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The old man and the sea.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a
writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the
United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in
the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the
Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. After his return to the
United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and
was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution.
During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate
Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also
Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an
American ambulance officer's disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter.
Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the
background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls(1940). Among
his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and the
Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle
with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat.
The Old Man and the Sea is written in 1951 in Cuba and history published in 1952,
was one of the major novelists and short story writers of the twentieth century
Winner Nobel prize for literature in 1954 for his complete works.
He was one of the few writers who, with an arid and neglected style characterized
by crisp dialogue and emotional description, human nature could take form in many
of his characters.
The Old Man and Thes Sea.
This work deals with the determination of people to achieve their goals, one man's
struggle against adversity no matter how hard you have to do to get what one
intends.

Thus, the fisherman will not give up until you have done everything possible to be
able to sand out the big fish he had promised; but after 84 days its mission was
thwarted because the trapped animal I ate sharks.

Main Characters:
characters:
The Old Man( Santiago)
Boy - Manoln
Roger
Martin - owner
The coastguards
the waiter

The events happen in eighty-four days fruitless fishing, and end in the victory of
Santiago, after his feat.
The struggles of the work correspond to the real part of the twentieth century, many
other events are imaginary.

Plot:
Santiago was an old fisherman from a coastal town called Gulf Stream and from
some time that he could not catch a fish. With him Manolin, a boy who taught him
the old fishing, but the parents of this was spent on another boat because they did
not capture any fish. One day the old planned to go to a place in the sea where
there were many fish but could not fish because there were many swirls.
When he had reached deigned to wait until a fish sting, and stung a big one and
kept the fisherman for some time without rest or eat enough. Finally the fish died,
so they removed the half price.
About midnight, came the herd galanos sharks, old and had no weapons with
which to fight, so I ate what was left of the fish. Upon reaching the coast, the old
man was so tired that when he arrived at the cabin lay. The next morning on the
terrace some tourists asked the waiter what was hanging from the pot and the
answer: a shark.

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