Characteristics Of Santiago A Hero Hemingway

Hemingway develops Santiago as a hero in order to reveal that everyone goes through their own sacrifices to prove a point. According to the Hemingway Character Code, Santiago is a hero. Santiago is an poor, old man who is made fun of for his lack of fish caught by his fellow fishermen, thus showing that he is destroyed but not defeated. According to the Hemingway Character Code, Santiago is a hero. Santiago and the turtle have been through many hardships. The quote “most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.” Turtles have to fight and fight just to get to their new home, the ocean. Once they get there, they can still be killed and slaughtered by man. The old man is just like this because the old man tries and tries to catch fish but it is all to no avail. The old man may have good traits such as determination, wisdom, and dedication, but in the end, he is just an old man. “...cutting his hands badly but he had always known this would happen and he tried to keep the cutting across the calloused parts and not let the line slip into

Traits such as boldness, persistence, difference, could all be positive or negative traits when you consider the context. “They sat on the Terrace and many of the fishermen made fun of the old man and he was not angry. Others, of the older fishermen, looked at him and were sad.” The old man is here being made fun of silently, yet the old man does not say anything. He knows what they are thinking but he does not say anything because he probably knows they are correct. “He was eighteen feet from nose to tail,” the fisherman who was measuring him called.” The other fishermen now think that after he has gone and captured this gigantic fish, he is now liked around the town. The fact that the old man was different might have had an impact on