Day five- Old Man and the Sea

Santiago is now at the end of his trip. He is almost back to his "shed" and the fish is now gone. All there is left of it is the carcass. Sadly, he thinks that nobody is going to believe him that he caught this giant fish. All he has is this carcass that he could of picked up out of the water! Also, he knows that he could of gotten a lot of money with this fish for all of its meat. Now since there is no meat on the fish its worth nothing. His hope has gone down the drain since he got back to his home. When Hemingway says, "He unstepped the mast and furled the sail and tied it. Then he shouldered the mast and started to climb. It was then he knew the depth of his tiredness. He stopped for a moment and looked back and saw in the reflection from the street light the great tail of the fish standing up well behind the skiff's stern. He saw the white naked line of his backbone and the dark mass of the head with the projecting bill and all the nakedness between" (Hemingway 121). Throughout the story Santiago had so much hope and was very courageous. Now he is looking at the negatives at the fish. He notices all of the nakedness on it, he also notices the backbone of the fish where there should be meat. He should be saying to himself, hey I caught the biggest fish anybody has ever seen. Even though there is no meat on it, you can still see how big it was. That morning everybody was so astonished of how big it was they mistaked it to be a sharks carcass. Santiago had showed a lot of strength, courage, and bravery throughout the whole trip. Even though he did not bring back home the prize possession, he will still be the old man that caught the biggest fish ever.

Bibliography

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