Question

SECTION II : TEXTUAL PASSAGES
(Reading Skills, Vocabulary and Grammar)
Q. 2. (A) Read the following passage and do the activities : [10 Marks]
A1. Answer in very brief:
(2)
(1) Language of the novel :
(ii) In his first reading, the reviewer was left:
(iii) After recent reading the reviewer was :
(iv) It fights for its life desperately :
Writing Style:
Hemingway's language is simple and pithy. He mostly writes in short and straight-forward
sentences and practises an extreme economy in his use of words. This simplicity is deceptive
and a reader can read his work again and again and find new layers of meaning every time.
My Thoughts
I first read this novel years ago, when I did not understand it at all and was left unimpressed.
In spite of this a vivid image remained with me - an old man holding on to his fishing line
with the last of his strength. Recently I read this book again and was extremely moved. The
formidable strength of the old man's character, the quiet devotion of the empathetic Manolin and
the relationship between the two are heartwarming. Hemingway's descriptions of the sea and
the creatures of the water are beautiful. The marlin fights for its life desperately and it's hard to
know whether our sympathies should lie with the old man or with the marlin. But as the novel
progresses the old man and the marlin are inseparably linked because both stand for the same
ideal, that is, a noble struggle against destruction,​

Answer 1

Answer:

It fights for its life desperately :

Writing Style:

Hemingway's language is simple and pithy. He mostly writes in short and straight-forward

sentences and practises an extreme economy in his use of words. This simplicity is deceptive

and a reader can read his work again and again and find new layers of meaning every time.

My Thoughts

I first read this novel years ago, when I did not understand it at all and was left unimpressed.

In spite of this a vivid image remained with me - an old man holding on to his fishing line

with the last of his strength. Recently I read this book again and was extremely moved. The

formidable strength of the old man's character, the quiet devotion of the empathetic Manolin and

the relationship between the two are heartwarming. Hemingway's descriptions of the sea and

the creatures of the water are beautiful. The marlin fights for its life desperately and it's hard to