He also brings him some fresh sardines for baiting. The boy brings him coffee, not aware that this would be the only food for Santiago for the whole day. Next day Santiago wakes the boy and they stroll to the shore.

Manolin asks Santiago to wake him up tomorrow, so they will go to the shore together. The old man tries to cheer up the boy and himself, telling that tomorrow he will go far into the sea and catch a big fish. The old man has nothing to eat, so Manolin fetches him a free dinner from Terrace café owner, Martin. The boy has a kind of affection to Santiago and they meet in the evening to share some talk and food.Īs Santiago has nothing to sell, he has no money to buy a decent meal, so the boy buys him a beer, and helps him to carry his fishing gear to the shabby shack, where they are talking about the baseball and old man’s favorite player, famous Joe DiMaggio. At first a boy, Manolin, was helping him, but after forty days without fare his parents forbade him to attend the old man, so now he works with another fisherman. He also is an excellent and skillful fisherman, he just did not find a big fish worthy of selling for a long time. Of course, it is offensive for Santiago who spent all his life at the sea and travelled a lot while being young. Local fishermen had already defined him as “ salao”, a pathetic loser. The Old Man and the Sea starts with a description of an old man, Santiago, a fisher who spent eighty-four days without any fare. Events of the novel take place at Cuba, approximately in September 1950. The following is the analysis of a simple story which is filled by thoughts and philosophy of a man who spent his entire life at the sea and struggles for his life will ill luck, big fish, sharks and the sea itself. The Old Man and the Sea is the last short novel of Ernest Hemingway published during his lifetime. Literature Guides The Old Man and the Sea Introduction

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