JSSC CGL 2024 Examination, The Old Man and the Sea By. Earnest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea By. Earnest Hemingway
Chapter Abstracts
- The old man Santiago is pictured as being very unlucky.
- The boy, Manolin, is sad because his parents forbid him to go out with Santiago again.
- The boy continues to visit Santiago and help him load and unload his boat every day.
- Even though the boy has gotten permission to go out with Santiago again, the old man urges him to stay with the lucky boat.
- Manolin reminds Santiago of their last spell of bad luck and how it all ended well.
- Santiago assures the boy that he knows he did not leave out of disloyalty.
- On the terrace, where they drink beer, the fishermen are making fun of Santiago.
- Santiago and the boy talk about how Manolin was only five years old the first time he went to see the old man.
- They recall catching a fish that was too large for the boat and how they had to butcher it to get it back to shore.
- Santiago and the boy have a regular routine every morning and evening that even involves some fiction about the cast net and what Santiago has to eat.
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- The old man loves to study the baseball scores in the newspaper every evening.
- The old man believes the Joe DiMaggio will be the reason that the Yankees win the pennant.
- When Manolin comes with food for Santiago to eat, the old man is sleeping.
- After walking the old man, they sit and eat and discuss baseball.
- Santiago tells the boy again about his trip to Africa when he was Manolin’s age.
- The boy tells the old man that he is the greatest fisherman ever.
- The old man falls asleep and dreams about lions on the beach in Africa.
- When he wakes before dawn, he dresses and goes to wake up the boy in his house.
- The boy helps him get his gear into his boat.
- Santiago decides to go far out the sea.
- He rows on after the boats have stopped to fish.
- At sunrise, the old man realizes that he is farther out than he thought.
- He puts down his baited lines.
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- A man-of-war bird tells Santiago that there are fish nearby.
- Dolphin’s chase after the flying fish.
- Watching the bird, Santiago sees where to catch an albacore tuna.
- He realizes that he has been talking out loud to himself.
- He feels a tug on his sardine bait.
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- When he is satisfied that the fish has taken the bait, he tugs on the line.
- The fish begins to swim away, dragging the boat along with it.
- This continues throughout the day, and Santiago thinks the pressure will kill the fish.
- The old man keeps his attention on the fish.
- He takes a small drink of water.
- He wishes for the boy.
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- He reminds himself that he must eat some of the tuna he caught to keep up his energy.
- The fish continues to pull the boat all night.
- Before daylight, another fish is caught on the other lines.
- Santiago cuts the other lines for fear that fish on them might cut the line his big fish is on.
- The fish shows no sign of weakening and Santiago wishes it would surface so he knows what he is dealing with.
- The current has not altered the northward direction of the fish.
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- A warbler comes and sits on the line and Santiago talks to the bird.
- The fish gives a big tug that scares away the bird and almost topples Santiago.
- He notices that his hand has been cut and he puts it into the salt water and sees that the fish has slowed considerably.
- Santiago cuts the tuna into pieces and eats it raw.
- His left hand begins to cramp until it looks like a claw.
- As the sun rises, Santiago hopes that heat will open his cramped hand.
- He discusses what he hates about a cramp.
- He is thinking about the boy when the great fish leaps out of the water.
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- Seeing the huge Marlin, Santiago now knows what he is up against.
- Santiago knows he is no physical match for the marlin.
- He takes comfort in the fact that his knowledge and intelligence work in his favor.
- Although not religious, Santiago hedges his bets by promising to say Our fatherS and Hail Marys.
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- He decides to rebate one of his other Lines to catch something to eat.
- As night falls, Santiago recalls his defeating the Negro of Cienfuegos in an arm wrestling match that lasted all day and all night years ago in Casablanca.
- After that he owned many other matches but gave it up for fear of harming his hand and not being able to fish.
- He remembers that in rematches he always beat the Negro of Cienfuegos because he had broken the man’s confidence.
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- His battle with the huge fish was going to be like that.
- Just before dark, Santiago catches a dolphin on his other line.
- He manages to land the dolphin using only his left hand.
- He clubs the dolphin to death but decides to wait to butcher it to preserve the blood.
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- Santiago assesses his situation at this point and is satisfied.
- The fish has nothing to eat, whereas the old man does.
- Both the fish and the old man are in pain, but the fish still has to pull the boat.
- The cut on the old man’s right hand is now closed and his left hand is no longer cramped.
- Santiago’s next task is to create a permanent drag on the boat, making it harder for the fish.
- The old man, however, decides to rest because he feels his mind wandering.
- He cannot simply tie the line to the escape because the fish might be able to break it.
- When his mind is more lucid, Santiago goes to the back of the boat and butchers the dolphin.
- He eats half a fillet of the dolphin and one whole flying fist.
- The fish is swimming calmly, so Santiago allows himself to get some sleep.
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- When the moon is high, there is a great tug on the line and the marlin clears the surface.
- Both of Santiago ‘s hands are cut by the line running through them.
- As the great fish jumps and continues to pull the line through the old man’s hands, he wishes for the boy.
- He regains his footing and feels more confident now that the fish has filled his air sacs and will not be able to dive deeply.
- Santiago analyzes why the fish jumped and decides it was filling its morality.
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- He knows that he must remain strong and confident to defeat the huge fees.
- He plunges first his right hand and then his left into the salt water to speed the healing.
- The old man feels his mind becoming addled again and eats the other flying fish.
- On the 3rd morning since he set out, the fish begins to circle.
- Santiago thinks the fish will tire out in one hour, but two hours later it is still circling.
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- Santiago becomes increasingly tired himself.
- He promises to say more Hail Marys and our Fathers if he can land the fish quickly.
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- The fish is hitting the line with its tail now, and Santiago fears he might cut the line.
- On the near side circles, Santiago starts pulling in the fish.
- When he can finally see it, he realizes how large the thing is.
- Although Santiago thinks he will get the fish on the next turn, the fish continues to resist
- Santiago tells the fish that it is going to die and asks if it is necessary to kill him, too.
- As the fish continues to circle, Santiago’s thought go hazy.
- The old man tries to pull the fish on its side, but it continues to right itself.
- When Santiago has only one more strong pull in him, he finally lands the marlin.
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- He uses his harpoon to finish the fish off.
- The fish makes one last jump and splashes water all over Santiago, refreshing him.
- Although exhausted, Santiago must finish his work.
- He can only lash the fish to the side of his skiff because it is to long and heavy to get into the boat.
- That done he goes about refreshing himself by catching a small shrimp in the yellow seaweed and drinking some of his remaining water.
- The old man keeps looking at his price to assure himself that it is not a dream.
- They sell well as Santiago heads back to Havana.
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- About one hour later, the first large shark attacks, taking a large bite out of the Marlin.
- Santiago harpoons the shark, but as it sinks below the surface, it takes the harpoon with it.
- Knowing there will be other sharks, Santiago makes a markshift harpoon while lashing his knife onto an oar.
- Two shovel-nosed sharks arrive and attack the fish.
- Santiago is able to harpoon one on the surface, but the other one is feeding from below.
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- By the time he’s able to kill the second Sark, 1/4 of the Marlin meat is gone.
- The next two sharks come right before sunset and he is only able to club them to death because both harpoons are gone.
- At night, a whole group of sharks come in to attack.
- Taking the tiller from the rudder, Santiago uses that as a weapon.
- When the tiller breaks, it is left with a sharp point that he uses against the last of the Sharks.
- All of the meat is of the Marlin except for the head and tail.
- Finally, at Sore, Santiago takes the mast to walk up the hill to his shack, but falls under its weight.
- After going short distances and resting five times, he makes it home.
- The boy finds him and goes for coffee and food.
- Santiago wants only to read the baseball score in the papers he missed while out fishing.
- A woman tourist seized the bones of the Marlin and thinks it is a shark.
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