Jesus

Santiago, the main character in The Old Man and the Sea, epitomizes a Jesus Christ figure, and Hemingway illustrates this through numerical proof. Manolin, the young man who goes fishing with Santiago is unable to fish with Santiago because his parents feel Santiago has poor luck after forty fishless days. “But after forty days without a fish the boy’s parents had told him that the was now and finally salao…” (Hemingway 9). Forty, an important …

…much more then a wild coincidence. All allude to the fact that Ernest Hemingway, although an atheist used Jesus Christ as a model for Santiago. Hemingway’s brilliance clearly shows through in the way he hid Santiago’s allusions to Jesus. The creativity involved in hiding Jesus as a Santiago’s role model is immeasurable. In conclusion, Santiago truly becomes a Jesus Christ figure when comparing the life of Santiago to the life of Jesus.