The Old Man and the SeaPart 2 – the noble quest

Wednesday September 13th 1950

The Journey OutLa Mar vs. El Mar

Love & respect for the natural world

Bait set at precise depths

No machinery

Pride in straight lines

The battle / dance with nature

The battle with self

Allies & EnemiesThe natural cycle of predator & prey

Anthropomorphised

Kinship with the natural worldAn indigenous cultural perspective

St Francis of Assisi

The design found in the natural world, with its endless cycles of birth and death, redeems the individual from the threat of a meaningless life.

Shift in Narrative Perspective

Omniscient narrator draws closer to Santiago’s thought

‘he thought’‘he said’ (talking aloud as literary device)

Stream of consciousness

Quotation marks fall away