...The book follows the old man on his journey out to sea in search for a fish. But why did Hemingway wright him to be an old man? A young one would have had much more strength to bring the fish in, but he would have gone at it in a different perspective. Is the old man supposed to go through similar every day challenges as a normal person would? When the old man catches the fish, he holds on and doesn’t let go, so from that perspective it could be taken as a metaphorical grudge, or see it for what it is, determination. But the fact is, is that if Hemingway was to write it as a young man against the sea, he could have given up the fish, to try to catch a smaller one for less labor. But what does age have to do with their choices? First off,...
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...words. ‘’Happy birthday’’ it’s a text about an old man and a young boy, who live in a ruin, in a former warzone. The city is still full of soldiers and tanks. The man got the baby boy about six years ago from a refugee woman. The story begins with the man wanting the boy to choose a birthday. The boy chooses the following day. The old man puts together a cart for the boy, but he also wants the boy to experience a world without war. Next day the boy gets the cart and pretends its a tank, because he is fascinated by war, but the old man want the boy to pretend that it is a truck. After that the man takes the boy into the forest for a day to experience the world as it should be. They pass a tank on their way, and the boy is all ecstatic about it, but the man wants the boy to come along into the forest. The man falls asleep, and when he wakes up late in the afternoon then he found out that the boy was missing. The old man is calling the boy and in the end the boy comes out from the tank 2. Characterize the boy and the old man. The old mand: The old man is kind, friendly and helpful, because he took the little baby without any expectation to get something back, like money or help from others. He spawned the little boy with his money, no help from others and his pure love like a father. The old man does not like war and the soldiers. He wants to take the boy away from war, because he thinks that the boy is too young. The old man takes care of the young child, because a refugee...
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...Young and Old - Happy Birthday War; a subject which can scar even the most innocent man, in the most horrible way. Despite the scars not always being shown ed, they exist in the mind of the individual. Even though the man might seem to be calm and brave, there will always be something underneath that will constantly will (langt biled ikke adskille s + v) remind him of the horrors he has survived. In “Young and Old” we meet and old man and a young boy, and their view on the past war, which has clearly has (langt biled ikke adskille s + v) touched them in different ways. Fint ( The story is about a young boy and an old man, who are (kongruens) during the war is united by faith during the war (langt biled ikke adskille s + v). It takes place shortly after the war, because soldiers are still walking though the streets, but they are friendly, and the population of the city is free to wander around. In the beginning we learn that the man and the boy spend an awful lot of time in the catacombs of cellars beneath a shattered city, which sets the mood in the text. ( We imagine a city in ruins and a dark and creepy hangout place especially for the young boy. It’s is told by an objective, third person narrator, which results in us not taking any of the protagonist’s party, and therefore makes us capable of to experiencing e both of the characters in an equal way. ( ( Due to this fact, it is important for us to look at the protagonists separately. At first we have the old man, who...
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...‘To Build a Fire” Jack London’s short story, “To Build a Fire,” takes place during a harsh winter in the forest of Alaska. This story is about a courageous but stubborn man who decides to confront the mighty forces of nature. This man takes a journey that not many would have taken, with a husky dog as his only companion. As he travels through the rough landscape of Alaska, he faces many natural obstacles. Facing these barriers make him more aware about reality about challenging the forces of nature, a challenge that in many times becomes a matter of life or death. Throughout the story the main character is not given a name, he is simply known as the “Man.” A hardheaded newcomer to the coniferous forest of Alaska; a man who thinks he knows it all, but is about to come in contact with the worst weather he has ever had to face. The man’s lack of experience led him to his downfall. As his journey began he went into the trail not well prepared, because of the low temperatures a face mask was well needed and he did not bother to wear one. “He does not recognize that man is so finial that the bitterly cold Alaskan inevitably destroys the individual” (McClintock 355). The man had trouble understanding that Nature was something that can never be fought against, but still his machismo personality set in and he was not going to back down from it. Fifty degrees below zero meant nothing to him, he knew it was going to be cold and uncomfortable, and that was it. It did not lead him to...
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...when the fat man tried to put down Leila by telling her that she will lose her youth one day and all of the things she enjoys now will be hopeless when she is old. Leila had a hard time overcoming this conflict as she took the fat man’s words quite harshly. Leila was caught in a dilemma between listening to the fat man or ignoring him. However Leila was able to overcome this conflict by moving on and forgetting what the old man had told her. Leila had done this because she realised that even though what the fat man had said might be true; in the sense that she will grow up one day. But Leila realised that since that day isn’t tomorrow, she knew that it is important that she lives the life to fullest while she is still young. The conflict was important to the text as it showed how Leila reacts to and overcomes the conflict, the conflict also showed that at times it is important to not take everyones opinion to heart, and the conflict showed that it is important to move on from a bad situation. The conflict that Leila faced was that the fat man had said to Leila that her youth wouldn’t last forever. In the text the fat man had told Leila that one day she will have lost her youth, and become an old lady who is unhappy and no longer desired by other men. The fat man says some harsh words that makes Leila upset as she realised he was right in a way, that she will grow old eventually. The fat man had changed Leila’s perspective of the ball from an exciting new experience to a miserable...
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...environment and existence changes. Doris Lessings short story “In the National Gallery” is a thought-provoking, fascinating and a little bit pessimistic short story about nostalgia, chances/experiences, age difference, the nuances and colours of life and passion. It is told by a first person narrator who is sitting in The National Gallery and observing some events taking place around her by an elderly well-presented man in the sixties and a French girl who is about sixteen years old. The main character in which eyes we experience the whole course of events, is sitting next to the old man on a bench by a remarkable picture of a red horse called “the Stubbs chestnut horse”, which is described as a magnificent beast with power and potency. This is where it starts as the old man is trying to teach a younger man about the paintings. The young man is restless and does not have the passion and time for studying art as the older man, and therefore he leaves the gallery. While sitting on the bench and admiring the painting, a French group of school girls enter the room and draws a lot of attention, especially the head of the group which is a sixteen years old French girl, describes as “a package to be admired.. with a pert little face.. she was an original, the ‘card’, the wit, perhaps even the buffoon”. The old man immediately gets spellbound of her, as he starts to reveal to the narrator, who is sitting next to him on the bench, how he got rejected by the love of his life in his past when he...
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..."A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" Two waiters in a café in Spain keep watch on their last customer of the evening, an old and wealthy man who is a regular at the café and drinks to excess. They discuss the fact that he tried to commit suicide the week before, but that it could not have been over anything important because he had plenty of money. The old man asks for another brandy and one of the waiters brings it to him. The two waiters discuss their customer further, saying his niece found him hanging himself and cut him down to save his soul, and that without a wife he must be lonely. One of the waiters is younger than his colleague is, and expresses impatience to close up the café and get home to his wife. The other one, a middle-aged man, defends the old man, saying that he stays so late at the café every night because he has no one to go home to. Finally, the young waiter refuses the old man’s order for another drink, and the man pays and leaves. The two waiters close up the café and the middle-aged one again rebukes the other, saying he should have let the old man stay. The middle-aged waiter says he understands the old man’s reluctance to leave, and that he is always hesitant to lock up because someone may “need” the cafe because it is clean, well lighted, and overshadowed by the leaves of trees. The young waiter boasts that he has everything: youth, confidence, and a job. The middle-aged waiter says he and his colleague are indeed different, and that he himself lacks...
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...painting it was a huge painting of a big horse. ‘’And there it was, the Stubbs chestnut horse, that magnificent beast, all power and potency and from the central benches I could see it well’’ (L. 4 P. 1). The narrator expected that he/she would be alone in observing the painting, but soon an old man sat down at the other side at the bench. He was about sixty years old, well dressed, and seemed very interested in the painting. A few moments later he is joined by a younger man, who is evidently his student or younger family member. The old man starts to tell him about the panting in somehow this is annoying for the young man and he exclaiming that ‘’you can’t make a silk purse out of me, I keep telling you’’ (L.23 P.1). This shows us that the old man is trying to pass on some of his knowledge and experience, and trying to teach the young man a thing or two. However the young man won’t have it and claims that he can’t change him. You can’t make something bad into something good. If we take a closer look at the symbolic of the chestnut horse, we may see what the old man was trying to pass on to the young man. The horse symbolizes power, strength and potency or in other words, everything a man would strive to have....
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...Autobiographical Self-representation in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea Twentieth Century American Fiction ¬¬¬¬ Art and Literature has its origin in man’s desire for immortality. This desire for eternal remembrance prompted primitive men to carve figures of himself and his surroundings in his dwelling places. As art developed and languages formed, the same desire enflamed and that became an impetus for literature. Early literature must have been a recording of real life events with strong and highly fictional additions. Thus, every literature is a product of this human desire to make oneself immortal through the recording of one’s own philosophy, imaginations and real life events. Even in the modern age this subconscious desire results in the inclusion of autobiographical elements of the author into his writings. Ernest Hemingway, America’s most celebrated novelist-cum -short story writer of the twentieth century is said to derive the impetus for his fiction from his own real life experiences or very rarely from the experiences of others who have went through agonies in life just like him. The Old Man and the Sea, one of his greatest and most widely read work is certainly filled with many allusions to his own life, and ideals. The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of an old fisherman named Santiago who fishes in the gulf stream. The man is having some bad time with fishing and has gone without fish for eighty five days. He is very poor and...
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...The older waiter’s perspective was seeing this defenseless, hopeless, lonely man, witnessing how this old man struggled to make it through the day, owning to the fact that he probably saw himself in him. Even though, not much is said about the older waiter’s life, he became significant because of how he constantly was consciously towards the old man, for that reason he tended to be queried, “What did he want to kill himself for… How did he do it?” (Hemingway 380). The older waiter did not discriminate the old man for his wealth due to the fact that he could relate to the old man; this is what many people struggle with, they become so unaware that do not take notice of the world they live in. Being prejudice towards other people by what they have, and by their appearance. This is what prevents a person to guide or advise someone that could benefit from it, however, through experiences and age people become alert. For instance, like the older waiter whom overcame his natural default setting, though, “[S] staying alert and attentive, instead of getting hypnotized by the constants monologue” (Wallace 2). The older waiter knew that there were people like the old man that were stuck in the deep darkness and for that he wanted to help in any way, for instance, “Each night I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the café.”(Hemingway 382)....
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...The story is about two waiters waiting to close their café, one is old the other is young and the customer is old. The story deals with the two waiters different take on the customer need for a clean well-lighted place where he can have more than a few drinks. The younger waiter does not understand why the customer cannot just drink at home instead of inconveniencing them by staying up so late, while the older waiter understands the customer need for a place to drink, where he can try and escape the feeling of nothing less which in the end will come to all of us regardless of social status. This story shows the men who are at different stages of life and how they see the inevitable death in dissimilar ways. In the end as the saying goes the only things guaranteed are death and taxes, however you can only control the way you approach the death. A Clean Well-lighted Place Ernest Hemingway short story “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” is one of many short stories written by one of The 20th Centuries most celebrated authors. Hemingway was part of what they called the lost generation, the generation that served during the First World War, which later on came to be used for a group of expatriates who lived in Europe. He won the Pulitzer Prize for literacy for his book The Old Man and the Sea in 1954. Hemingway was wounded in Italy while serving with the American Red Cross during World War I. It was these experiences in war that provided the background for some of his works, Hemingway...
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...people saw our outfit for prom, but that's another story.) What this means, though, is that there are some things in this world that are so uniquely awful that they resist our attempts to put them into language. With Night, Elie Wiesel is doing one of the hardest things any writer can ever do: put the worst human experiences into words. It's a terrifically difficult job that he's got on his hands. In part, that difficulty helps to explain one of the calling cards of the book's writing style: sparseness. The sentences here are short, choppy, and relatively straightforward. You won't be getting lost in elaborate constructions or fancy metaphors. The horrors that Eliezer witnesses are instead told at an angle....
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...London’s “To Build a Fire” portray the man vs. nature theme. These two pieces are alike and different in many ways. I can agree and disagree on the survival methods used by both authors, although Crane’s methods seemed a bit more questionable. While nature seemed to toy with the crew of the boat in “The Open Boat”, the old man in “To Build a Fire” seems to toy with nature by ignoring its signs to stop and to relinquish his failing journey. In the following paragraphs I’d like to get into the trenches of these two adventure stories. These two authors share similar traits when it comes to connections and reasons for writing these stories. Stephen Crane wrote “The Open Boat” based on a real life experience he went through. It was on December 31, 1896 when Crane left the Florida panhandle en-route for Cuba. His mission was to cover the war as a correspondent. On January 2, his ship sank and he and the other three crew members were forced to make the rest of the 30 hour trip in a small dinghy back to the United States (SN). This real life experience compares to Jack London’s real life journey through the Yukon Territory in 1897, around the same time as Crane’s sea adventure. London scavenged the area with others around that time in search for gold (Rees). While the gold rush was ultimately not as successful as he had hoped, London took many stories and experiences from the search (Rees). Initially, while these two stories both show the man vs. nature theme, they are different in...
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...Magic Realism in “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” Magic realism is defined as “a fiction often associated with Latin America that interweaves realistic and fantastic details, juxtaposing the marvelous with the ordinary” (Charters 1741). It involves fantastic elements combined with realistic elements, thus making it hard to differentiate both. Magic realism is different from fantasy because it is set in a realistic setting. According to Gonzalez Echchevarria, magic realism “offers a world view that is not based on natural or physical laws nor objective reality” (qtd in Moore). In this research paper, I will show how the story of “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” presents strong characteristics of magic realism. “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” contains non-rational and realistic...
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...1.1 Tina is an adolescent. At 11 years old she has not yet developed, nor is she expected to have developed, a strong mental (or physical for that matter) capacity to process all negative and/or traumatic experiences that life has already thrown at her. She is at a very impressionable age.There are various points to keep in mind with respect to her unique situation viz. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. She is very young and vulnerable being 11 years old Her father was not present in her life having walked out when she was 3 years old It is very possible her mother had a slew of relationships with other men whilst she was growing up Tina’s mother is not a rational individual. It is clear her mother’s frustration has boiled over and blaming Tina for her failed marriage Mother remarried bringing a new set of dynamics to her life. The mother is working hard at keeping her new marriage afloat and is clearly not supportive of Tina The step brother is quite old compared to Tina and Tina would look at him as a protective figure in her life No mention is made of the attitude of the step father towards tina so i am inclined to assume he has not abused either emotionally or physically and is of sound mindFrom this summary it is evident Tina, at 11 years old, has endured severe and potentially lifelong trauma. Tina has grown up without a solid father figure in her life. A man/father-figure is seen as the solid rock or foundation of any family. Historically a man is seen as the provider. He ‘brings home...
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