... . Some feel that Santiago's memory of lions playing on beach symbolizes another time or world. Philip Young offers an answer to this question when he suggests that "the novel is a parable, but one for life itself, and thus readers who search for other allegorical meaning inevitably reduce the grandeur of the text." This context was once brought up in a 1958 interview ... ...

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