The Old Man and the Sea Essay

Once upon a time Ed was fishing. he was a nice, smart, cool,and funny person. While he was fishing he was always gracious as well as polite to the area that he was at as well as always respectful. One day he met a well rounded smart, sharp guy and they became fishing buddies but when his buddy lost a fish he was emotional, sour, and discriminative. When this happened ed would tell him you need to be kind as well as polite to the other people that are here, but though his buddy was kind and…

is the old man a success or failure? (brain storm) 2 page persuasive essay defending your position You must use example from the book failure because page 1 he has not caught a fish in 40 days success because he catches a 18 foot monster fish that he struggled for 3 days to catch. (don't know page number) failure because he struggles for 3 days to catch a fish and i understand that it is a 18ft marlin. success he prays to the virgin mary for the death if the fish page 65 failure because he…

Herman Melville’s The Confidence Man: His Masquerade has endured the test of time, proving to be a true classic. This satirical masterpiece criticizes American society’s impulse to monetize all opportunities, with a disregard for ethics. Melville represents American society with a miniature community aboard the "Fidèle", a steamboat heading to New Orleans, carrying a variety of passengers. However, instead of analyzing the rhetoric Melville employed when writing the story, the focus will be the…

Lastly, Santiago symbolizes the strength of being a man through the arm wrestling battle. The first way that Santiago’s hands symbolize manhood is through his hand cramp. Santiago got a hand cramp from pulling the line for a very long time. “He could feel the steady hard pull of the line and his left hand was cramped” (Hemingway, 1952, p. 58). This quote shows that he had a cramp in his left hand. But, Santiago still pushed through the pain like a man is to do. Therefore, my first way Santiago’s…

rather thin-lipped, and was considered handsome” though his life falls apart when he “had just shown himself, very publicly, to be a coward” (Hemingway 122). Macomber’s wife, Margaret, has gotten tired of Macomber’s cowardice habits, for he is no true man. For this reason, she is drawn to Wilson, a hunter, who is far more courageous than her husband of eleven years. This lack of manliness in Macomber is exactly why Margaret cheats on him with Wilson and eventually shoots her husband in the head.…

“Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.( P.T Barnum)” In the story 90 miles to havana the author is Enrique Flores Galbis I think the theme is work hard for family. Julian works hard for his family to stay together “julian begged to go fishing because at the end of the year if they catch a fish its good luck and he tried realling one but it got loose”.he is working hard to pull that fish in for good luck and to put on the table for his family.He…

The Will to Survive is Worth the Chance of Life Everyday is a fight for life and with the will to live you are one of the strongest people left on Earth. The book The Road by Cormac McCarthy has many examples of life and death situations about a boy and his father during an apocalypse. They want to make a journey to the ocean where it is safer and warmer, but they have to deal with cannibals, hunger and sickness throughout this journey. They end up making it to the ocean and this was only…

Title: Flavio and the giant mushroom Once upon a time a man named Flavio was delivering a stock of incredibly rare skyshrooms by boat. Once they got to port, Flavio said “Who wants to hear a story?” one of his crewmates said “Oh not again.” but it was too late, for Flavio had gone off on a tangent. By the time he had finished, the entire stock of skyshrooms had spoiled. Zess T., wondering why her delivery had been so late came to the port to investigate. When she arrived, she found her…

SOME KIND OF AMAZING INTRO AND THESIS STATEMENT Salt to the Sea has been framed in an unique way, the beginning and end of the story is tied together using a common metaphor. The initial emotion gathered from the characters in Salt to the Sea is identical. Every character feels hunted; no matter where they are, they are never safe from themselves and their pasts. Comparing an emotion to that of a hunter alludes that these emotions are constantly there, waiting in the background before…

unhappiness. The nothingness of life is the most obvious theme in this story. It is clearly conveyed by the old waiter in the story who says, “It was all a nothing and man was a nothing too.” (Hemingway). By this he is trying to illustrate how meaningless everything in life truly is. It is a difficult concept to…