老人与海读后感 英文版(The Old Man and the Sea) .pdfVIP

Impressionof“TheOldManandtheSea”

WhenIwasamiddleschoolstudent,I’vefinishedthisbookinChinese.Butwhen

IreaditinEnglish,Ireallygainsomethingnewbothinthewayofexpressionand

thespirititshowstous.Maybedifferentagestoreadthesamebookwewilllearn

differentthingsfromit.Atleast,formypart,thatistrue.

Firstly,Iwouldliketoreviewsomeinformationaboutthisbook.Suchasthe

background,majorcharactersandthetopicofit.

TheOldManandtheSeaisastorybyErnestHemingway,writteninCubain1951

andpublishedin1952.ItwasthelastmajorworkoffictiontobeproducedbyHemingway

andpublishedinhislifetime.Oneofhismostfamousworks,itcentersuponSantiago,

anagingCubanfishermanwhostruggleswithagiantmarlinfaroutintheGulfStream.[1]

TheOldManandtheSeaservedtoreinvigorateHemingwaysliteraryreputation

andpromptedareexaminationofhisentirebodyofwork.Thenovellawasinitially

receivedwithmuchpopularity;itrestoredmanyreadersconfidenceinHemingways

capabilityasanauthor.Itspublisher,Scribners,onanearlydustjacket,called

thenovellaanewclassic,andmanycriticsfavorablycompareditwithsuchworks

asWilliamFaulknersTheBearandHermanMelvillesMoby-Dick.

Thisbookgivesmeadeepimpressionespeciallythedescriptionabouttheman’s

bravenessandpersistence.

Inthisbook,inordertosuggesttheprofundityoftheoldman’ssacrificeand

theglorythatderivesfromit,HemingwaypurposefullylikensSantiagotoChrist,

who,accordingtoChristiantheology,gavehislifeforthegreatergloryofhumankind.

CrucifixionimageryisthemostnoticeablewayinwhichHemingwaycreatesthesymbolic

parallelbetweenSantiagoandChrist.WhenSantiago’spalmsarefirstcutbyhis

fishingline,thereadercannothelpbutthinkofChristsufferinghisstigmata.Later,

whenthesharks