Vocab 1
He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility.
Gained as an objective; achieved
He did not like to look at the fish anymore since he had been mutilated
Disfigured beyond repair
Identify the literal meaning of salao.
Salty
In the line "He settled comfortably against the wood and took his suffering as it came…" name who the old man could be compared to here?
Jesus
“It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, he thought” Name what beat him.
Nothing
The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks.
Characterized by or suggestive of doing good.
But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures.
To lengthen in duration; protract
Who is Santiago and the boy’s favorite baseball player?
Joe DiMaggio
Say what the old man is considering doing right before the big fish strikes.
Sleeping
Santiago thinks the fish weighs 1500 pounds, but would dress out at ⅔ of that. At 30 cents per pound, how much would the fish be worth?
$300
The position actually was only somewhat less intolerable; but he thought of it as almost comfortable.
Unbearable
Also now I have gained on him in the question of sustenance.
Something, esp. food, that sustains life or health
The fishermen call it ___ mar when they love her; they call it ___ mar when it’s an enemy
la - el
Name who El Campeón was?
Santiago
What do the tourists think the fish’s skeleton is?
A shark
He loved green turtles and hawk-bills…and he had a friendly contempt for the huge, stupid loggerheads
Scorn; disparaging or haughty disdain
He hit it without hope but with resolution and complete malignancy.
Something disposed to do evil; highly injurious
When the old man sets the hook on the big fish, what happens?
Nothing
In the end, how does Santiago kill the fish?
Harpoon to the heart
When Santiago stabs shark #4 in the face, he loses his final proper weapon: what was it?
knife
He saw the phosphorescence of the Gulf weed in the water
Producing a display of lustrous, rainbowlike colors
Make yourself do it and devise some simple and sure way about the lines.
To form, plan, or arrange in one's mind; design or contrive
Finish this sentence, which is pure Hemingway: “They were as old as…”
Erosions in a fishless desert.
How long is the fish, as the old man sees it?
Two feet longer than the boat
How could Santiago and the fish have fought the sharks “together?”
He could have used the marlin's spear as a weapon