Kinesiology 3378F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Joe Dimaggio, Ernest Hemingway, Phronesis
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Not only is santiago a great fisherman, he trains like an athlete. He eats raw eggs and eat unpleasant stuff to make his body strong, just like athletes do. When he"s catching the fish, the motions he does are equated with the motions of. Dimaggio when he plays baseball: a lot of hidden subtext that suggest that dimaggio and santiago are similar people, the novel frequently mentions dimaggio"s bone spurs similarly, Intensity associated with playoff games- santiago"s struggle being able to real in the marlin is baseball and his attempt to stay alive. Its purposely juxtaposed with baseball: santiago"s fishless streak. It is described as long as a baseball bat. In sport, will only get a true competition that you want if both teams give full effort. If we"re learning about ourselves through this challenge, then the question of what we"re learning is important: comes back to aristotle: