by Ernest Hemingway

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The Author and Literary Devices of
The Old Man and The Sea

by Ernest Hemingway
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t_gen.html
Hemingway began his serious fiction career in
Paris.
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When Hemingway was older, he lived in Cuba,
bought a boat, and became a serious fisherman.
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Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea at his
home in Cuba and it was first published in LIFE
magazine in 1952.

• He won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize and the 1954
  Nobel Prize for Literature.

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essay.htm
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• Gregorio Fuentes. 101 and still smoking.

Gregorio Fuentes with Hemingway.
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Gregorio Fuentes, his real-life fishing buddy in
Cuba, became his inspiration for Santiago, the
protagonist in The Old Man and the Sea.
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The Old Man and the Sea is considered a novella.

• Novella
• - an extended fictional prose narrative that is
  longer than a short story, but not quite as long
  as a novel. We might arbitrarily assign an
  approximate length of 20,000-50,000 words.

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Dream Sequence part of a story which occurs
when the character has a series of thoughts
images, or emotions during sleep
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• He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women,
  nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor
  fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his
  wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the
  lions on the beach. The played like young cats
  in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the
  boy. p. 22

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Flashback- an interruption of a work's
chronology to describe or present an incident
that occurred prior to the main time frame of a
work's action. Writers use flashbacks to
complicate the sense of chronology in the plot of
their works and to convey the richness of the
experience of human time.
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wrestling.htm

• The match had started on a Sunday morning and
  ended on a Monday morning. Many of the bettors
  had asked for a draw because they had to go to
  work on the docks loading sacks of sugar or at
  the Havana Coal Company. Otherwise everyone
  would have wanted it to go a finish. But he had
  finished it anyway and before anyone had to go to
  work. p. 69