The Old Man and the Sea

Courage is something seen throughout history, in novels, and in everyday situations. It is the ability to be strong in a tough position. In The Old Man and the Sea and The Red Badge of Courage, both Henry and Santiago have to face extremely difficult, unfamiliar situations. They handle them in different ways, but they both must face their challenges head on and with courage. There are many times throughout these novels where courage is used or shied away from. First, being courageous is…

When we read these two books, Walden and The Old Man and The Sea, we are able to realize the importance of dignity for Thoreau and Santiago, the main character of The Old Man and The Sea. I will consider what their dignity is and how they get dignity. Santiago and Thoreau seem to live for their dignity and they act to protect their dignity. Dignity becomes their core. If it be so, for Santiago, what is the dignity? It seems that his dignity is being a fisherman. He has a pride as a…

turn around, the roles change. We look after our parents when we are old enough to, and they are the people that need to be taken care of plus our love toward them, because old people need to feel the love, they are in such a delicate age that they might not admit that they need to be taken care of, because they show themselves as if they are…

of books that use it, and the ones that do not? In “The Old Man And The Sea” written by Ernest Hemingway, many types of figurative language are used throughout the book such as alliteration, similes, and personification, and all of them are used to describe the things that are taking place. Alliteration is used throughout the book when the old man; Santiago expresses his feelings about/ to the fish, “But man is not made for defeat...A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” The words destroyed…

stories and novels. A symbol is something that stands for something else. These two things are typically very unrelated and different, but the symbol usually holds a very important lesson. In the book Old Man and the Sea, there are many symbols. One symbol that stood out to me was the mast that the old man carries. This mast is very heavy and he can hardly carry it, but this mast is his life, his life of fishing. This mast symbolizes the sin and burdens we carry throughout our life, and it…

Ernest Hemingway is one of the most revered and studied American authors, famous the world over for his extensive bibliography of short stories and novels. However, Hemingway was a deeply troubled man, and many of his works are monuments to his struggles with depression. “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” is an ideal example of Hemingway’s nihilistic view of the world: it appears to be a mirror into his very soul. The theme of “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” is decidedly nihilistic: life, human ideas…

a night and the café is empty, except an old, deaf man and two waiters, talking about him. The young waiter wants him to leave the café so he could go home, but the old one is more understanding. When the old man „asks“ for another brandy, the young says that they are closing. When he is gone, the waiters resume their discussion. The young wants to hurry home to his wife, whereas the old waiter is one „of those who like to stay late in the café“. The old waiter continues thinking to himself…

Imagine yourself, in a small, little town not known by many people from other states; you and your friends enjoying a normal life in this little town, until one rainy day everyone’s home and your younger brother decides to go out in the rain and steer his paper-mache boat in the stream of water leading to the sewers. Seems innocent and safe right? He will be enjoying his rainy day and you will be inside doing your work knowing that he will return safely; but what if I tell you that he doesn’t…

There were many different types of conflict in the movie castaway there were all different types of conflict that Chuck main character faces. For the man to man conflict he had a few the biggest problem that he faced in this type of conflict is the conflict that he showed with kelly because he was always gone and didn't have very much time to spend with her and he didn't have enough time to spend with her…

he left at the bottom of the letter. So I called the number and this man picked up and I told him what happened when he told him to come over to his house. There was only one problem I was stuck on the boat with no way to get…