第一篇：英語寫作——書評《老人與海》

Book Review on The Old Man And The Sea

“A man is not made for defeat.A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”These two sentences are so familiar to us.It’s spoken by Santiago, the hero of The Old Man And The Sea.When I first read this book in Grade 5, I was shocked by his brave and staunch spirit.This book tells us a story about an old fisherman called Santiago.He had been fishing 84 days without catching any fish at all.However, he made his mind to get a big fish.In the 85th day, after a long fighting, heeventually caught a big Marlin fish, which will be an honor to him.Unluckily, several sharks came to the boat and ate the dead fish.Although Santiago struggled to fight with them, tired out, they ate it at last.In the end, Santiago carried the shell of his Marlin fish home.This book tells the story with the time order, using a unique tough style.It perfectly shows the hero Santiago’s strong mind with aconciseplot and lively words.On the other hand, Hemingway tried harder to describe the big body of the Marlin fish and the fierceness of the sharks.It stresses his character in return.In my opinion, this book is not famous for its themes, but also for its writing style, a kind of tough style.The brave fisherman Santiago is also an image to reflect the author himself.Hemingway has attended the world war and got injured several times.So this book is like an autobiography of him.In my opinion, Hemingway and his hero Santiago represent the kind of man, who has full energy to overcome any obstacles, brave spirit to respond to any challenge and a strong mind never to give up.Sometimes life is like a round of push and pull.The winner will never be the weak or the timid, it belongs to the hero.Theobstacles in your life are like the big Marlin fish and the huge sharks.It is actually tough and endless.But try not being afraid and never give up.Each obstacle is a kind of challenge, thus our life is colorful.Even if they defeat

you, don’t step back.Think about Santiago’s words “A man is not made for defeat.A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” You will eventually defeat your enemy one day.

第二篇：老人與海英語書評

《老人與海》英文書評

On summer vacation of this year, I studied in novel “ old man and sea ” of Hemingway , famous writer of U.S.A.,.I admire the old fisherman's will in the novel very much, he lets me understand that a person must have unremitting spirit, could succeed.What the novel is described is an old fisherman almost the sixty years old, when go to sea and fish alone once, have angled to a big fish, but can not draw.After tough fisherman and fish have socialized for a few days, just find this is a big Malin's fish which exceeds several times of one's own fishing boat, though know perfectly well that it is very difficult to win , does not give up yet.Because big Malin fish fishlike smell of wound attract odd herds of shark vie for the food again later, but the old man is still unwilling to give up like this, stress the tight encirclement finally , take the large fish back to fishing port , let other fishmen admire it endlessly.The old fisherman thinks that as I read “: It is really too close from here to coast, perhaps there are bigger fish in the farther place ……” When,admire very much because this old fisherman in the persons, because play not for some fishing he already at this moment I, but he is not satisfied with the existing state of affairs , but advance towards greater goal.Seeing us again, meet some little difficulties at ordinary times , all of us complain bitterly.We are the future of the motherland, should be as ambitious as this old man, go to pursue well , greater goal.Read as me “ big Malin fish is it enclose light fishing boat move about , is it get mast to twine cable fast to begin, old man right hand hold steel fork high , jump out in a flash , affording to try one's best above water in it, a sound of wail has finished the life of the loud fish, it floats on the surface of water silently ……”When, the I one heart is too fall like pieces of stone not big.I admire that kind of fearing of the old man at all , unremitting spirit very much, though know rival's strength is very strong , but he has not shrunk back at all , meets the difficulty.Just because there is this kind of spirit, the old fisherman has obtained the victory of the trial of strength of this life and death.We should study the old fisherman's spirit too in life, do the thing and is not afraid of the difficulty , could achieve success.Read big blood offensive smell of fish smell one shark , fall over each other to visit to vie for the food, left hand of old man pull a muscle just, he can only use right hand, can weapon attacked to used for defend oneself with stick , mouth of swordfish that catch everything, and has driven away this herd of shark finally.But big meat of fish take into big half already, but old man criticize one's own left hand “ when the work this when have a rest ” humorously also, I am subdued by old man's optimistic spirit too.In life, some losses are unavoidable, we should treat the optimistic attitude , can't worry about petty gain or loss.Finally, the novel sees with a teenager that old fisherman has 18 feet of big long Malin's fish totally in the tolerance , the ones that have described this fish are enormous again, prove that old fisherman's difficulty overcome is big, than ordinary.Old fisherman's spirit that makes great efforts to struggle fearless of danger and difficulty that the novel has been extolled, we should be like him too, can' t be satisfied with the current situation , should be positive upwards, it should be unremitting to do anything, it must not give up halfway to meeting difficulty should meet the difficulty.Only in this way, we could obtain greater success and victory.

第三篇：老人與海英語書評（最終版）

2009級英語專業網上英語自主學習作業

作業：The Old Man and the Sea

I had read this novel when I was in middle school.I came across it in a library and after opening the book I continued reading till the last page.It’s amazing that there should be such a wonderful story.Later, I learned some parts of the story from our Chinese book and the teacher told us to try to feel something that the author was expressing.Then, I became confused for all I noticed was the story itself.Now I read the novel again, but in English.I have been familiar with the plot and many details in the story, and I could still recognize them while reading them in English.The story goes like this: there’s an old man in Cuba named Santiago who was a fisherman.He had been fishing hard in the Gulf Stream for 84 days but got nothing.In the previous days a boy named Manolin was fallowing him as a company, but the kind boy was force to leave the old man by his parents who thought that the old man was unlucky.However, Santiago continued to go fishing alone in the eighty-fifth day.The boy cared about him and prepared things for him.The old man left the land early in the morning and in this very day his luck finally came—a large marlin bit his bait and couldn’t escape.But the fish was so big and heavy that it pulled the skiff or a little ship as far as it could do.The old man was very excited and determined to defeat it.So they started a battle which lasted for days and nights.First the fish was in charge, it swam fast with great strength and the old man could only pull the rope with great efforts.When the old man was tired he ate bonito or dolphin to keep strong and he started to talk to himself so that he would not feel weak in the mind.The marlin grew tired gradually and it began to circle.The old man knew that he was to have the fish.He burnt all his energy to pull the rope while the fish was circling under the water.The fish came nearer and nearer to his skiff, and then the old man hit the fish with a harpoon and finally got it.The fish was huge and it was longer than his skiff.He tight it alongside the skiff with ropes and lay down in the stern to have a rest.However, on the way back the blood from the scar of the fish speared in the sea water and then the sharks came.The old man was not afraid and used every weapon to fight with them.There were five or six times of attacking from those sharks and each time they ate lots of fine meat from the marlin.The old man fought again and again to protect his fish and used harpoon, oar, knife, rudder and so on to beat the sharks.They fought all the way back home and in the end the old man gave it up because the fish was almost eaten up and he was exhausted.The old man finally came back after sailing out for so far and so long a time.It was deep in the night;he left the skiff and the fish and went to bed.In his dream, he saw lions playing on the beach in the coast of Africa.The story ended.It is said that the author, Ernest Hemingway who is a great American writer wrote the novel in only eight weeks, basing on one of his friend’s true experience.He created the figure of the old man which was later called by people “tough man” and showed his life attitude and spiritual world.The most well-known sentence of this novel and also the topic of it is that: “man is not made for defeat.A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” These words become belief of many readers.In my opinion, the whole story is about a battle between an old man and the sea, both of which are considered to have symbolic meanings according to critics.The old man once was so energetic and strong but couldn’t get harvest from the sea.He used his old body and strong mind to fight against nature and challenge his fate.He did win a bit—he got the large fish, but he lost totally because he carried back only the skeleton of the fish with his hands bleeding.On the other “網上英語自主學習”課程總計36課時，平均每4個課時完成一個學習任務，學生按要求完成相應的作業并對自己的學習過程進行自我評價，如，甲、乙…

2009級英語專業網上英語自主學習作業

hand, he had done all he could to fight against all unlucky things and didn’t lose his face.He behaved like a real man, a tough man.That’s what’s most important in a battle.Hemingway is famous for his special writing style and skills.His words are short but tough, and people describe this as “telegraph style”.And from this typical work of his I can easily find out something worth noticing.I like the first paragraph very much because it reads so natural and attracting and it will lead you into the situation as soon as possible.It writes: “He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.In the first forty days a boy had been with him.But after forty days without a fish, the boy’s parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week.”

Some features can be seen that verbs and nouns are used mostly, but not adjectives.This will make the novel clean and hard like bones and easy to understand.The novel is not long and not difficult to read in English, and I think we can learn to be tough like Santiago when facing with hard times in our life, which is the best solution we should choose in a bad situation.“網上英語自主學習”課程總計36課時，平均每4個課時完成一個學習任務，學生按要求完成相應的作業并對自己的學習過程進行自我評價，如，甲、乙…

第四篇：《老人與海》書評

生命不息，堅韌不止

——《老人與海》書評

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曾聽過這樣一句話：平凡就是知道自己就像一顆小草一般，卻依舊擁有堅忍不拔的意志，為了一個問題的答案而追根究底，為了一篇論文的完成而廢寢忘食，為了一份承諾的實現而夙興夜寐，在一個個平凡的日月輪回中不斷努力，讓自己不因平凡而淪為平庸。是的，《老人與海》的作者海明威正事塑造了這樣一個主人公——圣地亞哥，平凡，卻因為擁有堅忍不拔的意志讓人為之肅然起敬。

《老人與海》這本書講了這么一個故事：古巴老漁夫圣地亞哥連續八十四天沒捕到魚，被別的漁夫看做失敗者，可是他堅持不懈，在一次單身出海打魚時，釣到了一條大馬林魚，卻拉不上來，大馬林魚將他的小船在海上拖了三天才筋疲力盡，被他殺死了綁在小船的一邊。后來又因大馬林魚傷口上的魚腥味，在歸程中一再遭到鯊魚的襲擊和搶食，但老人仍不愿就這樣放棄，他用盡了一切手段來反擊，最終突出重圍，將大魚帶回了漁港，只可惜回港時只剩魚頭魚尾和一條脊骨。盡管魚肉都被咬去了，但這依舊無法摧殘他的英勇意志，這讓其他漁夫佩服不已。老人是孤獨的，他是在理想的道路上獨自前行的旅人，但他又是不孤獨的，因為他的意志是那樣的堅強。

海明威的這部小說榮獲了諾貝爾文學獎和普利策獎。這個骨頭里留有幾百塊彈片的硬漢作家，恰當地寫出了生命的強度，告訴我們怎么去面對生、老、病、死，告訴我們心該有多寬，這位普通而又可敬的老人讓我們深深的懂得了：做人不應該被任何困難所屈服，應該盡自己最大的努力與生活中的磨難做不屈不撓的斗爭。

人性是強悍的，人類本身有自己的限度，但正是因為有了老漁夫這樣的人一次又一次地向限度挑戰，超越它們，這個限度才一次次擴大，一次次把更大的挑戰擺在了人類面前。在這個意義上，老漁夫圣地亞哥這樣的英雄，不管他們挑戰限度是成功還是失敗，都是值得我們永遠敬重的。因為，他帶給我們的是人類最為高貴的自信。人生本來就是一種無止境的追求。它的道路漫長、艱難，而且充滿坎坷，但只要自己勇敢頑強地以一顆自信的心去迎接挑戰，就將永遠是一個真正的勝利者。

縱使老人頑固不化、愚蠢木鈍，但他的堅持贏過了波塞東的囂張；縱使老人一次次失敗，他從沒有絕望過，那份淡定，平息了一切波濤；縱使老人身處險境，但他的生存信念驅走了死神的垂顧；縱使老人一次次精疲力竭，然而他的等待，勝過了時間的腳步。其實，在我看來，《老人與海》中得老人圣地亞哥，也正是作者海明威所塑造給自己看的一個形象，用于激勵自己。然而，1961年7月2日晨7時，海明威取出自己珍愛的鑲銀雙筒獵槍，槍口對準口腔，他用最后的勇氣為自己敲響喪鐘。也許正如他言：“有勇氣死去比經受身心屈辱的恐怖要幸福得多。”

海明威終究還是選擇了死亡，忍受不了現實來自各個方面的折磨而解脫。在最后那一刻，海明威究竟是一個超越自我的英雄還是一個選擇逃避的懦夫我們不得而知，但是我相信，海明威作為《老人與海》的作者也是它的第一位讀者，一定也從中意識到了很多。海明威自己也非常喜歡他的這一作品，他說：“我一直讀過200多遍，每讀一次，我就多一份收獲，好像我最后得到了我這一生辛苦工作所欲得到的東西”。當然，每一個它的讀者也一定從中受到了鼓舞，甚至于將海明威視為自己精神的寄托。曾聽說在海明威自殺后的第二天，消息傳到了西班牙，一位出名的斗牛士知道了以后只說了一句：“做得好”，然后便選擇了同樣的方式，終結了自己的生命。看來，海明威的文字的的確確影響了那個時代的很多人。

“一艘船越過世界的盡頭，駛向未知的大海，船頭上懸掛著一面雖然飽經風雨剝蝕卻依舊艷麗無比的旗幟，旗幟上，舞動著云龍一般的四個字閃閃發光——超越極限！”作者海明威是這樣評價他的作品《老人與海》的。當然，小說是小說，生活是生活，我們不可能像老

人去一個蒼茫的大海，不服輸地和鯊魚搏斗，但我們可以在摔倒后，珍藏那枚把我們絆倒的石頭，然后帶著它，負著傷，繼續前行，同時等待天空中的云霧撥開。

人們總是把海明威的《老人與海》作為“硬漢”精神的代表，“人不是為失敗而生的”、“一個人可以被毀滅，但不能被打敗”，所有讀過這篇小說的人都對這兩句話留下了深刻的印象。偉大的作品都能散發出象征和寓言的意味，這篇作品在表現老漁夫堅毅意志的同時，也深刻表現了他孤獨的憂傷，或許，這是比單純表達他驚人意志力更為感人更為使人震撼的蘊含在作品深處的意味。

從創作來看，海明威始終恪守著“冰山原則”，他說：“冰山運動之雄偉壯觀，是因為它只有八分之一在水面上”。作品中的文字和形象是所謂的“八分之一”，而情感和思想是看不見的那“八分之七”。《老人與海》中使用了大量的象征、隱喻手法，賦予了作品豐富的內涵。而《老人與海》只有5萬多字，它卻征服了所有的諾貝爾文學獎的評委，1954年，“因為他精通于敘事藝術，突出地表現在他的《老人與海》之中”，才被授予了諾貝爾文學獎這一獎項。

《老人與海》更多的給人是希望與信念。在那個迷惘的年代里，《老人與海》一掃“迷惘”的陰霾，在那孤獨的憂傷里，給人更多的是頑強與不屈的精神品格。

第五篇：《老人與海》書評

《老人與海》書評

標題：失敗是另一種成功——《老人與海》讀后感 內容：

“一個人并不是生來要給打敗的，你盡可以把它消滅掉，可就是打不敗他。”海明威的《老人與海》這部經典之作，我曾一遍又一遍地翻閱。每次靠近它，幾乎都能深深地觸及到自己的心靈，震撼到自己的靈魂，獲得精神上堅不可摧的依靠。

“一個人可以被毀滅，但不能被打敗。”這是主人公桑地亞哥信奉的真理，他一直在用行動詮釋給我們看，并且他做到了，創造了大海上的奇跡。是他，通過自己的一舉一動，一言一行，告示給我又一個人生箴言：失敗是另一種成功！

這位“硬漢”的故事真的將我深深折服??

風燭殘年的老漁夫桑地亞哥一連八十四天都沒有捕到一條魚，這讓他成為了別人眼中的失敗者。而他卻從沒有認輸過，總是斗志昂揚，充滿著信心與希望，時刻準備迎接下一次的豐收。這也似乎正預示著一場戰斗的開始。終于，在第八十五天，他發現了一條身長約十八尺，體重約一千五百磅的大馬林魚。他明知對方力量比自己強大，卻還是決心與之戰斗到底。盡管大魚拖著船往海里走，老人依然死拉著不放，即使沒有水，沒有食物，沒有武器，沒有助手，左手抽筋，他也絲毫不灰心，并對大魚說：“我跟你奉陪到底！”。經過兩天兩夜的戰斗后，他終于殺死了大魚，把它拴在船邊。然而，考驗并沒有因此結束。回航時，大魚的血腥味引來了鯊魚一次又一次的襲擊。筋疲力盡的老人憑著自己頑強的意志，獨自用盡一切手段來反擊。魚叉被鯊魚帶走了，他把小刀綁在槳上亂扎。刀子折斷了，他用短棍。短棍也丟了，他再用舵把來打。——似乎沒有什么能阻擋和摧殘他。可是，上天似乎并不會憐惜這位堅毅剛強的老人，它將厄運一次又一次降在他身上，而最終只留給了他一副魚骨頭。老人回到家中，已是精疲力竭，躺在床上，去夢里追尋心底的那份美好??

桑地亞哥——多么令人心疼的孤獨樂觀的老人，多么令人欽佩的勇敢睿智的漁者，多么令人敬畏的頑強剛毅的硬漢，多么令人稱贊的堅韌執著的斗士——用行動抒寫了自己人生的“華麗”篇章，這份“華麗”，雖然很不完美，更可以說是失敗的，畢竟他是付出了沉重的代價最終仍一無所獲。但是，從另外一種意義上來說，他更是一個勝利者。因為，他不屈服于命運，無論在怎么艱苦卓絕的環境里，他都憑著自己的勇氣、毅力和智慧進行著奮勇的抗爭。大馬林魚雖然沒有保住，但他卻捍衛了“人的靈魂的尊嚴”。他身上所散發的精神氣息已經深深感染了每一個人，他的英雄形象也已深深刻在了每一個人的心上。他是物質的失敗者，卻是精神的勝利者，是生命的英雄。他的失敗，注定詮釋了另一種成功。

或許勝利在這部小說里已然不重要，重要的是一個人的生命價值，正真得到了體現。老人敢于挑戰極限，一次又一次地超越，不得不讓我們敬佩，他所帶給人類的是一種自信，一種強大的精神力量。

這位英雄老人，這位失敗的成功者，他不僅代表了自己，更代表著像他一樣的那一類人，了不起的一類人，讓人敬佩的一類人——“命運總是與人作對，人不管如何努力拼搏，終不免失敗。盡管如此，人還是要苦苦奮斗，并盡量保持自己的尊嚴，一個人在肉體上可以被打垮，但在精神上永遠是強者。”這，便是這類人一直堅定遵循的一個真理——這一類人，他們始終保持旺盛的生命力和堅強的意志力，始終保持人的尊嚴和勇氣。在他們身上，具有一種不屈不撓、堅定頑強，面對暴力和死亡而無所畏懼，身處逆境而不氣餒的堅強性格。他們用行動來顯示自己的勇敢、冷靜、果斷、頑強和不畏任何強大力量的主體意識。從他們身上，我們可以看到人的本質，人的努力和奮斗，人的追求和痛苦，人的信仰和掙扎，人的倔犟和價值，人的聰明和命運，人的膽略和氣魄，人的尊嚴和靈魂。即使失敗了，也要坦坦蕩蕩，不失重壓下的人的“優雅風度”。

其實，失敗的確可怕，只要它猖狂起來，可以將人徹底擊潰。而失敗又不可怕，只要你敢于面對他，不向它屈服，盡可以將它踩在腳下。何謂失敗？失敗就是要跌倒了重新鼓起勇氣爬起來，再一次跌倒再一次爬起，永遠不要失去對生活的希望，不要失去對夢想的追求。何謂英雄？英雄就是敢于面對挫折，面對挑戰，不斷戰勝自我，戰勝挫折的強者，就是有勇氣繼續去完成自己也許已經失敗了許多次的夢想的勇士，他會不斷告訴自己：當你遇到挫折，沒關系，闖過去！黎明在下一時刻迎接你；當你遇到坎坷，不要緊，沖過去！彩虹在下一個晴天鼓勵你；當你慘遭失敗，不要哭，挺過去！風景這邊更好。生命中，經歷一次磨難，就是鍛煉自己的意志；挺過一次災難，就是增加自己的力量。

無論處在順境還是逆境，立于自然或是社會中，都應該正視現實，接受一切并超越它，繼續自己的人生之旅。縱然面對死亡，也要漠然處之，寧折勿彎。這是桑地亞哥所執著的人生要義，也正是《老人與海》中的哲理閃光之處。他揭示了肉體和精神的永恒生命力來自于不斷運動的驅動力，強調了要在深沉的行動中鍛造有價值的靈魂。

讀《老人與海》這本書，我感到自己渾身都增添了戰勝困難的勇氣和力量。我覺得，正是書中描繪的復雜險惡的人生環境和面對此種環境主人公所展現的堅韌的人生態度，使得我越來越迷戀這部作品。無論在今后的人生道路上有多少荊棘坎坷，多少挫折失敗，我相信只要有老人那般不服輸的品質，我一定會是生活的強者。《老人與海》真的是值得我們去細細品味的，就像高爾基的《海燕》，能讓我們在暴風雨來臨前獲得勇氣，獲取力量。而它又有自己獨特的神韻，其中更多了一份堅韌、剛毅、執著與信念，讓我們不管遇到什么困難都能有勇氣、有信心地去面對，去堅持，去抗爭，決不退縮。

我想，人生正像老人出海捕魚一樣，會遇到這樣那樣的坎坷波折甚至失敗。失敗的原因也可能不盡相同，無論如何失敗總會帶給人一定程度的打擊，讓人難以承受。但是，我們必須明白，只有再出海，才會有勝利的希望，才會有成功的機會。只要我們勇敢地去面對，即使沒有成功，也不會給人生留下遺憾，畢竟我們努力過，付出過，奮斗過，爭取過，我們同樣會是生活的強者，我們的生命也會因此而精彩。

這，應該就是“失敗是另一種成功”的價值所在吧！