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Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
By: Daniel Wallace In his prime, Edward Bloom was an extraordinary man. He could outrun anybody. He never missed a day of school. He saved lives and tamed giants. Animals loved him, people loved him, and women loved him. He knew more jokes than any man alive. At least that’s what he told his son, William. But now Edward Bloom is dying, and William wants desperately to know the truth about his…
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Daily Horoscope: Moon in Cancer, October 30, 2018
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Moon in Cancer, Tuesday, October 30, is a day of emotional exaggeration and possible one-upmanship as the moon draws close to the North Node in Leo, opposes Pluto in Capricorn, and forms a Grand Trine with Mercury conjunct Jupiter in Scorpio, and Chiron in Pisces. Quincunx aspects between Mercury/Jupiter to Uranus in Taurus, and Venus conjunct sun in Scorpio to Chiron indicate over the top behavior may actually serve a beneficial purpose if it gets you some attention you've been craving or helps you to advance in career or business. It also helps you be patient with others if they are telling tall tales or acting child-like. Behind most stories are some truths, and with the moon in a T-square later today with sun/Venus, and Uranus, and Mercury/Jupiter square Mars in Aquarius, you could be surprised to learn something far-fetched is possible or true. Maybe you will fall for a get rich quick scheme that actually CAN make you rich, or an opportunity you thought you lost comes back around. If someone tells you the odds of getting struck by lightning are better than succeeding at something, just tap into the electrical tingle Mars and Uranus are offering and get excited. The moon opposing Pluto can strengthen your chutzpah and undermine those who are complacent and arrogant, and you will better your odds. The energy of the day reminds me of the 2003 Tim Burton directed film, Big Fish, based on "Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions", by Daniel Wallace. Have you seen it?
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gennsoup · 6 years
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This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife.  They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.
Daniel Wallace, Big Fish (William)
Author: Daniel Wallace (American)
Title: Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
First Published: 1998
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Book List 2020
Congratulations, by the Way by George Saunders
The Sun also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Readling Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
The Group by Mary McCarthy
Catch-22
Gone by Cathi Hanauer
The Book of Madness and Cures by Regina O'Melveny
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandrew Dumas pere
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
What ever happened to baby jane? by Henry Farrell
The Murderer's Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers
Big Fish: a novel of mythic proportions by Daniel Wallace
Lost Girls: an unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Penguin Book of Witches edited by Katherine Howe & a Penguin Classic
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Not a fan. by Kyle Idleman
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
Allegiant
She's Come Undone by Wall Lamb
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Dune by Frank Herbert
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Asylum
Sanctum
Magpie by Michael James
The Lost Girls by J. Baggett, H. Corbett, A. Pressner
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (also David & Golliath and Blink)
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
A people's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Discipline and Punish by Michael Foucault
Stiff by Mary Roach
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Jungle
Ada or Ardor
Under the Banner of Heaven
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Water for Elephants
Go Ask Alice anonymous
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David F. Wallace
The Eskimo and the Oil Man: the battle at the top of the world for America's Future
Kabloona: among the Inuitt
The Psychopath Test: a journey through the madness industry by Jon Ronson
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Life after Life by Kate Atkinson
Keep it Shut by Karen Ehman
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Help
Heaven Is for Real
American Sniper
12 Years A Slave
 jose saramago: death with interruptions  
the good girl by mary kubica 
defending jacob: by william landay
the omnivore's dilemma by MIchael Pollan 
thinking fast & slow by daniel Kahneman
 discipline and punish by michael foucault 
still by mary roach 
second life by s.j. watson
 luckiest girl alive by jessica knoll
 her by harriest lane 
the memory box by eva lesko natiello
 is everyone hanging out without me? (and other concerns) by mindy kaling
 why men don't listen & women can't read maps: how we're different and what to do about it 
don't worry, it gets worse: one twentysomethings (mostly failed) attempts at adulthood: alida nugent 
mwf seeking BFF: my yearlong search for a new best friend**** 20-something, 20-everything: a quarter-life woman's guide to balance & direction girls in white dresses** 
adulting: how to become a grown-up in 468 easy(ish) steps the defining decade: why your twenties matter-and how to make the most of them now****   
the phantom tollbooth norton juster will grayson, will grayson-john green & david levithan 
a suitable boy-vikram seth
 invisible monster-chuck palahnuik 
slaughterhouse give-kurt vonnegut 
she's come undone-wally lamb 
the song of achilles-madeline miller 
the glass castle- jeannette walls 
11/22/63= stephen king 
the speechqriter a brief education in politics by barton swaim
 hand to mouth living in boostrap america by linda tirado 
****choke by Chuck Palahniuk ***
pedigree how elite students get elite jobs married sex by jesse kornbluth
 after i do by taylor jenkins reid 
everything changes by jonathan tropper 
heartburn by nora ephron 
good in bed by jennifer weiner
 love the one you're with by emily giffin 
compromising positions by susan isaacs 
damange by josephine hart
 us by david nicholls 
women in love by d.h. lawrence 
 the witches-roald dahl
 the haunting of hill house-shirley jackson 
20 books to read in 20s the sun also rises-ernest hemingway t
hinking, fast, and slow by daniel kahneman 
a heartbreaking work of staggering genius-dave eggers 
the country girls by edna o'brien
 the minotaur takes a cigarette break by ssteven sherrill
 **** the secret history by donna tartt *** 
pulphead by john jeremiah sullivan
 the beauty myth by naomi wolf 
slaughterhouse-five by kurt vonnegut
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
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sillytothejoereads · 5 years
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Treeborne: A Novel
Caleb Johnson
"I can’t remember the last time I read a book I wish so much I’d written. Treeborne is beautiful, and mythic in ways I would never have been able to imagine...I can’t say enough about this book."―Daniel Wallace, national bestselling author of Extraordinary Adventures and Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
An Honorable Mention for the Southern Book Prize
******One of Southern Living's "Best New Books Coming Out Summer 2018" and one of Library Journal's "Books to Get Now" **
Janie Treeborne lives on an orchard at the edge of Elberta, Alabama, and in time, she has become its keeper. A place where conquistadors once walked, and where the peaches they left behind now grow, Elberta has seen fierce battles, violent storms, and frantic change―and when the town is once again threatened from without, Janie realizes it won’t withstand much more. So she tells the story of its people: of Hugh, her granddaddy, determined to preserve Elberta’s legacy at any cost; of his wife, Maybelle, the postmaster, whose sudden death throws the town into chaos; of her lover, Lee Malone, a black orchardist harvesting from a land where he is less than welcome; of the time when Janie kidnapped her own Hollywood-obsessed aunt and tore the wrong people apart.
As the world closes in on Elberta, Caleb Johnson’s debut novel lifts the veil and offers one last glimpse. Treeborne is a celebration and a reminder: of how the past gets mixed up in thoughts of the future; of how home is a story as much as a place.
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New Post has been published on Christian Worldview Institute
New Post has been published on https://christianworldviewinstitute.com/bible-prophecies/end-time-events/book-of-daniel/big-fish-a-novel-of-mythic-proportions-audiobook-by-daniel-wallace/
Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions Audiobook by Daniel Wallace
I recommend you to listen to the full audiobook Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions, free at our library.
Writer and illustrator Daniel Wallace has published stories in various literary magazines. Big Fish is a novel reminiscent of Garrison Keillor and Mark Twain. It is a surprising work, filled with imagination, homespun humor, and hyperbole. Edward Bloom, an aging salesman, is dying. As his grown son, William, cares for him, the young man tries to focus on what he knows about his father’s life. Story after story surfaces in William’s memory, and he shares mythic visions of a fantastic father who was loved by all-a man who was the best runner, fisherman, businessman, and adventurer in the world. Big Fish tells these tall tales of Edward Bloom’s life. Punctuated with his vast repertory of jokes, they set the stage for Edward’s final, wonderful transformation. Each chapter achieves an added richness through Tom Stechschulte’s distinctive narration. An interview with Daniel Wallace is the perfect conclusion to this audio production. source
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adaptationsdaily · 2 years
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Mutlaka İzlemeniz Gereken 10 Kaçış Filmleri Örneği!
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Cumartesi günlerinizi eğlenceli geçirebilecek 10 örneği!
Yedinci sanat sinema, hiç kuşkusuz ki bizlere toplumsal hayatın gerçeklerini göstermekte oldukça başarılıdır. Tarih sahnesinde yaşanan bir olayı bütün gerçekliğiyle su üstüne çıkarmayı veya toplumun kanayan yaralarını başarılı bir kurguyla bizlere hatırlatmayı, sinemanın ortaya çıktığı ilk zamanlardan beri başarıyla gerçekleştirmiştir. Ancak bunların yanında bir de bizleri karakterlerin büyülü dünyasına çekerek, iki saatliğine de olsa dertlerimizden, sorunlarımızdan uzaklaşmamıza yardımcı olan kaçış sineması vardır. İşte, kendimizi karakterlerle özdeşleştirip dünyanın acı gerçeklerinden uzaklaşmamıza yardımcı olan sayısız Kaçış Filmleri içinden başarılı 10 tanesi:
1-Amelie(2001)
10 kaçış filmleri listemizde ilk sırada Fransız bir romantik komedi bulunuyor. Fransız yapımı bu romantik komedi bir Jean-Pierre Jeunet filmi. Özgün adı Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amelie Poulain (Amelie Poulain’in Masalsı Kaderi) olan film Audrey Tautou’nun başarılı performansıyla sizleri Amelie’nin masalsı dünyasına çekecek ve gerçek hayattan uzaklaştıracaktır. Bir kafede garsonluk yapan Amelie’nin tesadüfe dayalı aşk hikayesini konu alan bu film, renkleri, diyalogları ve mekân tercihleriyle içinizi ısıtacak. Sadece Yann Tiersen’in hazırladığı mükemmel müzikleri için bile izlenmeye değer.  
2- Forrest Gump (1994)
Winston Groom’un “Forrest Gump” isimli kitabından sinemaya uyarlanan filmin yönetmen koltuğunda Robert Zemeckis oturuyor. Pek de zeki olmayan Forrest tesadüfen 20.yüzyılın en önemli tarihi anlarında bulunur ve bu dönemleri etkiler. Devlet okullarında düşük IQ seviyesi nedeniyle eğitim alamayan Forrest, akla hayale sığmayan başarılara imza atar ve fiziksel olarak da epey güçlüdür. Fakat onun için önemli olan tek şey sevgidir. Bolca akademi ödülü alan film, Tom Hanks’in muhteşem performansıyla anılır. Dünyaya Forrest’ın gözleriyle baktığınızda hayatın bütün olumsuz yanlarını unutup sadece en sevdiğiniz insanlarla birlikte olmak isteyeceksiniz.
3- Midnight in Paris (2011)
Listemizde 3.sırada müthiş bir Fransız yapımı daha bulunuyor. Paris’de geçen enfes bir film daha! Pek çok eleştirmen tarafından efsane yönetmen Woody Allen’ın en başarılı filmi olarak görülen Paris’te Gece Yarısı, doğaüstü konusu ve görsel zenginliği ile kaçış sinemasının en başarılı örneklerinden. Karakterlerimizden Gil, nişanlısı ve nişanlısının ailesiyle birlikte Paris’e gelir. Ailenin kısa bir iş seyahatinde, hep hayranlık duyduğu bu şehri gezip görmeyi planlamaktadır. Yazarlık yapan Gil, ilham kaynağı olarak gördüğü bu şehri dolaşırken kendini birden ideal dönem olarak gördüğü 1920’lerde bulur. Dönemin yazarlarıyla arkadaşlık kurma imkanı bulan Gil ayrıca bu dönemden birine aşık olur. Oyuncu kadrosu, büyüleyici hikayesi ve dönemin yazarları, sanatçıları ile bizlere yaşattığı bu nostalji Midnight in Paris’i müthiş bir film kılıyor.
4- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Yine bir Avrupa filmi ile beraberiz. Kaçış Filmleri listemizde 2014 senesinde vizyona giren süper bir otel hikayesi. Almanya ve İngiltere ortak yapımı olan filmin yönetmenliğini Wes Anderson üstleniyor. Film, oteli ziyaret eden ve hikayesini yeni sahibinden dinleyen bir yazarın kitabı üzerinden anlatılıyor. Üç farklı zaman diliminde geçiyor. Bunlar; Zero isimli karakterin otelde bellboy olarak işe başladığı ilk andan itibaren geçen hikaye daha sonra yaşlılığında otelin sahibi olarak kitabın yazarına hikayeyi anlattığı kısım ve son olarak da yazarın hikayeye başladığı giriş sahnesi. Hayali bir şehirde geçen ihtişamlı bir otelin hikayesinin anlatıldığı film, izleyenlere enfes bir görsel zenginlik sunuyor. Zero ve Gustave karakterlerinin kısa zamanda kurduğu arkadaşlıkla, Gustave’a sevgilisi tarafından miras bırakılan paha biçilmez bir tablonun peşinde koştukları hikayenin arka planında ise şehrin girdiği savaş ortamı vardır. Bu ihtişamlı otel de savaştan nasibini alacak ve yıllar sonra bir harabeye dönecektir. İzlerken sizleri kendi dünyasına çekecek olan film mutlu olmanıza yardımcı olacak.
5- Chocolat (2000)
Joanne Harris’in ‘Chocolat’ isimli romanında beyaz perdeye uyarlanmıştır. Amerika ve İngiltere ortak yapımı olan filmin yönetmen koltuğunda Lasse Hallström oturuyor. Erkek başrolünde Johnny Depp’in olduğu ve bolca çikolata ile geçen bu film sanırım kadınların daha çok ilgisini çekecektir. Kızıyla birlikte tutucu bir Fransız kasabasına yerleşen çikolatacı Vianne Rocher’in hikayesini ve kasaba halkının üzerinde bıraktığı etkiyi anlatan film aynı zamanda toplumsal mesajlar da içeriyor.
6- Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Yönetmenliğini Jonathan Dayton ve Valerie Faris’in yaptığı film bir ailenin birbirlerine duydukları sevgiyi, ailenin en küçük üyesi sayesinde fark etmelerini konu alıyor. Little Miss Sunshine aslında bir yolculuk hikayesi. Filmin başında aile üyelerinin tamamen zıt karakterlerini ve birbirlerinden pek de haz etmediklerini görüyoruz. Küçük Olive’in hayalini gerçekleştirmek üzere çıktıkları yolun sonunda ise aile olmanın anlamını fark etmelerine ve sevginin gücüne tanıklık ediyoruz. Bu traji komik yol hikayesi, sizleri kendi içine çekecek ve içinizi ısıtacak harika bir kaçış sineması örneği.
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7- 3 Idiots (2009)
Listemizin 7.sırasında Hint yapım yeri Bollywood'un efsane aktörü Aamir Khan'ın da başrolde yer aldığı muhteşem bir komedi filmi var. Tabii eğer lise dönemlerinde projeksiyon veya akıllı tahta kullandıysanız bu filmi izlememeniz mümkün değil. Her yaştaki insanları güldermesiyle kaçış filmleri serimizde 7.sırayı kapıyor. Rajkumar Hirani’nin yönettiği başrolünde Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Sharman Joshi, Boman Irani ve R. Madhavan'ın yer aldığı bir Bollywood filmi. Hindistan’ın en iyi mühendislik okullarından birinde geçen film aynı zamanda eğitim sistemini eleştirmektedir. Üç arkadaşın öğrencilik yıllarına ve aşklarına tanık olacağınız bu filmi izledikten sonra hayata daha farklı bakacaksınız. Ranco karakterinin arkadaşlarına hayattan aslında ne istediklerini sorgulatması ve hayallerini gerçekleştirerek de başarılı olabileceklerini anlatan, öğretici bir film.
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8- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Stephen Chbosky’nin yönettiği Amerikan romantik komedi-dram filmi. Film mektuplardan oluşan The Perks of Being a Wallflower romanının sinemaya uyarlamasıdır. Film, ana karakter Charlie’nin lisedeki ilk yılını anlatır. Geçmişte bazı travmalar yaşamış olan Charlie, arkadaş bulmakta zorlanan asosyal bir gençken lisede son sınıfta okuyan üvey kardeşler Sam ve Patrick ile tanışır ve arkadaşlıkları ilerler. Charlie geçmişini unutmuş görünmektedir ancak ara kesitlerde çocukluğunu görürüz. Filmin sonundaysa Chalie’nin henüz küçük bir çocukken yaşadığı yürek burkan olaylar seyirciye aktarılır. Charlie’nin lisedeki ilk yılını izlerken kendinizi 17 yaşında hissedecek ve kendi hayatınızdan uzaklaşacaksınız. Kaçış Filmleri aarasında en iyi bir komedi-dram filmi olarak seçmemiz mümkün.
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9- Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Listemizin sondan 1. sırasında Kaçış Filmleri için güzel bir romandan esinlenmiş bir yapım var. Matthew Quick’in ilk romanı olan The Silver Linings Playbook’un sinema uyarlamasıdır. David O. Russell’in yönetmen koltuğunda oturduğu Amerikan romantik komedi-dram filminin başrollerinde Bradley Cooper ve Jennifer Lawrence’ın yanı sıra Robert De Niro’da yer alıyor. Bolca ödül alan film aynı zamanda Jennifer Lawrence’e En İyi Kadın Oyuncu Oscarını da kazandırıyor. Pat, eski bir tarih öğretmenidir ve yaşadığı bir travma sonucu rehabilitasyon merkezinde aldığı sekiz aylık tedaviyi yeni tamamlamıştır. Ailesinin yanına dönen Pat, karısına tekrar ulaşabilmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bunun için de bir arkadaşının evinde tanıştığı Tiffany ona yardım edecektir. İkisi de hayatlarında zorlu süreçleri geride bırakmış olan Pat ve Tiffany’nin başta bir anlaşma olarak gördükleri yakınlaşmaları zaman geçtikçe ciddi bir hal alacak ve birbirleri için umut ışığı olacaklardır.
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10- Big Fish (2003)
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Daniel Wallace’ın yazdığı Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions isimli romanın sinema uyarlamasıdır. Yönetmen koltuğunda efsane yönetmen Tim Burton’un oturduğu film Amerikan yapımı ve fantastik-dram tarzındadır. Pek çok ödüle aday gösterilen film, pek çok eleştirmen tarafında Tim Burton’un en iyi filmi olarak gösterilir. Film, ana karakter Edward Bloom’un gençlik hikayesinin fantastik bir dille kendi ağzından anlatılmasından oluşuyor. Oğluna sürekli aynı hikayeyi anlatan Edward, bunu onun düğün günü de tekrar edince bozuşurlar ve üç yıl süreyle konuşmazlar. Üç yılın sonunda Edward rahatsızlanır ve hastaneye kaldırılır. Ölüm döşeğinde yatan Edward oğluna hikayesini baştan anlatır. Oğlu Edward’ın hikayesine yıllardır olduğu gibi inanmamaktadır. Ancak ona bir şans verir. Filmin sonunda ise Edward’ın cenazesine onun hikayesini doğrulayan arkadaşlarının katıldığını görürüz.
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Tabii seçtiğimiz 10 filmin dışında gerçekten emek görmüş diğer filmleri de unutmamak gerekir. Ancak tek söz olarak şunu söylemek gerekir ki seçtiğimiz filmlerin çoğu 1994-2014 aralığında. Seçtiğimiz filmlerin yapım yılları ise gerçekten o zamanki filmlere göre bu seçilen filmler efsane filmlerdir. Şuan ne kadar yeni yapımlar gelmiş ve bu filmlerin yerini almış olsa da nostaljik ve örnek olarak izleyebileceğiniz 10 kaçış filmleri sizin için listeledik. Umarız hafta sonu günlerinizi güzel geçirir ve kaçış sineması filmlerine tekrar tekrar sevgi duyarsınız. Bunun yanı sıra eğer hala bakmadıysanız Buzzy Series web sitemizde paylaştığımız her hafta güncellenen popüler yazımız Vizyona Girecek Filmler listemize bakabilirsiniz. Eğer hala takip etmediyseniz Buzzy Series'in İnstagram, Facebook, Twitter, hesaplarını takip edip en hızlı haberleri sosyal medya hesaplarımızdan görebilirsiniz. Ayrıca Yabancı Dizi Haberleri kategorimize göz atarak en son paylaştığımız yabancı diziler ile alakalı haberlere göz atabilir, eğer film izlemek istiyorsanız size uygun olan filmi en kısa zamanda bulmak için Yerli Film Tavsiyeleri ve Yabancı Film Tavsiyeleri kategorimizi inceleyebilirsiniz.
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j3rry-mar-blog · 7 years
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Book review #2
 I. Cover:Title- The old man and the sea
          Source- Google.com
          Name- Gerimar John S. Elizaga 
          Section- 11-Deck
II. About The Author: Ernest Hemingway completes his short novel The Old Man and the Sea. He wrote his publisher the same day, saying he had finished the book and that it was the best writing he had ever done. The critics agreed: The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and became one of his bestselling works.The novella, which was first published in Life magazine, was an allegory referring to the writer’s own struggles to preserve his art in the face of fame and attention. Hemingway had become a cult figure whose four marriages and adventurous exploits in big-game hunting and fishing were widely covered in the press. But despite his fame, he had not produced a major literary work in a decade before he wrote The Old Man and the Sea. The book would be his last significant work of fiction before his suicide in 1961.Hemingway, born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, started working as a reporter for the Kansas City Star in 1917. When World War I broke out, he volunteered as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross and was severely wounded in 1918 on the Austro-Italian front while carrying a companion to safety. He was decorated and sent home to recuperate.Hemingway married the wealthy Hadley Richardson in 1920, and the couple moved to Paris, where they met other American expatriate writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound. With their help and encouragement, Hemingway published his first book of short stories, in the U.S. in 1925, followed by the well-received The Sun Also Rises in 1926.During the 1930s and 40s, the hard-drinking Hemingway lived in Key West and then in Cuba while continuing to travel widely. He was wounded in a plane crash in 1953, after which he became increasingly anxious and depressed. Like his father, he committed suicide, shooting himself in 1961 in his home in Idaho.
III. Summary-  The story begins, as you might expect, with an old man. He is a fisherman who has not caught a fish in 84 days. He is also not eating very much. The two factors are related. We also meet a boy who is dear friends with the old man. The old man taught him to fish when he was young, and the boy brings the old man food. Does our language sound elementary and clipped? That’s because Hemingway’s prose is. His is just eight million times better than ours. So that sets the stage. We’d also like to note that the old man has a name (Santiago), as does the young boy (Manolin), but the text always refers to them as "the old man" and "the boy." So this old man goes to sleep dreaming of the lions he used to see back in the day in Africa. He wakes before sunrise and does what fishermen do—get in his boat and head out to fish. Not too long after that, the old man hooks a really, really, ridiculously big fish. A "marlin" to be more exact. An earth-shattering struggle of mythical proportions follows. Most of the novella consists of this struggle, which lasts over three days. It is a battle of strength and of wills. The old man sees the fish as his brother, not his enemy, yet he never wavers in his resolution to kill the thing. Which, ultimately, he does. But this is no happy ending. It’s just a happy mid-point followed by an extraordinarily sad ending. The old man straps the fish to the side of the boat and heads home. On the way, he is attacked by sharks, who slowly but surely eat away at the marlin while the old man, starving and exhausted, tries to beat them off with a harpoon, a club, and finally nothing but a simple knife. By the time he makes it back to shore, there is nothing left of the fish but a skeleton. The old man goes to sleep and dreams of the same lions of his youth
IV. Lesson Learned- Santiago does not hate his adversarial marlin, rather, he reveres it. This is the single difference he is able to delineate between fish and the human species: “They are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.” He feels respect for the fish in his fight. The marlin has its powerful virtues, and he has his. Santiago understands that out in the wilds of nature, all life is equal. The sea does not pick favorites. The noble fisherman refuses to designate himself as a righteous overlord over the animals, instead recognizing his grand fraternity with all around him.
V. Critique/ Review-The Old Man and the Sea is a magnificent story. At one level it is the tale of a man and a fish, at another, a story of man versus nature, at yet another, the story of the culture of manhood, courage, bravery in the face of existence, and at yet another a history of what life was like when individuals were more the central actors on the human stage and not groups or organizations.At the most basic level the very elderly fisherman, Santiago, goes out in his small fishing boat after 84 days without hooking a decent fish. He goes far out, and hooks a gigantic 18 foot long sword fish. The battle then begins, and the fish drags the small boat and Santiago far out to sea. For two days they battle, and Santiago wins that battle, but then loses the great fish on the way home to the scavenger sharks who find him easy prey.Hemingway celebrates the courage and raw guts of this old man, even recounting a time in Casablanca when he had spent an entire day in an arm wrestling match with a much larger man in a seaside tavern. Hemingway celebrates a concept of humans as beings who go it alone, fierce, brave, courageous without even thinking about it, oozing strength from the nature of the best of the species.The story is told with incredible economy of words and description, yet nothing is sacrificed which drives home the power and inner strength of this man, who just takes it as what he does, what it is to be a serious fisherman.Hemingway’s world is not my world. I am no Santiago, no macho man. And the culture of today has little place left for the radical individual whom Hemingway celebrates and Santiago portrays. Yet the power of Hemingway’s telling is such that I couldn’t help but be on Santiago’s side, to admire him, to ache with his loss in the end to forces greater than he.There is a side tale as well. This great individual, the man who stands alone, is not alone completely by choice. He has developed a friendship, a working relationship, a love with a young boy who began fishing with him when the boy was only five. Now the boy has moved on to another boat, a more successful one, at his parents’ behest, but he pines to work with Santiago, and when the battle with the great fish has been engaged, Santiago pleads over and over and over: “I wish the boy were here.”Like many readers who might come upon this novel today, I live a life of citified ease and comfort. A life far removed from harsh confrontations with nature. But Hemingway forces me to remember and acknowledge the individual, the struggle for the most basic existence, the battle with nature for survival itself. But most importantly he makes one acknowledge the importance of the individual and the magnificence of courage, skill, art and endurance. 
VI. References-
 http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ernest-hemingway-finishes-the-old-man-and-the-sea
https://www.google.com.ph/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=wzGIWfTdA6zCXs-ZgYgB&gws_rd=ssl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea
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