Does what it says on the tin! - I use it with GCSE students when teaching 'The Old Man and the Sea'

1. The Old Man and the Sea
Part 3 – Battles at sea
Wednesday & Thursday
September 13th & 14th 1950

2. The Marlin
Glorious, dignified, noble
A worthy opponent
Memories of the pair of marlin
Santiago’s wounds
The draw north-east
Cutting the other lines

3. The Nobility of Endurance
Marlin
Nobility
DiMaggio Santiago

4. The Second Dawn
Shallower depth
The tired warbler & the hawks
Left hand cramp – betrayal
The first jump
Bartering prayers
Memory of arm wrestling – el Campeon
Catching the dolphin / flying fish
More wounds

5. The THIRD Dawn
The struggle builds to a climax
3 Smaller circles
Pass under the boat
“Come on and kill me. I do not
care who kills who”
The harpoon
Lashing the ‘elixir’ to the boat

6. A sin?
Material gain
Pride
What he was born to do – his
place in the natural order

7. The first attack
Within an hour
The Mako – fast and fearless
40 lb of the marlin is taken
Sacrifice of harpoon & rope
Knife lashed to an oar
He knows more will come

8. Communion
Santiago eats some of the marlin
Physical & spiritual nutrition

9. The second attack
The sin of hopelessness
2 shovel nosed sharks
Scavengers
‘ay’ – ‘feeling the nail go through his
hands and into the wood’
¼ of the marlin taken
“I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish”

10. The 3rd & 4th attack
Sacrifice of the knife
Clubbing despite futility
He knows from his pain that he
is not dead
10pm – the glow of Havana

11. The final attack
Midnight
The sacrifice of the club and tiller
The copper tasting wound
The defiant spit
The long journey home
The marlin is all but gone
Was he beaten?

12. Return to Land
The mast and the burden of the cross
The 5 falls
Sleep in the position of the crucified
Christ

13. Redemption
‘To live a life of great fervour and then
to accept destruction with
dignity, passing on whatever one can
to a successor.’
The skeleton is still a vehicle for the
intrinsic values that gives Santiago’s
life meaning.
Will Santiago die & does it matter?

14. Sharing the Elixir
Manolin – the marlin’s spear
Pedrico – the head
The villagers & tourists – the
spectacle of the skeleton