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    especially to a fisherman like the old man of this book‚ The Old Man and the Sea. This old man named Santagio experiences a hunt of fish like no other when he encounters an extremely large fish and it takes him far out into the ocean. In this book‚ the characters and objects are somewhat interesting because of their differences‚ such as the old man and the boy‚ and the old man and the sea. Those different and similar characteristics are shown through the old man‚ boy‚ and sea. As friends‚ the young boy

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    Alyssa Colletti FYW- 101 Professor Timmons April 15‚ 2013 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21‚ 1899 in Oak Port‚ Illinois. Throughout his high school career he excelled in sports‚ and English class. For fun Hemingway enjoyed the outdoors‚ which got him into fishing and camping. When he graduated he started to work for The Kansas City Star as a junior reporter. Hemingway got his style of writing from the Kansas City Star’s Style Guide for writing: “use short sentences

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    Book review: The Old Man and the Sea. Written by Ernest Hemingway in 1951 (published 1952). The Old man and the Sea is perhaps one of his most famous works‚ which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. “You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food‚ he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him‚ it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more? -You think too much‚ old man‚ he said

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    Hemingway created Santiago‚ Santiago made Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba‚ and published in 1952. This novel centers upon Santiago‚ an aging fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Many people like this story very much and regard it as the most excellent work of Hemingway. I agree with this idea and I think The Old Man and the Sea brought Hemingway to the best period of his literary career

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    I decided to read this book for two reasons. My friends have read this book in the past and said it wasn’t too bad. Second‚ it is one heck of a short book. I finished this book in 2 days. As the sample book report says‚ this book is only 27‚000 words long. The book lived up to what my friends had said about it. The book was one of the best classic stories I have read‚ it had a good story and good description. Hemingway could paint the pictures in my mind. I have read other shot stories of his‚ back

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    The Old Man and the Sea I chose The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway for my summer reading book. The Old Man and the Sea takes place in a small fishing village near Havana‚ Cuba in the late 1940s. The most important characters in The Old Man and the Sea are Santiago—the old man—Manolin‚ and the marlin. Santiago is the protagonist of the story. He is an old‚ Cuban fisherman. He is very knowledgeable of his skills and takes pride in them‚ despite his physical restrictions. He has

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    The book The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway‚ is about an old man‚ Santiago‚ and his genuine fondness of the sea. Every day he travels out to sea to go fishing which is his occupation. For the past eighty-four days the old man has not caught a single fish. On the eighty-fifth day he sails out to sea as usual‚ and this is the day that changes Santiago’s life forever. He hooks an unusually immense marlin‚ and they have an agonizing battle for several days. Hemingway often compares Santiago

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    English 3 “The Old Man and the Sea” In The Old Man and the Sea‚ Ernest Hemingway shows Santiago‚ a Cuban fisherman‚ as a strong and heroic man. The man’s epic battle between the marlin represents his strength and symbolizes endurance. Santiago has set a journey to the sea for 84 days and is beat when he returns home with nothing. His friend Manolin has been forced by his parents to leave the old man to fish. Ernest Hemingway has created a character that has made a brave man who personifies

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    Hemingway’s work "The Old Man and the Sea" is notable for its use of symbolism; the novel revolves around two major symbols: the old man and the sea. Besides that‚ some other objects that are described in the novel also have their symbolic meanings‚ such as Manolin‚ the marlin‚ the shark‚ the lion‚ etc. The Old Man and the Sea is a novel of much symbolic and the thesis of this research paper is the analysis of the many different usage of symbolism in the novel “The Old Man and The Sea”. “We can’t ever

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    suspect this is a book I will need to re-read. When I first read it ages ago‚ I only did so because it’s my father’s favorite book‚ and although I liked it‚ I don’t think I got the greater meaning -Online 1. Nishita Kumar on April 7‚ 2011 at 1:04 pm said: I read this much too young to appreciate any greater meaning. Time for a reread‚ I think. Lovely reviews‚ the excerpts you have chosen to capture here really prompt me to give this another read -Online 1. Nose in a book on April 22‚ 2011

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