Modern Classics · The Old Man and the Sea
Read sentences from The Old Man and the Sea and answer the questions
A copying notebook for slowly reading sentences from The Old Man and the Sea and tracing the ones that stay with you.
Read the question that follows each sentence, and write down the thoughts that come to mind.
How it works
- Slowly trace the sentence that stays with you.
- Read the question that follows the sentence.
- Write down the thoughts that came to mind.
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Good when you want to think again about holding on, and about a heart that won't be beaten.
Passages chosen from The Old Man and the Sea
- He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream, and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. / What is the sea you'd go back out to even after failing eighty-four times?
- Everything about him was old except his eyes. / Where inside you has not yet been broken?
- And the best fisherman is you. / Has anyone ever looked at you as 'the one person' rather than 'one among many' — and whom do you look at that way?
- He always thought of the sea as 'la mar'. / What do you love so much that you have your own special name for it?
- But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. / What do you want to have done exactly right, for when luck comes?
- Now is no time to think of what you do not have. / What can you do right now with what you already have?
- 'I wish I could feed the fish,' he thought. / How do you carry the contradiction of having to defeat what you love?
- It is silly not to hope, he thought. / What hope do you want to hold on to right now, even if it's foolish?
- But man is not made for defeat. / When was a day you seemed broken but were not beaten?
- They beat me, Manolin. / Among the things you called 'defeat', was there a part where you actually won?