The Old Man And The Sea

By- Ernest Hemingway

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The Old Man And The Sea

Acquaintance of The Old Man and The Sea

Ernest Hemingway About Novel• Author: Ernest Hemingway

• Year Of Publication: 1952

• Type of Work: Novel

• Age: The making of

American Literature

The Old Man And The Sea: Summary

• We’d also like to note that the Old man has a name Santiago, as does the young boy Manolin, but the text always refers to them as “The Old Man” and “The Boy”.

• This Old man goes to sleep dreaming of the lions he used to see back in the day in Africa.

• He wakes sunrise and does what fishermen do get in his boat and head out to fish.

• Not too long after that, the Old man hooks a really, really, ridiculously big fish. A Marlin to be more exact.

• An earth-shattering struggle of mythical proportion follows.

• The Old man goes to sleep and dreams of the same lions of his youth- we like to imagine it’s something similar to The Lion King.

The Old Man And The Sea How it all Goes Down

• The story begins, as you might expect, with an old man.

• He is a fisherman who has not caught a fish in 84 days.

• He is also not eating very much.

• The two factors are related.

• We also meet a boy who is dear friends with the old man.

• The Old Man taught him to fish when he was young, and the boy brings the Old Man food.

Symbols in the novella

• The Lion: Youth, freedom, strength

• The Marlin: Strength and durability, putting up such struggle. 18 feet long.

• The Sea: universe and Santiago's isolation in the universe. Challenge and endless “NATURE”.

• The Old man: represent the colour of Sea, Old man, wrinkled skin, level of suffering by comic process.

Menolin

• Menolin: symbol of Hope, the boy to fish and the boy loved him.

• Joe Dimaggio: Santiago see Joe Dimaggio as an equal heroic character, Indomitable will of the human spirit.

• Other symbol : The Skiff, The Mast, The Harpoon,

Some point about mirror &contrast :

• “A mirror or contrast image of Hemingway’s biography.”

• “Everyday is new day”• “Hope” is chief thing. • “Struggle is ultimately Futile” (contrast)• Pride & ambition v/s fate & chance.• Hemingway’s description towards nature:Life

giver & life taker.

Existentialism in the Novel

• Is a philosophy which stresses the importance of human experience, and says that everyone is responsible for the result of their own action.

• Hemingway is existentially empty and directionless without family and without destention.

Characteristic of Old man and The Sea

• Man and Struggle

• Man of ‘heroic quality’

• Man of isolation

• Turning with Nature.

• Man of pride

Themes of Novella

• Pride• Friendship• Defeat and Death• Respect and Reputation• Hunger• Perseverance• Isolation• The Man and the Natural world.

Other Themes:• Manhood

• Heroism

• Solidarity

• Love

• Feeling and Guilt

• The Undefeated

Narrator point of view:

• The point of view is rather self-explanatory, some disembodied voice tell us what’s up and head the old man’s thoughts to he thoughts to the boy with ease.

• Third person narrator (omniscient)

Old Man

Freedom

Power

Passion

Say something Santiago

• I respect you & Love you, but i will kill you because the day ends. Kill me fish, Kill me , you have a right, I don’t care who kill whom?

• “Fish ,I’ll stay with you until I ded”- Santiago

Thank you