The Old man and the Sea

Throughout his life, the person who needs to overcome and defeat is himself. The Old Man and the Sea is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway in Cuba in 1951. Just as he said, people are not born to be defeated. People can be destroyed, but not defeated. The short story "The Old Man and the Sea" revolves around the spirit of "tough man" to describe the tenacious struggle of the old Cuban fisherman Saint Martin. "The Old Man and the Sea" describes the old man's two struggles with fish, the first with an 18-foot, 1,500-pound marlin and the second with one shark after another. The plot twists and turns as the frail old man goes 84 days without catching a fish, but he doesn't give up. Finally, on the 85th day, he caught a big marlin. But the process of conquering the big marlin is also very painful, he fought with the big marlin for two whole days and two nights, a small fishing boat was a big marlin towed to the sea. Despite having no food, no water, no assistants, and little weaponry, he clung to the rope. He was strong and fighting. In the end, he won. However, the plot does not go smoothly, and the plot reaches a second climax. The bloody taste of the big marlin attracted a shark, they gnawing on the body of the big marlin, the old man again and again drive, kill them, around the available weapons one by one exhausted, and finally only a broken tiller as a weapon, despite this, the big marlin was still eaten up by the sharks, and finally only a pair of fish bones. ; The struggle in the sea was painful, but the old man did not consider it a sign of failure to pull back only a pair of fish bones. For the old man, pain is not a failure, but the source of success, because of his fighting spirit "people can not be defeated." It is worth mentioning Manolin, a young boy who aspires to be a fisherman, who appears at the beginning and end of the novel. However, when the little boy is not around the old man, the old man thought "if only he was around me" when he caught the big marlin, thinking "if only he could be ar