The Old man is still sleeping when Manolin comes to visit him. When the young boy sees his hands, which are still badly cut up from the marlin pulling sharply on the lines, he gets very sad. He knows that his friend and teacher has been through a lot and it could have been avoided if he would have been there for him. The young boy runs to get the old man some coffee. When he comes back, he decides not to wake the old man, but to wait for him to wake up. He keeps the coffee warm over a fire so it will be ready as soon as the old man wakes. Finally the old man wakes up. He drinks his coffee while he and Manolin talk. They talk about the old man's adventure. The old man tells the young boy that he was beat by the sharks. He told him about how he had such a great catch but the sharks destroyed it by eating it. Then Manolin told him that no matter what his father says, he promised to return fishing with the old man. The old man was very happy about this. Around the old man's boat, many fisherman have gathered to see what he had caught. They see a giant carcass larger than the skiff itself. Some fisherman even measured the skeleton of the marlin. They find out that it is eighteen feet long. This is probably the biggest fish any of them had even seen. They were all very amazed by the old man's catch. The old man and the young boy are still talking when the young boy tells him that there had been a large search party for him when he had not returned home for so long. He told him that they even used the coast guard and planes to look for him. The old man was touched that people cared enough about him to go to such measures to look for him.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995. Print.
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