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Human beings need to live in a group where everyone respect them and treat them equally. No human being can live alone isolated from other people because one hand can not clap by itself. In the old man and the sea, the author uses setting, character and symbolism ....

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.... down because it made him too lonely to see it" ( P 16) Everything in the old man's shack give the reader a feeling of his loneliness and isolation, such as his one bed, one table, one chair, and his wife's picture that he did not stand to look at so he took it down. At the same time the open door takes us through the old man's mind showing his hope that someone will stop by his cottage some day and come in without knocking. Another incident that shows the isolation of the old man is the Terrace. The terrace is a place that shows how other fishermen treat the old man and make him feel as a stranger among them. The narrator of the novel suppor ....