Portrayal of the old man- The Old Man and the Sea

In the book, 'The Old Man and the Sea', Santiago is portrayed as an old Cuban fisherman. He is a very wise man with years of fishing experience. His friend and apprentice, Manolin, has been fishing with him for years. The old man is a very good fisherman, but he has become known as unlucky in the town that he lives in because he and Manolin have not caught any fish in eighty four days. Manolin was forced to leave the old man's ship for a more prosperous ship, leaving the old man to go out and fish by himself. The old man is very understanding about this situation. Most people would have gotten very upset with Manolin but the old man is very kind and understanding. In the book, the old man, or Santiago, is a kind, caring and patient old man. He is always optimistic, even when everyone else around him is extremely negative about the old man's situation. He is portrayed as very tough and brave. He toughs it out for days trapped on the ocean with the biggest catch of his lifetime. He eats raw fish and sits in the burning sun while his hands become cut and scraped from the fishing wire. He is very tough while his body begins to turn against him as his hands cramp up into claws and he is unable to use them. The old man is very brave and confident. He is confident in his ability to catch the fish. He knows that it will be a very difficult challenge, but he is up for it and he believes in himself that he can do it. In the book the old man is portrayed as kind, patient, understanding, brave and confident. All of these characteristics are what makes him a good fisherman and a character that the reader wants to succeed. His characteristics are also what makes him a good role model for the young boy.

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995. Print.

accomplishments of the old man- The Old Man and the Sea

In the book, 'The Old Man and the Sea', the old man accomplishes some really impressive things. He catches a giant fish that some of the best fishermen couldn't even imagine catching and he does it without any help from anyone. This is a big accomplishment for the old man because this is what he had been waiting for for such a long time. It is a great accomplishment because at this point, the old man was alone, and very weak. It took a lot of strength for him to catch the fish and he had to overcome a lot of obstacles. He had to fight off a bunch of sharks and he had to overcome all of the health problems he encountered. He had problems with his hands cramping up, making it nearly impossible for him to catch any fish. He also had problems with getting cut up by the fishing line whenever the fish would jerk. He had to worry about getting sick, because if he started to feel nauseous, he would get very weak and be unable to keep fishing. The old man overcame these obstacles and made this accomplishment by being very determined to prove all the doubters in his town wrong. He knew that he was not unlucky, and he wanted to show them that he was not unlucky. What makes this accomplishment even more amazing is that the old man did it all by himself. He caught and killed the eighteen foot long marlin fish with out the help of the young boy. This was the first time in a while that he had caught a fish with out the boy's help and he kept thinking to himself how much easier it would be if the boy was there to give him a hand. With all of these obstacles in the way of the old man and his catch, it really is amazing that he was able to complete this task all by himself in the state he was in.

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995. Print.

traits of the old man- The Old Man and The Sea

In the book 'The Old Man and the Sea' the hero is the old man. In the book, the old man is very brave. He risks his life by sailing out farther into the ocean than he ever has. He knows that by sailing out that far, a lot of things could go wrong for him. He is also very brave when he decides to continue fighting with the fish even though he knows that the fish is much stronger than him and he may not be able to kill it. He also shows his bravery when the sharks begin to attack the fish because they smell its blood. He could get out of the situation by just giving up and cutting the line that attaches the fish to the boat, but instead he is brave and fights off the sharks. The old man is also very patient in the book. He is patient with the people in his life and with the situations that he gets put in. He is patient with the young boy when he announces to the old man that his family will not let him fish with him anymore. His family believes that the boy would do better in a different ship because they do not believe in the old man. When the young boy tells the old man this news, the old man does not get upset with the boy. He is very patient and understanding. He is also patient with the people in his town. Everyone in the small fishing town makes fun of the old man and says that he is unlucky. They all laugh at him for not catching a lot of fish, but he is patient with them and does not get upset about it. The old man is also very patient with the situations that he is in in this book. He goes for eighty four days without catching a single fish. Most fishermen would be devastated by this but the old man remains patient and keeps telling himself that the big catch will come the next day.

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995. Print.

hero of The Old Man and the Sea

In the book, 'The Old Man and the Sea', the hero was Santiago, the old man. The hero of a book is usually someone who accomplishes something really great or someone who saves the day. In the book 'The Old Man and the Sea', however, the hero is an old man who goes out to the ocean everyday in hopes of catching a fish. I think the old man is the hero in this book because he is the main character. He could be considered the hero because he does something that the other fishermen dream of doing. He catches an eighteen foot long marlin. This is heroic because the old man does it all by himself and without the help of the young boy that he usually has to fall back on. The old man is much weaker than the fish. The fish is physically stronger and much larger than the old man so the odds are really stacked against the old man killing the fish. The only thing that the old man has against the fish is that he is more determined than the fish to beat it and that he is more wise than the fish. The fish does not know what is happening or how to beat the old man. The old man has been fishing for years so he has a lot of experience, although not with any fish as big as the one he is battling against now. The old man is a hero because he overcomes so many obstacles to catch the fish. He gets a lot of injuries while he is catching it. He has to work with many cuts and scrapes and he has to try to hold on to the line when one of his hands has become so badly cramped that he can not use it. The old man loses a lot of his strength holding on to the rope, so that when the fish is close enough to kill it, he barely has any strength left. He has to overcome a lot of obstacles even after he finally kills the fish too. He has to fight off sharks that try to eat the meat of the marlin and he has to try not to go insane while he is returning to shore after being dragged for so long. I believe that the old man is the hero of the book because he did what most fishermen would call impossible and he had to overcome many difficult obstacles.

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995. Print.

Universal Themes- The Old Man and the Sea

The book, 'The Old Man and the Sea' displays many universal themes in it. One major theme in this story is that people will go very far to keep their pride. In the book the old man is called "salao" which means "unlucky", by many people because he has gone eighty four days with out a single catch. This hurts the old mans pride, which is what pushes him to keep trying and finally helps him to catch the eighteen foot long marlin. In the book, there are many times that the old man feels like he can not possibly catch and kill the fish all by himself. He feels like he is not strong enough to do it alone and he wants to give up. At these times he thinks back to all the people who do not believe him and how good it would feel to prove them all wrong by bringing home the giant eighteen foot long marlin. Thinking back to all the people who doubted him is what pushed him to keep going and to finally catch the fish and kill it. The old man went to great lengths to catch the fish. He let it pull him out to sea for many days, which was a risk to his health and his safety. He could have died if he had let the fish take him out too far, but he was determined to prove to everyone that he was not unlucky so he took his chances. When the marlin jumped out of the water and the old man saw for the first time exactly how big the fish really was, he decided that he would fight with this fish until one of them was dead. He did not even care that he could catch the fish. He would do whatever it would take for him to not lose the fish because he thought that if he lost the fish, no one would believe him that it really was eighteen feet long. He wanted people to respect him again and he knew that by bringing in the fish, he could gain all of their respect because none of them had even seen a fish so big, let alone caught and killed one by themselves.

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995. Print.

Human Nature- The Old Man and the Sea

The author's writing in 'The Old Man and the Sea', shows that he has a great understanding of human nature. In 'The Old Man and the Sea' , the old man will do whatever it takes to get his big catch. He risks his own health in order to reach his goal. He could have just kept the dolphin that he caught or some of the other fish and sold them for meat, and then he could have gone back home and been safe, but he risked his health and safety because he was so determined to catch that fish. He knows that the fish is much stronger than him, and the odds are against him catching the fish, but he continues to try and comes very close to death in the fight. The way that the old man acts in this book shows that the author believes that when a person is determined to get something, they will do whatever it takes to do so. The old man suffers for days in the hot sun with injuries in order to kill the fish. He thinks of the people who doubted him and called him unlucky because he went so long without catching anything. This shows that the author believes that people will go to great lengths to protect their reputation or pride. The old man worried that no one would believe him that he caught such a great fish unless he had the proof of the body when he returned. This is why he was so determined to kill the fish. He wanted to redeem himself and his reputation by coming home with his eighteen foot long marlin. The old man wanted to impress everyone and show them that they were all wrong about him being unlucky. In the book, the young boy was faithful to the old man. He looked up to the old man and wanted to continue fishing with him even though everyone was calling him unlucky. He helped out the old man every morning by helping him get his ship ready every day. The author uses the boy to show that people will stay faithful to others that they look up to.

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995. Print.

Cause, Gains, and losses- The Old Man and The Sea

In every story there is a conflict. The conflict is what makes a story interesting. The conflict is the challenge that the character or characters must overcome in the book. Each conflict also must have a cause, gains, and losses. In the story, 'The Old Man and The Sea', the conflict is the struggle between the old man and his giant catch; an eighteen foot long marlin. The old man fights with the huge fish for three days before he finally kills it. The cause of this conflict is that the fish is too great for the old man to kill quickly and easily as he normally would. He does not have enough strength to reel in such a big fish and therefore, he has to struggle with and fight with the fish for three torturous days before finally getting him close enough to kill. This conflict makes the story more interesting because the reader is hoping for the old man to catch a break and be able to catch the fish. The conflict of this book does not really have very many gains to it, other than the experience that the old man gained from fighting with this fish. Another gain from the conflict is that after he struggled with the fish and caught it and the young boy saw the size of the fish, he was able to fish with the old man again. The losses of the conflict of this book are that the old man loses a lot of his strength in his fight for this fish. He is so concentrated on catching the fish that he comes very close to dying himself. He is willing to do anything to catch the fish because he had not caught any fish in such a long time. Another loss of the conflict is that because the old man could not pull the fish in the boat after he killed it, the sharks smelled the blood of the marlin and ate its whole carcass. This left the old man with only the skeleton of the fish and no meat to sell from it.

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995. Print.