CHARACTERS
CONFLICTS
1- The
old man had gone eighty-four days without taking a fish.
2- After
one week the old man has gone into Ocean, he hadn’t fish nothing.
3- In
spite of the old man had not still fished nothing, he did not surrender in his
attempt to fish something; his fishing rod trembled and noticed him that
something had bitten the bait which had been hooked and it seemed to fail in
its intent to catch some fishes.
4- The
fishing rod had hooked a huge fish, the hugest that the old man had ever seen
in his life, thereof, he wanted to fish it, there had no longer other option, someone
must die; the huge fish or the old man.
5- After
three days, it had been decided, the death’s fish had got in. Now, due to it
had left a blood trail, it was obvious that sharks would come towards it to
devour it.
6- Little
by Little the sharks’ onslaughtes were more often, and both, the fish in its
glaring incapacity to fend by itself and the old man who was enclosed into a
little skiff as he faced the imminent Ocean’s hazards; they were bound to be
engorged by them.
7- The
old man had strained a lot to fish such animal, nevertheless, it seemed that
the effort had lost all its sense when the brave old man arrived to the little
harbour with the huge fish skinned.
REVIEW
What is the real life sense whether
we do not read as many books as we can? That we thought when we had the chance
to choose a book to read within a large list.
Evidently, there are several
wonderful books which we could have selected to read, however, we think that we
made the best choice; but Why? Which was the main reason to choose “The Old Man
and the Sea” and not others?
Well, at first sight when we see
the title, it created in our thinking a big intrigue because it put into our
imagination many guesses about what could be the relation or bond between an
old man and the sea.
Effectively, when we immersed
into book’s content, it was a truly wonderful experience because it shows the
one old fisherman’s braveness who decides to go into the powerful sea to fish
something; anyone could think that the old man would not have any chance to
achieve the objective to hook at least a little fish after he had gone
eighty-four days without trap one because he would surely die as a prisoner of
his loneliness or he would surrender and would rather come back his home, well,
nor first neither second.
During his crossing, he will
experience lots of things, and just right there, it will be the moment where
you as read the book, you will charm with the old man’s story as we did it.
Then, do not lose the great
opportunity to submerge into the fantastic story of a courageous old fisherman
who dares to face the sea’s hazards without thinking about the consequences. We
are sure that it will be a marvelous chance to you learn many things through a
old fisherman’s feat.
SECOND PART
Ernest Miller Hemingway
(July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations.
definition of braveness:
having or displaying courage, resolution, or daring; not cowardly or timid
What braveness contributes to the human being’s life?
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It provides the possibility to achieve easier
the different goals that have been planned beforehand.
- It creates people who never give up, in spite of
the whole difficulties that life brings within itself.
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Always the braveness people will have winning
mentality.
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it generates trust and determination in the
moment of taking important decisions.
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It eulogizes the normal qualities to the people
and become them in notable people that could contribute something different to
the society.
BRAVENESS
1. I wonder why he jumped, the old man
thought. He jumped almost as though to show me how big he was. I know now,
anyway, he thought. I wish I could show him what sort of man I am. But then he
would see the cramped hand. Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be
so. I wish I was the fish, he thought, with everything he has against only my
will and my intelligence. He settled comfortably against the wood and took his
suffering as it came
2. I’ll kill him though,” he said.
“In all his greatness and his glory.” Although it is unjust, he thought. But I
will show him what a man can do and what a man endures.
3. “How
do you feel, fish?” he asked aloud. “I feel good and my left hand is better and
I have food for a night and a day. Pull the boat, fish.” He did not truly feel
good because the pain from the cord across his back had almost passed pain and
gone into a dullness that he mistrusted. But I have had worse things than that,
he thought. My hand is only cut a little and the cramp is gone from the other.
4. Then
he jumped again and again and the boat was going fast although line was still
racing out and the old man was raising the strain to breaking point and raising
it to breaking point again and again. He had been pulled down tight onto the
bow and his face was in the cut slice of dolphin and he could not move. This is
what we waited for, he thought. So now let us take it. Make him pay for the
line, he thought. Make him pay for it.
5. After
he judged that his right hand had been in the water long enough he took it out
and looked at it. “It is not bad,” he said. “And pain does not matter to a
man.”
6. “I
could not fail myself and die on a fish like this,” he said. “Now that I have
him coming so beautifully, God help me endure.
7. Come
on and kill me. I do not care who kills who.
8. I wish it had been a dream now and that I had never hooked the fish and was alone in bed on the newspapers. “But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
