Outstanding Literary Society American | Revisiting The Old Man and the Sea

Languang Literature Club of Longquan Middle School in Jingmen City, Hubei Province

Located in the beautiful waters of the Ming Mountains, Hubei Jingmen Longquan Middle School, a century-old famous school, has always taken it as its responsibility to comprehensively cultivate students' quality, lay the foundation in the classroom, and seek development outside the classroom. After class, under the guidance of their mentors, literature lovers either strolled along the shores of the civilized lake, touched the scenery and felt love, and wrote poems and compositions; or stopped at the top of Elephant Mountain, entrusted with words and aspirations, and sang and sang; or gathered in the hermitage of Lao Laizi, a famous Taoist scholar in the Spring and Autumn Period, to listen to the wonderful lectures of literary masters; or invited to the pulpit of lu Jiuyuan, a Dali scholar of the Song Dynasty, to taste their own proud works. Founded in 1998, Languang Literature Club has won hundreds of honors such as "National Excellent Campus Literary Society", "The First National Secondary School Students Literary Club Rally Champion", "National Composition Teaching Winning Unit" and so on. The social journal "Languang Bao" has been favored and supported by celebrity experts such as Wang Meng, Cao Wenxuan, Yang Shuzi and has won the highest award of the national outstanding school magazine and school newspaper for many times. The president of the French Writers Association signed and collected the "Languang Newspaper" for the Languang Literary Society. Members have published more than 4,000 works in national and provincial newspapers and periodicals, some of which have won national awards, and some of which have been made into TELEVISION films by television stations and broadcast to the public. The members' portfolio "Happiness in the Distance", "Let composition fly" and "Composition Cute" were published publicly. "China Education News" published a press release entitled "Turning the Literary Society into a 'Happy Land' for Schools, and Longquan Middle School in Jingmen City Has Freed Its Hands and Feet to Engage in Activities to Implement Quality Education in a Down-to-Earth Manner," which focused on promoting the impressive achievements of the Languang Literary Society to the whole country.

Revisiting The Old Man and the Sea

Longquan Middle School in Jingmen City, Hubei Province

Languang Literature Society Tian Zhihan

Many years ago, on the recommendation of the Chinese teacher, I roughly read the novel "The Old Man and the Sea", and at that time I just thought that the language was concise, the story was pure, and the short sentences were concise and powerful. This winter vacation, I inadvertently turned over this novel again, chewed it again, and had a feeling that "I didn't understand the meaning of the book at first reading, and then I read it again."

"The Old Man and the Sea", the author Hemingway, one of the most famous novelists in the United States in the 20th century, a representative of the "lost generation" literary genre, known as a "literary tough guy", he participated in the world war twice, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book "The Old Man and the Sea". This book can also be said to be a deep embodiment of Hemingway's fighting life. He was injured countless times in his life, but he survived difficulties. He is a tough guy who "can be destroyed, but never defeated".

In this book, the tough guy image of the old fisherman Santiago left an indelible impression on my heart. He went to sea for 84 consecutive days without finding anything, and after a long wait, he finally harvested a large marlin, but the fish was really huge, even larger than his small boat, he dragged the fish exhausted in the sea for three days and three nights, and on the way back he was attacked by sharks, he fought with sharks with his harpoons, knives, and oars, and finally he returned home with a huge marlin skeleton. Materially speaking, the old man was defeated after a long life-and-death struggle, but from the spiritual point of view, he won the victory, he was lucky, and it was even greater!

I think "The Old Man and the Sea" is not a plot novel in the general sense, but more like an allegorical novel. The author's symbolic writing technique sends the old man's "tough guy" spirit to nature, and he fights with the fierce sharks at sea, which shows the protagonist's graceful demeanor under heavy pressure. "Undefeated" is one of the themes of the novel. For example, he had been in a stalemate with the marlin for more than a day, his left hand was cramping like a curled eagle's claw, and his right hand was strangled with rope; at the last moment of the fight with the marlin, he was dizzy and said to himself: "Nothing, you will never collapse." Hemingway likened the world to an arena through The Old Man and the Sea, telling people that any heroic feat can be achieved, that he may fail again and again in the struggle, but his spirit will never collapse, which shows human dignity.

In reality, it is often heard that the public says that "today's middle school students are really tired." Yes, the pressure of further education, the pressure of society, suppresses students breathlessly, so some people escape and withdraw, they are not tough guys; some people cry and weep after failure, they seek short-sightedness, they are not tough guys. The real tough guy is the one who falls down and gets up, and wants to jump up even more after getting up. What really makes people unable to climb up is not to block the difficult setbacks in front of them, but to follow with frustration, chagrin, complaining and giving up. Lu Xun said: "A great mind should show such a spirit - to greet the tragic fate with a smile, and to meet one's misfortune with self-confident courage." "Life is not all smooth sailing, destined to wade through the mountains, learn the sea, work hard, there are many difficulties will come to us one by one, I believe that only by maintaining the initial tenacity, bravery, competitiveness and pride, those difficulties will dissipate like smoke in the sun." Those souls who have not been defeated before destruction will be remembered and passed on like the story of "The Old Man and the Sea".

【Special Teacher Deng Jizhou Appreciation】

Read and be sensible. A good book inadvertently leaves a lifetime of truth. The reader understands the details in the book in detail, so as to realize the insights of life and enjoy the joy of reading.