The Old Man And The Sea Summary

As Santiago continually states, women are cruel and have no control over their own doings. Women are also deemed by Santiago not to be worthy opponents, notice how he refers to the marlin as a “he” even though he has not seen it yet. Numerous examples in this section include:

Growing old is everyone’s fear. People wonder what will become of them as they reach their “golden years”. In The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway, the old man faces the changes and problems of growing old.

Hemingway Review 21.1 (2001): 78+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 13 Jan. 2013. Pratt covers the time-period between 1952 to the present and chronicles his own efforts to define and explain Hemingway’s use of religious allusion in his fiction. Pratt begins to correlate symbols in The Old Man and the Sea to the bible. For example, he mentions how Santiago refers to Saint James, who was a great fisherman who is also considered by some religions to have been the brother of Christ. He continues by explaining how the skeleton of the fish, a universal Christ symbol, is given to Pedrico, translating to Little Peter, to “chop it up and use in fish traps” (124). He concludes by stating that if people are not very careful to resolve universal paradoxes, they may well act like Hemingway’s ignorant tourists at the end who, knowing none of the details or the history of this symbolic struggle, mistake the skeleton of the marlin for that of its evil opponent, the shark.

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

“He did not truly feel good because the pain from the cord across his back had almost passed pain and into dullness that he mistrusted.”(74) Once both the fish and Santiago had reached the breaking point of conflict the story seemed to slow down in time to exemplify the adverse conditions that both characters were suffering from. The old man proves himself worthy of personal suffering with the cuts and scars on his hands and back along with all of the pulling and slipping the cords had upon his fragile body. Hemmingway shows in a big way how an out of proportioned conflict with an old fisherman and an 18 foot long marlin helps to magnify the significance of Santiago searching for his rebirth to manhood. With constant abstraction describing the fish and the sea in relation to brotherhood create interesting questions for Santiago to ponder. His rationalization for his fishing is that he was born to do it. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” (103) Hemmingway proves that this fish represents all of Santiago’s built up tension to total the size of a gigantic marlin that is perceived as devastating but not unconquerable. The old man’s hopes and aspirations can overcome the adversity of the marlin’s size, along with the conditions of the old, hungry, and exhausted fisherman. Through outright suffering Santiago achieves a goal above his previous manhood by combating pain and

In the novel The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway, there is a fish that the old man finally catches after 84 days, but is consumed by Mako shark’s in the process of reeling it in. Santiago, the old man, had a strong connection with the marlin even though he only saw him for a short period of time. They taught each other many things through a tug and war type of play. Catching a marlin fish was a goal of Santiago that he had been attempting to fulfill for a decent period of time, and after being persistent and patient, slowly but surely he was able to succeed. Many symbols in Hemingway’s novel have their own counterparts in my own life, which include a goal, hope, and idolization.

In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway uses the literary device of metaphors. Hemingway uses the metaphor of the ocean to symbolize life, and to depict the role that individuals play in life. Hemingway uses the metaphor of the lions to signify people who live their lives as active participants. The tourists in the novel represent the individuals, who in observe their lives and are not active participants. In the novels that Ernest Hemingway writes, he uses metaphors to reflect his life experiences and opinions. The ocean in The Old Man and the Sea is a metaphor, which represents Hemingway 's personal view of life. Hemingway believes that in life everyone must find their own niche and uses the metaphor of the ocean and the

In Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, the protagonist is an old fisherman named Santiago. He is poor and has gone over two months without catching a fish. On his eighty-fifth day, he hooks a gigantic marlin. After a long struggle, Santiago manages to best the marlin and kill the fish, but on the way home, sharks seeking his enormous catch attack the fisherman. Despite Santiago’s attempts to repel the predators, the marlin is stripped clean of its flesh.

Ernest Hemingway lived his life to the fullest, living in countless cities, Paris, Chicago, Key West and Toronto. In each and everyone of these place he experienced different lifestyles. He uses his experiences to expand and enlighten his view on life. Hemingway writes about his experiences in novels such as The Old Man and the Sea and In Our Time.

In the story The Old man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, there is an old fisherman named Santiago who lives in a small village in Cuba. The story takes place in the Gulf Stream of Mexico which is the place the old fisherman fishing on his boat. He has not caught a fish in eighty-four days and become an unlucky man. Manolin, a young boy who is his partner has been going to another boat because of his parent's wishes. The old man decides to go to the sea to catch a fish. Finally, a huge marlin bite the hook, but he cannot pull it on the boat because the marlin is too strong. He struggles with the marlin for three days in the middle of the ocean. That marlin is the largest marlin he has ever seen. After he wins the battle, he puts it on his boat,

The old man is at conflict with the sea because as a fisherman, Santiago relies on the sea to survive. The sea does not allow Santiago to have a single fish for 84 days. When the old man finally manages to hook a massive marlin, it is eaten by sharks.

     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

Classified as a parable or tragedy, The Old Man and the Sea raised many eyes when it was first published. "’In the best of early Hemingway it always seemed that if exactly the right words in exactly the right order were not chosen, something monstrous would occur, an unimaginably delicate internal warning system would be thrown out of adjustment, and some principle of personal and artistic integrity would be fatally compromised,’ John Aldridge wrote. ’But by the time he came to write The Old Man and the Sea there seems to have been nothing at stake except the professional obligation to sound as much like Hemingway as possible. The man had disappeared behind the mannerism, the

"The only time success comes before work, is in the dictionary” (Harvey Specter). Ernest Hemingway, an author, a journalist, and a true man’s man, was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1899. Hemingway enjoyed taking risks, and facing his largest fears, which to him made him a true man. One of his most popular novels written, The Old Man and the Sea(1952), related to his life. For example, Hemingway 's character Santiago, the protagonist, enjoyed taking many risks. This is representative of how Hemingway chose to live his life. Also the novel took place in Cuba, where Hemingway lived in the 1950s. The Old Man and the Sea was published in 1952, by Charles Scribner’s Sons, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Success is very subjective, each person defines success their own way. It is the achievements and accomplishments of a person’s goals. According to Business Dictionary Online, success can be defined as: “Achievement of an action within a specified period of time or within a specified parameter. Success can also mean completing an objective or reaching a goal” (www.businessdictionary.com). In the novella, Hemingway demonstrates how the protagonist is successful and why. He shows that Santiago primarily cares about the journey to gain his success. Ernest Hemingway’s novella titled The Old Man and the Sea(1952), demonstrates Santiago’s ability to achieve success in the face of obstacles and physical limitations, his relationships with nature and the legacy he leaves behind.

Earnest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, is a captivating story about and old seasoned fisherman named Santiago. It is a tale of his epic struggle with the greatest catch of his life after not catching anything for eighty-four days. He face psychological challenges and encounters multiple villains.