"The old man had seen many great fish. He has seen many that weighted more than a thousand pounds and he had caught two of that size his entire life, but never alone. Now alone, and out of sight of land he was fast to the biggest fish he had ever seen- (63) Santiago (the old man) has had a life filled with many exciting adventures. He is now faced with one of the biggest challenges of his life. In Ernest Hemingway's novella Old Man and The Sea, some might say that he was trying to show how an equal balance of pride, endurance, and courage could be the secret code to a happy life.
The old man believed in pride to keep one's self happy, but what is pride? Could someone feel pride if they were the only one on the planet, with no one to compare to? Santiago may be poor in the story, yet is proud. ""But man is not made for defeat." He said. "a man can be destroyed but defeated." I am sorry that I have killed the fish though, he thought." (103) The old man realizes that what he has done has brought no one anything but pain. He knows the fish will not make it back to shore without the sharks getting it first. At this point he has lost all pride in himself and what he has done. "There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you." (23) Said the boy. The old man feels pride in seeing the boy grow up with a good mentor. He does not believe in what the boy's parents teach him. Mentoring the boy requires much time and energy.
"The world breaks all of us, and then some become strong at the broken places." The power to withstand hardship is what endurance is all about. "It made the boy sad to see the old man come in day after day with his skiff empty." The old man had faced many times without any fish, but this was one of the longest times he had gone without a fish. He knows that endurance is a strong part of the code to being happy. "I"ll try again, the old man promised, although his hands were mushy now and he could only see well in flashes.
Allen English Period 5/6 December 18, 2001 Ernest Hemingway was a man that was well known. ... Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 after writing the novella The Old Man and the Sea. This novella was about an old man and his journey to catching this great fish. ... "Ernest Hemingway: A Life's Story." ... "The Ernest Hemingway Foundation Oak Park." ...
'A man can be destroyed but not defeated' (The Old Man and The Sea 103) solidifies a personal method of characterization exercised by Ernest Hemingway. ... The Old Man and The Sea is no exception; the unyielding parallels between Santiago, the protagonist, and Hemingway contributed to the effectiveness of Hemingway's writing. ... Luckily his follow-up, The Old Man and The Sea, was an undisputed triumph and earned Hemingway a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. ... Additional elements supplied to the appeal of the novella. ... His realism in relation to Cuba, the conflicts, and h...
Earnest Hemingway's final novel was The Old Man in the Sea, which he wrote in 1950. The main character, Santiago is an old, lonely, unhappy man, which may have depicted Hemingway in his old age. ... The theme of The Old Man and the Sea is, "A man can be destroyed, but he cannot be defeated"(Oliver 83). ... Critics liked The Old Man and the Sea and printed the "novella" in Life Magazine. ... Ernest Hemingway was an extraordinary man who had an unbelievable ability to write. ...
Ernest Hemingway: Going out too far In The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Santiago, an aging man, discovers that he must go far out to overcome many obstacles in his battle to prove everyone wrong. ... Santiago is an old man out to catch his last fish while Hemingway is an older writer out to write his last successful novel. In The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway reveals aspects of his own life through symbolism and how going to far out may bring success or failure. In The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway shows how going out too far can lead to success or failure, th...
The Old Man and The Sea Paper In the Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway does a beautiful job of tying in Christ imagery with an average man with an average life. ... Again, this shows that Ernest Hemingway planned for this book to have special biblical meaning! ... "But four hours later the fish was still swimming steadily out to sea, towing the skiff, and the old man was still braced solidly with the line across his back... Though Ernest Hemingway was not at all a religious person, he knew how religion played an important role in everyone's life. ...
"I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. ... -Ernest Hemingway Friendships aren't unusual or rare occurrences. ... A very strong and far from stereotypical friendship is seen in the novella The Old Man and the Sea. ... Hemingway is able to convey both the positive and negative aspects of the character Manolin in The Old Man and the Sea. ... The Old Man and the Sea is a historical fiction piece about a good friend of Hemingway's named Captain Gregorio Fuentes who lives in a small fishing village in Cuba and resides in a rickety ...
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Through the Valley of Shadow I Fear Not In Ernest Hemingway's, The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway expresses Santiago to be an artistic visionary of realms between that of sleep and awake. ... Through exile and self-awareness, Santiago learns the true meaning of his artistic integrity from his speech with the marlin to his wise words of the sea, "But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favors, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. ... Santiago constantly observes the world that takes place...
Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park Illinois. Hemingway was the second child of Dr. ... He consumed his days with game hunting, deep-sea fishing, and becoming a connoisseur of bull fighting. ... Hemingway created many highly acclaimed works such as The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farwell to Arms (1929), To Have and Have Not (1937), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Across the River and into the Trees (1950), and the Old Man and the Sea (1952). Most every novel of his revolves around themes of war, athletics, and other elements of a man's life. ...
