3. Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July
21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His father
Clarence Edmonds Hemingway was a physician, and his
mother, Grace Hall-Hemingway, was a musician. Both were well-
educated and well-respected in the conservative community of
Oak Park, Illinois.
Hemingway attended Oak Park and River Forest High
School from 1913 until 1917. He took part in a number of
sports—boxing, track and field, water polo, and football—and
had good grades in English classes.
Hemingway was a journalist before becoming a
novelist; after leaving high school he went to work for The
Kansas City Star as a cub reporter at the age of seventeen.
4. After the United States entered the First World War, he
joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at
the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian
Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. After his
return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and
American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover
such events as the Greek Revolution.
Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during
the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious
novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later
works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and
the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long
and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in
defeat.
Hemingway - himself a great sportsman - liked to portray
soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people
whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of
modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and
faith. His straightforward prose, his spare dialogue, and his
predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his
short stories.
5. Hemingway also suffered paranoia- a mental deterioration.
Hemingway suffered from physical problems as well: his health
declined and his eyesight was failing.
Three months later, back in Ketchum, Mary (his wife)
"found Hemingway holding a shotgun". His personal physician
Dr. Saviers arrived, sedated him, and admitted him to the Sun
Valley hospital; from there he was returned to the Mayo for more
shock treatments. He was released in late June and arrived home
in Ketchum on June 30.
Two days later, in the early morning hours of July
2, 1961, Hemingway "quite deliberately" shot himself with his
favourite shotgun. He unlocked the basement storeroom where
his guns were kept, went upstairs to the front entrance foyer of
their Ketchum home, and "pushed two shells into the twelve-
gauge Boss shotgun ...put the end of the barrel into his
mouth, pulled the trigger and blew out his brains."
6. Hemingway's chin, mouth, and lower cheeks were left, but
the upper half of his head was blown away. Mary called the Sun
Valley Hospital, and Dr. Scott Earle arrived at the house within
"fifteen minutes". Despite his finding that Hemingway "had died of a
self-inflicted wound to the head", the story told to the press was that
the death had been "accidental".
Spouse(s)
Elizabeth Hadley
Hemingway’s Literary works: Richardson(1921–1927)
"Indian Camp" (1926) Pauline Pfeiffer (1927–1940)
The Sun Also Rises (1927) Martha Gellhorn (1940–
A Farewell to Arms (1929) 1945)
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" Mary Welsh
(1935) Hemingway (1946–1961)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) Children
The Old Man and the Sea (1951) Jack Hemingway (1923–
A Moveable Feast (1964, posthumous) 2000)
True at First Light (1999) Patrick Hemingway (1928–)
Gregory Hemingway (1931–
2001)
7. Santiago:
The old man who goes out to the sea farther than any other
fishermen. He has gone 84 days without catching any fish at all. Once he
get out there, he has an epic battle with nature.
Manolin:
The old man’s apprentice. A young boy who has been forbidden
by his parents to sail with the old man and been ordered to fish with
more successful fishermen. He is the boy who visits Santiago's shack each
night, hauling back his fishing gear, feeding him and discussing American
baseball—most notably Santiago's idol Joe DiMaggio.
The great Marlin:
Is a "billfish" with an elongated body, a spear-like snout or
bill, and a long rigid dorsal fin, which extends forward to form a
crest.
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10. In the middle of the sea: where the man experienced a
great struggle with the marlin. A battle in nature.
The Old Man and the Sea recounts an epic battle of wills
between an old, experienced fisherman and a giant marlin said to
be the largest catch of his life. It opens by explaining that the
fisherman, who is named Santiago, has gone 84 days without
catching any fish at all. He is apparently so unlucky that his young
apprentice, Manolin, has been forbidden by his parents to sail
with the old man and been ordered to fish with more successful
fishermen.
11. Still dedicated to the old man, however, the boy visits Santiago's shack
each night, hauling back his fishing gear, feeding him and discussing American
baseball—most notably Santiago's idol, Joe DiMaggio (an American baseball
player for the New York Yankees). Santiago tells Manolin that on the next day, he
will venture far out into the Gulf to fish, confident that his unlucky streak is near
its end.
Thus on the eighty-fifth day, Santiago sets out alone, taking his skiff far
onto the Gulf. He sets his lines and, by noon of the first day, a big fish that he is
sure is a marlin takes his bait. Unable to pull in the great marlin, Santiago
instead finds the fish pulling his skiff. Two days and two nights pass in this
manner, during which the old man bears the tension of the line with his body.
Though he is wounded by the struggle and in pain, Santiago
expresses a compassionate appreciation for his adversary, often referring to
him as a brother. He also determines that because of the fish's great
dignity, no one will be worthy of eating the marlin.
12. On the third day of the ordeal, the fish begins to circle the
skiff, indicating his tiredness to the old man. Santiago, now completely worn
out and almost in delirium, uses all the strength he has left in him to pull the
fish onto its side and stab the marlin with a harpoon ending the long battle
between the old man and the tenacious fish.
Santiago straps the marlin to the side of his skiff and heads
home, thinking about the high price the fish will bring him at the market and
how many people he will feed.
While Santiago continues his journey back to the shore, sharks are
attracted to the trail of blood left by the marlin in the water. The first, a
great mako shark, Santiago kills with his harpoon, losing that weapon in the
process. He makes a new harpoon by strapping his knife to the end of an oar to
help ward off the next line of sharks; in total, five sharks are slain and many
others are driven away. But the sharks keep coming, and by nightfall the sharks
have almost devoured the marlin's entire carcass, leaving a skeleton consisting
mostly of its backbone, its tail and its head.
13. Finally reaching the shore before dawn on the next day, he struggles
on the way to his shack, carrying the heavy mast on his shoulder. Once
home, he slumps onto his bed and falls into a deep sleep.
A group of fishermen gather the next day around the boat where
the fish's skeleton is still attached. One of the fishermen measures it to be
18 feet (5.5 m) from nose to tail. Tourists at the nearby café mistakenly take
it for a shark.
Manolin, worried during the old man's endeavor, cries upon
finding him safe asleep. The boy brings him newspapers and coffee. When
the old man wakes, they promise to fish together once again. Upon his
return to sleep, Santiago dreams of his youth—of lions on an African
beach.
14. The story of the old man and the sea
pertains to the heroic struggle of an aging man to
catch a giant marlin far out at sea. It shows that
there are something in life which we can’t be
learned quickly, and time which is all we have
must know how to used it properly. They are the
very simple things and because it takes a man’s
life to know them, the little new that each man
gets from life is very costly and the only heritage
we can give to our future generations.
15. The story wants to imply to us that in
life, we should not limit ourselves to do
something. We should learn how to accept
possibilities. Don’t lose hope because life is a
cycle. Sometimes we fail but there will be
success in the end. Remember that life is
like a road of continues journey.
