This is the story of an old man Santiago and Endurance’s confidence, hope, defeats, and courage. This is also the story of a touching relationship between the old man and the young boy. The main characteristics of the Novel are:
Santiago: the old fisherman.
Manolin: the young boy Santiago’s closest friend.
The Marlin: the biggest fish ever caught in the Gulf.
Los Galanos: are hunting sharks who destroy the marlin.
There are some more characters, but they are not important to be mentioned. The young Manolin was too close to Santiago. So, he said to the old man that he would fish with him and would come in your boat. The old man said no you’re in a lucky boat and your father also doesn’t allow you.
The time came to go to the sea. So, the old man went in and going time he was given two tunas by the young boy. In the sea, he found a massive fish. That was too big and that was also graceful, and he decided to kill that fish that was about forty pounds, and the old man started his mission. He made lines that fish were under or near his boat and his mission continued two three days and nights went but he didn’t sleep, and he was too sleepy.
He was a strange old man that he was too confident, and his shoulders were too strong during his mission many times his hands were cut off, many times fell, and many times his legs got broken, but he tried repeatedly and succeeds only to lose. Finally, after heroic efforts, he killed the fish. He was tense to kill that fish because he loved that fish, but he had to prove to himself that he was a strange old man, and that fish would feed several people.
The fish was dear and now was in front of him. And the fish blood went in deep water and misfortune of old man, the hungry sharks smelled the fish blood and came fusty. Before their entire, the weather changed, and different sounds were coming.
They attacked fish and the old man defeated them, he killed many sharks, but he lost the battle against the sharks. The sharks destroyed his precious fish. He wished many things for this fish and the fish became destroyed. But still, the old man did not lose heart because he knew that he got the courage to try and try again and he did his best. But we will lose our confidence early and if a big work will be there, we will think that this is impossible, and we can’t do this and give up before doing the work. And he also said after he lost the battle that a man died, a man can be destroyed but not defeated.
As someone said if you win you can lead. If you lose you can guide and all-time it is possible to win. The focal point is that we should do our best and make ourselves more able.
Maheen Assa