11. Latin American vernacular vs. Native Canarian speech patterns Cuban meaning Spanish meaning Unlucky Salty Dolphin fish Golden Man of war jellyfish Bad water White-tipped shark Well-dressed Salao Dorado Agua mala Galano
16. “The community of Cojimar may acknowledge his angling skills but Santiago remains a man in exile, isolated and without a social community”Jeffrey Herlihy
19. “Hemingway makes us remember that we are as permeable as these creatures; our flesh is vulnerable – and our bodies will be degraded too. The humiliation of lifelessness are contained in us”William E. Cain
27. “For Hemingway Jesus was not a redeemer but the peerless embodiment of a life of pain. Jesus accepted a mission; he knew he was dead the moment he was born. He embraced it freely because he knew that through death, eternal life was offered to all mankind. For Hemingway there was no life after death and his abiding concern came to be why and how a dying person (we are always dying) makes art.” William E. Cain
28. “I keep thinking what a wonderful old man he would have made if he’d learned how. I don’t think he had faced up to growing old”John Hemingway
29. “My father lived with the knowledge of what the edge of nothingness is like”Gregory Hemingway
30. “I am a writer driven far out past where he can go, to where no one can help him”Nobel Award Acceptance speech
46. ‘why are the lions the main thing that is left’?
47. The novel explores the relationship between individualism and interdependence – the tragic irony is that man only comes to wisdom and harmony through suffering and isolation.The sharks may be seen as a punishment for the sin of reaching beyond his place in life.
48. Why the emphasis on a team sport and the best ‘team player’ in the business?
51. “We are part of a universe offering no assurance beyond the grave and we are to make what we can of life by a pragmatic ethic spun bravely out of man himself in full and steady cognizance that the end is darkness.”E. M. Halliday
52. We are doomedThere is no escapeSuck it up and take a stand anywayLive life out loud BECAUSE we have no future – life is all the more precious because it is fleeting