Fisherman

In the novella The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemmingway, an elderly Cuban fisherman named Santiago lives in the 1940s. After being unlucky for innumerous days, Santiago continues to venture out to sea in hopes of catching a fish. When the line begins to tug in his hand, Santiago realizes that he has caught his prize marlin, and struggles for three days to catch it. On the trip back to Havana, the trophy fish is attacked by ravenous sharks and is devoured before Santiago can kill the sharks.…

This also implies in Hemingway's belief that age impairs, but does not extinguish one's ability to be participants in their own lives. After going through such a struggle, Santiago realizes that all of his glories were in his youth, and strongly relates the power that the lions in his dreams have to his youth. It symbolizes his freedom in his youth as a link to his past but also his ultimate goal before he dies. The lions on the beach represent a place where he wants to escape, and explore once…

that includes having a range of emotions that distinguish character traits. A book that showcases this successfully is “The Old Man and the Sea” a novel written by Ernest Hemingway that was published on September 1, 1952. It tells the story of a fisherman named Santiago that has had no luck in catching fish in 84 days. There is also a boy named Manolin, and together they help each other in many ways until one day Manolin leaves Santiago because he has been branded as “salao” which means bad…

Demise and Pride “Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” -Ernest Hemingway. In Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway illustrates to the reader that the Old Man’s strong self-pride is nearly his demise. From the start of The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway paints a strong vivid mental picture of a stubborn old man. Whose skin is heavily leathered, thin and filled with deep wrinkles…

Fairy tales and folk tales, such as “The Fisherman and the Jinnee” from The Thousand and One Nights, are common in human culture because they provide hope in dark situations and reveal the inherent fear of death. Humans try to look for positivity in even the darkest of times just as in “The Fisherman and the Jinnee.” For example, even when the fisherman is not having any luck catching anything, on the last cast, he brings in a golden lamp, giving him hope for a better daily income. Another…

I am reading, “The Bass, the river and Sheila Mant” by W.D. Watherell. The story is about a boy who takes his summer crush on a date, but is faced with the struggle of choosing Sheila or the biggest bass he has ever hooked. In this journal I will be questioning and evaluating. While reading this short story I am left to question will the Narrator pick the bass or Shelia Mant. I believe he will pick the bass. One reason I believe this is because the amount of time he spends fishing. In…

Throughout the short story Sheila Mant, the boy must decide between the bass and Sheila. First off the boy has a great passion for fishing. He shows this in many ways. He is committed to fishing because he says in his free time he practices different casts. In the text it states, “I was back in our driveway practicing casts, and when I wasn’t practicing casts, I was tying the line… when I was not doing any of those things, I was fishing the river for bass” (Wetherell 2). Another way to prove…

“Hope: the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best” (dictionary.com). In Ernest Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea, hope is seen by Santiago overcoming all of the problems thrown his way. After struggling for three days, Santiago’s work pays off when he catches the marlin. Through his journey, if he loses hope, Santiago thinks about his past to stay positive. Although the marlin gets eaten by the sharks, Santiago is still seen as a hero. Hemingway explores…

Creating a bond between a fish and the reader is a hard feat to do, but Elizabeth Bishop has done just that. Elizabeth Bishop creates a deeper layer of the story "The Fish" by her intentional word choice and colorful descriptions. She uses her way with words to describe in detail what the fish looks like and what it does when captured. She has used a large variety of literary devices and word choice to bring forth a deeper meaning of what is actually going on, and this is how she creates a…

Heroes are made everyday, this is especially true in the case of Ryan White, a young teenager from Indiana who contradicted HIV from a blood transfusion. He was subject to terrible reticule from his peers and suffered the effects of his disease. In the events leading up to his death, he became the face of the HIV awareness movement before finally passing away at the young age of 18 in 1990. His ascendance to becoming a hero was made possible by his martyrdom for those affected by HIV, and those…