hemingway
...the largest fish that he has ever seen in his life. He has a hard time getting it up and it takes away all of his strength. He has an even harder time getting it back to the village because it is night and all of the sharks are feeding off of it. He is unable to do anything about the hungry sharks. Upon finally returning to the village, he is so tired that he is not able to worry about this fish and goes directly to his shack and sleeps for an extremely long time. When he is awaken by Manolin, he finds that the fish that he caught was destroyed by the sharks and that all of his efforts were for not. However Manolin encourages Santiago to continue fishing because he still has much to learn about the sea. Santiago is the main character in Hemingwayˇ¦s The Old Man and the Sea. He is an old fisherman who seems to have very bad luck at fishing even though when he was younger he was a very good fisherman. Hemingway describes him by saying, ˇ§Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were cheerful and undefeated.ˇ¨ Even though he is old and poor, he still considers himself to be the top dog. Santiago knows that he is not doing very well but he still had to will and the drive to continue fishing, which is what he enjoys doing. Even though the enormous marlin that Santiago catches is an animal, it is still considered to be one of the main characters. The entire book is based around his struggles with this fish. ˇ§He came unendingly and water poured from his sides. He was bright in the sun and his head and back were dark purple, and in the sun, the stripes on his sides showed wide and light lavender.ˇ¨ This is what Santiago sees when he gets his first glimpse of the fish that he has been fighting with for three days. Santiago spends so much time with the marlin that he actually starts to talk to it and call it his ˇ§brother.ˇ¨ He sees the fish as being a superior being, even better and nobler than man is....