Class 11 English Elective Novel-1. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
Class 11 English Elective Novel-1. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA प्रश्न बैंक - सह - उत्तर पुस्तक (Question Bank-Cum-Answer Book) Class 11 English Elective (ESSAY ) Novel
- 1. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA - Ernest Hemingway MAIN POINTS ☞ The Old Man and the Sea is a short
heroic novel by Ernest Heminway, published in 1952 and awarded the 1953
Pulitzer Prize for fiction. ☞ Santiago, an old fisherman, rows his
skiff out each day from a harbour in Cuba into the surrounding deep waters in
search of large fish. ☞ He is assisted by a boy, Manolin,
whom he has taught to catch marlin and shark. ☞ For weeks he has hooked nothing, and
the locals decide he is unlucky; after forty days of catching no fish,
Manolin's father reassigns the boy to another boat. ☞ Every evening, though, the boy visits
Santiago, helps him stow the boat's equipment, and shares with him a meal and
conversation. ☞ On the eighty fifth day of his
unsuccessful streak, Santiago rows especially far out, where he hopes for big
fish. ☞ Late in the morning, a very large
marlin takes the bait and swims away, d…
