Santiago is a man with heart for what he does. He loves to fish. He is going out and proving himself. Santiago does believe in himself but he still needs help from the others in his life. This is a novella written by Hernest Hemingway. The novella is about a man who is going out and proving himself as a fisherman. He loses a close friend that works alongside him named manolin. Santiago does have confidence in himself. He has gone out by himself to catch the fish of his life to prove the people in the city wrong and have even more confidence in himself. To believe in himself even more santiago thinks of some of his past time of catching fish. ”I could go with you, we have made money before”(Hemingway 1) This shows that the others in his life believe in hom. Manolin is telling him that they have made money in the past and had the luck to actually catch something. So he still has it in him he just has to find it. …show more content…
This shows that he does believe in himself and he is telling this to himself and manolin.santiago is going through pain while he is fighting the marlin. His hand starts to cramp and the other is starting to bleed from a deep cut from the rope. He is still pushing through. After he catches the fish the blood creates a blood trail for sharks to follow. The sharks start to attack the fish and the skiff. Santiago fights and fights the sharks until he has no more he even makes his own weapon out of an oar and knife. Santiago has people in the town as well that also believe in him so he has support from