ABSTRACT

    Ernest Hemingway created a perfect image in the Old Man and the Sea, Santiago, who is full of the faith of bravery, perseverance and resolution. The paper analyzed the faith of the hero and whose spirit on the basis of the research of the novel of The Old Man and the Sea which including the old man’s several fights with his rivals, and, analyze the significance to the teenagers who are lost the belief of their owns in their heart gradually living in the glamorous modern society nowadays. The analysis of the faith of the old man may be helpful for readers to have a better understanding of the novel.   

Key words: The Old Man and the Sea  Santiago  Faith  Fight  Analysis

摘  要

在小说《老人与海》中，作者厄内斯特•海明威塑造了圣地亚哥这样一个充满勇敢，坚毅，不屈的信念的完美的形象。通过对原著内容进行研究，本文重点从老人与敌人的四次主要斗争分析老人的信念及精神，进一步分析此信念对生活在当代繁荣社会中逐渐丧失信念和迷失方向的年轻人的影响和意义。希望本文对老人的信念分析，能够帮助读者更好地理解这部小说。

关键词：老人与海  圣地亚哥  信念  斗争  分析

Chapter One    Introduction
1.1 Introduction to the Author, Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 and was raised in Oak Park of Illinois. He has reported for several months for The Kansas City Star after high school before leaving for the Italian front and to enlist with the ambulance drivers in the World War I . However, in 1918, he was seriously wounded and finally he returned home. And his wartime experiences has formed the basis in some degree for one of his famous novel,  A Farewell to Arms (1929). In 1921, Hemingway married Hadley Richardson, who was the first of his four wives. This couple moved to Paris, in which he worked as a foreign correspondent who fell under the influence of the writers and artists of the modernism  of the “Lost Generation” expatriate community in 1920s.