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Modernist literature is a break with the old ways of writing from the 19th Century. Modernist wrote in new forms and styles. Ernest Hemingway was a modernist writer. One of his famous novels was The Old Man and the Sea. In The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway de ....

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.... reader joins the story after eighty-four days of not catching a fish and the narrator fills in the details. The narrator knows all about the old man and the boy. The reader learns of the relationship between Santiago and Manolin. "The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him" (10). From the narrator the reader learns that the boy takes care of the old man by bringing him food and supplies. The narrator tells the reader what Santiago is thinking while he is fishing. The third characteristic is a simple direct style with a basic vocabulary. The choice of words creates basic concrete pictures with no flowery language. For exampl ....