old man and the sea

He was an old man, alone, fishing in a skiff in the Gulf Stream, and now he had lost nothing for eighty-four days. Who could have imagined that as a fisherman, going 84 days without any fish would be under such a stress? But in the eyes of us is a lot of pressure, but as the protagonist of the old Santiago does not think so, he has his own confidence and judgment, even in the eighty-four days without harvest, he is not impatient, do not expect charity from others, ignore the eyes and words of others. The old man had no family, no friends, just a little boy who followed him, who fished with him, who ate and drank coffee with him. In the old man's village, some fishermen catch sharks. Let's see how they deal with them. According to the book, those who catch sharks take them to the shark factory across the bay, where they are hung on a pulley, their livers removed, their fins cut off, their skin peeled off, and their flesh cut into strips for salting. I think it is cruel to see this, but people in backward villages don't understand, they only need sharks to support their family income, maybe they don't know harm at all, because they only know fishing. The same is true for turtles, whose hearts continue to beat for hours after they have been cut open and slaughtered. It can be seen that old Santiago is lonely in the village, because he is the only one in the family, so his house is also dilapidated. We read a passage in the book: They walk together along the road to the old man's hut and enter through the open door. The old man lowered the mast with the furled sail against the wall, and the boy set the box and other things beside it. The mast was almost the length of the room. The hut is built from the tough cladding of zongzi leaves. There was a bed, a table, a chair, and a place to cook with charcoal on the dirt floor. It can be seen that old people live miserably without anyone to take care of them. Santiago, the old man in eighty-four days without harvest, decided to continue to go to sea fishing, perhaps he left no one worried about him, only a little boy wanted to go to sea with him, but also under the threat of parents, the little boy only looked at the old man alone fishing. When the old man was alone at sea, he had no one to talk to. So the old man thought that silence was considered a virtue at sea. The old man had always recognized and respected this. But now, alone at sea, he had said what he thought aloud many times, and he was not bothering anyone anyway. When he was at sea, he would meet birds in flight, and some birds, tired of flying, would stop in his boat to rest for a while. The old man would say to the bird, "Rest for a while, little bird, and then you must go on and try your luck, as every man, bird or fish does." He could have said to the bird what he wanted to say to himself. He also wanted to be lucky enough to catch a big fish. At last, as the old man waited patiently, the line rose slowly and steadily. Then the water swelled in front of the bow and the fish rose to the surface. Its ascent is almost endless, with water sloshing down its sides. It glistened in the sun, its head and back a deep purple, and the stripes on its sides, a lavender lavender, looked broad in the sun. Its beak was as long as a baseball bat, tapering off like a sword. Its whole body rises to the surface of the water intact and then flows back into the water like a submarine. The old man saw his scythe tail go under the water and the line began to move fast. The book with a large length of text to describe the hook of the fish, doomed to this fish is not ordinary and not easy to catch. Perhaps is to let the old man experience a tortuous, the old man in the sea and the fish struggle for 2 days and 2 nights, finally caught, but the old man also suffered a lot of injuries. But the worst was yet to come, for the smell of blood attracted the sharks. At that time the old man in the absence of any weapon, and grab a few sharks eat, the last old man injury is more serious, also gave up, even though the old man finally caught a big fish, but fish are shark ate up, in these days at sea, the old man was smoothly back to shore, but also can return to her bed. The book tells us that the old man won not the shark but himself in the end. Perhaps it is the saying that a man can be destroyed but not defeated. Old people have something we need to learn from them.