1. Old Man and the Sea and the Hemingway Hero
Ernest Hemingway
Old Man and the Sea
and the
Hemingway Hero

2. Hemingway
Born in 1899
Volunteered as an ambulance driver in Italy during WWI
Wanted to fight, but had an eye injury due to boxing
“Love and War”
Journalist by trade
Look at style

3. Paris
Lost Generation
Friends with Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound

4. Literary Successes
A Farewell to Arms was his first commercial success (1929)
Old Man and the Sea (1952) won the Pulitzer Prize (1953) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1954) …you’re welcome…

5. Depression: 1961 Idaho

7. Hemingway Hero or Code
A man is defined by WILL, PRIDE, and ENDURANCE

8. WILL
The will to face defeat and victory truly, without complaining on one hand or boasting on the other

9. Pride
The pride of knowing that one has done one’s best and has acted according to one’s own nature.

10. Endurance
The endurance to accept pain, even loss-- when loss cannot be avoided

11. More Hemingway Hero
The HH must NOT make trouble for others. People are free, but our freedom extends to the end of the next person.
Finally, the HH does NOT judge others because he views men objectively,

12. What to look for in OMS
Style
Short, simple, clear

13. What to look for in OMS Structure Some dream sequences
Watch for religious allusions (numbers)

14. What to look for in OMS
Themes
Isolation (Ethan Frome)
Religion

15. What to look for in OMS Symbolism Boy, Old Man, Fish
“I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, and real shark. But if I made them good and true enough, they would mean many things. The hardest thing is to make something really true and sometimes truer than true.”

16. REQUIRED QUIZ
Go to the quiz link and make sure to complete the quiz by Wednesday (a day) or Thursday (b day).