老人与海读后感_英文版（The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea）（共五篇）第一篇：老人与海读后感_英文版(The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea) The Old Man and the SeaWhen I was a middle school student, I’ve finished this book in Chinese.At that time, I thought it was a boring story.I couldn’t understand why the writer uses so many words to describe an old man’s fishing experience.But when I read it in English recently, I really gain something new both in the way of expressions and the spirits it shows to me.Maybe different ages to read the same book will learn different things from it.The old man and the Sea, one of Ernest Hemingway’ s most famous work of fiction, was published in 1952.Critics praise that the novel is Hemingway’s last major work of fiction, and he won 1953’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction , Award of Merit Medal and 1954’s Nobel Prize in Literature.Hemingway is a famous American writer of modern times.He is also an international literary celebrity in the world.Hisfather was a prominent doctor, and also good at fishing and hunting.The influence of his dad made him full of love with fishing and hunting.His life was active and adventurous, but it was full of pains.He had once joined the army and had injured in Italy, and he suffered much that was brought about by the war deeply.He was disppointed with the world and the pessimistic about the fate of the man.In order to save the desperate situation, Hemingway wrote a work, the Old Man and the Sea, that he firmly believes to be the best works in his life.It is a story that an old man whose name is Santiago went out to do some fishing on the sea.But down on his luck, he hadn’t caught any fish for eight-four days-----he will soon pass his own record of eighty-seven days.He goes far out into the sea and He caught a huge marlin which is much bigger than his boat.A desperate struggle ensures.Santiago manages to kill the fish and ties it to the boat.When he was on the way home, the smell of blood of the marlin draw a lot of sharks’ attention and they fought for it.In order to protect the marlin and him, the old man tried his best to fight with them.But these dangerous giant sharks eat up the marlin, leaving only a skeleton.The old man brings it home and goes to bed to dream, almost dead with exhausion.This book gives me a deep impression especially the description about the old man.Different aspects can be seen from Santiago: such as brave, persistent, pride, optimistic, lonely and intelligent.He does not catche a single fish for eight-four days, what is worse, the child who has catched fish with him also forced to leave him.Lonesome is his only friend as well as enemy.But he still keeps on trying without being despaired.He goes far out into the sea and catches a huge marlin after three1days’ patient st ruggle.When a person waits for something so hard and when he has an opportunity to get it, he will cherish the chance carefully and make mind to realize it.From fighting with the huge marlin to driving away the fierce shark.It is only when the condition is so bad can show a person’s skill of braveness and persistence.Even thought he is so tired, he brings the big skeleton of the fish back to the bank.“ He saw the white naked line of his backbone and the dark mass of the head with the projecting bill and all the nakeness between.” Maybe, Santiago gets nothing, but he has tasted the victory in fighting process.The tough guy image of the old fisherman is more obvious and outstanding.It reprensents a spirit that is struggle, pride, never given up, confident.When reading the big fish’ssmell of blood is smelled by one crowd of shark fish, struggled swims snatches the food.Old person’s left hand happen to in the convulsions.He only could use the right hand, with wooden stick.The mouth and so on all was allowed to use for the weapon self-defense which attacked，and finally expelled this crowd of shark fish.But the big fish’s meat was already eaten up.But the old man also charmingly criticized himself the left hand “ this work time actually was resting ”.I was so admire the old man’s optimistic spirit.In the life, some losses are inevitable, we should treat by the optimistic manner.This book gives me courage of conquering all kinds of difficulties.And I have the belief that the most beautiful thing is the process that we make our best to achieve our dream, and never giving up.While it is certainly true that Santiago’s eighty-four-day run of bad luck is an affront to his pride as a masterful fisherman, and that his attempt to bear out his skills by sailing far into the gulf waters leads to disaster, Hemingway does not condemn his protagonist for being full of pride.On the contrary, Santiago stands as proof that pride motivates men to greatness.Because the old man acknowledges that he killed the mighty marlin largely out of pride, and because his capture of the marlin leads in turn to his heroic transcendence of defeat, pride becomes the source of Santiago’s greatest strength.Without a ferocious sense of pride, that battle would never have been fought, or more likely, it would have been abandoned before the end.Santiago’s pride also motivates his desire to transcend the destructive forces of nature.Throughout the novel, no matter how horrible his circumstances become, the old man exhibits an unflagging determination to catch the marlin and bring it to shore.When the first shark arrives, Santiago’s resolve is mentioned twice in the space of just a fewparagraphs.Even if the old man had returned with the marlin intact, his moment of glory,2like the marlin’s meat, would have bee n short-lived.The glory and honor Santiago acquires comes not from his battle itself but from his pride and determination to fight.As the novel begins, Santiago definitely and finally failed.However, he kept self-composed and had confidence in his dignity.So even having got nothing in the first 84 days, he continued to go out to fish.Santiago decide to sailing out further than any fisherman had before testified his confidence to the depth.It also shows his confidence to change his bad luck, because he clearly knew what he was born for.Yes, he was born for the conquering of the sea.Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.We all know that the windows of one’s soul.It means the old man’s heart or soul is convincible.In order to protect his dignity, he finally summarized the famous motto “ Man is not made for defeat.A man can be destroyed but not defeated”.This is obviously the declaration to the difficulties and adversities.It encourages human to fight for dignity.Santiago dreams his pleasant dream of the lions at play on the beaches of Africa three times.The first time is the night before he departs on his three-day fishing expedition, the second occurs when he sleeps on the boat for a few hours in the middle of his struggle with the marlin, and the third takes place at the very end of the book.In fact, the sober promise of the triumph and regeneration with which the novella closes is supported by the final image of the lions.Because Santiago associates the lions with his youth, the dream suggests the circular nature of life.Additionally, because Santiago imagines the lions, fierce predators, playing, his dreamsuggests a harmony between the opposing forces—life and death, love and hate, destruction and regeneration—of nature.I also appreciate the relationship between the old man and the boy.The old man was in bad luck and the boy had got good fishes after he left the old man.Santiago didn’t feel jealous but happy for him.When talking with the boy who was not willing to leave, the man said, “ I know you did not leave me because you doubted” and he felt it was quited normal, though he would be lonely without the boy.When the boy asked if he could offer the old man a beer on the terrace and then took the stuff home, the old man said, “ why not”.Between fisherment, all these details show that Santiago was reasonable, sensible, kind with open mind.The old man’s grace lies in his gender feeling.Some details in how the old man woke the boy: he took hold of one foot gently and held it until the boy woke up.When the boy was still sleepy, the old man put his arm across his shoulders and said, “ I am sorry”.Just like someone said, heartlessness doesn’t make the hero, pity for3children makes more the man.With confident attitude towards life, the old man took thing philosophically.In fact the boy could come back to him and he needed the boy, but when the boy wanted to be back, the old man refused because it was the boy’s parents who made him leave and h e could not make the boy awkward and unlucky with him.And boy, who also much care about the old man.The boy looked after the man and accompanied with him.They had a great time when they get together.Although his parents forced him to another fish boat, he still continued take the old man as his mentor.The old fisher man’s tragic life reflected Ernest Hemingway’s experience.He has taken part in two world wars and spanic war.He and thepeople had not relief from the evil dream of the war.Despairing, failing had been always around them.The society is full of chaos and decay after war.These helped Hemingway to show the character of Santiago.In addition, by describing the experience of Santiago, Hemingway successed in reaching his goal to convey the main theme of the story.Courage, confidence, as well as never giving up are ways leadings to success.In other words, a man can be destroyed but not be defeated.Both readers and critics give the work------the Old Man and the Sea so high comment just because of the meanings and influences of the book.It tells us that a man should face and overcome difficulties in life with courage, confidence, and the spirit of never giving up.第二篇：The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea老人与海英文读后感The Old Man and the SeaThe old man and the sea which was written by Ernest Hemingway who won the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize.It served to reinvigorate Hemingway's literary reputation and prompted a reexamination of his entire body of work.The novella was initially received with much popularity;it restored many readers' confidence in Hemingway's capability as an author.This book gives me a deep impression especially the description about the man’s braveness and persistence.The novel tells us a story: an old man named Santiago in Cuba 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.Santiago went fishing alone in the eighty-fifth day and got a big fish which fully has 18 foot length in the measure.However, on the way back a shark came and ate thestly, the marlin left only a skeleton.The book is a fable describing the unconquerable spirit of the old man--How he take in the spiritual victory from the circumstance that is full of disasters.Hemingway seems to believe that there are only two options: defeat or endurance until destruction;Santiago clearly chooses the latter.His stoic determination is mythic, nearly Christ-like in proportion.He didn't give the old man the success, but fortitude and resilience to face the pressure.The value of his life was completely reflected in the way he catch fish.He is the real winner in his own world.He is an ordinary fisherman, as well as a hero.And he is made out as a person of motivation, passion, and hope.Santiago was old just as Hemingway said, “Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and wer e cheerful and undefeated.”He think every day is a new day.No matter how old he is.He said , “It s better to be lucky.But I would rather be exact.Then when luck comes you are ready.” He was poor;he had nothing except a little boat and harpoon.But he said , “Now is no time to think of what you do not have.Think of what you can do with what there is.”Santiago is a man with little direction but enough determination and experience to live.He chose not to see what others thought but lived by how he perceived the world.He overcame the marlin with his constant struggles and persistent and he showed his earnest desires to live and fish.Throughout the story many aspects can be found about Santiago’s personality merely in the content of his 3-day fight against the marlin.Certainly Santiago is a man of many themes and personality traits.He is respected by a young boy, Manolin, yet he is looked down upon by many of the younger fishermen in the Cuban fishing village where he lives.Some people laugh at himwhen he passed by, and some thought of him to be too old to be a fisherman.They didn’t believe he was able to catch a fish.But he was much better and more exact than most of the other fisherman in the village.Santiago was alone.He catches fishes alone.He fights against sharks alone.He can talk to nobody except himself.No one will help him.Even though he faced hungry, weary and difficulty alone, he does not give up and never feel lonely because his willingness is so strong.And he was approached in an ideal trip.“I fight you to death” , a tough voice.Although he knew it was very difficult to beat the big marlin, but he still did not give up.It shows his heroism and the strength of his tenacious trend.I extremely admire the fisherman's willingness.He lets me understand one person certainly must have relentless spirit, only then could obtain what he wants successfully.“The senior fisherman think: Here to the seacoast really was too near, perhaps could have a bigger fish in a farther place...”.He had not settled to the present s ituation, but was approaching the bigger goal.When I read “ the big marlin start fast to gather round the young fishing boat hover, twined the cable on the mast, the old person right hand lifted up high the steel fork, leap the water surface in it the flash, did utmost throws to its heart, one wail ended the big fish's life, it wasstaticfloatsonthewatersurface...”, I extremely admire the relentless spirit of old man.Although he knew the difficulty is very strong and hard, but he did not slightly flinch.Both Santiago and the marlin displayqualities of pride, honor, and bravery, and both are subject to the same eternal law: they must kill or be killed.As Santiago reflects when he watches the weary warbler fly toward shore, where it will inevitably meet the hawk, the world is filled with predators, and no living thing can escape the inevitable struggle that will lead to its death.Santiago lives according to his own observation: “man is not made for defeat.A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” It is the most well-known sentence of this novel.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 got the large fish, but he lost totally because he carried back only the skeleton of the fish with his hands bleeding.However, 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 importan t in a battle.When he met difficulty, he welcomes difficulty.A person shouldn't fear but accept the defeat with pleasure.I think we can study senior fisherman's spirit in life and learn to be tough and brave like him when facing with hard times in our life, which is the best solution we should choose in a bad situation.Sharks may be seen as a hit that made the success and happiness loss.But, as the child said, “It does not beat you, it does not.” We need not fear the difficulty and we should handle the matter, then we can obtain a bigger success and the victory.We will meet a lot difficulty, and what we should to is trying our best to fight against it.Perhaps we loss in the battle, but we win the spirit, theintangible thing.What is most important is not the result, but the course.第三篇：老人与海读后感_英文版(The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea) The Old Man and the Sea When I was a middle school student, I’ve finished this book in Chinese.At that time, I thought it was a boring story.I couldn’t understand why the writer uses so many words to describe an old man’s fishing experience.But when I read it in English recently, I really gain something new both in the way of expressions and the spirits it shows to me.Maybe different ages to read the same book will learn different things from it.The old man and the Sea, one of Ernest Hemingway’ s most famous work of fiction, was published in 1952.Critics praise that the novel is Hemingway’s last major work of fiction, and he won 1953’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction , Award of Merit Medal and 1954’s Nobel Prize in Literature.Hemingway is a famous American writer of modern times.He is also an international literary celebrity in the world.His father was a prominent doctor, and also good at fishing and hunting.The influence of his dad made him full of love with fishing and hunting.His life was active and adventurous, but it was full of pains.He had once joined the army and had injured in Italy, and he suffered much that was brought about by the war deeply.He was disppointed with the world and the pessimistic about the fate of the man.In order to save the desperate situation, Hemingway wrote a work, the Old Man and the Sea, that he firmly believes to be the best works in his life.It is a story that an old man whose name is Santiago went out to do some fishing on the sea.But down on his luck, he hadn’t caught any fish for eight-four days-----he will soon pass his own record of eighty-seven days.He goes far out into the sea and He caught a hugemarlin which is much bigger than his boat.A desperate struggle ensures.Santiago manages to kill the fish and ties it to the boat.When he was on the way home, the smell of blood of the marlin draw a lot of sharks’ attention and they fought for it.In order to protect the marlin and him, the old man tried his best to fight with them.But these dangerous giant sharks eat up the marlin, leaving only a skeleton.The old man brings it home and goes to bed to dream, almost dead with exhausion.This book gives me a deep impression especially the description about the old man.Different aspects can be seen from Santiago: such as brave, persistent, pride, optimistic, lonely and intelligent.He does not catche a single fish for eight-four days, what is worse, the child who has catched fish with him also forced to leave him.Lonesome is his only friend as well as enemy.But he still keeps on trying without being despaired.He goes far out into the sea and catches a huge marlin after three days’ patient struggle.When a person waits for something so hard and when he has an opportunity to get it, he will cherish the chance carefully and make mind to realize it.From fighting with the huge marlin to driving away the fierce shark.It is only when the condition is so bad can show a person’s skill of braveness and persistence.Even thought he is so tired, he brings the big skeleton of the fish back to the bank.“ He saw the white naked line of his backbone and the dark mass of the head with the projecting bill and all the nakeness between.” Maybe, Santiago gets nothing, but he has tasted the victory in fighting process.The tough guy image of the old fisherman is more obvious and outstanding.It reprensents a spirit that is struggle, pride, never given up, confident.When reading the big fish’s smell of blood is smelled by one crowd of shark fish, struggled swims snatches thefood.Old person’s left hand happen to in the convulsions.He only could use the right hand, with wooden stick.The mouth and so on all was allowed to use for the weapon self-defense which attacked，and finally expelled this crowd of shark fish.But the big fish’s meat was already eaten up.But the old man also charmingly criticized himself the left hand “ this work time actually was resting ”.I was so admire the old man’s optimistic spirit.In the life, some losses are inevitable, we should treat by the optimistic manner.This book gives me courage of conquering all kinds of difficulties.And I have the belief that the most beautiful thing is the process that we make our best to achieve our dream, and never giving up.While it is certainly true tha t Santiago’s eighty-four-day run of bad luck is an affront to his pride as a masterful fisherman, and that his attempt to bear out his skills by sailing far into the gulf waters leads to disaster, Hemingway does not condemn his protagonist for being full of pride.On the contrary, Santiago stands as proof that pride motivates men to greatness.Because the old man acknowledges that he killed the mighty marlin largely out of pride, and because his capture of the marlin leads in turn to his heroic transcendence of defeat, pride becomes the source of Santiago’s greatest strength.Without a ferocious sense of pride, that battle would never have been fought, or more likely, it would have been abandoned before the end.Santiago’s pride also motivates his desire to tran scend the destructive forces of nature.Throughout the novel, no matter how horrible his circumstances become, the old man exhibits an unflagging determination to catch the marlin and bring it to shore.When the first shark arrives, Santiago’s resolve is mentioned twice in the space of just a few paragraphs.Even if the old man had returned with the marlin intact, his moment of glory,2 like the marlin’s meat, would have been short-lived.The glory and honor Santiago acquires comes not from his battle itself but from his pride and determination to fight.As the novel begins, Santiago definitely and finally failed.However, he kept self-composed and had confidence in his dignity.So even having got nothing in the first 84 days, he continued to go out to fish.Santiago decide to sailing out further than any fisherman had before testified his confidence to the depth.It also shows his confidence to change his bad luck, because he clearly knew what he was born for.Yes, he was born for the conquering of the sea.Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.We all know that the windows of one’s soul.It means the old man’s heart or soul is convincible.In order to protect his dignity, he finally summarized the famous motto “ Man is not made for defeat.A man can be destroyed but not defeated”.This is obviously the declaration to the difficulties and adversities.It encourages human to fight for dignity.Santiago dreams his pleasant dream of the lions at play on the beaches of Africa three times.The first time is the night before he departs on his three-day fishing expedition, the second occurs when he sleeps on the boat for a few hours in the middle of his struggle with the marlin, and the third takes place at the very end of the book.In fact, the sober promise of the triumph and regeneration with which the novella closes is supported by the final image of the lions.Because Santiago associates the lions with his youth, the dream suggests the circular nature of life.Additionally, because Santiago imagines the lions, fierce predators, playing, his dream suggests a harmony between the opposing forces—life and death, love and hate, destruction and regeneration—of nature.Ialso appreciate the relationship between the old man and the boy.The old man was in bad luck and the boy had got good fishes after he left the old man.Santiago didn’t feel jealous but happy for him.When talking with the boy who was not willing to leave, the man said, “ I know you did not leave me bec ause you doubted” and he felt it was quited normal, though he would be lonely without the boy.When the boy asked if he could offer the old man a beer on the terrace and then took the stuff home, the old man said, “ why not”.Between fisherment, all these de tails show that Santiago was reasonable, sensible, kind with open mind.The old man’s grace lies in his gender feeling.Some details in how the old man woke the boy: he took hold of one foot gently and held it until the boy woke up.When the boy was still sleepy, the old man put his arm across his shoulders and said, “ I am sorry”.Just like someone said, heartlessness doesn’t make the hero, pity for children makes more the man.With confident attitude towards life, the old man took thing philosophically.In fact the boy could come back to him and he needed the boy, but when the boy wanted to be back, the old man refused because it was the boy’s parents who made him leave and he could not make the boy awkward and unlucky with him.And boy, who also much care about the old man.The boy looked after the man and accompanied with him.They had a great time when they get together.Although his parents forced him to another fish boat, he still continued take the old man as his mentor.The old fisher man’s tragic life reflected Ernest Hemingway’s experience.He has taken part in two world wars and spanic war.He and the people had not relief from the evil dream of the war.Despairing, failing had been always around them.The society is full of chaos and decay after war.These helped Hemingway to show thecharacter of Santiago.In addition, by describing the experience of Santiago, Hemingway successed in reaching his goal to convey the main theme of the story.Courage, confidence, as well as never giving up are ways leadings to success.In other words, a man can be destroyed but not be defeated.Both readers and critics give the work------the Old Man and the Sea so high comment just because of the meanings and influences of the book.It tells us that a man should face and overcome difficulties in life with courage, confidence, and the spirit of never giving up.第四篇：老人与海英文读后感篇一：老人与海英文读后感This year summer vacation, I read the American well-known writer Hemingway's novel “ old person and sea ”.I extremely admire in the novel the senior fisherman's will, he let me understand one person certainly must have relentless spirit, only then could obtain successfully.The novel description is one year near sixty years of age senior fisherman, when alone goes to sea in one fishing, fished one big fish, actually did not pull.The senior fisherman socialized several days after the fish, only then discovered this was the big marlin which one surpassed the oneself fishing boat several fold, although knew perfectly well very difficult to win, but still did not give up.Afterwards and further because in the big marlin wound fish fishy smell brought in several crowds of shark fish snatches the food, but the old person still did not hope like this to give up, finally highlighted encircles tightly, returned to the big fish belt the fishing port, lets other fishermen not admire already.When I read “ the senior fisherman think: Here to the seacoast really was too near, perhaps could have a bigger fish in a farther place… ” When, I extremely admire this senior fisherman, because he by now alreadyprojected on some fish, but he had not settled to the present situation, but was approaches the bigger goal advance.Again has a look us, usually meets one slightly is difficult, we all complain incessantly.We will be the motherland future, will be supposed to like this old person same mind lofty aspiration, will even better pursue even better, the bigger goal.When I read “ the big marlin start fast to gather round the young fishing boat hover, twined the cable on the mast, the old person right hand lifted up high the steel fork, leapt the water surface in it the flash, did utmost throws to its heart, one wail ended the big fish's life, it was static static floats on the water surface… ” When, my heart also liked together the big stone falls.I extremely admire old person that kind do not dread, the relentless spirit, although knows the match strength is very strong, but he not slightly flinches, but is welcomes difficultly above.Just because had this kind of spirit, the senior fisherman only then achieved this life and death contest success.We also must study senior fisherman's spirit in life, handles the matter does not fear the difficulty, only then can obtain successfully.Was reading the big fish's smell of blood is smelled by one crowd of shark fish, struggled swims snatches the food, old person's left hand happen to in the convulsions, he only could use the right hand, with wooden stick, the mouth and so on all was allowed to use for the weapon self-defense which attacked, and finally expelled this crowd of shark fish.But the big fish's meat was already eaten one most, but the old person also charmingly criticized oneself the left hand “ this work time actually was resting ” time, I also was subdued by the old person optimistic spirit.In the life, some losses are inevitable, we should treat by the optimistic manner, cannot be calculating.Finally, the novel sees by one youth the senior fisherman fully has 18 foot。
