Part one of term paper
Location: Cuba and the Gulf Stream. Principal Character. Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman. After more than eighty days of fishing without a catch, the old man's patient devotion to his calling is rewarded. He catches a marlin but reaches the shore again with only a skeleton, worthless except as a symbol of his victory. Manolin, a ...

Part two of term paper
... fortieth luckless day, the boy's farther told his son to go in another boat. From that on, Santiago worked alone. The boy loved the old fisherman and pitied him. If Manolin had no money of his own, he begged or stole to make sure Santiago had enough to eat and fresh bait for his lines. On the eighty-fifth day, Santiago rowed out to the harbour in the cool dark before dawn. After leaving the smell of land behind him, he set his lines. Two of his baits were ...