short biography and description of main parts of the book.

1. {
Ernest
Hemingway

2.  was an American author and
journalist. His economical and
understated style had a strong
influence on 20th-century fiction,
while his life of adventure and his
public image influenced later
generations.

3.  Jul 21, 1899, Ernest Miller Hemingway is born in
Oak Park, Illinois, a place he will later describe as a
town of "wide lawns and narrow minds." He is the
second of six children of Clarence Hemingway, a
doctor, and Grace Hall Hemingway, a music teacher.
In 1905, From his infancy, Hemingway's mother
begins a strange habit of dressing her son like a girl.

4. Sep 1913, Hemingway in High School
Ernest Hemingway enters Oak Park and River Forest High
School. He proves to be an excellent student athlete who boxes,
plays football and writes for the school newspaper and
yearbook.

5.  In 1917, He opts not to go to college, instead
taking a job as a cub reporter for the Kansas City
Star newspaper. The Star's style guidelines
influence his writing style for the rest of his
career: Use short sentences, short first paragraphs,
and vigorous English.

6.  Early in 1918, Hemingway
responded to a Red Cross
recruitment effort in Kansas City
and signed on to become an
ambulance driver in World war.

7. 1923
Hemingway's First Publication
 Hemingway's first book, Three Stories and Ten
Poems, is published. In the same year,
Hemingway's first child, John "Jack"
Hemingway, born on 10 October.

8. Marriages and divorces
 Sep 3, 1921, Hemingway's First Marriage was with Elizabeth Hadley
Richardson.
 In 1927 Ernest Hemingway divorces Elizabeth month later he marries
Pauline Pfeiffer,
 In 1945 Ernest Hemingway divorces Martha Gellhorn. In 1946 he
marriage to Mary Welsh, his fourth and final wife, The couple will
produce no children together.

9.  Hemingway's father Clarence commits suicide on 6
December 1928
 Jun 28, 1951 Death of Hemingway's mother Grace
dies.

10. Dec 10, 1954
Nobel Prize
 Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature,
becoming the fifth American author to receive the award.

11. Jul 2, 1961
Suicide
 Suffering from depression, alcoholism, and numerous physical
ailments, Ernest Hemingway commits suicide with a shotgun at
his home in Ketchum, Idaho. He receives a Catholic burial, as
the church judges him not to have been in his right mind at the
time of his suicide. He is buried in Ketchum.

12. Posthumously publications
1970, Islands in the Stream
1972, The Nick Adams Stories
1986, The Garden of Eden
1999, True at First Light

14. {
Sep 1, 1952
The Old Man and the Sea
 The novella The Old Man and the Sea is published in Life
magazine. The story of Santiago the fisherman brings Hemingway
commercial and critical success.
1953
Pulitzer Prize
 Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man
and the Sea.

15.  FULL TITLE · The Old Man and the Sea
 AUTHOR · Ernest Hemingway
 TYPE OF WORK · Novella
 GENRE · Parable; tragedy
 TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN · 1951, Cuba
 NARRATOR · The novella is narrated by an anonymous narrator.

16.  TENSE · Past
 SETTING (TIME) · Late 1940s
 SETTING (PLACE) · A small fishing village near Havana, Cuba;
the waters of the Gulf of Mexico
 PROTAGONIST · Santiago
 MAJOR CONFLICT · For three days, Santiago struggles against
the greatest fish of his long career.

17. Main characters

18.  After eighty-four successive days
without catching a fish, Santiago
promises his former assistant,
Manolin, that he will go “far out”
into the ocean.RISING ACTION ·

19.  The marlin takes the bait, but Santiago is unable to reel him in, which leads to a three-
day struggle between the fisherman and the fish.

20.  The marlin circles the
skiff while Santiago
slowly reels him in.
Climax

21.  Santiago nearly passes out from exhaustion but gathers enough strength to harpoon the marlin
through the heart, causing him to lurch in an almost sexual climax of vitality before dying.

22.  Santiago sails back to shore with the marlin tied to his boat.
FALLING
ACTION ·

23. Sharks follow the marlin’s trail of blood
and destroy it.

24.  Santiago arrives home toting only the fish’s skeletal carcass.

25. The village fishermen respect their
formerly ridiculed peer, and Manolin
pledges to return to fishing with Santiago.
Santiago falls into a deep sleep and dreams
of lions.