Santiago A Hero
“The Old Man and the Sea” is a compelling novel written by Ernest Hemingway about a old man named Santiago who has been on an eighty four day streak without catching a fish. Santiago is a frail elderly man who is beginning to lose hope in his capability to even catch fish. As written in Huffington Post a hero, “is someone who “we” determine to have demonstrated behaviors and decisions that are ethically and emotionally worthy of our awe.” Santiago is not a hero. How can people call him a hero when all he does is lose fish and lose faith in himself?
A hero is successful and admirable and causes people awe. Besides the fact that Santiago was only a fisherman who does not have admirable skills that will save an entire city or state, he failed …show more content…
Santiago does not feel confident in himself and Manolin is worried about letting Santiago go out to sea. Manolin felt sorry for the old man and told him “I could go out with you again” you can tell he wants to help him because the boy knows that there is not much the man can do for himself (Hemingway 10). Santiago even convinced himself that he did not have the confidence or power to attempt to pull the fish into the boat. That fish would have saved him and would have been the fish big enough to make up his eighty five day streak of not catching a thing while he was fishing.
Some people will say that Santiago is a hero simply based on the fact that he had the courage to go back out to sea with no help from Manolin. The old man was very weak and having the willpower to go try to catch a fish again takes a lot and is admirable, but in the end he was still unsuccessful. Many will feel bad for the old man but in the end he is just an old man who was never a hero to begin with and even if he would have caught a fish people still do not find that a heroic act.
It is understandable that people would see Santiago as a hero even though he is not. Although he has courage, he does not have confidence and does not complete the tasks that are handed to him. Santiago let a fish ruin more than likely the rest of his career and his lifestyle. Man cannot be a hero if he does not do heroic
A hero is successful and admirable and causes people awe. Besides the fact that Santiago was only a fisherman who does not have admirable skills that will save an entire city or state, he failed …show more content…
Santiago does not feel confident in himself and Manolin is worried about letting Santiago go out to sea. Manolin felt sorry for the old man and told him “I could go out with you again” you can tell he wants to help him because the boy knows that there is not much the man can do for himself (Hemingway 10). Santiago even convinced himself that he did not have the confidence or power to attempt to pull the fish into the boat. That fish would have saved him and would have been the fish big enough to make up his eighty five day streak of not catching a thing while he was fishing.
Some people will say that Santiago is a hero simply based on the fact that he had the courage to go back out to sea with no help from Manolin. The old man was very weak and having the willpower to go try to catch a fish again takes a lot and is admirable, but in the end he was still unsuccessful. Many will feel bad for the old man but in the end he is just an old man who was never a hero to begin with and even if he would have caught a fish people still do not find that a heroic act.
It is understandable that people would see Santiago as a hero even though he is not. Although he has courage, he does not have confidence and does not complete the tasks that are handed to him. Santiago let a fish ruin more than likely the rest of his career and his lifestyle. Man cannot be a hero if he does not do heroic