The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961), an American author and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, as well as the veterans of World War One later known as "the Lost Generation", as described in his posthumous memoir A Moveable Feast. A Farewell to Arms (1929) is the best works of “the Lost Generation”.
Hemingway's distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement, in contrast to the style of his literary rival William Faulkner. It had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. His protagonists are typically stoic men who exhibit an ideal described as "grace under pressure."
The Sun Also Rises,(1926) was his first novel, and he published For Whom the Bell Tolls in 1940. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.He published seven novels, six short story collections and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of these are considered classics of American literature. This is a story about an old Fisherman who is named Santiago. He hasn't caught a fish in over 80 days. Santiago is considered "salao", the worst form of unlucky. In fact, he is so unlucky that his young apprentice, Manolin, has been forbidden by his parents to sail with the old man and been ordered to fish in a more prosperous boat. Still caring for to the old man, however, the boy visits Santiago's shack each night, hauling back his fishing gear, getting him food and discussing American baseball and his favorite player Joe DiMaggio. Santiago is confident that his unlucky streak will soon come to an end, and he resolves to sail out farther than usual the following day. Thus on the eighty-fifth day, Santiago sails his skiff far onto the Gulf. He prepares his lines and at noon, a big fish, which he knows is a marlin, takes the bait. Unable to pull it in., instead, the fish begins to pull the skiff. Two days and two nights pass in this manner, during which the old man endures constant pain from the fishing
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