the old man and the sea

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway is a story about an old man named Santiago, an expert fisherman, who is down on his luck trying to catch some fish. This story takes place in Havana, Cuba. The book deals with the old man trying to end his streak of bad luck by trying to catch a giant marlin. The old man goes through a long, painful …

…home he goes to sleep. The next day Manolin finds that the old man is back in his shack and starts to cry. Manolin goes off to the terrace to get some coffee for the old man. Everyone see the skeleton of the eighteen foot fish on the skiff of the boat. They all think that its a shark. Manolin comes back still crying while the old man is still sleeping, dreaming about the lions.