Alfa Koraliyadan

The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American lost generation author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 and published in 1952.This is a captivating fiction story about a man named Santiago and his adventure when one day, he goes on a fishing journey to catch the big one. However, this adventure quickly becomes one of pain and suffering when things take a turn for the worse. Suffering and struggle work as both a strength and weakness in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago suffers terribly throughout the story. In the opening pages of the book, santiago the old fisherman has gone eighty-four days without catching a fish and has become the laughingstock of his small village. Santiago, suffer a lot to capture a great marlin.Physical suffering is present throughout Santiago's journey to catch the great marlin but he tries not to lose. Santiago’s careful and disciplined approach to everything in life is emphasized throughout the novel,More than anything else, Santiago has an enduring pride, which he expresses most clearly in the moments he realizes that more sharks are coming to eat the great marlin he has caught. He says, “A man can be destroyed but not defeated”—that is, a true man will fight to death if needed, but he will never give up. Santiago is a man fighting against defeat. Santiago and Manolin are very close friends despite their age difference. In fact, the age difference plays an important role in their relationship. also inthe novel, there is a profound exploration of humankind's relationship with nature.The sea, in the novel, represents the life and Santiago's isolation in the universe. There is a scene in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea,Santiago dreams of lions on the beaches of Africa,The lions symbolize Santiago's lost youth as well as lions also symbolize Santiago's affinity with nature. Now that Santiago is no longer young, and has lost his friends, family, and strength, he sees the lions only in his dreams. The Old Man and the Sea resembles a Christian parable in many ways. Its protagonist, the fisherman Santiago, seems to exemplify Christian virtues, and the narrative clearly and repeatedly connects his trials at sea to Christ’s suffering on the cross. Even though Santiago experiences pain and suffering, he reminds himself as hero.