Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea
Heros are made and remember in many different ways, in The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway an old man named Santiago show just how he is ideal everyman hero.
The Old Man and the Sea symbolizes man different things that we are able to experience in our lives. In this book the great fish I believe represents the struggles and challenges that we must try and over come even if the only person you are doing it for is yourself. Sometimes in life we must do things that we don't want to do, and we think it is a waist of our time (like school) but in the long run it will help us. In the book Santiago hooks the biggest and most beautiful fish he has ever seen, but while he is fighting the fish he starts to feel sorry for it and wishes that he would have never have hooked it. pg 48 " You are killing me, fish, but you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or a more beautiful, or a calmeror more noblething than you, brother. Come on and kill me. I do not care who kills who." When the old man demonstrates to us how he puts the line at a precise depths in the water, this shows us how we have to stay true to what we believe in and not follow the crowd. pg 14 " Others let them their lines drift with the current and sometimes they were at sixty fathoms when the fisherman thought they were at a hundred. But, I keep them with precision.". The bird that lands on the boat at the begininng of the book represents the loss of hope you can recieve when you loss or for instance don't do well on a test. pg 27 " Stay at my house if you want bird, he said. I am sorry that I can not hoist the sail and take you in with the small breeze that is rising. But I am with a friend. Just then the fish gave a sudden lurch and the brid flew away." This shows how just when the old man was becoming happy and made a friend the fish ruined it for him, but the old man never stops fighting, and keeps on hanging with the fish. The lions that he always dreams
Heros are made and remember in many different ways, in The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway an old man named Santiago show just how he is ideal everyman hero.
The Old Man and the Sea symbolizes man different things that we are able to experience in our lives. In this book the great fish I believe represents the struggles and challenges that we must try and over come even if the only person you are doing it for is yourself. Sometimes in life we must do things that we don't want to do, and we think it is a waist of our time (like school) but in the long run it will help us. In the book Santiago hooks the biggest and most beautiful fish he has ever seen, but while he is fighting the fish he starts to feel sorry for it and wishes that he would have never have hooked it. pg 48 " You are killing me, fish, but you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or a more beautiful, or a calmeror more noblething than you, brother. Come on and kill me. I do not care who kills who." When the old man demonstrates to us how he puts the line at a precise depths in the water, this shows us how we have to stay true to what we believe in and not follow the crowd. pg 14 " Others let them their lines drift with the current and sometimes they were at sixty fathoms when the fisherman thought they were at a hundred. But, I keep them with precision.". The bird that lands on the boat at the begininng of the book represents the loss of hope you can recieve when you loss or for instance don't do well on a test. pg 27 " Stay at my house if you want bird, he said. I am sorry that I can not hoist the sail and take you in with the small breeze that is rising. But I am with a friend. Just then the fish gave a sudden lurch and the brid flew away." This shows how just when the old man was becoming happy and made a friend the fish ruined it for him, but the old man never stops fighting, and keeps on hanging with the fish. The lions that he always dreams