Essay

Group Essay- The Old Man and the Sea.
1. Old Man as a religious figure.
a. “He started to climb again and at the top he fell and lay for some time with the mast across his shoulder. Hetried to get up. But it was too difficult and he sat there with the mast on his shoulder and looked at the road” (Page 121)
1. Symbols
a. Wind
a. Bed
a. Harbour
a. Breezea. Fish—Obstacle he overcame.
i. Great Tail
i. Backbone
1. Tone and Diction
a. Tone
i. Relief—to be safe and home
i. Exhaustion – of his hardwork
a. Diction
i. “Depth of his tiredness”
i. “He had to sit down five times before he reached his shack”
i. “When he sailed into the little harbour the lightsof the Terrace were out and knew everyone was in bed”
i. “It was quiet in the harbour”
i. “Bed will be great thing”
i. “It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. Inever knew how easy it was”
* Paragraph 1: Intro
* The Old Man and the Sea is a novella by Ernest Hemingway, written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It was the last major work offiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the middleof the Caribbean. At this moment of the novel the old man (Santiago), is going back home after months of being clashing against the ocean and their components. In the passage it can be found lots ofsymbols as the fish, which as the passage is related in a great way with Christianity and Christ itself. The tone in the passage is a mixture between relief and exhaustion.
* Paragraph 2: Tone* Tone is an extremely important aspect when analyzing a passage. The tone provides the reader the exact emotion that the narrator wants to transfer. With this emotion the reader is able to...