Who Is Santiago A Living Person

A living person is identified as someone that is a living creature, that includes having a range of emotions that distinguish character traits. A book that showcases this successfully is “The Old Man and the Sea” a novel written by Ernest Hemingway that was published on September 1, 1952. It tells the story of a fisherman named Santiago that has had no luck in catching fish in 84 days. There is also a boy named Manolin, and together they help each other in many ways until one day Manolin leaves Santiago because he has been branded as “salao” which means bad luck. One day Santiago decides to go out to sea in search for fish, he hooks the fish and then begins the survival of the fittest. In the book there are many descriptive scenes about the scenery of Cuba and of the creatures that live there including the ocean. It also has many character traits of Santiago that show that he is a living person. The character traits that Santiago successfully denotes are confidence and daringness. To be exact, the first character trait that Santiago shows is confidence. In the book there are many times where he proclaims to …show more content…
This is not true because, the author has shown multiple times that Santiago is a living person. Hemingway has given Santiago many emotions and portrays it very successfully by relating it to what Humans feel on a daily basis in reality. For example, Hemingway writes, “ I must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad” (88). Here both daringness and confidence is used in the way that Santiago is confident that he will control his pain despite being in vast amounts and also being daring by withstanding the pain when he could just let go. This is a successful portrayal of a living person that really shows the struggle that people have in situations where it is