He lands the marlin, tying his record of eighty-seven days after a brutal three-day fight, and he continues to ward off sharks from stealing his prey, even though he knows the battle is useless. Since the beginning of the story Santiago has been fight with the ocean of not being able to catch a single fish. Due this his determination and the fact that he needs to fish to survive. To Hemingway, the dignity of a man should be so important to that man, that he is willing to die for it. Most likely that is the reason Santiago went deep into sea.
Nemo said that he would swim inside the net and tell all the other fish to swim down, but there was, however, one thing stopping them. Marlin. Nemo was able to convince his dad in letting him attempt this.This was the biggest decision Marlin had ever made. There was no way the old Marlin would let Nemo take this risk even if it was for Dory because it's simply too dangerous and with Nemo's bad fin, he wouldn't want to risk it. However, he learned to let go and believe that Nemo can do this and with Marlin's approval Nemo was suceeded in his plan and the fish, including Dory were freed.
Brian is a retired brewer. Generally Brian is a calm man. The diving teacher is a Italian man called Berto. For Jon it's very important not to fuck up as he listen with horror to Berto. The first lesson is terrible, and even though Berto had given specific details about the exercieses, Jon is still very close to drown twice which he describes as unendurable.
Delivering products and goods all over the world for little or no reward was frustrating to read about, but Equiano would not give up in his quest to gain his freedom. Forty pounds sterling was all that was needed for this man to buy his freedom, which on some voyages was close to a months pay. In almost all cases he was not paid all he was owed and sometimes was not paid at all due to being misled and lied to by almost every employer. Being told as a boy that he was a good omen was right on and was showed by the snake crawling between his legs without biting him. Being sold again and again, the promises of being free and once free being questioned and beaten would test that statement and almost cause him to give up, but finding Christ and making his way back to London despite everything would once again show that he was a good omen to be true.
The people behind us clapped. The old man waved them off and sat back down in the skiff to fan his face again”. The way Sonny explains what is happening seems like he has no clue what was going on and why they are doing the things they do. Another thing that happened in the chapter was Sonny and Keo went to catch a shark to show the director what a real one looks like. The boys set a trap for the shark and waited until the next day to find the buoy twenty feet underwater.
Jesus borrows Peter’s boat so that he can teach from the lake then he asks him to get his nets after a long unsuccessful fishing day, to throw his nets out to the water and try to catch some fish again. At this moment Peter’s immediate reply is more like, “Yeah, whatever Jesus. I’m the fishermen and you are the carpenter.” but then the line that was the catalyst to Peter’s new life, “But at your word I will let down the nets.” 17 This decision was the first step into the greatest journey of his life. Peter has been known to make declarations of Jesus but this declaration, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”18 moved Peter to phase two of Jesus’ master plan of getting the gospel out to the world. Then Jesus does not ask a question but tells Peter what he will be doing for the rest of his life, “... from now on you will be catching men.”19 At this point, Peter finally realized that this carpenter from Galilee was more than just a carpenter but that the miracle He just produced revealed the presence of God, and that was what Peter needed to start the journey into becoming one of the most famous people in
The boys aren’t mature enough to realize that they are stuck on an island, nobody knows where they are, and they are probably going to die there. All the boys other than Ralph, Piggy, and Simon are completely oblivious to the fact that they need to be rescued, or they will die. All the others care about is having fun, hunting, and acting like a little tribe of savages. Hunting is what’s most important to most of the boys. If Jack and his hunters would have been taking care of all of their responsibilities instead of just hunting all day, if they would have just been watching the fire they could have gotten off the island before anybody could get hurt, before it was a game of life and death.
He told his father that he would "remain with him as long as he lived" and continue to fish with him. (Page 275) The father made the narrator promise he would not forget that. Due to his own bad experiences, the father did not want this for his son and died in a presumed suicide. This ultimately was the reason for the narrators decision to leave his fishing past behind and seek out opportunities in education in the Midwest. Despite trying to take respronsibility for his actions, the fathers actions ultimately made the decision for
He also makes a friend serving in the Vietnam War and talks about starting a shrimp boat company. He sticks to his word and becomes a millionaire off of his company. Forrest believes that no matter what happens to you in your life you have to stick through it. You never know how life is going to happen, but you just have to roll with the punches. Now sometimes we are just born into a bad situation.
The marlin is a male as the old man explains in page 49 “He took the bait like a male and he pulls like a male and his fight has no panic in it.” He is obviously a strong fish as he does pull for a long time, “It is half a day and a night and now another day…” He is not going to give up without a fight though and I know that for the fish it is all instinct but I think that he has to have at least a ‘trait” of perseverance and tenacious. He in many ways is equal to the old man, “I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.” The reason I feel that the fish needed to be review is because I thought that this reflection would be unique and that everyone’s reflection would be about the old man. This is reflection of the blue marlin’s appearance, “personality”, and a bit about the story. This is my reflection on “The Old Man and the