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A two-page look at Hemingway’s novella in terms of the spiritual component of fishing. The paper shows that Santiago, the Old Man, shared Hemingway’s conviction that in standing up to the obstacles which nature throws in our path, we prove our right to be a part of the great natural plan. No additional sources.
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Mother Nature. Hemingway saw the interaction between man and nature as not simply recreational but deeply spiritual. Like the American Indians, he believed that obtaining meat through the killing
of an animal (or, in this case, a fish) invoked the taking of that animals characteristics into oneself. In addition, the story of this one mans three days on the
sea evokes the eternal contest between the pure power of the forces of nature, and the pure intellect of man. The story concerns a very old fisherman, Santiago, who
fishes off the coast of Cuba. Santiago is generally considered "washed-up" by his peers. He has not caught anything in months, and the father of his teenage assistant has even
forbidden the boy to go out fishing with Santiago, fearing that the old mans obvious bad luck will spread to the boy, Manolin, himself. As the story opens, we see
it from the point of view of the boy rather than the old man, because this serves to more clearly contrast the purely mercenary view of fishing which Manolins father
espouses with the spiritual view of Santiago. Santiago sells the fish he catches at the market, yes, but there is a deeply religious component to his vocation which almost seems
mythical, whereas Manolins father simply catches fish and sells them for money without thinking too much about it. Manolin, despite the fact that he must obey his fathers wishes, also
sees the spiritual component of the trade he will follow. He has learned much from Santiago in that respect. He understands that in order to be truly alive, a person
must constantly pit oneself against the obstacles that threaten to defeat him. Having introduced the reader to this philosophy (which will form the main backbone of the story) Manolin gracefully
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