The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat. Similarly, The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway, is a love story about the relationship developed over the years. It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the sail that was furled around the mast. He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. A short story, merely 140 pages in length, The Old Man and the Sea details the excursion of Santiago, a Cuban fisherman. In the first forty days a boy had been with him.īut after forty days without a fish the boy’s parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week. Cited in the Prize motivation for Hemingway’s 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature and earning him his only Pulitzer, The Old Man and the Sea is one of the legendary author’s most beloved tales. 27 'Good luck old man.' 'Good luck,' the old man said.

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. 9- The Old Man and the Sea The boy was back now with the sardines and the two baits wrapped in a newspaper and they went down the trail to the skiff, feeling the pebbled sand under their feet, and lifted the skiff and slid her into the water.

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