Now it's getting light and the sun is rising. Alone, cold, eating nothing, he is feeling a failure of strength. He says four times in the midst of stalemate, "I wish I had the boy." He has to talk and think to himself, except when a little tired bird comes to rest on his line for a while.
The old man personifies fish or just treats them as persons. He thinks that the fish would have to choose "to stay in the deep dark water far out beyond all snares, traps and treacheries." He wished he weren't a fisherman, but that was what he was born for. He is benign in nature but he has to fish and kill fish. This seems to be life, not only true for the old man, but also for everyone else, including you and me, without any choice.
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ReplyDeleteI thing you are reading an interesting story. In my opinion everyone should have boys because they will help them. However, i don't know why that man don't has boy maybe there is some reason about that. I might tell as more about that man.
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ReplyDeleteyour summary makes your story really interesting to read. i think everyone has the right to chose what he wants to be and the life stly they wish to live like and no one has the right to argue about it.