Fishing With Santiago example essay topic

The Old Man and the Sea Book report The title of this book is The Old Man and the Sea. The number of pages is 127. Copyright date is 1952 (re-newel date is 1980). The type of book is fiction.

This book takes place in the Gulf Stream, and its time is in the past. This book is told in third person point of view. One of the main character's was an old Cuban man named Santiago who was thin, with deep wrinkles in the back if his neck and had scars on his hands from handling the fishing rope. The other character was a young boy named Manolin, which Santiago taught how to fish. Manolin is loyal to Santiago and even when his parents forbid him to go fishing with Santiago, he wants to help his friend at all times. Manolin does not act as a young boy; he is mature and sensitive This book is about an old man who taught this young boy how to fish and the boy loved him.

He even brought him fishing many times. But the past 84 days the old man had not caught one fish. After 40 days of not catching anything the boy left and fished on another boat. One day, the old man was out on the water fishing. He had caught the biggest marlin he had ever seen. He then had decided to tie the fish on to the boat when heading back.

He notices a large mako shark that is coming after his fish. He gets his harpoon out ready to kill. The shark takes a chunk out of his fish and the old man harpoons and kills the shark but his harpoon broke. Now he was left only with a knife to protect what was left of the fish. The fish is now bleeding. A couple hours later on his voyage home, he sees to more sharks heading right for his fish.

Both sharks take a chunk out of the fish but the old man manages to stab both sharks in the eye killing them. His fish was getting smaller and smaller because of the sharks. This time while stabbing the sharks in the eyes his knife breaks, now all he has to kill the sharks is a oar. If any more sharks come he is ruined. A couple more hours of sailing two more sharks come and eat the rest of his fish, leaving just the head and scales of the enormous fish he had. When he was back at the dock, he just got off the boat and went right into his house and fell asleep.

Everyone was so amazed by the fish he caught even though nothing was left of it. The boy told the old man to rest and get better and he would fish with him again. Resolution of the book was of the old man to have courage and personal triumph won from loss. My response to that would be that this old man in the story did achieve courage to kill the sharks and defend what was his. The author did a great story because he showed how people in real life achieve their goal's by having courage. I liked this book because it wasn't long and boring.

I also liked it because it was a good story about a fisherman who never gave up. It showed how the old man had a lot of passion for fishing in the sea, for example " He had gone eighty-five days without taking a fish". Another example of him not giving up on a fish he had caught is; "he rammed a harpoon down onto the sharks head making sure that he was dead". Its theme of the story is friendship and bravery, because it teaches important life lessons to the reader.