- Imagine you are Hemingway and are just publishing The Old Man and the Sea. Write your introduction to the book.
- Imagine you are a writer for a local newspaper and The Old Man and the Sea has just been published. Write an article about its release.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Grade 12 IB: The Old Man and the Sea (Due before class Wednesday, November 24th)
Choose one of the following tasks and write at least 400 words. Make sure you consider the structure of the text. Please also skip one line between each paragraph.
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The old man and the sea
ReplyDeleteWith this small book that contains an infinite amount of information, Ernest Hemingway manages to describe the sacrifice of an old Cuban fisherman who is tremendously unlucky. Santiago the fisherman doesn’t fish a fish for eighty-four days. This period of time is so long that the parents of his young apprentice Manolin force him to leave Santiago alone and go and fish with luckier fishermen. I recommend this story to readers of any age. Thanks to his experience, the author is brilliant in the description of every single scene of the book, every page is written simply and perfectly and if you carefully read this book I guarantee you will learn many useful things. Fishing is a passion but this book is not only about fishing, it is about life.
Three days ago, was published in Cuba, a book, that will probably be an international bestseller. This novel is written by Ernest Hemingway, and it is called " The old man and the Sea". This novel is set in Cuba, and describes some days of fishing of a fisherman called Santiago, helped by a trustable child, whose name is Manolin.
ReplyDeleteThis novel revolves around, Santiago, who is desperate, because are 84 days that he does not catch a fish. But on the 85th day, he caught a marlin. He passes the next three days trying to kill this marlin, when he finally succeed, some sharks seeing the blood released by the marlin, followed Santiago and got his marlin. They ate all of his flash. They just left the skeleton of the big fish.
This novel is an extremely deep literature work. Ernest Hemingway with this short novel, wants to describe the struggle of everyday life. Santiago symbolize all those people who struggle for life, who struggle for have a decent life. Furthermore, Santiago symbolize perseverance. After 84 days without catching a fish, probably everyone will have given up, but Santiago does not. He's strong and his strength is a teaching for the young generations but also for adults. Santiago wants to give us a message, to continue to follow our ideas, our mind, until the end.
Furthermore there are many other themes in this short novel. Manolin's character is a perfect example of loyalty. Even though Santiago was not catching anything, Manolin continues to stay with Santiago and continues to help him in life, for examples he gave him some football news or food. He loves Santiago and he will never betray him, for no one. In a society of many false people, Manolin gives us hope, and pushes us to try to be loyal friends with everyone and try to help who needs more than us. Again Manolin's character must be chose as an examples for adults and for younger generations.
This short novel will soon become a classic. The greatness of the author, is that is very few pages and with an extremely simple vocabulary and plot, he was able to write a book with so many literature features, so many themes to be analyzed and so many aspects to reflect on and to learn. This short novel is for every kind of audience, from teenagers to old people, everyone may read this story for the elementary sentence structure and vocabularies, but not everyone will truly appreciate the extraordinary teachings that are in this book
In conclusion, this novel will soon sell many copies and will be read by everyone in the world. I think that this novel deserves an international success.
I look forward that many of our readers will buy this book.
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The old man and the sea
ReplyDeleteThe old man and the sea is the last novel written by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway as well as being a very good writer, he also lived an incredible life, full of memorable experiences. The novel is set in Cuba, a place the author knows very well for this reason all the description is excellent. The old man and the see is a very short book, about 100 pages, but the content is infinite.
It is the story of this old man, so old that the only part of his body who still seems alive are his eyes. The man is old and has been a fishermen for all his life therefore he has a lot of experience in the field. Manolin, the only other character of book is a teenager who learns how to fish from Santiago, the old man. At the beginning of the book Santiago is in a terrible situation because it’s 84 days that he doesn’t catch any fish therefore Manolin’s parents decide he has to go and fish with other people. Later on Santiago will catch a fish, an enormous Marlin, however it will be eaten by the sharks on the way home.
The story and the style of this book are really simple, however this book is not only about a man fishing. The book is about life in general. It teaches never to give up and much more. I recommend this book not only to adults but also to young kids, I am sure that after reading it you will reflect and somehow be a different person. Manolin continues to help the old man although he stopped fishing with him and cries when Santiago is missing during the night he is fighting with the marlin. Their relationship is a real and proper lesson, it shows how an old man should behave with a young child and vice versa.
Finally I really loved the heroism and bravery of Santiago that despite he is old he fights for four days. He tries killing the sharks who go and eat the marlin and at the end of the story although the only part of the fish that he manages to bring home is the skull he is morally satisfied because of what he did. This book will probably become very requested therefore hurry up and buy it because in a short period of time it will be very difficult to find.
Riccardo--
ReplyDeleteMuch better!
Remember, we want to start practicing skipping lines between paragraphs, even in typing, so that on the exams there is no chance of forgetting!
Here are a couple of grammatical tips:
You wrote: "Hemingway as well as being a very good writer, he also lived an incredible life, full of memorable experiences." You used great transition words, but do not need to repeat the subject in the second clause. Simple write: "Hemingway as well as being a very good writer also lived an incredible life full of memorable experiences."
Please capitalize and either italicize or underline book titles.
When writing about literature, we always refer to the book in the present tenses. YET if something in the book is referred to as past, you need to use present perfect. You wrote: "At the beginning of the book Santiago is in a terrible situation because it’s 84 days that he doesn’t catch any fish therefore Manolin’s parents decide he has to go and fish with other people." Instead write: "At the beginning of the book Santiago is in a terrible situation because it HAS BEEN 84 days that he HAS NOT CAUGHT any fish therefore Manolin’s parents decide he has to go and fish with other people."
I can tell that you used the text we worked on in class to help you write this assignment (good to use a model!). You started with brief introduction to the book, provided a short summary, went into a brief analysis, and then provided your personal opinion and recommendation. Very good work on the structure.
The Old Man and the sea is being distributed in all the libraries of this country. The last incredible book of Ernest Hemingway. The Old Man and the sea in only 100 pages narrates the story of SANTIAGO, an old “Wolf-sea” which for 84 days went fishing without taking anything, only the eighty-fifth day Santiago manages to fish this Marlyn, a fish of enormous dimensions. The book is entirely dedicated to an exhausting experience that this character face to catch his first fish after 84 long days of nothing. At first impact might seem a simple book on fishing without any significance; in fact Hemingway uses its famous theory of the iceberg (outside of the water you can see only the 20% of the iceberg, but in the dark there is the rest of the iceberg that hides under the water). This is exactly what the author, Hemingway ,in his book tries and does , there is a meaning inside any sentence, even in the individual words. This makes this book one of its best works, and besides being an easy reading it is also imbued with a thousand meanings, which reflect the author’s life, as for example his age and his various experiences.
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