In Ernest Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea‚ Santiago is a classic example of a Code Hero‚ a man of action who accepts death as a part of life‚ possesses a high degree of skill‚ and is in a constant state of alertness‚ having trouble sleeping or resting. First‚ Santiago is a highly skilled fisherman‚ who knows his job well and performs it with precision and accuracy without having to give it much thought. He continually demonstrates his skill during his adventure on the ocean‚ as he initially prepares
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“A man can be destroyed but not defeated” In the Old man and the sea‚ Santiago says‚ “A man can be destroyed but not defeated. (Page 93)” The true statement can be referred to throughout the novel. Santiago is in the end physically destroyed‚ but mentally he is not defeated. Santiago’s courage and pride pushes him forward throughout the novel‚ even when it looks like hope is lost‚ but is never defeated. Destruction means to completely ruin or spoil. Santiago experienced this destruction. It started
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otherwise‚ ollar. Wings of Fire Author: Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Review Date: July 2002 Two years back when I read ‘Wings of Fire’‚ never did I think that the author of that book‚ Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam would become the President of India‚ someday. Forget about my thinking‚ even Dr. Kalam wouldn’t have thought so. ‘Wings of Fire’ is an autobiography of Dr. Abdul Kalam written with the help of one Arun Tiwari‚ who worked along with him for about 10 years. Without any hesitation‚ I
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aspects of The old Man and the Sea This exceptional story should be used as a therapeutic aid for hopeless and depressed people who needed a powerful force for continuing struggles of life against fate. They should say as the boy Manolin‚ "I’ll bring the luck by myself." In the story the old man tells us "It is silly not to hope...besides I believe it is a sin." Hemingway draws a distinction between two different types of success: outer-material and inner-spiritual. While the old man lacks the former
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The plot summary of the old man of the sea The Old Man and The Sea is the story of an epic that makes a very great effort between an old‚ who has a lot of experience of a particular activity and he is the epitome of a modern human life‚ it was happened in a small fishing village near Havana‚Cuba‚ The waters of the Gulf of Mexico‚ in the 1940‚s in the twentieth century. The writers of modern age focused on man as well as psyche of man rather than society‚ so that Ernest Hemingway
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I - The old man and his knot - Firstly‚ the old man is described as a pelican in "His skin was shrunk up with wrinkles like a pelican’s empty pouch". The image of the pelican could be referenced to the religion because it was a symbol of christianity compared to the Christ. - The most interesting here is the image of the gorian knot. The image of the knot refers to the sailors who needed knots for security. It is compulsory in a boat to naviguate correctly and calculate the speed. But here specifically
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301 Impact of Realism on Literature Although many don’t realize it‚ realism plays a very important role in the literature that we read every day. Roaming from “Peter and the Rabbit” to “Sense and Sensibility”‚ every book relies‚ in some way‚ on realism. Every book portrays the elements that are unique to realism. Realism’s objective is to depict something in it’s actuality‚ and when it is depicted in literature it is often told in a third person objective point of view. Realism tries to separate
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abranches 1 john abranches Mr. hope ENG 3O1 6 June 2007 The Representation of Individuality in The Old Man and the Sea As David Banach once explained in a lecture based on the Existentialist’s view‚ “The modern conception of man is characterized‚ more than anything else‚ by individualism. Existentialism can be seen as a rigorous attempt to work out of the implications of this individualism” (Taylor 52). The Existentialist conceptions of freedom and value arise from their view of the
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THE RISE OF REALISM (1860-1914) The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) between the industrial North and the agricultural‚ slave-owning South was an important event that marked American history. Before the war‚ idealists championed human rights‚ especially the abolition of slavery; after the war‚ Americans increasingly idealized progress and the selfmade man. Business boomed after the war. War production had boosted industry in the North and given it prestige and political clout. The enormous natural resources
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Old man on the bridge by Ernest Hemingway Victoria Akers 1.B A. Comprehension questions: 1. Where was the old man sitting and why? The old man was sitting on a bench on the bridge. He has been evacuated from his home in San Carlos because of the Spanish civil war and because of the artillery. He has been walking a 12 kilometres‚ so he is tired. 2. What task did the narrator have to carry out? He had to explore the bridgehead and find out what point the enemy had advanced. 3. Why was the old man
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