The Old Man and the Sea

Big fish are not too commonly found in the oceans. While they are rare to find, sometimes someone may very well find them, as with the case of Santiago during pages 60-63 of the book The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. During this scene, Santiago the fisherman finds that what he has been working so hard for to reel in for the past day was a great big fish, which substantially larger than any fish he has ever seen to date. From this, one can take away that one should always fight through

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway structures itself upon a central component, the Hemingway Code Hero. Specifically, Hemingway uses the Code’s themes of self-reliance, personal competition, and courage most productively throughout the book. Santiago, a Cuban fisherman and the main character of The Old Man and the Sea, has gone 84 days without catching a fish, a disastrous circumstance for a fisherman who depends on the fish for food and money. In addition to food Santiago also wants to

and simplicity, has everyone captivated, yet it’s power and animation is belittled. Although all lives are significant and meaningful, we are in constant danger and are drastically affected by our surroundings. Similarly, in the novel, The Old Man and the Sea, written by Ernest Hemingway, Santiago, a Cuban fisherman, ventures through the Gulf Stream to find the catch of his life. Santiago muses, “Everything kills something else in some way.” As human beings, we are a vital and immense part of the

people have to overcome obstacle after obstacle to be successful in the world. Humans are thrown challenges day after day, week after week. Everyone must try hard at something to be truly happy in their life. In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea, he used the marlin and the sharks as symbols, and gave Santiago certain character attributes to depict the perserverance, courage, and smarts needed to get through the ups and downs that life hands everyone. Santiago had gone 84 days without

In the book, the Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, the Old man describes many sea animals that reveal how Hemingway views on humankind values and morality. The Old man saw different aspects of humanity n every sea creature. Three sea creatures that Ernest Hemingway described were the jellyfish, sea turtle, and the mako shark. The jellyfish is like a disguised beauty, a sea turtle is very stron, and the mako shark is like a thief. The Old man describes the jellyfish by saying that they were

New York, NY USA 10027 Dear Pulitzer Prize Judging Board: The Old Man and the Sea by American author, Ernest Hemingway deserved the Pulitzer Prize it received because of the author 's use of craft elements, the realness of all of the characters and events, and the lasting themes that are relevant to the year it was written that were created by this realness, which in turn created a legacy. The first reason The Old Man and the Sea deserved its Pulitzer Prize is because of the author’s use of craft

Throughout the book, The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway uses a writing style known as stream of consciousness which entails using uninterrupted thoughts and feelings of the main character. This writing style shows through the character Santiago while he is at sea. Santiago talks to himself which essentially correlates to how he feels at that moment. The usage of the technique stream of consciousness engages the reader into how the character feels during that moment making the reader connected to

“The Old Man and The Sea” by Ernest Hemingway is a story about an old man named Santiago who has to overcome many obstacles in his time at sea and in life (Hemingway). Despite being a fisherman, Santiago has not caught fish in 84 days and is faced by numerous dilemmas and shortcomings as things seem to always go wrong for him (Hemingway). This paper provides an analysis of the novel by interpreting it as a secular humanist epic. This paper hypothesizes that the character of Santiago is guided by

Masculinity is a recurring theme in Hemingway's, The Old Man and the Sea. The main character Santiago, or The Old Man, is in a perpetual search for his masculinity. While he has no problem with established respect amongst the other fishermen, his prolonged failure sets him towards the sea where he begins to question his worth as a man. Through the ocean, and the creatures that inhabit it the hunt for what it means to be a man is the focal point of this novella. In the beginning of the novel when

to go there (Foster, 3). Ernest Hemingway’s award-winning novel The Old Man and the Sea fits Foster’s criteria for a quest perfectly. The quester is Santiago, an old man with young eyes who loves Joe DiMaggio. Throughout the book, the old man is constantly comparing what he does to how he imagines DiMaggio would do it. However, the old man never doubts himself despite his age.