老人与海读后感_英文版(The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea)

A tough Man

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

---The Old Man and the Old Sea

I haven’t read the whole book of The Old Man and the Old Sea until this summer holiday. This time I really gain something new both in the way of expression and the spirit it shows to us.

T he Old Man and the Sea, which plays an important part in Hemingway’s winning the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for literature, has an irresistible beauty. It was written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It centers upon an aging Cuban fisherman, Santiago, goes far alone to fish and captures a large Marlin fish which is eaten by sharks later.

In this book, i n order to suggest the profundity of the old man’s sacrifice and the glory that derives from it, Hemingway purposefully likens Santiago to Christ, who, according to Christian theology, gave his life for the greater glory of humankind. Crucifixion imagery is the most noticeable way in which Hemingway creates the symbolic parallel between Santiag o and Christ. When Santiago’s palms are first cut by his fishing line, the reader cannot help but think of Christ suffering his stigmata. Later, when the sharks arrive, Hemingway portrays the old man as a crucified martyr, saying that he makes a noise similar to that of a man having nails driven through his hands. Furthermore, the image of the old man struggling up the hill with his mast across his shoulders recalls Christ’s march toward Calvary. Even the position in

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