A Real Successor

The Old Man and The Sea is a novel written by Hemingway in 1951 which is one of the most famous works of Hemingway. The story happened around an elderly Cuban fisherman. He fought with a huge marlin in the Gulf Stream far away from the bank. The old man and The Sea helped Hemingway have the outstanding position in the literature world, and it also played an important role in his getting The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

Actually, this novel was based on real characters and incidents. After the World War I, Hemingway moved to Cuba and knew an aged fisherman, Gregorio Fuentes. In 1930, the boat that Hemingway was on sunk in the sea, but fortunately, Fuentes saved him. Afterwards, they became close friends and often went fishing together.

In 1936, Fuentes went far out of the sea and caught a big fish, but the fish was so big that it took him too much time to pull it to the coast. In result, it was attacked by a shark and it turned into a skeleton when he came back in the end. Hemingway was shocked by the case so one day he started to write a novel whose content was similar to the case. Now, we all know the novel is names The Old Man and The Sea.

From the plain description with rich life colors, we can come into the old fisherman Santiago’s life in his late years. Santiago lived a poor and lonely life but he held a unbending and un willing attitude to life and fate.

Though he had become very old and weak, he was always confident and zealous in his daily life. He usually went out to sea, and with failure time after time, he came across with an amazingly big fish. It was a dream to him for a great number of years. During three days and nights, he struggled with the fish desperately. At the moment that he was completely exhausted, he eventually caught the fish. When he was fighting with the fish, one feeling appeared again and again in his mind that man was not born to be defeated. However, finally, he failed. What happened? On the way back, hungered sharks followed one after another. He tried his best to kill these greedy creatures. It was to the best of his ability so when he returned back to the coast, he was tired to the extreme with a huge fish stone and a broken boat. It was true that he failed but this pride was standing firmly in the heart. He was defeated but he was a really brave hero. The scar on his body was seeing his heroic experience. In the small shack, the old man fell to sleep without disappoint.

The story seems to explain the relation between people and nature. In the fact, it praises people’s indestructible spirit. In the real world, he failed but in the spirit he was a winner. His tough spirit revealed human’s nobleness and dignity. All around the world, who has never failed even though you often succeeded? There may be various excuses for your failure, but whatever the reason is, failure usually gives you a attack that you cannot endure. Above all, will you choose to do the same thing when

you have failed? If you insist, you will see dawn of success. To the old man, success did not mean the big marlin and he did not care when he only got an empty fish stone at the final, simply because his value of life was fully embodied in the process of pursuing the marlin fish. The old man was a real successor since he had ever struggled for his dream. Everybody has their dream or goal in the life. I think if you have tried your best, you will not regret in the future.

第二篇：老人与海英文读后感和翻译!

After reading”Old man and the sea” ’s impressions

This year winter vacation, I read the american well-known writerHemingway's novel”Old man and the sea”

It seems to be that Santiago is a poor old man. Hemingway refining the language of their own to shape the image, it can be said that Hemingway didn’t let the elderly achieved success,however has been given under the pressure of the elderly in the image of elegance and fortitude.

Hemingway's novel won the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize. The tough guy writer, the proper strength to write his life, tell us how to deal with birth, old age, sickness and death, tells us how wide the heart, such as the sea in general. The elderly are lonely, he was approached in an ideal road trip travelers, but he is not lonely, because his will is so strong.

After reanding this book, I know less than their own. From than on, I don’t cair what kind of difficulties encountered, we must face with confidence, insisted in the end, and never say die!

.《老人与海》读后感

在这个寒假，我阅读了美国著名作家海明威的小说“老人与海”

看上去桑提亚哥（Stantiago）似乎是个又穷又老的人，海明威(Hemingway)以自己精炼的语言塑造了这个形象，可以说，海明威没有让老人成功，却赋予老人在压力下优雅而坚强的形象。

海明威的这部小说荣获了诺贝尔文学奖和普利策奖。这个硬汉作家，恰当地写出了生命的强度，告诉我们怎么去面对生、老、病、死，告诉我们心该有多宽，就像大海一样。老人是孤独的，他是在理想的道路上前行的旅行者，但他又是不孤独的，因为他的意志是那样的坚强。

读完这本书以后，我明白了自己以往的不足，从今以后，不管我遇到多大的困难，我都有足够的自信去面对，坚持到底，永不言弃！