THE OLD MAN ASKS. ASK THE OLD MAN

When you live, you ask. The more you struggle to live well, the more honest you try to face life, the more inevitable you are. We ask Is life meaningful?

It can not be helped even if it is tremendous. A question that has been started once annoys the interrogator endlessly and makes the difference between meaning and meaninglessness. Sometimes in meaning, sometimes in meaningless, the scales tilt. Life keeps shaking like that.

The story of the mythical Sisyphus tells us that life was punished by God. Life is nothing but a hard and heavy repetition of constantly pushing up a heavy rock that rolls down infinitely. It's meaningless, it's useless. Life is not a blessing.

Some say that they read the novel "The Old Man and the Sea" as a story of Sisyphus. After three days of struggle, the image of an old man taking a big fish caught by sharks and returning empty-handed to prepare for the next fishing is in vain. The boy who loves the old man sheds tears endlessly when he sees the old man.

It took 37 years to meet the novel The Old Man and the Sea. Born in 1952, The Old Man and the Sea was surprisingly not'old'. Like the protagonist in a novel, he is vivid and young. It is as attractive as the opposite sex, who keeps grabbing the attention.

The title will remind you of a calm sea and a leisurely boatman, but that is a misunderstanding. The novel is dynamic. The sea in the novel is calm, but the story flows like a wave. It's tough. Yet it is beautiful. It's a poem-like novel, and a poem disguised as a novel.

" The old man to a boy fishing laws taught , The boy he loved , " the novel is" The Old Man and the Sea "is a treasure chest novel inside coveted treasure is full. For pick up the one and the other treasures coveted, if you look into it, shines again next jewel novel met in 10,037 years, "the Old Man and the sea" is glorious autumnal novel is based on a thorough knowledge about the fishing writer Ernest Hemingway is said to actually enjoyed fishing, he receives the Nobel Prize for this novel.elderly Is old, close to death, helpless, fragile, and deeply defeated, so is the boy who appears at the beginning and end of the novel The boy loves the old man, but he is also young and small. An old man who hasn't caught a fish for 84 days goes out alone to the far sea, where he meets a huge fish he has never met before, and succeeds in catching a fish after three days of struggle, but on the way back to the land. After struggling again with the sharks he met in the village, he finally returns home, leaving only the bones of a big fish. The old man who returns home prepares for the next fishing with the boy as usual. It starts with the question of the old man (why is it a boy?), and is endless, asking the reader endless questions such as'how to accept pain' and'what does nature represented by big fish mean for the elderly?'

The old man standing between the sky and the sea, with no land view, is alone. He encounters a big fish he has never seen before. Are humans helpless in front of that greatness? The old man says.

" Humans are to defeat to birth it 's not ... human beings to be destroyed will be , but not defeated do you ." However, novels do not blindly praise human greatness. Don't be lightly optimistic about life. The author is in conflict. The old man dreams of a lion representing the land and speaks of DiMaggio, the great baseball player, but sometimes he comforts his fragile existence by seeing a little bird sitting on a fishing line. Between weakness and greatness, the elderly struggle and struggle. Nature is not an object for the elderly. Old people are part of the world. The big fish that fight for their lives are not means, but friends. They try to catch fish for a living, but are not subject to exploitation or consumption. The old man is a small part in a huge picture. There is the sun and the sea, and there are big and small birds and fish. And there is only one human being. Humans are not all-allowed justice. The old man rather asks. Are humans who leave their lives to luck, humans who do not have the courage to go farther, deserve a great friend (big fish)? Is it a sin for humans to have to kill a great friend for a living?

One question remains. Is the old man's struggle meaningless when the number of days not catching fish has increased to 87 days? Is the old man a loser? Is life in which the fight with the fish has become itself is futile? Isn't it useless the old man who sincerely prepares for the next fishing? The life of an old man who dreams of a dead asleep in exhaustion is heavy enough and is not full of meaning.

" Way above that of the elderly in the hut , the old man back asleep there . He still prone while sleeping was the boy that the next sitting of him taking care of was . The old man dead dream dreamed there . "