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? 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 sh ....

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.... 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 fact that he was a feeble old fisherman that no one would ever expected to have been able to catch such a fish as he did, skeleton or not. here is an example of Santiago's determination, for which the people of the town respected him for, “he took all of is pain and what was left of his strength and his long gone pride and he put it against the fishes agony and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side, his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff and started to pass the boat, long, ....