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A 3 page paper on Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea.” No additional sources cited.
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the best work that Hemingway ever wrote. It is not a story about the "Lost Generation" for which Hemingway was known for writing, but rather a relatively simple story of
one old man and the sea, a story of a man who went fishing and came back alive. The story is about
this old man, "an old man who fished alone" (Hemingway 9). He has not had a great deal of luck fishing lately and this worries him to some degree because
in his village a man is only really considered worthy if he can catch fish and sustain the community. He sets out alone to fish and eventually catches a huge
marlin. It causes him a great deal of grief in the struggle but he finally wins. As he makes his way home, however, nature takes it toll and the fish
is ultimately eaten down to a skeleton by the time he returns home to the village. But, he is seen as lucky once more, even if the fish is only
bones, because it is obvious that the old man truly did catch a wondrous fish. There are many possibilities when speaking of the theme of this book, and this
writer recalls reading once that Hemingway said it really was nothing more than a book about an old man and the sea, nothing more. But, when we read this story
we can see, perhaps most strongly, the power of nature and the individual. In this story the old man is struggling against nature. He is old and so is also
challenging himself and his skills as an old man. If he fails he will perhaps feel he is useless for the remainder of his days and so he must find
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