The story created a classic tough guy image. Tells the story of Santiago Cuba old man in the boundless sea fish caught eight days, but in the eighth day of the story, he caught a big marlin in the open sea, the old man in fighting with the marlin hand slashed, but he never give up, finally around three days later, will it uniform.

　　However, Santiago is not good luck, because he after uniform marlin, a grey whale sharks can smell the flavor of the marlin, he swam down to Santiago's fishing boat, ready to eat the marlin, so injured Santiago was at grey whale sharks and picked up the spear, when the moment of the assassination of grey whale sharks, have bite a piece of fish meat, grey whale shark defeated, but as a result of marlin tail meat is bitten off, so much more blood flow, it will let more sharks smell marlin, to marlin. Later, again there are two sharks come, really narrow scalloped hammerhead, shovelnose, but were Santiago uniforms, can be on the way back to Hong Kong, Santiago and ran into a large group of sharks, at this time of Santiago was exhausted, but Santiago also forcibly hold himself with the shark fight, even though he went the full, but in the end the big marlin was eaten, the old man back to the port of big marlin only a skeleton.

　　So I understand the life road twists and turns, long and full of challenge, but as long as our unremitting efforts, no matter the result is failure or success, is worth people respect.

　　故事塑造了一個經(jīng)典的硬漢形象。講述了古巴的桑提亞哥老人在茫茫的大海釣了8天的魚都一無所獲，然而在故事的第8天，他在遠(yuǎn)海中釣到了一條巨大的馬林魚，老人雖然在與馬林魚的搏斗中手被割破，但他始終沒有放棄，最后在周旋了三天后，將它制服。

　　然而，桑提亞哥的運氣并不好，因為他在制服馬林魚后，一條灰鯨鯊就聞到了馬林魚的味道，便游到了桑提亞哥的漁船旁，準(zhǔn)備吃掉馬林魚，于是，受傷的桑提亞哥便又拿起了魚叉朝灰鯨鯊刺去，當(dāng)灰鯨鯊被刺的一瞬間，已經(jīng)咬下了一塊魚尾上的肉，灰鯨鯊被打敗了，但由于馬林魚的尾巴上的肉被咬掉了，所以血就流得更加多了，這便讓更多鯊魚聞到馬林魚的氣味，過來吃馬林魚。之后，真的又有兩條鯊魚來了，分別是窄頭雙髻鯊、鏟鯊，但都被桑提亞哥制服了，可在回港的路上，桑提亞哥又碰見了一大群鯊魚，這時的桑提亞哥已是筋疲力竭，但桑提亞哥還強(qiáng)行地?fù)沃约号c鯊魚搏斗，雖然他使出了全力，但最后大馬林魚還是被吃掉了，老人回港時大馬林魚只剩下一副骨架了。

　　由此我明白了人生的道路曲折、漫長、充滿了挑戰(zhàn)，但是只要我們堅持不懈努力過，不管結(jié)果是失敗還是成功，都是值得人們尊敬的。