第一篇:老人与海英文读书报告
A Book Report of The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway, an American novelist.The story is set in the 20th century after World War II, which is based on the novel written true story Hemingway himself has experienced.Exactly, it’s a story of an epic struggle between an old, seasoned fisherman and the greatest catch of his life.Leading character Santiago, an aged Cuban fisherman, has set out to sea and returned empty-handed.At first 84 days, he did not even fish one fish.He did not have enough food, and many locals to doubt his fishing technique.Some even laugh at him.So, He decided to go to the sea to fish food and proved that he is a skilled fisherman.On the eight-fifth day of his unlucky streak, Santiago does as promised, sailing his skiff far beyond the island’s shallow coastal waters and venturing into the Gulf Stream.At noon, a big fish, marlin, take the bait that Santiago has placed before.Although the old man expertly hooks the fish, but he cannot pull it in.Instead, the fish begins to pull the boat.He knows perfectly well very difficult to win, but still did not give up.Since then, they began their three-day fighting.The entire time, Santiago, endures constant pain from the fishing line.Eventually, the third day, the fish tires, and Santiago manages to pull the marlin in close enough to kill it with a harpoon thrust.However, things do not go smoothly as he expected.On his way home, he is attacked buy several crowds of shark.Although he kills the sharks in the end, they have devoured the marlin’s precious meat, leaving only skeleton.The old man arrives home before daybreak, and sleeps very deeply.Later on, the old man wakes up and finds the little boy Mandolin staying with him, and decides to go to sea to fish again.In fact, the story contains many different symbols and themes.By reading this book, I was deeply impressed by the old man and what he said “a man can be destroyed but not defeated.” Santiago, 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.But the struggle somehow enables him to meet his most dignified destiny.The old man sets a good example for us.He teachers us that we
should fight and never lose faith, never give up.No matter how hard the life is, it’s possible for us to overcome the difficulties.简介
The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works.Told in language of great simplicity and power,it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman,down on his luck,and his supreme ordeal——a relentless,agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.Here Hemingway recasts,in strikingly contemporary style,the classic thene of courage in the face of defeat,of personal triumph won from los.Written in 1952,this hugely successfully novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a huge part in his
winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea may very well become one of the true classics of this generation.Certainly, the qualities of Ernest Hemingway's short novel are those which we associate with many great stories of the past: near perfection of form within the limitations of its subject matter, restraint of treatment, regard for the unities of time and place, and evocative simplicity of style.Also, like most great stories, it can be read on more than one level of meaning.On one it is an exciting but tragic adventure story.Sustained by the pride of his calling, the only pride he has left, a broken old fisherman ventures far out into the Gulf Stream and there hooks the biggest marlin ever seen in those waters.Then, alone and exhausted by his struggle to harpoon the giant fish, he is forced into a losing battle with marauding sharks;they leave him nothing but the skeleton of his catch.On another level the book is a fable of the unconquerable spirit of man, a creature capable of snatching spiritual victory from circumstances of disaster and material defeat.On still another it is a parable of religious significance, its theme supported by the writer's unobtrusive handling of Christian symbols and metaphors.Like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, Hemingway's Cuban fisherman is a character allowing the imagination of his creator to operate simultaneously in two different worlds of meaning and value, the one real and dramatic, the other moral and devotionally symbolic.老 人 与 海
〔美〕海明威? 杨枕旦 译注
《老人与海》完全可能成为当代一部名副其实的经典作品。厄纳斯特•海明威的这部短篇小说无疑具有以往许多巨著的共同特点: 在题材所限的范围内几乎达到形式上的完美无缺、处理方法谨严、注意时间和地点的统一,行文简洁而内涵很深。另外,和极大多数巨著一样,海明威的这篇小说读起来可有不止一层的意思。一方面,这是一个激动人心的带有悲剧性的冒险故事。故事讲到一个精神沮丧的老渔人,在他对职业的自豪感(他留下的唯一自豪感)的支持之下,冒险远航至墨西哥湾流并在那里钓住了一条该水域中从未见过的最大的马林鱼。故事接着说到他孤零零地、在因奋力叉住这条大鱼而耗尽了力气之后,被迫投入一场和一群海盗似的鲨鱼的绝望的搏斗之中,结果是那些鲨鱼只给他留下了猎获物的一具骨架。另一方面,这又是一个寓言,它描述了人所具有的不可征服的精神力量——一个人如何从灾难和实际失败的环境中攫取精神上的胜利。再一方面,这是带有宗教意义的一种隐喻,作者不引人注目地给这一主题添加了基督教的一些象征和比喻。和柯勒律治笔下的“老水手”一样,海明威笔下的古巴渔民是这样一个角色,他容许作者的想象力同时在两个领域中活动,这两个领域具有不同的意义和价值,一个注意写实,有着动人的情节;另一个则侧重道德说教,充满象征的意义。
For eighty four days old Santiago had not caught a single fish.At first a young boy, Manolin, had shared his bad fortune, but after the fortieth luckless day the boy's father told his son to go in another boat.From that
time on Santiago worked alone.Each morning he rowed his skiff out into the Gulf Stream where the big fish were.Each evening he came in empty-handed.桑提亚哥老人已经八十四天没有捕到一条鱼了。最初,一个年轻的孩子曼诺林和他一起分担恶运,但在过了四十天倒霉日子之后,孩子的爸爸让孩子到另一条船上干活去了。从那个时候起,桑提亚哥只是一个人干活。每天早晨他划着小船到有大鱼出没的墨西哥湾流去,每天晚上他总是两手空空地回来。
The boy loved the old fisherman and pitied him.If Manolin had no money of his own, he begged or stole to make sure that Santiago had enough to eat and fresh baits for his lines.The old man accepted his kindness with humility that was like a quiet kind of pride.Over their evening meals of rice or black beans they would talk about the fish they had taken in luckier times or about American baseball and the great DiMaggio.At night, alone in his shack, Santiago dreamed of lions on the beaches of Africa, where he had gone on a sailing ship years before.He no longer dreamed of his dead wife.孩子喜欢并且可怜这个老渔人。曼诺林要是自己没有挣到钱,就会乞讨或偷窃以保证桑提亚哥有足够的食物和新鲜的鱼饵。老人谦卑地接受孩子的好意,谦卑中带有某种隐而不露的自豪感。晚餐时(吃的是大米饭和黑蚕豆)他们总会谈论在运气好的日子里一起捕获的大鱼,或是谈论美国的棒球赛和伟大的狄马吉奥。夜间桑提亚哥一个人躺在自己的小棚屋里,梦见非洲海滩上的狮子,几年前他航海去过那个地方。他不再梦见自己死去的老婆了。
On the eighty-fifth day Santiago rowed out of the harbor in the cool dark before dawn.After leaving the smell of land behind him, he set his lines.Two of his baits were fresh tunas the boy had given him, as well as sardines to cover his hooks.The lines went straight down into deep dark water.在第八十五天,桑提亚哥在寒冷的黎明前的黑暗中,把小船划出了港口。在把陆地的气息抛在身后之后,他放下了钓丝。他的两个鱼饵是孩子给他的鲜金枪鱼,还有把鱼钩遮盖起来的沙丁鱼。钓丝垂直地下到暗黑的深水里。
As the sun rose he saw other boats in toward shore, which was only a low green line on the sea.A hovering man-of-war bird showed him where dolphin were chasing some flying fish, but the school was moving too fast and too far away.The bird circled again.This time Santiago saw tuna leaping in the sunlight.A small one took the hook on his stern line.Hauling the quivering fish aboard, the old man thought it a good omen.Toward noon a marlin started nibbling at the bait which was one hundred fathoms down.Gently the old man played the fish, a big one, as he knew from the weight on the line.At last he struck to settle the hook.The fish did not surface.Instead, it began to tow the skiff to the northwest.The old man braced himself, the line taut across his shoulders.Although he was alone and no longer strong, he had his skill and knew many tricks.He waited patiently for the fish to tire.太阳升起时,他看到别的一些船只都头朝着海岸,在海上看来海岸象是一条接近地平线的绿带子。一只盘旋的军舰鸟给老人指明了海豚追逐飞鱼的地方。但是鱼群游得太快、也太远了。这只猛禽又在盘旋了,这次桑提亚哥瞧见金枪鱼在太阳光下跃起。一条小金枪鱼咬住了他艉缆上的鱼钩。老人在把颤动的金枪鱼拉上船板以后,心想这可是一个好兆头。
The old man shivered in the cold that came after sunset.When something took one of his remaining baits, he cut the line with his sheath knife.Once the fish lurched suddenly, pulling Santiago forward on his face and cutting his cheek.By dawn his left hand was stiff and cramped.The fish had headed northward;there was no land in sight.Another strong tug on the line sliced Santiago's right hand.Hungry, he cut strips from the tuna
and chewed them slowly while he waited for the sun to warm him and ease his cramped fingers.That morning the fish jumped.Seeing it leap, Santiago knew he had hooked the biggest marlin he had even seen.Then the fish went under and turned toward the east.Santiago drank sparingly from his water bottle during the hot afternoon.Trying to forget his cut hand and aching back, he remembered the days when men had called him Campeon and he had wrestled with a giant Negro in the tavern at Cienfuegos.Once an airplane droned overhead on its way to Miami.快到中午时,一条马林鱼开始啃起一百深处的那块鱼饵来了。老人轻轻地摆布那条上了钩的鱼,根据钓丝的份量他知道那准是一条大鱼。最后他猛拉钓丝把鱼钩给稳住了。但是,那条鱼并没有浮出水面,反而开始把小船拖着往西北方向跑。老人打起精神,斜挎在肩膀上的钓丝绷得紧紧的。他虽然孤身一人,体力也不如从前,但是他有技术,他懂得许多诀窍。他耐心地等待鱼累乏下来。
Close to nightfall a dolphin took the small hook he had rebaited.He lifted the fish aboard, careful not to jerk the line over his shoulder.After he had rested, he cut fillets from the dolphin and kept also the two flying fish he found in its maw.That night he slept.He awoke to feel the line running through his fingers as the fish jumped.Feeding line slowly, he tried to tire the marlin.After the fish slowed its run.he washed his cut hands in sea water and ate one of the flying fish.At sunrise the marlin began to circle.Faint and dizzy, he worked to bring the big fish nearer with each turn.Almost exhausted, he finally drew his catch alongside and drove in the harpoon.He drank a little water before he lashed the marlin to bow and stern of his skiff.The fish was two feet longer than the boat.No catch like it had ever been seen in Havana harbor.It would make his fortune, he thought, as he hoisted his patched sails and set his course toward the southwest.日落之后,寒意袭人,老人冷得发抖。当他剩下的鱼饵中有一块被咬住时,他就用自己那把带鞘的刀把钓丝给割断了。有一次那条鱼突然一个侧身,把桑提亚哥拉得脸朝下地跌了一跤,老人的颊部也给划破了。黎明时分,他的左手变得僵硬并抽起筋来了。那条鱼还是一直往北游,一点陆地的影子都瞧不见了。钓丝又一次猛的一拉,把老人的右手给勒伤了。老人肚子饿得发慌,就从金枪鱼身上割下几片肉,放在嘴里慢慢嚼着,等着太阳出来晒暖他的身子和减轻手指抽筋的痛苦。
An hour later he sighted the first shark.It was a fierce Mako, and it came in fast to slash with raking teeth at the dead marlin.With failing might the old man struck the shark with his harpoon.The Mako rolled and sank, carrying the harpoon with it and leaving the marlin mutilated and bloody.Santiago knew the scent would spread.Watching, he saw two shovel nosed sharks closing in.He struck at one with his knife lashed to the end of an oar and watched the scavenger sliding down into deep water.The other he killed while it tore at the flesh of the marlin.When the third appeared, he thrust at it with the knife, only to feel the blade snap as the fish rolled.The other sharks came at sunset.At first he tried to club them with the tiller from the skiff, but his hands were raw and bleeding and there were too many in the pack.In the darkness, as he steered toward the faint glow of Havana against the sky, he heard them hitting the carcass again and again.But the old man thought only of his steering and his great tiredness.He had gone out too far and the sharks had beaten him.He knew they would leave him nothing but the stripped skeleton of his great catch.第二天早上,这条鱼蹦出了水面。桑提亚哥瞧见鱼的跃起,知道自己钓到了一条未见过的最大的马林鱼。一会儿鱼又往下沉去,转向了东方。在炽热的下午,桑提亚哥节省地喝起水壶里的水。为了忘掉划破的手和疼痛的背,他回想起过去人们如何称他为“优胜者”和他如何在西恩富戈斯地方一家酒馆里和一个大个子黑人比手劲。有一次一架飞机嗡嗡地从头上掠过,向迈阿密飞去。
All lights were out when he sailed into the little harbor and beached his skiff.In the gloom he could just make out the white backbone and the upstanding tail of the fish.he started up the shore with the mast and furled sail of his boat.Once he fell under their weight and lay patiently until he could gather his strength.In his shack he fell on his bed and went to sleep.黄昏之际,一条海豚吞食了他重新放上鱼饵的小钩子。他把这条“鱼”提到了船板上,小心不去拉动他肩上的钓丝。休息一会之后,他切下几片海豚肉并且把在海豚胃中发现的两条飞鱼留了下来。那天夜里他睡着了。他醒来时觉得当这条鱼跳起时钓丝就滑过他的手指。他缓慢地把钓丝放松,尽力想把这条马林鱼拖乏。在这条大鱼放慢跳跃时,他把划破的双手放在海里洗,并且吃了一条飞鱼。日出时,这条马林鱼开始打起转来了。老人感到头晕目眩,但他尽力把大鱼在每转一圈时拉得更近一些。他虽然几乎筋疲力尽,终于还是把自己的捕获物拉得和小船并排在一起并用鱼叉猛击这条马林鱼。他喝了一点水,然后把马林鱼捆绑在他那条小船的头部和尾部。这条马林鱼比船还长两英尺。哈瓦那港从来没有见过捕到这么大的鱼,他扯起有补丁的船帆开始向西南方向驶去,心想这下要发财了。
There the boy found him later that morning.Meanwhile other fishermen, gathered about the skiff, marveled at the giant marlin, eighteen feet long from nose to tail.When Manolin returned to Santiago's shack with hot coffee, the old man awoke.The boy, he said, could have the spear of his fish.Manolin told him to rest, to make himself fit for the days of fishing they would have together.All that afternoon the old man slept, the boy sitting by his bed.Santiago was dreaming of lions.— Excerpts from Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form 一个小时以后,他瞧见了第一条鲨鱼。这是一条凶猛的尖吻鲭鲨。它飞快地游了过来,用耙一样的牙齿撕这条死马林鱼。老人用尽余力把鱼叉往鲨鱼身上扎去。尖吻鲭鲨打着滚沉下去了,带走了鱼叉,而且已经把马林鱼咬得残缺不全,鲜血直流。桑提亚哥知道血腥味会散开来。他望着海面,看到两条犁头鲨游近来了。他用绑在桨的一头的刀子击中了其中的一条,
第二篇:老人与海 读书报告 英文
《老人与海》读书报告
Book Report of The Old Man and the SEA
The Old Man and the SEA is a midium-length novel written by Ernest miller
Hemingway ,who was born in America.Hemingway went through a quite rough life.He experienced two wars.The wars brought lots of honor to him, followed by 237 scars of wounds and frightening memories which can never be driven away.As far back as 1939, Hemingway began to prepare for the novel.But in fact, the novel was not be published until 1952.“A man is not made for defeat.” “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”After reading the book The Old Man and The Sea , my brain is filled with these two
sentences.Santiago is a true man who taught me to face difficulties bravely and to be confident in my life.The Old Man and the SEA is a story that a old fisherman, Santiago, did not catch any fish in 84 days.At first, a boy named Manolin used to go fishing with Santiago.But after 40 days without any fish ,his parents arranged the boy to go to another boat, because they thought it would unlucky to let the boy stay with the old man.However, in the eighty fifth day ,the old man rowed the boat far away in the early morning ,and to his surprise, he caught a marlin which was bigger than the boat.The old man struggled with the big marlin in the following two days, and finally speared it.However, the injured fish left a trace with blood, leading hundreds sharks to
battle.The old man tried his best to fight with sharks, but when he arrived at
harbor ,the old man fell down exhaustedly ,only to find there was just a huge fishbone left.The boy came to visit the old man and he believed the old man was not a loser.He told the old man "He did not beat you.Not the fish.That afternoon, the old man slept.He met a lion in his dream.In the story, Santiago is the symbol of those who will never give in to the
difficulties no matter how hard they are.The sharks stands for some resistance, even disasters.Santiago showed his optimism.Even if he just caught a fish born, he still a winner in spirit.After reading the novel, we can understand what is true brave.We may meet
various of difficulties and challenges in our life.Facing to them, what should we do? Santiago has given us a powerful answer.I think the old man is the lion in his dream __a lion that will never give up ,no matter what difficulties he met.Never give up__ that'swhat The Old Man and the Sea told us.
第三篇:老人与海英文读书报告
A Book Report of The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway, an American novelist.The story is set in the 20th century after World War II, which is based on the novel written true story Hemingway himself has experienced.Exactly, it’s a story of an epic struggle between an old, seasoned fisherman and the greatest catch of his life.Leading character Santiago, an aged Cuban fisherman, has set out to sea and returned empty-handed.At first 84 days, he did not even fish one fish.He did not have enough food, and many locals to doubt his fishing technique.Some even laugh at him.So, He decided to go to the sea to fish food and proved that he is a skilled fisherman.On the eight-fifth day of his unlucky streak, Santiago does as promised, sailing his skiff far beyond the island’s shallow coastal waters and venturing into the Gulf Stream.At noon, a big fish, marlin, take the bait that Santiago has placed before.Although the old man expertly hooks the fish, but he cannot pull it in.Instead, the fish begins to pull the boat.He knows perfectly well very difficult to win, but still did not give up.Since then, they began their three-day fighting.The entire time, Santiago, endures constant pain from the fishing line.Eventually, the third day, the fish tires, and Santiago manages to pull the marlin in close enough to kill it with a harpoon thrust.However, things do not go smoothly as he expected.On his way home, he is attacked buy several crowds of shark.Although he kills the sharks in the end, they have devoured the marlin’s precious meat, leaving only skeleton.The old man arrives home before daybreak, and sleeps very deeply.Later on, the old man wakes up and finds the little boy Mandolin staying with him, and decides to go to sea to fish again.In fact, the story contains many different symbols and themes.By reading this book, I was deeply impressed by the old man and what he said “a man can be destroyed but not defeated.” Santiago, 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.But the struggle somehow enables him to meet his most dignified destiny.The old man sets a good example for us.He teachers us that we should fight and never lose faith, never give up.No matter how hard the life is, it’s possible for us to overcome the difficulties.
第四篇:读书报告老人与海
《老人与海》读书报告 书名:
作者: 老人与海 海明威
原版名称:the old man and the sea 译者: 海观
“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!”作者海明威是这样评价他的作品《老人与海》的。
《老人与海》塑造了一个经典的硬汉形象。古巴的一个名叫桑地亚哥的老渔夫,独自一个人出海打鱼,在一无所获的48天之后钓到了一条无比巨大的马林鱼。这是老人从来没见过也没听说过的比他的船还长两英尺的一条大鱼。鱼大劲也大,拖着小船漂流了整整两天两夜,老人在这两天两夜中经历了从未经受的艰难考验,终于把大鱼刺死,拴在船头。然而这时却遇上了鲨鱼,老人与鲨鱼进行了殊死搏斗,结果大马林鱼还是被鲨鱼吃光了,老人最后拖回家的只剩下一副光秃秃的鱼骨架。
海明威为什么没有让老人最终胜利呢? 用小说中老人的话来说:“一个人并不是生来就要被打败的”,“人尽可以被毁灭,但却不能被打败。”这就是《老人与海》想揭示的哲理。不可否认,只要是人就都会有缺陷。当一个人承认了这个缺陷并努力去战胜它而不是去屈从它的时候,无论最后是捕到一条完整的马林鱼还是一副空骨架,这都已经无所谓了,因为一个人的生命价值已在那追捕马林鱼的过程中充分地体现了。曾经为自己的理想努力追求过、奋斗过,难道他不是一个胜利者吗?老渔夫就是敢于挑战自身缺陷及自己勇气和信心的胜利者。从世俗胜利观的角度看,老渔夫不是最后的胜利者,因为尽管开始他战胜了大马林鱼,但是最终大马林鱼还是让鲨鱼吃了,他只是带着大马林鱼的白骨架子回到了岸上,也就是说,鲨鱼才是胜利者。可是,在理想主义者眼里,老渔夫就是胜利者,因为他始终没有向大海没有向大马林鱼更没有向鲨鱼妥协和投降。就如音乐大师贝多芬所说“我可以被摧毁,但我不能被征服”。人性是强悍的,人类本身有自己的限度,但正是因为有了老渔夫这样的人一次又一次地向限度挑战,超越它们,这个限度才一次次扩大,一次次把更大的挑战摆在了人类面前。在这个意义上,老渔夫桑地亚哥这样的英雄,不管他们挑战限度是成功还是失败,都是值得我们永远敬重的。因为,他带给我们的是人类最为高贵的自信!我非常钦佩老人那种毫不畏惧、坚持不懈的精神,虽然知道对手实力很强,但他没有丝毫退缩,而是迎难而上。正因为有了这种精神,老渔夫才获得了这场生死较量的胜利。我们在生活中也要学习老渔夫的精神,做事情不怕困难,才能取得成功。在读到大鱼的血腥味被一群鲨鱼嗅到了,争相游来抢食,老人的左手正好在抽筋,他只能使用右手,用木棒、捕到的剑鱼的嘴等一切可以用来攻击的武器自卫,并最终赶走了这群鲨鱼。但大鱼的肉已经被吃了一大半,而老人还风趣地批评自己的左手“该工作的时候却在休息”的时候,我也被老人乐观的精神所折服。在生活中,有些损失是不可避免的,我们应该以乐观的态度来对待,不能斤斤计较。
看《老人与海》这本节的时候,我会经常性的感觉到老人仿佛是海中一条久经沙场的大鱼,也许这样的形容不准确,或者说老人就是海,可却是历尽沧桑的海。老人的眼睛如文中所提一样,时间在变老,可那双眼睛却像海水一样蓝,是愉快的,毫不沮丧的。老人与小孩都时常用谎言去修饰那穷迫的生活,小孩对老人的尊重甚至充满了崇拜,他对老人的信心有增无减,并不断地激励他、照顾他。我有时在想,老人就像一条大鱼,虽然身疲力尽,可是绝不向大海和渔人屈服。老人的身体、力量在逐渐缩小,可老人那长年积累的经验和技巧促使他存有信心,能捕捉到大鱼的信心。老人始终做着与别人不同的事,他做的是别人敢想而不敢做的事,虽然有许多人不理解他,可他照样做。老人在海中经历了太多的事,当他捕到一条大青花鱼的时候,也兴奋的嚷了起来,经过两个多月来,他没有捕到一条鱼的事实,他开始自言自语,在海上交谈是一件不好的事情,这仿佛成了所有出海的渔人之间的一种品德,可老人却由于孤单也许有其他的外在因素,促成老人嚷出了自己心中的话,老人渴望遇见走失的鱼群,因为大鱼肯定会在其中,老人在八十五天的时候用大青花鱼做为诱饵,太阳在他的脑后,海岸远离了他,在他的视眼里有的只有一片一望无际的海与那青青的山。
《老人与海》是一本能让人了解,什么才是真正的人生,什么才是坚强的书,一本实实在在的好书。在现实生活中,我们会不断地受到挫折、失败还有许多负面的情绪,许多人因此而消极、失去对生活的热爱。而《老人与海》却刻画出一个与大海搏斗,在艰难的环境下,奋力生活的老渔夫。大家应该记得,在书中提到过,老人的渔船上那破旧的帆布,就像是一面失败的旗帜,仿佛在宣告着老人永远都捕不到鱼的倒霉运气。但是,他没有放弃,仍然出海捕鱼。而在现实中,某些人却不能坚持,面对挫折就选择了放弃,选择了逃避。和那已经生活窘迫的老渔夫相比,那些逃避的人真的是不知道什么才是挫折。我们可能会因为考试的失利,而对自己失去信心。或者因为别人的批评,而自暴自弃。在那时候,想想这个坚强的老渔夫,他是如何面对生活的。自己的心,自然就会释然许多。篇二:《老人与海》读书报告
心在志在梦就在
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心在志在梦就在
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摘要
《老人与海》是一本能让人了解,什么才是真正的人生,什么才是坚强的书,一本实实在在的好书。在现实生活中,我们会不断地受到挫折、失败还有许多负面的情绪,许多人因此而消极、失去对生活的热爱。而《老人与海》却刻画出一个与大海搏斗,在艰难的环境下,奋力生活的老渔夫。
关键词
压力;逃避;勇气;坚强
一 作者简介及内容概要
(一)作者简介
本书作者欧内斯特?米勒尔?海明威(1899—1961),是美国小说家。1899年7月21日,出生在美国伊利诺伊州芝加哥郊外橡树园镇一个医生的家庭。他的父亲酷爱打猎、钓鱼等户外活动,他的母亲喜爱文学,这一切都对海明威日后的生活和创作产生了不少的影响。中学毕业后,海明威在美国西南的堪萨斯《星报》当了6个月的实习记者。这家报馆要求新闻报道简捷明快。海明威在《星报》受到了良好的训练。
他对创作怀着浓厚的兴趣,一面当记者,一面写小说。他的创作得到当时著名小说家的鼓励和指点。他的一生非常的坎坷,经历过两次世界战争。战争让他得到荣誉,伴随荣誉的是他身上237处的伤痕和赶不走的恶魔般的战争记忆。因为这些不寻常的经历,他创作出许多经典的作品,《太阳照样升起》、《永别了,武器》、《非洲的青山》、《乞力马扎罗山的雪》等。其中《老人与海》荣获了诺贝 尔文学奖和普利策奖。这部小说创下了人类出版史上空前绝后的一个纪录:48小时售出500万册,50小时售出530万册!当他被宣布为当年的普利策文学奖得主时,评论界一致称好。海明威自己认为 “是这一辈子所能写的最好的一部作品”。1961年7月2日,蜚声世界文坛的海明威用自己的猎枪结束了自己的生命。整个世界都为此震惊,人们纷纷叹息这位巨人的悲剧。美国人民更是悲悼这位美国重要作家的陨落。
(二)内容介绍 《老人与海》是海明威一生思想和艺术探索的总结,是他赖以获得 1954年诺贝尔文学奖的主要代表作。他运用象征手法、巧妙的细节描写、简练含蓄的语言、生动形象的比喻编织出一个感人的故事,一个新奇独特的具有双重审美层面的审美体,小说的“冰山顶部”峻拔易透,而“水面以下”的大千世界则深藏若虚,让读者去揣摩、联想、体会。
老渔夫桑提亚哥在海上连续84天没有捕到鱼。起初,有一个叫曼诺林的男孩跟他一道出海,可是过了40天还没有钓到鱼,孩子就被父母安排到另一条船上去了,因为他们认为孩子跟着老头不会交好运。第85天,老头儿一清早就把船划出很远,他出乎意料地钓到了一条比船还大的马林鱼。大鱼拖着船往大海走,但老人依然死拉着不放,即使没有水,没有食物,没有武器,没有助手,而且左手又抽筋,他也丝毫不灰心。经过两天两夜之后,他终于杀死大鱼,把它拴在船边。但受伤的鱼在海上留下了一道腥踪,引来无数鲨鱼的争抢,老人奋力与鲨鱼搏斗,到最后只剩下一支折断的舵柄做为武器。结果,大鱼仍难逃被吃光的命运,最终,老人筋疲力竭地拖回一副鱼骨头,让其他的渔夫佩服不已。老人回到家,倒在床上,沉沉的睡去。孩子来看老头儿,他认为桑提亚哥没有被打败。那天下午,桑提亚哥在茅棚中睡着了,梦中他见到了狮子。
二、《老人与海》的特色概括
(一)极有深度的象征意义
象征的基本含义是用某种知觉或想象的图象标示来暗示某种不可见的意蕴,它可以通过意象来诱发欣赏者的经验和情感的表现,使文学作品产生强大的生命力和永久的艺术魅力。海明威深知此道,在该书中,他运用象征手法将抽象的思想变成具体的物象,再让读者从具体的物象激发经验想象和情感的表现,去挖掘其中的意蕴。海明威在《老人与海》中通过局部修辞手段的象征手法来赋予这部小说的象征性。
如,主人公圣地亚哥是“生命英雄”的象征;鲨鱼主要代表一切破坏性的力量,是掠夺成性,制造灾难,阻止人们达到理想境界的各种破坏性恶势力的象征;并通过多出描写,把老任比作基督的化身;圣地亚哥魂系梦萦的“那群狮子”,代表旺盛的生命力和青春,象征着老人对力量的追求和对强者的向往;小说的结尾“the old man was dreaming about the lions”是一个富有寓意的回声,体现了海明威的人生哲学与道德理想,即不向命运低头,永不服输的斗士精神和积极向上的乐观人生态度。虽然他拖回的只是一副鱼骨架,但他在精神上却始终是个胜利者。
(一)价值取向的引导
海明威既是一个热爱大自然、热爱生命个体、富有主体英雄情结的男子汉,又是一位富有自然生命伦理的作家。1.自信
《老人与海》中,在老人与孩子、大海、大马林鱼、大鳌鱼的相处中,读者看到了一种更加开放、拓展的多元生命伦理存在。可以说从老人钓到大马林鱼为
起点,到老人失去大鱼,实际上是海明威与桑提亚哥一起进行了一次关于生命伦理的质问、反思和探寻的过程。老人的行为充满自信,更确切地说是一种带有主体价值优先的自信。2.对现实的选择
海明威认为,世界是不可知的、冷漠无情的、荒诞的,世界上任何事情的发生、发展都是无从解释的,同时也是无法预料的。面对这样的世界,人仿佛被整个世界和社会异化、抛弃,变成一种孤独、痛苦和无目的、被动的生存物。可见,作为一般意义上人的海明威是极度的悲观、痛苦和失望,而作为人性保卫者的作家海明威只是观望,把笔端投向愤怒和死亡的再现上,去揭示“人的本质及其不可避免的悲剧性”。
身处危险四伏的世界,如果人依据自己的意志进行了选择,那么就意味着并没有被困难所吓倒,意味着人在一定的范围内获得了自由。这种选择在海明威作品中表现为面向大自然,选择去过相对独立的生活。
三 读后感
我们经常可以看到一些报道,说某某人因为感情不顺利就闹自杀,某某人因为工作不顺心而做一些危害他人的事??难道那些问题真的那么的难解决?难道生命对于他们而言真的这么随意?难道他们不在意那些关心爱护他们的人?如果真的你的生活中有什么你觉得过不去的坎,可以读一下《老人与海》。读完这本书你才知道什么事真正的人生,什么才是真正的坚强!篇三:《老人与海》读书报告 读书报告
一、题目
坚持就是胜利
二、书名
《老人与海》
三、著者
(美国)欧内斯特·海明威
四、出版社和出版日期 译林出版社 2011年5月出版
五、全书提要
《老人与海》是美国著名小说家欧内斯特·海明威的代表作,发表于1952年。小说主人公是古巴的一个名叫圣地亚哥的老渔夫,他象征着一种硬汉子精神,一种永恒的、超时空的存在,一种压倒命运的力量。老渔夫最鲜明的特征是向强者挑战的主动性和顽强性,塑造了人类文学史上一个平民英雄的形象。
在这本书里,古巴老渔夫圣地亚哥独自一个人出海打鱼,虽然在前八十四天都一无所获,但是他却并未因此而绝望,最终通过他自己的努力终于钓上了一条巨大无比的马林鱼。这是老人从来没见过也没听说过的比他的船还长两英尺的一条大鱼。于是他和大鱼在海上搏斗了三天三夜,最终将大鱼杀死,并将大鱼绑在小船的一侧,踏上了归途。但是归程中大鱼一再遭到许多鲨鱼的袭击,老人与鲨鱼进行了殊死搏斗,结果大马林鱼还是被鲨鱼吃光了,回港时就只剩下了大鱼那白色的脊骨和大大的尾巴。但是圣地亚哥并没有应此放弃,而是依然坚持着更加努力的去钓鱼。是啊,正如欧内斯特·海明威自己所说的:“一个人并不是生来要给打败的,你尽可以消灭他,可就是打不败他” 这就是《老人与海》想揭示的,这种精神是值得我们学习的。
六、经典回放
精彩片段:“加朗诺。”他大声说。这时他已经看到第二片鳍和扫来扫去的尾巴上,他看出他们一定是铲形鼻子的鲨鱼。它们闻到了腥气,异常兴奋,由于十分饥饿,再加兴奋,它们昏头昏脑地,一会儿追丢了腥味,一会儿又再找到。可是它们越来越游近小船。(118页)编者小语:作者把鲨鱼写的非常凶恶、可怕,来突出老人是多么的渴望得到这条巨大无比的马林鱼。老人为了这条鱼做出了非常大的贡献——与大鱼殊死搏斗了三天三夜之久。
七、心得评论 1.感发型
从《老人与海》这本书中让我知道了坚持就是胜利。其实我们的读书与学习中也离不开坚持,只要你每天背诵十五个英语单词,做到这些其实非常简单。如果这样坚持一年那就是五千四百七十五个单词
了。但是如果你不坚持下去,不持之以恒的背诵,那你将一个也学不会。
居里夫人也是如此,她不管环境有多么恶劣,发现镭有多么困难,但她依然坚持着。在做实验的过程中,她失败过不知多少次了,但就是坚持一直引领着她走向希望,走向成功的道路!居里夫人每天都要在烟熏火燎的工作室里不停的搅拌着,希望能提取出一个比铀的放射性要强百万倍的新元素——镭,最终通过她坚持不懈的努力,在过去三年九个月后才成功提取出了0.1克的镭。这是一件很伟大的事情,我们应该向她学习。①
中国老一辈无产阶级革命家为了新中国的解放,为了实现社会主义理想,红军在万里长征时脱离根据地,转战在敌占区、少数民族聚居区或无人区,衣、食、住、行??等几个方面都遇到了常人所无法想象的难题,但红军却依然坚持着,直到克服了这种种难关为止。虽然这些难关所付出的代价通常不亚于征途中的战斗,但红军不管有多么困难都依然坚持着,这种精神是值得让我们去学习的。2.撷摘型
为了大鱼而殊死搏斗的片段:小船仍因第一条鲨鱼对大鱼的猛袭而摇撼不已,老人便解开帆脚索,让小船左右摇摆,好把船底的鲨鱼给逼出来。等见到那鲨鱼,他便靠在船边,向它猛刺。他只刺中了鲨肉,而鲨皮很牢,他只把短刀退了进去。这一下,不但震痛到了他的手,还震痛了肩头。鲨鱼昂起了头,疾升上来,老人等到它的鼻子冒
出水面,抵住大鱼便向那偏平的头顶心,不偏不倚地打了下去。老人抽原处插下。它闭住两颚,仍旧挂在大鱼身上,老人用力刺它的左眼,那大鱼依然挂住不去。
我的评论:文章中的老人为了大鱼而殊死搏斗了三天三夜,这种坚持不懈的精神是值得我们去学习的。文章中老人与大鱼针锋相对了很久,谁也不让谁,弄得你死我活。老人用尽所所有力量去跟比自己大的鲨鱼拼搏,使自己辛辛苦苦抓来的马林鱼不被大鲨鱼吃掉,因为老人相信坚持就是胜利!
八、我的再思考
对书的质疑:鲨鱼很大老人为什么还要与它搏斗?
九、作者的其他作品链接
海明威的其他著作:《太阳照样升起》、《永别了,武器》、《丧钟为谁而鸣》
十、附注
①.《居里夫人传》有感篇四:《老人与海》读书心得
《老人与海》读书心得
《老人与海》是美国作家海明威的代表作之一,也可以视为他毕生文学成就的总结。在小说中,我十分佩服主人公老渔夫的意志,他让我懂得了一个人,一定要有坚持不懈的精神,才能获得成功。
《老人与海》讲述了一个极为简单的故事:一个名叫桑提亚哥的老渔夫,独自一个人出海打鱼。在一无所获的84天后钓到了一条奇大无比的马林鱼。这是老人从来没见过也没听说过的比他的船还大两英尺的一条大鱼。鱼大劲也大,拖着小船漂流了整整两天两夜。老人在这两天两夜中经历了从未经受的艰难考验,终于把大鱼刺死,拴在船头。然而这时却遇上了鲨鱼,老人与鲨鱼进行了殊死搏斗,结果大马林鱼还是被鲨鱼吃光了,老人最后拖回家的只剩下一副光秃秃的鱼骨架。
这是一篇让看过它的人都感动其中、感悟其中的故事。主人公面对失败泰然处之、永不言败的不屈意志令人折服。这篇小说,最令我欣赏的是结局。虽然老人在与暴力世界的较量中失败了,但他坚信:“一个人并不是生来要给打败的,尽可能把他消灭掉,可就是打不败他。”最终,他虽然只带回来一幅巨大的鱼骨架,然而在睡梦中,小孩还在陪伴着他,他也“正在梦见狮子”——这是对未来胜利的向往和憧憬!命运是不可改变的,能改变的是我们对命运的态度。“人生自古无直路”,是的,人生就如一片汪洋,很宽,也很危险。它可以把你推向一个高度,也会瞬间让你失去自己所有的幸
福。我们为了保留这一丝幸福,会努力地向浪尖奔去,用我们的满腔热血化解有时愤怒的海洋。要知道,一个好渔人,是拥有桑提亚哥的意志和精神的。可见如何对待生活中的挫折和不幸也是一种学习。现实中,每个人都会遭遇难题。但即使身处困境,也不要灰心,“山重水复疑无路,柳暗花明又一村。” 人生即是海洋,时而波涛汹涌,时而风平浪静。在风里你可以感受坚毅,在浪里你可以感受激昂!这些都是过程带给我们的快乐和痛苦!所以,当我们遇到困难时,不要轻易退缩,要勇敢的去面对。
第五篇:老人与海读书报告
《老人与海》读书报告
学号:00000000姓名:000000专业班级:000000000000 摘要:
1作者简介主要内容
3本书独到之处作者在书中传达的信息读后感与评析
一. 作者简介 欧内斯特·米勒尔·海明威(1899—1961),美国小说家。1899年7月21日,海明威出生在美国伊利诺伊州芝加哥郊外橡树园镇一个医生的家庭。他的父亲酷爱打猎、钓鱼等户外活动,他的母亲喜爱文学,这一切都对海明威日后的生活和创作产生了不少的影响。中学毕业后,海明威在美国西南的堪萨斯《星报》当了6个月的实习记者。这家报馆要求新闻报道简捷明快。海明威在《星报》受到了良好的训练。他对创作怀着浓厚的兴趣,一面当记者,一面写小说。他的创作得到当时著名小说家的鼓励和指点。他的一生非常的坎坷,经历过两次世界战争。战争让他得到荣誉,伴随荣誉的是他身上237处的伤痕和赶不走的恶魔般的战争记忆。因为这些不寻常的经历,他创作出许多经典的作品,《太阳照样升起》、《永别了,武器》、《非洲的青山》、《乞力马扎罗山的雪》等。其中《老人与海》荣获了诺贝尔文学奖和普利策奖。这部小说创下了人类出版史上空前绝后的一个纪录:48小时售出500万册,50小时售出530万册!当他被宣布为当年的普利策文学奖得主时,评论界一致称好。海明威自己认为 “是这一辈子所能写的最好的一部作品”。1961年7月2日,蜚声世界文坛的海明威用自己的猎枪结束了自己的生命。整个世界都为此震惊,人们纷纷叹息这位巨人的悲剧。美国人民更是悲悼这位美国重要作家的陨落。
二. 内容简介
老渔夫桑提亚哥在海上连续84天没有捕到鱼。起初,有一个叫曼诺林的男孩跟他一道出海,可是过了40天还没有钓到鱼,孩子就被父母安排到另一条船上去了,因为他们认为孩子跟着老头不会交好运。第85天,老头儿一清早就把船划出很远,他出乎意料地钓到了一条比船还大的马林鱼。大鱼拖着船往大海走,但老人依然死拉着不放,即使没有水,没有食物,没有武器,没有助手,而且左手又抽筋,他也丝毫不灰心。经过两天两夜之后,他终于杀死大鱼,把它拴在船边。但受伤的鱼在海上留下了一道腥踪,引来无数鲨鱼的争抢,老人奋力与鲨鱼搏斗,到最后只剩下一支折断的舵柄做为武器。结果,大鱼仍难逃被吃光的命运,最终,老人筋疲力竭地拖回一副鱼骨头,让其他的渔夫佩服不已。老人回到家,倒在床上,沉沉的睡去。孩子来看老头儿,他认为桑提亚哥没有被打败。那天下午,桑提亚哥在茅棚中睡着了,梦中他见到了狮子。
三. 本书特色
《老人与海》是海明威一生思想和艺术探索的总结,是他赖以获得 1954年诺贝尔文学奖的主要代表作。他运用象征手法、巧妙的细节描写、简练含蓄的语言、生动形象的比喻编织出一个感人的故事,一个新奇独特的具有双重审美层面的审美体,小说的“冰山顶部”峻拔易透,而“水面以下”的大千世界则深藏若虚,让读者去揣摩、联想、体会。海明威在《老人与海》中通过局部修辞手段的象征手法来赋予这部小说的象征性。
1.故事的主人公圣地亚哥是“生命英雄”的象征。他敢于向人生的种种磨难宣战,向人的生命的极限挑战并超越它,以生命换荣誉、换尊严,从前所未有的角度震撼人心地展示了人的生命价值。在与大海、大马林鱼和鲨鱼的较量中,他以自信、勇敢、强悍的英雄形象奏响了一曲深沉低回的大提琴协奏曲。
2.鲨鱼主要代表一切破坏性的力量,是掠夺成性,制造灾难,阻止人们达到理想境界的各种破坏性恶势力的象征
3.作者通过多处象征性描写,有意识地把老人比作基督的化身。在故事的全过程中,老人经历了两次被钉十字架的过程。如,当老人圣地亚哥看到星鲨时,不禁“Ay”了一声。作者描述道:“这个词儿是没法翻译的,也许不过是一声叫喊,就像一个人感到钉子穿过他的双手,钉进木头时不由自主地发出的那种喊叫声”。作者在这里暗示的“这一个人”就是“被钉十字架的耶稣”。最生动的一点是老人拖着那巨大的鱼骨架回来后,“肩扛着桅杆开始往堤岸上爬去”时,曾回头望那绑在船边的马林鱼的残骸。这一静止的镜头显示出老人作为一个基督正在开始另一次苦难的历程,而鱼作为另一个基督正被绑在十字架上。这些象征性的描写是在暗示在美国耶稣重又被钉上了十字架,基督精神死亡了。通过这种隐晦的描写表达了作者对美国现实的极度悲观。
4.小说中一个极其重要的象征物,是圣地亚哥魂系梦萦的“那群狮子”,它代表旺盛的生命力和青春,象征着老人对力量的追求和对强者的向往,每次梦见“那群狮子”后都给老人增添了无穷的精神力量。群狮象征着同情弱者,仇视邪恶,既能创造人问奇迹,又能战胜各种邪恶势力的团结友爱的群体。
5.群狮的个体模式表现在老人圣地亚哥同鲨鱼搏斗到手无寸铁的风度,是海明威笔下硬汉形象的高度概括和升华,标志着后期海明威在思想上的发展
与进步,寄托着他的理想及对人类的希望。小说的结尾“The old man was dreaming about the lions”,这是一个富有寓意的回声,体现了海明威的人生哲学与道德理想,即不向命运低头,永不服输的斗士精神和积极向上的乐观人生态度。虽然他拖回的只是一副鱼骨架,但他在精神上却始终是个胜利者。
四. 本书传递价值取向
海明威通过硬汉子的生命价值所探求的生命伦理范畴已超越了西方传统的主体优先伦理的单一性和狭隘性,而正是这种狭隘、狂妄的主体优先伦理,使得个人价值要么迷失于欲望之中,要么沦陷于因人与人之间的利益一致性丧失而导致的尔虞我诈、相互隔阂之中。《老人与海》中,在老人与孩子、大海、大马林鱼、大鳌鱼的相处中,读者看到了一种更加开放、拓展的多元生命伦理存在。可以说从老人钓到大马林鱼为起点,到老人失去大鱼,实际上是海明威与桑提亚哥一起进行了一次关于生命伦理的质问、反思和探寻的过程。起初,老人把船划到很远的地方,并在天亮前投出所有诱饵。不言而喻,老人的行为充满自信,更确切地说是一种带有主体价值优先的自信。当带着这份自信同鱼搏斗时,一边惊叹大鱼之美,一边又不断反思他和大鱼之间到底是一种什么现实性关系,为自己杀死大鱼寻找借口。一方面,他认为鱼是他的兄弟、他的朋友,生命如此美丽的鱼谁都不配吃它;一方面,他又意识到打鱼是他的责任,他必须弄死它。既然老人和那条美丽的大鱼是朋友、兄弟关系,那么,生命伦理价值到底指向鱼还是指向人?老人反思的结果是:“我不在乎谁害死谁”。从老人的答案中,我们体会到一种突破人的主体伦理狭隘性的生命伦理,那就是大鱼与人有完全平等的生存权力。然而,生存权力的平等并不等于现实性伦理价值的平等。老人最终杀死了大鱼,但是老人并没有因为主体优先意识得以张扬而骄傲自豪,反而为杀死大鱼而痛苦难过,老人用一句话来概括出自己最终失去胜利果实的原因就在:“只怪我出海太远了”,毁掉了大鱼和自己的好运。此后,老人就从主体价值优先的狭隘伦理中解脱出来,进入到与狮子同在的甜蜜梦乡。托梦去超越现实性伦理的困惑,去实现与大自然中所有生命共生共存的理想。
意识到世界的荒诞和人生悲观,那么人怎样才能面对现实,应该怎样在现实社会中生存下去呢?海明威及其海明威式的硬汉们不断思考和求索这些问题的答案。经过长时间的努力追索,最终他们自以为找到了结果,那便是选择和准则。选择对于海明威而言就是一种相对的自由。因为身处危险四伏的世界,如果人依据自己的意志进行了选择,那么就意味着并没有被困难所吓倒,意味着人在一定的范围内获得了自由。这种选择在海明威作品中表现为面向大自然,选择去过相对独立的生活。在海明威的眼里,准则就是选择之后的行动和行动原则,是包含勇气、尊严、忍耐在内的精神,这些精神使一个处在痛苦、焦虑、绝望中的人成为真正的人,勇敢地面对死亡,在注定要失败的斗争中英勇顽强、无所畏惧,最大限度地展现“重压下的风度”。至此,我们完全有理由相信,海明威的选择和准则赋予了生活和生存在海明威的世界里,当人面对来自他人的对抗和竞争时,表现出主体自由、孤独和相互间的破坏力。以自我为中心的人本主义意识把个体从一切类的本质禁锢中解放出来,赋予每一个生命个体以自由。当然,如果把自我意识放在首位,人的感受理应是自由的。
五. 读后感与评析
海明威说:“我试图描写一个真正的老人,一个真正的孩子,真正的大海,一条真正的鱼和许多真正的鲨鱼。然而,如果我写的足够逼真的话,他们也能代表许多别的事物。事实上他做到了。而且做得非常出色。
老人的身上有一种永不言败的精神,它让他与大海和命运发出了挑战。他的船是旧的,船帆是破烂的,一切都昭示着他以前打鱼时并不顺利。但他顽强的精神支撑着他向所有的挫折发出不屈的音符,为他的人生谱写一曲优美壮阔的乐章。他依然坚持着——依然坚持着。他不懈地与大海抗争,与命运抗争,与所有的挫折与不如意抗争。人生的意义就在于这种不懈的抗争,跨越时间与生命的抗争!
什么是失败?失败就是跌倒。什么是英雄?英雄就是失败后能从跌倒之处爬起,继续向目标前进的人。失败并不可怕,可怕的是自己对失败屈服,而一旦屈服,那么所有梦想都不会实现,这在现实生活中有着极其重要的意义。人生恰似出海捕鱼,难免会遇到困难与挫折,勇敢地去面对,即使没有成功,也不会给人生留下遗憾。我们会是生活的强者,我的们人生也会因我们的努力而精彩。
“ 我和你奉陪到死!”这个硬汉如是说。这在暗喻他自身的英雄所在,还有他趋向坚韧的力量。故事的头尾都出现了一个叫马诺林的男孩,他希望继承老人的事业。何止捕鱼的事业需要继承,这副铮铮铁骨又何尝不为我们崇敬,供奉与学习呢?在老人的故事里为什么会有孩子出现?那是因为年轻象征着力量和希望,即便是老人,他的内心同样是年轻的。在老人的故事里为什么会有狮子的出现?文中多次描写到狮子,阿非利加的海滩上,狮子在笑闹嬉戏。它们浮现在老人的梦中,一直在老人的心中,同时揭示了老人永远不会老的意志。有人说老人哪里胜利了?他明明没有带回那条大鱼。但是胜利并不在于是否带回了鱼,而是在于他有没有挑战自己的极限。老人成功了,他打到了那条让所有人惊讶的大鱼,至于到底有没有带回来已经不重要了,能打到这条鱼本身已经是个奇迹。
老人的故事不仅象征着人与自然的关系,而且象征着整个人类坚不可摧的精神。在现实中,他虽然失败了,但在精神上,他却是胜利者。他那顽强拼搏的精神展示了人的高贵与尊严。遍顾人生,谁没经历过失败呢?哪怕再成功的人,都曾经历过失败。失败的原因可以不尽相同,大无论如何失败总是一个让人难以承受的打击。再出海,你就会有胜利的希望,我想,这种险恶的人生环境和这种坚韧的人生态度,正是这部作品越来越吸引人的原因。老人说:“人不是为失败而生的,一个人可以被毁灭,但绝不可以被打败。”这就说明了人生的含义,英雄的含义与生命的意义。因此,胜利在这部小说中已经不再重要,重要的是一个人的生命价值。
海明威的这部小说荣获了诺贝尔文学奖和普利策奖。这个骨头里留有几百块弹片的硬汉作家,恰当地写出了生命的强度,告诉我们怎么去面对人生的生老病死,亦告诉我们心的宽度应如海一般。老人是孤独的,他是在理想的道路上前行的旅人,但他又是不孤独的,因为他的意志力是那样坚强。
《老人与海》是一部值得仔细玩味的不朽名著,能让我们在暴风骤雨来临前获得勇气,获取力量。让我们知道不管遇到什么困难都信心十足地去面对,坚持到底,永不退缩,向全世界大喊:“我就是英雄!”