Oops – Another Final Thought
I know I said I would stop with the Old Man and the Sea blogging last class, but the book lingers in my mind and I hope it lingers in yours. I’d like to continue with Hemingway a bit more, putting off Poe another couple days. If you particularly object or assent, comment on this post and let me know.
The first and most important thing for us to do is read each other’s thoughts on the book. I’ve stated some of mine before, and you’re welcome to read them. Otherwise, peruse your classmates’ blogs – I have read a ton of great articles and I think they each deserve an audience.
After you read those, I’d like to continue our reconnection with the story by thinking about Hemingway – as a writer and as a man. My goal is for us to take an inventory of what we know about Hemingway and his style. My two driving questions are the ones I asked before listening to the NPR radio broadcast:
What is Hemingway like? What is his writing like?
You are qualified to answer these, since we’ve listened to a broadcast from Public Radio and read The Old Man and the Sea. We’re about to read another Hemingway story, called “In Another Country,” and I want us to have some working hypotheses about Hemingway that we can test as we read it.
In addition to your own observations about The Old Man and the Sea, some of how you answer this question will come from the radio broadcast, and some of it can come from a brief review of his life online. Try browsing the National Portrait Gallery’s biography of him or glance at CNN’s description of his life.
When you finish reviewing sources and considering details from the book, please write a blog article attempting to answer what Hemingway and his writing are like. Give credit to your sources as much as possible by providing links to specific pages if you cite information from them, or giving credit to anything you heard in the radio broadcast. Length requirement: 15 sentences.
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