He kills the fish with a harpoon and attaches it to the boat with a rope. Until the fish swims almost next to the boat on the surface of the water. Every time the fish has swum a circle the old man pulls the line a bit into the boat The fish suddenly starts to swim around in circles round the boat. But the swordfish is tired too, because he has been dragging the boat all night. It turns out to be a very big and beautiful swordfish that is even bigger than the boat! He stays up all night and in the morning he is mentally and physically broken. It takes till the evening when he can see the fish for the first time. He realizes that it must be a very big fish that pulls the boat and he prepares for a battle between him and the fish. Suddenly he sees that he caught something! He tries to pull his line on board, but the fish is too strong and suddenly his boat starts to sail. He puts his rods in position, rows his boat far from the coast and waits for big fish to bite. Then the great DiMaggio (a famous baseball player) will be proud of him.Īt a regular morning he leaves in his tiny wooden boat. Every time the old man goes out fishing he believes that from that day on he will have luck and he will catch a lot. The first 40 of these 84 days he had been fishing with a boy named Manolin, but his father has forbidden him to go out fishing with Santiago any longer, because he believed that the old fisherman is doomed. But in the last 84 days he caught nothing at all. He has been a fisherman his whole life and gained much experience. Other books by Hemingway are: A Farewell to Arms, The Torrents of Spring, Fiesta, Men without Women and more.Ī poor old and wise fisherman named Santiago lives in a village at the Gulf Stream. He visited Spain during the Civil War and described his experiences in the bestseller: For whom the bell tolls. Hemingway was passionately involved in bullfighting, hunting and deep-sea fishing. The story is very realistic, all the things that happen can happen in the real world.Įrnest Miller Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, as the second of six children. On November 1954 the Swedish Academy awarded Ernest Hemingway the Nobel Prize for literature for this book. This book was published in 1975 by Book Club Associates London. The first publication of The Old Man and the Sea, a book written by Ernest Hemingway, was in 1952.
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