Old Man and the Sea Analysis and Interpretation

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The Old Man and the Sea - Analysis The Old Man and the Sea is written by the famous american author Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway was a very well known and acknowledged author who wrote numerous amounts of astounding works such as A Farewell to Arms (1929) and The sun also rises (1926). He was born in 1899 and committed suicide in 1961 after a longer depression. In the last 10 years of his life, all critics pointed out that Hemingway was a burned-out writer who had lost the ability to write great works. But in 1952 Hemingway published the novella The Old Man and the Sea. Never before had he received an award for his works, but after he wrote his last and probably greatest work, The Old Man and the Sea, he received the Pulitzer Prize and in 1954 he received a Nobel Prize. The novella, The Old Man and the Sea, deals with an old fisherman named Santiago who lives in Cuba near the coast in a small village. Santiago has not caught anything for the last 84 days and now the 85th day, he decides to try one last time to see if he could possibly catch something out at sea. For many years, Santiago fished with a young boy Manolin. Manolin respects Santiago more than anything and regards him as his mentor. Manolin is not allowed to go fishing with Santiago because his parents believe that the old fisherman's luck is gone and therefore he will never catch anything again. Santiago embarks alone on the sea. A remarkable thing about Santiago's persona, is his relationship with pride. He is capable of withstanding the full load, presented to the reader as a man that only sees two possibilities, either defeat or endurance until annihilation. For three whole days he keeps up with the fish, although it hurts the old man physically. His palms gets cut and his back is broken-down. This supports the fact of his choice between the aforementioned options, to endure. "You did not
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