老人与海英文读后感

Reading Report of The Old Man and the Sea

The

Old

Man

and

the

Sea

was

written

by

an

American

writer

named

Ernest

Hemingway. It has been translated into tens of languages, and the writer was so proud

of his work.

Santiago, the hero of the story, had gone eighty-four days without taking a fish back.

At first, a boy named Manolion had been with him, but Santiago couldn’t catch even

one fish. The boy had gone at his parents’ orders in a lucky boat which caught three

good fish the first week, and the couple thought that it was definitely and finally bad

to let their boy stay with the old fisherman. On Santiago’s eighty

-fifth day of fishing,

he went out alone, leaving the smell of the land behind and rowing out into the clean

early morning smell of ocean. To his surprise, he caught a tuna which he had never

seen before and it was hard to believe that the tuna was bigger than his boat. Later, the

blood from the tuna left a trail for all sharks as wide as a highway, so fighting against

sharks was unavoidable. The result was that sharks ate up all the meat of the tuna and

Santiago only brought the tuna skeleton back. He was so tired that he slept deeply as

soon as he got home, dreaming of lions.

In this story, Santiago was an old and poor widow though he was good at fishing

and had so much valuable experience. He only lived on fishing all his life. At long last,

he just brought the skeleton back, you may think such a fisherman should be a loser,

but

this

result

didn’t

mean

failing.

On

the

contrary,

Hemingway

used

the

skeleton

which was the pillar of spirit to strengthen the meaning of the old man’s life. Santiago

was described as a perfect person who never gave up.