英语论文 老人与海

The Thesis of A Journey in English

Literature

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COLLEGE：Software Engineering College LITERATURE：The Old Man and the Sea

Different Thoughts about

the Image of the Code Hero

-- The Old Man and the Sea

【Abstract】

The thesis analyzes Hemingway's code hero image in this famous novel from different perspectives. As we all know, every excellent work expresses lots of significances, which only one-eights can be seen directly. So we can have a new look at the code hero in Hemingway’s novel. The thesis focuses on people’s different views about the process and the result. Which of them is more important? Perhaps we can get a new answer.

【Key Words】

Hemingway the code hero result process Santiago

Introduction

Ernest Hemingway is one of the greatest writers in the 20th century and The Old Man and the Sea is his representative work. It has helped restore Hemingway’s lite rary image and won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. In the novel, the protagonist Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, had not caught any fish for 84 days. So he had to set out to the sea again and went very far. This time he came across a great marlin. He struggled with it hardly and eventually killed it. However, the atrocious sharks came to eat the marlin. To defend his marlin and his pride, proving him an undefeated old fisherman, he fought against the sharks desperately. Finally, the sharks ate up the marlin and only the backbone was left. Santiago returned home, but he had his pride still. The old man was really a hero. But if we can reconsider it, perhaps we can get something different.

Reconsider the novel

There are quantities of different significances in every excellent novel. There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes. In the novel that won him the Nobel Prize, Hemingway had described only a few images – a boat, a sea, an old man and so on. But only a thousands words left endless thoughts to us, on battles, on success, on death and on life, which are various from people to people. Thought majority of the readers think that the code hero in the novel is perfect. But as far as I’m considered, every coin has two sides. If we can have a fresh look on it, then we may get a different idea.

Processes or results

Reading the story, I have being thinking about the success. What is success? And what is failure? There are many various issues on the problem. A man is climbing a mountain. One way for him is to keep all his mind on the trip, regardless of everything. In this way, he can reach the top of the mountain. Another way is to stop to enjoy the pretty sceneries but then he may not get to the top. Which is better? Perhaps every one