Wednesday, March 7, 2007

By Cory W.


In Ernest Hemingway’s novella, The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago, the main character, has to make many difficult choices in his life as a fisherman. Some of those choices in this case are, how far to go out to sea, how much food to bring along, and how long to wait for the fish without giving up. These choices can be very critical to a fisherman’s life when he’s out at sea.

In The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago has been having some really unfortunate luck with catching fish, it has been eighty-five days since he has caught a fish but he still has faith, “eighty-five is a lucky number,”(16). This shows that even though Santiago hasn’t caught a fish in eighty-five days he still feels that he could catch one any day now. “Far out to come in when the wind shifts. I want to be out for it is light,”(14). Santiago feels that if he goes out really far into the sea that he can catch a very large fish.

This decision for Santiago turns out to be a good and bad decision. This is a good decision because the farther out you travel the deeper the ocean gets and the deeper the ocean gets the bigger the fish get. So if Santiago hooks a fish out here it will probably be a big fish. It is also good because he finally does catch a fish, the biggest fish that he has ever seen, “he is two feet longer than the skiff,”(63). If Santiago had been able to bring in this fish it would have changed his life forever. Manolin’s father would probably let him go with the old man again, the men in town would show him more respect, and he would have been able to sell the fish for a lot of money and have been able to buy plenty of the supplies he needs. But the problem is he doesn’t bring in the fish successfully and that is the bad part of this.

When Santiago decided to go out really far he probably didn’t expect to catch a fish so large that it didn’t fit on the boat. Now he has caught this amazing fish that is too large for the boat, and the only way to bring him back to land is to tie him to the side of the boat. Santiago let the fish drag him so far out to sea that it takes him a really long time to get back to shore. While Santiago is bringing in the fish, it gets attacked by hungry sharks. Santiago kills a few of them but they are eventually too much for him and he gives up. The fish is eaten right down to the bone and when he finally gets it into shore there is absolutely nothing left to it. Santiago feels defeated.

In the end Santiago comes in tired, hungry, hurt, and with the scraps of an amazing fish. Santiago’s choice to go out really far got him an amazing fish, but left him with pain, not just physically but mentally too. He had to see and hear this amazing fish he caught get ripped to shreds by bloodthirsty sharks. Santiago’s choice to go out really far had a lot of consequences, some good but also some bad.

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