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Compare And Contrast The Old Man And The Sea By Ernest Hemingway

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People around one can help persist through challenging times together. In The Old Man and The Sea, Santiago goes through troubling situations. With the realizing himself and others, he overcomes any difficult times thrown towards him. In The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway utilizes supporting characters to aid the theory of Santiago’s well-rounded nature through struggle within others. The marlin’s personality parallels to Santiago’s development and journey. The marlin is a valuable beauty and a prize for Santiago. Soon after he drives a harpoon into the fish, it “came alive, with his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty" (Hemingway 94). The marlin …show more content…

Manolin, a boy, tends to Santiago from helping him collect his fishing gear to giving him meals. In the past he accompanied Santiago on his trips, until he switches due to the old man’s gossiped “unluckiness.” Manolin cares deeply for Santiago, and unlike him has no problem demonstrating his feelings. Unlike others Manolin has always known the old man’s strength and power, similar to how Santiago discovers it himself, although it has been static entirely. When Santiago returns to the town, Manolin “saw that the old man was breathing and then he saw the old man's hands and he started to cry…all the way down the road he was crying.” (Hemingway 122) The boy “saw that the old man was breathing” which relates to Santiago’s relief of living and being back home with the boy. Santiago often seems cold, as he does not demonstrate feelings externally. After going through the turmoil of catching the marlin, his hands remain hurt. When Manolin sees his hands, he begins to cry and continues as he walks down the road. His expedition of emotion which, seen to others, is unlike Santiago, and demonstrates a quality frown upon by men. It also demonstrates what Santiago has been through and is feeling, which resides in the boy’s caringness towards the old

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The book begins with Santiago’s craving for love with a merchant’s daughter to whom he has only spoken with a few words. This “love” is what takes Santiago off track from his pursuit of his Personal Legend as Santiago refers to this love as his main goal in living. However, when Santiago meets Fatima, his true love, it presents a more difficult challenge as it convinces him to abandon his Personal Legend. However, his love with Fatima is acceptable since Fatima encourages him to pursue his Personal Legend. Fatima says, “If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day” (97).

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Santiago's temptation is when he has the choice whether or not to stay with Fatima and abandon his Personal Legend. After leaving Fatima he has a difficult time coping with the separation, even if Fatima is a woman of the desert, who knows he will return. The Alchemist offers him a sole piece of advice, “love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend.” (120) Santiago’s heart is aching for the loving arms of Fatima. He realizes that he needs to focus on what he needs, pursuing his Personal Legend and not what he desires to be with Fatima.

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The novel, The Old Man and the Sea, is a story about an old man, Santiago, who experienced great adversity but did not give up. The author, Ernest Hemingway, describes how an old man uses his experience, his endurance and his hopefulness to catch a huge marlin, the biggest fish he has ever caught in his life. The old man experienced social-emotional, physical, and mental adversity. However, despite the overwhelming challenges, he did not allow them to hold him back but instead continued to pursue his goal of catching a fish with determination. Santiago’s character, his actions and the event in the novel reveals an underlying theme that even when one is facing incredible struggles, one should persevere.

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The battle that The Old Man fights with the marlin, as well as the daunting task of defending the marlin from the countless sharks that follow the skiff, are two points in the novel where Hemingway really conveys the sense of struggling and suffering. This is how Hemingway tries to convey an underlying theme of the constant struggle between man and nature, by depicting the struggle between The Old Man and the Marlin, against all odds. The Old Man considers the fact that capturing the Marlin is such a great task for him since the Marlin is trying just as hard to evade and escape from The Old Man’s reach. Throughout this struggle, The Old Man, who eventually becomes very fatigued, keeps telling himself to push through the pain and bear it like a real man would. He pushes past the faintness and dizziness he experiences, he pushes himself to see beyond the black spots in his weary vision and he pushes past the pain in his hands to catch the Marlin which puts up a great fight against this frail old man.

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