The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway ~ Reviewed

The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and The Sea

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Language: English

Review of the Novel:

‘The Old Man and the Sea’ first published 1952. Ernest Hemingway, the author of the world celebrated novel. The novel was awarded ‘Pulitzer Prize for Fiction’. Later, the author in getting the Nobel Prize in literature the novel is discussed as seriously. The novel has been translated into several languages.

Thus begins the story: an old man, in the Gulf Stream fishing alone. Today, eighty-four days, he could not catch a single fish. The first forty days a boy was with him. But after forty days when they has no fish, the boy’s parents told him the old man has been unlucky so extreme. Their orders, the boy have gone to another boat and in the first week they caught three big fish. Everyday the old man back in empty boat, to see this, the boy became upset.

When the old man comes back, the boy helps him to bring the Fishing rope, Harpoon and otherwise things. The old man’s face sick, troubled. His countless wrinkles are down to the bottom of the neck. His cheeks have Tropical Ocean’s reflection, benevolent cancer’s brown rash. Wounded hands, the result of gather up the heavy fishing ropes.

The main character of the story is fighting with time, becoming endangered, upset and now reached in old age. But also he goes to fishing in Gulf Stream for survival.

We see the beginning of the story, the main character of the story, the old man is very much alone, lonely. He is a disadvantaged in the struggle of life. His everything is older than the ancient, but his perpetually bright eyes are exceptions from everything. Hemingway says, in the both eyes exists the blue of the sea – which is shining and invincible.

And finally, we have concluded that there is no hesitation, Hemingway’s ‘The Old Man and the Sea’s main theme is that: not surrender, constantly struggle is life.

About the Author:

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist. He was born in July 21, 1899, Oak Park, Illinois, United States and died in July 2, 1961, Ketchum, Idaho, United States.