Paper Topic:
The Old Man and The Sea
The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea is a novella written by Ernest Hemingway in 1952 . It was reprinted as a back by Scribner , a division of Simon and Schuster , in 1995 . The main character is the old man by the name of Santiago . He is a Cuban fisherman who is old and bent but still strong His life has been spent in and on the sea . He is described as brown and wrinkled and scarred from his battles with the sea . He has once been a very
good fisherman and he made a lot of money . The story is told from his viewpoint . Manolin is a boy who is only in the story at the beginning and the very end . He is important to the story because the way he loves the old man and takes care of him even when he is made to leave the old man 's fishing boat shows the reader that the old man has value as a person (15 . He sees that the old man gets something to eat and he sees that the old man is warm and taken care of as well as a boy can do such things for an old man (18 . The two characters are like the opposite ends of a magnet , one being the north pole and one being the south . The old man is nearing the end of his life and the boy is just beginning his . The old man has much to teach the boy , and the boy has much to learn . In this way life continues from one generation to another , and knowledge is passed down to the next generation that comes along
The setting of the story is first the island of Cuba in the middle of the 20th century . The Cubans in the story , including the old man , make a living from the sea . The old man , the reader knows , has a boy helping him to fish . At one time the old man was young and made a good living As the story begins those days are behind him and he is a joke in the village where he lives . He has not caught a fish in eighty-four days The boy 's father has made the boy leave the old man and go to work on a boat run by a younger and supposedly better fisherman (9 , The boy is needed to bring food and money into the family so he has to leave the old man and do as his father tells him
Santiago goes out on his small boat beyond the calm waters of the Cuban coast alone . He sails his tiny boat into the gulf stream where he knows the water is deeper and the bigger fish live . He seems at this point to be on a mission . He acts like he must catch a fish or die trying to do it . He gives the reader the idea that he does not much care...
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