老人与海读后感英文加翻译（经典20篇）

不久前，我读过一本令我尤为动容的小说。这部小说蕴含了深远而又令人发省的故事情节。它深深的叩击着我的心弦，让我为之着迷，可以说，这是我迄今为止读过的最有意义的

小说。它就是《老人与海》。

《老人与海》是现代美国小说作家海明威所著，他成功的塑造了一位“硬汉子”的形象，在他的笔下，这一形象被描写的淋漓尽致，充满着斗志。让我从他身上看到了一股从未有之的坚毅与乐观，感染着我每一处神经。

小说的主人公名叫桑提亚哥，是一位具有顽强意志力的老人。它主要围绕着老人出海捕鱼这一过程而写的，生动而又具体的把老人出海捕鱼的过程刻画的极其逼真，把老人那种不服输，勇于拼搏的精神详细而又深刻的写出来，使我对老人抱以无限的佩服。

在老人的捕鱼过程中充满着艰辛与苦难，尤其是在老人与马林鱼之间的激烈搏斗中，老人所展现出来的机智和自信，使得老人击败了那条鱼，成为老人的战利品。但当老人载着大鱼往回返时，沿途吸引了众多的鲨鱼尾随，它们都想夺取老人的战利品。这使得老人只好投入到新一轮的战斗中，尽管此时老人已精疲力竭。面对着强大的进攻者不断的挑衅，老人毫不示弱与之盘旋交锋，不断的自我安慰以增加作战的勇气和信心，其战况让人不由得为他捏了一把汗。我在读这一部分时，仿佛是亲眼看到老人乘着小舟在大海中与鲨鱼展开激烈较量的画面，而我只能通过作者的文字来感受其争斗的氛围。最终，老人凭着自己的超强意志力打败了一个接一个的进攻者，但却没能护住自己辛苦打拼而来的战利品。

这部小说着重展现了老人的精神与命运，整体故事情节环环相扣，有缓有急，赞美和讴歌了不服输的硬汉子精神。同时也使得我的精神得以随之升华，让我更加的对生活充满信心，也让我对身旁所发生的事情有了一个全新的理解与感悟。

《老人与海》中的老人象征着人类这种“打不败”的精神将代代相传，他是精神上的胜利者，在面对自己的目标以及周遭的邪恶势力时，积极的`与之抗衡。这告诫我们：在面对自己的目标时，我们要始终坚守我们的信念，要向老人学习他乐观的态度，勇敢的去实现自己的目标。

大家都说:“动物是我们的好朋友!”确实不错,有了动物,我们的生活也会变得更加充实。

有这样一位老人——背已经驼了,穿一身褪色的过时布衣,背一个褪色的蓝布包,装鸟食的塑料袋也褪了色。这身穿着真是太朴素了,太平常了,但这位老人的所作所为却平凡的伟大。

老人每天步行从郊区赶到翠湖公园,目的只有一个——给海鸥喂食。十几年来,老人从来都没有断过,天天如此。当然,时间久了,老人和海鸥之间已经建立了一层感情。老人把海鸥当做自己的儿女;海鸥把老人也当做亲人,可见,它们之间的关系无异于亲密无间。

终于有一天,老人不幸逝世了,他永远离开了我们,永远离开了他的“儿女”——海鸥。当鸥群知道这个消息时,它们围着老人的遗像翻飞盘旋。它们肃立不动,像是为了老人守灵的白翼天使。可见,海鸥们对老人有太多的感激,太多的爱。

这就是一位老人的坚持,一位老人对大自然动物们的爱!

看了这个故事,难道我们还把鸟儿关在笼子里,供自己玩弄,还是把它们送到广阔的蓝天呢?我们都有家,鸟儿也有家。它们的家就是蓝天,就是大自然。我们得为它们营造一个温馨、快乐的家!

看了这个故事,难道我们还让小动物们活生生的死掉,还是保护它们呢?

我们都有亲人,小动物也有亲人。我们知道失去亲人的痛苦,那么小动物也是如此。我们得保护它们,爱护它们,不在伤害它们!

看了这个故事,难道我们还要执迷不悟、无动于衷吗?难道我们就不能从中获得一些道理吗?不会,不会的,动物是我们的好朋友,好似我们的亲人,无论如何我们都不会向他们伸出那双恶手!

一位老人,平凡而伟大!

Some time ago read "the old man and the sea", "the old man and the sea" is Hemingway written in Cuba in 1951, a medium-length novel, was published in 1952. The old man and the sea is one of Hemingways most famous works, he tells the story of an old man fishing on the sea all the year round. Once he caught a big fish, but he had met on the way back to groups of sharks, the old man work hard and struggle, but failed in the end, the shark ate all of the meat, the old man dragged a pair of big fish skeleton back.

Novels of all time is very compact, before and after only four days: the day before at sea, the old man returned from the sea, with reference to play around the characters one by one, the relationship between the group and the old man, a love he, with his children learn fishing manolin; A pair of very selfish parents; A group of respected him, but always cant understand his fishing; A concerned about his hotel owners. The old man lived in such a character groups, by contrast, he had a significantly different with others, he is very optimistic, open-minded, is an experienced, the industrious and brave and confident, adventurous, deeply loves the life of a simple Cuban fisherman. At the same time, also can produce the hub-and-spoke structure clue clear, central focus highlight, the effect of the story is concise and lively.

The old man said: "a man is not born to defeat, you can destroy it, but cant beat him." Such never-say-die spirit inspires us, we should not learn this spirit?

前一段时间读了《老人与海》深有感触，《老人与海》是海明威于1951年在古巴写的一篇中篇小说，于1952年出版。《老人与海》是海明威最著名的作品之一，他讲述了一位常年在海上打渔的老人。有一次他钓到了一条大鱼，但他在返回的路上遇上了成群的的鲨鱼，老人使出浑身解数与其搏斗，但最后还是失败了，鲨鱼把肉全吃掉了，结果老人拖着一副大鱼骨架回去了。

小说的全部时间非常紧凑，前后只有四天：出海的前一天，一老人从海上归来为引子，让周围的人物一个个出场，交代了他们与老人之间的关系：一个热爱他，跟他在一起学习钓鱼的孩子马诺林;一对非常自私的父母;一群尊敬他，但永远不能理解他的打渔人;一个关心他的酒店老板。老人就生活在这样的人物群体中，相比之下，他与众人有着明显的不同，他很乐观，心胸开阔，是个经验丰富、充满信心、勤劳勇敢、富于冒险、热爱生活的纯朴的古巴渔民。同时，这种轮辐式结构还能产生线索清晰明了、中心集中突出、故事简洁明快的效果。

老人说：“一个人并不是生来就要给打败的，你可以消灭它，却不能打败他。”这种永不言败的精神激励着我们，我们不应该学习这样的精神吗?

I was very favor of a section of music in its balls. It’s pretty brisk, liked a wonderful song of a bird. Regarding to the characters, I liked Elizabeth, the he-ro-in-e,though I didn’t think she’s beautiful. But she’s smart. However, I didn’t pay much attention to the plot. I thought it’s so long that it made me impatient and bored. By now, I haven’t read the whole story in English or its Chinese version, either. I owe it to my prejudice. In fact, I didn’t understand the story at that time. I didn’t know why it called Pride and Prejudice. Of course someone was pride, but I didn’t find where’ s the prejudice. I thought it’s normal, the way people treated each other in that. I considered prejudice would be very disgusting. But to the movie everthing was OK in my minds, except its length. Now, I think I have understood more about it. I’m a prejudiced person so I can’t find where’s wrong.

I merely like to do the things I like. Everytime I meet somebody or something,my thinking about he or it all depends on my foregone experience and my mood of the time.

寒假里，我读了《老人与海》这本书，书中似乎只讲了一个非常简单的故事，但我认为故事里蕴含着深刻的道理，就是人们常说的小故事大道理。

书中写到，老渔夫每天独自驾着小船出海捕鱼，一连84天都毫无收获，但他并不生气，第85天照样信心满满再次出海，这次与平时不大相同，一只十八英尺长的大马林鱼咬钩了，这条鱼的力量非常大，它拖着小船整整漂流了三天三夜，老人在这三天三夜中经历了艰难考验，激起了老人和鱼搏斗的信心与决心，同时老人也对这条大鱼的坚持和勇敢充满了赞美与尊敬。经过三天三夜的搏斗，老人终于战胜了大鱼，并把它绑在了船头．然而在返航时却不幸遇上了鲨鱼，筋疲力尽的老人用尽全力与鲨鱼时行了搏斗，但那条大马林鱼却被鲨鱼咬得只剩下空空的骨架．老人历经一翻艰辛，最后拖回家只剩下一副光秃秃的鱼骨架和一身的伤，可还是得到了人们的赞赏。

读到这里，我很佩服老人的信心和决心和毅力，前84天没有打到鱼，但老人仍然坚持打鱼，换做是我，可能早就放弃了．特别是后来和鲨鱼三天三夜的搏斗，更是要具有常人无法具备的勇敢与坚持。

从这个故事中，我明白了两个道理：一个就是人不是生来就会被打败的；另一个是人可以毁灭,却不能挫败.这也是老人的真实写照。

These days Ive just finished the novel Uncle Toms Cabin that left a really deep impression on me and we can see.

It is a book written in 1852 in response to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law， Uncle Toms Cabin has been considered as the most influential anti-slavery novel in that period and described by Stowe herself as a “series of sketches” describing the human cruelty of slavery， opens with a description of Arthur Shelbys Kentucky plantation during the antebellum period.

There are several impressive characters in this novel， George who is clever and brave;Harry， a beautiful and talented child who sings dances and mimes;Mrs. Shelby， a very religious woman;Sambo and Qimbo and so on. The major character Uncle Tom who was the most impressive in this novel was a devout Christian. He endured the miserable fate bravely and aroused the whites sympathy for slaves with his Christs sacrifice and the tolerance of returning good for evil. This novel focuses on the distinctive personalities of Uncle Tom deeply influenced by Christianity and the important role Uncle Toms Cabin playing on abolition; and the Significance of “Uncle Tom” to the harmonious worlds development， and the effect on modern people.

In the book， at the beginning， the author presents us a very beautiful image of a rather harmonious family who live a happy life. However， that beautiful image couldnt last long， the darkness came soon. The master of this happy family， Uncle Tom was arranged into a difficult situation. As Shelby， the not cruel master， he has incurred serious debts- prompting him sell some slaves to avoid financial ruin， so Uncle Tom， Shelbys loyal servant since childhood was sold to Mr. Haley， the slave trader. Uncle Tom remained loyal to his master， despite his betrayal and the risk of death at the cruel hands of a new master. The slaves at the plantation were very mournful， but Tom remained placid and tried to read his Bible for fort. On the steamboat to New Orleans， where Tom was to be sold， Tom befriended an angelic little girl， “Little Eva” St. Clare. Uncle Tom saved the five-year-old beauty from drowning， and she convinced her father to buy Tom for her own family. In her family， Tom enjoye.

d his life because of the girls love; Toms contentment does not last， however， because Eva soon falls ill. Dying， Eva asked Mr. St. Clare to free Tom after her death. But Mr. St. Clare is so sad by her death that he never legally freed Tom before he himself was killed trying to mediate a barroom scuffle. Mrs. St. Clare sold the slaves to settle her husbands debts and Tom was sold to Simon Legree who was so violent that beat his slaves brutally. At last， when Mr. Shelby， finally found Uncle Tom， he was almost died. After Tom was dead and buried， Shelby went back and freed his slaves.

As we all can see that Uncle Toms Cabin was an anti-slavery novel and it was even considered as one factor that caused the Civil War. In the novel， the slaves were sold from one place to another frequently， and their fate was tragic， with no exception- just like Uncle Tom， no matter he was under the control of kind masters or evil masters， he cant escape the misfortune of being sold from one master to another. We cant see any human right of them， so terrible.

As someone said， with more people realizing the inhumanity of slavery in the 19th century， slavery became one of the most important issues and it became more violent year by year in American society. However， slavery was not abolished irrevocably until ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in 1865， following the Civil War. After the passage of Fugitive Slave Act of 1850， Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this novel Uncle Toms Cabin which publicized the evil of slavery to a wide audience.

Now we are in the 21st century， we may never e across such kind of thing. However， this book can always remind of us that there ever has existed this evil and we cant let it happen again. And “equality” 、“human right ” cant just be a slogan， we should make it e true really and always.

读完《老人与海》，我的心久久不能平静。

八十四个日日夜夜，老渔夫圣地亚哥在海上什么也没有捕到，其他的渔民都嘲笑他，说他是一个失败者。于是第二天，他坚定信念，到大家都不敢去的深海捕鱼。他和一只大马林鱼搏斗了三天三夜，终于将它捕获。当他踏上归途时，却遇到了一只鲨鱼，奋力抵抗了多日，才脱离险境。可鱼肉在搏斗中被撕扯，只剩下一具硕大的鱼骨。

八十四天，一无所获，是寂寞的，难熬的。经历这么大的磨难，挫折和嘲笑，老渔夫仍然挺了过来，坚定自己的信念，坚持着自己的初衷，勇敢地向深海进发。

深海中的一只大马林鱼，既是猎物，又随时可能转变为猎人。他没有畏惧也没有退缩，勇敢地去与之搏斗。三天三夜，任是精力多么旺盛的人，也会被耗得精疲力竭，可他靠着坚韧的意志，坚持下来并取得了胜利。

最后与鲨鱼的搏杀，尽管结局不那么美好——鱼只剩下了骨架。可在这一次次的搏斗中，老渔夫收获到了永不放弃的信念，执着向前的坚持，逆境中不服输的精神，勇敢与困难作斗争的拼搏和坚韧的意志。这些已经远远大于了一只鱼的价值。因为有了这些品质和精神，在今后的生活中，不管遇到什么，问题都会迎刃而解。他从一次次磨难中，明白了成长的真谛。

生活更是如此，只有经历磨难，才能从中吸取经验和教训，获得成长。只有积极乐观地去面对它们，才能不被其所阻。困难面前的我们十分渺小，但我们可以努力让自己变得强大。

一本好书，值得去细细品读，从中有所感，有所悟。

1.(凶险可怕) dangerous; perilous; ominous

详细解释

(1).险峻而贫瘠。《史记·张仪列传》：“ 韩 地险恶山居，五穀所生，非菽而麦，民之食大抵菽饭藿羹。一岁不收，民不饜糟糠。”

(2).危险可怕。 唐 韩愈 《泷吏》诗：“险恶不可状，船石相舂撞。” 明 刘基 《公无渡河》诗：“世路如何险恶实多，平地倏忽滔天风波。” 郁达夫 《感伤的行旅》：“﹝我们﹞谈到了社会上的险恶的人心。”

A Tale of Two Cities is one of Dickens’s masterpieces; the story is an exposure of the contradiction before France Revolution-the appealing of “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” by France lower class.

The main clue of the novel is based on the terrible experience of Dr. Manette, the plot is very complex, attracting, and exciting. Lying at the heart of which we can see the themes from different people.

Sydney Carton

When I read the chapter pertaining to interrogation on Charles Darney, intuition tells that the lawyer assistant who feels at ease with his eyes fixed on the ceiling must be a very special man, which turned out to be right when I finished the whole book. He seems indifferent about everything, even his love. He is brilliant but he thinks otherwise, or rather, he thinks he is inferior to others. Even his master thinks that if he worried about this or that, he would make a great success. Feeling of humbleness is the fatal point leading the loss of his beloved one. If Lucie Manette lives with him, he thinks, she would sustain much hardship. At the end of the story, he sacrifices his life for his love willingly.

Many people say that love is selfish and egocentric, but the temperament of Sydney Carton tells us that love can be sublime and pure. Through this, Dickens tells us loving someone doesn’t mean you should live together with him or her. You can help your beloved one silently, even sacrifice for love. This is universal fraternity, I think, which is the sublimation of normal love. And also, Dickens may indicate that true love really exists, regardless of the situation is full of commotion or not.

Charles Darney

He’s born at a family of royal lineage-the son of Marquis. Regret and abomination fill in his mind for the cruelty and the crime his family have done to the poor. He determines to quit the right of inheritance of his family and moves to England to acting as a French teacher. When he comes back to France, his notorious and sadistic uncle who holds the succession of the family doesn’t welcome him. His uncle is doomed to death because of his cruelty. When he returns to England, he proposes marriage to Lucie Manette. He knows his proposal may not be accepted by Dr.Manette, for he is the son of the enemy of Dr.Manette. After the France Revolution breaks out, he returns to France again to save a servant. But unfortunately, he’s cast into prison.

Lucie Manette

She goes to France with Jarvis Lorry to take her father back, she shows great sympathy to Sydney Carton, and she prayed his husband would get an early deliverance from captivity.

She is a kind-hearted lady made of love and sympathy; she is also the incarnation of elegance.

Dr.Manette

As a victim of the gloom society, he lives a miserable and contradictory life. After releasing from prison, the only thing he does is making shoes, which become worse when he comes across a harsh situation. He loves his daughter just as she does to him, even when he knows that Charles Darney is the son of his enemy, he allow the proposal. And when he notices his daughter was totally down to know the fact that her husband was put into prison, he promise to her that he will rescue him out. He spares no effects to do that, in vain, though.

From this person, Dickens may tells that love between the lower-class family members are as pure as crystal.

Jarvis Lorry

An elderly manager at Tellsons Bank and a dear friend of Dr. Manette. He is very loyal to Dr. Manette. He accompanies them all the time without considering his own life.

Couple Defarge

They’re the leader of the revolution. Ernest Defarge, to some extent, is a good man. He was the servant of Dr.Manette, he provides accommodation for him. But his wife, Madame Defarge, is really a wicked woman. She knits all the time, she wants to kill all the people who lead a richer or happier life just out of envying and revenge. The result turns out to be dramatic: she’s killed by herself as a consequence that the gun goes off by accident.

Resurrection maybe is the main theme in the novel. Dickens here implied that he doesn’t agree the upper class treat the poor badly, meanwhile, he doesn’t agree the lower-class to overthrow the upper class. He hopes that they can live in harmony with each other. Underneath the lines, Dickens wants his readers to be careful that the same sort of revolution that so damaged France wont happen in Britain, which is shown to be nearly as unjust as France. But his warning is addressed not to the British lower classes, but to the aristocracy. He repeatedly uses the metaphor of sowing and reaping; if the aristocracy continues to plant the seeds of a revolution through behaving unjustly, they can be certain of harvesting that revolution in time. The lower classes do not have any agency in this metaphor: they simply react to the behavior of the aristocracy. In this sense it can be said that while Dickens sympathizes with the poor, he identifies with the rich: they are the books audience, its "us" rather than its "them". Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

梦想就在前方，努力地去争取吧，可能在通往梦想的道路上会遇到数不尽的艰辛、苦难，但，一旦你朝着梦想努力，总有一天你会达到目标，并且为自己而自豪。有的时候，已经到了，梦想却从你身边溜走，也许你会失望，会灰心，但请不要这样，回头看看，看看你经历过的一切，你战胜过多少艰难险阻，你已经何等的勇敢！

在这篇文章里，处处刻画出了桑提亚哥的性格，他孤独，乐观，计划做事，不打无准备之仗，他目标远大，永不言弃。这些性格都给了我们种种启示。

他曾有妻子，但已去世的妻子只成了画像。他也有过年轻时的辉煌，并曾在角力中荣获过人人羡慕的“冠军”。但是现在，他却成了一面古老破败、伤痕累累的旗。他不再梦见风暴，不再梦见伟迹，不再梦见大鱼，不再梦见搏斗，不再梦见角力，不再梦见他的妻子。现在的他，仿佛已一无所有。但是，他不被孤独所羁绊，依然努力地工作着，偶尔也会有怀念，但是他知道，他拥有整片大海！他告诉我们——人，要懂得耐住寂寞。

84天没钓到一条鱼！这是给一个渔人多么大的打击！可是桑提亚哥并不灰心，他乐观的对待一切。他知道，只有保持一颗积极向上，乐观的心，他才能永不止步的前进下去。生活中的我们也要保持乐观的心态，不要消极处事。当然，乐观不代表“傻开心”，而是一种对生活的积极态度。——请保持乐观，这是桑提亚哥给我们的启示。

1.(不愉快) be unhappy; be displeased; be in low spirits

2.(不舒服) be indisposed; feel under the weather; (feel) unwell; be out of sorts

3.(慢) slow

详细解释

◎ 不快 bùkuài

(1)

[be unhappy;be displeased]∶[心情]不愉快

(2)

[feel under the weather;be slightly unwell]∶[身体]不舒服

(3)

[slow]∶慢

(4)

[blunt]∶刀不锋利

(1).不愉快，不高兴。《易·艮》：“艮其腓，不拯其随，其心不快。” 汉 王符 《潜夫论·述赦》：“从事督察，方怀不快，而姦猾之党，又加诬言。”《二刻拍案惊奇》卷九：“ 素梅 只得怀着不快，跟着孺人去了。” 峻青 《秋色赋·夜宿灵山》：“几位因为旅途受阻而心情不快的同伴，现在也被这血淋淋的图画惊呆了。”

(2).不适;有病。《后汉书·华陀传》：“体有不快，起作一禽之戏，怡而汗出。” 宋 苏轼 《进单锷吴中水利书状》：“自 长桥 挽路之成，公私漕运便之，日茸不已，而 松江 始艰噎不快。” 明 冯梦龙 《挂枝儿·伤病》：“玉人儿，这几日，身子有些不快。”《醒世姻缘传》第十七回：“ 晁源 从那晌午身上不快，不曾吃午饭就睡了。”

(3).不好，不吉。 元 马致远 《陈抟高卧》第四折：“命不快，遭逢着这火醉婆娘。”

《麦琪的礼物》讲述了一对穷困的年轻夫妇忍痛割爱互赠圣诞礼物的故事，反映了美国下层人民生活的艰难，赞美了主人公善良的心地和纯真爱情。下面是语文迷网为大家提供的英语读后感范文，供大家参考。

Its a short story by O.Henry that has moved me for a long time.Maybe most of you are familar with its name,that is,The Gift of the Magi.I have read it many times but every time I like to read it slowly and deliberately.I think "The Gift of the Magi"

is meant to be savored.

Maybe there is no necessity for me to repeat the main idea of the story.But Im

so fascinated with the short story that I want to retell it yo you,and to myself.

It happened to a very poor but blissful young couple named Jim and Della in the end of 18th century in England.Because of the maladies of that society and the effect of economic crisis,they worked hard but earned little.Life is very hard for them.Despite of this,their love to each other and the enthusiasm for life didnt changed at all.When Chrismas day was approuching ,Della used the money she got from selling her beautiful hair which she treasured very much to give Jim a fob for his grandfathers pocket watch.But Jim had already sold that watch to buy Della tortoiseshell combs to wear in her long hair,not knowing shed cut it off.

It appears that the gifts they gave each other have been useless.But I think they gave each other the best of what they had to make the other happy.Isnt that true love?We can image,in such rough conditions,as it said in the story,"Life is made up of sobs,sniffles,and smiles,with sniffles predominating."Itst absolute reasonable for them to be beaten by the misery.But the fact is that no matter how tough life had been,they wouldt lose heart.With strong faith and their love ,they did their best to make the other pleased."Whennever Mr.James came home and reached his flat ,above he was called Jimand greatly hugged by Mrs.James."Maybe this account is the best description of their love and struggle against hard life.It was said that the povertier life is ,the firmer and truer love is."Actually,theyd given the very best they had out of love.

"They are too foolish children in a flat,who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house.But in a last word,to the wise of these days,let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest."Said the writer in the last paragraph.Yes,they are wisest.They are the magi.Are there any reasons for us not to show respect for the young couple?

I remind my grandparents.They have spent fifty years together.No romantic words,no stirring behaviours,just comman even pedestrian life.But I can say love exists in every detail of their life.They have gone through war period,three years natural disasters,cultural revolution and so on.But no matter what happens,they are always considering for the other.Even now both of them have become old step by step,they still cared about each other.My grandparents,in my opinion,is a pair of lovers forever.

Love has nothing to do with money,possession or status.Its consideration,tolerance and respect.Its giving ones best to the other even it means sacrifice.Its affection which connects two persons hearts,and its reinforced by adversities.

Struggle against adversities.Nothing did they have,at least they owened love.Never give up as long as love exists.From"The Gift of the Magi",from Jim and Della and from my grandparents,I have learned a lot about love,life and hope.

这个暑假我读了《老人与海》，这本书是美国现代著名作家海明威的代表作品。

故事讲的是一个老渔夫，年轻时身强力壮，很出色，曾经和一个黑人掰手腕，掰一天一夜，最后胜利了。到了晚年，他妻子死后，就独自住在海边的小茅棚里。

有一次他乘小船去打鱼，可连打了84天，一条鱼都没有打到，他不放弃，再次出海，这次打到了一条巨鱼，可这时他已经筋疲力尽，却来了一群鲨鱼企图抢走老人好不容易打到的巨鱼。

于是老人拼尽全力保护他的“战利品”，可到最后他并未保住完整的鱼，鱼也只剩下了一堆残骨。可在我看来，这堆残骨见证了老人不屈不挠的精神！老人与鲨鱼对抗中，就像当面他与黑人扳手腕一样——永不放弃，最终取得了真正的胜利！

这本书让我懂得了一个道理：一个人并不是生来就神威无敌和不可打败的，只有你尽全力，敢于面对一次次的打击、挫折，才能锤炼出一个人的铮铮铁骨！就能创造出与老人一样无敌的不败神话！

Crazily, but truthfully, I finished reading the most part of the novel "A Tale of Two Cities" in just one day. Lost in the story, I felt like being together with the characters and experiencing the same exciting events. Soon it came to an end. To tell you my feelings, its infinite sadness and a strong emotion that can drive me to cry.

The story is set in London and Paris at the time of the great French Revolution. It shows the causes of revolution and its effects on peoples day-to-day lives. Before the revolution, the King and the aristocracy treated their people cruelly in France. The common people were extremely poor and miserable. The crops in the fields were poor as if even the land shared the misery of the people. And there were so heavy taxes that all the villagers had nothing to hand over at last. On the other hand, the aristocracy made their will as the law by using money and gold. There were no justice, no equality and no fairness. Just as what happened to Dr Manette,he wrote to the Minister to show the crime what Marquis Evremonde had done, resulting in himself being arrested and sent to the prison Bastille without any reason.

Then this situation of darkness was needed to be changed. As people such as the Defarges prepared and arranged, at length the Revolution came to break out. When the Bastille was captured and the King was tried and put to death as well as many other aristocrats, things didnt go on as what they had been expected. The situation stayed the same, or even worse. The prisoners from the Bastille were set free while more prisons were filled with people who had done no wrong again. People who once lived on the bottom of class took the charge now and their heart had been full of evil. The only thing they wanted to do was to revenge. And these so-called "patriots" would like to see more and more innocent prisoners going to the guillotine and thats their joy. As the novel wrote,” In everything they did were merciless, for they had been hardened in the fires of suffering and the touch of pity could make no mark on them".

Equality and fairness is what people seek,which led to the French Revolution.As a consequence,neither equality nor fairness was got after the revolution.And thats the tragedy of the history.I was heavyhearted when reading what Sydney Carton said before death and I burst into tears finally.

我像很多读者一样，感兴趣的时候便像发泄一般，写一篇抒发情感的读后感。这次我阅读的是美国作家海明威的著作《老人与海》，这是一本另很多人深思的书，理解也有不同，但在大范围而言却也免不了千人一面的恶俗。

作者笔下深刻出的人物形象，那是一个年过六旬的老人，准确的说是一个老渔夫。他一个人出海打鱼，似乎我们可以想象的到，那是一个多么茕茕孑立的情景，但老人不以为然。从中看出的是勇气，还有不朽的雄心，哪怕最后壮志难酬。老人先前经历过许多次的失败，对于现代社会安逸享乐的人们怕是早已丢盔弃甲，可是老人并没有，这是一种永不言弃的精神是一种人们严重缺乏的强大精神。

一个老人可以是疲倦苍老的，毕竟岁月确实剥夺了他奋起的决心，让他拖着满是风霜侵蚕食过的躯体，布满沟渠的脸上深陷的眼睛中，或许只能留下晦暗不清。但然而作者笔下的老人更胜很多青壮年，经过84天没有捕到一条鱼却仍然凭着坚忍不拔的毅力，带着恍若固执的决心，义无反顾的同大海搏斗，最终战胜“大马林鱼”，虽然已经被鲨鱼吃光，但哪怕只是留下的白色鱼骨，也确确实实的象征着那么一个“硬汉”形象。

《老人与海》这本海明威的著作，令许多人深思感慨的小说。时时刻刻歌颂着老人不畏艰辛，奋勇向前的精神也告诉着人们记住永不言败的重要性，哪怕最后的结果是失败，但至少你经历过！我们不能永远安于现状，要做一匹值得鞭策的马，跑上辉煌的高峰。没有半途而废，没有自哀自怜，这样。我们才能获得更大的成功和胜利。

Elizabeth resourcefulness, have courage, visionary, have very strong self-respect, and be good at thinking. It is because of this quality, just make her have independent opinion on the emotional problems, and prompted her and the darcy composition content family.

Books as the name implies, pride and prejudice, and in the book is male leading the obstacle of the love, but in the real society is also a communication barriers between people, but also in the right attitude towards themselves, treat things in a stumbling block. In real life, we will also often because of his unilateral idea but myself with others, so we have to overcome the "pride and prejudice", take the initiative to understand others. Each person actually are easy to be driven by their own subjective impression, and therefore easy to incorrect comment on other people, thus caused the misunderstanding between each other. A man give first impression is can affect many things, but not must not change, want to have a more in-depth understanding, in order to have a more objective point argument, just like the heroine of the story of darcys view, is because understanding just change. The book reaction of social reality is so hit the nail on the head, she is about marriage, has nothing to do with love.

伊丽莎白聪敏机智，有胆识，有远见，有很强的自尊心，并善于思考问题。正是由于这种品质，才使她在情感问题上有独立的主见，并促使她与达西组成美满的家庭。

书如其名，傲慢与偏见，在书中是男女主角爱情上的障碍，但在现实社会中也是人们相互之间交流的障碍，更是在正确对待自己，对待事物上的绊脚石。在现实生活中，我们也会经常因为自己单方面的想法而是自己与他人隔开，所以我们要克服“傲慢与偏见”，主动了解他人。每一个人其实都很容易被自己的主观印象所驱使，因而容易对别的人下不正确的注解，进而造成了彼此之间的误会。一个人所给予的第一印象固然可以影响到很多事，但并非一定不会改变，要有更加深入的了解，才能有更客观一点的论点，就好像故事中女主角对达西的看法，就是因为了解才有所改变。此书反应的社会现实确是如此一针见血，她讲的是婚姻，与爱情无关。

以下是《九年级英语作文:我和哥哥的历险记》翻译。

It was sunny that day. Our parents were out, so there were only my brother and me at home. We were bored. So we decided to go boating. We played happily. But when we went to the middle of the river, the weather changed. It rained suddenly. We didn t bring umbrella and our boat was bamboo raft. As the rain was more and heavier, we were afraid to sink in the river. We tried our best to make our boat in shore. But our bamboo raft had more water on it. I was afraid to die. My brother was also very anxious. At that time, my mother came and she pulled us back to the ground. It was thrilling.

那是一个晴天。我们的父母都出去了，所以只有我和哥哥在家。我们很无聊。所以我们决定去划船。我们玩的很开心。但当我们走到河中央时，天气变了。突然下起雨来。我们没带伞，而且我们的船还竹排。由于雨越来越大，我们担心会沉到河里去。我们尽力使我们的船靠岸。但是竹筏上的水越来越多。我害怕死了。我哥哥也很着急。那时，我妈妈来了来了，她把我们拉回到地面。真的惊心动魄啊。

《红字》讲述了发生在北美殖民时期的恋爱悲剧。看完这部小说后就来看看语文迷为大家整理的英语读后感吧，希望你喜欢。

The Scarlet Letter offers an extraordinary insight into the norms and behavior of the 17th century if American Puritan society. The basic conflicts and problems of its main characters, however, are familiar to readers in the present. The female protagonist, has borne a child out of wedlock and has been jailed for over three months and sentenced to wear a symbol of her adultery, a scarlet “A” on her dress at all times. It concerns about the moral, emotional and psychological effect of the sin on people in general. It’s not simply a love story or a story of sin. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the scarlet letters to symbolize the harshness of Puritan society, showing how they brand sinners for life. 英语文摘mmkey

The story happened in Boston about 200 years ago. It narrates love affairs between three persons. The punished woman. Hester Prynne and his husband. Who called himself Roger Chillingworth . He is an old misshapen man and a doctor. Hester does not love him at all. Another man is a young minister, Dimmesdale, who has a high position among ministers and is highly respected among his people in town. Hester and Dimmesdale love each other. But their love is forbidden in that time . It is sinful. Due to this,Hester is punished by society with a letter A on her chest, which considered an evil, a shame.

In this novel, the mainline seems to be around the letter A. Hester is brave enough to face the cruel reality. She is always with a mind of courage. She has been alone with her child for so long , with litter communication. Shame! Hopelessness! Loneliness! Hester has to wear the letter A day after day, seven years as for punishment and ill fame.

When a woman has lived through a difficult experience, her character changes a great deal. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will leave her .Hester’s charitable deeds and quiet humility have earned her a reprieve from the scorn of the community. The letter on her chest represents her work on earth , always helping others, without expecting any thanks. Never afterwards, does that scarlet letter leave her chest. The townspeople no longer view the letter as a punishment , but rather as representing her great strength and bravery and thy say it means “Able”.

But Arthur Dimmesdale, his sin against Hester and Pearl is that he will not acknowledge them as his wife and daughter in the daylight. He keeps his dreadful secret from all those under his care in the church for seven years for fear that he will lose their love and will not be forgiven. He is too weak to admit his sins. He suffers from mysterious heart trouble, seemingly caused by psychological distress. What’s worse, he is an advisor to the townspeople about their sins.

After Mr. Dimmesdale’s death , no one changes more in appearance than Roger Chilling worth. All his strength and energy has been used to harm his patient . This unhappy man has made his aim in life to add to the suffering of the young minister. When the evil old man no longer has such a purpose, the devil takes him back to the hell . It is a curious subject of observation, however, whether hatred or love are not of the same place. Each takes a great deal of emotion from one person. The two feelings seem basically the same, expect that one is smiled upon by God, while the other is worshipped by the devil.

The two lovers has ever decided to flee to Europe, where they can live with their dauthter Pearl as a family .They feel a sense of release there. However, their plan fails…… When Hester dies, she is buried next to Dimmesdale. The two share a single tombstone, with a deep colored letter A shining brightly.

《红字》是美国小说家霍桑最杰出的代表作,也是整个美国浪漫主义小说中最有声望的权威作品之一.小说的故事发生在十七世纪中期加尔文者派统治下的波士顿,作者从当时的社会现状入手,通过一个感人的爱情故事悲剧来揭露当局对人们精神,心灵和道德的摧残.

海丝特*白兰是一个在婚姻上遭到不幸的女人,年轻美貌,却嫁给了身体畸形多病的术士罗杰*齐灵沃斯,夫妻间根本谈不上爱情,后来,罗杰又在海上失踪,杳无音讯,白兰孤独的过着日子.这时一个英俊有气魄的青年牧师,亚瑟*丁梅斯代尔闯入了她的生活,他们真诚的相爱了,度过了一段隐私但热烈的爱情生活.不久,白兰由于怀孕的隐情暴露,以通*罪被抓,在狱中生下了女儿小珠儿.

按照当时的教规,白兰只有交代*夫的姓名才能获得赦免,否则将受惩罚.然而执行审讯任务的却正是他的情人.白兰宁愿独自忍受任何惩罚,为了把她和丁梅斯代尔之间的爱情深深地埋在心中,她坚强的挺住了.

海丝特*白兰受到了惩罚,她必须终身穿着一件绣着红色A字的外衣.字母A代表"通*(Adultery)"一词.白兰带着小珠儿离群独居,在郊外偏僻的茅舍中过者孤寂的生活.而用心险恶的前夫罗杰发现了丁梅斯代尔的反常表现,利用牧师痛苦和矛盾的心情,不断地折磨他,终于丁梅斯代尔在他即将升为主教的前夕,当众宣布了自己的秘密,丁梅斯代尔向周围的人们展露了这首爱情的颂歌.当他把自己的胸衣扯开时,一个猩红的A字烙在他的胸前.他在自己的爱人身边离开了人世.

海丝特*白兰,他坚强,有毅力,对爱情忠贞不渝.虽然被统治者认为有罪,但她是清白的,纯洁的.她的精神不断上升,成为真,善,美的化身.她的举动是对封建政权与教权压迫下的爱情,人权和自由的充分肯定.

丁梅斯代尔最初与白兰产生了炽热的的爱情,虽然他一度退却了,为自己能够隐蔽的安慰,但内心的痛苦并没有因他的安全而平息,相反,越来越强烈.他与白兰的约会,他在枷刑台上的自我忏悔,他们的逃跑计划,以及最后的公开演说,都成为了丁梅斯代尔向着爱情的祭坛一步步走近的脚印.最后他扯开上衣,人们见到了烙在他胸口的红色A字.这个A字实际上是烙在他的心上的,这是爱情的升华.

作者用蔷薇花象征美与善,用监狱象征死亡,用一道光,一只鸟……象征丁梅斯代尔与白兰之间的爱情的结晶——小珠儿,使作品充满着一股迷人的魄力.

在作品的最后,在白兰和丁梅斯代尔合用的墓碑上刻着这样一句话:"一片墓地上,刻着血红的A字."这句话不可谓不意味深长.

今天中午，我读了美国著名作家海明威的小说《老人与海》。我十分服气小说中老渔夫的意志，他让我知道了一一定要有坚持不懈的，才能获得成功。

小说描述的是一个年近六旬的老渔夫，在一次单身出海打鱼时，钓到了一条大鱼，却拉不上来。老渔夫同鱼周旋了几河汉，才发现这是一条超越自己渔船数倍的大马林鱼，固然明知很难取胜，但若是不放弃。后来又因大马林鱼伤口上的鱼腥味引来了几群沙鱼抢食，但老人仍不肯就这样放弃，最终突稳重围，将大鱼带回了渔港，让其他渔夫服气不已。

一个简单的故事，一个平凡的老人，一条普通的大马林鱼，在茫茫大海上发生了看似平凡而又不平凡的经历。

也没有大海，就没有鱼，没有鱼，也就没有鱼夫，同样也就没有折断不凡的经历了。正因为有了大海，才让鱼夫钓上了一条大马林鱼，但却在海上拖了三天三夜才把鱼杀死，但又遭到鲨鱼的袭击，贼后的结局可想而知，这条大马林鱼只剩下了鱼头鱼尾和一条脊骨。一切的肉体都不复存在了，剩下的只是一个躯壳，一个没有灵魂的躯壳，任人摆布。但是谁又愿意去操控它呢?它只不过是一堆毫无利用价值的骨架。

然而，一个悲剧性的故事里，却折射出一个“英雄人物”——老人圣地亚哥。连续八十四天没有捕到鱼，在别人眼中他是一个失败者。因为作为鱼夫，捕不到鱼，还能算是真正的鱼夫吗?而可贵的还是他却能在第八十五天决心驶向远方的大海去钓鱼，那种“知其不可为而为之”的勇气，难道不令我佩服吗?不论是鱼叉，小刀，短棍。一次一次被鲨鱼带走，但他始终用尽一切手段进行反击，什么也无法摧残他英勇的意志。一句“我跟你奉陪到死”，夹杂在大海的咆哮声中，回响在我耳旁。一个人把生命都压上去了，与敌人做殊死的博斗，能不算英勇吗?我想鲨鱼正是宇宙间一切破坏性力量的化身，而老人正是正义的使者。在人的一身中随时随地都存在这股破坏力量，人生是不停地循环着，喜剧的落幕，不就是悲剧的上演;悲剧的落幕，也就意味着喜剧的再度登场。老人将大马林鱼杀死看似是完美的结果，但同时他也还在“酝酿”这自己的悲剧。鲨鱼的袭击，就是应得的报应。一个人活在世上总是有所追求的，无论追求的东西是好是坏，追求的手段是正义，是卑劣，也许能够得到就是最好的结果吧。在充满悲剧色彩的全之中，仍有一丝亮点，那就是孩子。孩子带回了老人的青春，使他找回了自我。如果没一个人都拥有一份童心，一份天真，那世界不再总是灰色，就算当时你享有的是最后的晚餐，也不回忘记饭前洗手，饭后漱口了。

回想起文中老人的话“人不是为失败而生的，一个人可以被毁灭，但不能给打败”，不正道出了本文的主体吗?人正的是很奇怪的动物，为何有勇气面对死亡，却没有勇气面对失败呢?难道失败真的如此可怕吗?冷冷的海风里夹杂着一股血腥，也许真正害怕的可能是这些吧!

小说歌颂了老渔夫不畏艰险尽力奋斗的精神，我们也应弄像他那样，不能满足于近况，应弄积极向上，做任何事都要坚持不懈，碰到困难要迎难而上，决不能半途而废。只有这样，我们才能获得更大的成功和成功

读《老人与海》心灵受到极大震动。这种共鸣其实是内心深处对它所散发的人性光辉的一种共鸣的呼喊。它让我开始思索，应该过一种什么样的人生，什么才是坚强。什么是成，什么是败。什么样的生命才有价值。

他的手已经沾满老茧，皮肤也已经被刺眼的阳光晒出斑点，那艘破烂的渔船也不能抵御什么风暴，自己那破旧的小屋也是外面下大雨里面下小雨的那种。八十四天，一条鱼也没逮住。帆上用面粉袋片打了些补丁，收拢后看来象是一面标志着永远失败的旗子。可是，除了那双眼睛，它们像海水一般蓝，是愉快而不肯认输的。

老人是乐观的。他依旧和那个小男孩聊棒球，去酒馆喝酒聊天，用谎言来修饰穷困的生活，仍然天天早上迎着第一缕阳光出海捕鱼。无论有没有收获，他都会坚持出海捕鱼，这不只是因为他要依靠捕鱼谋生，而是捕鱼已经成了他生活的一部分，他的一种记忆。这就是人。首先，活着，宽容的对待一切。嘲笑、冷漠、甚至唯一能够喜欢和他在一起的孩子也被家长带走之后，他依然能够笑着面对，为他后来悲壮的胜利打下了伏笔。

老人是有信心的。那长年积累的经验和技巧使他对自己充满信心。他相信自己一定能够捕捉到大鱼。老渔夫想:这里离海岸实在是太近了，也许在更远的地方会有更大的鱼……“为了得到时机，他甚至渴望遇到走失的鱼群。终于在他没有捕到鱼的八十五天，他用一条大青鱼做诱饵，他把岸和太阳都甩开，开始了他英雄的旅程。”一艘船越过世界的尽头，驶向未知的大海，船头上悬挂着一面虽然饱经风雨剥蚀却依旧艳丽无比的旗帜，旗帜上，舞动着云龙一般的四个字闪闪发光——超越极限!“

老人是耐性的。海下六百英尺的大鱼好象是有灵性的。水面无波，那条鱼在海底静静的和老人比拼耐力，做着一场风雨欲来前的殊死搏斗。三天三夜。饥饿、疲惫，困倦，伤痛、孤单，越来越强烈的人的极限。哪个都是不亚于那条大鱼带来的危险。他与其说是在征服鱼，还不如说是在征服他自己。超越极限。”鱼啊，“老人轻轻地说出声来，”我跟你奉陪到死。“生命此时不是赌博，而是一种抗衡。

老人是多情的。他怜悯起这条被他钓住的大鱼来了。它真出色，真奇特。对对手的赞美，体现着老人丰富善良的情感。因为这种大马林鱼总是成双出现，雄鱼有食物总是先让着雌鱼。所以最先上钩的也是雌鱼。当雄鱼见到雌鱼被抓后始终不肯离开，最后雄鱼在船边高高地跳到空中，看看雌鱼在哪里，然后掉下去，钻进深水。老人这个时候是哀伤的。他捕鱼是他英雄主义的荣誉而不是仇恨。

老人是勇敢的。老人说:人不是为失败而生的，你尽可以把他消灭掉，但是永远不会打败他。永不言败的坚强让老人做为自然人体现了人性中最美丽的一面。

老人将带血的手放进海里，血水交融，人也融进了海的魂，激进而坚强。鱼毕竟是鱼，它开始了反抗。一场征服与反征服的斗争开始。斗智斗勇，这是一场真正的较量。经验和熟练的技巧显然此时发挥着巨大作用，他像一个军事家一样，知道鱼的心理，做着战前充分的准备。他时时鼓励自己，给自己加油。”要沉着，要有力，老头儿，“他说。

他赞美对手:我从没见过比你更庞大、更美丽、更沉着或更崇高的东西，老弟。来，把我害死吧。我不在乎谁害死谁。他让自己时刻保持清醒，甚至换位思考:你必须保持头脑清醒。保持头脑清醒，要像个男子汉，懂得怎样忍受痛苦。或者像一条鱼那样，他想。他征服了那条大鱼。

这场大马林鱼的征服不是战争的结束。回程是快乐的。然而鲨鱼出现了。灰鲭鲨、加拉诺鲨、成群的鲨鱼……鱼叉、小刀、短棒，搏斗。他终于回到了岸。

老人是英雄。”它从鼻子到尾巴有十八英尺长，“那量鱼的渔夫叫道。那是老人拉回来的死鱼的残骸。从物质上来说，老人搏斗了三天三夜的结果是失败了;但从人的精神、从人的自信自尊，从人勇于和命运作竭尽全力的抗争来说，圣提亚哥取得了胜利。他是真正的英雄。使人潸然泪下的绝对会是那副残骸，那是英雄胜利的祭品也是胜利品，只有它才配走上人类最圣洁的祭坛。那是人内心深处最高大的地方。

说到底，人的真正胜利也只能是精神的胜利。人在物质上无论取得多大的成就，都不能赢得我们崇高的敬意。而只有精神和气魄的胜利，才使我们感动，才使我们和追随老人的孩子一样，为他的悲壮落泪。

整篇文章，其实就是人和自然的决斗，是人战胜自我，征服自我，超越极限的争斗。老人其实是人类的化身。海是人类征服的一切。人类的不完美让人类追求，人类的追求成就着人类的完美。人性的光辉体现在这部巨着中诠释了人活着应有的品格，人活着为了什么。那就是:人应该是乐观的，不屈服的对待一切;人应该是有耐性的，一切的诸如贫穷、饥饿、战争……都会过去，面对困难永不言败;人应该是多情的，情感生爱，对对手的赞美和爱能增强征服困难的乐趣和勇气;人应该是勇敢的，无畏无惧，不屈从于困境，困境就会退却。

When I was a middle school student, I’ve finished this book in Chinese.But when I read it in English,I really gain something new both in the way of expression and the spirit it shows to us.May be different ages to read the same book we will learn different things from it.At least, for my part, that is true.

Firstly,I would like to review some information about this book.Such as the background,major characters and the topic of it.

The Old Man and the Sea is a story by Ernest Hemingway, written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

The Old Man and the Sea served to reinvigorate Hemingways literary reputation and prompted a reexamination of his entire body of work. The novella was initially received with much popularity; it restored many readers confidence in Hemingways capability as an author. Its publisher, Scribners, on an early dust jacket, called the novella a "new classic," and many critics favorably compared it with such works as William Faulkners "The Bear" and Herman Melvilles Moby-Dick.

This book gives me a deep impression especially the description about the man’s braveness and persistence.

In this book, in 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 Santiago 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 which Santiago collapses on his bed—face down with his arms out straight and the palms of his hands up—brings to mind the image of Christ suffering on the cross. Hemingway employs these images in the final pages of the novella in order to link Santiago to Christ, who exemplified transcendence by turning loss into gain, defeat into triumph, and even death into renewed life.

The major characters in this book are also vivid and lively.

Santiago?,the old man of the novella’s title, Santiago is a Cuban fisherman who has had an extended run of bad luck. Despite his expertise, he has been unable to catch a fish for eighty-four days. He is humble, yet exhibits a justified pride in his abilities. His knowledge of the sea and its creatures, and of his craft, is unparalleled and helps him preserve a sense of hope regardless of circumstance.

The marlin?,Santiago hooks the marlin, which we learn at the end of the novella measures eighteen feet, on the first afternoon of his fishing expedition. Manolin?,a boy presumably in his adolescence, Manolin is Santiago’s apprentice and devoted attendant. The old man first took him out on a boat when he was merely five years old. Due to Santiago’s recent bad luck, Manolin’s parents have forced the boy to go out on a different fishing boat. Manolin, however, still cares deeply for the old man, to whom he continues to look as a mentor.

Joe DiMaggio, although DiMaggio never appears in the novel, he plays a significant role nonetheless. Santiago worships him as a model of strength and commitment, and his thoughts turn toward DiMaggio whenever he needs to reassure himself of his own strength. Perico ?,Perico, the reader assumes, owns the bodega in Santiago’s village. He never appears in the novel, but he serves an important role in the fisherman’s life by providing him with newspapers that report the baseball scores. This act establishes him as a kind man who helps the aging Santiago.

Martin,like Perico, Martin, a café owner in Santiago’s village, does not appear in the story. The reader learns of him through Manolin, who often goes to Martin for Santiago’s supper. As the old man says, Martin is a man of frequent kindness who deserves to be repaid.

From the very first paragraph, Santiago is characterized as someone struggling against defeat. He has gone eighty-four days without catching a fish—he will soon pass his own record of eighty-seven days. Almost as a reminder of Santiago’s struggle, the sail of his skiff resembles “the flag of permanent defeat.” But the old man refuses defeat at every turn: he resolves to sail out beyond the other fishermen to where the biggest fish promise to be. He lands the marlin, tying his record of eighty-seven days after a brutal three-day fight, and he continues to ward off sharks from stealing his prey, even though he knows the battle is useless.

Because Santiago is pitted against the creatures of the sea, some readers choose to view the tale as a chronicle of man’s battle against the natural world, but the novella is, more accurately, the story of man’s place within nature. Both Santiago and the marlin display qualities of pride, honor, and bravery, and both are subject to the same eternal law: they must kill or be killed. As Santiago reflects when he watches the weary warbler fly toward shore, where it will inevitably meet the hawk, the world is filled with predators, and no living thing can escape the inevitable struggle that will lead to its death. Santiago lives according to his own observation: “man is not made for defeat . . . [a] man can be destroyed but not defeated.” In Hemingway’s portrait of the world, death is inevitable, but the best men (and animals) will nonetheless refuse to give in to its power. Accordingly, man and fish will struggle to the death, just as hungry sharks will lay waste to an old man’s trophy catch.

The novel suggests that it is possible to transcend this natural law. In fact, the very inevitability of destruction creates the terms that allow a worthy man or beast to transcend it. It is precisely through the effort to battle the inevitable that a man can prove himself. Indeed, a man can prove this determination over and over through the worthiness of the opponents he chooses to face. Santiago finds the marlin worthy of a fight, just as he once found “the great negro of Cienfuegos” worthy. HSantiago, though destroyed at the end of the novella, is never defeated. Instead, he emerges as a hero. Santiago’s struggle does not enable him to change man’s place in the world. Rather, it enables him to meet his most dignified destiny.

While it is certainly true that Santiago’s eighty-four-day run of bad luck is an affront to his pride as a masterful fisherman, and that his attempt to bear out his skills by sailing far into the gulf waters leads to disaster, Hemingway does not condemn his protagonist for being full of pride. On the contrary, Santiago stands as proof that pride motivates men to greatness. Because the old man acknowledges that he killed the mighty marlin largely out of pride, and because his capture of the marlin leads in turn to his heroic transcendence of defeat, pride becomes the source of Santiago’s greatest strength. Without a ferocious sense of pride, that battle would never have been fought, or more likely, it would have been abandoned before the end.

Santiago’s pride also motivates his desire to transcend the destructive forces of nature. Throughout the novel, no matter how baleful his circumstances become, the old man exhibits an unflagging determination to catch the marlin and bring it to shore. When the first shark arrives, Santiago’s resolve is mentioned twice in the space of just a few paragraphs. Even if the old man had returned with the marlin intact, his moment of glory, like the marlin’s meat, would have been short-lived. The glory and honor Santiago accrues comes not from his battle itself but from his pride and determination to fight.

Santiago dreams his pleasant dream of the lions at play on the beaches of Africa three times. The first time is the night before he departs on his three-day fishing expedition, the second occurs when he sleeps on the boat for a few hours in the middle of his struggle with the marlin, and the third takes place at the very end of the book. In fact, the sober promise of the triumph and regeneration with which the novella closes is supported by the final image of the lions. Because Santiago associates the lions with his youth, the dream suggests the circular nature of life. Additionally, because Santiago imagines the lions, fierce predators, playing, his dream suggests a harmony between the opposing forces—life and death, love and hate, destruction and regeneration—of nature.

This book gives me courage of conquering all kinds of difficulties .And I have the belief that the most beautiful thing is the process that we make our best to achieve our dream,and never say give up .