Proud in defeat, Santiago furls his sail and staggers to his shack, to be found by the boy and other fishermen, who marvel at his catch, while the spent man sleeps and dreams of past experiences. When he makes land his marlin is but a skeleton.

As he sails slowly to port sharks attack his catch and he fights them as best he can with a knife lashed to the tiller gripped in raw hands. Aged and solitary, he goes far out and hooks a great fish that tows his boat all afternoon and night and into the next day as he pits his skill and waning strength against it the way he once did as a wrestler called “El Campéon.” As the second night turns to dawn he finally harpoons his catch, lashes it to his small boat, and makes his weary way home. In The Old Man and the Sea, a 1952 adventure novella by American author Ernest Hemingway, an aging fisherman pits his life and wits against a giant fish as he. At first accompanied by the boy Manolin, with whom he talked of better days and about the great sport of baseball, he is now alone.

This parable of man's struggle with the natural world, of his noble courage and endurance, tells of the Cuban fisherman Santiago, who for 84 luckless days has rowed his skiff into the Gulf Stream in quest of marlin. The author, Ernest Hemingway, describes how an old man uses his experience, his endurance and his hopefulness to catch a huge marlin, the biggest fish he has ever caught in his life. Novelette by Hemingway, published in 1952. Octogenarian Anthony Smiths journey was originally inspired by both the Kontiki Expedition of Thor Heyerdahl (who he knew) and the incredible story of the. The novel, The Old Man and the Sea, is a story about an old man, Santiago, who experienced great adversity but did not give up.

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