ELI 10 ESA 0,7

1. Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea (p. 80/81)
Use the passage printed below for an interpretation; the following questions may
serve you as guidelines for your work:
What are the narrative techniques used here by the author?
What does the passage contribute to a characterization of Santiago?
Is there a connection between this passage and the central theme of the novel?

2. Essay writing:
Write an essay in which you try to answer the following question: What does Ma
nolin contribute to the understanding of Santiago and of his experience? (Write
about 450 words.)
These hints may help you to answer the question:– Characterize their relationship.– Describe Manolin’s care for Santiago.– Characterize the admiration which the boy has for the old man.– Analyse Manolin’s reaction to Santiago’s statement that he was ‘beaten’. (p. 103)

3. F. S. Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Use the passage (text pages 192 – 194) printed below for an interpretation; the fol
lowing questions may serve as a guideline for your work:
Describe in detail what it is that fascinates Gatsby.
Comment on the statements which point at the discrepancy between Gatsby and
Daisy and her world which can be found in this passage.
Is the passage connected with the central theme of the novel?

4. Essay writing:
Nick:“I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all – Tom and Gatsby,
Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some
deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.”
(p. 227)
Write an essay in which you explain what Nick means by calling himself and the
others “Westerners”; interpret the terms “deficiency” as Nick uses it here; and show
the different effect which this “deficiency” has on the lives of Nick and the others.
(Write about 500 words.)