Old Man And The Sea Text Exploration Part 2
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The Old Man and the Sea Part 2 – the noble quest Wednesday September 13 th 1950
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Does what it says on the tin! - I use it with GCSE students when teaching 'The Old Man and the Sea'
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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
