Old Man and The Sea
In the book, The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway tells a story of anold fisherman. The old man, named Santiago, had gone for eighty-four dayswithout catching a fish. Santiago feels that the following day would be agood day because eighty-five is his lucky number. The following day he getsup before dawn and sets out for a day of fishing. He had set one bait atforty fathoms, the second at seventy-five fathoms, and the third and forthwere at one hundred and one hundred and twenty-five fathoms. While Santiagois fishing he sees a bird trying to get a flying fish that was being chasedby tuna. The old man tries to put his boat over the school of tuna in hopeof getting a catch. Suddenly something hooked itself on the bait that wasset at one hundred and twenty-five fathoms. The old man had caught a hugemarlin that was now pulling him out to sea. The fish continued to pull theold man out to sea for about 3 days. The old man survived by putting one ofhis other lines out so that he could catch fish and eat them in order tokeep his strength. On the third day he finally caught the fish. He hadpulled the fish in slowly and then threw his harpoon at the fish's heartkilling it instantly. The old man tied the
Though the boy did feedand cloth the old man, he could have also fished with him. "He went out quietly to goto bring some coffee and all the way down the road he was crying. The old man had to havelived near a large city because when he was out at sea he looked for thebright lights of Havana. "But the shark jerked backwards as he rolled and the knife blade snapped. The first, and main character in the book The Old Man and the Sea is infact the old man, Santiago. More sharkscame, but this time in a pack. "But there was nothing to be done now. "The boy cried a lot, it was either that he was very emotional, or that theold man was doing poorly. In the end the sharkshad eaten the fish down to the bone leaving the old man nothing. Two moresharks came and the old man killed them both. The old man harpooned the shark in his brain, and as theshark rolled off of the fish it took the old man's harpoon with it.
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