"A boat across the end of the world was heading towards an unknown sea,hanging on the side of the bow while it is still gorgeous pool of wind and rain erosion immense banner,flag,dance with sparkling Yunlong general words - beyond the limit !,"by Ernest Hemingway is said of his work," Hits "in.
"Hits" mold of a classic tough guy image.Cuba,an old fisherman Santiago Ming Jiaosang alone a man fishing at sea,in nothing caught 48 days after the Marlins had an immeasurable.This is the old saw has never heard of the ship is longer than his two feet of a big fish.Great fresh fish are also great,dragging the boat drifted for a whole two days and nights,the elderly in these two days and nights have never experienced a difficult withstood the test of big fish finally stabbed to death,tied to the bow.But this time they have met a shark,the elderly and the shark had a desperate struggle,the results of big marlin,or eaten by a shark,and the elderly finally dragged home the fish only a bare skeleton.
Hemingway's why there is no final victory for the old people do?With the words of the elderly in the novel:"A person is not born must be defeated," and "people do can be destroyed,but can not be defeated." This is the "Hits of "If you want revealed philosophy.Undeniably,as long as the person who will be flawed.When a person admits that this flaw and try to defeat it rather than succumb to it time,no matter finally caught a full or an empty skeleton Marlins,which have been does not matter,because the value of human life has been a In that pursuit of Marlins in the process fully reflected.Once for the pursuit of their ideals too,fought,do not he is not a winner?Old fisherman is the courage to challenge their own defects and their own courage and confidence to the winner.From the secular point of view the victory of view,old fisherman is not the final winner,because even though he began to beat the big marlin,but eventually let sharks eat big Marlins,and he was only the bones of the dead with a big rack Marlins back to the shore,that is,a shark is the winner.However,idealists,eyes,old fisherman is a winner,because he never failed to big marlin to the sea to the sharks,and no compromise and surrender.As musician Beethoven said,"I can be destroyed,but I can not be conquered."
Human nature is powerful,and humanity itself has its own limits,but it is precisely because such a person is old fisherman again and again to challenge the limits,beyond them,this limit was extended again and again,again and again to even greater challenges lie in the the human face.In this sense,the old fisherman San Diego such a hero,whether they challenge the limits of success or failure,are worthy of our always respected.Because he gives us is the most noble of human self-confidence!
Life itself is a kind of endless pursuit.It is the road long,difficult and full of ups and downs but as long as its own tenaciously to a brave heart to meet the challenges of self-confidence,he will always be a real winner!
