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Hemingway
Setting
Details
Themes
Misc.
100

Hemingway fled this country because of Fidel Castro

What is Cuba

100

The Old Man often thinks about a baseball player who plays for a team in this city.

What is New York (The Yankees)

100

What narrative point of view is used in The Old Man and the Sea?  

What is Third Person Limited

100
The Old man often sees the fish as his equal, representing this theme.
What is Man with Nature, or Man as a part of Nature
100
The Old Man is on this kind of small boat.
What is a skiff
200
Although Hemingway was an American, he volunteered as a soldier and a journalist for this country's Civil War.
What is Spain.
200
The Old Man often dreams about a memory he has of lions sleeping on a beach here.
What is Africa
200
Prior to setting out on his fishing trip, the Old Man has not caught a fish in this many days.
What is 84
200

The Old Man embodies the idea of working hard through adversity and doubt. This represents this theme or idea. 

What is Perseverance

200
These are symbols for things and hardships that get in the way of one's dreams.
What are the sharks
300

This is how Hemingway died.

What is a self-inflicted gunshot wound

300
The Old Man and the Sea takes place here.
What is Cuba
300

Manolin’s parents refuse to let the boy fish with the old man because they believe Santiago is “salao”. How does Hemingway translate this word?

What is “the worst form of unlucky”

300

A strong theme in the novel is pride as the source of greatness & determination; once the fish is killed why does Santiago apologize to it?

What is he went out too far and part of the reason he killed it was due to his pride.

300

What does Joe DiMaggio symbolize in The Old Man and the Sea?

What is ideal of strength and grace under pressure 

400

Where in FL. did Hemingway live?

What is Key West, FL.
400
The Old Man begins fishing in this body of water.
What is the Caribbean Sea
400

“Santiago” is Spanish for which of the following?

What is St. James

400

As his first full day of fighting with the fish wears on, what does Santiago begin to think about his adversary (the marlin)?

     

He feels that he and the marlin are like brothers, joined by the fact that they both ventured (traveled) far out beyond all people and dangers in the water.

400
Hemingway won this award for The Old Man and the Sea. (Hint it is given for Literature, Peace, Physics, etc.)
What is the Nobel Prize
500

Hemingway won what prize for The Old Man and the Sea.

What is The Pulitzer Prize for writing

500
The marlin drags the Old Man out to this body of water.
What is the Atlantic Ocean
500
The Old Man eats these three kinds of fish while out to sea.
What are albacore (tuna), flying fish, and dolphin (mahi mahi)
500
Since the Old Man endures a great deal of pain, has his heroism go largely unnoticed, has a small group of devoted followers, and ultimately dies, it is clear that he is one of these "figures."
What is a Christ-figure
500
"But a man is not made for ________. A man can be destroyed but not _________." Fill in the blanks (it is the same word in different tenses)
What is "defeat" and "defeated."