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...

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• Grade Level: High School

Her calf is stripped away from her between one and 3-days-old causing distress in both mother and calf. ... In Genesis, God gave man "dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every thing that creepeth upon the earth" (Genesis 1:26 KJV). ... The end is man." ... It has also been noted in the Book of Genesis that God placed the first man in the Garden of Eden, and then out of kindness for man, formed animals to be man's companion. ... After the flood, God placed power with man over all the wild animals and gav...

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• Has Bibliography
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Whilst on the surface appearing very simplistic and straightforward, multiple themes are intertwined in the framework of the narrative. ... Jim happens to be in Brisbane when the first news of the war reaches Australia. " It was already several days old, over there, in countries to which they were not linked, and now it had come here." ... Breaking glass a white shirted man with his hands over his face and blood between them" staggers onto the pavement. ... At "le Havre," Jim and Wizzer Green narrowly avoid a "sudden, unexpected confrontation," after Jim allegedly trips the man. ... Significa...

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• Grade Level: High School