Interpretation of The Old Man and the Sea

The true meanings of success and failure, victory and defeat, and life itself, are explored by Ernest Hemingway in this novella The Old Man and the Sea that won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize, and was a major factor in Hemingway winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.

Throughout The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago is given heroic proportions. He is "a strange old man,"⁷ still powerful and still wise in all the ways of his trade. After he hooks the great marlin, he fights him with epic skill and endurance, showing "what a man can do and what a man endures" (p. 64). And when the sharks come, he is determined "to fight them until I die" (p. 116), because he knows that "a man is not made for defeat. . . . A man can be destroyed but not defeated" (p. 103). The struggle of the old man alone to defeat a fish larger than his boat, and the unexpected fight back from nature, are the core of the book.  Hemingway elegantly combines the tactical battle between man and fish with the grander strategic tension between man and nature, and gently raises questions about all our struggles for growth and achievement, both internal and external.

Conclusion:-

In short, the difference between victory and defeat is not determined by size, strength or power but by will, determination and desire. As long as you have the latter, victory is within your reach.

Campus Recruitment

Campus Recruitment or Campus Placement has become a popular and commonly used method for selecting personnel in an organization. In Campus Recruitment, Companies / Corporate visit some of the most important Technical and Professional Institutes in an attempt to hire young intelligent and smart students at source. The most significant fact about Campus Recruitment is that instead of the job seekers approaching employers, the employers come to the most suitable prospective candidate with a job offer. It is common practice for Institutes today to hire a Placement Officer who coordinates with small, medium and large sized Companies and helps in streamlining the entire Campus Recruitment procedure. Campus Recruitment provides a platform for the organizations to meet the aspirants and pick up intelligent, committed youth who have the requisite enthusiasm and zeal to prove them. In order to find the right candidates, organizations employ various selection procedures. Campus recruitment has also spread from professional colleges (like engineering) to colleges offering general degrees like B.Com, B.Sc, MBA etc. Organizations seek to pickup the cream from different colleges. Hence, students from most good colleges now have a favorable chance to join a reputed organization without having to scrutinize diligently the 'wanted' columns. Now one also needs to understand why it is that corporate are beginning to lay a lot of emphasis on campus recruitment. It is easy for companies to reach a particular college and conduct recruitments there rather than reach out to a whole lot of individuals via newspapers etc. It therefore makes a lot of sense to be thoroughly prepared for the Campus Recruitment by the companies.  The following are the stages that students normally go through as a part of Campus Recruitment:
(i) Aptitude Test

 (ii) Group Discussion   

 (iii) Interviews

what is Literature?

"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish." -- Robert Louis Stevenson     

                I think, “Literature is a branch of knowledge”. Whether graphically, acoustically, electronically or otherwise, it uses language artistically to understand, interpret and appreciate life intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually so as, first, to reflect on and experience it individually and interiorly as art. Secondly, for the courageous only, Literature also actively celebrates life by living it, questioning it and changing it if and when necessary, like we do a hot, delicious ball of ugly that becomes unbearably unfriendly to swallow even with closed eyes. In order to enjoy it, Literature can be simplified, categorized and read or performed in the forms one likes best. These common forms include all types of novels, all kinds of drama and all classes of poetry. When the practitioners are active, Literature as art can also invent new forms to initiate new canons alongside the established traditions.  

• Why is it important?

          Through this definition, we come to know that why literature is important for us. Literature helps us understand and make sense of the world around us. Through literature, we explore the human condition and analyze how and why people think the way they think and feel the way they feel. Literature enables us to develop our minds analytically and promotes open minds. We see the world through the eyes of different writers from different cultures and in turn learn the ways to deal with things happening around us. Without literature, we lack insight and understanding of human nature. Everyone should, therefore, study literature.

New Thoughts on Life

  

Hello !!

        I am Neeta

New thoughts on life:- 

ü "You'll get what you want in life provided you help others get what they want!"

ü "Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."

ü "Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."

ü "The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

ü You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

ü "I have always been smart enough to be naive enough to not know what I couldn't accomplish!!"

ü  "Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know     that everything in life has a purpose."