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Old Man and The Sea vs Finding Forrester Ernest Hemingway once wrote in his popular story The Old Man and The Sea,“Man can be destroyed but not defeated.” This can relate so clearly to not only the story, but another film, Finding Forrester. With each story, there were two very diverse plot lines. However, they seem to meet exceptionally when it comes to a variety of examples, including the relationships between the characters, the main characters’ courageousness, and the theme application to…

The climax of the book is when Santiago asks the desert,wind, and sun to turn him into wind, and if he does not fulfil that task tribesmen will kill him. Santiago is calm those three days that he is given but when the time comes Santiago is peaceful, he is not nervous. He is not worried that he has to turn himself into wind. On page 148 Santiago gets to it, he Santiago asks the desert to turn him into wind and the desert tells him that he can not do that. Sorrowfully, the desert tells the boy to…

The article of Cholos and surfers is about the author Jack Lopez childhood growing up in East Los Angeles on the ghetto streets of Vermont avenue near its sandy beaches. where his love for surfing beings and his understanding of what society think of him and what he truly desires. Growing on the ghettos streets of east LA, as a child Jack Lopez, want to be nothing but a surfer. he thought he could do this by wearing the traditional surfing clothing of "baggy shorts, larger penny's town craft…

Water Far in the ocean, I was on a small boat with four people to go diving. Jamie, Bob, Matt, and Mike were there to support me, but they didn’t want to go in the water. Before I dived in the water, Matt had given me a pocket knife for defence, but I figured it wouldn’t work, considering there were gigantic creatures in the ocean. I dived into the water, but my heart was pounding, and then, I saw a large grey streak dashing by. Then it came back, and the closer it got to me, the faster I swam…

Generally speaking, there are two types of people. There are those who are content with their lives, and there are those who are not. Ernest Hemingway delves into a common reason behind many people’s discontent in his short story, “A Clean, Well – Lighted Place.” The story follows an older waiter as he and his younger counterpart serve an old man in the middle of the night. The younger waiter wishes to go home early, but the elder does not mind the time. Time spent at work is nothing to those…

The sun was rising up; the birds have just woken up, it was early in the morning, Manolo was getting ready for another training day with his father. As they began training his father told him to finish the bull as if it was his first bullfight, "I can't do it, this is not right," are the words that Manolo said to his father, this is an excellent example of how people can stand up for what they believe in, just how Manolo did. Manolo since a young kid has always wanted to be a musician, he loved…

Summer Reader’s Response In a world entrenched in preconceptions, a man’s transformative will and imagination strikes a balance between constraint and hope while maintaining dignity and decency by staying practical yet not losing one’s faith in humanity. In the novella “Benito Cereno” by Herman Melville, a sailor, Delano, comes across a shipwreck with a crew on board. The crew is made up of slaves and a weak captain who is guided by one of his slaves. The captain, Cereno, begins to tell the tale…

The simple fishing story told in The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway represents Hemingway’s life and writing success through the character portrayed in the book. Santiago’s desire to achieve his goals of catching a great fish and superior recognition in the fishing community is exactly like the author who wants the same in his field. Hemingway communicates his inner struggle as a writer and his perceptions of the world through the simplicity of this fishing story. He achieves this via…

SUBJECT: China Summary: For the past three decades, China’s economic and social development trajectory has been growing at an average of about 10 percent GDP growth rate and more than 600 million people have been lifted out of poverty. With a population of about 1.4 billion, China became the second largest economy and is a major political and financial player. Aspirations to become a world leader, in par with the U.S run deep. China is setting up complementary or parallel structures to…

Weeks (1962). "Fakery in The Old Man and the Sea". College English XXIV: 188–192. 8. Ernest, Hemingway. 1998. The Old Man and the Sea. ISBN 957-606-285-3, 94 9. Ibid, 94 10. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1759143.stm 11. Ernest, Hemingway. 1998. The Old Man and the Sea. ISBN 957-606-285-3, 62 12. Ibid, 46 13. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_and_the_Sea Wikipedia: Symbolism of character 14. Ernest, Hemingway. 1998. The Old Man and the Sea. ISBN 957-606-285-3, 47 15.…