This document summarizes and analyzes Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Old Man and the Sea". It discusses the main character, Santiago, an old fisherman who goes 84 days without catching a fish. Despite his age, poverty, and loneliness, he perseveres with humble and determined spirit. After catching a giant marlin, he engages in a long struggle to survive against the marlin and a shark attacking his catch. Though he loses the fish, the document argues that through his continued struggle against adversity, Santiago demonstrates that a man can be destroyed but not defeated.

1. Name – Parmar Shubhda A.
Paper -10 (The American Literature)
Roll no – 30
Topic – ‘Man can be destroyed, but
not defeated’
(The Old Man and the Sea)
Submitted to –S.B Gardi
Department of English
Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

2. Introduction :
 Hemingway’s master piece .
 This novel won the Nobel price.
 Hemingway present life of
an old man.

3. About Santiago :
 Protagonist of the novel.
Old fisherman.
His knowledge of the sea and its creatures of
his craft.
Brave, confidence, cheerful and optimistic.
A resourceful person.

4. Man VS. Nature :
Santiago VS Marlin
Santiago VS the shark
His loves for living creatures
He talks about
- Birds as friend.
- The shark as personal
enemies.

5. Man VS Man :
 Santiago VS younger fish .
 He does not have any friend other than the boy
because no one respect him .
 Mock at Santiago’s bad luck .

6. Skillful Fisherman:
 Santiago uses all his strength .
 He attack with harpoon and knife .

7. Life’s climax :
 He lives his life with great passion .
 He has gone eighty four days without catching a fish .
 The joke of his small village .
 Age – poverty – loneliness .
 Humble , long suffering courageous .
 Failure experience .
 He loses his giant fish .
 “A Fight for survival”.

8. An optimistic, humble , patient, brave and
determined man :
 His hopes for next day .
 He never regards himself as the best .
 Eighty four days patiently waits for every turn .
 Despite the luck of food and water and his pain .

9. Over all views :
 A hero exhibits “Grace under pressure”.
 A hero is a person of action .
 Santiago - ‘every man’.
 Never loses his self confidence and his faith .
 He was working like Youngman .(youth and old age).
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10. Conclusion :
 Instead he emerges as a hero .
 Struggle itself that man prove him self .
 It is struggle for life .
 Defeat is spiritual and psychological submission .
 Story about continual struggle against defeat .

11. At last moral of his life is,
“A man can be destroyed but not
defeated .”

12. Thank you