Fiction Reviews: The Old Man & The Sea

 

The old man is Santiago an elderly fisherman.

The sea is the gulf stream who wet Cuba.

Santiago is poor. He is the proprietor of an old harpoon, two oars, some knives and a bottle of water. skiff and some portable mainmast and some fishing rods with their ropes.

In eighty-four days, he hasn't finished anything, he is considered unlucky, no one cares about him except for one boy, who takes care of him.

One day he sets out on his boat, determined to catch something. The first day he catches only a small fish, which helps him not to die of hunger.

The sea is flat, its fishing rods are still. At some point they all move; they are all small fish, but the last fishing rod has caught a very large fish.

He fights for days; he never lets go of the rope, which injures his hand.

He has fished an enormous marlin, much bigger than his skiff, then he harpooned it and put it alongside his boat, to take it home and prove that none of the local fishermen had ever caught such a large fish.

While sailing towards the port, the fish is eaten by some sharks, the old man is left with the head, tail and skeleton of the marlin.

Once arrived at the dock, some local fishermen measure the marlin, and the old man comes home and dreams of lions.