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The Book Club

Viva Frei: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Book Club

PragerU

Books, Arts

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Is the pursuit of a dream worth it, even if it’s torn apart in the end? In The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman determined to break a long streak of bad luck. Venturing far into the open sea, he hooks the catch of a lifetime—but as he battles to bring it home, he watches it slowly devoured by sharks. Michael Knowles is joined by popular Canadian podcaster Viva Frei to explore the deeper meaning behind Hemingway’s classic—its Christian symbolism, themes of suffering and redemption, and how even in defeat, the human spirit can triumph. Follow PragerU on social media: YouTube Instagram  X/Twitter Facebook  Rumble Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Every runner knows the moment when everything clicks.

0:04.0

When your legs lock into a rhythm, the aches float away and doubts fade.

0:08.0

Replaced by a feeling of euphoria.

0:12.0

It's why you lace up at dawn.

0:15.0

Why a little rain doesn't stop you.

0:17.0

Why one run turns into a habit.

0:24.3

So next time you go for a run, chase that runs high.

0:28.1

Learn more about running and go wild at puma.com. Man is not made for defeat.

0:43.3

Man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

0:47.5

Do you want a box? Do you want to fight?

0:49.8

We will not be defeated by our book this month.

0:52.2

That is Old Man in the Sea by the Great Inimitable, actually eminently imitable.

0:58.2

Ernest Hemingway, I am joined by a great and inimitable man, Viva Fry.

1:04.0

Viva, thank you so much for being here.

1:05.5

Michael, thank you for giving me an excuse to reread a book I read 30 plus years ago.

1:09.7

Do you know I had never actually read

1:12.6

Old Man in the Sea one of the most famous works by Ernest Hemingway, one of the most famous

1:19.6

works of literature probably of the last 300 years, and a really, really magnificent book.

1:26.1

The book is very slim, and yet it's dense. Hemingway is a dense

1:32.6

writer. Everything is packed with symbolism. He uses an economy of language, but he uses language

1:38.6

quite well. Can you, in one minute, give a summary of the book? One minute's summary is an old, poor Cuban fisherman with a strange relationship with a young boy,

1:49.7

down on his luck, decides to go for the all-in of fishing, goes further out into the ocean to try

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