Review The Old Man and the Sea #5

Review The Old Man and the Sea

chapter 5

The boy arrives at Santiago's shack the morning after the old man returns, as he has each of the previous mornings. Manolin has already been to the harbor, and has seen Santiago's skiff and the 18 foot long marlin skeleton. When he sees the sleeping old man's hands the boy begins to cry. As he passes other fishermen to obtain
coffee for Santiago, he "did not care that they saw him crying". 

The old man finally wakes up with the boy by his side, and they talk briefly. Santiago learns that the coast guard and airplanes had been searching the ocean for him during his three day absence. In addition, the boy informs Santiago that they will fish together again, in spite of Manolin's parents' orders. When the old man protests that
he is not lucky anymore, the boy replies, "The hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me" . After Santiago reveals that he suffered "plenty," (126) Manolin leaves -- crying again -- to bring food, newspapers, and medicine for Santiago's hands. 

Down at the harbor several tourists see the marlin's long white spine "in the water among the empty beer cans and dead barracudas" When they ask a waiter what it is, the man replies, "Eshark," trying to explain what had happened. The tourists misunderstand, believing they are seeing a shark's skeleton, and remain oblivious to the three day saga that destroyed, but did not defeat, the old man. After his time of suffering Santiago finally rests, and the novel ends how it began, as "Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions

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REVIEW THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA #3-4

Review The Old Man and The Sea

Chapter 3

Just before sunrise on the second day, Santiago begins to pity the great fish towing him. The old man reflects, "He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old he is". A shared bond between the two is thus established, as Santiago has previously called himself "a strange old man" .In addition, the old man begins to call the fish his brother, and reveals that he loves and respects the fish. Throughout the rest of the novel Hemingway details and deepens the parallel between Santiago, who perseveres through the night to stay with his fish, and the fish, who swims resiliently against the inevitability of death. To comfort himself in the midst of his challenge, the old man thinks of the three key images repeated throughout the book: The Great DiMaggio, the lions on the African beach, and the boy, Manolin. Santiago continually wishes that the boy were with him, even though he knows that it is an impossibility; yet, just the thought of Manolin seems to give the old man strength and courage to endure. For a more in-depth look at these repeating images, see the Metaphors section. 

Chapter  4

Santiago is awoken by a strong pull from the line and hits his face with his fist. His left hand becomes numb and the fish jumps from the ocean and falls back in hard. His jumps pull the skiff quickly along. His hands are cut badly, but he anticipated this move by the marlin and does not allow the line to slip from his hands. He endures and ignores the pain. He waits for the marlin to start circling, and when the fish does, Santiago begins to see black spots before his eyes, the salty sweat from his forehead dripping into his eyes and cuts. He again prays to God for his help in surviving this battle against the marlin. He is very fatigued and the fish has dragged him far out into the Gulf. But he knows he will return: "A man is never lost at sea..."

Santiago tries to get close to the fish to harpoon and kill him. He will no longer be able to endure the turns of the circling fish and tells the fish that it is killing him:

"You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother. Come on and kill me. I do not care who kills who." 

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THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

Review : The Old Man and the Sea

Title: The Old Man and the Sea

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Pages: 127

Publisher 1952 (Charles Scibner's Sons)

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in .... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things.

-Ernest Hemingway in 1954-

The Old Man and the Sea, short heroic novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1952 and awarded the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It was his last major work of fiction. The story centres on an aging fisherman who engages in an epic battle to catch a giant marlin.

Synopsis

The central character is an old Cuban fisherman named Santiago, who has not caught a fish for 84 days. The family of his apprentice, Manolin, has forced the boy to leave the old fisherman, though Manolin continues to support him with food and bait. Santiago is a mentor to the boy, who cherishes the old man and the life lessons he imparts. Convinced that his luck must change, Santiago takes his skiff far out into the deep waters of the Gulf Stream, where he soon hooks a giant marlin. With all his great experience and strength, he struggles with the fish for three days, admiring its strength, dignity, and faithfulness to its identity; its destiny is as true as Santiago’s as a fisherman. He finally reels the marlin in and lashes it to his boat.

However, Santiago’s exhausting effort goes for naught. Sharks are drawn to the tethered marlin, and, although Santiago manages to kill a few, the sharks eat the fish, leaving behind only its skeleton. After returning to the harbour, the discouraged Santiago goes to his home to sleep. In the meantime, others see the skeleton tied to his boat and are amazed. A concerned Manolin is relieved to find Santiago alive, and the two agree to go fishing together.

CHAPTER 1

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone

eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him.

But after forty days without a fish the boy’s parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week. It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the sail that was furled around the mast. The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.

The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the

tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his

hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

“Santiago,” the boy said to him as they climbed the bank from where the skiff was

hauled up. “I could go with you again. We’ve made some money.”

The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him.

“No,” the old man said. “You’re with a lucky boat. Stay with them.”

“But remember how you went eighty-seven days without fish and then we caught big ones every day for three weeks.”

CHAPTER 2

On his way in to shore, sharks are attracted to the marlin's blood. Santiago kills a great mako shark with his harpoon, but he loses the weapon. He makes a new harpoon by strapping his knife to the end of an oar to help ward off the next line of sharks; five sharks are slain and many others are driven away. But the sharks keep coming, and by nightfall the sharks have almost devoured the marlin's entire carcass, leaving a skeleton consisting mostly of its backbone, its tail and its head. Santiago knows that he is defeated and tells the sharks of how they have killed his dreams. Upon reaching the shore before dawn on the next day, Santiago struggles to his shack, carrying the heavy mast on his shoulder, leaving the fish head and the bones on the shore. Once home, he slumps onto his bed and falls into a deep sleep.

A group of fishermen gather the next day around the boat where the fish's skeleton is still attached. One of the fishermen measures it to be 18 feet (5.5 m) from nose to tail. Pedrico is given the head of the fish, and the other fishermen tell Manolin to tell the old man how sorry they are. Tourists at the nearby café mistakenly take it for a shark. The boy, worried about the old man, cries upon finding him safe asleep and at his injured hands. Manolin brings him newspapers and coffee. When the old man wakes, they promise to fish together once again. Upon his return to sleep, Santiago dreams of his youth of lions on an African beach.

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Synopsis of the Success Principles

Title : The Success Pricnciples
Writer : Jack Canfield
Pages : 94
Synopsis

One of the most pervasive myths in the American culture today is that we

are entitled to a great life that somehow, somewhere, someone (certainly

not us) is responsible for filling our lives with continual happiness, exciting

career options, nurturing family time, and blissful personal relationships

simply because we exist. But the real truth and the one lesson this whole book is based on is that there is only one person responsible for the quality of the life you live.

That person is you. If you want to be successful, you have to take 100% responsibility for

everything that you experience in your life. This includes the level of your

achievements, the results you produce, the quality of your relationships,

the state of your health and physical fitness, your income, your debts, your

feelings everything!

If you want to create the life of your dreams, then you are going to have to

take 100% responsibility for your life as well. That means giving up all your

excuses, all your victim stories, all the reasons why you can’t and why you

haven’t up until now, and all your blaming of outside circumstances. You

have to give them all up forever.You have to take the position that you have always had the power to

make it different, to get it right, to produce the desired result. For whatever

reason ignorance, lack of awareness, fear, needing to be right, the need to

feel safe you chose not to exercise that power. Who knows why? It doesn’t

matter.  The past is the past all that matters now is that from this point

forward you choose that’s right, it’s a choice to act as if you are 100%

responsible for everything that does or doesn’t happen to you.

If something doesn’t turn out as planned, you will ask yourself, How did

I create that? What was I thinking? What were my beliefs? What did I say or not say?

What did I do or not do to create that result? How did I get the other person to act that

way? What do I need to do differently next time to get the result I want?

 In order to complain about something or someone, you have to believe that something better

exists. You have to have a reference point of something you prefer that you

are not willing to take responsibility for creating. Let’s look at that more

closely. If you didn’t believe there was something better possible more money,

a bigger house, a more fulfilling job, more fun, a more loving partner you

couldn’t complain. So you have this image of something better and you

know you would prefer it, but you are unwilling to take the risks required

to create it. Complaining is an ineffective response to an event that does not

produce a better outcome.

change but you have chosen not to. You can get a better job, find a more

As I stated before, complaining means you have a reference point for

something better that you would prefer but that you are unwilling to take

the risk of creating. Either accept that you are making the choice to stay

where you are, take responsibility for your choice, and stop complaining . . .

or  take the risk of doing something new and different to create your life

exactly the way you want it.

To be powerful, you need to take the position that you create or allow

everything that happens to you. By create, I mean that you directly cause

something to happen by your actions or inactions. If you walk up to a man

in a bar who is bigger than you and has obviously been drinking for a long time, and say to him, “You are really ugly and stupid,” and he jumps off the

bar stool, hits you in the jaw, and you end up in the hospital you created

that.

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