Visual Representation of The Old Man and The Sea

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Visual

Representation of
The Old Man and
the Sea
Prepared by
Asha Dhedhi (Sem-3)
Department of English
(M.K.Bhavnagar University)
Objectives of the presentation

● This presentation tries to highlight how ‘The


Old Man and the Sea’ visualized by different
artists.

● How Characters, Events and Scenes of


Hemingway’s novella has been illustrated by
a wide variety of Artists in a wide variety of
media over the years.
Synopsis of The Old Man and the Sea

“Man can be destroyed but not


defeated”

● Written by American author Earnest


Hemingway
● Published in 1952
● Story about Cuban Fisherman
● Old Man’s Struggle with Marlin
● Man vs. Nature
● Resistance against defeat
Importance of Visualization
“We believe in the power of science, exploration, and storytelling
to change the world”
(By Susan Goldberg from ‘The Risks of Story Telling’)

“In a world increasingly saturated with data and information,


visualizations are a potent way to
break through the clutter, tell your story, and persuade people to
action”
(by Adam Singer from “Data Visualization: Your Secret Weapon in
Storytelling and Persuasion”)
The Old Man and the Sea as Political Cartoon
● Date: 31 October 1972 (Edmund S. Valtman)
● Few days before presidential election in 1972 (United
States)
● Senetor George McGovern as a Fisherman in small
boat
● George Mcgovern’s opponent Richard Nixon won the
election with large margin
● Fish represents War Issue
● Old Man represent George Mcgovern who wants won
the election
The Old Man as a Guido Scala Comic Book
● Comic book by Walt Disney
Company
● Written and Illustrated by Guido
Scala(Italian Artist)
● Scrooge Mcduck and the Old Man
and the Sea
● Appeared im 1987 (22 Pages and over
100 panels of illustrations, set in a
fiction island called Tuba)
● Acciuga: Trouble in
selling toys

● Mcduck represent
the old man

● Tourist: One
significant feature in
both stories
The old man as a
‘Bob the Angry Flower’ webcomic
● Webcomic - A series of comic stripes published online
● Bob's classical literature sequel: The Old Man and the Sea
● Illustrated by Stephen Notley
● Conflict between Capitalism and Socialism
● Eight panels - Feature two character

● Old, Dignified Santiago


● Bob the angry
The old man as a
‘Bob the Angry Flower’ webcomic
The old Man and the Sea as
Graphic Novel
● Illustrated by Corban Wilkin
in graphic form
● 80 panels and 385 words
● Wilkin compares Hemingway’s story to a
“fable” and notes that a virtue of his
graphic and textual compression of the
story is to “allow[] the strength of the plot “I compressed 100
to shine through in its most distilled pages of text down into
form.” 22 pages of comics”
(Corban Wilkin)
References
● Pujol, Enrique Guerra. “The Old Man as Book Sculpture.” Prior
Probability, 10 Mar. 2019,
priorprobability.com/2019/03/10/the-old-man/.
● Pujol, Enrique Guerra. “The Old Man as a 'Bob the Angry Flower'
Webcomic.” Prior Probability, 9 Mar. 2019,
priorprobability.com/2019/03/08/the-old-man-and-bob-the-angry-flow
er/.
● Pujol, Enrique Guerra. “The Old Man as a Guido Scala Comic
Book.” Prior Probability, 9 Mar. 2019,
priorprobability.com/2019/03/07/the-old-man-and-guido-scala/.
● Pujol, Enrique Guerra. The Old Man and the Sea as Political
Cartoon. 9 Mar. 2019,
priorprobability.com/2019/03/05/the-old-man-and-political-cartoonist-
● Pujol, Enrique Guerra. “The Old Man as Graphic Novel.” Prior
Probability, 9 Mar. 2019,
priorprobability.com/2019/03/09/corban-wilkins-old-man-and-the-sea
/.
● Tong, Chao, et al. “Storytelling and Visualization: An Extended
Survey.” Information, vol. 9, no. 3, 2018, p. 65.,
doi:10.3390/info9030065.
● Valtman, Edmund S. The Old Man and the Sea. 1 Jan. 1972,
www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016687295/.
● Wilkin, Corban. Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. 13
Sept. 2012,
corbanwilkin.com/ernest-hemingways-the-old-man-and-the-sea/.
● Wilkin, Corban. The Old Man and the Sea. 25 May 2011,
corbanwilkin.com/category/the-old-man-and-the-sea/.

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