Ernest Hemingway

He was one of the greatest American writers of the 20th Century and a member of the Lost Generation. He was born in 1899 in Oak Park. His family was very strict and religious. His father taught him to love of nature, his mother a love of music and art. He was fascinated by war. His most successful book, For Whom The Bell Tolls is about the Spanish Civil War. Another novel, A Farewell To Arms is about the fatality of war. He married 4 times and he survived two plane crashes. He suffered from depression and he began to drink heavily. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. In 1961 Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun as his father had done.

The Old Man and the Sea

The story is about a poor old fisherman, called Santiago. Santiago had one good friend, who was a small boy Manolin. They were fishing together for 40 days but they didn‘t catch anything so Manolin had to gone on another boat. Manolin went to help him with skiff, sometimes he invited Santiago to beer or he bought him sardines. During the time they were together they talked about baseball. Santiago believed that his luck will change. He wanted to catch one big fish, so he took his skiff out much further into the sea than usual. He noticed a creature, the giant Marlin around him, which was longer than Santiago skiff so he tied him to one side from skiff. Sharks ate the Marlin and left only skeleton of the fish. When Santiago came back to beach he went straight to his cottage and fell asleep. After it, Santiago and Manolin agreed to fish together. Lot of tourists observed around the giant Marlin and thought that it‘s a shark.