Hemingway often thought of courage as a person's ability to be calm and controlled in the face of death. His theme is presented in his novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls?" the story "The Old Man and the Sea" and in our textbook "A Day's Wait".By misunderstanding a different thermometer the boy thought he was running a high fever and would soon die. But he took his death bravely and waited quietly for it.The boy showed us he had courage.
海明威總是以為勇氣就是面對死亡沉著鎮(zhèn)靜,他的這一主題思想體現(xiàn)在他的小說《喪鐘為誰而鳴?》、《老人與?!芬约罢n本里《一天的等待》中。孩子由于對溫度計的誤解,以為自己已輕發(fā)高燒并即將死去,而勇敢、鎮(zhèn)靜地等待死亡的來臨。此時,這孩子表現(xiàn)出勇氣。