Old Man And The Sea
This part of the story has to do with Santiago against nature and
the sea. In this part of the story, he goes out and fights nature in
the form of terrible forces and dangerous creatures, among them, a
marlin, sharks and hunger. He starts the story in a small skiff and
moves out in a journey to capture a fish after a long losing streak of
eighty-four days. Unfortunately his friend must desert him due to this
problem and a greater force, his parents. Santiago must go out into the
danger alone. For three harsh days and nights he fights a fish of
enormous power. This is the second form of nature he must conquer.
Earlier in the story, the first part of nature is himself, for ...
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life called `Cannery Road'.
This part of the story has to deal with figures of Christ. It
mainly deals with Santiago as being a figure of Christ and other
characters as props, that is, characters which carry out the form of
biblical themes. On the day before he leaves when he wakes up, Manolin,
his helper, comes to his aid with food and drink. Also a point that
might be good is that he has had bad luck with his goal for a great
period of time and is sure it will work this time. Later, though, when
Santiago needs him for the quest he sets out to do, Manolin deserts
him, although he may not have wanted to at this time. In the novel
Santiago comes upon a force bigger than his skiff, the marlin which
misleads him out far past his intended reach. This is where he starts
to lose his strength against something which seems a greater force.
Santiago has a struggle of three days, which is significent because
of the three days in Easter, and continues to ...
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each other unfriendly though for Manolin calls the Santiago 'old
man' and he calls Manolin `boy' which seems to be absurd. In that
situation I would consider both of them to go see a doctor. The next
relationship to talk about would be that between Santiago and the
village, which seems to be much better. He is given credit for food and
he also is waiting to show his greatness to the villageby catching a
great fish as soon as he can. His thought on that, though, is that any
fisherman can ctach it during the easy season but only a few can go out
and catch one during the hard season. He has no consideration for the
luck, and would rather try to fish through being exact ...
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