Old Man and the Sea- Santiago

While reading Old Man and the Sea, I really took favor to Santiago. Santiago was a courageous, loving, and very confident old man. Santiago was an old man who had a big heart for fishing. Everything he did every day revolved around fishing, or what he was planning on doing the next time he fished. His thoughts were always fishing, that is what he lived for. He also lived for a local boy who looked up to him dearly. They go fishing together, and the old man trys to teach him everything he knows, which is kind of hard because the young boys father doesnt think that Santiago is a very good fisher, so he doesnt allow his son to go fishing with him very often. Santiago loves the boy though, and keeps taking care of the boy and loving him like the boy was his own. The whole book is really about the big catch that Santiago catches. He had never caught a fish that big, and it was something he knew he would always be proud of. For Santiago's age, he was a very strong and independent man. He faught sharks and other mean fish, just to get his big fish back to land. He was not afraid of anything while he was out on the sea. Out of all the fishers that went out, he was the one that stayed out on the sea the longest, and he was probably the oldest of them all to. Santiago always had courage. The towns people were searching for him, but he didnt care because he wanted to catch a fish that he could brag about when he got back. Santiago is very precise about all of his actions while fishing. He makes sure he doesnt make any wrong moves, because he knows one wrong move can ruin everything. He is always flexible, and he always stayed in the same position for hours. He also believed in luck. He had the lucky number eighty five, and he believed he caught that fish because it was the eighty- fifth day. Santiago really gets into fishing, and he does anything to get a big fish.