reason and intellect unencumbered by human compassion. While Dimmesdale has intellect but lacks will‚ Chillingworth has both. He is fiendish‚ evil‚ and intent on revenge. In his first appearance in the novel‚ he is compared to a snake‚ an obvious allusion to the Garden of Eden. However‚ just like any weak ma‚ like Adam in the Garden of Eden‚ Dimmesdale deserts his past as Minister‚ listening to the advice of Hester‚ that; "Heaven would show mercy." He flees holy punishment‚ which is a reminder
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The use of Biblical allusions and references is evident in Alan Paton’s Cry‚ the Beloved Country. Against the backdrop of South Africa’s racial and cultural problems‚ massive enforced segregation‚ similarly enforced economic inequality‚ Alan Paton uses these references as way to preserve his faith for the struggling country. By incorporating Biblical references into his novel‚ one can see that Alan Paton is a religious man and feels that faith will give hope to his beloved country. Throughout the
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for quite some years. However‚ he came back in 1952 with his most outstanding short novel‚ The Old Man and the Sea. In this novella‚ Ernest Hemingway wrote about a well-rounded old man‚ named Santiago‚ who faces off with death‚ and lives to see the boy‚ Manolin‚ once again. Death takes Santiago on a long and lonely journey‚ wishing Manolin was with him at sea. Hemingway’s short novel‚ The Old Man and the Sea‚ depicts a tremendous challenge that Santiago and Manolin must struggle against nature and one’s
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December 5 2012 Miss Bone Honors English – Period 1 Masculinity and Gender in Hemingway ’s The Old Man and The Sea One of the most predominantly accepted themes of Ernest Hemingway ’s assorted works is the importance of masculinity. His experiences in the war and personal values are reflected in his work‚ and are particularly clear in his prize winning novella‚ The Old Man and The Sea. The Old Man ’s connections and relationship with the natural world around him and his responses to the people
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Old Man and the Sea Study Guide Answers DAY ONE: PAGES 9-25 1. Who is Santiago? Describe his physical appearance and personality. He is an old fisherman who has “gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.”(9) He has been deemed “unlucky” by others in the community. Santiago’s is described on pages 9-14: o “thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck;” o “brown blotches of benevolent skin cancer;” o “his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish;” o “everything
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Understanding Santiago‚ the protagonist and fisherman in the novella‚ The Old Man and the Sea‚ is an old and impoverished man who lives in a small fishing village near Havana‚ Cuba. Although an expert fisherman‚ he had not caught a single fish in eighty-four days. However‚ he refuses to be discouraged and is consistently hopeful that he will have better luck the next day. When Santiago takes his skiff out further into the sea in hopes of catching a bigger fish‚ he is fortunate and hooks an enormous
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Relating to the Black Balloon and your own literature circle book‚ in what ways have the authors presented aspects of Going it Alone in two key scenes? The Black Balloon and the Old Man and The Sea are both clear but complex examples of Going it Alone. Going it Alone is represented as a choice we must make with courage in defiance of the pressures of peers and society through some key symbolic scenes and reoccurring motifs in both texts. In the movie Black Balloon‚ Elissa Downs expresses going
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Psychology Through the Old Man and the Sea An old man dedicates his life to his passion‚ the sea. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man in the Sea” portrays the psychological lens. This is developed through the old man’s relationship with the boy‚ his positive attitude‚ and loneliness. The psychological lens is visible through Santiago’s relationship with the boy. For example‚ when Santiago and the boy are fishing‚ the boy says‚ “Keep the blanket around you‚ you’ll not fish without eating while i’m alive
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use it‚ and the ones that do not as fairly have any? In “The Old Man And The Sea” written by Ernest Hemingway‚ many specific types of figurative language are used throughout the book such as alliteration‚ similes‚ and personification‚ and all of them generally are used to describe the scene‚ and how things are going on throughout the days that he had been fishing in the sea. Alliteration is used throughout the book when the old man; Santiago expresses his feelings about the fish‚ “But
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with a problem‚ they are tempted to ignore it‚ rather than solve it. However‚ by not giving up and working diligently until this problem is solved‚ a desirable outcome will result. This quote and concept is shown furthermore in the works‚ The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway and in Unwind by Neal Shusterman.
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