Santiago From The Sea Quotes

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Christian message: The old man struggles in the sea just like Jesus did and that is why Santiago is like a Christ figure. For example, Santiago injured his hands and that is what Christ did.
Nature man: He says that the fish in the sea are his friends and also his brother.
Friendship: The old man and Manolin show no matter the age you can be friends and they teach each other what they know and acknowledge each other with respect.
Pride: Santiago’s pride is what gets him through the difficult time in the sea because he’ll try to keep himself alive until he catches.
2. Santiago is like christ because he carries his gaff to his shack on his shoulder like when Christ was forced to carry his own crucifix. Santiago was also resting on his bed which might resemble Christ's position when
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This is important to him because if you don’t spend your day well fishing then what are you really doing. The general idea of these verses is that you must not be lazy or you will be poor and go do something of other people. This fits with the idea of Santiago because he doesn’t just sit around in his house, he is out in the ocean trying to succeed.
5. The book ends up like that because it seems as though Hemingway wants us to end it the way we thought he ended. Its very interesting in how he did it. I if Hemingway continue to write it, Santiago would be alive and continuing teaching the boy. The message was that you can connect to God in any way no matter if its good or bad.
6. Hemingway’s life goes with the idea or themes of this story because as you see in the beginning of the book it says how he took down his picture of his wife and in Hemingway’s life he is lonely and how woman in the book are negative just like his mother and all the woman he knows. It also says how Santiago was successful in catching fish but then he went 84 days without catching a fish and that goes back to Hemingway’s life because he was a successful man until he became unsuccessful in writing a good

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