old man and the sea text exploration part 1
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Does what it says on the tin! - I use it with GCSE students when teaching 'The Old Man and the Sea'TRANSCRIPT
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The Old Man and the SeaPart 1
Tuesday evening / Wednesday morningSeptember 12th & 13th 1950
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Narrative Voice
3rd person omniscientFocus on Santiago
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Religious allusions
40 days without a catch before Manolin switches boats•Moses•Noah
Manolin catches 3 fish on his first day out•Trinity•The loaves & fishes
Names •Santiago – Spanish for St James •Manolin – Emmanuel•Perico / Pedrico – St Peter•Martin – St Martin
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Cuban cultural allusions
Passion for Baseball•Heroics•Statistics
Games of chance and fatalism•Lottery
Traditional fishing communities
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Where Sport meets Religion
Both involve ritual behaviour
Both have ritualised language
Both engender hope and faith
Both encourage a loyal following
Both offer the opportunity to take us outside of
ourselves
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Joe DiMaggio & The Yankees
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An Allegorical Tale?
Multiple levels of meaning
Surface realism
Underlying universal myth
•Transformation in the face of enduring hardship
•The triumph of imaginative vision over physical
limitations
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Archetypal CharactersCollective unconscious universal representations
The spiritual father, mentor and
master
The youth, apprentice & hope for the
future
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Passing the Baton
Dreams of lions
Bequeathing to the next generation
Natural cycles and immortality
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3 Adversaries
The worthy opponent
The noble predator
The ignoble scavenger
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Santiago – ‘a strange old man’
Ragged clothing
Thin & gaunt
Skin cancer
Scarred hands
Childless widower
A survivor & professional fisherman
His strength and eyes are not those of an old man
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‘The Old Man’s tricks’tapping into reserves
‘Youth is wasted on the young’
Imaginative vision to draw youthful vigour
DiMaggio, Mandolin & the lions
The Memory of ‘El Campeon’
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To Suffer
To Transcend
To Transform