Hemingway or the Highway
Here fishy fishy
Weapons of Marlin (and Shark) Destruction
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Symple Symbols
100

Walloon Lake, where Hemingway's family had (and still have) a summer cottage, is in which midwestern state?

Michigan

100
The book opens by telling us that Santiago has gone this long without catching a fish.
84 days
100

This weapon pierced the marlin's heart.

Harpoon

100

This Asian-American author is still alive and writing.  She wrote the modern classic The Joy-Luck Club.

Amy Tan

100

These reptiles represent Santiago's strong heart and coarse hands and feet.

Turtles

200
Ernest and his father bonded over these two outdoorsy activities.

Hunting and fishing

200

This young man was only five when Santiago began to mentor him.

Manolin

200

This was the final weapon that Santiago used to fend off the sharks.

The tiller

200

This author married Marilyn Monroe, and managed to write both The Crucible and Death of a Salesman.

Arthur Miller

200

These mammals represent Santiago's inner youth and strength.

Lions

300

The Hemingway curse may have actually been caused by hemochromatosis, a buildup of iron in the brain.  This curse caused Ernest, his father, and one of his granddaughters to take this tragic step.

They took their own lives.

300

"It is a long island" is how Santiago describes this, his home country.

Cuba

300

This weapon was put together by Santiago to be a version of the weapon he used to kill the marlin.

His knife tied to an oar.

300

Joseph Heller wrote this book about a vicious circle where a soldier could be sent home from the war if he were insane, but if anyone pretended to be insane to get out of the war, it proved they were actually sane, and therefore had to stay.

Catch-22

300

These windows to Santiago's soul are sea-colored and youthful.  They represent the vitality of Santiago's inner life.

His eyes

400

Hemingway learned his important writing rules, such as using action verbs, use short sentences, use brief paragraphs, adopt clarity and authenticity when he worked at this newspaper.

The Kansas City Star

400

This part of his body betrays Santiago.  This is small illustration of the larger "man vs. nature" theme.

His left hand
400
The harpoon was lost when it killed what fish?

The mako shark

400

This recently deceased author wrote Beloved, a story about a former slave woman who is haunted both by the horrors inflicted upon her, and the ghost of her own daughter.

Toni Morrison

400

Santiago feels that the sea is feminine- specifically that it gives or withholds favors and that it changes with the moon.  He refers to it using this incorrect Spanish phrase.

la mar

500

This ratio represents Hemingway's wives to children.

4:3

500

This famous baseball player is Santiago's hero.  His father was a fisherman.

Joe DiMaggio

500

This was used to inflict blunt force trauma on the galanos

The club

500
In this book, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a man suffering after having been a soldier in WWII.  He is later abducted by aliens, although it is unclear whether this is real or just part of his mental illness.

Slaughterhouse Five

500

This manner in which the man brings in the fish represents their equality.

Side by side (lashed to the side of the boat)

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