THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA – ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Ernest Miller Hemingway

 born in Oak Park, United States on July 21, 1899

 in 1914 purchased a house outside Havana, Cuba, he would live there for the next
twenty years, fishing and writing
 American writer, author of novels and short stories, journalist and athlete.
 Ernest Hemingway served in multiple wars, providing him with many experiences he
would eventually turn into fiction.
 considered as leading representative of the Lost generation the writers who emerged
from this social generation and expressed their disillusionment with post-war socio-
economic constructs in their work. Having witnessed the horrors of the war shortly,
they struggled to continue with their normal lives in the post-war era. Another authors-
, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish,
 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the novella The Old Man and the Sea (1953) and the
Nobel Prize for Literature (1954).
 On the morning of July 2, 1961, in Katchum, Idaho took the hunting rifle and shot
himself

BOOKS

The old man and the sea(novel)

For Whom the Bell Tolls(a Spanish Civil War novel )

A Farewell to Arms(novel)

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

 a novel
 the story takes place over three days in the first half of the 20th century
 time and place- a Cuban village near Havana,mostly set on the sea in the Gulf stream
 characters- Santiago,Manolin
 major themes: Finding Honor in Death and Defeat, Overcoming Pride, Continuing to
Figh, tSantiago’s fight with the marlin
SIGNIFANCE OF THE AUTHOR

His writing is concise, straightforward, and realistic, a departure from other writers of his time.

Many have referred to this style as the iceberg theory, a simple style of writing that reveals minimal
detail on the surface, with deeper meaning hiding below.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY – SUMMARIZATION In the following slide, I summarize basic and

important information about Ernest Hemnigway