"The Old Man and the Sea" was a novel that shook the literary world in the 20th Century. ... The old man, Santiago, who is considered unlucky, faces his greatest opponent he could ever wish for. ... Neither the old man nor the fish will back down. ... Santiago is a wise man who finally understands his relationship with the inhabitants under the sea and how everything is interrelated. ... The old man's choices and his responsibility for making those choices are tied in with what moral and spiritual lessons has he learned from the creatures of the sea that exist in a physical and natura...

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• Grade Level: High School

The theme of the story is the purposelessness of life which deals with man against nature. ... This represents man as having no free will. ... Man is in the pond of fate; it is fatalism. ... Either man conquers the ocean or the ocean conquers him. ... In the old times, the Vikings were very brave. ...

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Giving it's a story about whaling it probably takes place by the sea. ... The narrator is probably not very old, if he had been older he would probably have found out that all things are not as lovely as they seem. ... There are a lot of themes in the story; one of them is the theme of growing up and learning from life and experiences. ... Another theme present is the theme of unfaithfulness, and the relationship between men and women. ... At that time it wasn't abnormal for young women to marry quite older men. ...

• Word Count: 727
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Giving it's a story about whaling it probably takes place by the sea. ... The narrator is probably not very old, if he had been older he would probably have found out that all things are not as lovely as they seem. ... There are a lot of themes in the story; one of them is the theme of growing up and learning from life and experiences. ... Another theme present is the theme of unfaithfulness, and the relationship between men and women. ... At that time it wasn't abnormal for young women to marry quite older men. ...

• Word Count: 719
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School