Old Man and the Sea- Day Five

The fifth and final day of the old man's journey has arrived. The young boy returns to the old man's shack once again to see if he had come back yet and the sight of the old man's battered body brings the young boy to tears. The young boy obviously cares a lot for the old man and it hurts him to see him in such a weak condition. The old man's hands were so cut up from the trip that they looked like raw meat. The young boy leaves while the old man is still sleeping to go get him some coffee, while other local fisherman gather around the old man's boat looking at the carcass of the great marlin he caught. The other fisherman measure the huge skeleton and find out it was eighteen feet long. When the old man wakes up, the young boy is sitting beside him with a cup of coffee waiting for him. They old man and the young boy have friendly conversation, and then the young boy tells him that he is going to return to fishing with him, and that he does not care what his parents say. By the young boy saying that, it shows how much the young boy cares about him. The young boy is willing to leave a prosperous fishing boat to return to the old man's boat just so that he will be there to help him if he were to ever need it. After the old man and the young boy talk more about the fish, the young boy tells him that there was a huge search party sent out to look for the old man that involved the coast guard. The author makes it very obvious that the old man is happy to see the young boy again, and likewise for the young boy. The old man not only survives this ordeal, he also returns with this fish. I think that the old man accomplished everything he set out to accomplish three days earlier. He caught a big fish, and he regained the respect from the other fishermen.

Bibliography

Hemmingway, Ernest. Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner. 1996. Print.