Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea to relate the struggles fishermen go through just to survive. In his novella, he conveys a reverent tone toward the subject.

Which quotations from the text help to convey a reverent tone?

Select each correct answer.


"'I am a tired old man. But I have killed this fish which is my brother and now I must do the slave work.'"

"He could see the fish and he had only to look at his hands and feel his back against the stern to know that this had truly happened and was not a dream."

"The clouds over the land now rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue hills behind it."

“Many fishermen were around the skiff looking at what was lashed beside it and one was in the water, his trousers rolled up, measuring the skeleton with a length of line.”

"He felt no strain nor weight and he held the line lightly. Then it came again. This time it was a tentative pull, not solid nor heavy, and he knew exactly what it was."