About the heroism in The Old Man and the Sea .

What is Hero?

Heroes are not in how much he has done, not in his exploits. It's his courage, his spirit of giving himself up, and his ability to be a person with limited strength, despite fear, he still continues to challenge himself and never turn back.

After tossing for a long time, he almost took his life, what did the old man get? It's just a pair of fish bones. In the eyes of ordinary people, they think he lacks heart.

People who want to make a career think that he is not worth it. But I think the old man doesn't think so, and in the struggle with nature and himself, his life is reborn, he overcomes his cowardice and discovers a new self.

Looking back at the bleak place, there is no wind and rain and no sunshine. The world is like the sea, which begins with calm and returns to calm. After the fight, the old man did not have so many waves in his heart, he was lost, it was because he was looking for greater transcendence, this is the loneliness of heroes, they are eager to challenge, not the so-called history of the name.

What people are most afraid of is the death of the spirit, and if the spirit does not die, people really exist. We worship great men because their deeds endure, and we revere heroes because their spirits are immortal.

A lot of heroes have been trained in a difficult fate.

If you have time, you will leave beforehand.

"The Old Man and the Sea".The character of the middle-aged old man is a lonely, defeated, but brave and fearless old man who loves life and longs for victory.

The Old Man and the Sea is an American writer by Ernest Hemingway.

In Cuba in 1951.

Novella**, published in 1952. ** Describes Santiago, an elderly Cuban fisherman.

The story of wrestling with tenacious marlins and ferocious sharks in rough seas established Hemingway's prominence in world literature.

It inspires the fighting spirit of human beings and brings people an optimistic attitude towards life. **Won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize.

and the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.

is one of Hemingway's most famous works.

The background of the creation of "The Old Man and the Sea":

The creation of The Old Man and the Sea was adapted by Hemingway from his own personal experience. Since World War II.

Hemingway moved to Cuba, where he became friends with Gregorio, a fisherman. And the stories narrated in the work are also in line with the fishermen's experiences. In 1930, Hemingway went out to sea with fishermen and happened to catch big fish in the middle of the sea.

However, due to the large size of the big fish, a lot of energy was spent in the catch, and even sharks were encountered to snatch the big fish, and then the two returned to leave only a pair of fish bones. It was on this basis that Hemingway created "The Old Man and the Sea".

The protagonist is Mori Chirang Santiago.

The Old Man and the Sea depicts an old fisherman fishing at sea, he didn't catch a single fish, everyone said he was unlucky and unlucky, and the next day, he decided to go to the deep sea where the fishermen had never been to fish to prove his ability and courage. At sea, the old man found a large marlin.

It has overcome many difficulties.

After a hard struggle, on the morning of the third day, he finally pierced the harpoon into the heart of the marlin. On the way back, the old man met five shark attacks, and he bravely fought back with harpoons, oars, and knives. When he returned to the harbor in the boat, all that was left of the marlin was a huge white skeleton.

Related information. **The whole time is very tight, only four days before and after: the day before going to sea, with the old man returning from the sea as an introduction, let the surrounding characters appear one by one, explaining the relationship between them and the old man:

Manolin, a child who loves him and learns to fish with him; fierce or a group of fishermen who respect him, but can never understand him; A hotel owner who cares about him.

The old man lived in such a group of people, and he was markedly different from everyone else, he was very happy, open-minded, experienced, confident, hard-working, brave, adventurous, and a simple Cuban who loved life.

Fisherman. At the same time, this hub-and-spoke structure can also produce the effect of clear clues, focused centers, and concise stories.

The main characters of The Old Man and the Sea:

1. San Diego:

At the beginning of **, Hemingway.

The living environment of the old fisherman is vividly described, and an emaciated old man with deep wrinkles on his neck and cheeks leaps into the reader's sight. Everything about him was ancient, old as an ancient erosion in the desert, and he was lonely, with hardly any friends except a little boy.

But his eyes were as blue as the sea, full of joy. Even after 84 days without any gains, he was still convinced that he would catch a big fish under the ridicule of others. With the development of the ** plot, the quality of the old man has also been reflected step by step.

2. Manolin:

Although the character of Manolin has little writing in **, he appears at the key point in the development of the plot. Structurally, Manolin appeared from the very beginning; When Santiago was alone at sea, he appeared in the old man's mind; When the old man returned from fishing, Manolin went to comfort him and accompany him.

from social relations.

Look, the child Manolin is an apprentice of Santiago. They know each other very well and are very close. The old man lost his wife and no children, and his life was all dependent on Manolin's care. Judging from the incident of going out to sea to fish with the old man, Manolin also played a very important role in traveling.

Because he left the old man's boat, he let the old man go to sea alone; When the old man went to sea, it was Manolin who went to see him off, and after the old man returned, it was Manolin who took care of him, brought him food, and discussed with him his future plans. His decision to return to the old man's boat created a clear line between this fishing incident and subsequent events.

The old man and the sea symbolize:

The meaning of the sea in Western literature is rich and colorful, whether it is a pure and amiable girl, or a fierce demon. In "The Old Man and the Sea", the sea is depicted as a woman. In the process of fishing, the sea is always quiet and slowly flowing; Even when the sharks took the old man's flesh, the sea was still so calm.

Always quietly, confidently, and equally gazing at the "tough guy"-like old man - Santiago. Depicting the sea as a woman, she has a gentle appearance, but she has infinite and powerful power, and she has a large marlin that she has never heard of.

With a greedy shark, she is so unfathomable.

And this is the sea in the true sense, and it really shows that those who have a weak appearance but a strong heart are "real", and those who show that they are weak and humble on the outside but have extraordinary perseverance and fighting spirit in their hearts are "real tough guys".

A lonely, defeated, but brave old man who loves life and longs for victory.

** From the very beginning, the tone of his fate of failure and loneliness was set——— he was an old man fishing alone on a flat-bottomed sailboat in the Gulf Stream, and this time he had been gone for eighty-four days without catching a single fish", "unlucky to the extreme". His patched sails are "like a flag that marks eternal failure."

He had a wife, but his deceased wife became only a portrait, reflecting his loneliness. He also had the glory of his youth and worked in wrestling.

won the envied "champion".

But now, he has become an old, dilapidated and scarred flag. "He no longer dreams of storms, no more dreams of women, no more dreams of great deeds, no more dreams of big fish, no more dreams of fighting, no more dreams of wrestling, no more dreams of his wife". It was as if he had nothing left.

Personality:

Santiago in "The Old Man and the Sea" is a "tough guy."

The representative of the image is the development and sublimation of the "tough guy" character created by the author in his works since the 30s, and is the embodiment of the "tough guy" spirit. At the same time, the excellent qualities that make up Santiago's "tough guy character" are: firm confidence, tenacious will, optimistic spirit, and generous love.

And the "tough guy image" composed of all these excellent qualities is also the embodiment of the author's own "tough guy character". It is a kind of survival rule of the author in the face of society: "A person is not born to be defeated, you can destroy him, but you can't defeat him!"

This is also the author's basic attitude towards the fate of mankind.

The Old Man and the Sea is a story written by the famous writer Hemingway, which is based on the relationship between an old fisherman and his children, and depicts a story that symbolizes life. Its theme can be summed up as "challenging fate, respecting life, and pursuing meaning".

Specifically, "The Old Man and the Sea" mainly conveys the following two thematic ideas:

1.Human effort and fighting spirit: ** depicts the fate of the old fisherman Solido who struggles the sea and finally catches a big fish but suffers a defeat, but even so, he is not defeated, but faces reality freely.

The book shows the tenacious and unyielding spirit of human beings and the unremitting pursuit of self-worth.

2.The dignity and value of life: The work also reveals the cherishing and recognition of life, reflecting the harmonious coexistence of human beings and nature.

The concept of life in the old man and the sea is profound, which not only contains people's understanding of their own value, but also respects and cherishes other lives, implying that people need to go deep into the meaning and understand the connotation of the true meaning of life.

Although the plot and theme in "The Old Man and the Sea" are relatively simple, it has won wide recognition in the minds of readers around the world through the expression of life, fate and self-struggle. The work not only became the pinnacle of Hemingway's work, but also left a profound impact on the history of literature.

The old man in The Old Man and the Sea reflects an "image."