老人与海演示英语PPT.ppt

Plot summary This book talked about Cuba, an old fisherman named Santiago, a man alone at sea fishing, in nothing caught 84 days after the Marlins had an immeasurable. This is the old saw has never heard of, and the boat is longer than his two feet of a big fish. Fresh fish is very large, dragging the boat drifted for a whole three days and three nights, the elderly in these three days and three nights have never experienced a difficult stand the test of big fish finally stabbed to death, tied to the bow. However, when the unfortunate return of the shark, the elderly and the shark had fought back against the end, the big marlin, or been eaten by sharks, and the elderly experienced some hardships, Finally dragged home, only a bare skeleton and a fish of the injury, they still got appreciation from people. Famous remark it was too good to last,he thought.I wish it had been a dream now and that I had never hooked the fish and was alone in bed om the newspapers. but man is not made for defeat,he said.A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Comment from Amanzon Aside from a few short stories, The Old Man and the Sea is the first Hemingway book that I have read. Of course, I am familiar with his persona, and the idea of the Hemingway man, and was well aware as his stature as one of the greatest writers of modern times. But I had never read his books. Wow. I mean, really. Wow. With The Old Man and the Sea, it is so easy to see why Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize, and why he deserves all of his accolades. This short novel is fierce, full of vibrant energy and humanity, all the while being a slave to the realities of finite power, of the inability to struggle against something greater than yourself. Of course, this is the standard man against nature story, but it is told with such craft that even cliches ring true. Santiago is a fully-realized character. His strength of will is all that holds together his failing body. The great marlin that he struggles with i