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    Santiago is lead from Spain to Egypt having to overcome test after test to follow his dream to his treasure. By pursuing what he truly wants with the help of several characters‚ Santiago evolves into a well-rounded individual by gaining lessons through his journey. Santiago learn to connect with the Soul of the World from and the Englishman‚ to trust his intuitions‚ and he also learned about true love from Fatima and his parents. First‚ Santiago learns to connect with the Soul of the World. Santiago

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    Santiago‚ at first‚ seems hopeless; he is the joke around town and has not caught a fish in eighty-four days. However‚ Santiago continues to go out to sea everyday in hopes of catching a fish. With the old man’s determination and his pride on the line‚ Santiago caughts the biggest fish that anyone has seen‚ but is then eaten by sharks. Therefore‚ Santiago’s commitment in killing this big fish‚ eventually leads to his downfall. Going months on end without catching a fish‚ Santiago becomes the laughingstock

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    perfectly embodies the view Tim O’Brien has on courage‚ as he eloquently demonstrates in his book The Things They Carried. Although all the characters of this novel display O’Brien’s point of view‚ the three shining examples of this are Norman Bowker‚ Jimmy Cross‚ and Tim O’Brien himself. Tim O’Brien is fairly conscious of the difference between cowardice and bravery. To him‚ courage is not fulfilling what is socially accepted‚ but continuing to uphold one’s own morals even against adversity. His feelings

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    Who is Santiago Nasar? How would it feel if everyone else knew about your death except you? This is what happens to Santiago Nasar in Gabriel García Márquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Santiago Nasar’s character is presented by reflections of members of his household and close friends on his actions as the narrator interviews them. The reflections Márquez gives the reader to analyze and interpret allow them to create their own perception of Santiago Nasar. Three of Santiago Nasar’s household

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    and the Sea‚ an old man named Santiago does just that. Santiago goes through many grueling challenges that make him endure physically and mentally. He not only endures the pressure and stress of catching and bringing the fish back to shore‚ but does so with grace. Santiago endures until the end‚ and he never gives up. Hemingway made Santiago the person he himself strived to be. It is Santiago’s perseverance‚ will to endure and grace under pressure that makes Santiago Hemingway’s hero. Endurance

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    An old Cuban fisherman‚ named Santiago‚ has gone eighty-four days without catching anything. As a result of this‚ his apprentice Manolin quits in frustration. Even though Manolin has quit as an apprentice‚ he still shows a little loyalty to Santiago by bringing bait and food for him. It is now the eighty-fifth day‚ and Santiago decides to take his boat to a different location. He takes the boat way out deep in the Gulf Stream. There he is able to discover good waters. In these waters he catches and

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    “On the day they were going to kill him‚ Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on” (Márquez‚ 2). In the event that Márquez wrote the book in a random order‚ it was based on retelling Santiago’s Nasar’s murder. Additionally‚ the weakness of the brain’s memory being depicted throughout the novel‚ by the commoners that lived in a small town inside of Colombia. If the order of the book was told in a different way‚ then it would’ve lost its cliffhanger

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    U.S. President Jimmy Carter creates a moving argument to urge Americans to support the preservation of America’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in order to protect "America’s last truly great wilderness" from oil drilling. He builds his argument by starting off with a first-hand experience‚ pointing out other sources of support‚ explaining the harmful effects on the native people‚ and gives the audience a clear list of benefits for preserving the refuge. Carter begins with an anecdote of his camping

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    young shepherd boy named Santiago. Santiago ventured out on a quest to find his dream‚ the treasure. Along the way Coelho placed certain people in Santiago’s path to give him wisdom and life lessons to help him find the foreseeable treasure that occurred in his dream. Throughout Santiago voyage he gathered at least five valuable lessons to help him succeed in perusing his dream of finding the treasure that was near the pyramids‚ located in Egypt. The first lesson Santiago learned was to find his

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    Short Bio- Who is Leyla Santiago? Leyla Santiago is a profound Latin-American journalist and television personality best known for working at CNN. Presently‚ Leyla Santiago is the Correspondent for CNN based in Mexico City and has reported on major events. The popular Leyla Santiago bio is given below. Age- How old is Leyla Santiago? Beautiful and talented Leyla Santiago has been in the media for quite some time now but has disclosed very less information regarding her personal life. Her exact birth

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