老人與海英文讀后感1500字(精)

1、Impression ofThe Old Man and the SeaWhen I was a middle school student, I' ve finished this book in Chinese.But when Iread it in Engli sh,I really gain something new both in the way of expression and the spirit it shows to us.May be different ages to read the same book we will learn different th

2、ings from it.At least, for my part, tha t is true.Firstlywould like to review some information about this book.Such as the background,major cha racters and the topic of it.The Old Man and the Sea is a story by Ernest Hemingway, written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It was the last major wor

3、k of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his li fetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who st ruggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.1The Old Man and the Sea served to reinvigorate Hemingway's literary reputation

4、and prompted a r eexamination of his entire body of work. The novella was initially received with much popularity; it restored many readers' confidence in Hemingway's capability as an author. Its publisher, Scribne r's, on an early dust jacket, called the novella a "new classic,&quo

5、t; and many critics favorably compare d it with such works as W川iam Faulkner's "The Bear" and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. This book gives me a deep impression especially the description about the man' s braveness and pe rsistence.In this book, in order to suggest the profundit

6、y of the old man' s sacrifice and thglory that derives from it, Hemingway purposefully likens Santiago to Christ, who, according to Christian theology, gave his life for the greater glory of humankind.Crucifixion imagery is the most noticeable way i n which Hemingway creates the symbolic paralle

7、l between Santiago and Christ. When Santiago ' s palms are first cut by his fishing line, the reader cannot help but think of Christ suffering his stigm ata. Later, when the sharks arrive, Hemingway portrays the old man as a crucified martyr, saying that he makes a noise similar to that of a man

8、 having nails driven through his hands. Furthermore, t he image of the old man struggling up the hill with his mast across his shoulders recalls Christ ' s m arch toward Calvary. Even the position in whichSantiago collapses on his bed- face down with his arms out straight and the palms of his ha

9、nds up brings to mind the image of Christ suffering on the cross. Hemingway employs these images in the final pages of the novella in order to link Santiago to Christ, who exemplified transcendence b y turning loss into gain, defeat into triumph, and even death into renewed life.The major characters

10、 in this book are also vivid and lively.Santiago ,the old man of the novella' s title, Santiago is a Cuban fisherman who hashad an extende d run of bad luck. Despite his expertise, he has been unable to catch a fish for eighty-four days. He is humble, yet exhibits a justified pride in his abilit

11、ies. His knowledge of the sea and its creatures, and of his craft, is unparalleled and helps him preserve a sense of hope regardless of circumstance. The marlin ,Santiago hooks the marlin, which we learn at the end of the novella measures eighteen feet, on the first afternoon of his fishing expediti

12、on. Manolin ,a boy presumably in his adolescenc e, Manolin is Santiago ' s apprend devoted attendant. The old man first took him out on a boa t when he was merely five years old. Due to Santiago' s recent bad luck,Manolin ' s parents have fo rced the boy to go out on a different fishing

13、boat. Manolin, however, still cares deeply for the old man, to whom he continues to look as a mentor.Joe DiMaggio, although DiMaggio never appears in the novel, he plays a significant role nonetheless. Santiago worships him as a model of strength and commitment, and his thoughts turn toward DiMaggio

14、 whenever he needs to reassure himself of his own strength. Perico ,Perico, the reader a ssumes, owns the bodega in Santiago' s villagenever appears in the novel, but he serves an im portant role in the fisherman' s lifeproviding him with newspapers that report the baseball score s. This act

15、 establishes him as a kind man who helps the aging Santiago.Martin,like Perico, Martin, a cafe owner in Santiago ' s village, does not appear in thstory. The rea der learns of him through Manolin, who often goes to Martin for Santiago ' s supper. As the old ma n says, Martin is a man of freq

16、uent kindness who deserves to be repaid.From the very first paragraph, Santiago is characterized as someone strugglingagainst defeat. He has gone eighty-four days without catching a fish he will soon passhis own record of eighty-sev en days. Almost as a reminder of Santiago' s struggle, thesail

17、of his skiff resembles“the flag of per manent defeat. " But the old man refuses dat every turn: he resolves to sail out beyond the oth er fishermen to where the biggest fishpromise to be. He lands the marlin, tying his record of eight y-seven days after a brutal three-day fight, and he continue

18、s to ward off sharks from stealing his pr ey, even though he knows the battle is useless.Because Santiago is pitted against the creatures of the sea, some readers choose to view the tale as a chronicle of man' s battle against the natural world, but the novella is,more accurately, the story of m

19、an ' s place within nature. Both Santiagarland t display qualities of pride, honor, and b ravery, and both are subject to the same eternal law: they must kill or be killed. As Santiago reflect s when he watches the weary warbler fly toward shore, where it will inevitably meet the hawk, the world

20、 is filled withman is not made for defeat . . . a manpredators, and no living thing can escape the inevitable struggle that will lead to its death.Santiago lives according to his own observation: inevitable, but the best men (and animals will nonetheless refuse to give in to its power. Accordingly,

21、man a nd fish will struggle to the death, just as hungry sharks will lay waste to an old man ' s trophy catch.can be destroyed but not defeated.In Hemirtgwtayf th eswpold, death isThe novel suggests that it is possible to transcend this natural law. In fact, the very inevitability of destruction

22、 creates the terms that allow a worthy man or beast to transcend it. It is precisely throug h the effort to battle the inevitable that a man can prove himself. Indeed, a man can prove this dete rmination over and over through the worthiness of the opponents he chooses to face. Santiago find s the ma

23、rlin worthy of a fight, just as he once found“the great negro of Cienfuegos " worthy. HSan tiago, thougdestroyed 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. Rather, itenables h

24、im to meet his most dignified destiny.While it is certainly true that Santiago" s eigh-four-day run of bad luck is an affront to his pride a s a masterful fisherman, and that his attempt to bear out his skills by sailing far into the gulf waters leads to disaster, Hemingway does not condemn his

25、 protagonist for being full of pride. On the con trary, Santiago stands as proof that pride motivates men to greatness. Because the old man acknow ledges that he killed the mighty marlin largely out of pride, and because his capture of the marlin l eads in turn to his heroic transcendence odefeat, p

26、ride becomes the source of Santiago' s greatest strength.Without a ferocious sense of pride, that battle would never have been fought, or more lik ely, it would have been abandoned before the end.Santiago ' s pride also motivates his desire tostrand the destructive forces of nature. Througho

27、ut the novel, no matter how baleful his circumstances become, the old man exhibits an unflagging determination to catch the marlin and bring it to shore. When the first shark arrives, Santiago ' s resol vmentioned twice in the space of just a few paragraphs. Even if the old man had returned with the marlin intact, his moment of glory, like the marlin'would have been short-lived. The gl ory and honor Santiago accrues comes not from his battle itself but from his pride and determinati on to fight.Santiago dreams his pleasant dream of the lions at play on t