Part one of term paper
? The Old Man and the Sea is a book written by Ernest hemingway about and old fisherman and his successes and failures. I think hemingway did a good job in portraying Santiago as a hero and not a failure in the book The Old Man and the Sea because of the way he showed that Santiago may have been old, yet with his hope, experience and patience ...

Part two of term paper
... away. But imagine if each day a man should have to kill the sun? We were born lucky, he thought.” it was in this way that I feel that hemingway was successful in presenting Santiago as a special type of hero. Another reason I feel Santiago was portrayed as a hero successfully in the book The Old Man and the Sea was because even though when he came in to the harbor only with a skeleton of the largest fish he had ever seen, the town still was filled with respect and honor for him because of the ...