The meaning of the story “The Old Man and the Sea” is not to give up, to fight to the last, to believe in the best. The main character of the story is the fisherman Santiago. The life of the character is bitter, hopeless, deprived of livelihood in old age, lost his wife, but did not bend under the weight of the blows of fate. He still has “cheerful eyes”, powerful shoulders, he is “an extraordinary old man.” He respects nature: birds, fish, elements, he knows that he is alone, but does not feel like that when he is in the sea. The meaning of the work “The Old Man and the Sea” Marlin attracts not only the old man. The smell of blood attracts flocks of sharks, each time hitting the boat, predators deprive the fish of one piece of meat, the hero loses his prey. Santiago kills sharks, but new ones appear. The fish becomes a skeleton. With this, the fisherman returns home. The rest are amazed at what they saw, even the waiter cannot say anything intelligible about what happened at night. Only the boy reassures his older comrade, promising not to leave him alone, to fish with him. What is The Old Man and the Sea about?Ĩ4 days of bad luck for the elderly fisherman Santiago, he cannot catch anything. In his youth, he was a sailor, went to the distant shores of Africa, now he is in poverty. The boy, who is a fisherman’s apprentice, was forced to leave the unlucky old man. (father forbade). Santiago made absolutely nothing: the boat leaves much to be desired, the nets had to be sold, the fishing rods were replaced with thin rods. The fisherman does not lose optimism, he believes that he will be able to catch a big catch. It just takes skill. This is one of the final works published during the life of the writer. It brought fame, two awards to Hemingway. According to the author, “The Old Man and the Sea” was the best prose. The world got acquainted with the story of an old man who fought the sea in a short story “On the blue water. Gulfstrial Letter, printed in Esquire.
Explanation of the ending of The Old Man and the SeaĮrnest Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea in the Bahamas in Bimini. The year of publication was 1952.
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