The Old Man and the Sea is the story of a battle between an old experienced fisherman Santiago and a large marlin. The novel starts by telling the reader that Santiago has gone 84 days without catching a fish considered "salao" the worst form of unluckiness. He is so unlucky that his young apprentice Manolin has been forbidden by his parents to sail with him and been told to instead fish with successful fishermen. The boy visits Santiago s shack each night hauling his fishing gear preparing food talking about American baseball and his favorite player Joe DiMaggio. Santiago tells Manolin that on the next day he will venture far out into the Gulf Stream north of Cuba in the Straits of Florida to fish confident that his unlucky streak is near its end.
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Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21 1899 July 2 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels six short story collections and two non-fiction works. Additional works including three novels four short story collections and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park Illinois. After high school he reported for a few months for The Kansas City Star before leaving for the Italian front to enlist with the World War I ambulance drivers. In 1918 he was seriously wounded and returned home. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms (1929).
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