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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Miller Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961), the author of the The Old Man and the Sea, was born in Oak Park, America. Actually, Hemingway was not just an author, he was also considered to be one of the most famous novelists of the 20th century. He had strong interest in writing, so he wrote novels at the same time. In his later years in Idaho Ketchums home committed suicide. Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. . Many of his works are considered classics of American literature. Hemingways emotional experience was complicated that he has married four times. He was a representative figure in the United States lost generation The life, world and society of his works have shown a feeling of confusion and uncertainty. The main content of this book is that the old fisherman Santiago doesn’t catch any fish for 84 days. At first, a boy named Manolin follows him .However after forty days without catching a fish, the child is arranged by their parents to another boat up because they think the old man is unlucky. Thus on the eighty-fifth day, He unexpectedly caught a marlin even bigger than the boat. Santiago makes the fish pulling his skiff. Two days and two nights pass in this manner, during which the old man bears the tension of the line with his body. On the third day, the fish begins to circle the skiff. Thus Santiago begins the fight between the sharks and himself. Finally reaching the shore before dawn on the next day, Santiago struggles on the way to his shack, carrying the heavy mast on his shoulder. Once home, he goes to his bed and falls into a deep sleep. A group of fishermen gather the next day around the boat where the fishs skeleton is still attached. Tourists at the nearby café mistakenly take it for a shark. Manolin, worried during the old mans endeavor, cries upon finding him safe asleep. The boy brings him newspapers and coffee. When the old man wakes, they promise to fish together once again. Upon