Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Some questions about OMS

I'm reading OMS right now - I'm around page 80 - but there were a few questions that popped up in my mind, concerning the literary devices in this book:

p. 75 - "There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behaviour and his great dignity." Is there a reason why he writes that in British English? 'Cause I thought he was American... Is it intentional?

p. 83 "He was ceding line but more slowly all he time." I don't understand this sentence, lol. Can someone explain it to me?

p. 89 "I'm tireder than I have ever been, he thought..." Is "tireder" a real word? Is this another example of how Hemingway is adding unrealistic elements to his novel or is it an example of dialect? Or, does it support the fact that Santiago was poor and did not receive adequate education?

So yeah. Those were some questions that went through my mind this morning.
See you all later :)

3 comments:

  1. i did not even know that behaviour is British spelling. isnt it probably old spelling?? dont be too sure im just guessing...

    i thought it means that he is releasing the line as the fish pulls to go deeper or father more slowly than all other times.

    tired can be used as an adjective just like 'pretty-prettier-prettiest' I suppose. so even though it does sound not familiar but there might not be any implication underneath it

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  2. Sayaka! Thanks for sharing your interpretations w/ me :)

    1.)True, that could be it that "behaviour" is old English that was used in his time. I just thought it was British because they usually put u's in like "coloUr" and "neighboUr" and other words like that.

    2.)OH okay. So I guess he meant to write "all THE time" instead of "all he time". I think that's what got me confused.

    3.)I looked up "tired" and it didn't have those -er, -est versions like "pretty" does. But it's possible, like you said, that it may not have any special meanings to it. I still think that he put it there for a reason though, hmm~ lol

    Arigatoo :)

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  3. 1 yeah they always spell funny hey lol like metre or centre as well!!! it makes it look like french lol.

    2 I'm really not sure...;(( lets ask Rab:)

    3 oh is it urgh sorry buddy if i confused you any worse. so i also searched around some websites and found one that says tireder is used as a slang sometimes. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tireder

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