Old Man And The Se Reconciliation Of Youth And Old Age

n this essay I will explain to you how The Old Man and the Sea is a story of reconciliation of youth and old age. In this story they talk about a boy who plays a large role in the old mans life throughout the book, he refers to him several times in the novel weather he is present or not around. When we first meet the boy he helps the old man unload his fishing stuff and they talk the rest of the day about the several things that they have in common one being american baseball. When the boy tells the old man that he can no longer fish with him the old man develops almost this sense of child hood. He decides that the next day he is going to end his streak of bring nothing home instead he will venture out even farther with his very much so small …show more content…
When the old man finally does get the marlin close enough to kill it with a harpoon he is soon again faced with obstacles that he himself as an old man should not be able to overcome just because of the sheer strenuous pressure that it put on the body, he fought and killed several sharks with nothing but a knife tied to a boat oar. When the old man returns we encounter the boy again he sees the skeleton of the marlin sitting in the boat and along with all the other local he begins to speculate that it is a shark and with the absence of the old man he begins to think the worst. The boy then rushes to the old mans ramshackle hut and finds the old man there sleeping. The boy, so overcome with joy begins to …show more content…
instead he is reunited with the boy and when they begin their fishing endeavors together again they share the responsibility of the boat and the old man no longer requires the need for youth like strength for he has the boy and the boy is to do the work that requires a young back and the old man can rest while sharing with the boy his past experiences that have made him the capable fisherman that he now is. The Old Man and the Sea is a story of reconciliation of youth and old age, and has time and time again shown that with multiple in text clues, Ive only personally shared a few examples that i was able to pick out and I 'm sure that the more you read this novel the clearer the relationship becomes. when reading this book be sure to pay extra close attention to the relationship that the old man and the boy have, and also pay attention to hoe the old man thinks and acts differently when he goes on the fishing trip without the boy to help him along the