Hemingway or the Highway
Walloon Lake, where Hemingway's family had (and still have) a summer cottage, is in which midwestern state?
Michigan
This weapon pierced the marlin's heart.
Harpoon
This Asian-American author is still alive and writing. She wrote the modern classic The Joy-Luck Club.
Amy Tan
These reptiles represent Santiago's strong heart and coarse hands and feet.
Turtles
Hunting and fishing
This young man was only five when Santiago began to mentor him.
Manolin
This was the final weapon that Santiago used to fend off the sharks.
The tiller
This author married Marilyn Monroe, and managed to write both The Crucible and Death of a Salesman.
Arthur Miller
These mammals represent Santiago's inner youth and strength.
Lions
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.
"It is a long island" is how Santiago describes this, his home country.
Cuba
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.
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
These windows to Santiago's soul are sea-colored and youthful. They represent the vitality of Santiago's inner life.
His eyes
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
This part of his body betrays Santiago. This is small illustration of the larger "man vs. nature" theme.
The mako shark
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
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
This ratio represents Hemingway's wives to children.
4:3
This famous baseball player is Santiago's hero. His father was a fisherman.
Joe DiMaggio
This was used to inflict blunt force trauma on the galanos
The club
Slaughterhouse Five
This manner in which the man brings in the fish represents their equality.
Side by side (lashed to the side of the boat)