The Old Man And The Sea Compared To "Shipwrecked Sailor"

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English

 

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Mary W

 

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March 22, 2016

 

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There are more similarities in these stories than differences, in my opinion. A difference between Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea and the sailor in "Shipwrecked Sailor" is their knowledge of the sea. Santiago is expressed well as a fecund and resourceful old fisherman of the sea. This is prodigiously expressed when Santiago, "Hooked a patch of yellow Gulf weed with the gaff as they passed and shook it so that the small shrimps that were in it fell onto the planking of the skiff" (Hemmingway p...
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This is prodigiously expressed when Santiago, "Hooked a patch of yellow Gulf weed with the gaff as they passed and shook it so that the small shrimps that were in it fell onto the planking of the skiff" (Hemmingway p.98). This is the act of a very intellectual and experienced fisherman. Unlike Santiago, the sailor in "Shipwrecked Sailor" is rather ignorant...
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