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“What is Hemingway Like?”

This question to me is stricly about someones own opinion. To me Hemingway was an old lonely man, who was deprived from the real world, and expressed himself in writing. In a quote he says, “All you have to do is write one sentence.” (PBS)

To him this was easy. He knew what he was doing, and he knew that even though one of his books wasn’t as greatly written as his other, he stilll was a great writer. Hemingway makes it sound that if you want to be a writer, all you have to do is write. When we listened to the public broadcast, I honestly thought that this man was a coward in a way. Killing himself to help his deprived self into the world. While reading the book OMS, I could honestly see this old man lonely, depressed, but also encouraging himself to stay strong. When I hear about Hemingway… yes he was depressed and lonely.. but in any way as he encouraging himself to go on, or was that the public making him great?

“What is his writing like?”

Many catagorized his writing as a clumsy akward manner. “Distilled, and Masculine.” When we read OMS, I felt like this man liked to bring his own life into the fiction legend of his books. As he writes, he expresses his mood for the day. If he was tired, and depressed then the book would turn to a depressing mild dramatic tone in the book. If he woke up one morning and was in a good mood, the book was start as an encouraging literature piece. Hemingway said, “Sometimes I write well, and feel that I write better then I can.” (PBS)

In the story of OMS, I decided that this book was a mourning, frustrated with the disasters of life. This man goes out into the ocean, with little hope that he will catch this big fish, that normally doesn’t happen. He has such a bad streak of unluckyness that is almost hopeless for this man to catch a fish. When the man finally catches this fish it drags him out to the sea where once caught, the fish is devoured by sharks. The passage I chose was:

That afternoon there was a party of tourists at the terrace and looking down in the water among the empty beer cans and dead barracudas a woman saw a great long white spine with a huge tail at the end that lifed and swung with the tide while the east  wind blew a heavy steady sea outside te entrance to the harbour.

This man might feel like he has been lost, and this is why it is mourninful. This man just seems to give up hope and leave the remains of this GREAT fish to the village people. With the woman seeing this great fish and reconizing that this fishes spine was huge, he doesnt understand how great this fish really is, even though its only its head. The people can still see that this fish was long and great and huge, but gone.

While I was reading, “Old Man in the Sea,” I chose the passage:

            Think of what you can do with what there is. “You give me much good counsel.” He said aloud. “I’m tired of it”

The passage struck me because through out the entire book, he contradicts himself. I don’t know whether to believe its only loneliness, or if this old man is actually going crazy.

            The question I used was, “His multi personalities seem to show up a lot- Which one is really him?” I believe that both sides of the man are there, but just one is clearer then the other. His thoughts are how he truly feels, and when he speaks, its’ more of trying to pump himself up to keep going. If he loses hope with his thoughts, he can always turn to his selfless being for support.

            “Why does he care about the dead fish and not about the sharks?” The fish took his strength to pull in, and he fought the fish for many nights and days. Watching these sharks eat his award, is like damaging this mans soul.

            “Why doesn’t he cut the fish free?” Cutting the fish free is almost like the man losing his heart. For one thing, if he goes back without a fish and tells everyone he caught this huge marlin, they will not believe him because of his rotten luck in the past.

In the book “OMS,” it seems that the story is slowly coming together. It isn’t a fast paced book. As the story goes on, it seems that this old man has gone through this expericence with the fish many times before. He keeps mentioning all of the actions that this fish is going to do and when he is doing it. This is a symbol to me because he knows what to expect, but also seems so overwhelmed by this experience. I want to know, Why is the man so overwhelmed by a situation that has happened in the past?

In my drawing, I took the line, “He is two feet longer than the skiff.” This was a symbol to me because the old man knows this fish is strong, and now he knows this fish isn’t going to fit in the boat. But still he keeps trying to get this fish in, and is very confident that this fish is going to give in before he does.

The Declaration of Independence has the purpose of being a statement made by men with a strong opinion. Thomas Jefferson not only had the audience of his followers but also had the audience of the state they lived in and his people that looked up to him. This could of affected his writing, but putting these different opinions from his followers into the Dec. of Ind. He couldn’t just use his own opinion he had to have a inner view from others. When the continential congress took out Thomas Jefferson’s parts about slavery, I think that the congress took out Thomas’s personal opinion about things, and changed it  so it supported the people.

With our blogs, I believe that my audience is my fellow students, and also the teacher. When I write blogs, I use my own opinions, but also try to explain the assignment or projects in a way that someone could read and understand what I was talking about. If someone read my blog and said I don’t understand what you are saying, I would go back in and change my outlook a little to state clearer what I mean to a point of understanding.

Looking back on my own blogs, I read them and still have the same opinions. I wrote them so that if someone needed help they could read my blogs and understand what we were doing for the day. I didn’t write them only for the audience thought, I also write them in a way of explaining them to myself and helping myself understand the meaning of what we are writing about.  The appropriate writing style of these blogs, I think are more of a do your own thing. Not slacking off, but more of its the persons who is writing it kind of style. I like my style of writing because I just say what is on my mind, and then see if people comment me to see if thats what they were thinking too.