the club was grabbed from his hands. He then ripped part of his boat off and attempted to fend off the sharks. In the end the sharks had eaten the fish down to the bone leaving the old man nothing. The old man noticed that his skiff sailed faster without the huge fish tied on to the side of his boat. When the old man got home he took all his belongings up to his shack where he rested. The old man dreamed about lions, and he was happy. The first, and main character in the book The Old Man and the Sea is in fact the old man, Santiago. The old man, Santiago, is a tough, persevering man with fishing in his blood. Santiago just wants to fish because that is what he lives to do. The old man constantly asks himself, "What would the great DiMaggio do in a situation like this?" This leads us to say that Santiago looks up to this base ball player whom he addresses as "The Great DiMaggio" constantly. I like the old man because he was a strong old man, and he was confident too. Even through the toughest tasks Santiago perseveres. The old man improvises and never gives up, just like when his fish was attacked by sharks. "But there was nothing to be done now. 'Yes there is,' he said aloud. 'I can lash my knife to the butt of one of the oars." Even in his darkest hours he kept on striving to protect his fish. He killed many sharks and when he ran out of weapons he continued to fight. "But the shark jerked backwards as he rolled and the knife blade snapped. .reached under the stern for the club." The old man refused to give up. Santiago would fight the sharks until he died. "Fight them,' he said. 'I'll fight them until I die'" The other main character featured in this story was the boy, whose name is Manolin. There is not much background on Manolin, for he is not in most of the book. Manolin is a young boy who looks out for the old man bringing him food and clothing. I disliked the boy. He left the poor old man for a "luckier" boat.
