ERNEST HEMIGWAY

The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway



The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway

Introduction

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was a great writer with prestige, because of his innovative and creative work, in the great 20th century American fiction. Hemingway has described the tragic life of modern people in terms of how it busts and also the disintegration of modern man to break the old value of the real situation. It is a modern man that has become the material of his pursuit of self-indulgent, like a mechanical human predicament. Hemingway's prose style is very simple, unconventional and truly depicts the post-war era, death, violence, and his novels include the old value degradation (Banks, Russell, 2004). The theme of his novel ranges from the moral, social, psychological and moral degradation, terror, fear of futility and human existence, showing frustration, low morale and fall in the human spirit. He is a realist prose writer who portrayed the real quality of life in a true portrayal of the exclusive design canvas. It is about Hemingway's work that made ??the statement that the severity of reason is high, but there is a lack in the philosophy writing of Ernest Hemingway to explain his famous' iceberg theory the dignity of movement of an iceberg (Banks, Russell, 2004).

Discussion

Biography of Ernest Hemmingway in relation with the Old man and the Sea

Old man and the Sea

Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman has hooked no fish for eighty-four days. Manolin leaving his young friend, the only one who still believes in him, he decided to go to sea, far away on the Gulf Stream in search of decision that earned him back the respect of his peers. Far from shore, the line stretches last. The chance would it be back? Santiago realizes very quickly that this is an extraordinary decision. All night, he carried away in the hope of exhausting it. As we enter the second day, his opponent, going dark waters of the sea, is finally revealed to him. A giant swordfish, as has never seen nor heard, burst upon him in all its glory. The hopes and fears of the old man are confirmed. He knew that the battle would be long, he now knows that there will be only one winner. The fish immediately plunges as if had come for him to challenge (Hallengren, Anders, 2001).

The Old Man and the Sea is a book for all segments of life. Young, you retain the friendship of the boy for the old man, his struggle and his uncommon courage. Later, we will see the struggle of man against himself, against fate, against age, against her body. This fight is also a symbol of struggle for life and against death. Anxiety before the death of the fish today, but tomorrow. The sea, one feminine element of this story is the universe made the connection. It will unite man to the animal for food, the child and his smooth almost maternal. Both source and the mirror, the sea brings ...