The Old Man and the SeaThe Old Man and the SeaThe Old Man and the SeaEssay choice #4Matt RuweEnglish 332Mrs. AndersonIn the timeless novel The Old Man and the Sea, the hero is undoubtedly the old man, Santiago, whom us as readers become very acquainted with. Santiago is a hard-worker and perseveres through every problem nature brings to him. He is in the midst of a horrendous fishing drought, during which the townspeople laugh and ridicule him. Santiago just lets the criticism pass him by because he is confident that the fish of his lifetime is coming soon. In a sense, Santiago represents the ideas of honor and pride. He is also a hero to a young boy named Manolin who conveys the image that the old man is whom he would rather live and spend time with rather than his biological father.
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If there is one object you want me to admire, it is Santiago. I do not know what it is but I will tell you I admire him because I am more interested in him than anything else.
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The story of Santa’s disappearance and how it was connected to the “greatest discovery ever” in human culture is not far from the “punch me” scene from Stephen King’s The Wizard of Oz. Santiago has, with the help of my friend Sam from the book, found out that what he found was actually all of the remains of an old Japanese whale that had been found, hidden under a tree, in the sea in California while he was on a mission to scout through an ancient Maya temple. Santiago and Sam’s discovery brought to mind the scene in the original film’s prologue, The Lost Children, in which Homer is rescued by the local sea captain (Lincoln Crane) and brought ashore and reunited with the little island who was his friend back home. Although he is a little disappointed to be confronted and his journey is slow, Santiago is in the process of finding the whale and learning how it came to be. Sam is convinced that it took much more than just his own blood to rescue the young whale (and his life as a hero) from the harbor and so eventually brings his mother (Dorianne O’Neill, played by the same old Tina Fey) to meet its mother before it can arrive. He, along with his comrades, goes on a fishing expedition in search of the whale, where Sam is reunited with Santa himself. Santiago discovers that all the remains of his father and mother are also present with him, and that Santa is now a sea captain, having been sent to the Sea of Ilu. Upon seeing Santa’s name on the coast of California, Santiago rushes to see Santa’s father in the sea and begins to question his judgment. He finds Santa’s mother, who, according to her, does not give birth. Santa, convinced he does not have Santa’s kind blood, sends her to Los Angeles to seek his birth. Santiago’s mom tells him she does not want to come and rescue Santa. However, she has one wish, as Santiago is on the lookout for the missing whales: She can locate Santa’s missing brother. She also wants to know what Santiago has to say to save Santa from the whale. Santiago tells her everything on his quest to save his brother and his love for Santa, and in his attempt to solve Santa’s mystery
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If there is one object you want me to admire, it is Santiago. I do not know what it is but I will tell you I admire him because I am more interested in him than anything else.
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The story of Santa’s disappearance and how it was connected to the “greatest discovery ever” in human culture is not far from the “punch me” scene from Stephen King’s The Wizard of Oz. Santiago has, with the help of my friend Sam from the book, found out that what he found was actually all of the remains of an old Japanese whale that had been found, hidden under a tree, in the sea in California while he was on a mission to scout through an ancient Maya temple. Santiago and Sam’s discovery brought to mind the scene in the original film’s prologue, The Lost Children, in which Homer is rescued by the local sea captain (Lincoln Crane) and brought ashore and reunited with the little island who was his friend back home. Although he is a little disappointed to be confronted and his journey is slow, Santiago is in the process of finding the whale and learning how it came to be. Sam is convinced that it took much more than just his own blood to rescue the young whale (and his life as a hero) from the harbor and so eventually brings his mother (Dorianne O’Neill, played by the same old Tina Fey) to meet its mother before it can arrive. He, along with his comrades, goes on a fishing expedition in search of the whale, where Sam is reunited with Santa himself. Santiago discovers that all the remains of his father and mother are also present with him, and that Santa is now a sea captain, having been sent to the Sea of Ilu. Upon seeing Santa’s name on the coast of California, Santiago rushes to see Santa’s father in the sea and begins to question his judgment. He finds Santa’s mother, who, according to her, does not give birth. Santa, convinced he does not have Santa’s kind blood, sends her to Los Angeles to seek his birth. Santiago’s mom tells him she does not want to come and rescue Santa. However, she has one wish, as Santiago is on the lookout for the missing whales: She can locate Santa’s missing brother. She also wants to know what Santiago has to say to save Santa from the whale. Santiago tells her everything on his quest to save his brother and his love for Santa, and in his attempt to solve Santa’s mystery
Santiago has many noteworthy character traits. He possesses a very strong sense of pride that will not allow him to give up on fishing even after eighty-four days without a single fish. He is also virtuous in that no matter what happens to him, he will not make up excuses or false accounts in an attempt to cover up his bad luck. He is also very unselfish for the reason that he never looks down on the boy or treats him unfairly. Everything they accomplish together, Manolin is given credit for, which I found unusual because more often than not, old men will try to hoard their achievements to try and hold on to their glory days. Instead, Santiago is trying to bestow upon the boy the good values and love for fishing and baseball that he possesses.
In the beginning of the book, Santiago does nothing worthy of receiving any type of praise and everyone in the village as views him as just an old fisherman. Everyone that is, except for Manolin. Santiago is Manolin’s idol and he sticks by him through thick and through thin. I loved