Ernest Hemingway Meaning

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.” - Ernest Hemingway. This quote is a very powerful quote, and it’s from the book “ The old man at the sea” which was published in 1952 . Ernest Hemingway who Is the author of this book has a very unique style of writing , for example this quote is quite short but still has such great powerful meaning. That’ was Hemingway whole idea when he was writing a book. How he could influence the readers in as little amount of words as possible? You may have used the Hemingway strategy as well without even knowing , every time you paraphrase things to make them shorter so you can better remember it , you're doing exactly what Hemingway …show more content…
It was the last major fiction book he wrote which was pretty successful and some would say this book played a big role in him winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 to cap of his writing career. The story is about a cuban fisherman who really hasn't been lucky lately with fishing , but finally has his day and has an agonizing battle with a giant marlin. The fisherman may have won the battle but has nothing to show for it when he returns but he knew what he had accomplished and his personal triumph was all that matters. The books starts off with the the old man, Santiago and the young boy, Manolin having a conversation about baseball and a specific player named Joe DiMaggio who is mentioned a lot throughout the book because of his toughness and willing to do whatever it takes to win. The young boy use to work for Santiago but since he hadn't caught a fish in 84 days his parents told him he could no longer help the old man. Manolin is upset because the old man has taught him pretty much everything he knows about fishing and has formed this close bond with him. So he doesn't feel right just leaving him to go and work for some other fisherman. But Santiago understands and does not have a problem with Manolin leaving