1. Santiago physically conforms to accepting pain when he is holding onto the rope with his hand even though it is pulling on him. He still endures and accepts the pain, although he knows the loss of the marlin is still going to occur. He does this because he views the big marlin as a worth opponent and has the courage to continue what he started. 2. Santiago mentally conforms to enduring the loss of the big marlin when the sharks begin to attack. Santiago is able to fight off the first few sharks but the blood , Santiago knows, will attract more sharks and soon there would be nothing left of the marlin. Santiago accepts this loss, because it cannot be avoided, yet he still holds on to the skeleton of the fish because of his courage and values. 3. Firstly, Manolin’s parents who forbid Manolin going out to sea with Santiago are an example of living by this false code. They do not want to accept the pain of Manolin going with Santiago a nd not bringing back something. They don’t have the endurance to accept that loss, although unavoidable, and therefore they lack the pride which encompasses knowing that Manolin and Santiago would have done their best to catch a marlin. Also, Manolin could also fall under this false code because he did not have the endurance to disobey his parents and thus to accept the pain of the latter punishment. He also did not have the courage to act according to what he believed and what he wanted which would have been to go with Santiago. 4. a) The lions in Santiago’s dream on the last night represent how he imagines his adolescence. The lions being active and energetic and their reappearance in his dreams is how he pictures himself and Manolin being young a... ... middle of paper ... ... was unlikely in the 20s. Daisy’s values were to be treated like royalty and have all of the wealthy class things without having to work for it. She demonstrated this by staying married to Tom because they both have money in the family even though she knew he was cheating on her. She really had no moral values at that point and only valued materialistic things and the lavish lifestyle she continued to live. Tom , like Daisy, valued the wealthy lifestyle. He however had a slightly different attitude toward that. Daisy would simply enjoy the wealth, but Tom, he believed that his wealth made him superior to everyone else. He disregarded his wife Daisy when he was cheating with Myrtle, however when the topic of Gatsby loving Daisy came afloat, Tom was outraged. This shows that he also values everything being in its rightful place working out best only for him.
Maybe, he swims away, dragging the old man and his dinghy along behind. Santiago wishes he had Manolin with him to offer help. As the sun goes down, the marlin continues in the same bearing, and Santiago releases touch base totally. Imparting his determination, Santiago says, "Fish,...I'll stay with you until I am dead" (52). He conveys uncertainty about whether he needs the fish to bounce, expecting to end the fight as quick as could be normal considering the present situation however focusing on that the catch might slip out of the fish's mouth. Reverberating his past purpose however with less conviction, Santiago says, "Fish,...I treasure you and gratefulness all of you that much. In any case, I will kill you dead before this day closes" (54). A touch of flying animal land on the boat, remembering Santiago is relating to the winged creature, the marlin stumbles forward and pulls the old man down, cutting his hand. Cutting down his hand to water to clean it, Santiago sees that the marlin has supported off. He eats a fish he has gotten remembering the finished objective to give him quality for his
The themes explored in the novel illustrate a life of a peasant in Mexico during the post-revolution, important themes in the story are: lack of a father’s role model, death and revenge. Additionally, the author Juan Rulfo became an orphan after he lost
The fish withholds a great part in this book. The Old Man and the Sea is a book that’s about a small town where the residents revolve their lives around fishing. The fish is a symbol of beauty and it is a greatly admired creature to these people. An example from the book is on page 49. Santiago has been fishing for 84 days and decides not to return home without a fish on the 85th day. On the 85th day, alone in the boat, he manages to hook an enormous marlin, the biggest fish he's ever seen in all his life. The fish is larger and stronger than Santiago. Santiago's experienced fishing skills and his will to catch and survive push him to pursue the fish for many days and many miles out to sea.
Secondly, Santiago experiences material success because of the augmented physical strength he attains from the obstacles that he is forced to face. The old man is walking home to his shack after he returns from his strenuous journey, “He had to sit down five times before he reached his shack” (121). The old man is exhausted from his trip because he had spent so much energy catching the fish. Plenty of strength must have been gained from the exertion of this much energy. During the shark attacks, Santiago is optimistic about what good the bleeding from his hands will bring. “The bleeding may keep the left from cramping” (111). The old man is so strong that he uses the bleeding pain to suffocate a different source of pain. Not only that, but just the fact of keeping a positive attitude about a situation like this is a great accomplishment which can only be obtained from strength.
In The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, pits his strength against forces he cannot control. We learn from Santiago's struggles how to face insurmountable odds with bravery and courage. Though we find an indifferent and hostile universe as Santiago's stage, his unwillingness to give in to these forces demonstrate a reverence for life's struggles. Santiago's struggle is for dignity and meaning in the face of insurmountable odds. His warrior-like spirit fights off the sharks full-well knowing the fate of his marlin. Santiago loses his marlin in the end, but his struggle to keep it represent a victory because of the dignity and heroism with which he carries out his mission. However, as Santiago acknowledges, he is almost sorry he caught the marlin because he knows the animal and he have a great deal in common as fellow beings in nature. However, he only caught the marlin "through trickery" (Hemingway 99). Santi...
Triumph over crushing adversity is the heart of heroism, and in order for Santiago the fisherman to be a heroic emblem for humankind, his tribulations must be monumental. Triumph, though, is never final. Hemingway vision of heroism is Sisyphean, requiring continuous labor for quintessentially ephemeral ends. What the hero does is to face adversity with dignity and grace, hence Hemingway's Neo-Stoic emphasis on self-control and the other facets of his idea of manhood. What we achieve or fail at externally is not as significant to heroism as the comporting ourselves with inner nobility. As Santiago says, "Man is not made for defeat....A man can be destroyed but not defeated" .
The first two obstacles that Santiago faces are that his father tells him he can not do something that he wants to do and that he wants to pursue his personal legend, but he does not want to hurt those that he loves. For example, Santiago’s father said, “The people who come here have a lot of money to spend, so they can afford to travel. Amongst us the only ones who can travel are shepherds.” Everyone is told by their parents and friends that everything we want to do is impossible. Since Santiago did not have money to spend to travel his only choice was then to become a shepherd to fulfill his desire. T...
Many times, stories by Ernest Hemingway have much religious influence and symbolism. In The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway, numerous occurrences in the life of Santiago the fisherman are similar to the incidents recorded in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. The names of the characters translated from Spanish to English are just one of those many similarities.
In the story Santiago’s bravery is unsurpassed but it is not until he hooks the “great fish” that we truly see his valor and perseverance. Through Santiago’s actions Hemingway teaches the reader about bravery and perseverance in the face of adversity. He demonstrates that even when all is lost and seems hopeless a willful heart and faith will overcome anything. Santiago had lost his “luckiness” and therefore the respect of his village. Through the description of his cabin we also suspect that Santiago is a widower. Although Santiago has had many troubles he perseveres. He has faith in Manolin, in the Yankees, in Joe DiMaggio, and most importantly in himself.
He can’t do this forever. But four hours later the fish was still swimming steadily out to sea, towing the skiff, and the old man was still braced solidly with the line across his back” (Hemingway 45). It is quite evident from this thought that Santiago is tired and does not want to deal with this fish much longer, but despite this Santiago is still at it four hours later. In the Hemingway Code, under self-reliance, it states that one must be skilled in a particular area. In this quote, Santiago shows his skill when he doesn't give up knowing from all of his experience that he must finish the job. In this situation, Santiago can give up and drop the line, but he does not do this because he knows that it is necessary to follow through and catch this fish so he can provide for himself. Throughout the book, Santiago displays numerous times that he can be self-reliant, overcome obstacles, and keep to the Hemingway
...ed. When he returns home, every muscle is weak. But Santiago’s honor and dignity are more intact than ever before. While being taunted and disrespected by the other fisherman, Santiago keeps his dignity and does not retaliate. Although in a slump, he honors fishing and doesn’t sit around and complain. He respects the ocean, the fish and the birds even though they don’t repeat him back. Hope is never lost when the sharks attack and eat the carcass. He perseveres when he finally ends his fishing drought and at last restores his honor and dignity in the village. Even when the fish is dying, he calls it a worthy opponent and praises its endurance. The marlin’s carcass is destroyed by the sharks, much like Santiago’s body. But the skeleton of the marlin is intact just like Santiago’s honor. The honor and dignity that Santiago has truly makes him the ultimate fisherman.
The act of catching the fish is bound to the act of losing the fish—the red blood released by the mortal blow is the green light for the sharks. Whether he catches the fish or whether the fish snaps the line and escapes, the old man will not be able to bring the meat home. The fish is lost, either way. But the two scenarios are not equal. The man is welcomed back into the esteem of the fishermen, into Manolin's company on the fishing boat, into society, solely because he broke with society and went out "too far", out beyond all others. He gains only by losing. This old man will never again chase marlin for days on end. He won't have to, because for the rest of his days he will have Manolin with him not only physically but mentally because of the fact that he knows Manolin will stick with him no matter what. Even if the odds are against him, and the two of them will catch big, but not giant-sized, marlin with the relative ease known as teamwork.
For three long days, the boat is alternating pushes and towed by the huge fish in an almost dream-like state. Only the killing os the fish and the attacking of the sharks interrupt the monotony. The monotony becomes one of the pressures that the old man must endure in order to maintain his grace. However, because Santiago never gives in to the monotony or the depression, he becomes the hero in the story against innumerable odds. His tenacious determination leads him to a sense of hope amongst the monotony and depression.
The relationship between animal and human in this text shows as a relationship of appreciation and respect. Santiago loves everything about being a fisherman. He is lonely at sea and his sea friends are his companions. He has great respect for the sea as well as the inhabitants that swim and live in it. He does not love all creatures of the deep, blue sea, however, does show respect for each one. Santiago has a particular relationship with the marlin. He comments that the marlin is “wonderful”, “strange”, “strong”, “wise”, and “that is fight has no panic to it” (Hemingway 48 -49). Based on his description of the marlin, Santiago loves and respects him as a worthy opponent and brother, “Now we are joined together and have been since noon” (Hemingway 50). Santiago is not only literally linked to the marlin, but also figuratively because the outcome of this battle will determine both their fates. The old man says, “The fish is my friend too,” he said aloud. “I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars” (Hemingway 75). He starts to imagine impossible feats like killing the moon or the sun and feels lucky that his task, in relative terms, is much simpler. Although he is sad to kill the fis...