'the old_man_and_the_sea_&;_life_paper_no_10_american_literatre

1. Name : Sheikh Nusratjaha R.
Sem:3
R0ll no:26
Enrollment no:2069108420180047
Email id:nususheikh1@gmail.com
Paper no: 10 The American Literature
Batch:2017-2019
Submitted to: Department of English MKBU Bhavnagar

2. Introduction about the both film
The old man and
sea
Novel written by Ernest
Hemingway.
This film is a 1958
American adventure film
directed by John
Sturges.
Life of pi
Novel written by Yann
Martel Canadian fantacy
adventure novel in 2001
Film adaption in 2012
directed by AngLee.

3. Santiago protagonist of
the film the old man and
the sea
Pi protagonist of the film.
14 years old

4. Similarities of the protagonists of the
film
Santiago Cuban fisher
man started his journey
on the as he battles a
Marlin.
Pi started journey out at
sea on a boat with many
foreign animal, most
important Bengal tiger.

5. Santiago has got a company of little boy manolin, while pi loses
all human companions.
Old man in the film is a cuban fisherman who has gone sea 84
days without catch and on 85 day out he finally hooks a huge
fish marline.
As well as, pi servives 227 days after a shipwreck while started
life with bengal tiger.
For three days and night he battles the fish , which is portrayed
in the film as a trial of mental and physical courage that
become a ultimate test for him of his worth as a man.
Pi stranded for numerous days where he is faced many
struggles to stay alive.
Santiago purpose of the journey is marlin , where Pi purpose of
the journey migration.
There's christian fundamentalism in the film adaptation of The
old man and The sea where in the Life of Pi , the hero belives in
the universal religion of humanity .

6. Seagull as a symbol of hope for santiago for Pi birds
are use as distraction.

7. In the both film uses the flashback
technique:
Santiago remember his
old good days of victory
during his dark time.
Pi remembers his good
days spent with family
during the time of
disappoiment sea
torments.

8. Effective symbolism of skelleton is used in both the films.
Santiago gets the dead end of marlin, and Pi arrives on the
island of Skelleton and poisonus water.
At the end both heroes are loosers. Santiago loses marlin's
flash where Pi loses his friend The Tiger. He makes him free in
the jungle.
Religious symbolism is used in The Old Man and The Sea —
Santiago at the end falls on the bed with the skeleton of Marlin
in a christ like position, and after sea torments Pi is on the sea
shore and tiger is going to it's habitat.
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