"The Old Man and the Sea": a short story

The stories of Ernest Hemingway's novels are always taken from life and have a hidden meaning, which can be solved only by carefully considering the work read. The writer himself was a simple and open person, so in his work the protagonists are ordinary people who sympathized with Hemingway. "The Old Man and the Sea", the brief content of which allows one to understand the author's enormous talent, tells the story of the fisherman who is the embodiment of human strength, perseverance and invincibility.

The old fisherman Santiago is already 84 days home without a catch. Previously, he was fishing with a boy, his pupil, but after constant failures his parents forbade going to sea with an old man and sent with other boats. The summary "The Old Man and the Sea" also tells about the strong friendship of two such different people. The boy loves the old man, and he is very sorry to help his teacher somehow, Manolin meets him in the evening and helps to take the gear home.

The fisherman was very poor and lonely, his uneasy life Hemingway in paints described in the novel "The Old Man and the Sea". The summary of the story takes the reader on the day when the man promises to the boy that today he will definitely catch the fish. The fisherman goes to the sea in the early morning, he is used to spending days like this, remaining alone with the waves. The man conducts a continuous dialogue with birds, fish, the sun. Very strong seem the relationships and feelings that the old man and the sea are experiencing each other.

The summary shows how well the fisherman is aware of the habits of all marine life, to each of them he treats in his own way. After some time after leaving the sea, the old man feels that his fishing line is stretched. He realizes that he has caught a very large fish, but he can not pull it out. The extraction does not want to give up and pulls the boat in tow further away from the shore.

Human strength, perseverance, self-esteem and superiority - all this is described in the story "The Old Man and the Sea." The summary reveals to the reader all the feelings of the fisherman, which he experienced during the many hours of fighting with the fish. He could cut the line and release it, but did not want to give up, although he respected his prey very much for perseverance and a longing for life. The next day the fish surfaced on its side, and the fisherman managed to finish it off with a harpoon, then he tied it to the boat and went home.

Sensing the smell of blood, the sharks approached the boat, the old man fought back as best he could, but they still tore up huge pieces of meat from his priceless booty. The man sailed home late at night, the entire fishing village was already asleep. In the morning, going on fishing, the boy saw on the beach crying Santiago, and to his boat was tied a huge snow-white ridge with a large, like a sail, tail. Manolin reassures the fisherman and says that now he will work only with him.

Hemingway managed to uncover the real drama in the novel "The Old Man and the Sea." The summary takes the reader on that morning when wealthy tourists gather by the shore to gaze at an unprecedented miracle - a huge skeleton of fish, but none of them can understand what really happened.