What would it be like being stranded in the middle of the ocean, barely being able to survive? Both Ernest Hemingway’s novella The Old Man and The Sea and fictional movie All is Lost, directed by J.C. Chandor and starring Robert Redford, are stories of survival, perseverance, and strength. In The Old Man and The Sea, Santiago, the protagonist, is an elderly fisherman who struggles to survive. In All is Lost, the unnamed protagonist is a man stranded at sea when his boat sinks. Both of these protagonists are code heroes because they are intensely loyal to someone or something, they are truly skilled, and they never act cowardly. First of all, both Santiago and Robert Redford’s character show that they are code heroes by being intensely loyal
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In The Old Man and The Sea, Santiago is a talented fisherman. He knows how different types of fish act under certain circumstances, and he is extraordinarily strategic. For example, when Santiago catches the ginormous marlin, he “cut a piece of line and tied the fish’s lower jaw together against his bill,” so that “his mouth would not open,” and the boat would “sail as cleanly as possible” (Hemingway 97). Also, Santiago “did not need a compass to tell him where southwest is” (Hemingway 97). The only things he needs are “the feel of the trade wind” and “the drawing of the sail” (Hemingway 97). In comparison to Santiago, the protagonist played by Robert Redford in All is Lost is a wonderful sailor. His boat, the Virginia Jean, means the world to him, and he is exceptionally skilled at driving and at fixing it when need be. For example, in the beginning of the movie Redford’s boat gets caught on a shipping container. However, he is able to unlatch from the container by using an anchor. After this event occurs, he shows his knowledge by repairing a hole on the boat’s side. He uses a brown, thin paste and patches up the hole. Later on in the movie, Redford is on an inflatable life raft, and the whole raft tips over and goes underwater. His only supply of clean drinking water, stored in a large blue bucket, gets contaminated with salt. He tries the water and screams angrily. However, he is remarkably strategic, so he puts a plastic bag over the bucket, collecting condensation. Both protagonists are truly skilled in a particular hobby, which allows them to be code
In The Old Man and The Sea, Santiago is a talented fisherman. He knows how different types of fish act under certain circumstances, and he is extraordinarily strategic. For example, when Santiago catches the ginormous marlin, he “cut a piece of line and tied the fish’s lower jaw together against his bill,” so that “his mouth would not open,” and the boat would “sail as cleanly as possible” (Hemingway 97). Also, Santiago “did not need a compass to tell him where southwest is” (Hemingway 97). The only things he needs are “the feel of the trade wind” and “the drawing of the sail” (Hemingway 97). In comparison to Santiago, the protagonist played by Robert Redford in All is Lost is a wonderful sailor. His boat, the Virginia Jean, means the world to him, and he is exceptionally skilled at driving and at fixing it when need be. For example, in the beginning of the movie Redford’s boat gets caught on a shipping container. However, he is able to unlatch from the container by using an anchor. After this event occurs, he shows his knowledge by repairing a hole on the boat’s side. He uses a brown, thin paste and patches up the hole. Later on in the movie, Redford is on an inflatable life raft, and the whole raft tips over and goes underwater. His only supply of clean drinking water, stored in a large blue bucket, gets contaminated with salt. He tries the water and screams angrily. However, he is remarkably strategic, so he puts a plastic bag over the bucket, collecting condensation. Both protagonists are truly skilled in a particular hobby, which allows them to be code