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The Old Man and the Sea
My dad had read The Old Man and the Sea to me because it was a fishing story.
Jack Gantos -- Hole in My Life
Hemingway’s Pulitzer Prize winning novella of facing a harsh and unforgiving world with dignity (1952)
My dad had read The Old Man and the Sea to me because it was a fishing story.
Jack Gantos -- Hole in My Life
The Old Man and the Sea can only take place in the Caribbean, of course, but more particularly in and around Cuba.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Kind of like Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea.
Nicholas Sparks -- Message in a Bottle
Yes, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), a nearly perfect literary parable, so clear, with symbols so available, that the Christian imagery is accessible to even beginning readers.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
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We can never get all the way to the level of pure myth, even when a work like The Lord of the Rings or The Odyssey or The Old Man and the Sea feels "mythic," since even those works are displacements of myth.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
