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The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago is a very old man, but he has eyes like the sea. The main physical description given of Santiago is that he is old in every way except for his eyes. His skin is browned from a lifetime of...
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The Old Man and the Sea
The short novel The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway tells of an elderly fisherman named Santiago who has not caught a fish for many days and is considered unlucky. He finally brings in a...
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The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea ends with Santiago asleep, dreaming of lions on the beaches of Africa, having just renewed his partnership with Manolin (which gives him the opportunity for a fresh start...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway's novella has many memorable moments. Santiago engages in an epic existential battle with the giant fish and, by extension, with the forces of nature in general. Within the story's...
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The Old Man and the Sea
The answer to this question is definitely debatable. Personally, I would argue that Santiago is not afraid of death. He has lived a full life through harrowing circumstances, and he fully...
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The Old Man and the Sea
When the sharks attack his giant marlin, Santiago more or less knows that he is fighting a losing battle, but he continues to fight them off as hard as he can for as long as he can. He harpoons the...
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The Old Man and the Sea
The answer to this question is subjective. The text doesn't use the word "fate," so it is going to largely be up to the reader's opinion. Furthermore, the question doesn't specify a specific fate....
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The Old Man and the Sea
In this part of The Old Man and the Sea the old man is closely assessing the weather conditions around him. Santiago has analyzed everything from the pattern of the birds flying, to the way that...
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The Old Man and the Sea
In Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, nature is presented as bigger than man. Santiago is just about dwarfed by the power of the ocean, which is presented as a morally neutral force. Like Stephen...
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The Old Man and the Sea
In a deeply metaphysical passage, alone on the sea under the stars, Santiago contemplates his existential condition. As he lies against the worn wood of his bow, the old fisherman looks upward to...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago is an old man, near to death, when he goes far out in the water fishing. As he defends his marlin unsuccessfully against the attacks of multiple sharks, he learns several things about...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Modernism was a movement in art and literature during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was marked by a drive to break with traditional styles and closely linked to the realism movement....
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The Old Man and the Sea
At the beginning of the story, the boy, Manolin, helps Santiago by helping to carry his equipment, including his fishing line, his harpoon, and his sail. The boy also tries to help the old man by...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Perseverance is Santiago's greatest character trait. He endures the aches and pains of old age, as well as the demands of his job, without complaint. He respects nature, and although his job is to...
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The Old Man and the Sea
The second kind of fish that Santiago eats is a dolphin-fish. These are not to be confused with dolphins, those cute sea mammals that do all kinds of neat tricks at SeaWorld. Having said that,...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago has a recurring dream in which he goes back to his childhood in Africa. No sooner is he asleep than he starts dreaming about the long golden beaches, the white beaches, the high capes, and...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago has a recurrent dream of lions playing on the beaches in Africa. Now that he is old, he doesn't dream of what he used to dream, which was of women, his wife, and "great" occurrences....
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The Old Man and the Sea
Similar quotes of Santiago dreaming of lions recur throughout the text, such as: He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago first tries to defy defeat by the sharks by fighting them off. He quickly kills the first shark to attack the marlin, stabbing it through the brain with his knife, but its blood attracts...
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The Old Man and the Sea
The old man, Santiago, has not caught a fish in 84 days, a long time. He goes out to sea in his boat and drops his baited hooks in the water. A giant marlin nibbles at the sardines arranged around...
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The Old Man and the Sea
In The Old Man And The Sea, the marlin symbolizes pride, honor, courage, resourcefulness and endurance. In the story, Santiago relates a time when he caught a female marlin. He states that the male...
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The Old Man and the Sea
The short novel The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway tells of an old fisherman who goes out alone every day to fish in the Gulf Stream and has gone 84 days without catching a fish. He goes...
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The Old Man and the Sea
The title has great significance, it foreshadows some of the important themes of Hemingway's novella, The Old Man and the Sea. In addition, the title focuses our attention on the central...
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The Old Man and the Sea
This story is told in the third person omniscient point of view. The narrator is not a character in the story, but he is an objective observer who tells the reader the thoughts and feelings of most...
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The Old Man and the Sea
I suppose this citation is from Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea.' In terms of hauling his fish back home, the old fisherman Santiago is indeed defeated by the sharks in that by the end of his...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway's novel, The Old Man and the Sea, was first published in 1952, a time when baseball was America's favorite pasttime. At that time, the premier baseball team was the New York...
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The Old Man and the Sea
It seems like the basis of your speech should be on the individuals or groups in history that have survived and endured, enabling them to enjoy some level of triumph. In my mind, I would point to...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway’s Pulitzer Prize winning novella The Old Man and the Sea is the harrowing story of Santiago, an old man who faces an epic battle with a giant marlin. Hemingway foregrounds...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago dreams of the lions that played on the beaches of Africa, where he once visited after going on a sailing ship years ago. When he was much younger and saw the lions cavorting and wrestling...
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The Old Man and the Sea
This imagery is similar to the passage from the English Burial Service, In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway writes in "The Old Man And The Sea:" "The Yankees cannot lose." "But I fear the Indians of Cleveland." "Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."pg 17....
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The Old Man and the Sea
Great question. The two types of ideas you will be seeing here come respectively from Christianity/Biblical thought and from major-league baseball. The numbers 84, 7, and 3 are each significant in...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Here are the ways in which authors develop character: through a physical description of the character' through the actions of the character through the thoughts, feelings, and speeches of the...
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The Old Man and the Sea
In Old Man and the Sea, Santiago’s struggle is external in that he battles the elements, the fish and the shark, but those external struggles can be seen as a counterpoint to his personal...
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The Old Man and the Sea
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The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway's simple, journalistic style does not allow for much alliteration or flowery prose. He's a straight shooter, and his narrative voice offers little prosody. Here are a few examples: "His...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Certainly any text can be analysed from a psychological point of view, and this brilliant tale by Hemingway is no exception. One way into considering this novel psychologically is to consider how...
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The Old Man and the Sea
There is no reason to believe that this novella, The Old Man and the Sea, is written in anything but chronological order. It begins with these lines: He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff...
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The Old Man and the Sea
At this point in the book, Santiago has beaten the marlin, but is forced to defend it from the sharks that, attracted by the blood, have come to feast on the fish. He kills the first one, and...
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The Old Man and the Sea
In all the scenes that involve Santiago and Manolin, the old man demonstrates his paternal love and friendship for the boy. He affirms the role of father as he forbids Manolin from accompanying...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago is a wise old fisherman who loves the sea, which he fondly calls "la mar." When he ventures out on the eighty-fifth day of having caught no fish, this poor man has the simplest of...
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The Old Man and the Sea
This memory of Santiago when he arm wrestled the famous negro from Cienfuegos is actually a very moving part of the book, as it shows Santiago in his younger, stronger days. What is so moving about...
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The Old Man and the Sea
In The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago is a teacher, mentor, and spiritual holy man for his disciple Manolin. Here are some lessons he teaches the boy: Vocation: Santiago teaches the boy the right...
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The Old Man and the Sea
In describing Santiago's boat, Hemingway says,"The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat." Beautiful but sad imagery to show...
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The Old Man and the Sea
Without question, Santiago of The Old Man and the Sea is the Hemingway code hero who acts in an appropriate manner when faced with death--"grace under pressure"--and he certainly tests his prowess...
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The Old Man and the Sea
The central conflict in Ernest Hemingway's famous novella The Old Man and the Sea is man versus nature. Santiago, the old fisherman, combats the forces of nature daily in his attempts to catch...
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The Old Man and the Sea
This section of the novel comes as the sun sets one evening on Santiago as he is out in the sea and he remembers a time when he was victorious "to give himself more confidence." He remembers when...
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The Old Man and the Sea
This is an interesting question. From what we can infer, Santiago takes pride in being a fishermen. For him, as for the other fishermen in this little village, what shows your skill and your...
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The Old Man and the Sea
As a novel, The Old Man and the Sea is preoccupied with questions of age, mortality, strength, and change. Santiago, the fisherman, is an elderly man whose physical health and luck are...
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The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man says, "A man can be destroyed but not defeated." Santiago decides to take a great risk to prove to himself that he still possesses the skill of a great fisherman after not having caught...
