My Presentation of Teacher Day and about The Old Man And The Sea.

1. The Old Man And The Sea
By- Ernest Hemingway
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Prepared By-
Vanita Baldaniya

2. The Old Man And The Sea

3. Acquaintance of The Old Man and The Sea
Ernest Hemingway About Novel
• Author:
Ernest Hemingway
• Year Of Publication:
1952
• Type of Work: Novel
• Age:
The making of
American Literature

4. The Old Man And The Sea: Summary
• We’d also like to note that the Old man has a
name Santiago, as does the young boy Manolin,
but the text always refers to them as “The Old
Man” and “The Boy”.
• This Old man goes to sleep dreaming of the lions
he used to see back in the day in Africa.
• He wakes sunrise and does what fishermen do
get in his boat and head out to fish.

5. • Not too long after that, the Old man hooks a
really, really, ridiculously big fish. A Marlin to
be more exact.
• An earth-shattering struggle of mythical
proportion follows.
• The Old man goes to sleep and dreams of the
same lions of his youth- we like to imagine it’s
something similar to The Lion King.

6. The Old Man And The Sea
How it all Goes Down
• The story begins, as you might expect, with an old
man.
• He is a fisherman who has not caught a fish in 84
days.
• He is also not eating very much.
• The two factors are related.

7. • We also meet a boy who is dear friends with
the old man.
• The Old Man taught him to fish when he was
young, and the boy brings the Old Man food.

8. Symbols in the novella
• The Lion: Youth, freedom, strength
• The Marlin: Strength and durability, putting up such
struggle. 18 feet long.
• The Sea: universe and Santiago's isolation in the
universe. Challenge and endless “NATURE”.
• The Old man: represent the colour of Sea, Old man,
wrinkled skin, level of suffering by comic process.

9. Menolin
• Menolin: symbol of Hope,
the boy to fish and the boy
loved him.
• Joe Dimaggio: Santiago see
Joe Dimaggio as an equal
heroic character,
Indomitable will of the
human spirit.
• Other symbol : The Skiff,
The Mast, The Harpoon,

10. Some point about mirror &contrast :
• “A mirror or contrast image of Hemingway’s
biography.”
• “Everyday is new day”
• “Hope” is chief thing.
• “Struggle is ultimately Futile” (contrast)
• Pride & ambition v/s fate & chance.
• Hemingway’s description towards nature:Life
giver & life taker.

11. Existentialism in the Novel
• Is a philosophy which stresses the importance
of human experience, and says that everyone
is responsible for the result of their own
action.
• Hemingway is existentially empty and
directionless without family and without
destention.

12. Characteristic of Old man and The Sea
• Man and Struggle
• Man of ‘heroic quality’
• Man of isolation
• Turning with Nature.
• Man of pride

13. Themes of Novella
• Pride
• Friendship
• Defeat and Death
• Respect and Reputation
• Hunger
• Perseverance
• Isolation
• The Man and the Natural world.

14. Other Themes:
• Manhood
• Heroism
• Solidarity
• Love
• Feeling and Guilt
• The Undefeated

15. Narrator point of view:
• The point of view is rather self-explanatory,
some disembodied voice tell us what’s up and
head the old man’s thoughts to he thoughts to
the boy with ease.
• Third person narrator (omniscient)

16. Old Man
Freedom
Power
Passion

17. Say something Santiago
• I respect you & Love you,
but i will kill you because
the day ends. Kill me fish,
Kill me , you have a right, I
don’t care who kill whom?
• “Fish ,I’ll stay with you until
I ded”- Santiago