The old man and The sea by Hemingway

The old man and The sea by Hemingway

%.... About poet

“Every man's life ends the same way.

 It is only the details of how he lived 

and how he died that distinguish 

one man from another.”

 American writer -Ernest Hemingway was born in oak park  Illinois , on July,21 1899. We could probably say that an unhappy love  affair and his unhappy experiences in war were motivating factor which made him a great writer.Hemingway wrote  many books. In 1952,after years of works, he brought out 'the old man and the sea 'a tale of  struggle of a single, old fisherman against the power of fate and ocean. It was the story he had been trying to write all his life and brought him to the Pulitze prize in 1953.

%...The old man and The sea.

 The Old man and The Sea is the story of a battle Between an old experienced Cuben fisherman and a large Marlin. The novel opens with the explanation that fisherman, who is named Santiago, has gone eighty-four days without catching a fish. Santiago is considered Salao, the worst for of unlicky. In fact, he is so unlucky that his young friend, manolin has been forbidden by his parents to sail with Old Man and been ordered to fish with more successful fishermen.

The boy visits santiago's shack each night, hauling backhis fishing gear, getting him food and discussing American baseball especially his player Di Maggio, Santiago tells Manolin that on the next day, he will sail far out into the Gulf to fish, confident that his unlucky streak is near its end. Thus, Santiago sets out alone, taking his skiff far onto the Gulf. He sets his lines and by noon of the first day, a big fish that surely is a arlin takes his bait.