The old man Santiago from The Old Man and the Sea is a character seen in many perspectives, as a hero, an ordinary fisherman, an unlucky old man, and a wise man. ... Certainly Santiago is a man of many themes and personality traits. The Old Man and the Sea" is a heroic tale of mans strength pitted against forces he cannot control. ... Through the use of three prominent themes; friendship, bravery, and Christianity; the "Old Man and the Sea" strives to teach important life lessons to the reader. ... In the end the old mans perseverance and faith pay off. ...

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Key words: Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, true winner Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) is regarded as a 20th century's important and outstanding writer in the world. ... The main hero in The Old Man and the Sea, which is a well-know book, shows fully Hemingway's psychological struggle in time of difficulty. ... The Old Man and the Sea was published in 1952. it is a short and fable story, about an old Cuban fisherman Santiago and his battle against a giant marlin. ... Hopefully, the old man sails silently on the black sea. ... And the more outstanding the theme of the novel is! ...

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This theme was the center of Jesus' teachings in the New Testament and was used in the Old Testament to show us the pattern of the kingdom. ... In doing this the bond between man and God was broken on a vertical scale. ... After convincing the Pharaoh of Egypt to let the people go, they reached the sea and the Egyptians began to chase after them. Moses parted the sea for them to cross and it then collapsed on all the Egyptians. ... The Old Testament is only half the story. ...

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He lived primarily in Cuba from 1940, the locale of his novella, The Old Man and the Sea 1952, which won him a Pulitzer Prize. ... The specific novel I read by him was The Old Man & The Sea it was a fascinating novel. Everything about The Old Man & The Sea is classically simple. ... After not catching fish for forty-four days, they have decided the old man is bad, and they do not want it to rub off on their son. ... Throughout the novel, Hemingway depicts the old man as a Christ figure. ...

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As for "The Sea Wolf", none of this author's stories of wild out-of-door life has ever equalled the popularity of this romance of the seas. ... According to Jack, most of the events in the book were drawn from his own experience aboard the Sophie Sutherland, but actually they were more from the "sea yarns" related either by some of the old seafarers who were his shipmates or by the newspaper accounts of Captain Alexander McLean, who was the prototype for Wolf Larsen." ... Humphrey represents civilized man: I had never done any hard manual labour, or scullion labour, in my life. ... He...

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He was looked at from many different respects from writers and critics alike: "an old wise man, a brilliant stylist, a "culture hero," a fraud and a phony, an anti-intellectual, a courageous man who took chances with the violent world around him, a drinker with a metal stomach, a fun loving sportsman, and a strange primitive man." ... He continued to say, The Old Man and the Sea could have been over a thousand pages long and had every character in the village in it and all the processes of the way they made their living, were born, educated, bore children, etc. ... This creates a feeli...

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Daniel Dufoe's "Robinson Crusoe" and Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island", have many similar themes, symbols, and action sequences. ... Friday's suspicion of the gun's power over the man seems to be a true observation. ... If Stevenson had used the same approach as Dufoe, the novel would have lost a lot of the momentum of the adventure that had been building ever since Jim had met the old drunken captain at his family's inn. ... The romanticized idea of the sea-faring life was inspired by the freedom and adventure that sea-travel offered. ... They share many of t...

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Both Santiago from The Old Man and the Sea and Singh from The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship overcome life challenges with passion and drive. ... His experiences described in The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway show his passion towards his lifestyle as a fisherman and his motivation to bring in a catch, no matter the size. ... By the third day of this strenuous trek across the water, the old man is getting extremely tired of fighting the strong marlin. ... In both The Old Man and the Sea and The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, passion and determination bring the main characters to overco...

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The line is; Bent double, like old beggars under sacks which is already a rather miserable tone. ... He describes the soldiers" crooked stance and compares them to old beggars, uncomfortable and undesirable. ... This situation is linked to the earlier use of the word floundering, and carries on the sea theme in a more definite way. The man is giving up the fight, onomatopoeic of the desperate fight for air under a sea. ... The next stanza is mostly on the same theme. ...

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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. ... Teaching "The old man taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him," writes Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea, page 10). ... Transformation is central theme in both Christ's and Santiago's teachings. ... Similarl...

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He has written several novels such as, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea. ... One of the main themes of The Sun Also Rises is impotence. ... All the rivers run into the sea . . . unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again." ... The Sun Also Rises can be related to real life by accepting the fact that it was written from a man's real life experience. ... The material objects that Hemingway uses to convey the theme are beer, the good and bad hillsides, and a railroad station between two tracks. ...

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Robert, a very flirtatious man, is always with a different woman every summer. ... The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. ... Kate Chopin uses many different themes in her writing, all of them different yet very much alike. ... Being liberal in a conservative society and keeping all of your old friends is impossible. ... It is also now apart of the literary canon due to the patriarchal, motherly, womanly, independence, and desire related themes....

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In Homer's The Odyssey, hospitality is a major theme in regards to the Greek culture. ... Homer makes this theme of conviviality a crucial part of characterization, however, slight contradictions within the epic make us question this motif. ... His mother was the Nymph Thoosa, daughter of Phorcys, Lord of the Salt Sea Waves; and it was Poseidon who gave her this child when he slept with her in her cavern hollowed by the sea. ... That is what the old man used to say, and now it's all coming true. ... This being told to us, as well as us having prior knowledge of Poseidon's hatr...

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The film takes the story out of the ancient world and sets in old Mississippi during the Great Depression era. ... The theme song in O" Brother, Where Art Thou?... They escaped, but angered the god of the sea Poseidon, who was the Cyclops father. ... Odysseus had gone struk down by Poseidon God of the sea and landed upon and island of Calypso. ... Ulysses disguise himself as an older man with a beard as he sings "Man of constant Sorrow" while at his home town where the police were looking for him. ...

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Whites, being leery not to encourage freedom-based teachings of Christianity, provided a watered-down version that stayed true to the salvation message and passages encouraging the slave's docility, but avoided passages promoting freedom primarily found in the Old Testament. ... The content of these sermons was often consistent with themes from the Old Testament concentrating on deliverance, such as Moses and Joshua, which were the same stories that the white slaveholders wanted to shield from the minds of their slaves. Ironically, the same story the white Christians connected with in m...

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This famous, and lengthy, poem has several sections which all house different themes. ... Another of his poem collections, "Sea Drift", Whitman swings to transcendentalism the poems often-contained universal themes of separation and love. ... An appreciation for the opera contributed to Whitman's poetry not only in theme but also in rhythm. Critics and poets called it "thought-rhythm" and it was popular in Old Testament poetry. ... And you, sweet singers of old lands-Sopani! ...

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The Cloven Viscount is a story about the aspects of man-kind and how there is good and evil in everyone of us. ... The Cloven Viscount is a story about the aspects of man-kind. ... Being stranded on an island with no food, no shelter and no order does things to 12 year old children. ... Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across that square, red rock in the sea" (Golding, William 1996, The Lord of the Flies Faber and Faber Limited, London) As 12 year old boys, this was something that they were not mentally ready for. ... "Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill." ...

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Despite their rivalry in writing, they wrote about a similar theme: The American Dream. ... Fitzgerald's work all had similar plots and themes. They were often about a poor man trying to win the heart of a rich girl. ... In 1953, Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize with his work, The Old Man and the Sea. ... When it comes to writing themes both men often wrote with similar ideas throughout all of their work. ...

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The second characteristic of the Gothic theme is the fascination with the unconscious and abnormal psychology. ... This is the most obvious of all the themes present in the novel. ... In "The Tell Tale Heart," the main character hears the beating of the heart of a man that he killed and buried in the floor. ... Victor feels a sense of guilt about creating this hideous being that roams the earth to kill much like the killer in Poe's story feels guilty about killing the old man. ... Everyone that has ever been close to Frankenstein ends up dying and even Walton is in danger of being ki...

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Peter was born in Bethsaida and was the son of a man named Johannes (John 1:42-44). ... When Jesus sees Andrew and Peter fishing in the Sea of Galilee, He asks for them to follow Him and they drop everything to do so (Matthew 4:18, Mark 1:16-18). ... Peter also sees Jesus while fishing in the Sea of Galilee (John 21:4). ... Peter and John come across a man who had never walked since birth, and Peter heals him and the man is able to walk (Acts 3:6-8). ... The argument of the two books having different themes does not have a strong basis. ...

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The plan of the research will be to summarize the narrative content of the story and break down some of the major themes included in the book of Ruth. ... Ruth, throughout these four major themes is shown blessings through God. ... (Bos 8) The book of Ruth is set in two place Bethlehem which is located in Judah and Moab, a foreign tribe located on the east side of the Dead Sea. ... Ruth's loyalty to a woman is an important theme in this book, because it is rarely seen in the Old Testament since the Bible usually depicts woman living in a man's world. ... Ruth was not tied down to B...

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His last focus in his work was humanity in which he believed that as man moves further and further away from humanity he seems to be losing more and more of his soul, he was often forced to think about the people trapped in the cities, unable or unwilling to commute with nature. ... Both Samuel Taylor and William Wordsworth conceived a new style of poetry in which nature and diction of the common man outplayed formal, stylized writing. ... One primary theme that William Wordsworth focused on in his poetry is nature as it could be represented in the poem "The World is too much with us"...

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He sees a stonemason's yard with blank tombstones and an ugly foreign man. ... Aschenbach travels first to an island in the Adriatic, but it is rainy and Aschenbach has no access to the sea because of the island's high cliffs. ... After the novel was translated into Polish, Moes discovered that the circumstances describe a family vacation he took, and he could even remembers an older man staring at him raptly. ... He cannot bear the thought of returning to his old life of impassion. ... This dream takes the theme of homoeroticism one step further. ...

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Langston Hughes" early life prepared him well to write about humanity, for as a child and young man he lived in different places and met many different kinds of people. ... The now 14 teen year-old Hughes was elected class poet and giving the opportunity to give the graduation speech at the elementary school. ... The city on the other hand offered many exciting diversions to the impressionable young man form the Midwest. ... The best poems in The Weary Blues group themselves around the themes of pride and protest. ... By fishing in all corners of what he called the "big sea" of literature Hu...

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Upon his arrival, he arranges to meet with some old friends, one of which is Genevieve. ... She engages with a man, and they have a son together. ... The bond that they share is much like an old couples love, after 50 years of marriage. ... He attended schools at Sainte-Croix-du-Mans and Switzerland. ... Bernis' flights were also a theme of loneliness and what it does to people. ...

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