My Opinoin on The Old Man and the Sea

                The Old Men and the Sea is written by Earnest Hemingway. This book published in 1952. It is a very successful  moral lesson.  The Old Men and the Sea tells the story of about an old Cuban fisherman Santiago. In this story the picture of human courageous and very optimistic character portrayed by the Writer. The Old Men and the Sea uses the omniscient point of view. Threw this story  Writer  draws the character of an old man  struggle with a huge fish Merlin.  Generally it ‘ s a provide  idea of Humanity, courage and also love for nature.  Hemingway has a described the every character with a very precisely. Santiago, the protagonist of the story of noble values. He is fishing for food and not for money.  We can see that the onether thing  that  a small boy of Cuba Island, Mandolin, His respect for Santiago and he also considers him as his role model. Where Santiago’s roll model is Joe DiMaggio, who refers in this novella a symbol of Victory and Jesus Christ on the basis of his relationship with other character of the novella and also in the Bible.  Santiago’s love for nature is described threw this line “Fish,” he said. “ I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.”  This line presents  Santiago’s deep love and respect for fish.

         This  story depicts the unique of relationship of facing failure each and every step of life. One of the most striking aspect of The Old Men and the Sea is its combination of compression and depth.  Style, Setting, Structure and Symbolism are used by Earnest Hemingway, threw these elements makes reading more interesting.

What is Literature

What  Is Literature…?

What is Literature?

A Definition Based on Prototypes

Jim Meyer

Most definitions of literature have been criterial definitions, definitions based on a list of

criteria which all literary works must meet. However, more current theories of meaning

take the view that definitions are based on prototypes: there is broad agreement about

good examples that meet all of the prototypical characteristics, and other examples are

related to the prototypes by family resemblance. For literary works, prototypical

characteristics include careful use of language, being written in a literary genre (poetry,

prose fiction, or drama), being read aesthetically, and containing many weak

implicatures.

Definition of Literature…

Ø The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.

Ø Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis

Ø Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material. Broadly speaking, "literature" is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works, but the term is most commonly used to refer to works of the creative imagination, including works of poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction. 

Why We study Literature…?

v Literature represents a language or a people: culture and tradition. But, literature is more important than just a historical or cultural artifact. Literature introduces us to new worlds of experience. We learn about books and literature; we enjoy the comedies and the tragedies of poems, stories, and plays; and we may even grow and evolve through our literary journey with books.

v Literature is a reflection of how different people think on a variety of subjects. It covers a broad arena of thought, from political to philosophical, and provides a unique look into the human mind. Anything that gives you an advantage when interacting with others is worthy of your time.

v We should teach literature because it can show young minds that the world is wider than their own world, it is different to their own world but that at times it can also be just like their own world.