regards to a specific part and may have nothing to do with what the old man took to get there. Confidence is very important to have all the time. Especially when you have a hobby. It will help you do much better because you will feel better. Luck also plays a major role in The Old Man and The Sea‚ and in our everyday lives. Luck is what most fishermen depend on. In Santiago’s Cuban fishing village he is known as “salao‚ which means the worst form of unlucky‚” after going eighty-four days of not catching
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In Hemmingway’s novella‚ The Old Man and The Sea‚ love is displayed in an unusual way through the protagonist‚ Santiago. The love exist between an old man and nature‚ specifically‚ the ocean‚ rather than between man and women. Santiago’s love for the ocean is more than a pleasurable love‚ rather a love that is the essential part of completing his unique and honorable life. Along with love‚ the sea is his source of pride. His sorrow is expressed deeply early in the novella after eighty-four consecutive
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by it. Santiago’s physical struggles included wounds‚ dizziness‚ soreness‚ and not being able to fight anymore because of the amount of physical pain. His mental struggles were regretting the decision of catching the fish and wanting Manolin to be with him on the boat. These struggles lead to his defeat by nature. Santiago has many physical struggles throughout the book. On the fourth day “for an hour the old man had been seeing black spots before his eyes and sweat salted the cut over his eye
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victory. Santiago did this in the book the Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway. He is victorious at the end of the story for multiple reasons-he has endurance‚ he is never defeated‚ and he does not lose faith throughout the entire story. Santiago’s ability to endure the harsh life he lives gives even more meaning to his belief‚ "Pain does not matter to a man”(84). If DiMaggio can endure his bone spur‚ if the great fish can pull the weight of his boat‚ therefore a simple old man can at least
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the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one?” (Hemingway 87) DiMaggio even having a bone spur keeps his hitting streak alive. The importance of what Hemingway is saying is that all is really possible if you try the hardest and don’t give up. Santiago’s determination helps him catch the fish and end his bad streak of not catching a fish for 84 days. When the old man finally got home after the long fishing trip the marlin is now a skeleton. The Marlin’s significance
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Defeat is a difficult feeling to cope with. In sports games‚ it is always difficult to lose. All people respond to defeat differently. Most people will give up and go home‚ but very few will refuse to be defeated and keep fighting even after the battle is over. In The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway‚ the character Santiago is an excellent example remaining undefeated and enduring to the end. For eighty-four days‚ Santiago had set out to sea and returned empty-handed. On the eighty-fifth day
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where. Santiago traveled through many difficult obstacles that he could have perished from‚ but it did not stop him from continuing his quest. Another action that makes Santiago interesting is the care and love he gives to his sheeps as a shepherd. Santiago’s sheep were his number one priority of being taken care of through out his journey. Although it was vague in the beginning to why the young boy was a shepherd and carrying sheep‚ it was later explained that the sheep helped Santiago travel through
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All Over but the Shoutin’ All Over but the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg is an autobiography that starts from Mr. Bragg’s impoverished childhood in a family that included an abusive‚ alcoholic father‚ an incredibly powerful angel of a mother and his two brothers‚ and follows him through his Pulitzer Prize-winning journalistic career at the New York Times. The author states at the beginning of the book that readers will laugh and cry reading it. He was right on the money with both of these points. The
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9 September 2013 All Over but the Shoutin’ In the excerpt from the memoir All Over but the Shoutin’ ‚ the author Rick Bragg highlights the moment when he paid a final visit to his father’s deathbed. In the excerpt‚ Bragg briefly described his childhood‚ saying his father abandoned his wife and sons‚ and left them to beg‚ and scrap for food and money. He saw his father as a drunken monster‚ not caring for anyone but himself. Initially when Bragg arrived he was hesitant. He did not know the person
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“Danny Thomas” A man named Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz once said‚ “Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.” And then he helped built a hospital‚ people know him as Danny Thomas. He wanted a hospital where kids could go to for free when they’re sick. Because of his strong promise to St. Jude Thaddeus‚ of hopeless causes he was able to build his dream: St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Since Danny Thomas has built this hospital
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