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        The Old Man and the Sea


        setting

        Havana, Cuba

        time

        1950s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1952

        page count

        128

        difficulty

        Intermediate

        main characters

        Santiago

        Rip's impressions

        Very accessible and symbolic, through the action of a man's struggle with a fish.

        first line

        He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)

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