Causes Gains Losses-Old Man and Sea

The conflict in every book is very important. It basically tells the whole story or of what is happening. The confict in this book is that the old man can not find a way to catch any fish. His luck is very bad, but it does not stop him from being cheerful. There is always a cause, a gain, and a loss in every conflict, and it just so happens in this conflict there is not a lot of gains to it. The cause of this conflict is the old mans luck. The old man is a very cheerful and happy guy, but his luck affects his way of catching fish. The only gain to this conflict is looking forward to go and fish the next day and hope for the best there is nothing else you can do. It gets your adrenaline running when you want to go out and catch your biggest fish that you ever caught after being in a drought. The young boy asks, "But are you strong enough now for truly a big fish?", the old man answers, "I think so" (Hemingway 14). This is just one way of showing that the old man never gives up of trying to catch a fish. The losses that come with this conflict is you can be easily torn down from the situation. Not being able to catch any fish especially when it is your only food is a very stressful situation. If you do not have any food, you could starve to death. Luckily, the old man has the young boy to help him with food. The other loss is no food. Like I said before you could get no fish and starve because that is all the old man can offer is fish because he is poor and has almost no money. He has a fishing pole, some bait, and a boat to go fishing with. The conflict in every story has a huge impact of what the story is all about.

Bibliography

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner, 1996. Print.