Ernest Hemingway's masterpiece, The...
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Ernest Hemingway's masterpiece, The Old Man and the Sea, is a soliloquy on the tenacity of the human spirit and the enterprise of faith. An old, infirm man, Santiago, his boat rickety and dilapidated, launches out into the ocean depths, armed with those tiny molecules of faith which sustain the frailest of men through the biggest of challenges. No fish is too large and no boat too small to realize his dreams. He will catch the big fish and mount his walls with it.
For days on end he patiently awaits his moment of truth. When the contest begins, and after days of fierce struggle, he wins out oven the marlin and hoists it to the side of his raft. However, before lugging the 18-foot prize to shore and beaching his skiff, its flesh is torn away by sharks leaving only a ravaged skeletal residue. He catches his fish, but has nothing left to show for his heroic efforts.
Disheartened but not defeated, Santiago retires to sleep, "dreaming of lions" and gathering his strength to again set his sails to the big and open sea.
--Stewart
For days on end he patiently awaits his moment of truth. When the contest begins, and after days of fierce struggle, he wins out oven the marlin and hoists it to the side of his raft. However, before lugging the 18-foot prize to shore and beaching his skiff, its flesh is torn away by sharks leaving only a ravaged skeletal residue. He catches his fish, but has nothing left to show for his heroic efforts.
Disheartened but not defeated, Santiago retires to sleep, "dreaming of lions" and gathering his strength to again set his sails to the big and open sea.
--Stewart
