...While at sea the old man, Santiago, not only faces battles of strength, but also perseverance. Santiago has had more than a person should have of bad luck within his fishing career. Despite his old age, he wants to make up for all of the fish that he didn’t catch in his eighty-four days of bad luck. The relationship that the old man has with the sea and the creatures of the sea is what gives him hope and the endurance to not give up. Endurance is having the strength and courage to keep moving forward to reach your goal, no matter what battles may try to get in the way of that goal. On his fishing journey, the old man catches a big marlin that really puts his endurance to the test. One quote that was said by Santiago was, “I may not be as strong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.” (23) This quote from the book is saying that the old man is aware that he is not as strong as he used to be when he was a young fisherman; however, he is wise enough to keep moving forward. He has had enough experience at sea to know what to do when something goes wrong, and he knows how to control a strong fish that puts up a fight such as the marlin that he caught. Santiago was willing to do anything to hold on to the big fish and to stop it from getting off of the line....
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...Two Unique Mindsets of Being Alone Loneliness is a complicated and normally an unpleasant emotional response to isolation or lack of companionship. In the stories The Old Man and the Sea and “A Clean, Well- lighted Place”, Ernest Hemingway conveys the idea of loneliness and its corresponding effects. Characters from each text are alone in unique ways; Santiago is a elderly man who, although fishing alone, does not despair in his loneliness. In spite of the fact that he is in solitude, he does not mind being alone. Whereas the deaf man and the waiter attempt to find a way to avoid their loneliness by looking for a place to be so that they are not alone. While many elderly may be alone it does not necessarily mean they are lonely. In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago is an old man who fishes alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream. He is a widow who has no family and does not have much. Santiago has only one human companion, but in his opinion the sea creatures are his friends. Santiago finds it easy to relate to the fish when he reflects on the fish’s choice of staying far away from everything, “His choice had been to stay in the deep dark water far out beyond all snares and traps and treacheries. My choice was to go there to find him beyond all people. Beyond all people in the world. Now we are joined together and have been since noon. And no one to help either one of us” (Hemingway 50). Santiago’s solitude extends to the fish; they are in isolation from the rest of the...
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...Monserrat Solis English III J. Rogers 20 March 2014 Old Man and the Sea There are plenty of tales of tales about the big fish that got away. However, Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea is not one of those exaggerated stories of a huge fish that cannot be proven to have ever been caught. In fact, Santiago, the protagonist, truly hooks and kills the biggest marlin he’s ever seen, one that is well over 1000 pounds. Unfortunately, after winning the fiercest fishing battle in his career, this poor Cuban fisherman loses marketable parts of the fish to hungry sharks on his way back to shore. Three major themes in this novel are determination, pride, and friendship. There are many themes or lessons one can learn throughout the novel The Old Man and the Sea. Determination is one of the most important character traits Santiago portrays in this novel. It has been 84 days, and the protagonist has not caught a marketable fish that he can sell. Santiago depends on this because he is a poor man who does not have much. Despite the fact people in the town are now starting to lose hope in Santiago he does not give up. Santiago is determined to catch a fish no matter what it may take. Since Santiago has went to fish near shore he begins to think he will have more luck if he goes out further. As he takes a new route Santiago finally finds a fish but it is very hard to catch so he is struggling to kill it. As he waits for a perfect time to launch an attack to kill it he says “I’ll...
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...THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea is the story of an epic struggle between an old, seasoned fisherman and the greatest catch of his life. For eighty-four days, Santiago, an aged Cuban fisherman, has set out to sea and returned empty-handed. So conspicuously unlucky is he that the parents of his young, devoted apprentice and friend, Manolin, have forced the boy to leave the old man in order to fish in a more prosperous boat. Nevertheless, the boy continues to care for the old man upon his return each night. He helps the old man tote his gear to his ramshackle hut, secures food for him, and discusses the latest developments in American baseball, especially the trials of the old man’s hero, Joe DiMaggio. Santiago is confident that his unproductive streak will soon come to an end, and he resolves to sail out farther than usual the following day. Character List Santiago - The old man of the novella’s title, Santiago is a Cuban fisherman who has had an extended run of bad luck. Despite his expertise, he has been unable to catch a fish for eighty-four days. He is humble, yet exhibits a justified pride in his abilities. His knowledge of the sea and its creatures, and of his craft, is unparalleled and helps him preserve a sense of hope regardless of circumstance. Throughout his life, Santiago has been presented with contests to test his strength and endurance. The marlin with which he struggles for three days represents his greatest challenge. Paradoxically...
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...YOU AND YOUR FUTURE Imagine a tall ladder lean against a wall and (just as your life) in the process of climbing that ladder to a glorious destination designed for you by the Lord – your creator. How tragic would it be to struggle and climb to the top of the ladder against all odds only to find out that you placed the ladder against the wrong wall. What a great tragedy! Only one life to live and you missed it! God forbid you might say, Yes, indeed, may you never miss your future in Jesus name. However, securing a profitable future is more than positive thinking and negative rejection. Your destiny is a choice and not a chance. The task before you is ensuring that you position your ladder on the right wall and climbing the ladder to the top notwithstanding the challenges, obstacles and distractions on the way. You have only one life to live and you must not miss it. God’s plan for you and all his children is to give us a glorious future. No matter whom you are, no matter your background, no matter where you come from, God has a great plan for you. God said: “For I know the thought I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope” (Jeremiah 29:11).With this, we have confident assurance that God’s thought, God’s plan for us is a great and glorious future. Every one desires a glorious and profitable future but few eventually enjoy it though it’s God plan for his children. The question then is why? Why do people miss out of...
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...Passion or Person Would you give up your passion for another person? In summary, the story The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant is about a boy who has a passion for fishing, but really likes a girl and wants to impress her in any way he can. The boy should have caught the fish instead of pleasing and showing off to the girl. Also, the author of this story is Walter D. Wetherell. The two most famous books he has published were Soccer Dad and A Century of November (“Goodreads”). The conflict in “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” helps the reader emphasize the narrator in the story by the river, how he wanted Sheila Mant, and letting the bass go. First of all, the river is the main setting of the story. He and his neighbor, Sheila Mant, lived on a river. The main conflict happened on the river as the boy brought Sheila Mant to a concert. He was reeling in the biggest bass of his life as the time was running out. He had to get the bass into the boat before he got the concert’s shore where he had to get off and bring Sheila the rest of the way to the concert. Second of all, the boy desperately wanted Sheila Mant to like him. She was absolutely gorgeous. “There was one summer in my life when the only creature that seemed lovelier than a largemouth bass was Sheila Mant.” (Wetherell 27) One of the things Giffrow 2 he tried to impress her with was swimming from one bank of the river to the other and back. He was an excellent swimmer. For example, “I was on the swim team at school...
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...Smack! Louie, a POW in Japan, stands back up after his daily beatings during WWII. Louie had some rough patches when he was younger, that was until he found track. His brother, Pete, coached him all the way to the Olympics. He was eventually drafted in the army once WWII had started, since the U.S. was in dire need of more soldiers. In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Louie’s defining traits are rebellious and determined. Louie was determined to stay alive. “Louie, Phil, and Mac clawed for the raft walls and threw themselves overboard. They swam under the rafts and huddled there, wincing, watching bullets cut bright slits in the water around them.”(p.118) Louie, starving and weak, still had it in him to get into the ocean to evade the bullets taking a chance with the sharks. On page 186 it says, “The Bird beat him daily.”(p.186) Louie was willing himself to survive daily degradations pushing through the pain and agony, while being starved to death. Another act of Louie’s determination was “‘Through the courtesy of the authorities here I am broadcasting this personal message to you.’”(p.188) Louie was determined to get his message to his family even though he thought there might be strings attached to the deal. Throughout the book Louie is determined to survive through all his hardships and never gave up on himself. Louie, acting at first instinct rebelled whenever possible even at the most dangerous moments. Louie took big risks like, “as they turned, Louie ran to the flag...
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...In the novella, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway and the movie The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger have many similarities in the main characters. The main similarities that Santiago and Billy Tyne share are their pride, the losses they both have, and how they are both treated throughout their days of being a fisherman. Santiago is the main character in the novella, The Old Man and the Sea. He is an older man who is a fisherman where recently he has not caught any fish for eighty-four days. His pride is to keep fishing and trying to catch something so people in his village would stop laughing at him because he has not caught a single fish for a long time. Even though he has not caught anything for that amount of time and listens...
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...“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship” (Louisa May Alcott). This quote definitely applies to Santiago, an old, native fisherman living in Cuba. In the book The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway depicts a story about a humble, wise, persevering man fishing off the coast of Havana, Cuba. Throughout the novel Santiago is beat down, tired and weary but due to his character traits is “destroyed but not defeated” (Hemingway 103). This quote has a powerful meaning throughout the book as Santiago learns to sail his ship of life through the troubling storms of the world. Hemingway paints Santiago’s deterioration throughout the first part of the novella. Right away, the reader is informed that Santiago “had gone eighty...
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...Swashbuckling through life, the young man stands alone trying to capture the pirates coming up from the beach. The dreams and hopes of young men who want to be pirates begin at a young age. Robert Louis Stevenson, a writer who truly captures the hopes and dreams of male youth, was a very interesting man but there were several ways he stuck out. Throughout his life, he traveled many times to many different places, and each place took him on a new adventure. Both when he was young and older Stevenson traveled, from when he was little, having his parents take him out of school for countless days to go on trips with them, so when he was older and traveled to many different places for business or any other reason that would come up. Additionally,...
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...Centro Universitario Incarnate Word English composition I Spring 2013 Instructor: Raymundo Rodríguez Date: Friday, May 3rd, 2013 Draft 1 “A Clean, Well-Lighted place” is a short story, written by Ernest Hemingway, that show us how can one thing being seen from different perspectives. The story has 3 main characters: a young waiter, an old waiter and an old man who is the focus of the discussion between both waiters. The fist waiter is young, has a family and he is so worry about his life and the things on it. However, the other waiter is old, mature and with another perspective of the speed of life. Finally, it is not well described how is the old man, but I suppose he was a man without a family or even hopes; he used to get drunk every night in that cafe without fears or hurries. The author chose to write the story in a style based in descriptions and comparations to define places, persons and the situaron is being developed in that place. Even when its interesting to imagine all the things he desribe while you are reading, for me was a little bit difficult to undestand the whole idea of each piece of story and to match them with the final goal: undestand why for some persons are details so important and for others are just insignificant. In addition, the story was written in the 20th Century, and I consider Hemingway had an special gift to imagine hypotetical situations and describe them as if he was living it. The story Could be understood as if he would write it just...
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...downstairs & rented the upstairs rooms to out-patients at the Clinic. One summer evening as I was fixing supper, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly awful looking man. 'Why, he's hardly taller than my eight-year-old,' I thought as I stared at the stooped, shriveled body. But the appalling thing was his face, lopsided from swelling, red & raw. Yet, his voice was pleasant as he said, 'Good evening. I've come to see if you've a room for just one night. I came for a treatment this morning from the eastern shore, & there's no bus 'till morning.' He told me he'd been hunting for a room since noon but with no success; no one seemed to have a room. 'I guess it's my face. I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments...' For a moment I hesitated, but his next words convinced me, 'I could sleep in this rocking chair on the porch. My bus leaves early in the morning.' I told him we would find him a bed, but to rest on the porch. I went inside & finished getting supper. When we were ready, I asked the old man if he would join us. ' No thank you . I have plenty' And he held up a brown paper bag. When I had finished the dishes, I went out on the porch to talk with him a few minutes. It didn't take a long time to see that this old man had an over sized heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to support his daughter, her five children & her husband, who was hopelessly crippled from a back...
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...Literary Analysis In “The Old Man and the Sea” Ernest Hemingway writes about an old Cuban fisherman named Santiago. The story begins with Santiago fishing alone after having gone eight-four days without catching a fish. A boy, Manolin, fishes with Santiago for the first forty days, but Manolin’s father subsequently forbids him to continue fishing with the old man because the village perceives Santiago to be unlucky and too old to fish. On the eighty-fifth day, Santiago, alone, departs for the sea before sunrise. This begins Santiago’s exhausting three-day struggle to capture and bring home an enormous marlin; thereby redeeming himself to the villagers. The first day Santiago hooks the marlin, only to have it drag his skiff far out to sea. He knows he is not prepared to be out to sea so far and keeps hoping the marlin will come up for air so he can kill it with a spear. The second day the reader rejoices. Santiago kills the marlin only to find the fish too large to fit in the skiff. The old fisherman lashes the fish to the side of the skiff and hopes the sharks won’t attack. The third day sharks attack the dead marlin again and again. Santiago tries to protect his prize catch but is ill prepared. The sharks are unrelenting and leave only the marlin’s skeleton for Santiago to bring to the village. In this novella, Hemingway unites the reader with setting, character, and conflict to tell a tale of “grace under pressure.” Cuba and the Gulf Stream is the setting for...
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...Consequence in‘The Old Man and the Sea’ and ‘The Pearl’. Summary of stories: Steinbeck’s touchingly simple novella ‘The Pearl’ was written in 1945, and explores the destructive effect of capitalism on a traditional Mexican village, around the turn of the century. It tells the story of Kino, an Indian pearl diver who discovers a massive, beautiful, and extremely valuable pearl. The pearl fills Kino with a new desire to abandon his simple, idyllic life in favor of dreams of material and social advancement, dreams to give his son and wife everything they desire, but dreams that are oppressed by the social hierarchy of Kino’s village. Although Kino has discovered this beautiful pearl worth more than anything he has found before, it only leads to death and destruction and eventually leaves Kino and his wife with nothing, and their beloved son dead. ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ is another novella, the story of an epic struggle between an old, seasoned fisherman and the greatest catch of his life. Written in 1952 by Ernest Hemingway, it was the last major work of the author before his suicide, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. It is the tale of a fruitless and ancient fisherman named Santiago. Santiago had spent eighty-four days without a catch, and, confident that his unproductive streak will come to an end, sets sail farther out than usual. He places his bait deep into the water and a few hours later an enormous marlin takes the bait, however the old man cannot reel...
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...In The Old Man and the Sea, it states that, “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” (Hemingway 93) This statement can be seen woven throughout the novel in many different forms. It is expressed mostly in the old man whose name is, Santiago. Many look upon him and merely see an old man who is not worth much. However, despite his age and appearance, Santiago refuses to accept destruction in his life. He believes that a man may be defeated by outside influences, but is only destroyed when he truly gives up on himself. The definition of defeat is to have a victory over an event whereas the definition of destruction is to put an end to something entirely. For eighty-four days the hopeful fisherman continuously returns to port empty handed. Even though he is going through trials and hardships, his mind is as sharp as iron and refuses to be destroyed. When it seems like all hope is lost, Santiago holds his head high and refuses to be brought down by outside influences. He clings to the knowledge that he is an honest man and a good fisherman who is simply trying to survive. He has a humble pride about him that is only displayed in the strongest of men. He does not boast of his great deeds, but his pride refuses to allow his soul be...
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