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The Old Man and the Sea · Quick Reading
"The Old Man and the Sea" conveys a tough guy spirit that "people can be destroyed, but cannot be defeated." An old fisherman didn't catch a fish for eighty-four days, but he still refused to admit defeat and was still full of fighting spirit. Finally on the eighty-fifth day, he caught a big fish that was 18 feet long and weighed 1,500 pounds. The big fish dragged the boat into the sea. The old man still struggled with the big fish tenaciously despite the various difficulties of having no water,
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Old Man and Sea
This book tells the story of a fisherman. After eighty-four consecutive days without catching a fish, Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, finally caught a big marlin alone. However, the fish was so big that it dragged his boat on the sea for three days before exhaustion, and he killed it and tied it to the side of the boat. On the way back, he was attacked by a shark again. When he finally returned to Hong Kong, only the head, tail and a spine were left. During the days when old Santiago went to s
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