The Victory of Defeat Ernest Hemingway uses religious symbolism throughout the novella, The Old Man and the Sea to depict the life of Jesus. ... Hemingway did not pick certain numbers because they sound good. ... There is no translation for this word and perhaps it is just a noise such as a man might make, involuntarily, feeling the nail go through his hands and into the wood" (Hemingway 107). ... Santiago "always thought of the sea as la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her" (Hemingway 29) The organisms of the sea express all Santiago knows about life. ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Old Man And The Sea" "Old Man And The Sea" written by Ernest Hemingway is a book that makes you think. ... The Marlin represents the diciples that followed Jesus through his journey as they learned his ways and became willing to do any thing for him, much like the marlin depended on the old man to decide what was to become of their fate while they were at sea. ... The number forty for example is used in the book to tell how long the old man was at sea. ... The old man does not have dreams like these but dreams about lions. ... "In Old Man And The Sea" the animals, religious references,...

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Santiago as a Christ Figure On its surface, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who has been 84 days without a catch; Manolin, the young man who loves him; and Santiago's tremendous struggle with a gigantic marlin. ... Soon sharks appear, and the old man breaks his knife after he kills just a few. ... Although Hemingway himself said this Pulitzer-prize-winning novella is about a real man and a real fish, the book can also be read as a fable or allegory, a symbolic narrative with deeper, spiritual meanings. ... Teaching "...

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The Great DiMaggio is a recurring theme and symbol throughout "The Old Man and the Sea," by Ernest Hemingway. ... Santiago sees what DiMaggio has gone through and sees the ideal man, the man in which Santiago was to model. ... Any man could do it. ... His sword was as long as a baseball bat and tapered like a rapier and he rose his full length from the water and then re-entered it, smoothly, like a diver and the old man saw the great scythe-blade of his tail go under and the line commenced to race out" (63). ... Santiago is not a religious man, but it is hard not to see the blatant religi...

• Word Count: 1342
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• Grade Level: High School