Old Man Willow

Life leaves people battered with the obstacles one faces, but such experiences leave us all the wiser for it. In Elizabeth Bishop's “The Fish,” she utilizes the fish to represent how people struggle and get scarred throughout their life, but these barriers give us wisdom and courage to pick ourselves up and face what's ahead. The title of the poem is representative of the crucial nature of its central symbol, the fish while using free verse throughout one large stanza to do so; Bishop has the…

Value 1: Hardworking, Dedicated Text 1: “Of Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford “In sundry of these storms the winds were so fierce and the seas so high, as they could not bear a knot of sail, but were forced to hull for divers days together.” “Would they do what could be done for their wages’ sake and on the other hand they were loath to hazard their lives too desperately.” In “of Plymouth plantation”, William Bradford acknowledges their determination and hard work for what they wanted…

The water was up to his waist and he knew that he would have to float for a while. As the Captain. of the Cap Beatrice looked out the Lady Mary was nowhere to be seen, he thought that maybe the boat had dissolved from view. He was unknowing that a man was fighting for survival. In a astonishing twist of fate Jose saw something that would save his life. A piece of wood that he was going to use to fix up the boat was floating towards him. With all the energy he had Jose latched onto that piece of…

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.…

chose to shadow my father. My father is a CPA and a contractor. He is a very hard worker and deals with all kinds of people from clients regarding their tax returns to sub-contractors wanting to get paid. Because he is a very likable and respectable man, I look up to him thus I chose him to shadow. I shadowed my father for eight hours and learned some of his quotes, the way he acts, and how he speaks. My family and I went to the beach with some friends for two weeks and this is when I…

not matter how chaotic, stressful or painful the world might be.” Hemingway’s code hero never seems to win no matter how hard they embrace the code. In the novel the Old Man and the Sea Hemingway’s character Santiago is a old man who won't stop till he succeeded. Within the book Santiago is made fun of and not a lucky man. For the old man has spent 84 days fishing and was not able to catch anythings because of his unfortunate circumstance his best friend a young boy was no longer allowed to…

The Old Man and the Sea is the story of an old fisherman who struggles to get the greatest catch of his life. For eighty-four days, Santiago has set out to sea and he unfortunately returned empty-handed. In Santiago, the central character of The Old man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway has created a hero who personifies honor, courage, and perseverance. Santiago is the type of man that is willing to take chances in life no matter how hard it may be to accomplish what he wants. Since Santiago is…

had a love and a gift for writing, and immediately after graduation he became a journalist for the Kansas City Star, which majorly influenced his declarative and prose writing style as seen in his books. Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea proves that Hemingway is a man of deep faith by re-writing his life through use of characters and themes of the book.…

In the short passage by Dalton Trumbo he shows that the father and son have a trustworthy relationship. The author showed this mostly when the son said that Bill Harper was coming and they were going to go fishing. He also shows that they have a strong bond with each other which helps his father have a trustworthy bond with his son. Bill Harper had no fishing rod so the son told his dad and then his dad said that Bill Harper could use his sons rod and his son can use his rod. This shows that…

in the story, in order to give representation that once a person reaches a certain age, there's nothing left. The story is about two waiters, who are waiting for one old man to leave, before they can close the cafe. In the story are three main characters that the it revolves around, a young waiter, an older waiter, and some old man who recently attempted to kill himself. The characters are given little description, only small details are told about their lives, points that are only necessary to…