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1、Analysis on the Persistence and Courage of Santiagos Character in The Old Man and the Sea老人与海老人与海中圣地亚哥毅力和勇气的形象分析中圣地亚哥毅力和勇气的形象分析ContentI. Introduction A. About the writer B. About the bookII. The Persistence and Courage of Santiago ABefore out of the sea a. The image of Santiago b. Talking with manol
2、in B. After out the sea a. Hook the marlin b. Struggle with marlin C. Back home a. Struggle with marauding sharks b. Dreaming lionsIII. The great Santiago A. Strong willpower B .The sea hero ReferencesI. IntroductionA. About the writer Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961), one of the most famous American n
3、ovelist, short-story writer and essayist, was the winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. Still a teenager, Hemingway volunteered for war work and was wounded on the Italian front in 1918, the basis for his first major book A Farewell to Arms (1929). His fascination with grace under pressure
4、was explored in his writing on bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon (1932), and he returned to Spain in 1937 to cover the Spanish civil war, and he distilled the experience in his greatest novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). In World War II he was a thrusting war correspondent with US forces in Eu
5、rope. After the war he summarized his philosophy with marvellous economy in The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Repeated accidents and alcoholism sapped his vitality and he shot himself in 1961. Hemingways writing career began in high school and continued until his death in 1961, Several of his works we
6、re published posthumously, and he had been an international literary celebrity for more than a quarter of a century. B. About the book The Old Man and the Sea (1952) ends came round to of the Hemingways writing career. With vivid characterization, simple language, and profoundly implicating meaning,
7、 The Old Man and the Sea earned its author the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for 1952, and it helped him to win Nobel Prize for Literature two years later. The Old Man and the Sea is a tragic adventure story. Sustained by the pride of his calling, the only pride he has left, a broken old fisherman ventu
8、res far out into the Gulf Stream and there hooks the biggest marlin ever seen in those waters. Then, alone and exhausted by his struggle to harpoon the giant fish, he is forced into a losing battle with marauding sharks; they leave him nothing but the skeleton of his catch. In The Old Man and the Se
9、a, Ernest Hemingway further explores the masculine theme of man renting challenges and struggling alone, manifesting extreme determination and fortitude in the face of certain defeat, and living with “grace under pressure”.（殷雪迎, 95 年 04 期）The portrayal of the old fisherman Santiago reflectes the qua
10、lities and values that the author admired most: courage, dignity and the power to endure. Stylistically, The Old Man and the Sea is written in simple sentence structure.II. The Persistence and Courage of SantiagoABefore out of the seaa. The image of Santiago Santiago is an old fisherman, for eighty
11、four days old Santiago has not caught a single fish. At first a young boy, Manolin, has shared his bad fortune, but after the fortieth luckless day the boys father tells his son to go in another boat. From that time on Santiago works alone. Each morning he rows his skiff out into the Gulf Stream whe
12、re the big fish is. Each evening he comes in empty-handed. The years has ran off to leave deep trace on his body. He is old but not decrepitude, his appeasement and the vibrant heart become fresh and clear contrast. Hemingway describes his image appearance and the eyes, expressing an old man outward
13、 appearance of old with inside of strength. “The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his h
14、ands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.” “Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.”(Hemingway, 2001:02).
15、 These two kinds of hostile strengths express Santiago is a persistence and courage character person. This kind of confrontation makes the reader produce new expectation to the person, also behaving the activity of thing to launch vast mental space and environment space. In addition, failure and bad
16、 luck are permanent in other peoples eyes, but to old man do not result in what influence. He still believes he will also have good luck. He can also lend experience and deep technique to catch to a real heavy rain. Manolins parents decide that “the old man was now and definitely salao, which is the worst form of unlucky“ (Hemingway,2001:01). This sentence proclaims one of
