![]() ![]() To nudge kids in the love direction, you may wish to check out Alexander Petrov's 1999 Oscar-winning animated film adaptation. Alone, impoverished, and facing his own mortality, Santiago is now considered unlucky. Readers young and old are rarely ambivalent about this book - it's either love or hate, often mixed with a hefty dose of parody (Hemingway at times writes like a macho parody of himself). For 84 days, the old fisherman Santiago has caught nothing. It's also somewhat fraught with a late-in-life perspective that may be largely lost on young readers. It's also about three days in a boat in which most of the action takes place in the title character's head, punctuated by graphic descriptions of, say, the gutting of fish. ![]() himself), eternal issues (love, survival, teaching the next generation, tenacity against the odds) and strong writing. The submarines inventor was inspired by the pages of 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,' a classic Jules Verne novel. Widely regarded as Hemingway's masterpiece, it won the Pulitzer Prize and had much to do with his winning the Nobel. The Defender is an experimental submarine that was made in 1907. Parents need to know that context and the teacher's skill will influence how well their kids relate to this reading-list staple. ![]() Santiago and Manolin drink beer some of Santiago's reminiscences involve bars.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]()
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