Unlucky: The Heroic Journey Of San Diego

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The epic journey of “The Old Man and the Sea” describes struggle, discipline and manhood. The main characters relationships exemplify how faith and skill overcome man’s adversity during life on the sea. Santiago’s growing relationship with the boy idealizes his statute as a father figure and develops his integrity and values towards the boy. Hemmingway shows us how an old fisherman’s will to overcome the sea’s obstacles proves his manhood to himself and the young boy. His skills and knowledge of the sea provide a positive influence for the young boy to become a great fisherman someday.

Even though he is an adolescent boy, Manolin loves spending time with Santiago. He loves to go out fishing with him but, his parents no longer will let him. The reason for this is because Santiago has not caught a fish for eighty-four days. As a result of this unfortunate occurrence, others deem Santiago the term salao, or the worst kind of unlucky. Knowing the struggle Santiago is facing, Manolin tries to help him in as many ways as possible. Manolin brings Santiago drinks, food and the newspaper so they can talk about baseball and the great Joe DiMaggio. In spending all this time with the old man, Manolin develops a form of respect for him. He comes to understand that despite the recent unlucky situations, Santiago remains hopeful as well as prideful. This is why Manolin looks up to the old man so much. “Santiago… I could go with you again. We have made some money. The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him” (Hemingway 10). Along with just loving Santiago for himself, Manolin also looks up to him because Santiago taught him how to fish. Manolin understands that he is a large part of Santiago’s life and feels honored and

The old man is made fun of and called unlucky by all the other fisherman. He faces many challenges in the book and is put down and discouraged by many people and has no positive input coming toward him. Santiago has many years of experience with fishing and you can tell it by how he reacts throughout the book. The old man seems to be religious in some way because he is saying prayers but it also seems like he isn’t at the same time.

But what Manolin's parents didn’t know is that being at rock bottom all you can do is come up. That is exactly what Santiago did. He went out into the sea farther than he should have and got the biggest fish he has ever caught in his life. There was an unfortunate turn of events bringing the fish back but he knows that he had reached his goal.

The narrator’s feeling towards the boat and fishing culture is very complicated. He was born in a fishing community, the boat and fishing culture is a natural part of him, and he loves it. However, he more prefers to freedom and going out. Meanwhile, he feels sorry about leaving the tradition and his family.

When an old man named Santiago sets out to sea nothing seems to be biting that day until one afternoon, far away from shore. He feels a great tug on his line, and the struggle for dominance begins. The author shows us the old man's perseverance and strength, which becomes even more evident in his epic struggle to capture the titian of all fishes. Marlins grow but the one Santiago catches is colossal. The man respects the fish, and the fish respects the man, and together they fight for two whole days, until one can no longer go on. Santiago struggles for dominance for days while he tries to conquer and tame

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Manolin admires Santiago, and is always there to help and take care of him. Santiago thinks of Manolin as his own son, and is his only hope to carry on his legacy. THESIS Hemingway uses Santiago’s relationship with Manolin to convey that when you pass down your knowledge and lessons about your experiences of life to your child or student in order to help them with their own journeys throughout their lives, your legacy will continue to live on. PREVIEW To support the concept of living on through one’s legacy, Hemingway uses examples of archetypes of the wise old man, with Santiago teaching Manolin how to fish, when the student Manolin states his memories of fishing with Santiago, and resurrection with Santiago’s conversation with Manolin about luck and suffering.

Manolin glanced an unfathomable large fish being reeled out of the water. He thought that his eyes were deceiving him, and ran quickly toward Santiago to get altered to the situation he was oblivious to. When he reached, nothing but the fish’s sand print was visible. By examining Santiago’s lacerations, Manolin had foreseen Santiago’s death aftermath. Albeit the agonizing suffering, Santiago’s inner strength was reflected throughout. He endured the pain and said in a fading voice, “It’s never about others, but the person you”.

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In the novella, The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago is an unlucky fisherman who has not caught anything in 84 days.  Yet he sets out alone on the 85th day to try again.  For three days he struggles with a large marlin which he finally kills; but, despite his best efforts, he loses the fish to repeated shark attacks.

What rich man would fish alone eighty-four days in a row without catching any fish? On page nineteen, it tells that he was barefooted. It is almost impossible to be successful but still not own a pair of shoes. Manolin, or the boy, seems to be a bit better off money wise and takes pity on Santiago so he buys him sardines. On page twenty-one, Manolin thinks “ I must have water here for him. And soap and a good towel. Why am I so thoughtless? I must get him another shirt and a jacket for the winter and some sort of shoes and another blanket.” Santiago receives more charity when the owner of the store gives him supper. It’s a bit pathetic when both Santiago and Manolin have to go through the whole fantasy of having supper. On page thirty-nine, the old man thinks “ And the rich have radios to talk to them in their boats and to bring them the baseball.” This shows that he’s bitter that he couldn’t keep on his favorite baseball player, Joe

The nobility of character of the old man prevents him from feel hate and rancor toward the other fishermen. Despite the taunts of the other fishermen, Santiago is quiet and admits having a bad streak of luck. This makes him an honorable man, which avoids any conflict and is able to recognize his flaws as a fisherman. Although the sea has given him several bitter drinks, he is able to keeping on loving it. “A man is honest when he acts honestly, he is humble when he acts humbly, he loves when he is loving or being loved.” (Waldmeir 165). Perhaps, the crowning act of humility in Santiago is when he is forced to recognize that by his own forces he will not be enough to grab the fish, and decides to carry out prayers to the Almighty. At the end of the hunting of the big animal, Santiago does not become conceited. His simple and humble soul thanks with a prayer for the outcome of his effort. Although the fighting has been severe and bloody, the old man was not self-styled "hero”. Santiago humbly considers himself as one fisherman more, and the categorization as a hero depends on the readers. “It is the knowledge that a simple man is capable of such decency, dignity, and even heroism, and that his struggle can be seen in heroic terms, that largely distinguishes this book.” (Young 131). The evident relation between his humility and dignity helps to place Santiago as a perfect

In the past, Santiago was revered as a great fisherman, a local legend. He knew many tricks, and was very patient and strong-willed. Once his unlucky streak started up, however, his reputation was more or less thrown to the wolves. Hemingway even says on Page 11 that many of the other fishermen made fun of Santiago, and on Page 9 that it had been 84 days since he had caught anything (“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.”). Less than halfway into that stretch Manolin’s parents had even forced him to go and