The stories of Ernest Hemingway's novels are always taken from life and have a hidden meaning, which you can solve only by carefully considering the read work. The writer himself was a simple and open person, so in his work the main characters are ordinary people whom Hemingway sympathized with. “The Old Man and the Sea”, the brief content of which allows us to understand the great talent of the author, tells about the fate of the fisherman, who is the embodiment of human strength, perseverance and invincibility.
The old fisherman of Santiago has been home for 84 days without a catch. Previously, a boy, his student, used to fish with him, but after constant setbacks, his parents forbade him to go to sea with the old man and sent him with other boats. 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 for him, to somehow help his teacher, Manolin meets him in the evening and helps to bring the gear home.
The fisherman was very poor and lonely, Hemingway described his difficult life in colors in the short story “The Old Man and the Sea”. The summary of the story takes the reader on the day when the man promises the boy that today he will definitely catch the fish. The fisherman sets out for the sea in the early morning, he is used to spend days like this, being alone with the waves. A man conducts a continuous dialogue with birds, fish, the sun. The relationships and feelings experienced by the old man and the sea seem very strong.
The summary shows how well the fisherman is aware of the habits of all marine inhabitants, he treats each of them in his own way. Some time after going to sea, the old man feels that his fishing line is pulled. He understands that he has caught a very large fish, but he cannot pull it out. The prey does not want to give up and pulls the boat in tow ever further from the coast.
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 that he experienced during the many hours of duel with the fish. He could cut the fishing line and let it go, but did not want to give up, although he respected his prey for his stubbornness and thirst for life. The next day, the fish surfaced on its side, and the fisherman managed to finish off it with a harpoon, then he tied it to the boat and went home.
Smelling the smell of blood, sharks began to approach the boat, the old man fought back as best he could, but they still torn huge pieces of meat from its priceless prey. A man sailed home late in the evening, the whole fishing village was already asleep. In the morning, going fishing, the boy saw Santiago crying on the shore, and a huge snow-white ridge with a big tail, like a sail, was tied to his boat. 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 the morning when wealthy tourists gather near the shore to stare at an unprecedented miracle - a huge skeleton of fish, but not one of them can understand what really happened.