摘要《老人与海》在美国的文学史上占有重要地位，因此对于它的评价和研究也非常多，而大多数研究都集中在圣地亚哥身上，对那个小男孩的研究并不多，但是马洛林德角色并非没有任何作用和意义，在小说中有相当多关于小男孩的描写。事实上，这个小男孩的安排并不是偶然的。在这本小说我们总能感觉到这个小男孩的存在具有重大意义，小男孩与这位老人具有同样的重要性。本文运用文本解读方法，对《老人与海》中小男孩的性格进行了分析和研究，剖析了小男孩与老人之间的情同父子的关系,从而得出结论:小男孩形象是对主人公圣地亚哥的必要衬托，通过马洛林，圣地亚哥的“硬汉形象”才得以充分展示。40805
关键词: 老人与海 ；马洛林 ；形象分析
Abstract The Old Man and the Sea is such an important book in American literature that there are a number of comments on it. But the research on the little boy, Manolin, is quite a few as his role seems unimportant to the novel. As we can see,in the middle of the novel readers always feel the existence of the little boy because the old man thinks of the little boy for more than ten times during the suffering three days.In addition, when Hemingway talked about the factors of the novel’s success later, the little boy was mentioned as the same important as the old man. This paper analyzes the boy's characters and their relations between the old man and the boy ,and draws a conclusion that the arrangement of the little boy is not haphazard. The boy's image,which serves as a foil to Santiago,is indispensable to the novel. Through the image of Manolin, Santiago, the code hero, is brought into full play.
Keywords: The Old Man and the Sea; Manolin; Analysis of Image
The Analysis of the Image of Manolin in The Old Man and the Sea
Contents
Abstract........I
摘要....II
Chapter 1. Introduction 1
Chapter 2. The Boy’s Roles in Moving and Inspiring Readers 3
2.1 The Little Boy’s Emotion 3
2.2 The Little Boy’s Sympathy in the Static Stage 3
2.3 The Little Boy’s Respect and Worry in the Subtle, Fluctuating Stage 4
2.4 The Little Boy’s Affirmation in the Outbreak Stage 4
Chapter 3. The Image Analysis of Manolin 5
3.1 The Symbolic Meaning 5
3.1.1 Santiago-a Model for Manolin 6
3.1.2 Santiago and Manolin-Christ and Disciples 7
3.1.3 Perseverance and Faith 8
3.2 The Source of Strength 10
3.2.1 Contrastive Fathers 10
3.2.2 The Son-an Inspiration and a Hope 12
Chapter 4. Conclusion 14
Bibliographies 14
Acknowledgements 18
Chapter 1. Introduction
One of the brightest spots in The Old Man and the Sea is the perfect expression of Hemingway’s quality of “grace under pressure”, which is composed of two factors: pressure and grace. These two factors are mostly shown by the little boy. To show pressure, Hemingway describes the background of the story in four levels by picturing the details when the little boy leaves the old man. In this way, he emphasizes the heavy pressure at the beginning of the novel, which lays a certain precondition and an atmosphere for the so- called grace. To show the grace, Hemingway describes several details when the old man gets together with the little boy under the pressure at the beginning and the end of the novel，drawing the image and targets in describing the image of the old man.
Grace is not an easy or notional thing but always reflected in people’s internal and external behaviors especially in facing with difficult things, while the boy in this novel offers an important way to stand for the old man’s grace. The child has learned fishing skills following the old man when he was five years old. And now the old man is at low ebb in his life and is trapped by bad luck, but the child leaves him and gets a great success in another boat. If this happens to others, even they do not hate the child, there will be an unbalance in their heart. But the old man shows his broad mind and understanding. When the little boy leaves him at his parents’ order and catches another boat, the old man says: “I know, it is quite normal.” No result after three days hard working, when he is told that the boy has a harvest every day in these days, however, he does not feel any unpleasant at all. The little boy also concerns about if the old man has been over-sensitive in a so embarrassed situation. Therefore, he asks tentatively whether the old man is willing to drink a cup of beer with him or not. And the old man agreed: “why not?” .While they are drinking, many fishermen laugh at the old man, but he is not angry. After drinking, the old man says to the boy: “you bought me a beer. You are already a man.” His understanding for life has reached a simple and natural realm. This is the grace. As for Hemingway’ s “tough guy”, some critics pointed out that as the heroic manner is too conspicuous, which determines their actions is quite obvious and sometimes it causes the figures abstract and isolated. However, in The Old Man and the Sea, the image of the old man is entire because the author arranges a little boy purposely and describes him in a great deal of details. Although the boy is young, he is not boyish. He earns the fishing skills, also inherits the spirit of the self-esteem and self-reliant from the old man. 《老人与海》中马洛林形象分析:http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_39230.html