The_Olde_Man_And_The_Sea__Religious_Similarities

The Olde Man And The Sea: Religious Similarities In many different books, religion often plays a variety of roles, whether it is a religious motif, symbol, parallel, or reference. Earnest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea shows much of these features. It is a story so simply written that it challenges the reader to “fish” for the religious parallels and symbols. The deeper you read, the more indirect references to Christianity and religion you find. The story of Santiago, the old man, involves many parallels to the story of Jesus Christ at different points throughout the story. Crucifixion imagery is used many times throughout the story. In almost all of Earnest Hemingway’s literature, he either puts a bit of his own life experience in or he lets his life influence the story. With the Old Man and the Sea, he draws much influence from his religious upbringing as a child. As a young child he was raised in a strict Protestant town and taught strong morals of the Christian faith. Almost as soon as he could, he immediately turned to atheism. Hemingway did not only not believe in God but regarded organized religion as a menace to old, man, sea, story, christ, hemingway, santiago, throughout, religious, religion, faith, parallels, references, imagery, crucifixion, book, times, states, santiago’s, one, much, motif, marlin, manolin, jesus, hemingway’s, forty, fish, first, examples, different, days, crucible, christianity, began