Questions about The Old Man
Posted on October 2nd, 2007 by Mr. Sheehy
After reading to page 109, we have stopped to collect our most pressing questions about the book to this point. Below I’ve listed many of these questions, and I’d like you to write this blog article by answering these questions. The requirement is for you to write 10 to 12 sentences in the article, and you may answer as many of the questions as you need to answer in order to create that many sentences.
- Why does the old man keep contradicting himself?
- How far from land is the old man?
- Will he make it back to land with the fish?
- Does he fear the sharks?
- Why would he leave the fish aside the boat knowing sharks would be coming? Couldn’t he find some way to get it aboard?
- Why does he only call the marlin “fish” if he has so much respect for it?
- Why does he not use better equipment or technology to fish?
- Why does he wish he’d never caught the fish?
- Why did he not pull the harpoon out of the mako shark?
- Why did he not bring some way to drain or blot up the blood?
- Does it matter whether it looks like the fish is pulling the skiff?
- What is the boy to him?
- Is the boy waiting for him at home?
- Why does he refer to the fish as his brother? But then, why did he hate the mako shark so much as he killed it?
- Why does he feel that killing the shark might be a sin?
- If the old man makes it back with no fish, will the boy believe him?
- Will the old man make it back alive?
- Is the old man truly going crazy?
- Why does the old man feel like he is a brother to the fish?
- What about when he says he and the fish are one?
- Will the old man get to see the boy again?
- What will people think when they see that the old man has caught this fish?
- Why is he obsessed with bone spurs?
- After a fisherman catches the biggest fish he can catch, what then?
- Why is he questioning the moral consequences of catching the fish?
- Why can’t he cut the fish up before the sharks get him?
- Why does the old man want the fish?
- What is the old man going to do with a lot of money?
- Why does the old man argue with himself?
- Why does he always wish that he had the boy?
- Why does the old man relate himself to Dimaggio?
- What is the old man going to do if he loses the big fish?
- Why did he call tying up the fish slave work?
- Why did he use the harpoon rope to lash the fish to the skiff?
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Original image: ‘comin’ right at us‘ by: gina
Original image: ‘Pondi Coastline‘ by: Meena Kadri
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