In part four, Ernest Hemingway explains how the immense shark eats forty pounds of the old man’s fish. The fish is mutilated by the shark and is bleeding again. However, the old man kills the shark which is one of the biggest fish that he has ever seen. Nevertheless, the aged man begins to think of positive uplifting things on his boat. He begins to think about how he is getting closer to home as he sails on the skiff. As he sails on the sea, the old man begins to think about sin. He is not sure if he understands or believes in it, causing him to not want to think about it. Whithersoever, the man says that he killed the shark in self-defense. Notwithstanding, the old man gets a piece of fish out of the water to rate the fish’s quality and taste. He figures that the meat will sell good in the market, but he can not find a way to get the bloody smell out of the water to keep other behemoths or creatures from eating the marlin. …show more content…
However, he sees flying fish and patches of yellow Gulf weed, instead. The old man has sailed for two hours to realize that something is chewing his marlin. Finally, he sees two sharks, identifying them as shovel-nosed sharks. He sees them as hateful, bad smelling scavenger, killer sharks. However, the old man is able to kill one of the sharks, while the other one swims back and forth. The one that is killed also bit into the marlin, taking the pieces that he bit with him as he died. Furthermore, the next shark attempted to get to the marlin and is also killed after taking a piece of the fish with