Part one of term paper
Modernist literature is a break with the old ways of writing from the 19th Century. Modernist wrote in new forms and styles. Ernest Hemingway was a modernist writer. One of his famous novels was The Old Man and the Sea. In The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway demonstrates many of the characteristics of Modernism. One characteristic of Mod ...

Part two of term paper
... and who knows how old he is, he thought. Never have I had such a strong fish nor one who acted so strangely" (48). The only dialog is when Santiago talks to himself or the creatures of the sea. The rest of the time the reader is inside Santiago head. A second characteristic of Modernist literature is the use of third person omniscient point of view. The reader joins the story after eighty-four days of not catching a fish and the narrator fills in the details. The narrator knows all about the o ...