OLD MAN AND THE SEA AND CHARACTER TRAITS FOR BOTH BOOKS

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FULL TITLE: Old Man and the Sea

AUTHOR: Ernest Hemingway

TYPE OF WORK: novella

GENRE: fiction

LANGUAGE: English

TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN: 1951 in Cuba

NARRATOR: anonymous

POINT OF VIEW: narrators point of view and, at times, it give insight to Santiago's thoughts

TONE: matter-of-fact

TENSE: Past

SETTING: Late 1940s in a small fishing village near Havana, Cuba.

PROTAGONIST AND ANTAGONIST: Santiago (protagonist) Marlin, sharks, occasionally himself (antagonists)

MAJOR CONFLICT: For 3 days, Santiago struggles against the greatest fish of his long career

RISING ACTION:

CLIMAX":

RISING ACTION: when the marlin takes the bait

CLIMAX: the marlin is circling and Santiago is reeling him in

FALLING ACTION: sharks eating the carcass of the dead fish leaving the bones.

THEMES: man vs. nature, man vs. self, and man vs. man

SYMBOLS: carried the mass up the hill (Christ references)

FORESHADOWING: Sharks...more to come

He says to Manolin that he is going out farther than ever before (foreshadows his destruction)

Santiago: brave, courageous, determined, doesn't care about his welfare

Marlin: wise, noble, determined, strong (mentally)

Manolin: loving, caring, respectful, genorous

Quote:

"but man is not made for defeat," he said, "a man can be destroyed but not defeated." Hemingway 103

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