BA III/Special English/Novel/Old Man and the Sea

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The Old Man and the Sea

·         The Old Man and The Sea is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway.

·         Hemingway is an American novelist.

·         The novel is written in 1952.

·         The novel received Pulitzer Prize in 1953.

·         Hemingway received Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.

·         Hemingway dedicated his Nobel Prize to the Cuban people.

·         Santiago (सांतीयागो) is a main character in the novel.

·         Santiago is a fisherman.

·         Santiago loves American baseball. His favourite player is Joe Dimaggio.

·         Manolin (मॅनोलीन) is a boy and assistant of Santiago.

·         The family of Manolin has asked him not to go with Santiago. But Manolin continues to visit Santiago.

·         The sea described in the novel is the Gulf Stream, north of Cuba.

·         Santiago is unable to catch a fish for 84 days.

·         On 85^th day, Santiago sees one giant marlin (मार्लिन: एक मोठा मासा). It was 18 feet long.

·          Santiago fights against the giant fish for three days.

·         Santiago kills the marlin.

·         While taking marlin to the shore, the sharks attack the dead marlin.

·         Santiago fights against the sharks with a harpoon (हार्पून:भाला) as his weapon. But then the harpoon is lost in the sea.

·         The sharks eat the flesh (फ्लेश: मांस) of the marlin, and only skeleton (स्केलेटन: सांगाडा) is left.

·         The novel is set in a Cuban village. (क्युबा देशातील एक खेडेगाव)

·         At the end of the novel, Santiago dreams of lions of an African beach.

·         Famous quotation: “A man can be destroyed, but cannot be defeated”. (“माणूस उध्वस्त होऊ शकतो, पराभूत नाही”)