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Pructus Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Hemingway's "The old man and the sea"

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00Following is from Hemingway's "The old man and the sea". 02br
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00*** Even if 01u00we were two02u00 and swamped her to load him and bailed her out, this skiff would never hold him. ***02br
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00The underlined part, "we were two"...02br
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00Definitely the oldman was alone in the boat. 02br
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00Then how come he used the word, "we"? 02br
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00May I just take it plainly as, "If I had come here with someone else, and not alone"? 02br
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00Or, as some people say, the "we" mean, the oldman and his inner self, or his another self?02br
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0Hemingway usually did not write literally. 0-

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0Hemingway usually did not write literally. Therefore, I think it would be safe to say that he meant, even if he were two people (instead of just one).0-
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0 "Even if there were two of us...." 0-
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0Thanks Philip and Anon!!0-
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