Struggle of the fishermen in the old man and the sea👴
Name - Jignesh K. Panchasara
Paper - Literature of the Neo classical period
Roll No- 9
Enrollment no-3069206420200013
Email id-jigneshpanchasara5758@gmail.com
Batch- MA 2020-2022
Submitted to - S.B Gardi Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University.
The old man and the sea
Ernest Hemingway
Introduction👇
Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution.
During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms(1929), the study of an American ambulance officer’s disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman’s journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat.
Hemingway – himself a great sportsman – liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters – tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and faith. His straightforward prose, his spare dialogue, and his predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his short stories, some of which are collected in Men Without Women (1927) and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Hemingway died in Idaho in 1961.
The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cayo Blanco (Cuba), and published in 1952.It was the last major work of fiction written by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba. In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.
The Old Man and the Sea is the story of an epic struggle between an old, seasoned fisherman and the greatest catch of his life. For eighty-four days, Santiago, an aged Cuban fisherman, has set out to sea and returned empty-handed. So conspicuously unlucky is he that the parents of his young, devoted apprentice and friend, Manolin, have forced the boy to leave the old man in order to fish in a more prosperous boat. Nevertheless, the boy continues to care for the old man upon his return each night. He helps the old man tote his gear to his ramshackle hut, secures food for him, and discusses the latest developments in American baseball, especially the trials of the old man’s hero, Joe DiMaggio. Santiago is confident that his unproductive streak will soon come to an end, and he resolves to sail out farther than usual the following day.
On the eighty-fifth day of his unlucky streak, Santiago does as promised, sailing his skiff far beyond the island’s shallow coastal waters and venturing into the Gulf Stream. He prepares his lines and drops them. At noon, a big fish, which he knows is a marlin, takes the bait that Santiago has placed one hundred fathoms deep in the waters. The old man expertly hooks the fish, but he cannot pull it in. Instead, the fish begins to pull the boat. The next morning, a crowd of amazed fishermen gathers around the skeletal carcass of the fish, which is still lashed to the boat. Knowing nothing of the old man’s struggle, tourists at a nearby café observe the remains of the giant marlin and mistake it for a shark. Manolin, who has been worried sick over the old man’s absence, is moved to tears when he finds Santiago safe in his bed. The boy fetches the old man some coffee and the daily papers with the baseball scores, and watches him sleep. When the old man wakes, the two agree to fish as partners once more. The old man returns to sleep and dreams his usual dream of lions at play on the beaches of Africa.
Santiago as a Fighter man in The old man and the sea👴
Here, we are looking to our main hero of the Novel. He is doing a Struggle a lot in the sea. He wants to kill the big fish but he is now a old man , so he has no more strength to kill the marlin fish, but he can do that work to kill the fish. But when he was killing to fish at that time he did the more struggle for kill the fish. so we can say that Santiago is a fighter man.
Although, both the marlin and the old man are part of the natural order of life, locked in the struggle between predator and prey, perseverance distinguishes the two. To triumph in his struggle against the marlin, the old man must dig deep within himself to overcome not only the marlin's strength but his own limitations: age, exhaustion, pain, hunger, and thirst. The battle between the two is not merely the attempt of a fisherman trying to reel in his catch and go home. This particular marlin brings out the best in Santiago by pushing him to his limits. The battle becomes a symbol of the constant struggle of an individual for survival within nature, a struggle won only by one's willingness to go beyond what seems humanly possible.
The strength of fighter man is a Manolin. who always give Inspiration to Santiago that the once upon time we will catch big fish so after 84 days passes and Santiago comes with the skeleton. so the people of Cuba have never see this type of fish in his world. Manolin, the young boy who loves, admires, and cares for the old man, symbolizes hope and the future. He is Santiago's only friend and companion; his help, literally, sustains the old man. Manolin is there every night helping pack up Santiago's gear and providing food to make sure the old man won't starve. Furthermore, he is the old man's apprentice. Although at the beginning of the story he fishes on another boat, Manolin has learned everything he knows from Santiago. Promising to fix the battered skiff and to return to fishing with the old man, Manolin offers the help the old man needs to keep going. Manolin believes in the old man and therefore will carry on his legacy and bear witness to his achievement.
**A Man Can Be Destroyed But Not Defeated**💪
The idea that man can be destroyed but not defeated from The Old Man and the Sea could be explained or paraphrased as:
- A man can be killed, but as long as he doesn't quit he can't really be defeated.
Santiago goes fishing day after day even though he is on a "losing streak," as we might say today. He hasn't caught a fish for a very long time. He survives only because the boy brings him bits of food. But he doesn't quit. He continues to fish everyday and continues to try. His "spirit" is not broken. M0ore specifically, Santiago hooks the marlin and does terrible battle with it. He is an old man but he uses his strength and wits to defeat the fish, at the cost of great physical suffering. Again, he doesn't quit. Even after he defeats the marlin and then must fight the sharks, he continues the battle. His spirit remains strong. He doesn't get the fish home in the kind of shape he needed to earn money for it--he fails, technically. But a man who keeps fighting is not a failure. This is Hemingway's modern view on the warrior. Hemingway is too modern and worldly and intelligent to pull the old cliche of the warrior giving it all he can and being unrealistically victorious. The "good" or "right" or "just" doesn't always win. The knight in shining armor doesn't always carry the day. But Santiago can fight, nevertheless. This makes him noble, like the marlin. And it makes him undefeated.
Conclusion 👇 we have seen the The old fisher man is doing more struggle in the sea for catch any fish. But the Cuba's people were thinking that he is unlucky man. he will never catch any fish in his time, but old man is confident that the he will catch fish and after he got success in his deserve. He got Victory in Cuba village.
Reference
"Book Summary". Cliffsnotes.Com, 2021, https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/o/the-old-man-and-the-sea/book-summary.
2021, https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/man-can-be-destroyed-but-not-defeated-how-is-this-245059. Accessed 14 Feb 2021.
"The Old Man And The Sea By Ernest Hemingway Plot Summary | Litcharts". Litcharts, 2021, https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-old-man-and-the-sea/summary.
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