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The author of the book.
What is Ernest Hemingway?
What happens to the old man's left hand?
What is a cramp?
At the beginning of the book, how long has it been since Santiago caught a fish?
What is 84 days?
What do Santiago's dreams of lions represent?
What is youth, power, or strength?
Ms. Weber's favorite animal.
What is a whale?
The name of the old man.
What is Santiago?
On what day does he spear the Marlin?
What is the third day?
Why doesn't Manolin fish with the old man anymore?
What is the boy's parents say the old man is bad luck?
List two ways that suffering is seen throughout the story.
What is the old man lacks food, water, sleep, and is in pain?
Ms. Weber's age. Do the math -- she was born in August of 2000!
What is 23?
The setting of the book.
What is Cuba?
How does the old man get the fish home?
What is attaching it to the side of the skiff?
List 2 ways that Hemingway describes Santiago's eyes.
What is color of the sea, cheerful, and undefeated?
Joe DiMaggio represents this throughout the novel.
What is Santiago's hero?
Ms. Weber's second language.
What award did Hemingway win?
What is Pulitzer Prize?
What type of shark attacks them first?
What is a Mako shark?
Why does the thought of selling the fish's meat disappoint the old man?
What is the people who will eat the meat are not worthy of it?
People call the sea either la mer or el mar. What is the difference and what does it mean to them?
La mar is what people call the sea when they love her; El mar is masculine and used when they see her as a contestant or a place or an enemy
Ms. Weber's favorite fantasy book and movie series.
What is Lord of the Rings?
The philosophy Santiago relates to at the end of the novella.
What is everything in the world kills everything else in some way?
What did the old man use as a weapon to fend off the sharks?
What is a knife attached to the end of an oar?
Santiago wishes this repeatedly during his struggle with the marlin.
What is that the boy (Manolin) was with him?
Hemingway makes allusions to compare Santiago to which figure?
Who is Jesus?
Ms. Weber's favorite vacation destination. Hint - it's closer than you think.
What is the Adirondacks?