Old Man And The Sea English Literature Essay
The Old Man and the Sea: Analysis Name: Professor: Institution: Course: Date: Introduction Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea proves to be one of the enduring works of fiction in American history. The book talks about a Cuban old man and the little young boy and the man who are absolutely suffering. The relationship between individualism and interdependence has been one of Hemingway's main concerns, especially The Old Man and the Sea marks the culmination of the development of this concern. This novel emphatically shows that life is impossible without the sense of solidarity and interdependence. Ernest Hemingway, a famous American writer and Nobel Prize winner, is a great writer with deep ecological ethics. With the perspective of modern scientific ecological view, this article attempts to prove that Hemingway embodied his strong ecological ethics in his famous work The Old Man and the Sea by analyzing the description of the old man. The story of the novel is the study of Santiago's mind and temperament. Santiago is an old fisherman. He is skinny and thin. There are deep wrinkles at the back of his neck. His face has brown spots. He handles heavy fish on the ropes. For example, his hands have deep folded scars. None of these scars are fresh.