Santiago's Unlucky: The Old Man And The Sea

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The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea shows how an old unlucky fishermen becomes a legend fishermen in the small town he lives in. “Santiago is an old Cuban fishermen who has had some bad luck for the past eighty four days” (Marie 2). But that does not stop Santiago from going out fishing everyday to try to catch the next massive marlin even though everyone else in town has no faith in him. “On the eighty fourth day Santiago decides to go out into the ocean where no man has gone before to catch the next giant marlin” (Marie 2). He sails way out where no land is in sight and starts to fish. Santiago knew it was going to be a good day of fishing as soon as he started. Shortly after he started fishing, Santiago started seeing jumping …show more content…

Ernest is trying to show to everyone all the different critical interpretations that took place into making the book the way it is. Right from the beginning of the story, Ernest is trying to show everyone the tone he is wanting to set by just giving information throughout the story and not making any humors jokes or comments. By showing multiple themes throughout the story and each one of those important themes ended up relating to one of another to show the steps Santiago had to do to overcome to catch a fish. By showing these steps on how “Santiago went from the unluckiest fishermen in town”(Morgan 2) into becoming one of the most respectable ones that people looked up to. Ernest is trying to show people to never give up on their dreams and to work through and overcome what ever might be in there your way of achieving …show more content…

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