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The Old Man and the Sea was actually Hemingway's second title. His editor wouldn't let him use The Middle Aged Man and the Stubborn Fish.

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00:03

The old man in the sea a la shmoop first off let me say that the title of

00:09

this novella is offensive old man come on Hemingway [Man presenting book]

00:14

do I really look that old? Check out these biceps! nice guns huh? ouch okay

00:19

yeah I just pulled something.. anyone have ban-gay? alright so I'm a little old...

00:24

A life of fishing on the open sea can really take it out of ya still it's [Santiago on a boat fishing]

00:28

much nicer to refer to a guy by his name my friends call me Santiago I guess I

00:35

should say my friend because I only have one a great kid named Mandolin, he'd

00:40

been forbidden to fish with me because well more on that in a sec but he brings [Manolin disappears from boat]

00:44

me food so he's kind of like my own personal meals on wheels normally I

00:48

wouldn't need this kind of charity but back before my big adventure happened I

00:52

hadn't caught a fish in 84 days no not because I'm a bad fisherman they used to [Santiago holding a big fish]

00:58

call me el campeon the champion because I was so great all right well I just had

01:03

a string of bad luck all right which is why Manolins parents forbid him to fish

01:07

with me they told him he could only hang out with successful fishermen... [Manolin closes door on Santiago]

01:13

I may not have fish but I still have feelings people and hey if they're not

01:17

biting well they're not biting the point is my string of bad luck is what made it [Santiago attempting to catch a fish]

01:22

such a big deal when my line was struck by a Marlin we're talking 18 feet and

01:28

I'd may be el campeon but I'm big enough to admit that reeling this fish in well

01:33

it was a real struggle the fish and I fought against each other for three days

01:38

which is impressive you know not sure I could make it that long with a hook jab

01:43

into my mouth no not that it was easy for me either I was tired, I was thirsty [Santiago battling with the fish]

01:47

I couldn't exactly stop for a bathroom break and it was so hungry that I had to

01:52

eat raw bait worst sashimi ever... in the end though I won after all I am el

02:00

campeon and I felt kind of bad for the fish we really had a moment you know [Santiago looking sad and hits the fish with a bat]

02:04

unfortunately neither of us got a happy ending just when everything was looking

02:08

good in came the sharknado okay well maybe not that exactly but there were a [Santiago holding a fish]

02:14

lot of sharks I fought em off as best I could but in the end they treated my

02:18

fish friend like an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet by the time I got back to

02:22

the beach well nothing was left of the fish but its skeleton and after that [Santiago holding a fish skeleton on the pier]

02:26

there was nothing to do but go home and finally go to sleep

02:30

on the bright side Manolin came by and said we could fish together again which

02:34

is nice and all but can't a guy get some bengay around here

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