Influences on the "The Old Man and the Sea"

There could have been many things that influenced Ernest Hemingway to write The Old Man and the Sea. There is a very good chance that Ernest Hemingway got the idea for The Old Man and the Sea while he was out traveling and possibly going through villages that may have been similar to the one in his story. He may have seen a small fishing village that had not much to it, and he may have seen the men all head out to sea so they could catch their fish for that day. He may have even followed some of the men out or gone on one of the boats with them and watched what they did all day so he could write the book with more detail. There is the possibility that he went to a bar in a small village and smelled some fish and began to think of fishermen and bars and the fishing industry. He may not have been anywhere near fishing villages or even villages at all when he came up with the idea for The Old Man and the Sea. He may have been out in the middle of the sea and seen a big fish, like a marlin, or even a shark, and started thinking about how those fish are caught, the natural cycle of life of a fish, or even how sharks and other fish, like marlin, and related to each other. He may have seen people picking on other people, or even people being nice to other people. He may have just seen an old man sitting somewhere and being very patient, and he may have come up with the idea for writing a book teaching lessons about things such as kindness and patience. People begin writing books for many different reasons, and they all come from different inspirations. Whatever was the reasoning behind writing The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway made the world a better place because he wrote it.