The novel started when Santiago was going through a period of bad luck. Every day before the sun rose he would go out to the sea and try to catch fish. The days were passing and the old man could not get anything from the ocean. He was an old man “the blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handing heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.“ (10) He lived alone in a “shack “ . The best company he could had were his dreams about the

The fish was tired and hungry. The Marlin circled the skiff and got closer to the surface. The old man prepared his harpoon and wanted for a perfect time to kill the fish. At one point the fish came close and jump again over the skiff. The old man drove the harpoon through the fish’s heart. The Marlin went down to the water. The fish was dead but the old man still had a lot more work to do. His next encounter was to get the fish as close to the skiff so tying it to his skiff would be easier. The old man was about a whole day’s journey away and his job was far from over. With the fish blood and scent in the water he knew that the sharks were not far behind. One by one the makos and hammerheads came and ate his fish. He was not successful defeating his marlin from the sharks, even if he fought with some of them. They just left him the fish’s skeleton. Santiago was upset and sad at the same time he did not wanted to see his fish mutilate.

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