He was beautiful, the old man remembered, and he had stayed. Then, while the old man was clearing the lines and preparing the harpoon, the male fish jumped high into the air beside the boat to see where the female was and then went down deep, his lavender wings, that were his pectoral fins, spread wide and all his wide lavender stripes showing. When the old man had gaffed her and clubbed her, holding the rapier bill with its sandpaper edge and clubbing her across the top of her head until her colour turned to a colour almost like the backing of mirrors, and then, with the boy’s aid, hoisted her aboard, the male fish had stayed by the side of the boat. He had stayed so close that the old man was afraid he would cut the line with his tail which was sharp as a scythe and almost of that size and shape. Summary & Analysis Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four Day Five Themes. Reading Group Guide for The Old Man and the Sea Introduction Ernest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. Upgrade to A + Download this LitChart (PDF) Teachers and parents Struggling with distance learning Our Teacher Edition on The Old Man and the Sea can help.

His struggle with a giant marlin proves the significance of sacrifice and indicates there's victory in defeat. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Through the themes, man verse nature, nature, and kinship, and perseverance, his emotional considerations of the world are laid bare. The protagonist, a fisherman named Santiago, has gone 84 days without catching a fish. The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Santiago’s character, as outlined through the following quotes, is simple, endearing, and quite easy to empathize with.

The male fish always let the female fish feed first and the hooked fish, the female, made a wild, panic-stricken, despairing fight that soon exhausted her, and all the time the male had stayed with her, crossing the line and circling with her on the surface. Ernest Hemingway, in full Ernest Miller Hemingway, (born July 21, 1899, Cicero now in Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway. The Old Man and the Sea is a novel by Ernest Hemingway that was first published in 1952, and to this day remains one of his most famous works. “He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin.

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