Books like Ernest Hemingway's the Old Man and the Sea

This was my first book from Monarch Notes although I bought it by mistake - I thought it’s the original text not the analysis. It gives a summary of Hemingway’s life, critics snd praises around his writing style, particularly on “The old man and the sea”. Hemingway’s life had a lot of tragedies. He almost exploded in World War I, survived a plane crash, and lost his dad, who committed suicide. His signature or « code » for creating a character was empowering him with will, pride, and endurance, as boldly observed in Santiago’s character, the protagonist in The Old Man and the Sea, whose will, pride, and endurance led him to go far out and catch the huge marlin. But the final outcome didn’t matter, as the struggle itself is more important than the success. In any case the death is the final outcome for all of us. This « code » springs from his disbelief in religion and the profound loneliness of human being in the universe. Each person should willingly take an initiative and create the actions leading to his purpose and endure the hardship. However, the outsiders in his stories, for example the tourists, who were ignorant about the old man’s achievement, do not make sense of the values of these codes. The symbolic aspects are also discussed in this book. The forty days of not catching any fish, injuries in the old man’s back and hands, killing seven sharks, three days on the sea, and carrying mast by the old man were compared to incidents in Jesus life.