Assignment on ”The Old Man and the Sea”

First of all I would like to comment on the shape of the story. It is a long story because it has 109 pages. Such long story would normally be characterised as a novel, but since there are no chapters or parts in the story I would say it is a novella.

Themes: life/death, pride, growing old
The novella takes place in a small fishing village where most people are poor, especially the main character the old man called Santiago.
Santiago is a thin, gaunt man with deep wrinkles showing that he has lived a long life. On his nose he has blotches from the sun revealing that he spends his day in the sun. His hands carry deep-creased scars from handling big fish, but none of them are fresh and they further prove two things: that he is old, and that it is 84 days ago since he caught his last big fish, otherwise he would have had fresh scars. The only sign on him not being old is his eyes. They are cheerful and happy and describe his......

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Title: The Old Man And The Sea
Approximate Word Count: 752
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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