“The old man and the sea”

by Ernest Hemingway

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2018-11-27
 Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
• He was born in Oak Park, Illinois.
• An American journalist, novelist and short-story
writer.
• One of the most famous representatives of lost
generation.
• In all poems reflects the theme of death loss.
• All poems shows off his own hobbies, life
experience and achievements.
 Facts about the book
• Published in 1952 and awarded the 1953
Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
• It was his last major work of fiction.
• This book has been awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature.
• The poem was at first published in the “Life”
magazine, which was sold more than 5 millions
in two days.
 Plot summary

                                  

Ernest Hemingway and Henry Strater with the remaining 500 lbs of an
estimated 1000 lb marlin that was half-eaten by sharks before it could be
landed in the Bahamas in 1935.
 Characters

• Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman (brave,

determined, loving, strong physically and
mentally).
• His apprentice, young boy Manolin (caring,
curious, clever)
 Main idea
• “No good book has ever been written that has in
it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ...
I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real
sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made
them good and true enough they would mean
many things”
 Quotes
• “It is good that we do not have to try to kill the
sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live
on the sea and kill our true brothers.”
• “But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A
man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
• “Let him think that I am more man than I am
and I will be so.”
• “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one
longer day?”
Thanks for attention!