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Continue to ChatREVIEWS: " The Old man & The Sea" / Ernest Hemingway It’s one of the classics from American literature. It fetched him Nobel and Pulitzer and took his works to new heights. Story: Santiago, an old fisherman at a fishing hamlet on the Cuban coast had been struck by ‘sala, the worst form of luck, haven't had a single catch in 84 days in a row and his young apprentice had to abandon him. But he still ventures into the sea the next day and goes deep into the blues and had to fight for a night and day to harpoon out a large marlin and ties it to the side of his skiff. Unfortunately, the sharks surround him — feast his labour, his brother(fish). Later the boy wakes up in his hut, exclaiming the villagers are awestruck by his catch and quarrelling for its head — tired old-man goes to sleep, to dream about the lions of the African beach. Thirdeye: It’s ostensibly a very simple story, but is a typical example of the author’s iceberg theory: as only one eighth is visible the writer must leave the remaining for the reader to interpret and discover. For me it was ocean geography: Gulf stream, Florida strait, sea & land breeze, bio-luminance and it explores the rich fauna, flying fish, cod, dolphins, sea-birds etc. Moreover, it’s a story about Universal brotherhood, Oldman respects & bonds with nature and the globe. " The old man and the sea" is a short novel by Hemingway, published in 1952 and awarded the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. I have already told that the story depicts a fisherman, Santiago's untiring efforts who engaged in a battle with the great fish marlin, to drag him up. The story begins with this old man who fished alone in a skiff, who had gone eighty-four days without catching a fish and the narrator illustrate this as salao, which is the worst form of luck. Throughout the reading, we can observe the life of a fisherman, the relation between a fish and him, how he hooked the fish, tasks related to fishing and his ardent connection with the boy ( his apprentice ). If you read this book, you can gain a vast knowledge of fish, boats and I would like to refer to this book as oceanography. The great determination and optimism of an old man, who endures a lot of pain and difficulties throughout his life are o be emphasized. In the amid a portion of this book, perhaps you could feel tedious as it deals with the interpretation of the way of fishing, but at the disclosure part, it's very astonishing. I would like to quote some lines that hit my heart.."He had taken down the picture of his dead wife because it made him feel lonely & it now lay on the shelf underneath his clean shirt.” To me this symbolises her purity to him & also his love."You can kill a man but u can't defeat him ".This shows his courage and determination towards the hurdles he had faced. This is a best written short novel and no page of this beautiful work could have been done better or differently, and to be read and stored in the portmanteau of lifetime belongings, only to be extracted and read again during difficult times…. https://kalpataru.home.blog/2021/07/16/the-old-man-the-seaby-ernest-hemingwayits-one-of-the-classic-from-american-literature-it-fetched-him-nobel-and-pulitzer-and-took-his-works-to-new-heights-story-santiago-an-old-fisher/