Through Ernest Hemingway's novel, The Old Man and The Sea, Santiago, the old- beaten down fisherman, earns the status of a hero for living a life in which there is much chaos, and uses his advantages to overcome them. ... He continues to fight his heart out no matter how old, tired, and beaten up he is. ... Tom King endures the pain, and does not give into the crowd, but rather continues to fight in the manner in which he wishes to. Santiago as well uses a mental approach to endure, in which he makes man feel invincible. " And pain does not matter to a man" (Hemingway 84). ... However, th...

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In Ernest Hemingway's novel, The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago initially undergoes traumatic pain. ... In The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago's character transforms from a humble fisherman to a model of heroic manhood. ... In the old days, Santiago used to be one of the most respected people in his village. ... "Pain does not matter to a man" (84). ... "But man is not made for defeat, a man can be destroyed but not defeated" (103).The transfiguration of Santiago is the moment he brought back the carcass of the marlin. ...

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Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea is the classic tale of an epic struggle between an aged, down-on-his-luck fisherman and a huge marlin. The old man, Santiago, has suffered through eighty-four long days without a catch. ... The old man sets out to kill the marlin for practical reasons, but the struggle turns into a battle of pride. ... Santiago does not once consider giving up the fight. ... Hemingway treats the concept of pride ambivalently in The Old Man and the Sea. ...

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Throughout Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway illustrates Santiago as a prideful man through his dialogues. ... The old man did not give up, since to him a man's body can be shattered but being defeated is more shameful. Santiago ignores all of the pain he has: "And pain does not matter to a man" (88). ... " (62) It makes Santiago looks weak in front of his opponent, the marlin, even fish is not intelligent like mankind and does not know to look down at the old man, Santiago does not wants his cramping hand to embarrass him. ... The story is not just an old man and the fish, bu...

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In Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea," Hemingway tells the story of a Cuban fisherman named Santiago who personifies both courage and endurance. No matter how badly his old body aches, Santiago stands brave and displays great persistence when he goes out to sea in search of a big catch after having not caught any fish the previous eighty-four days. ... Santiago personifies endurance throughout "The Old man and the Sea." ... In the struggle, the old man loses the harpoon and some valuable rope, which leaves him vulnerable to other shark attacks. ... For instance, despite hunger, ...

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It is not winning or losing that matters, it is how one plays. In the novel The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, the main character Santiago goes through many hardships while trying to catch a great fish, and then while the sharks are trying to devour his precious fish, but in the end he is victorious, as all man is, for he never gave up. ... As a wise man once said, "It is not winning or losing that matters, it is how one plays." ... When Santiago finally does make it ashore, the fishermen see the huge skeleton of the fish, admire its gigantic size, and feel pity for the old man who...

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The Old Man and The Sea occurs during three days and three nights on the sea. ... The old man's name is Santiago and he had been a very prosperous fisherman at one time. ... He begins to feel intense pain. ... The old man was so determined on catching the fish even if it cost him his life. ... At times I got the feeling that even the old man had begun doubting himself. ...

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"The Old Man and the Sea," by Ernest Hemingway is a novel settle in Cuba, and is centered on an old fisherman, Santiago, who hasn't caught a single fish in eighty four days. He spends his days in the sea along with a boy named Manolin who helps and cares for the old man. ... Santiago does not give up on his goals and does not accept defeat no matter what he faces, with the help of friendship, strength and skill, and luck. ... " Only the boy, not the narrator, refers to the old man by name. ... He tried to settle more comfortably to steer and from his pain he knew he was not dead....

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The Old Man and the Sea was published in 1952. it is a short and fable story, about an old Cuban fisherman Santiago and his battle against a giant marlin. ... The writer does not tell us the name of the character he is talking about. ... Day after day, he goes out into the sea, but not getting a single fish in 84 days. He must be a very disappointed while he does not lose hope. ... Hopefully, the old man sails silently on the black sea. ...

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He lived primarily in Cuba from 1940, the locale of his novella, The Old Man and the Sea 1952, which won him a Pulitzer Prize. ... The specific novel I read by him was The Old Man & The Sea it was a fascinating novel. Everything about The Old Man & The Sea is classically simple. ... After not catching fish for forty-four days, they have decided the old man is bad, and they do not want it to rub off on their son. ... When things do not go his way, he does not blame outside sources, but looks for the cause within himself. ...

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Both Santiago from The Old Man and the Sea and Singh from The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship overcome life challenges with passion and drive. ... His experiences described in The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway show his passion towards his lifestyle as a fisherman and his motivation to bring in a catch, no matter the size. ... By the third day of this strenuous trek across the water, the old man is getting extremely tired of fighting the strong marlin. ... Before doing so, he says, "Now you're going to see who I am", which shows his dedication to showing the townspeople, ...

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Thomas Cahill's Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, depicts the culture of ancient Greece. ... Not only does he have fighting spirit, he has valor and is not a wrathful person like Achilles. ... We would not know as much as we do not about ancient warfare without homer. 2.) ... It showed that all Greek men, no matter how impressive, have their limitations and that they are flawed and that the greatest pain that man suffers is the pain that is self-inflicted. ... They believe that to be eternally One, the adolescent male does not need clothing. ...

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He surprised many of the critics when the novel, The Old Man and the Sea, was published.. ... Two years later he received the Nobel Prize for his "powerful, style-making mastery of the art or modern narration- (Griffin 1) for The Old Man and the Sea. ... Santiago from "The Old Man and the Sea- is a hero because he was courageous and was not afraid of death. ... Ole Anderson of "The Killers- does not whimper. ... Most of the source material for The Old Man and the Sea comes from Hemingway's own experiences fishing off the coast of Cuba. ...

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The Great DiMaggio is a recurring theme and symbol throughout "The Old Man and the Sea," by Ernest Hemingway. ... We do not have them. ... I do not think I could endure that or the loss of the eye and of both eyes and continue to fight as the fighting cocks do" (68). ... "This is the second day now that I do not know the result of the juegos, he thought. ... Any man could do it. ...

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Jeremy Bentham, social philosopher and founder of British utilitarianism, assumed that animals do not suffer because they do not experience pain. ... You'd be an idiot not to know when a dog, or cat, or monkey or cow was in pain. ... He also believed animals were aware of pleasure and pain, but did not have the ability to reason and lacked emotion. ... In Genesis, God gave man "dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every thing that creepeth upon the earth" (Genesis 1:26 KJV). ... If we as humans do n...

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So if you went by that 75% of Americans we"re not getting in, no matter how good of a person you may think you are, no entrance. ... There will be no more pain, no more tears, and no more death. ... There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."" ... No more pain, no more sorrow, just God. ... Genesis 5:21-24 tells us a story about a man named Enoch. ...

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Along Frodo's journey he meets other characters sworn to protect him no matter the situation. ... Not only does he have to battle obstacles thrown at him with orcs but also his mental stability along the way. ... Being stranded on an island with no food, no shelter and no order does things to 12 year old children. ... Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across that square, red rock in the sea" (Golding, William 1996, The Lord of the Flies Faber and Faber Limited, London) As 12 year old boys, this was something that they were not mentally ready for. ... Do him in!" ...

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Qumran, The Essenes and the Dead Sea Scrolls Preamble "The grass withers and the flowers fall but the word of our God stands forever" Isaiah 40.8 "Mohammed Dib, a Bedouin shepherd of the T"Amireh tribe" (Keller, 1957, 401) could not have known that he would be the person who, in 1947, would bring to bear the words of Isaiah 40.8 0 This shepherd boy had been clambering around the clefts and gullies of a rock face on Wadi Qumran, north of the Dead Sea hoping to find one of his lost lambs. ... These include every book in the Old Testament with the exception of ...

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A long time after he was lost at sea, he opened his eyes to see, as he described, " a huge, very old Negro. ... At first Phillip felt nothing toward the old man, considering that before when his boat was torpedoed, he was hit in the head by a piece of timber which damaged several nerves. When he woke up he was in tremendous pain from the accident. ... In the afternoon, Phillip understood what he needed to do to survive. He first found coconuts in a mass sea grape and ate the meat. ...

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The tone and subject matter of Hughes' poetry can be linked to certain points in history, and his life. ... Often children do not consider the consequences of their actions; they act on instinct and desire. ... "White Man! White Man! ... The shame and anger that the defendant feels can be compared to the blistering pain of a third degree burns. ...

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The villagers are "surrounded by sea, and while the redskins' gunboats [patrol] the coastline helicopters [fly] overhead" (Jones 99). ... The first time (in the novel) the redskins visit "an old dog had its belly ripped open. ... He looked like a man sadly resigned to conducting such business" (104). ... After thinking more about what has happened, the internal pain starts to overwhelm Matilda and it leads her to fatal thoughts. ... Matilda can not cope with the things she has witnessed and all of the pain she feels inside catches up with her and leads her to thoughts...

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Both Samuel Taylor and William Wordsworth conceived a new style of poetry in which nature and diction of the common man outplayed formal, stylized writing. ... In the second quarter of the poem William Wordsworth tells the reader that everything in nature, such as the wind and the sea is met up in a powerful spiritual connection that only so little of us can comprehend, with which humanity is, "out of tune", essentially what William Wordsworth is trying to say in this part of the poem is that humans are not experiencing nature as they should. ... "This sea that bares her bosom to the...

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How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the sand? ... Yes, how many years can a mountain exist, Before it's washed to the sea? ... As a result, Cross is forced to live in faith, hoping that Martha returns love to him; even though he does not believe in words "love Martha" that is at the end of the letters from her. ... It did not choose between a coward and a brave man, a priest and an atheist; instead, it collected all men regardless of their profession and beliefs. ... From the narration he gives, American soldiers died in the Vietnam War and left behind the...

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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. ... He generously supported friends and relations through it all no matter how ill he got. ... Jack was 40 years of age and had been suffering from a variety of ailments, including a kidney condition that kept him in great pain the last of remaining days. ... The general plot of The Call of the Wild was "Buck" a huge, four- year old half-Saint Bernard and half-Scottish shepherd dog that was living a life of civilized ease in California in the home of a man called Judge Miller. ...

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Odysseus, the hero of The Odyssey, was born into royalty and ruled the city-state of Ithaca when he was older. ... Odysseus knows they will all be devoured if he does not take action. ... Before he does, he asks Odysseus what his name is. ... When he cries out loudly in pain that nobody stabbed him, no other cyclopeses come to his aid. ... Poseidon stirred up a fierce storm that destroyed the hero's raft while at sea. ...

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