" Now they have beaten me, he thought. I am too old to club sharks to death. But I will try it as long as I have the oars and the short club and the tiller" (Hemingway 112). Determined to continue fighting despite of defeat shows a true hero.
Santiago's mindset allowed him to critically think about failure but managed to get over it. To begin, one of the challenges that Santiago
In Hemingway's “The Old Man and the Sea”, Santiago was a “Code Hero” who exemplified the admirable qualities of perseverance through his actions. Perseverance is not giving up giving the effort that is required to do something and keep doing it till the end, even if it's hard. In Hemingway's “The Old Man and the Sea” Santiago was example of perseverance when he begins the catch of the Marlin. The old man sets out to catch a big fish to redeem his reputation and get back his boy, what he hooks is a marlin which is more than he expected to hook. The old man did not let the setbacks hold him back he fought with marlin for a span of three days.
The quote shows the theme of Personal Legend well because Santiago was so close to just giving up his Personal Legend many times, but he followed the omens and continued on his journey. If he would not have realized his personal legend and been courageous, Santiago would have never traveled or found his treasure. Santiago’s personal legend is a very important one in the book, but
The purpose of this paper is to describe how Santiago is an ideal representation of a "Hemingway Hero" and if Jay Gatsby would be considered one based on Santiago. First, what exactly is a “Hemingway Hero"? The “Hemingway Hero" are "figures who try to follow a hyper-masculine moral code and make sense of the world through those beliefs” (Hemingway Code Hero). They
Both Moana and The Maze Runner by James Dashner use characterization to show the key trait of a literary hero is bravery. Both of the movies have examples of the main characters being brave and stepping up to a chance of death to save their friends. Moana finale makes it to the where she has to restore the heart, but she comes across the monster Te Ka. She realizes that she has to restore the heart to Te Ka but Maui tries to stop her, she then tells Maui “Let her come to me” and states “I have crossed
Passion, Comradery, and Authenticity At the end of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, Jake has neither learned how to “live in it”, living meaningfully in the present, nor discovered “what it was all about”, the core meanings of life. However, the novel does show how to “live in it” and “what it’s all about” by implying the formula for living a meaningful and successful life. It conveys this formula through the Romero the bullfighter. Romero shows how one can lead a meaningful life through his passion, comradery, and authenticity.
“Here I am between my flock and my treasure, the boy thought. He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.” (30) Santiago must realize that it is he that is holding him back and to take the risk. Once Santiago found out about the term personal legend he will take the risk. “There was nothing to hold him back except himself.
In Ernest Hemingway’s Old Man and The Sea, the main character, Santiago exhibits the characteristics of Hemingway’s Code Hero. In The Old Man and The Sea, Santiago manages to catch a marlin and in doing so displayed great patience. One example in which Santiago shows such patience is when he is hooking the marlin . As stated on page 42, “He waited with the line between his thumb and his finger, watching it and the other lines at the same time for the fish might have swam up or down.
The definition of Hemingway’s Code Hero is “a man who lives correctly, following the ideals of honor, courage and endurance in a world that is sometimes chaotic, often stressful, and always painful.” Both Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrate the ideals of code heroes through their characters in their writing. In the life of the code hero, the characters in both novels live a life with a sort of code of honor. In both worlds, the life they live is often chaotic and stressful, Both characters have courage and endurance and attempt to stick with their goals until the end. For both, death is, or will be the end.
Ernest Hemingway’s characters are frequently tested in their faith, beliefs, and ideas. To Hemingway’s characters, things that appear to be grounded in reality and unmovable facts frequently are not, revealing themselves to be hollow, personal mythologies. Hemingway shakes his characters out of their comfortable ignorance through traumatic events that usually cause a certain sense of disillusionment with characters mythologies, moving them to change their way of life. His characters usually, after becoming disillusioned, respond with depression, suicide, and nihilism. However, this is not always the case.
In the novel, all those characters that conform to the code, for example, Robert Jordan, Pedro Romero, and Santiago implies that they have the physical prowess and this acts as means to guarantee their success. The code of exchange in place stipulates that all those people that follow it should leave their traditional values and a few people such as Count Mippipopolous fails to conform to the system. While he owns a business, he still upholds the traditional values and the only way which the count follows the code of exchange is when getting his money’s worth after spending (Hemingway 68). Of note, the people that are cautious about the system of trade and conforming to its guidelines are those people from Jake’s generation. The belief system
(Hemingway, 1952, p.29). Santiago was brave enough to accept the unavoidable thing like death or his mind was ready to face any struggle but he was a man who refused to accept defeat. He prove himself as a determined man through killing his opponent marlin. His destruction over his enemy and shark shows a bravery and heroic qualities in him. He is even willing to sacrifice his own life to bring the marline at shore which shows that his bravery is stronger than any other thing.
They begin discussing the old man’s attempt at suicide. The story which seems to start off about the old man really becomes about the fear the old waiter has of becoming like the old man. The importance of the characters, setting, and symbolism of the story all help Hemingway to express the hopelessness and loneliness of the old man and the older waiter. The story’s characters consist of the young waiter who is confident but seems to be a bit naïve about what life is really about.
The battle that The Old Man fights with the marlin, as well as the daunting task of defending the marlin from the countless sharks that follow the skiff, are two points in the novel where Hemingway really conveys the sense of struggling and suffering. This is how Hemingway tries to convey an underlying theme of the constant struggle between man and nature, by depicting the struggle between The Old Man and the Marlin, against all odds. The Old Man considers the fact that capturing the Marlin is such a great task for him since the Marlin is trying just as hard to evade and escape from The Old Man’s reach. Throughout this struggle, The Old Man, who eventually becomes very fatigued, keeps telling himself to push through the pain and bear it like a real man would. He pushes past the faintness and dizziness he experiences, he pushes himself to see beyond the black spots in his weary vision and he pushes past the pain in his hands to catch the Marlin which puts up a great fight against this frail old man.
