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The Old Man and the SeaThe "Old Man and the Sea", released in 1952, is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious news, literature, and music award in the United States, and the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to the worlds greatest writers. The Swedish Academy of Arts, which awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, praised the achievement of its work on contemporary literary history, with a unique style and style that had a profound impact on modern literary circles. It seems to me that a strong impression of "the elderly and the sea" is the most important time for our youngsters who have been troubled by the tense feeling of bloody rivalry. This is because the elderly person, who is the main character, can feel the tension that the tension in the reality disappears for a moment through the figure of being alone and enduring without ending the screaming even if the defeat is visible.

The Old Man and the SeaIt is a work that depicts the story of an elderly man living on the coast of Cuba with a dry and concise style unique to Hemingway. In September 1952, it was published in the "Life" magazine, and the September issue of "Life", which featured works of the time, was sold to more than 5 million copies in just two days. Its success led to the publication of a book in a week. In 1954, he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. In 1954, the Nobel Prize for Literature, which was an exceptional work, referred to "The Elderly and the Sea," gave Hemingway the honor of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Old Man and the Sea - “He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy’s parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week. It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the sail that was furled around the mast. The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat. The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck…”