Archetypes In The Old Man And The Sea

In the book The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway uses the flashback technique in order to characterize Santiago and develop key themes of the novel, such as Santiago’s connection with nature and what it means to be a hero. Hemingway employs several flashbacks as an effective technique that develops Santiago’s character as he recalls past occurrences in order to renew his strength of will. There are three flashbacks in particular that are critical to the development of this story. The first flashback describes a time when Santiago associated himself with the marlins. The second flashback occurs when Santiago arm-wrestled the town’s strongest

The epic journey of “The Old Man and the Sea” describes struggle, discipline and manhood. The main characters relationships exemplify how faith and skill overcome man’s adversity during life on the sea. Santiago’s growing relationship with the boy idealizes his statute as a father figure and develops his integrity and values towards the boy. Hemmingway shows us how an old fisherman’s will to overcome the sea’s obstacles proves his manhood to himself and the young boy. His skills and knowledge of the sea provide a positive influence for the young boy to become a great fisherman someday.

Even though he is an adolescent boy, Manolin loves spending time with Santiago. He loves to go out fishing with him but, his parents no longer will let him. The reason for this is because Santiago has not caught a fish for eighty-four days. As a result of this unfortunate occurrence, others deem Santiago the term salao, or the worst kind of unlucky. Knowing the struggle Santiago is facing, Manolin tries to help him in as many ways as possible. Manolin brings Santiago drinks, food and the newspaper so they can talk about baseball and the great Joe DiMaggio. In spending all this time with the old man, Manolin develops a form of respect for him. He comes to understand that despite the recent unlucky situations, Santiago remains hopeful as well as prideful. This is why Manolin looks up to the old man so much. “Santiago… I could go with you again. We have made some money. The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him” (Hemingway 10). Along with just loving Santiago for himself, Manolin also looks up to him because Santiago taught him how to fish. Manolin understands that he is a large part of Santiago’s life and feels honored and

Manolin glanced an unfathomable large fish being reeled out of the water. He thought that his eyes were deceiving him, and ran quickly toward Santiago to get altered to the situation he was oblivious to. When he reached, nothing but the fish’s sand print was visible. By examining Santiago’s lacerations, Manolin had foreseen Santiago’s death aftermath. Albeit the agonizing suffering, Santiago’s inner strength was reflected throughout. He endured the pain and said in a fading voice, “It’s never about others, but the person you”.

Ernest Hemingway’s most popular novel, The Old Man And The Sea, was about a strong and heroic man who had a goal of saving the people from the fish drought. To start off, he was the strongest fishermen, which made the boy idolize him even more; just like the people idolized Jesus for his strength. The old man set out to save

A Hemingway Hero is brave, humble, honorable, and never gives up. A Hemingway Hero lives life to the fullest and to the limit, even in the face of death. In The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Santiago, the protagonist, demonstrates a true example of the Hemingway Hero. Santiago, undeterred by the fact that he has yet to catch a single fish in eighty-four days, shows great perseverance. Within the text of The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago’s reactions to certain events during his struggle prove that he is a classic Hemingway Hero.

Santiago of The Old Man and the Sea is the quintessential “Hemingway Hero”-a type of fictional character created by Hemingway in all of his books whose basic response to life appealed very strongly to the readers. The Old Man begins the narrative with all the elements of such a hero despite his senescence and poverty. He shows strength, determination, and dedication to himself despite his struggles. Santiago relates back to readers as a strong failure who picks himself up repeatedly.

(127) Care is wanted and given throughout the story The Old Man and the Sea. Manolin cares for Santiago because Santiago is a father figure for him, just as Jesus Christ was for others. Hands represent something strong in the novel such as when Jesus Christ would perform miracles with his hands. While Santiago returns from his journey, he has to tether his emotions and receive the care from Manolin. Manolin is caring, but sometimes it might be tough to care for Santiago.

In Santiago, the central character of Old Man and the Sea, Earnest Hemingway has created a hero who personifies honor, courage, endurance, and faith.

     In the timeless novel The Old Man and the Sea, the hero is undoubtedly the old man, Santiago, whom us as readers become very acquainted with. Santiago is a hard-worker and perseveres through every problem nature brings to him. He is in the midst of a horrendous fishing drought, during which the townspeople laugh and ridicule him. Santiago just lets the criticism pass him by because he is confident that the fish of his lifetime is coming soon. In a sense, Santiago represents the ideas of honor and pride. He is also a hero to a young boy named Manolin who conveys the image that the old man is whom he would rather live

In Ernest Hemingway’s novel, The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago demonstrates the traits of the code hero. The Hemingway’s code hero covers the principal ideals of honor, courage, and endurance in a misfortune life. Throughout the novel, Santiago shows a contrast between opposite attitudes and values which associate his behavior with the guidelines of the code. In this case, the depiction of conflicting values, such as dignity despite humility, perseverance despite despair, and victory despite defeat are aspects that help to describe and understand the role of Santiago in the novel, and reflect the reason why this character is perfectly suited to the heroic conduct established by Hemingway.

Hemingway has a way of making his readers believe that the feats and strengths that his characters obtain in his novels are actually possible. Although this statement may be too critical, and maybe there is a man out there, somewhere on the coast of Cuba who at this very moment is setting out to the open sea to catch a marlin of his own. The struggle many readers have is believing the story of Santiago’s physical powers and his strength against temptation bring forward the question of whether or not The Old Man and the Sea is worthy to be called a classic. Hemingway’s Santiago brought Faulkner and millions of other readers on their knees, while to some, believed Hemingway

Despite the clear hierarchy of this teacher/student relationship, Santiago does stress his equality with the boy. When Manolin asks to buy the old man a beer, Santiago replies, "Why not?...Between fisherman". And when Manolin asks to help Santiago with his fishing, Santiago replies, "You are already a man" . By demonstrating that Santiago has little more to teach the boy, this equality foreshadows the impending separation of the two friends, and also indicates that this will not be a story about a young boy learning from an old man, but a story of an old man learning the unique lessons of the autumn of life.

Gertrude Stein made a tremendous impact on the author of The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway. Gertrude, an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector, served as a mentor for Ernest. The novelist also served as a godmother to Ernest along with her companion, Alice B. Toklas. Ernest Hemingway used his experience with Gertrude in his 1952 book, The Old Man and The Sea. Santiago and Manolin share a relationship similar to Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. Throughout The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway provides countless details conveying that Manolin and Santiago have a relationship that is more complex than a friendship. Ernest Hemingway portrays Manolin and Santiago’s relationship as all of the following: an

The readers of this novel can easily derive secular as well as religious meanings from this novel. The story of an old man with an intention of catching big fish with no success has much deeper meanings for the reader. The narrative form used in the novel is also used by many other older secular and religious books. The pagan mythology books and Bible books also used this method of storytelling to the readers. The novel also teaches multiple lessons to the readers and these lessons can be used in the real life .The main character Santiago asks us to be firm and faithful to one’s profession. He also tells us to be patient and passionate while doing your work (Hemingway).