The old man and the

"The Old Man and the Sea" is an easy read, even for someone who doesn't read classics. It tells a story with a real background: old fisherman Santiago in eighty-four consecutive days without fish, finally caught a large marlin alone. But the fish was too big and after three days and nights of trying to kill it, there was no room in the skiff so the old man tied it to the side of the skiff and the blood attracted schools of sharks until all that was left was a huge bone. The seemingly simple story contains profound philosophy and moral.Hemingway's "the old man and the sea" tells a very simple story, which is a story that has moved people who have seen it, feeling the story: an old fisherman named Santiago, alone a person to go to sea fishing. Caught a gigantic marlin after 84 days of nothing. It was a fish that the old man had never seen or heard of and was two feet bigger than his boat. Fish strength is also big, dragging the boat drifting for two days and two nights, the old man also in these days staring at. In these two days and nights, the old man experienced unprecedented hardships and tests. He finally stabbed the big fish to death and tied it to the bow. However, when returning to the sea, he encountered a shark. The old man had a life-and-death fight with the shark. Although he killed several sharks, the old man was exhausted and his weapon was broken. As a result, the big Marlin was eaten by sharks, and the old man finally dragged home only a bare fish skeleton.Perhaps, the old fisherman in the book is not the final winner, because although he defeated the big Marlin at the beginning, but finally let the shark eat him, he only took the fish bone ashore. Although the winner is often the one who laughs last, the old man did not laugh last, but he has never compromised to the sea, to the big Marlin, to the shark, he is actually a winner who dares to challenge his own defects and his own courage and confidence.Human nature is intrepidity, human beings themselves have their own limits, but it is because of the old fisherman again and again to the limit challenge, beyond them, the limit was expanded again and again, a greater challenge in front of human beings. It is because of the existence of such people, people can go beyond the limit again and again, the society continues to move forward. In this sense, the old fisherman sang Brother such a hero, no matter they challenge the limit is successful or failure, are worth our respect forever. "A ship has passed the end of the world to the unknown sea, hanging from the bow of a weather-beaten but still beautiful flag, on the flag, waving like a cloud dragon sparkling -- Beyond the limit!" Author Ernest Hemingway commented on his novel the Old Man and the Sea.