have you heard or readyes,it is one of hemingway’s most enduring works. it is the story of an old cuban fisherman went to the sea, fought with a giant marlin far out in the gulf stream. after a few of cruel fights ,he won. though he was so beaten with the trip, he still full of brave. he was a hero.

is a famous book and it was awarded the 1954 nobel prize for literature. there is a eminent sentence in the book—“but man is not made for defeat,” he said ,‘a man can be destroyed but not defeated.’

when i was a little girl, i was timid. in summer, i always went swimming with friends. we played happily and swam quickly. the border of the swimming pool is 1.2 metres deep,but the center is 1.8 metres. my friends were so brave to swim though the swimming pool but i was so afriad that i can’t .my friends told me it was only a little difficulties.‘ you must overcome it.there were more big difficulties in our lives and waiting we to slove . if we were afraid these little problem, how can we face to setback? so we must be brave and try our best to overcome the problems.’ after their words, i was full of courage. i did some ready exercise and tired to swim though. finally, i succeed. we all felt excited and they celebrated to me. yes, we should be brave and try out best to overcome difficult problems. we can’t give up easily.

we all know the big earthquake which had reached eight on the richter scale in wenchuan. it was a sad and shock earthquake. all things lay in ruins in a few seconds. the suffering of the people was extreme. there were many people been dead. many people were wounded under the falling building.people felt painful but they were staunch. they waited rescue persons to save them. a 60-year-old woman , she was so great that she had insisted 196 hours. a pig,it had insisted 36 days. many people were saved afters 4 days. they were all heros. they were brave and staunch,so they were still living. in this earthquake, we can realize the government’s strong responsibility and 1.3million people were united and kind. the people who injured showed the willpower and they were firm as the fishman.

is a good book.i learn many from the book.it teach me a person should be firm and brave in our live. we can’t be afraid and give up the difficultics. we must try our best to overcome the problems. we should trust ourself we can do it. nothing is impossible.

老人与海英文读后感篇2

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 .

老人与海英文读后感篇3

the novel describes is nearly 60 year, when the fisherman fishing, senior alone in a big fish, actually not fisherman socialization, after a fish that this is a big marlin, beyond your fishing several folding, though clearly hard to win, but don't give in the big marlin wound bring some of the fish suspicious of sharks smell groups, but the old man still snatch food hope not give up, and finally emphasizes surround close, returned to the big fish, let the other fisherman fishing is admired.

when i read the "senior fisherman thought: here's coast is really too close, maybe there will be a bigger fish in further..." i appreciate this senior fishermen, because now he has cast in some fish, but he still was not solved, the present situation, but very close to , we often encounter a slightly is difficult, we are complaining the future, we will be the motherland, so it should be the old ideas, will be more lofty aspiration, for a better, more goals.

when i read "the big marlin began to rapidly around the young fishing boats, cable suspension of mast twisting, old man exalted to the right hand of gangcha, leapt high flash, and the maximum throw it to heart, wail over fish, it is the life of the static static float on water......" i also like the stone falls in appreciate the old man do not fear, unremitting spirit power, although know this game is very strong, but he isn't popular flinches slightly, but more because of this spirit, to finish the senior fishermen life and death of the must also learn advanced fisherman's spiritual life, do not fear the difficulty, the only thing that can succeed.

reading the big fish smells blood is the crowd, sharks swam grab food, the old man left, he can just twitching, with a stick with your right hand, mouth are permitted use of weapons to attack and defend the expelled the the big fish eat meat has a most, but also his left hand charmingly criticized the work time is actually "time, i also subject to old our life, some loes are inevitable, we should take an optimistic attitude toward to compute.

finally, through a youth novel looked for 18 feet of senior fishermen, describe the marlins up the fish hugene, explained the senior fisherman is not difficult, more common.

the novel extol spirit senior fisherman fear hard and dangerous to fight, we will not like him, who can't satisfy the present situation, should actively, do anything is relentle, difficulty, may be welcome difficult never stop in this way can we achieve greater succe and victory.

老人与海英文读后感篇4

this year summer vacation, i read the american well-known writer hemingway's novel " old person and sea ".i extremely admire in the novel the senior fisherman's will, he let me understand one person certainly must have relentle spirit, only then could obtain succefully.

the novel description is one year near sixty years of age senior fisherman, when alone goes to sea in one fishing, fished one big fish, actually did not senior fisherman socialized several days after the fish, only then discovered this was the big marlin which one surpaed the oneself fishing boat several fold, although knew perfectly well very difficult to win, but still did not give and further because in the big marlin wound fish fishy smell brought in several crowds of shark fish snatches the food, but the old person still did not hope like this to give up, finally highlighted encircles tightly, returned to the big fish belt the fishing port, lets other fishermen not admire already.

when i read " the senior fisherman think: here to the seacoast really was too near, perhaps could have a bigger fish in a farther place..." when, i extremely admire this senior fisherman, because he by now already projected on some fish, but he had not settled to the present situation, but was approaches the bigger goal has a look us, usually meets one slightly is difficult, we all complain will be the motherland future, will be supposed to like this old person same mind lofty aspiration, will even better pursue even better, the bigger goal.

when i read " the big marlin start fast to gather round the young fishing boat hover, twined the cable on the mast , the old person right hand lifted up high the steel fork, leapt the water surface in it the flash, did utmost throws to its heart, one wail ended the big fish's life, it was static static floats on the water surface..." when, my heart also liked together the big stone extremely admire old person that kind do not dread, the relentle spirit, although knows the match strength is very strong, but he not slightly flinches, but is welcomes difficultly because had this kind of spirit, the senior fisherman only then achieved this life and death contest also must study senior fisherman's spirit in life, handles the matter does not fear the difficulty, only then can obtain succefully.

老人与海英文读后感篇5

santiago, an old man about sixty years old, fished alone with nothing caught in eighty four days. no one would like to talk to him for his extremely bad luck except a boy who always came to help after the day and finally left to another boat under the pressure of his parents. ignoring the contempt from the younger fishermen and sympathy from the older, on the morning of the 85th day, the old man started his fishing with determination and rowed his old boat very far in the sea where he believed there would be big fish. fortunately the old man met with a big fish as he had wished and finally defeated the big marlin with two days and nights struggle after overcoming great difficulties. but more unfortunately there were many sharks coming after his boat attracted by the smell of the blood of the big marlin. after death-and-life struggle, when he finally got rid of the sharks coming after the boat, the big marlin was bare skeleton.

the old man and the sea tells a frustrated experience of the old man who fishes alone in the sea in plain languages. through the simple lines, a “tough guy” image is shaped and heroism is praised. the whole story starts with a peaceful beginning which is some trivial of life and talking with the boy, and suddenly turns to its climax which is the dangerous fighting with the big fish and sharks alone in the sea, and ends with the old man’s return with the bare skeleton of the big marlin. though the boy only appears at the beginning and the ending in the novel, he plays an indispensible role, it is his inspiring and supporting that helps the old man to be “graceful under heavy pressure”.

in the book, the old man prepared his fishing properly and preciously than any other fishermen so that “then when luck comes you are ready” as the old man thought to himself. in reality, some of us keep complaining that they are born in wrong time or good luck never knocks their doors. in fact, good luck sometimes just comes when they are not ready. taking newton for example, if he had not acquired a lot, millions of apples could never make him discovery the gravity. so if we just keep studying as much as we can, good luck will finally find us and a bright future is ahead of us. the old man never gives up hope. when all of people think he is doomed, he still strongly believes that he will get a big fish. and he does. so never giving up hope is very important to us. this reminded me of the sentence in churchill’s speech “never give up, never, never, never…”. “but man is not made for defeat. a man can be destroyed but not defeated” has always been inspiring me when i counter with some setbacks in my life. setbacks are inevitable in pursuit of our goals, but we should never be frustrated and should be “graceful under heavy pressure” like the old man. it is his relentless pursuit that contributes to the victory.

老人与海英文读后感篇6

i have read many books， which i learned a lot of knowledge， let me know a lot of truth in life， including a book， let me experience a deep， it is a famous writer ernest hemingway wrote， "hits."

"hits" this book talked about such a story， old fisherman santiago de cuba consecutive 84 days did not catch the fish， was another loser as a fisherman， but he was persistent， and finally caught a big marlin large marlins his boat dragged on for three days at sea， exhausted， was tied to the boat he was killed on one side， and then return journey repeatedly been shark attacks， he has exhausted all means to counterattack. back to hong kong only the head and a fish tail spine. although the fish have bitten gone， but what can not destroy the will of his bravery. this book reveals to us a truth: people are not born to fail， and a person can be destroyed， but can not be defeated.

before i do anything as long as there is one point does not work well， they will retreat， and sometimes even say a few words dejected to say. in learning， i have a few tests as long as there is not very good there will be no confidence that their getting good grades. "hits"， the hero fighting with the shark， shark harpoon was taken away， he put the knife blade tied to tie chaos. knife broke， he used truncheons. batons have lost， and he used the rudder to e to play. this book reveals the truth， not to explain a man no matter what my greatest fear is the lack of confidence. confidence is like a motor car， is a human motivation. if you do one thing with the confidence， you mean half the battle. the hero in this book are full of confidence and perseverance， not exactly what i indispensable?

since reading this book， i know that his lack of learning is no longer due to a loss of confidence in the two do not go well， but more poorly in an exam， the more to be a good test. in the final exam the day， the morning two homework results， i do not have a certain class of students is good， but i admit defeat， but confidence that the determination to fight a turnaround. language examinations in the afternoon， i have done every road topics are especially careful. sure enough， i was class of the first language examinations， total score， i am also a first.

in the future， i do not care what difficulties we encountered， we must face with confidence， persist in the end， and never retreat. i want to thank the book， for which i have learned so much， thank it for me to understand so many reasons， for it let me know his own shortings and correct their shortings in time， so i became a socially useful people.

"hits"， the lonely old fisherman santiago has been not only be tough guy， his spiritual values embodied in the body is entirely the spirit of the ancient greek tragedy， a modern echo. in the "hits"， the hemingway finally for his beloved tough guy to find the soul， this soul is everlasting eternal values of mankind. thus， in the "hits"， the tough-guy character of santiagos fortitude has bee the novels surface. by santiago tough-guy character to praise the eternal values of mankind， became the real theme of the novel. "hits" and demonstrated what eternal value?

the first is peoples self-confidence. santiago consecutive 84 days at sea， and did not catch a fish. however， the "pair of eyes， ah， like water， like blue， is happy， not depressed." originally to follow santiago on fishing expeditions children， spoke of his father called him to the other boat and said， : "he did not much self-confidence." "yes." the old man said， "but we have， you say is not it?"

santiago in self-confidence is absolute self-confidence， is not to environmental change and changes in self-confidence， it does not pare with others， self-confidence. in santiagos philosophy of existence， even when confronted with a pole of the unlucky people can only self-confidence.

people alive， the only way to determine the necessity， that is， to death. in addition， there is no bound to what can rely on. since the person is alive by chance， then the courage to support human life， the only confident. if we lose self-confidence， in the continuing unlucky so many days after the santiago there is the courage and perseverance on fishing expeditions do? therefore， people live to be confident， not self-confidence is for human consumption can not afford luxury. it is precisely because santiago had an absolute self-confidence， he was called away to the children to express a plete tolerance and understanding. here， hemingway has demonstrated the link between self-confidence and tolerance. "hits" in the main space， describing the lonely old fisherman santiago， in the open sea and in large marlin and a variety of sharks entangled， fought for three days and three nights experience. by hemingway fullest description， we felt the santiago desperate struggle with the fate of the heroic and noble. last drag home for the elderly only a 18 feet-long fish skeleton， the only plete skeleton is the head and beautiful fish tail.

from the physical point of view， elderly people fought for three days and three nights a result of failure; but the human spirit， from the persons self-confidence self-esteem， courage and destiny from the human to make every effort to struggle for victory santiago .

after all， the true victory can only be a triumph of the spirit. no matter who made much material success， they can not win our respect and thanks. only the spirit and the spirit of victory， it moves us， that we have to follow the elderly and children， for his tragic tears.

老人与海英文读后感篇7

was reading the big fish’s smell of blood is smelled by one crowd of shark fish, struggled swims snatches the food, old person’s left hand happen to in the convulsions, he only could use the right hand, with wooden stick，the mouth and so on all was allowed to use for the weapon self-defense which attacked, and finally expelled this crowd of shark fish. but the big fish’s meat was already eaten one most, but the old person also charmingly criticized oneself the left hand “ this work time actually was resting ” time, i also was subdued by the old person optimistic spirit. in the life, some losses are inevitable, we should treat by the optimistic manner, cannot be calculating. finally, the novel sees by one youth the senior fisherman fully has 18 foot long big marlin in the measure, once more described this fish’s hugeness, explained senior fisherman overcomes the difficulty was big, non- was more common than. the novel eulogized the spirit which the senior fisherman fear hard and dangerous diligently did not struggle, we also should like his such, could not satisfy the present situation, should positively to above, do any matter all is relentless, meets difficultly must welcome difficultly above, could give up halfway in no way. only has this, we only then can obtain a bigger success and the victory.

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