Term Papers on Ernest Hemingway

Term Paper Title	Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway

Many people find it hard to believe that the struggle between fish and fisherman is really a struggle at all.  In The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway shows how very hard this struggle can be.  Hemingway portrays the story of an old fisherman, Santiago, who has not caught a fish in the past eighty-four days.  On the eighty-fifth day Santiago hooks a huge blue marlin that proceeds to pull Santiago and his skiff out to sea for four days.  Through his struggle Santiago proves himself as a courageous, wise, and strong-willed man.
     Through Santiago's struggle the reader sees his courage.  Santiago shows his courage first when he ventures into very deep water with just his little skiff and no partner or life preserver to save him if he falls overboard.  Santiago's situation becomes even more dangerous when he is fighting with the fish.  If the fish gives a sudden tug on the line and Santiago gets caught in it he might lose balance and will most surely be pulled overboard and drown.  Santiago also shows courage when he battles with the sharks as they try to demolish his marlin.  When the sharks first appear Santiago uses the harpoon, but after the shark takes that he makes his own spear, when the spear breaks he uses the club.  When all else fails Santiago uses his fists to fight the sharks, even though he knows that his arm could be taken just as easily as the other weapons.  Another indication of  Santiago's courage is that he is not afraid of going out past the sight of land without the aid of any kind of navigational devices.  "Then he looked behind him and saw that no land was visible.  That makes no difference, he thought."(p.46).  It is not what the old man says, but how he says it.  In this instance he thinks as if it is very normal to be out of the sight of land with no compass.  Truly throughout his struggles Santiago shows himself as brave.
     Through his struggle Santiago shows himself to be wise in the ways of fishing.  All of the actions that Santiago makes on the skiff shows him to be wise.  Santiago shows his wisdom in setting the hook, letting the fish eat just enough of the bait then fighting with all his might.  He also shows his wisdom in how he knows that, "I could make the line fast.  But then he could break i...

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