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ificance of this identification, however, is Santiago's likeness to the sea and the various creatures which inhabit it is living waters. About the turtles, Santiago says "Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs" (Hemingway, 2001:24). This identification is important as it corroborate our understanding of Santiago's indomitability, the quality of undefeatedness Hemingway noted early in the novella; with his body destroyed, his heart, his spirit, will fight on, and his heart, his spirit is persistence and courage. This foreshadows the harrowing task Santiago is about to face with the marlin. Also, Hemingway tells us that Santiago eats turtle eggs for strength and drinks shark liver oil for health. In this way, he internalizes the characteristics of the sea and adopts them as his own.
 
B. After out the sea
On the eighty-fifth day Santiago rows out of the harbor in the cool dark before dawn. After leaving the smell of land behind him, he sets his lines. “He thought, I keep them with precision, only I have no luck anyone, but who know? Maybe today, every day is a new day, it's better to be lucky”. (Hemingway,2001:25) The old man is filled with a hope; not to accept defeat to the personality of destiny is the spirit that the old man talks failure never.
 
a. Hook the marlin
Santiago waits a bit for the marlin to swallow the hook and then pulls hard on the line to bring the marlin up to the surface. The fish is strong, though, and does not come up. Instead, he swims away, dragging the old man and his skiff along behind. Santiago wishes he has help from Manolin. Alone, though, he must let the fish take the line it wants or risk losing it. Eventually, the fish will tire itself out and die. "But four hours later the fish was still swimming steadily out to sea, towing the skiff, and the old man was still braced solidly with the line across his back" (Hemingway,2001:39).
 
b. Struggle with marlin 
As the sun goes down, the marlin continues on in the same direction, and Santiago losts sight of land altogether. The result is a curious stalemate. As Santiago says, "I can do nothing with him and he can do nothing with me....Not as long as he keeps this up" (Hemingway, 2001:41). He wishes for the boy again and muses that "no one should be alone in their old age....But it is unavoidable" (Hemingway,2001:41). As if in response to this expression of loneliness, two porpoises come to the surface. Seeing the frolicking couple, Santiago remarks, "They are good....They play and make jokes and love one another. They are our brothers like the flying fish" (Hemingway, 2001:42). Santiago then remembers a female marlin he and Manolin caught. The male marlin has stayed beside the boat in despair, leaping in the air to see his mate in the boat before he disappeared into the deep ocean. It is the saddest thing Santiago has ever seen. Something then takes one of the baits behind Santiago, but he cuts the line to avoid distraction from the marlin, wishing Manolin is there to watch the other lines. Expressing his resolve, Santiago says, "Fish, I’ll stay with you until I am dead" (Hemingway, 2001:46). He expresses ambivalence over whether he wants the fish to ju本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。