The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Baca’s essay shows the reader how he grew as a person. Even though he had many obstacles his intention was to become a better person. The first steps he took towards growing as a person was by listening to someone read to him. Before long he was able to start reading books on his own. After succeeding in learning how to read, he accomplished his biggest goal yet, Baca was able to write. Thus, causing him to feel a sense of freedom and no longer anxious.

The period between World War I and World War II was a very turbulent time in America. Ernest Hemingway most represented this period with his unrestrained lifestyle. This lifestyle brought him many successes, but it eventually destroyed him in the end. His stories are read in classrooms across America, but his semi-autobiographical writings are horrible role models for the students who read them. Hemingway’s lifestyle greatly influenced his writings in many ways.

Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises has his male characters struggling with what it means to be a man in the post-war world. With this struggle one the major themes in the novel emits, masculine identity. Many of these “Lost Generation” men returned from that war in dissatisfaction with their life, the main characters of Hemingway’s novel are found among them. His main characters find themselves drifting, roaming around France and Spain, at a loss for something meaningful in their lives. The characters relate to each other in completely shallow ways, often ambiguously saying one thing, while meaning another. The Sun Also Rises first person narration offers few clues to the real meaning of his characters’ interactions with each other. The

The Old Man and the Sea was written by Ernest Hemingway and published in 1952. This is a captivating fiction story about a man named Santiago and his adventure when one day, he goes on a fishing journey to catch the big one. However, this adventure quickly becomes one of pain and suffering when things take a turn for the worse.

Hemingway's writing technique is an interesting way of writing. His “Iceberg Theory” is influential to writers today. His theory is composed up of 10% conscious mind and 90% of only subconscious mind. He was an authentic writer. His writing is relatable and believable because of the silences he would use and short sentences. Hemingway’s writing was is close to everyday encounters and situations. He is widely known for his writing and stories. He gave a new flavor to writing and touched people's hearts in a personal way. Because of his special writing, his structured way of writing will live out for generations to come.

When I was a little girl at early of my age, I spent a wonderful time with my grandma near a sea in my hometown during the last two months of her life. That was the first time we saw the smile back to her face since we got the news that she got intestine cancer. Back to that time I was deeply impressed by how being around the sea was capable to change people’s emotion in such a positive way. The poet, Pablo Neruda, in his poem “The Sea” illustrates how the sea teaches a trapped man a lesson on how to be released from struggling to find freedom and happiness. The three crucial poem-writing elements, sound, structure, and figurative language make the power of sea more vivid just like a picture we could see and have physical feelings about. And when we try to get a deeper understanding of the poem, it is the sound that we hear first.

Ernest Hemingway is one of the most legendary and influential writers of the 20th century. His many experiences in war and living in other countries shaped his ideas, opinions, and writing style. He also had a background in journalism that was considered the basis of his writing style. Hemingway is important to American literature because of his writing style and his perspective of war.

In the biography “Ernest Hemingway-Biographical” (1969), Horst Frenz asserts that Ernest Hemingway was an influential writer who left behind a legacy of classic novels. Frenz develops his ideas by describing Hemingway’s unique childhood, famous array of novels (“The Old Man and the Sea”) , and concludes by discussing Hemingway’s distinctive writing style (“spare dialogue”). Using specific details and personal stories, he explains Hemingway’s notable contributions to society in order to portray Hemingway as an American hero who has influenced countless people. Frenz’s audience includes those who have read Hemingway’s works and those who seek more information about him, as he describes Hemingway’s life in an informative tone.

Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, a very conservative upper-middle-class suburb of Chicago. At the age of 19, Hemingway served as a volunteer ambulance driver for the Italian Red Cross in World War I. During his time in Europe Hemingway suffered from a serious injury caused by an exploding mortar shell, and after returning home his parents didn’t realize the psychological trauma. Facing such trauma he wrote two novels, A Farewell to Arms in 1929 and Soldier’s Home. Eventually, he started working for the Toronto Star Weekly and became the correspondent for the journal company. Hemingway’s reputation began to grow as a journalist and as an author of fiction. However, Hemingway’s use of clear objectivity and the sustained intensity in his stories, and their concentration on action in the present moment, always points to a failure to project a novel in terms of the same method, yet a resort to any other method would have let down the reader's expectations. It is a relief to find that "The Sun Also Rises" maintains the same

“Hemingway’s greatness is in his short stories, which rival any other master of the form”(Bloom 1). The Old Man and the Sea is the most popular of his later works (1). The themes represented in this book are religion (Gurko 13-14), heroism (Brenner 31-32), and character symbolism (28). These themes combine to create a book that won Hemingway a Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and contributed to his Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 (3).

“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you” was beautifully said by Siddhartha Gautama and perfectly emcompasses what his life was truly all about. The life of Gautama can be recognized as remarkable because when analyzed, it is clear that he created a foundation for himself that not only survived his own death, but also all of the changing decades that passed thereafter. This foundation was Buddhism and through this, he created multiple concepts or sermons, as he referred to them, that followed such as the Eightfold Path and Nirvana. Siddhartha’s life is still symbolic of a journey or cycle that ends when one comes to terms with themselves and

Four of those novels being some of the most memorable pieces written by Hemingway for readers today. Those include “For whom the bell tolls” and this is just one of Hemingway’s war based novels and is based on his experiences during the Spanish civil war. The Garden of Eden was and uncompleted novel that was published 25 years after his death. The novel tells a story of a newly married couple that travels to France and Spain where there are met with events that cause strife in their relationship. A farewell to Arms was Hemingway’s third book and following an American during his time in the Italian army and reflects the early life of Hemingway. The Old Man and The Sea is the last novel that was published by Hemingway and is a story about an experienced fisherman and is known for its theme and multi-layered

Many of Ernest Hemingway’s stories are either literally or figuratively based on his life experiences. The Old Man and the Sea is a novella written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas, and published in 1952. It was the last major work by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. Its writing was influenced by his life around him. This is shown through the way the novella is written and key events and parts within it. The Old Man and the Sea can be interpreted as an allegory of Hemingway’s life and career at the time he wrote it.

Ernest Hemingway was one of America’s best authors. He started out writing many articles, and then even novels fro some of his lifetime experiences. Hemingway was a great influence on American society. Although Hemingway had many misfortunes in his life, he was a great writer.

These similarities make us believe that Hemingway was recounting his post-war experiences through the lives of the characters in the book. Characters in The Sun Also Rises are considered part of the “lost generation”, a term created by Gertrude Stein to describe the generation that grew up in post-war society. By no coincidence Hemingway is also part of this generation. Post-war life for the characters in the book consists of heavy drinking and partying, a sort of escape from the real world, and the same was a reality for Hemingway. Although France and all of Europe are in shambles after the war, the characters seem to be rejecting reality, partying it up in Paris and living a severely escapist lifestyle. This situation mimics the one Hemingway was actually in after WWI. The war’s effect on Hemingway can be told through the characters as each one represents part of his experience. Using a new historicist critical point of view and putting the story in context with the war and Hemingway’s life allows the reader to discover these connections and be able to more deeply analyze the significance of the book.