The Importance Of Nursery In Old Man And The Sea

nursery plays a major part throughout the short story and has many negative events attached to it. In the beginning of the short story one of the first scenes in the nursery was described as “The hot straw smell of the lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden water hole, the great rusty smell of animals, the smell of dust like a red paprika in the air. And now the sounds… the papery rustling of vultures. A shadow passed through the sky” (Bradbury 1). The imagery being described of the current setting in the nursery shows that it is very important. This is so because the imagery was highly descriptive along with the mention of vultures. These vultures represent the death that Bradbury is worried about when dealing with technology. The entire section of imagery is a metaphor of Bradbury’s view on technology. It starts off seeming very good, but, then it turns into a very negative thing that eventually leads to death or destruction. His view is also evident through the fact that he only uses the senses of smell and sound throughout the entire portion of the imagery until the very end. This …show more content…
Endurance has been respected in many professions and activities for the longest time. Most physical jobs have an aspect of endurance to them and because of this the people with the better endurance are more likely to succeed. Ernest Hemingway was a proponent as it fit his code hero. He believed that in order to be the best man one must have excesses of endurance. In Old Man and The Sea , Santiago is the perfect image of endurance with his long arm wrestling match, while his counterpart of endurance is the mighty fish that Santiago struggles with for most of the novel. During one of the lulls on the sea Santiago remembers a time where he had beat a large man arm wrestling. Santiago remembers this when he