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For 84 days, the old fisherman Santiago goes out to sea to fish without success. And if for the first 40 days he fished with the little boy Manolin, he was soon left without an assistant, since the boy’s parents believed that the old man’s luck had turned away and sent their son to sea with a more successful fisherman. The old man was old, thin and haggard, but his eyes, the color of the sea, were young and cheerful. The eyes of a man who never gives up.
It was hard for Manolin to greet Santiago every evening, returning from the sea without a catch. But he really loved and respected the old man who taught him to fish. And therefore, every evening the boy helped the tired old fisherman carry his gear home.
Before going to the old man's hut, Santiago and Manolin sat in a fisherman's cafe, where Manolin bought the old man beer. At this time, all the fishermen of the village gathered in the cafe and discussed their catch. The boy volunteered to bring bait to the old man for his next fishing trip. Santiago did not lose hope for a successful catch. He tells the boy that he plans to go further out to sea tomorrow. The boy wants to go fishing with the old man, but Santiago assures him that he can handle everything himself, and Manolin must continue to fish on the “lucky” boat. They carry the gear home, but not because the old man is afraid that it will be stolen, but simply so that it does not get damp near the water.
The old man's hut, furnished with a bed, table and chair, was built from royal palm. The walls were decorated with oleographs. Previously there was another one hanging on the wall color photography the old man's late wife, but Santiago took it off because looking at her, he really missed his wife.
Every evening the boy asked the old man about dinner and offered to light a fire in the hearth; he also asked for a net to catch sardines for bait. It was a kind of ritual. Manolin knew that the old man had no food and the chain had long been sold. The boy goes off to get sardines, and the old man remains to read yesterday's newspaper, which was given to him at the wine shop. The boy asks him to read about a baseball game and then tell it to him. When the boy returns, he sees Santiago sleeping on a chair. Manolin carefully covers the old fisherman with a blanket. Manolin notices that despite his thinness, Santiago has strong and powerful shoulders, and he also draws attention to the old man’s old shirt, all covered in multi-colored patches, like an old sail. The boy leaves again without waking the old man. Manolin returns with dinner for the old man. Santiago eats beef stew, black beans and rice, and fried plantains that the boy picked up at the restaurant. Manolin tells the old man that one should not go fishing while hungry. Santiago promises that he will thank the owner of the restaurant, who often helps them out, by giving him the best part of the fish that he hopes to catch tomorrow. An old man and a boy discuss baseball and famous players. One of them even came to their fishing restaurant, but the boy and the old fisherman were embarrassed to invite him to fish with them and now regret it. The boy says goodbye to the old man and asks him to wake him up in the morning to go fishing, since Manolin does not like to be woken up by another fisherman, with whom he is now going out to sea. The old man promises to come for him in the morning.
Santiago, wrapped in a blanket, goes to sleep on a bed on which old newspapers are laid instead of a mattress, and instead of a pillow he puts his pants under his head. The old man quickly falls asleep and dreams of Africa, to whose shores he went as a cabin boy in his youth. The old man no longer dreams of storms, great events, women, huge fish, he dreams of lions frolicking like kittens on the seashore.
The old man wakes up long before dawn, gets dressed and goes to wake up the boy. Having awakened Manolin, they return to the old man's hut for gear. They take them to the boat and have coffee at a diner that opens very early because it caters to fishermen. Manolin leaves to get bait, and Santiago drinks more coffee, because he knows that he won't eat anything else until the evening. The old man does not take food into the boat, only water. Manolin brings the bait and wishes the old man good luck. The old man takes the boat out of the harbor and in the darkness hears other fishermen also going out to sea. Santiago decides to go far out to sea today and leans on the oars.
It's getting light. The old man rows steadily and thinks about the sea. He compares the sea to a woman. It also bestows great favors and commits rash acts. It was not yet dawn, and the old man had already thrown out his baited hooks.
The sun has risen. The old man sees other boats, but they are much closer to the shore than his. After 2 hours, the old man’s boat moved even further away from the shore. A frigate bird helps Santiago track schools of fish, and he catches a tuna that he plans to use as bait. The old man's boat has gone so far out to sea that it can no longer be seen coastline. But the old man is not worried. Santiago is confident that he will always find his way home. All his thoughts are that today he will definitely be lucky and catch a big fish.
Noon. It's getting very hot. And finally a fish bit Santiago. The old man immediately realized that the fish was big and he would need all his experience to catch it. But he is firmly confident in his abilities. The old man decides that the fish is already dead and wants to pull it out, but he doesn’t succeed. The fish turned out to be alive and pulled the fisherman's boat out to sea. The old man regrets that the boy is not with him now; he could use an assistant. For 4 hours, the fish tows the old man's boat and does not think about dying. The old man is tired and thirsty, but is afraid of missing out on the forest. He saves his strength. He thinks about not letting his hands fail him.
It got colder at night and the old man’s back was rubbed with the string. He begins to get tired as he holds the line with his hands, afraid to tie it to the boat. After all, if the fish rushes, it can break the line and go into the depths. But if you hold the string with your hands, when jerking, you can carefully release the rope, preventing it from stretching and breaking. The old man already understands that the fish he caught on the hook is very large and strong. But Santiago also knows that he is stronger and more experienced than her, and simply must defeat her. He again regrets that Manolin is not with him. Santiago ponders the fate of the fish he caught, and his own fate too. About the fact that now their destinies are connected, that he was born a fisherman, and she was born a fish.
At dawn the fish pulled the line so hard that the old man fell and cut his cheek until it bled. It's dawn. The fish also tirelessly pulls the boat. She is still full of strength, but she is already swimming at a shallower depth. The old man prays to the Lord that the fish will surface and that he will have enough strength to cope with it. The fish makes another attempt to escape and cuts the old man's hand with a string. He is annoyed with himself for letting the fish hurt him. Now he has to hold the line with his left hand. The old man notices that the fish is pulling the boat more slowly. He realizes that he will soon need all his strength and decides to refresh himself. But the only food he has is raw tuna, which he eats after cutting it up, regretting that he didn’t take salt and lemon with him. The weight of the fish made the old man’s left hand go numb. The old man looks at the sea and realizes how lonely he is. He doesn’t like to be helpless, so now all his thoughts are about getting his left hand to start working again. He notices that the fish is rising to the surface of the water. Only now did the old man realize how huge it was. It was a swordfish, larger than his boat. The fish pulled the boat again. The old man, who has seen a lot of fish in his life, understands that this is the largest he has ever caught. And now he must fight her alone. The old man reads prayers to God and the Virgin Mary. In the afternoon, Santiago notices that the fish has changed direction.
The old man was resting and stretching his left arm. He was thinking about baseball. When the sun set, the old man cheered up and remembered an incident from his life when he won a competition and received the title of Santiago Champion. Then he sat for a whole day, locking arms with a powerful black man, the strongest man in the port. When the audience began to insist that the judges declare a draw, he nevertheless overcame his opponent and won.
The old man manages to catch a mackerel for dinner. He eats raw fish again. Santiago is very tired, his back and arms hurt. But the old fisherman reassures himself that his legs are fine, there is enough food and water for another day, and the fish are swimming slower.
The second night of his confrontation with the fish came. The old man admires the starry sky. He feels sorry for the fish he caught, but this pity does not deprive him of his determination to kill this fish. The old man manages to rest for a couple of hours. He wants to sleep, but is afraid of missing the fish. Then he decides to eat. Having cut the mackerel, he forced himself to eat half the fillet, while the old man noticed that the tuna was tastier. He realizes that he has to eat that nasty raw mackerel to cope with the fish. The boat moves more and more slowly, and the old man realizes that the fish is also tired. While she behaves quietly, the old man decides to sleep.
He wakes up from a jerk, the forest, burning his palm, went into the water. Then the fish began to jump. The old man had difficulty holding the line. Santiago again regrets that he does not have an assistant with him. The old man is glad that the fish took in air during the jumps and now will not be able to go to the depths. Now the old man is waiting for her to start circling the boat, trying to escape.
It's getting light. The old man’s arms, cut by the string, hurt, but he reassures himself that for a man the pain is not terrible. It was the 3rd morning of his fishing trip. The fish began to make circles around the boat, and the old man brought it closer for the decisive blow. Santiago forced the fish to turn over, then hit him right in the heart with a harpoon. The old man became very weak and felt very bad. But, overcoming faintness and weakness, he pulled the prey to the boat and secured it along the side. The fish was so huge that you would have thought that a boat had been attached to it. The old man set the sail and headed towards the shore.
He was hungry, but there was nothing to catch even a small fish. Then the old man shook shrimp from seaweed and refreshed himself with them. After drinking the water, Santiago felt much better. He swam home with a very rich catch and often glanced at the fish, still not believing in his luck.
The first shark caught up with the boat about an hour later. She smelled the fish's blood and swam along the trail. It was very big shark who was not afraid of anything. The old man, noticing her, prepared a harpoon. He realized that she would attack the fish and prepared to defend his catch. The shark managed to take a bite out of the fish before the old man killed it. The shark drowned, dragging the old man's harpoon to the bottom. Mutilated by the shark, the fish no longer pleased the old man. And he was also waiting for other sharks. He made a weapon against other sharks from a knife and an oar.
The sail was filled with a fresh wind, and the boat quickly moved towards the shore. The old fisherman regained hope that he would still bring his catch to the shore. The old man tasted his fish and realized that such tasty and juicy meat could earn him a lot of money. But the smell of fish spread throughout the sea, and the old man could not do anything about it. After 2 hours, 2 sharks arrived and began to tear the fish. The old man killed them too. The fish now did not attract the old man’s gaze at all. The sharks ate the best meat. Santiago already regretted that he had caught her at all. Soon another shark swam, and after killing it, Santiago broke his knife.
Evening was coming, and the shore was not even visible yet. Just before sunset, more sharks attacked the boat, they tore pieces of meat from the fish, and the old man unsuccessfully tried to kill them with a club. Having driven the sharks away, the old man noticed that they had already eaten half of the fish. The sharks began to circle around the boat. The sun had almost set, but Santiago decided not to give up and fight the sharks until he died. He floated home in the dark and thought that it would be nice to buy some luck somewhere. And he answered to himself that he had nothing to buy it with. Only the pain in his hands let him know that he was not dead yet.
Soon he noticed city lights. His body ached and his hands were sore. He dreamed of home and sleep. But at midnight the old man again fought with sharks, which attacked in a whole flock. He beat in the darkness with a baton until it was torn out of his hands. Then he pulled out the tiller and struck with it. But the sharks ate all the meat from the fish and swam away. The old man could barely breathe and felt the taste of copper in his mouth. He spat into the water. The old man felt completely defeated. He swam home, thinking about nothing and feeling nothing. The boat moved quickly and easily, because it was no longer slowed down by the weight of the fish. The old man thought that the boat and sail were intact, and that it would not be difficult to make a new tiller.
He returned home when everyone around him was asleep. Furling the sail, he took the tackle and went home. He was so terribly tired that he stopped several times to rest. At home he drank water and went to bed. He was still sleeping when Manolin came in the morning. Today the boats did not go out to sea due to strong winds. The boy made sure that the old man was breathing and went to get him coffee. Below the old man's boat, fishermen were measuring the remains of the fish. The fish was 18 feet long. The boy began to cry, he felt so sorry for the old man and his wounded hands. He brought Santiago coffee and waited for him to wake up.
Waking up, the old man drank coffee and complained to the boy that the sharks had defeated him. But Manolin told him that he had defeated the fish. He told the old fisherman that fishermen, the coast guard, and even an airplane were looking for him. But the old man said that he went very far into the sea. Santiago admitted that he missed the boy. And Manolin said that now he will only fish with the old man, who should teach him everything he knows. In the meantime, the old man needs to heal his hands, and Manolin went to the pharmacy to get some medicine. Santiago asked to bring more newspapers for those days while he was away. The old man fell asleep again, he had dreams, and the boy guarded his sleep.
That's how it is summary story " The Old Man and the Sea» E. Hemingway.
Year: 1952 Genre: story
1952 The last work of Hemingway published during his lifetime is published in Bimini. This is the story "The Old Man and the Sea". This work tells the story of the life of the old fisherman Santiago, about fishing in Cuba. The plot revolves around an important event for Santiago - a fight on the high seas with a giant marlin, which is the largest and most important catch in a fisherman’s life.
The main idea of “The Old Man and the Sea” is that Ernest Hemingway shows the struggle of a person with the elements of life. The main thing in life is overcoming difficulties. The author emphasizes the idea that under no circumstances should you give up. One involuntarily recalls the biblical wisdom: “Everyone is given such a cross as he can bear.”
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On the first pages of the book, the reader meets an old man named Santiago. He is an experienced Cuban fisherman who is lonely. He lives by fishing and selling his catch. He is lucky, his boat almost never returns empty...
One day, a boy named Manolin goes out to sea with Santiago. This boy loves the old man dearly, even though he is not his own. With all his childish soul, he wants to help Santiago in some way. Manolin’s parents do not share their son’s feelings and believe that their child does not belong at sea. But the boy stubbornly accompanies Santiago and waits for his return. After all, it is so important for every person to realize that they are expected, that someone needs them.
For some reason, the old fisherman's luck ran out. For 84 days now, Santiago's networks have been empty. Every day he returns from the sea sadder and sadder. Manolin helps the old man as best he can: he helps put fishing gear in the boat, catches sardines for bait, and waits for the old fisherman to return on the shore. Every day the boy finds words of consolation for old Santiago. But that doesn’t make it any easier...
The morning of day 85 comes. Santiago is more confident than ever that there will certainly be a catch today. He calmly gets into the boat and, without a trace of excitement on his face, watches the waves carry the boat. Old man Santiago loves the sea, he mentally talks to it. He turns to water element asking for a rich catch.
The fragile little boat is rocked by the waves. And now comes an exciting moment for any fisherman - Santiago’s fishing line is stretched like a string. It's about to burst! An experienced fisherman understands that there, in the depths, there is a fish of incredible weight. Santiago tries to pull the fish closer to the side of the boat in order to finish it off with a harpoon. He fails to perform such a maneuver - the fish is strong and pulls the boat behind it. The old Cuban fisherman regrets that Manolin is not around at the moment. He would certainly help. How difficult it is to be alone!
The climax of the work is a lengthy description of the struggle between Santiago and the fish. The fight lasts almost two days - this indicates the size and endurance of the fish. The fish resists. She drags behind her the boat of an old Cuban fisherman. Old man Santiago was exhausted. His hands were numb, and his thoughts were confused... You might think that this is the end of hopes and dreams...
But no matter how strong the fish is, its strength is running out. She is no longer so eager to pull Santiago’s boat behind her. He does this less and less. Finally, she has practically no strength at all. Then the fish floated to the surface of the sea not far from the boat, and even turned on its side, as if it wanted Santiago to be more comfortable throwing the harpoon. The old fisherman does just that. Here it is, the desired prey! He uses his last strength to tie the fish to the side of his boat. At the very last moment, the thought flashes through his fevered mind that the fish is longer than his boat. How will they float?
Santiago is an experienced Cuban fisherman. To arrive at the shore, he navigates by the wind, or rather by its direction and strength, and directs the boat where it is needed. Santiago with the prey sails to his native shore.
Everything seems to be fine, the old Cuban is satisfied with the result of his work. But..., at one moment Santiago sees that a huge shark is overtaking him. A shark hunts a fisherman's prey. She doesn't need the old fisherman himself.
Santiago resists as best he can. He even plunges a harpoon into the shark. It seems like a short respite - the shark bites off a piece of prey and goes under the water with a harpoon. But bad luck! After some time, a whole school of sharks appears. Santiago is scared and at the same time sorry for his prey. The old fisherman shows skill - he ties a knife to an oar and kills one of the sharks. Of course, this is not at all enough... While the fisherman is fighting with one, the others eat up his catch so much that only the tail and skeleton remain. So now poor Santiago sails on his little boat, and behind him drags the skeleton of his recent prey...
The day turns to evening and finally night comes. Santiago, exhausted and tired, sails to his native shore. And there Manolin is waiting for him. An old Cuban fisherman shows the boy what is left of his catch. He is so offended that he cries without being embarrassed by a child. Boy Manolin calms Santiago as best he can. He convinces the old fisherman that from now on they will always fish together and, of course, will catch many, many more fish. After all, together it’s always good. How great it is to feel supported!
Morning of a new day. A huge crowd of tourists gather on the deserted shore and are amazed by the skeleton of a fish of incredible size lying on the sand. They are drawing different conclusions about who brought this skeleton here. Simple human curiosity...
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“The old man was fishing all alone on his boat in the Gulf Stream. For eighty-four days he had been going to sea and had not caught a single fish. For the first forty days he had a boy with him. But day after day he did not bring a catch, and the parents told the boy that the old man was now clearly salao, that is, the most unlucky, and they ordered him to go to sea on another boat, which actually brought three good fish in the first week. It was hard for the boy to watch how the old man returned every day with nothing, and he went ashore to help him carry the tackle or the hook, the harpoon and the sail wrapped around the mast. The sail was covered in patches of burlap and, folded, resembled the banner of a completely defeated regiment.”
This is the background to the events that unfold in a small fishing village in Cuba. Main character- old man Santiago, he was “thin, emaciated, the back of his head was cut by deep wrinkles, and his cheeks were covered with brown spots of harmless skin cancer, which is caused by Sun rays reflected by the surface of the tropical sea." It was he who taught the boy Manolin to fish, and the boy loved the old man. He is filled with pity for the old man and wants to help him. He is ready to catch him sardines as bait for his going out to sea tomorrow. Together they climb to Santiago's poor hut, built from the strong shamrocks of the royal palm. The hut contains only a table, a chair, and a hole in the dirt floor for cooking on charcoal. The old man is lonely and poor: his meal is a bowl of yellow rice with fish. They talk to the boy about fishing, how the old man must get lucky, as well as the latest sports news, baseball scores and famous players such as DiMaggio. When the tired old man goes to bed, he dreams of the Africa of his youth, “its long golden shores and shallows, high cliffs and huge white mountains. He no longer dreams of fights, or women, or great events. But often in his dreams there appear distant countries and lions coming ashore.”
The next day, early in the morning, the old man goes on another fishing trip. The boy helps him take down the sail and prepare the boat. The old man tells him that this time he "believes in luck."
One after another, fishing boats leave the shore and go out to sea. Rowing with oars, the old man feels the approach of morning. He loves the sea, he thinks of it with tenderness, as of a woman who “gives great mercies.” He loves both birds and fish that live in the bottomless green mass. Having put bait on the hooks, he slowly swims with the flow. He mentally communicates with birds and fish. Accustomed to loneliness, he talks out loud to himself. Nature and the ocean are perceived by him as a living being. He knows different fish and the inhabitants of the ocean, their habits, he has his own tender attitude towards them. “He loved green turtles for their grace and agility, and also because they were so highly valued, and had a condescending attitude towards the clumsy and stupid false carriages dressed in yellow armor, whimsical in love affairs and eating with eyes closed Portuguese fesalia".
But then serious fishing begins, and all his attention is focused on the fishing line, its condition: he sensitively captures what is happening in the depths, how the fish reacts to the bait pinned on the hook. Finally, one of the green rods trembled: this means that at a depth of one hundred fathoms the marlin began to devour sardines. The line begins to go down, sliding between his fingers, and he feels a huge weight that carries it with him. A dramatic multi-hour duel unfolds between Santiago and a huge fish.
He knows when to pull the line. “I pecked,” said the old man. - Now let him eat properly. He let the line slide between his fingers and with his left hand tied the free end of the spare skeins to the loop of the two spare skeins of the second rod. Now everything was ready. He had three skeins of line in stock, forty fathoms each, not counting the one on which he kept the fish.”
The old man tries to pull up the line, but he doesn’t succeed. On the contrary, it pulls the boat behind it, as if in tow, slowly moving to the northwest. And the old man bitterly regrets that there is no boy next to him. But it’s good that the fish also pulls to the side, and not down, to the bottom. About four hours pass. It's approaching noon. This cannot go on forever, the old man thinks, soon the fish will die and then it will be possible to pull it up. But the fish turns out to be too tenacious. “I would like to look at her,” the old man thinks. “I wish I could look at her at least with one eye, then I would know who I’m dealing with.”
Night passes. The fish pulls the boat further and further from the shore. The lights of Havana fade in the distance. The old man is tired, he tightly clutches the rope thrown over his shoulder. He can't be distracted. He is very sorry that Manolin is not around to help him. “It is impossible for a person to be left alone in old age,” he inspires himself. “But it’s inevitable.” The thought of fish does not leave him for a second. Sometimes he feels sorry for her. “Isn’t this fish a miracle, God only knows how many years it lived in the world. Never before have I come across such a strong fish. And just think how strange she behaves. Maybe that’s why she doesn’t jump because she’s very smart.” Again and again he regrets that his young assistant is not next to him. Having refreshed himself with caught raw tuna, he continues to mentally talk with the fish. “I won’t part with you until I die,” the old man tells her.
The fish begins to pull less powerfully, it has clearly weakened. But the old man's strength is running out. His hand goes numb. Finally, the forest suddenly began to go up and fish appeared on the surface of the ocean for the first time. She burns in the sun, her head and back are dark purple, and instead of a nose there is a sword as long as a baseball bat. It is a full two feet longer than the boat. Having appeared on the surface, she begins again, apparently frightened, to go into the depths, pulling the boat behind her, and the old man has to mobilize all his strength to prevent her from falling off. This is the first time he has to fight such a huge fish alone.
Not believing in God, he reads the “Our Father” prayer ten times. He feels better, but the pain in his arm does not decrease. He understands that the fish is huge and that he must conserve his strength. “Even though it’s unfair,” he convinces himself, “I will prove to her what a person is capable of and what he can endure.” He calls himself an “extraordinary old man” and has to prove it.
Another day passes. To distract himself, he thinks about playing in baseball leagues. He remembers how he once measured his strength in a Casablanca tavern with a powerful black man, the strongest man in the port, how they sat at the table for a whole day, without giving up, and how he, in the end, gained the upper hand. He had participated in similar fights more than once, won, but then gave it up, deciding that he needed his right hand for fishing.
The battle with the fish continues for many more hours. He holds the line with his right hand, knowing that when his strength runs out, it will be replaced by his left. How he needs a boy at this moment. But he is alone in the vast ocean, fighting with a fish of unprecedented size. Finally, the fish, having made several circles, begins to come to the surface. She either approaches the boat or moves away from it. The old man is preparing a harpoon to finish off the fish. But she steps aside. The old man's thoughts are confused due to fatigue. “Listen, fish,” he tells her. - After all, you still have to die. Why do you need me to die too?”
The final act of their duel begins. “He gathered all his pain, and all the rest of his strength, and all his long-lost pride and threw it all against the torment that the fish was suffering, and then it turned over and swam quietly on its side, almost reaching the side of the boat with its sword; it almost floated past, long, wide, silver, intertwined with purple stripes, and it seemed that there would be no end to it.” Raising the harpoon, with all the strength he had in him, he thrusts it into the fish’s side. He feels the iron entering her flesh and pushes it deeper and deeper...
He is overcome by nausea and weakness, his head is foggy, but he still pulls the fish to the side.
Now the old man ties the fish to the boat and begins to move towards the shore. Mentally, he estimates: the fish weighs at least fifteen hundred pounds, which can be sold for thirty cents a pound. Referring to the famous baseball player, he says to himself: “I think the great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.” And even though his hands are still bleeding, he is tired, exhausted, but he defeated the fish. The direction of the wind tells him which way to sail to get home.
An hour passes before the first shark appears. Smelling the smell of blood, she, appearing and disappearing in the depths, rushes after the boat and the fish tied to it. She is in a hurry because the prey is close. She approached the stern, her mouth dug into the skin and meat of the fish, and began to tear it apart. In rage and anger, gathering all his strength, the old man hit her with a harpoon. Soon she sinks to the bottom, taking with her the harpoon, part of the rope, and a huge piece of fish.
“Man was not created to suffer defeat,” the old man says the words that have become textbook. “A person can be destroyed, but not defeated.”
It is supported by a piece of meat from the caught fish in the part where the shark’s teeth have been. And at that moment he notices the fins of a whole flock of spotted predators. They are approaching with great speed. The old man greets them, holding up an oar with a knife tied to it. The sharks attack the fish with fury. They tear her body. The old man enters into battle with them. He kills one of the sharks.
“...At midnight he fought the sharks again and this time he knew that the fight was futile. They attacked him in a whole flock, and he saw only the stripes on the water that were drawn by their fins, and the glow when they rushed to tear the fish. He hit the heads with a club and heard the jaws clanging and the boat shaking as they grabbed the fish from below. He desperately beat the baton at something invisible that he could only hear and touch, and suddenly he felt something grab the baton and the baton was gone.” Finally the sharks left behind. They had nothing left to eat.
When he entered the bay, everyone was already asleep. Having removed the mast and tied the sail, he felt the full measure of fatigue. A huge tail of a fish rose behind the stern of his boat. All that was left of her was a white skeleton. On the shore, the boy meets a tired, crying old man. He calms Santiago, assures him that from now on they will fish together, because he still has a lot to learn from the old man. He believes that he will bring good luck to the old man.
The next morning, rich tourists come ashore. They are surprised to notice a long white spine with a huge tail. The waiter tries to explain to them, but they are very far from understanding the drama that happened here.
The final words of the story: “Upstairs in his hut the old man was sleeping again. He was asleep again, face down, and the boy was watching over him. The old man dreamed of lions.”
E. Hemingway
Name: The Old Man and the Sea
Genre: Tale
Duration:
Part 1: 8min 59sec
Part 2: 8min 44sec
Annotation:
This is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and the ordeal that befell him: a relentless, painful battle with a giant marlin in the waters of the Gulf Stream. Using simple yet powerful language, Hemingway portrays the age-old themes of courage in the face of defeat and triumph in the aftermath of loss that have made this work an enduring classic of the twentieth century.
The Old Man and the Sea helped revive Hemingway's reputation as a great writer. This small work brought Hemingway enormous fame, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel gained popularity thanks to its interesting presentation techniques: part of it is a parable, the other part is a eulogy, a recollection of the lost years in search of spiritual discoveries. At once touching and powerful, the story is told in Hemingway's simple, fragile style. The book covers the greatest human needs - stability and confidence.
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Hemingway Ernest Miller
The work “The Old Man and the Sea”
“The old man was fishing all alone on his boat in the Gulf Stream. For eighty-four days he had been going to sea and had not caught a single fish. For the first forty days he had a boy with him. But day after day he did not bring a catch, and the parents told the boy that the old man was now clearly alao, that is, the most unlucky, and they ordered him to go to sea on another boat, which actually brought three good fish in the first week. It was hard for the boy to watch how the old man returned every day with nothing,
And he went ashore to help him carry the gear or the gaff, the harpoon into the sail wrapped around the mast. The sail was covered in patches of burlap and, folded, resembled the banner of a completely defeated regiment.”
This is the background to the events that unfold in a small fishing village in Cuba. The main character, old man Santiago, is “thin, emaciated, the back of his head was cut by deep wrinkles, and his cheeks were covered with brown spots of harmless skin cancer, which is caused by the sun’s rays reflected by the surface of the tropical sea.” He taught the boy Manolin to fish. The boy loves the old man and wants to help him. He is ready to catch him sardines as bait for his going out to sea tomorrow. They go up to Santiago's poor hut, built from the leaves of a royal palm tree. In the hut there is a table, a chair, and a hole in the earthen floor for cooking. The old man is lonely and poor: his meal is a bowl of yellow rice with fish. They talk to the boy about fishing, how the old man must get lucky, as well as the latest sports news, baseball scores and famous players such as DiMaggio. When the old man goes to bed, he dreams of the Africa of his youth, “its long golden shores and shallows, high cliffs and huge white mountains. He no longer dreams of fights, or women, or great events. But often in his dreams there appear distant countries and lions coming ashore.”
The next day, early in the morning, the old man goes fishing. The boy helps him take down the sail and prepare the boat. The old man says that this time he “believes in luck.”
One after another, fishing boats leave the shore and go out to sea. The old man loves the sea, he thinks of it with tenderness, as of a woman. Having attached the bait to the hooks, it slowly floats with the current. Mentally communicates with birds and fish. Accustomed to loneliness, he talks out loud to himself. He knows the different inhabitants of the ocean, their habits, and he has his own tender attitude towards them.
The old man is sensitive to what is happening in the depths. One of the bars shook. The fishing line goes down, the old man feels a huge weight that carries it with him. A dramatic multi-hour duel unfolds between Santiago and a huge fish.
The old man tries to pull up the string, but he doesn’t succeed. On the contrary, she pulls the boat behind her, as if in tow. The old man regrets that the boy is not with him. But it’s good that the fish pulls to the side and not down to the bottom.
About 4 hours pass. It's approaching noon. This cannot go on forever, the old man thinks, soon the fish will die and then it will be possible to pull it up. But the fish turns out to be tenacious.
Night. The fish pulls the boat further and further from the shore. The lights of Havana fade in the distance. The old man is tired, he tightly clutches the rope thrown over his shoulder. The thought of fish does not leave him for a second. Sometimes he feels sorry for her. “Isn’t this fish a miracle, God only knows how many years it lived in the world. Never before have I come across such a strong fish. And just think how strange she behaves. Maybe that’s why she doesn’t jump because she’s very smart.” Mentally talks to the fish. “I won’t part with you until I die.”
The fish begins to pull less powerfully, it has clearly weakened. But the old man's strength is running out. His hand goes numb. Finally the forest began to go up, and fish appeared on the surface. She burns in the sun, her head and back are dark purple, and instead of a nose there is a sword as long as a baseball bat. It is two feet longer than the boat. Having appeared on the surface, it begins to go into the depths again, pulling the boat along with it, and the old man has to mobilize all his strength to prevent it from falling off. Not believing in God, he reads “Our Father.” “Even though it’s unfair, I will prove to her what a person is capable of and what he can endure.”
Another day passes. To distract himself, the old man remembers baseball games. He remembers how he once measured his strength in a Casablanca tavern with a powerful black man, the strongest man in the port, how they sat at the table for a whole day, without giving up, and how he eventually gained the upper hand. He took part in similar fights more than once, won, but then gave it up, deciding that he needed his right hand for fishing.
The battle with the fish continues. He holds the line with his right hand, knowing that when his strength runs out, it will be replaced by his left. The fish comes to the surface, then approaches the boat, then moves away from it. The old man is preparing a harpoon to finish off the fish. But she steps aside. The old man's thoughts are confused due to fatigue. “Listen, fish,” he tells her. - After all, you still have to die. Why do you need me to die too?”
The last act of the fight. “He gathered all his pain, and all the rest of his strength, and all his long-lost pride and threw it all against the torment that the fish was suffering, and then it turned over and swam quietly on its side.” Raising the harpoon, he thrusts it into the fish's side with all his might. She feels the iron entering her flesh and pushes it deeper and deeper.
He is overcome by nausea and weakness, his head is foggy, but he still pulls the fish to the side. He ties the fish to the boat and begins to move towards the shore. He mentally estimates: the fish weighs at least fifteen hundred pounds, which can be sold for thirty cents a pound. “I think the great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.” The direction of the wind tells him which way to sail to get home.
An hour passes before the first shark appears. Smelling the smell of blood, she rushes after the boat and the fish tied to it. She approached the stern, bit into the fish, and began to tear it apart. The old man hit her with a harpoon. She sinks to the bottom, taking with her a harpoon, part of a rope and a huge piece of fish. “Man was not created to suffer defeat. A person can be destroyed, but cannot be defeated.”
Accompanied by a piece of fish. Notices the fins of a whole school of sharks. They are approaching with great speed. The old man greets them, holding up an oar with a knife tied to it. Sharks attack fish. The old man enters into battle with them. One of the sharks is killed. Finally the sharks left behind. They had nothing left to eat.
When he entered the bay, everyone was sleeping. Having removed the mast and tied the sail, he felt tired. A huge tail of a fish rose behind the stern of his boat. All that was left of her was a skeleton.
On the shore, the boy meets a tired, crying old man. He reassures Santiago, assures him that from now on they will fish together, because he still has a lot to learn. He believes that he will bring good luck to the old man.
The next morning, rich tourists come ashore. They are surprised to notice a long white spine with a huge tail. The waiter tries to explain to them, but they are very far from understanding the drama that happened here.
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