It didn’t occur to the old man that in his time of weakness and apparent defeat, he garnered incredible strength to fight and win over his seemingly unbeatable foes.Easy recommended read! While Santiago had to deal with the injury to his hands, fighting off the aggressive attacks of the sharks in a pool of fresh blood surrounding his skiff (his small boat) his determination wasn’t shattered. Not the fish.”The old man faced his adversary, his battle with a giant marlin out in the Gulf Stream. Santiago told the boy that the sharks beat him. In the end, after the old man made it back to shore Manolin came to visit him. Yet he knew he had to go this journey by himself.After being out to sea for a couple of days, having caught and killed his great marlin, he had to fight off a pack of relentless man-eating sharks that eventually ate the marlin he was going to bring back to the market.

He wished he had the boy as company, to see this and to help him. The old man had seen many great fish and caught two but never did it alone. The great marlin kept a steady pace throughout the night with the old man in the boat in tow until sunrise. The old man who is down on his luck thought he should never have been a fisherman, but realized that fishing was the thing he was born for.One day, a great marlin took Santiago on an adventure leading the old man out to sea all alone. Santiago would take the young boy with him and teach him about the practice of fishing. ⭐Oh my, what a sad, sad story.The old man, Santiago, and the young boy, Manolin are friends. Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

The old man and the sea 1st edition