As I continued reading The Old Man and the Sea, I expected it to become boring because all the old man was doing was fishing. But again, the book surprised me and kept me interested. The way Santiago goes about fishing and just life in general is very inspiring. Santiago is very optimistic about everything that is thrown in his way. In the beginning he never lost hope, even after having an eighty-four day dry spell for fishing. Santiago even has a positive attitude about his hand cramping. "It will uncramp though, he thought. Surely it will uncramp to help my right hand" (Hemingway 64). He has to force himself to eat some fish to get the strength for his hand.
I am really interested in if and when Santiago will catch this fish. I am also really curious what kind of fish he will catch. My theory is that it will be some kind of fictional fish the author made up because there is no way that there is a real fish that could accomplish those feats. Where I stopped off, page sixty four, Santiago notes the fish has slowed down and moved closer to the surface of the water. This probably means that Santiago will catch the fish very soon. I think that if the old man actually catches the fish he will have even more problems than he has now. If the fish is big enough to pull the old man's boat that it will not probably fit in his boat and it would be too heavy and sink it too. I wish that the boy was able to go on this fishing trip with Santiago. I know that this would defeat some of the purpose of the novel though. I like to read the interactions between the boy and the old man because they seem to care so much about each other. Their relationship reminds me of a close father and son relationship.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner, 1952. Print.
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