By Parker K.

In the deep sea adventure about an old man named Santiago, risking his life as he goes out onto the sea with no one but himself and his fishing pole. He waits so long just to catch his first fish. Santiago sets his heart on what he wants and doesn't give up until he succeeds. Santiago will get far in life if he lives up to this. Santiago could have had much worse consequences for his actions but he battled and didn't give up. On this journey Santiago could have died and that would have been a big price to pay.

One consequence Santiago was facing when he was out on the sea was that he went out there to catch a fish. Santiago waited and waited but he didn't get a fish and it took a long time before he finally got a fish. He was rewarded for how long he waited too because the fish he caught was so big. The fish he caught was a marlin and that was what he was hoping to catch. The consequence he took from going out was that he had to wait so long just to caught this fish. He waited eighty four days. Santiago really had a passion for fishing.

Another consequence that Santiago went through was when the sharks attacked his boat. Santiago got what he wanted when he went out to sea and that was to catch that marlin but he had to pay for not letting it go when it was dragging him out to sea. He didn't let it go until he got the fish and when he got i the blood from it went into the sea and attracted sharks. At first only one shark came and he battled that one off by spearing it in the head with a harpoon. After a when two more sharks came and he battled them off with a broken ore but the sharks dismembered the carcass off the marlin. This took a lot out of Santiago and makes him very weak.

One last consequence that he got for going out to sea was he almost died when he was out at sea and that is the biggest risk of all. Somehow he battled to stay alive and he succeeded. When he got back to shore after battling the sharks he just laid in his boat. The carcass of the marlin was next to the boat and his friend Manolin saw the carcass and thought it was Santiago. That is a nothing consequence that he did he put his friend Manolin through fear that his friend Santiago was dead.

This story about Santiago and his love for fishing is a life lesson. The lesson that this story teaches is that if you have a passion and love for something risk anything just to have the fun you want to have, just like Santiago did in this story. Santiago risked his live just to go fish and do what he loves to do. There are fishermen today that do the same this Santiago does but don't make it and get lost out at sea and die.