The Old Man and the Sea Pages 85-127

Summary:
After a long, strenuous, depressing, extremely hard and aggravating struggle, the old man was finally able to capture the fish. He thought at that point that many of his struggles were over, but he was greatly mistaken. Due to the size of the fish, the old man was unable to bring the fish into his boat. Also from killing the fish, blood began to pour out from his body. This left a strong scent drawing sharks towards the fish. The old man was extremely exhausted, tired and just wanted to go to sleep but with each fish he fought hard and killed. Unfortunately each time a shark approached the fish, it would take a big piece of meat. Eventually it got to a point were the old man broke or ran out of weapons that could kill the sharks and he gave up. He understood that the sharks would annihilate the fish and although it pained him greatly he was to weak and unprepared to try and keep hope.
The old man then felt defeated and all he could do was think of the boy. Soon after the last shark finished the remains of the fish, the old man arrived back at his town. He was so tired, he took 5 stops in order to arrive at his home. He just fell onto his bed and slept. The next day the boy found the old man sleeping and began to cry when he seen the scars of the horrible battle the old man had to face on his own. He went to get the old man some coffee when he heard the other fisherman speaking about the skeleton of the fish the old man caught. One of the fisherman measured the creature to be 18ft long. The young boy was felt with guilt and when the old man awoke the young boy told him that he would go fishing with him when he was well. The old man told the boy that he was unlucky for him and that it would not work. The young boy responded by telling him that he still had much to learn and he would bring luck to their boat. The story ended with a rush of tourist and their admiration of the skeleton in the water.

Quotation:
" Let no one disturb him"(Hemingway 122).

Reflection:

This quote shows the affection the young boy had for the old man. He understood the fatigue and agony the old man felt and felt the best way to deal with that was to allow him rest. He was so hurt by the whole situation the young boy could not do anything else but fetch him coffee, food and cry. The love between the old man and young boy is a strong like a grandfather and grandson.