What Is Santiago's Quest

Santiago relents and decides to buy some sheep and return to Spain with honor. At the last minute, he decides to forgo returning to Spain and continues his journey. This relates back to the Crystal merchant being a threshold guardian because this is the first time Santiago

By continuing he finds his true inner strength. In the story, the author shows the importance of perseverance, and how to face the many obstacles that people are presented in their lives to complete their goal. In Coelho's novel, Santiago faces many difficult challenges, but because of his courage and perseverance, he is able to face them head on. While in the town of Tarifa, Santiago meets

The main character, Santiago, is seen as a joke because he hasn’t been able to catch a fish in eighty-three days. Even though Santiago returns to his village empty-handed he is still dedicated and believes in himself and goes out everyday to fish. The only person in his village who still believes in his work is his apprentice and friend Manolin. Once Santiago began to be seen as a joke, Manolin’s parents told the young boy he couldn’t go see the old man. When the eighty-fourth day hit Santiago became annoyed to be seen as a joke throughout the village, he then travelled even further than his original spot and went into unknown territory.

It contributing the mood in the book. Santiago was finally at the pyramids, and was digging the hole that he had chosen, but he found nothings. Later, some figures stole his gold and start to beat him because they thought Santiago had more than that. Santiago was finally in the Pyramids, but he found nothings. He already sacrificed staying with Fatima and he gave all his money away, he had nothing but felt near death.

“His sword was as long as a baseball bat and tapered like a rapier and he rose his full length out from the water and then re-entered it, smoothly, like a diver and the old saw the great scythe-blade of his tail go under and the line commenced to race out” (62-63). This is an excerpt from the book The Old Man and the Sea written by Ernest Hemingway. The story begins with an old man named Santiago. Santiago hasn 't caught a fish in 84 days and has grown old, weary, and lonely. Because he has not caught anything his young apprentice Manolin (which he had been with since the boy was five) has been ordered, by his parents to go on a more productive fishing boat, so the old man goes on his own odyssey in search of a catch to continue to be with the

Although Santiago is old and poor, he is not defeated, because he never gives up on bring in a fish and Santiago does not lose his pride. Despite his failures, he sets out in his boat after having caught no fish for eighty-four days. Nevertheless, Santiago is confident that he will catch a fish, that he can sell. An example of never giving up is when Hemingway stated, “He lifted it as lightly as he could because his hands rebelled the pain… He closed them firmly so they would take the pain now and would not flinch and watcher the sharks come….

The decision was difficult as both options don’t provide him a steady choice. As being a shepherd does not promise him to be with the merchant daughter and for finding a treasure he need to give up his well settled life. But at the end he chose to find treasure as it allows him to purse his personal legend or dram of travelling throughout the world. He always considers his choice before taking a decision this can be seen through this conversation of Santiago with himself, “Here, I am between my flock and my treasure, the boy thought. He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.

This is illuminated when the Alchemist says, “‘There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure’” (141). This particular moment shows that even though Santiago has both the ability and the knowledge to achieve his dream, it is impossible to attain it if he fears even attempting to reach it. Consequently, this fear acts as his enemy and a barrier that stands in the way of the meaningful and happy life he is destined to accomplish. Furthermore, another one of his fears is the fear of losing what he believes he has already earned. ” He reminded himself that he had been a shepherd and that he could be a shepherd again.

Santiago was judged harshly because of his past, and by the time the reader may have changed their thoughts on Santiago characters “it's too late” (Timbaland, “Apologize”). The reader being late to the realization relates to the Judge coming to the realization of Santiago’s innocence after Santiago’s death. Moreover, Santiago’s innocence can be further seen after Nahir Miguel informs him “that the Vicario brothers were looking for him to kill him” (Márquez, 114). Santiago “turned pale and lost control” (Márquez, 114), he was the personification of a line from the song which was “I'm hearing what you say/

Instead of bragging to the other fishermen about his great catch that he once had, Santiago simply stays humble and returns to his home like it was a normal day. Towards the end of the novel, Hemingway makes a somewhat perfect ending by describing Santiago’s position as he collapses on his bed, “Face down with his arms out straight and the palms of his hands up.” (Hemingway) Using imagery, it is obvious that he conveys the image of Christ, restless and exhausted, while he is hung up on the cross. This specific ending displays the exhaustion Santiago must have felt. The biblical influence of the novel shows that the old man and Jesus suffered in many of the same ways, and they both are individuals who exemplify excellence by turning loss into gain, defeat into victory and even death into new

From here he goes on to depict Santiago’s normal life before his death. The story is in no way chronological, as the later section of the novella is set after he has died, and during his autopsy. Although we have not witnessed his death yet, there is proof, if you will, of his impending death, in the description given by those conducting the autopsy. Similarly, the narrative structure of the novella introduces many ‘what if?’ scenarios. What if the door that Santiago tries to flee his assailants through wasn’t locked?

This is very important to the text because it pushes Santiago to seek knowledge rather than just follow his

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” (Hemingway 103) is one of the best known quotes in The Old Man and the Sea. This title was written By Ernest Hemingway, who called it “the best book I can write ever in my life” after spending 8 weeks writing it. In this novel, more than one character’s suffering that plays a role in the plot. The main character, Santiago, will face the greatest suffering, but this is a necessary factor in The Old Man and the Sea.

"It is silly not to hope, he thought. Besides I believe it is a sin, he thought. there are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it." ― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

In the book, The Old Man and the Sea, the main character, Santiago, kept having a recurring dream of lions on a beach. He dreamed the dream three times that were mentioned in the book. The first time, in the beginning of the story, he was talking to Manolin and then went to bed and it was the first of the recurring dream about the lions. The second time, was when he was on the boat, and was very tired from being pulled by the marlin. Eventually, Santiago allowed himself to fall asleep, and he had the dream for the second time.