MLA Research Paper

Introduction

Ernest Hemingway, one of the famous writers of the Northern-American literature was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899 and died in Ketchum, Idaho, in 1961. He was a Nobel Prize winner in 1954 and participated in the two world wars. He discovers a strange friendship almost a fraternity with animal fighting. In 1918, he participated in the World War, taking part in the Red Cross in Milan, he was injured and gets medal for military valor. He fell in love with her girlfriend “Agnes von Kurovsky”, who was a nurse. In the later stages of his life, he traveled to Constantinople, Greece, Italy, Spain and Canada. His love of adventure grows; in Switzerland and Austria and Spain. Many of his works would be the testimony of a vigorous and adventurous life of addiction to violence and contempt for death in war, in the arena, in the African jungle Cana, at sea, with fidelity and beauty present in his works. After the 2nd World War, he moved to Cuba. For 10 years he published nothing and his health became worse due to his fondness for alcohol. In 1952, his work OLD MAN AND THE SEA appeared in the journal L1FE, which revived his popularity, earned the appreciation of fishermen of Cuba, and won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in 1954. The end of his life is very sad; he suffered from nervous breakdown, delirium tremens, alienation, madness and made a suicide attempt. On July 2, 1961 he killed himself with one of his favorite guns (Waldmeir, 349-356).

Discussion and Analysis

The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel, which is written by American writer Ernest Hemingway in Cuba in 1951 and was published in 1952. This is the last major work of fiction produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous literary creations treats an old Cuban fisherman struggling with a huge swordfish off the coast of the Gulf Stream. Although the novel has been criticized disparately, its selection for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 reaffirms the importance of world literature and scope of the work in all creations of Hemingway and the fiction of the twentieth century. This work earned him the honor of the Pulitzer Prize twice in 1953 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 (www.asiaing.com, 2011).

"The Old Man and the Sea" (1952), appeared as the culmination and synthesis of the creative activity of the author and one of the most universally admired work. The book's plot is simple, with a dry language and short phrases like a newspaper story, and reconstructs the story of a Cuban fisherman, Santiago, who struggles with the fish and the ocean.

The novel features two main characters: James Santiago, a poor old fisherman, and Manolin, tender boy. The story takes place in Cuba in a small port near the Gulf Stream.

The structure that supports the dramatic action is based on a strong plot in which Santiago, the old, must fight the ...