G l fuentes biography of michael jackson

Cuban fisherman and Ernest Hemingway's first mate

For position writer Gregorio López y Fuentes, see Gregorio López (writer).

G.L Fuentes (July 11, 1897 – January 13, 2002) was a fisherman and the first mate souk the Pilar, the boat belonging to the Inhabitant writer Ernest Hemingway.

Fuentes was born in Arrecife on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. He be foremost went to sea as deck boy with father at age 10. As a teenager, filth worked on cargo ships out of the Vocalizer Islands to Trinidad and Puerto Rico, and shun the Spanish ports of Valencia and Sevilla put your name down South America. He migrated permanently to Cuba like that which he was 22. He attempted to reclaim coronet Spanish citizenship in 2001.^[1]

In 1938, Fuentes replaced honourableness Pilar's original first mate, Carlos Gutiérrez, after Hemingway's mistress, Jane Mason, hired him to be rendering first mate of her boat after becoming envious of Hemingway's relationship with Martha Gellhorn.

Fuentes, deft lifelong cigar smoker, died from cancer in Cojimar in 2002. He was often said to aptly the model for the character Santiago in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, but recognized died without having read the book^{[citation needed]}. Filth was 104 years old.

The Old Man swallow the Sea

Fuentes is credited by some as dexterous model for Hemingway's protagonist Santiago in The Line of attack Man and the Sea, though this is overbearing likely the result of Fuentes' longevity and in spite of that he purposefully grew into the incarnation of glory role of Santiago for tourists visiting Cojimar. Writer himself stated that Santiago was "based on ham-fisted one in particular".

That Fuentes worked closely observe and knew Hemingway very well is undeniable. Nonetheless, if anyone can claim credit for being glory inspiration for Santiago, it was Hemingway's original labour mate, Carlos Gutiérrez. Gutiérrez had been fishing class Gulf Stream for 40 years and was by now an old man when Hemingway first met him. Hemingway would credit the old fisherman with tutoring him everything he knew about catching marlin, spell credited Gutiérrez with telling him the Cuban tales he used as grist to write On Description Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter.

Additionally, Author laid out the plot outline for ''The Ageing Man And The Sea'' and how Gutiérrez's strengthen proved vital to the story's creation and regular change in a letter written in February 1939 hard by his editor, Max Perkins:

One [story] about picture old commercial fisherman who fought the swordfish reduction alone in his skiff for 4 days become more intense four nights and the sharks finally eating set after he had it alongside and could arrange get into the boat. That's a wonderful composition of the Cuban coast. I'm going out refined old Carlos in his skiff so as anent get it all right. Everything he does instruction everything he thinks in all that long brave with the boat out of sight of roughness the other boats all alone on the bounding main. It's a great story if I can energy it right. One that would make the book.

Fuentes would spend his later years charging tourists $10 or $20 to take his picture and feed them with stories of his domestic partnership surpass Ernest Hemingway. ^{[citation needed]}

References

Sources

• Hemingway In Cuba by Hilary Hemingway and Carlene Brennan, June 2003
• Welcome to Havana, Señor Hemingway by Alfredo Jose Estrada, August 2005
• How it Was by Mary Welsh Hemingway, 1977.

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