Introduction: The Old Man and the Sea is a novella. Ernest Hemingway is the author of this novel. He is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. He got the Nobel Prize in 1954.
Characters: Santiago,
Manolin
Setting: Havana in Cuba
Theme: Resistance to Defeat,
Friendship, Youth and Age, Man and Nature
Publication and award: It was
published in 1952 and awarded the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Plot in simple words:
On the coast of Cuba near Havana, an old
widowed fisherman named Santiago has been unable to catch a fish for
84 days.
His apprentice, Manolin, has been
forced by his parents to seek another "luckier" employer, although
Manolin continues to help Santiago launch and retrieve his boat from the ocean
each day.
On the morning of the 85th day, Manolin
helps Santiago launch his boat into the sea.
Not long afterward, Santiago feels a
hard pull on his line and realizes that a huge marlin has caught his
hook.
Santiago uses all his strength to
harpoon and kill the marlin on the second day.
During the homeward journey, however—his
third day at sea—sharks attack the boat, tearing the flesh from the marlin.
Santiago
fights desperately, killing or driving off most of the sharks, but eventually, the sharks eat all the flesh of the marlin.
When Santiago pulls into the harbor, everyone is sleeping, and Santiago struggles
to carry his mast back to his shack, leaving the marlin's skeleton still tied
to his boat in the harbor.
The next day, Manolin finds Santiago asleep in
his shack.
Manolin is overjoyed to see him but
cries when he sees the cuts in Santiago's hands.
When Santiago wakes up, Manolin tells
him he doesn't care what his parents say—he's going to start fishing with
Santiago again. Meanwhile, as a party of tourists watches the marlin's skeleton
and mistakes it for a shark, Santiago drifts back to sleep under Manolin's
watchful gaze and dreams of lions.
Keywords and phrases of the
novella
Santiago, Manolin, Marlin, Cuba, Gulf Stream, old fisherman, harpoon, skiff, line, alone but hopeful in old age, apprentice, 84 days with no fish position, Manolin is a good companion, On the 85th day he hooks the big fish. harbor Dimaggio, the baseball player is the inspiration.Undefeated Spirit,struggle Luck is slave of Efforts. one of Hemingway’s finest works Pulitzer Prize in 1953.
“A man can be destroyed but not defeated”
“Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same
color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated”
“He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old he
is, he thought. Never have I had such a strong fish nor one who acted so
strangely... He cannot know that it is only one man against him, nor that it is
an old man.”
“But I must have the confidence and I must be worthy of
the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone
spur in his heel”
Now is no time to think of what you
do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
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