Death Of Santiago: A Tragic Hero

One of the most important lessons Santiago learns on his journey is to never quit. At the very beginning of his endeavor, Santiago faces a major obstacle, the language barrier. The narrator says, “…he had forgotten a

What makes a hero be a hero? A hero has to have certain characteristics, such as; bravery, wisdom, etc. No matter what characteristics are pointed out, every story has a hero, or an archetypal hero. From a short stories to really long novels, you will have some type of hero. In the novel The Alchemist, the main character Santiago is a hero. The book is about how everyone should live their dreams and never give up on them. It follows a young man named Santiago who is following his own dream, or his own “Personal Legend”. It follows him and his struggles to achieve said Personal Legend. Santiago is a hero because he is wise, kind, and brave; He is also a hero because he displays characteristics of an archetypal hero..

A Spaniard named Pedro de Valdivia, a distinguished officer of Francisco Pizarro's army, got permission to settle the land south of Peru. When Valdivia started his journey he had little to no ammunition and only 10 soldiers. Before he got to Aconcagua Valley his band grew to 150 men, here in Aconcagua Valley, he founded Santiago de la Neuva on February 12, 1541. Although, there was fire, native attacks, and famine to the people of the

On January 6,2017, just before 1pm, reports came in that there has been a shooting inside the Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida. This attack last Friday left 5 people dead and eight injured. This comes at a time when the United States is very vulnerable with Donald Trump replacing Obama as president, Russia allegedly hacking, and unsteady affairs with foreign countries. This is the first mass shooting of the year and is a very depressing one. What the police have found out is the killer is Esteban Santiago. Santiago is a 26 year old National Guard veteran living in Anchorage Alaska. In 2010-2011 Santiago was deployed to Iraq and when he returned he was not the same. He reported to the FBI he thought the government was controlling his mind

Way before the concept of time existed, the human race faces an arsenal of challenges that life relentlessly fires at us. This rule to applies to everyone, no matter the race, gender, or appearance. While challenges are a tough time to get through, characters develop, grow, and prove their strength within them. From an adventures such as Santiago, a son of the god of the underworld, or God himself in the form of Jesus. Getting through your challenges is necessary to develop and better yourself.

Sometimes people have to do sacrifices, which appears in the rising action of the book. “‘Fish,’ he said, ‘I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before the day ends’” (Hemingway 54). Why did he have to kill it? Why couldn’t he hold on a little longer? Santiago sacrifices the fish for his self interest. In spite of the fact that he respects the fish, the old man’s determination reflects his belief that his purpose in life is to be a fisherman, and that comes first. As well, Santiago advises himself that he doesn't have Manolin, his beloved companion, with him and must battle against the fish by himself. It has been four struggling days of being pulled by the huge marlin, Santiago decided that that was enough. Even though

In the novel "The Alchemist", Santiago is a young shepherd in search of his personal legend. To find your personal legend you need to have qualities like intelligence, understanding, and perseverance. The quality that is key to success is perseverance. Perseverance is doing something despite the difficulty in achieving success. Through searching, for his personal legend, he has gone through many obstacles like losing his sheep, crossing the desert, and turning himself into the wind. He persevered through it all and found his personal legend.

This is clearly shown in the following which quotes, “The old man’s head was clear and good now and he was full of resolution but he had little hope. It was too good to last, he thought. He took one look at the great fish as he watched the shark close in. It might as well have been a dream, he thought. I cannot keep him from hitting me but maybe I can get him. Dentuso, he thought. Bad luck to your mother (Hemingway 101).” This quote clearly showed luck, with Santiago’s final resolution being bad luck. However, if readers look at the bigger picture, it’s apparent that perseverance was the primary theme in the story. This is because regardless of what he went through, Santiago continued to push through all obstacles.

The third and fourth obstacle Santiago faces is his fear of defeat and realizing his dream. For example, “They made him continue digging, but he found nothing. As the sun rose, the men began to beat the boy. He was bruised and bleeding, his clothes torn to shreds, and he felt death was near.” The obstacle he defeated was the fear of defeat people will meet on the journey to fulfilling our destiny. People have to be patient in difficult times and know that the universe is conspiring in our favor, even if some do not know. Santiago had patience and allowed the men to beat him. Because of his patience they eventually left him alone

This part is not only important to Santiago, but to his father, he deals with the first obstacle. “The boy could see in his father's gaze a desire to be, able, himself, to travel the world--a desire that was still alive, despite his father's having had to bury it, over dozens of years, under the burden of struggling for water to drink, food to eat, and the same place to sleep every night of his life.” [11] Santiago’s father had a personal calling, but due to finical issues he had to give it up in order to survive, but Santiago’s father wants his son to have what he never had, a chance to accomplish his personal legend, and live the life that he will never have. Many people, especially single parents, have given up on their life goals in order to take care of their family, they work for hours and hours on end just to pay for bills, in hopes that their children will have a better life than this, go to college and get their dream job and live the life they want to live. If a parent were to hold back their child, they are teaching them that a personal calling is a lie, that they can never accomplish their life goals and the only thing that they can do is just accept that they don’t have a choice.

The forces of the universe have crucified both Santiago and the marlin.  We see this when Santiago carries his mast cross-like to his shack and the author's description of his exhausted repose "face down on the newspapers with his arms out straight and the palms up" (Hemingway  122).  Yet, through this struggle, through this pride that made him go far out beyond all people, Santiago learns the meaning of life in a meaningless universe is humility and love.  We see this expressed most clearly in his mentor-like relationship with Manolin.  Human solidarity and interdependence may not make a man any more capable of beating the forces of the universe, but they are sustaining as much as the courage and dignity with which Santiago faces life "the boy keeps me alive, he thought.  I must not deceive myself too much" (Hemingway  106).  Before coming to shore, Santiago recognizes he has gained humility and he is loved.  He is appreciative the other fishers will worry about him.  They bring him food and newspapers to

Another component that stood out in the novel to make Santiago’s death appear evident was his image as a Christ figure. There were multiple times in the book that Hemingway compared Santiago to Christ. For example, when Santiago returns to shore, “he shouldered the mast and started to climb (121)”. This is similar to when Christ carried the cross bar on his shoulders up to Calvery. Santiago fell three times on his way back to his hut, as did Christ. Hemingway’s comparison of Santiago to Christ implies that Santiago will die just like Christ did.

Santiago's lifeline In the Old Man and the Sea, Earnest Hemingway’s master piece, Santiago, the old man, is devoted to god along the course of the story despite the fact that he seems in denial of his religious practices. Santiago has moments that represent desperation, solitude and hope, that makes the reader understand that after all, he is attached to his faith in God to overcome the difficulties he is going through. The novel takes place in Cuba’s independence years.

A young shepherd boy from Spain and was named Santiago who starts to have a recurring dream of travel and fortune and embarks on a journey to achieve his foretold personal legend and finds more to the land,people,places,and religions of the country in which he lived. He traveled great distances and met many new people and explored their ideals and continuously explored his personal legend,others personal legend, and what a personal legend is/means to everyone.

In practice, the success of the Chilean enterprise depended on organizing the territory by functions (mostly political, trading and productive), educating aborigines for ensuring cheap and peaceful workforce (e.g., via evangelization), and maximizing the capacity of exploiting land resources. Whilst the productive activities took place in the countryside, the city of Santiago concentrated all the political and trading functions. If a ton of gold was extracted from the rivers in the south, afterward, it was commercialized from Santiago to Lima. Moreover, it was the same with livestock and agricultural products. Hence, the goods were produced in the rural but its commodification happened in Santiago. Also, decision-making processes on policies occurred in Santiago. Although, the consolidation of Santiago faced some difficulties. The concentration of political power and an emerging process of capital accumulation in Santiago was obstructed in the early years by the resistance of the Mapuche people (Valdivia 1552; Soublette 2016).