old man and the sea

The Old Man and The Sea Santiago and Manolin This short novel, as the title suggests, is mainly set on the sea over a period of three days. The protagonist, Santiago, is a fisherman by profession and lives in a small village in Cuba. Geographically, Cuba is an island in the Caribbean, whose main industry is fishing. The warm waters of the Gulf Stream flow very close to the village where Santiago lives, bringing the …

…be mere cubs, playing like young cats in the dusk, and Santiago loves them as he loves Manolin. The cubs are symbols of youthful possibility, a foreshadowing of great things to come. The image of them always makes him happy. They are good company, just like Manolin. In the beginning, the giant marlin becomes a symbol of the mysterious world of the unknown that challenges everyone. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated" P.103.