How Is Santiago Different From The Book
Santiago is an old fisherman who always is accompanied by a faithful friend named Manolin. The bad luck of Santiago is extended to 84 days and was so bad his reputation as a fisherman who the child's parents forbade the boy to fish with him after the first 40 days without success at sea. Although mandolin wasn’t fishing with the old man he always worries about his well-being and does its best to be with him and helps in every way possible. One of the differences of the book and the movie is that in the film we see an American couple in which the film focuses a lot. The Americans play an important role in the film as they begin to worry about Santiago. In the book there is no talk of this couple because they only focus more on Santiago and Mandolin. In the book Santiago do not have a daughter, it said that Santiago is very lonely and only have the boy to talk to. In the movie he has a daughter who is married lives in the Abama and has two children. She tried to persuade Santiago to go with her and live in a place where life is
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The couple of hours of being at sea lost sight of the coast and is quite away, then a fish bite the hook. It was a huge fish with which he was willing to fight to the death if need to be. Santiago began talking and told himself he was not crazy "I'm still strong and you have the harpoon in your mouth" meaning that he will fight until the end. After a long battle manages to overcome the fish back to shore sharks attacked because of the blood of the wounded fish scattered, trying to eat the big fish, Santiago fought to achieve beat them. The next morning Manolin went to his house as he did every morning, he saw the old man was asleep and when he saw the old man's hands began to cry. Then he went to get coffee for when the old man wake up. The others fishermen recognized the merit of Santiago when they see the rest of the fish which was a
The couple of hours of being at sea lost sight of the coast and is quite away, then a fish bite the hook. It was a huge fish with which he was willing to fight to the death if need to be. Santiago began talking and told himself he was not crazy "I'm still strong and you have the harpoon in your mouth" meaning that he will fight until the end. After a long battle manages to overcome the fish back to shore sharks attacked because of the blood of the wounded fish scattered, trying to eat the big fish, Santiago fought to achieve beat them. The next morning Manolin went to his house as he did every morning, he saw the old man was asleep and when he saw the old man's hands began to cry. Then he went to get coffee for when the old man wake up. The others fishermen recognized the merit of Santiago when they see the rest of the fish which was a