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             The Old Man and the Sea is the story of an
    epic struggle between an old, seasoned fisherman and
    the greatest catch of his life. For eighty- four days,
    Santiago, an aged Cuban fisherman, has set out to sea
    and returned empty- handed. So conspicuously unlucky
    is he that the parents of his young devoted apprentice
    and friend, Manolin, have forced the boy to leave the
    old man in order to fish in a more prosperous boat.
    Nevertheless, the boy continues to care for the old
    man upon his return each night. He helps the old man
    tote his gear to his ramshackle hut, secures food for
    him, and discusses the latest developments in American
    baseball, especially the trials of the old man' s
    hero, Joe DiMaggio. Santiago is confident that his
    unproductive streak will soon come to an end, and he
    resolves to sail out farther than usual the following
    day.
             On the eighty- fifth day of his unlucky
    streak, Santiago does as promised, sailing his skiff
    far beyond the island' s shallow coastal waters and
    venturing into the Gulf Stream. He prepares his lines

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    and drops them. At noon, a big fish, which he knows is
    a marlin, takes the bait that Santiago has placed one
    hundred fathoms deep in the waters. The old man
    expertly hooks the fish, but he cannot pull it in.
    Instead, the fish begins to pull the boat.
             Unable to tie the line fast to the boat for
    fear the fish would snap a taut line, the old man
    bears the strain of the line with his shoulders, back,
    and hands, ready to give slack should the marlin make
    a run. The fish pulls the boat all through the day,
    through the night, through another day, and through
    another night. It swims steadily northwest until at
    last it tires and swims east with the current. The
    entire time, Santiago endures constant pain from the
    fishing line. Whenever the fish lunges, leaps, or
    makes a dash for freedom, the cord cuts him badly.
    Although wounded and weary, the old man feels a deep
    empathy and admiration for the marlin, his brother in
    suffering, strength, and resolve. On the third day the
    fish tires, and Santiago, sleep- deprived, aching, and
    nearly delirious, manages to pull the marlin in close
    enough to kill it with a harpoon thrust. Dead beside

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    the skiff, the marlin is the largest Santiago has ever
    seen. He lashes it to his boat, raises the small mast,
    and sets sail for home. While Santiago is excited by
    the price that the marlin will bring at market, he is
    more concerned that the people who will eat the fish
    are unworthy of its greatness.
             As Santiago sails on with the fish, the
    marlin' s blood leaves a trail in the water and
    attracts sharks. The first to attack is a great mako
    shark, which Santiago manages to slay with the
    harpoon. In the struggle, the old man loses the
    harpoon and lengths of valuable rope, which leaves him
    vulnerable to other shark attacks. The old man fights
    off the successive vicious predators as best he can,
    stabbing at them with a crude spear he makes by
    lashing a knife to an oar, and even clubbing them with
    the boat' s tiller. Although he kills several sharks,
    more and more appear, and by the time night falls,
    Santiago' s continued fight against the scavengers is
    useless. They devour the marlin' s precious meat,
    leaving only skeleton, head, and tail. Santiago
    chastises himself for going " out too far, " and for

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    sacrificing his great and worthy opponent. He arrives
    home before daybreak, stumbles back to his shack, and
    sleeps very deeply.
             The next morning, a crowd of amazed fishermen
    gathers around the skeletal carcass of the fish, which
    is still lashed to the boat. Knowing nothing of the
    old man' s struggle, tourists at a nearby caf observe
    the remains of the giant marlin and mistake it for a
    shark. Manolin, who has been worried sick over the old
    man' s absence, is moved to tears when he finds
    Santiago safe in his bed. The boy fetches the old man
    some coffee and the daily papers with the baseball
    scores, and watches him sleep. When the old man wakes,
    the two agree to fish as partners once more. The old
    man returns to sleep and dreams his usual dream of
    lions at play on the beaches of Africa.
            
            
            
            
            
            

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