Hemingway, an American writer who still influences us ideologically, his work "The Old Man and the Sea" is extremely classic. The book describes to us a strong, perseverance and strength of the old man, known to people all over the world.
In addition to his status as a writer, Hemingway also had an important identity, that is, a resistance fighter.
The burly Man Hemingway grew up in the first half of the 20th century, and these decades were also the most intense and full-blown turbulent years of war between mankind.
Under the influence of the torrent of the times, Hemingway's life and war have a close connection. Years of war contact have made him resolute, as can be seen from his concise and undistructed words; he is good at expressing complex emotions in simple and limited words, and has his own unique writing style, so he has also won the title of "literary tough guy", which is known as the spiritual monument of the American nation.
One month in 1954, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature for The Old Man and the Sea, and under this world-renowned worldwide award, Hemingway undoubtedly put himself on a huge stage full of flowers and glory.
The award was won for Hemingway's mastery of narrative art, highlighted in his recent book The Old Man and the Sea, but also for his influence in contemporary style.
In The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway uses his succinct words to describe a lonely, white-haired old man who lives by the sea and makes a living by fishing. It was this ordinary old fisherman who exuded an admirable indomitable spirit under his wrinkled and old skin.
In the story, the old man "Santiago" decided to try his luck away from the coast and into the deep sea because he had not caught a fish for a long time.
With good luck, the old man successfully caught a huge marlin like his boat, and thus began a protracted struggle between the old man and the big fish. At this point, one man and one fish engaged in a contest of strength and will in the next few days.
The old man controls the fishing line in the small boat, and the big fish struggles tenaciously in the sea, the old man thinks that this is a rival of equal strength, and both sides want to win the final victory. The protracted confrontation with the big fish also exhausted the old man, who had no food, no extra water, and injured hands.
Alone, no one in the deep sea could help him, surrounded by rough and endless seas, but the old man was still insisting, without fear or giving up.
In the face of such a difficult situation, the old man with a strong heart also has a sad moment, but the little boy's support and encouragement ring in his mind from time to time, telling him not to be discouraged and someone silently encouraging him and caring for him. In the end, the big fish lost in this confrontation that lasted for several days, and he was also tied to the side of the boat by the old man.
The dilemma is not over, the sharks in the sea smell fishy, constantly tearing the flesh and blood of the big fish, and the old man holds the harpoon and stands up tired and throws himself into a new fight again. When the boat sailed back to the fishing port, the big fish had a huge skeleton left, and in the silent night the old man dragged his increasingly heavy body back to his house to rest.
There have been many stories of the sea in human history, some of which are legendary. Relying on weak bodies and strong willpower, human beings have overcome nature again and again, overcome and surpass themselves.
On an ordinary day in 1961, helmed hemingway, a tough man in the literary world who wrote "The Old Man and the Sea" to give spiritual inspiration to countless people, but completely gave up on himself and committed suicide with a shotgun.
For a while, there are many opinions about why Hemingway committed suicide, and we may wish to look at his past life.
Hemingway grew up influenced by his family, his father also enjoyed outdoor activities such as hunting, and his mother was interested in literature. These two points are well combined in Hemingway, but sadly and coincidentally, Hemingway died of shooting himself like his father.
At first, Hemingway was incomprehensible and contemptuous of his father's suicide, only the weak who are not strong in their hearts will escape from reality, and a person with a tough heart will commit suicide? Over time, later in life, Hemingway thought his father's suicide was tragic and began to understand his father.
When the First World War broke out, Hemingway, as a newspaper reporter, broke out of the righteous side, actively participated in the anti-fascist war in Europe as a journalist, and gloriously became a recorder, witness and participant of the war.
During the perennial War of Resistance, Hemingway wrote many works related to the war, including his famous works in his youth, a post-war book "The Sun Still Rises".
This is a novel that makes people lose their fighting spirit in life, lose in pleasure, and cannot find the future direction, and is called the work of the "confused generation". This novel is completely contrary to Hemingway's later work "The Old Man and the Sea" and its unremitting spiritual will, and the sense of difference is extremely different.
The characters in the book are physically and mentally traumatized after experiencing the war, and the chaos of life has become a confused generation, with no future and no hope. The novel truly reflects the chaos and order collapse of the real society after the war, and there are pains and ruins everywhere.
At that time, there were also many novels that described the bad social situation after the war, and Hemingway's "The Sun Still Rises" was excellent, and was called a representative writer of the "confused generation" after the war.
In the novel, we can still appreciate Hemingway's praised concise narrative style, which is inseparable from his experience as a war correspondent for many years, and the press release has always been objective and concise, which is well reflected in his novels.
Time came to the end of Hemingway's life, when Hemingway became, as described in his novel The Sun Still Rises, depressed, hopeless in life, struggling to get rid of certain pains, and eager to use death to break free from everything.
Some people say that the physical pain left by the perennial war has become more and more serious in old age, and the pain has tormented Hemingway's flesh and consumed his spirit, causing him to be unable to concentrate on writing. This is undoubtedly desperate for a famous writer to be unable to create, and it is the reason that led to his suicide, and he fought against fate with a strong determination.
After Hemingway committed suicide, a friend said that he was dissatisfied and unsatisfied with himself, which eventually led to Hemingway's suicide by drinking bullets.