This is a sentence that deeply touched me in The Old Man and the Sea. I think that in this society, if a person can do this, he is a hero.
In this article, the old man from San Diego went out to sea for 84 days and didn't catch any fish. Others laughed at him and thought he was a complete failure. Even his sail seems to be a flag of failure. But he didn't flinch. With a fisherman's pride in his career and an old man's unyielding attitude towards life and difficulties, he ventured to the Gulf Stream and caught a salmon.
Day and night, it is hard to imagine an old man fighting a big fish for days and nights in the vast sea. With indomitable will and tenacious perseverance, the old man caught the big fish. But the delicious fish attracted a group of sharks. But he showed amazing perseverance in front of the ruler of this ocean, and he even killed a shark! As the writer Zhang Ailing said, this perseverance: "It is not superman, but a kind of grace, a spirit that all mankind should have." Although the old man finally brought back only a fishbone, his great spiritual strength showed nature: this is a hero!
In Song Dynasty, Liu Guo once said, "Man can conquer nature". The old man reminds me of a plot in "Bright Sword". The besieged cavalry company did not surrender or escape in the face of a powerful Japanese cavalry column, but did not hesitate in the face of a powerful enemy. Although they all died in the end, they won the respect of their opponents. The real hero is to maintain his dignity in front of all powerful forces, persevere and never give up. Even if he knows that he is dead, he will rush up and fight indomitable! Isn't that how our eight-year and three-year civil war started?
At that time, there were thousands of such Qian Qian heroes in China. However, now we need such people more, and this spirit is crucial to social progress. I think this spirit is the guarantee and motivation of a nation, and this spirit is also the strength of a person's survival.
I can't restrain my excitement. I just want to say that a person with ideals and pursuits should have this self-confidence that never gives up and a spirit of tenacious struggle and fear of sacrifice. This is the real hero!