In both the The Old Man and the Sea and Between the World and me the authors convey themes of hopefulness. In The Old Man and the Sea we see that throughout the book santiago continuously pursues catching fish albeit of what other people say. He does this in the hopes that he will be able to pay others back and get that sense of …show more content…
The theme that shows itself so often in both of these books is suffering. In The Old Man and the Sea all throughout the book we see him suffering while on his voyage. A prime example is when he brutally cuts up his hands and has to continue rowing because if he doesn’t then he would be stuck at sea. He also suffers in that he is always alone and lives with the constant sense of failure from not catching any fish or making any money. In Between the World and Me Coate’s describes all the suffering that colored people used to and still go through. How the constant prejudice aggravates them and sets them back into society. The constant atmosphere of danger and crime that they suffer through on a daily basis not knowing whether or not you’d make it through that day with your life. In each case there is a recurring theme of suffering albeit of whether or not you see it as hopeful suffering or hopeless