Day 1-Old Man and the Sea

When reading the beginning of this book, Santiago seems sad in a way I can not describe. I can understand why he was sad because he had not caught a fish in eighty-four days! On the first day Santiago had seemed excited to go out and find a huge fish. He felt that all of his luck was going to change that day. When he got out of the dock he had no idea what was in store for him. All of the tugging and pulling and how much pressure it put on his back and his hands. He came unprepared for this trip. He had no idea that he would be catching this huge fish or maybe he thought that he might not catch a fish at all. Once he had caught the fish he was wishing he had had the boy with him to help him reel in the fish. The fish was way to heavy in order to pull in especially for an old man like Santiago. Once Santiago caught the fish, he had no idea of what the journey was going to be like from that day on. Out in the sea by himself, Santiago struggles to find any food coming this way. He still seems confident in his finding but still a little worried about how he was going to bring in this giant fish. Santiago shows a lot of courage throughout day one because he realizes that he could not reel in the fish by himself but yet he stayed with the fish even though he knew it would take a long time. During day one, Santiago started it off as a confident old man just trying to catch a fish, but then ends up at the end of the day still confident, but worried. When Hemingway says, "I wish I had the boy, the old man said aloud. I'm being towed by a fish and I'm the towing bitt. I could make the line fast. But he could break it" (Hemingway 45). This shows of how much he needs the boy and also all the things that could go wrong with this fish.

Bibliography

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