Analyse af Ernest Hemingways 'The Old Man and the Sea'

The book” the old man and sea” is a special book. The main theme is an achievement and it is based on the whole book. The most important part of the book is the big fight between Santiago and the big marlin fish. Ernest Hemingway tells the fight as the symbol of a person’s strength. Achievement is also a different word for goal, every person has a goal in their life. It could be you want to become a doctor, or you want to get a driver’s license, but in the book, the goal is that Santiago wants to show the other fishermen that he can catch a big fish, Santiago also went further away on the sea than normal fishermen would do. Santiago did not bring the whole fish back, but Santiago brought the goal with him. He showed that he could catch a marlin. Ernest Hemingway is known for his novels, and his way using the iceberg principle in most of his books, for example, “the old man and the sea”.

“the old man and the sea” is about an old man, his name is Santiago. Santiago went fishing for 84 days without a catch. So, he meets a young boy, his name is Manolin, Manolin is in “the lucky boat”, they went out on the sea to fish, and they catch a few fish. They went back to shore and later Santiago went fishing further than other fishermen. He wanted to prove something to himself and the other fishermen, he wanted to show that he could catch a big marlin. When he tried to catch a fish, all he got left was the skeleton of the big marlin. In the end, Santiago was exhausted he laid in the bed and dreamt about lions.