This question is extremely similar to the questions answered in blog 5. Blog 5's question was How does this novel reflect the history, behavior and social issues of the time period and setting? What is this book's symbolic and thematic significance? and this question is 8.How accurately does this novel reflect events in history? What responsibilities does the author believe exist between various groups in society, such as workers and bosses, men and women, blacks and whites, etc.? What people, ideas, and events probably influenced this author?
Both of these question are hard to answer with a book like Old Man and the Sea. The book has absolutley nothing to do with things like social classes, racial issues, or anything like that. The only thing I could relate to this is what i mentioned in Blog 5 about Joe Dimagio, the great baseball player and how he was at the peak of his career and Santiago looked at him as a hero(Hemingway 1). Other than that I can not really relate this book to anything having to do with society and social issues because let's face it the book is about an old man named Santiago, a young boy that is almost wierdly obcessed with him, a huge fish named the Marlin, and all the other fish in the sea that he is not catching for 84 days(Hemingway 1). So this question is not exactly an easy question to answer. Do not get me wrong i did enjoy this book, but i do not enjoy neither this question nor the one i had to answer in Blog 5. This book was actually not a good book to answer for a lot of these questions because it was such a short read, it was only about one hundred pages. I feel as if though I am ramballing because I do not know what else to say about this book in comparasin to social issues and society in terms of social classes and races.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner, 2003. Print.
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