summaryoftheoldmanandthesea（最终五篇）完整版.docx

summaryoftheoldmanandthesea（最终五篇） 第一篇：summary of the old man and the sea Summary of the Old Man and the Sea I read this novel long time ago.This short novel is created by Ernest Hemingway , one of the greatest fiction writers in 20 century.The whole story is setting in the small fishing village at Cuba.There is an old slender widower called Santiago with his tiny fishing boat and a young boy named Manolin.After 84 days he got nothing from the Gulf Stream.Santiago lose Manolin’s accompany.However, Manolin still admired and believed his old legendary friend without any doubt.He was only person who really take care of this old man with his love and respect.At 85th day, the old man decided to go fishing again with his never lost confidence and metallic will.After all the preparation, Santiago went out for fishing again.Then he got a gigantic marlin!He quickly made a decision to get this precious and began the tug of war between him and that huge marlin.At the beginning, he could not help that his tiny boat was floating fellow the trace of marlins swimming because of marlins thousands of pounds weight.This was lasting all night.When the sun was rising , this marlin emerged out of the sea.It was bigger than his boat and extremely beautiful.This endless battle didnt cease until the dawn of the second day.After the 12th time marlin strenched the boat, the old man used his fishing fork ended up its life with his exhausted body.Unfortunately, the trace of fresh blood attract sharks coming.On his way home, the old man had to fight with those greedy and furious sharks in order to saving his looth by stopping their chasing and eating.Although he used up all he could use, the sharks only left him the wreck of his marlin.He was with nothing home but big marlins skeleton at the dawn.Everyone was shocked by him.Manolin went to him after he was back home.Manolin was crying when he found that he could not wake the old man up from deep sleeping.After his leaving, the old man felt sleep