Hemingway's "The Old Man And The Sea": An Analysis
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Everyone has an arch enemy. Batman had the Joker, Superman had Lex
Luthor. But without their enemies, they would be unimportant, just like
anyone else. One could say that they needed their enemies, that their
enemies were almost friends. Similarly, The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest
Hemingway, ....
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.... they
love her." (p.29) He saw the sea as a woman, a woman that gave or withheld
favors. She was unpredictable beacuse "The moon affects her as it does a
woman." (p.30) The sea was like a second home for the man, who fished
every day. La mar provided the man with food, a living, an enemy, and a
friend.
When he was out on the sea fishing, he was at home. The sea, la
mar, was like his mother. The fish in the ocean were like his brothers and
sisters. When he heard the dolphins playing in ....
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Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
