12. Literature

12. LITERATURE

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – viz 14. otázka

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA – by ERNEST HEMINGWAY

• ERNEST HEMINGWAY:

  • Hemingway was a famous American writer

  • he was born in 19th centrury in the USA

  • he was member of the Lost Generation

    • which was a group of people who experienced war and weren’t able to start live normally again

    • because their memories caused them pain and suffering

  • Hemingway spent some time in civil war in Spain where he was an ambulance driver

  • he spent rest of his life in Cuba where he suffered from alcoholism and depression

  • in 20th century he committed suicide

  • his other novels are f.ex.: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Green Hills of Africa, A Farewell to Arms (Sbohem, armádo)

• THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

  • Ernest won the Nobel Prize for this novel

  • it tells a story of an old Cuban firsherman called Santiago who hasn’t caught a fis for a long time

  • he has a young friend called Manolin

  • one day Santiago decides to go fishing alone

  • suprisingly he has a luck and he catches a marlin

  • but the fish is big and it pulls the boat all day and night

  • in the end exhausted Santiago wins the battle and he is ready to go home

  • unfortunatelly on the way back he is attacked by sharks

  • he tries to fight with them but it’s too difficult and he returns home only with marlin‘s skeleton

  • this novel shows not only a battle of a man with nature but also a battle with himself

  • the story tells that a man is able to face difficult situations and accomplish a lot of things if he really wants to

  • I chose this book because I admire the Santiago’s strength to fight and doesn’t lose his heart