Ernest Hemingway was born on 21 July 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. He Was the second of six children and his family was strict and very religious. At school, he was good at English and wrote for the school newspaper. He graduated in 1917, but he didn't go to college. He went to Kansas City and worked as a journalist for the Star newspaper.
Hemingway was fascinated by war. He had wanted to become a soldier, but couldn't because he had poor eyesight.
Many of his books were about war.
Hemingway married four times. He suffered from depression and in 1928 his father committed suicide.
In 1954, he survived two planes crashes. In October of the same year he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, but he was too ill to receive it in person.
His final years were taken up with health problems and alcohol. He began to lose his memory and he couldn't write any more. On Sunday, 2 July 1961, Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun, just as his father had done before him.
I chose the Hemingway's book called " The Old Man and the Sea ", which was published in 1952, was a much-needed vindication. The novella won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it likely cinched the Nobel Prize for Hemingway in 1954, as it was cited for particular recognition by the Nobel Academy. It was the last novel published in his lifetime.Although the novella helped to regenerate Hemingway’s wilting career, it has since been met by divided critical opinion.
Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea is the simple story of an old Cuban fisherman who undergoes the most difficult struggle of his life.
The novel is filled not only with drama but with the parable of one man's perseverance through the hardest of times.
Th e book shows the courage necessary to get through the triumphs and tragedies that life represented by the sea presents.
Alone on the sea, Santiago (the old man) continuously struggles to find hope in several seemingly hopeless situations. . After hooking the great marlin Santiago realizes he is unable to quickly kill the fish. Yet, throughout the test of endurance between man and fish the old man begins to recognize a bond between he and the marlin, repeatedly referring to it as his brother;
he elaborates,
"Now we are joined together and have been since noon. And no one to help either one of us" . When the sharks mutilate the dead marlin hanging off the side of the skiff as Santiago struggles to sail home, the old man fights them off as if they were attacking him.
Only when the marlin's carcass has been entirely eaten away does Santiago give up, knowing he "was beaten now finally and without remedy" .
Well I didn't like this novel because I didn't understand it, maybe because I read it very fast and I didn't matter undertand about what it was.
The End
By Ely Tello
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Ernest Hemingway was born on 21 July 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. He Was the second of six children and his family was strict and very religious. At school, he was good at English and wrote for the school newspaper. He graduated in 1917, but he didn't go to college. He went to Kansas City and worked as a journalist for the Star newspaper.
Hemingway was fascinated by war. He had wanted to become a soldier, but couldn't because he had poor eyesight.
Many of his books were about war.
Hemingway GOT married four times. He suffered from depression and in 1928 his father committed suicide.
In 1954, he survived two plane° crashes. In October of the same year he was awarded WITH the Nobel Prize for literature, but he was too ill to receive it in person.
His final years were taken up with health problems and alcohol. He began to lose his memory and he couldn't write any more. On Sunday, 2 July 1961, Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun, just as his father had done before him.
I chose ° Hemingway's book called " |||The Old Man and the Sea ", which was published in 1952, was a much-needed vindication. The novella won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it likely cinched the Nobel Prize for Hemingway in 1954, as it was cited for particular recognition by the Nobel Academy. It was the last novel published in his lifetime.Although the novella helped to regenerate Hemingway’s wilting career, it has since been met by divided critical opinion.||| TEXTUAL FROM http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/oldman/context.html
Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea is the simple story of an old Cuban fisherman who undergoes the most difficult struggle of his life.
The novel is filled not only with drama but with the parable of one man's perseverance through the hardest of times.
The book shows the courage necessary to get through the triumphs and tragedies that life represented by the sea presents.
Alone on the sea, Santiago (the old man) continuously struggles to find hope in several seemingly hopeless situations. . After hooking the great marlin Santiago realizes he is unable to quickly kill the fish. Yet, throughout the test of endurance between man and fish the old man begins to recognize a bond between he and the marlin, repeatedly referring to it as his brother;he elaborates,
"Now we are joined together and have been since noon. And no one to help either one of us" . When the sharks mutilate the dead marlin hanging off the side of the skiff as Santiago struggles to sail home, the old man fights them off as if they were attacking him.
Only when the marlin's carcass has been entirely eaten away does Santiago give up, knowing he "was beaten now finally and without remedy" .
Well I didn't like this novel because I didn't understand it, maybe because I read it very fast and I didn't matter understand about what it was.
The End
By Ely Tello
VERY WELL DONE, ALMOST NO MISTAKES AT ALL.
KEEP ON THE GOOD WORK
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