankind. In this sense, heroes like the old fisherman Santiago deserve our eternal respect no matter whether they challenge the limits or fail, because what he brings to us is the most noble self-confidence of mankind. !

Life is an endless pursuit. Its road is long, difficult, and full of ups and downs, but as long as he meets the challenge bravely and tenaciously, he will always be a leader. The real winner!

Sample essay 2 after reading "The Old Man and the Sea":

Santiago is a poor old man - it seems that he is. His refined language created this image. It can be said that Hemingway did not give the old man success, but gave him an image of elegance and tenacity under pressure.

The old fisherman caught a fish after drifting on the sea for 84 days without catching anything. A huge marlin, a fish 2 feet longer than his fishing boat, was stabbed to death after dragging the fishing boat for two days and two nights. He encountered a shark again, and after a desperate fight, only a skeleton was left in the marlin.

Skeletons are the backbone of the spirit. Hemingway seemed not to let the old man Santiago succeed, but he ended up with a bare body. The bones play out the hardness of the old man's life.

"I will stay with you until death" - this tough guy said when facing challenges, a metaphor for his own heroism and his strength to persevere. At the beginning and end of the story, a boy named Manolin appears - he hopes to inherit the old man's career.

Not only does the business of fishing need to be passed down, but this pair of iron bones should also be respected, enshrined and learned by us. Why does this child appear in the old man's story? Youth symbolizes strength and hope. Even an old man is still young at heart. Lions are described many times in the article. On the African beach, lions are laughing and playing. They appear in the old man's dream and have always been in the old man's heart. They also reveal the old man's will to never grow old.

This novel by Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize. This tough guy writer with hundreds of shrapnel in his bones appropriately wrote about the intensity of life, told us how to face birth, old age, illness, and death, and how broad our heart should be, as broad as the sea. The old man is lonely, he is a traveler walking on the ideal road, but he is not lonely because his will is so strong.

Think of sharks as blows, eating your success and happiness. But as the kid said: "He didn't beat you. Not the fish." ("He didn't beat you. Not the fish.")

A truly strong man can only be destroyed. Can't be defeated ("A man can be destroyed but not defeated")

Never say never, this is what "The Old Man and the Sea" tells us.

Sample essay three after reading "The Old Man and the Sea":

After reading "The Old Man and the Sea" I have read many famous works, but I have never dared to make any comments. This is not entirely because of cowardice, but more because of A kind of respect; because as classics, they actually have a profound side. In seemingly plain writing, there are things that are different in the eyes of the beholder and the wise. This is why most of the famous books handed down from ancient times are prose and novels. Because of their distinctive personalities and viewpoints, poetry and commentary have made them heroes of the times. In the end, they were either used as tools, or became vase-like decorations due to the passage of time. Look at the comment of the author under the banyan tree "A cloud is floating in the distance", the youth of "a cloud" (I'm just talking about thoughts) makes her/him see "The reason why icebergs moving on the sea look majestic and majestic is because it "Only one-eighth of it is above the water." What Hemingway sees in "A Cloud" is only one-eighth of it above the water's surface. What about what's under the water? There's also seven-eighths of its foundation; When the old man Santiago goes out to sea to challenge the sea, it is a symbol that mankind will be proud of. The courage to challenge and the desire to conquer the vast sea, the desire to face a real shark face to face challenge; a boat, an old man, a vast sea ; The shark appeared, and the sea only sent his little shark. The old man and the boat, the little shark sent by the sea, the old man is the representative of mankind, and in the old man's eyes he is a real shark; so, the old man cheered up. spirit, fighting to the death with the shark, a battle of conquest and counter-conquest, "big chunks of fish meat" and subsequent struggles, after the partial victory, when the old man felt that victory was within his grasp, "the shark suddenly...", the old man In the end, I was lucky to "triumph" with my hands empty.

After I first watched "The Old Man and the Sea", I just sighed, in the end, people don't know what they need or what they have conquered; I still sighed like this. After 9.11 and before, Bush may have never seen the old people in his hometown. The advice given to him: The old man and the sea challenged each other and conquered without mercy, but have you ever thought about whether people are relentlessly creating problems and then solving them? Who conquers whom in the end in this world? What to do after conquering, why conquer instead of... The connotation of ancient Chinese culture lies in affinity, rather than the power of conquest. Hemingway participated in American heroic thinking, which emphasized the power of conquest, but after he lost his sight, I began to think about the meaning of conquest, so there is the old man and the sea; the result of the United States in the Vietnam War, Hemingway is the old man in the Vietnam War, and the human consciousness of survival is the sea. If we blindly emphasize the conquest and possession of one life by another, even if Carrying out an unyielding process, the result was only what Hemingway wrote. The old man returned home empty-handed: "A man is not born to be defeated. You can eliminate him, but you will never defeat him." This is the way people are, What about other lives?