ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -After the marlin takes the bait, Santiago wishes Manolin was with him so he could get some help bringing it in. He thinks, ‘No one should be alone in their old age, he thought. But it is unavoidable.

Detailed explanation-2: -Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Detailed explanation-3: -“No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.” Everything about him was old except his eyes, and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hemingway thought The Old Man and the Sea was a great novel. Before the book was published, he said, “It’s as though I had gotten finally what I had been working for all my life” (qtd. in Young 132). However, he probably expected literary critics to condemn it.

Detailed explanation-5: -“No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.” “Fish, ” he said, “I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.” “He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife.