Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Old Man and the Sea was the last work published during his lifetime.
It is an allegory.
Hemingway was lonely when he wrote this work.
Hemingway was an American novelist short - story writer and journalist.
He termed his style the theory. This had a strong influence on 20th–century fiction.
His words are simple and uniquely brilliant
Hemingway always said, “There is no friend loyal as a book”
The old man and the Sea is a classic from American literature.
This piece is an epic struggle between an old fisherman and the most incredible catch of his life.
Santiago is an old-aged fisherman.
For eighty- four days he has set out to sail, but every time, he returned empty-handed. So his fisherman society treats him as unlucky.
Monoline was a young boy. He was a single companion of Santiago. but his parents stopped him to help Santiago
Santiago believed that a man is not made for defeat. He does not depend on luck.
That a man bears pain and hardship without complaints.
A man’s legacy becomes the inspiration for others Joe de Maggio was the inspiration of Santiago.
This maintains the person’s integrity.
Even though the old man is ridiculed by his fellow fisherman, the old man set off on the sea in his quest to find a fish.
The old man lived by his own labour he had what was his own. He did not take from others.
Santiago took de Maggio as his hero. De Maggio did well with all the pain.
The local fisherman called Santiago “Sahoo” means a pathetic loser. This was expensive for Santiago. He had spent all his life at the sea. He had travelled a lot while being young
The sea always made him feel young.
But there was a conflict is the conflict between the desire of getting big fish and the weakness of giving up.
While challenges and set back can strip a man of all outward signs of success, stile his spirit can remain undefeated. it prompts a man never to give up and to keep trying again
A man continues to do whatever he must do, to the best of his ability.
For Santiago, every day was a new day. He was determined not to give up. It was not the time to think what he did not have.
Santiago encourages himself that he may not be as strong as he thought himself. He was confident that he knew many tricks. He had his own resolutions.
The sea was the whole of nature for him.
He set out on the third day Santiago was exhausted, but manages to pull the marlin close enough to thrust it with the harpoon.
Santiago had seen the largest marlin
He was happy that the marlin would give him a handsome amount
But he felt that the people who will let the flesh would be unworthy of its greatness
The blood of the marlin attracted the sharks Santiago managed to stay with them with the harpoon
He fights against the predators, and although he kills several sharks, more and more appeared. by that time it was dark.
They devoured the marlin’s meat leaving only the skeleton head and tail.
He arrived home before daybreak. he goes to his stack and sleeps deeply
The next morning the crowd gathered around the skeletal carcass of the fish. It was still in the boat
The tourist there took the marlin to be a shark
Monoline was worried about Santiago. He was moved to tears when he saw him sleeping Monoline through when Santiago would wake, both together would go for fishing
But Santiago had gone to eternal sleep dreaming of the lion’s
Reflecting on the old’s man experience is an inspiration for living one’s own life and dealing with its problem
The old man, the fish, and the sea are lovely Chilling
The old man like the great marlin, is killed by the cruel atmosphere of life and ocean.
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