What Is The Relationship Between Santiago's Loss In The Old Man And The Sea

Many times in literature, characters have difficulties that they must overcome. In the Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway this had happened to the main character Santiago. Santiago is faced with the difficulty of hunting down the eighteen foot Marlin fish tormenting him physically in pain and mentally in regret. While in the Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst, Doodle one of the main characters, of the short story is also faced with a difficulty, which is his fitness. In the Old Man in the Sea Santiago shows his endurance of the difficulties he is faced with. Santiago is a very experienced fisher, but has a string of bad luck when he has not caught any fish for eighty four days . He is thought to be bad luck by many fishermen. Some even

The fish was eighteen feet in size and fifteen hundred pounds in weight. He set up a trap for the fish, which took three long brutal days for him to finally kill and subdue the fish. He was sleep deprived, hungry, aching in every part of his body, and still did not waver at letting go of the fish. He eventually killed the Marlin by jabbing his harpoon inside of it instantly killing it. Santiago was very happy fulfilling his goal and

His happiness ended when he attracted a handful of sharks. The first shark came swiftly eating a quarter of the fish, but was killed by Santiago. Then two more sharks came attacking the fish and then dying at the hands of Santiago. When Santiago had surveyed the damage he saw that most of the fish was eaten and there was nothing left but a skeleton. After all his journey, Santiago was battered down and broken returning home. As Manolin takes pity and a sense of pride for what Santiago, has done and went through he promised him he would never leave his side and would fish with him. Santiago at the end of the book is not filled with pride, but instead with regret, because of after all he went through to catch the Marlin he failed, to bring back all of it .
In the Scarlet Ibis, there is a great sense of difficulty portraying the older brother who is unnamed, his stubbornness, and Doodle who is too hardworking and underestimated. Doodle was born a disabled child and his real name was William Armstrong. Everybody thought he was not going to live longer than a few days and even made him a coffin. The only person that believed he would live long enough was his Aunt Nicey, because he was born from a caul and had been made from