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1. In what ways are the negative qualities of Santiago emphasized?

2. What significance might Santiago's name have?

3. How is luck important to Santiago and Manolin?

4. What is the relationship between Santiago and Manolin?

5. How is Santiago set off from the other fisherman?

6. How can Santiago be proud and humble at the same time?

7. Describe Manolin's character and discuss why he might behave as he does.

8. What in Santiago's character makes him a hero?

9. How are the nightly precautions Santiago takes with his fishing equipment both realistic and optimistic?

10.What do the details of Santiago's shack reveal about him?

11.Why do Manolin and Santiago talk about their cast net and fish and rice?

12.Describe Santiago's and Manolin's differing reactions to the Yankee's defeat.

13.Why won't Santiago borrow money?

14.How do Santiago's and Manolin's sleeping habits emphasize the contrast of youth and age?

15.Why, do you suppose, does Santiago dream about lions?

16.What is the boy's reaction to being wakened?

17.How does this day's trip differ from Santiago's usual pattern?

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18.Why does Santiago call the sea "la mar"? (la has a feminine connotation in French and Spanish, mar means sea)

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1. What are Santiago's feelings for creatures of the sea (including birds)?

2. Describe ways in which Santiago demonstrates his fishing skill and explain why this is important to a Hemingway hero.

3. What two signs indicate that there are fish nearby?

4. What might Portuguese men-of-war symbolize?

5. Why doesn't Santiago worry about talking to himself?

6. How does Santiago know he has hooked a marlin?

7. Describe the steps Santiago must take in order to make sure the fish is caught.

8. How does he know he has caught a fish of extraordinary size?

9. How does Santiago feel about the marlin?

10. How does the story of Manolin and the two other marlin show that the boy is a suitable partner for Santiago?

11. Why does Santiago wish the boy were there?

12. How does Santiago's comment about the fish's pain help portray his own physical condition?

13. What does the fish's course tell about its strength?

14. Why does Santiago want the fish to jump?

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15. Explain how the old man can love the fish yet wish to kill it.

16. In what ways are the fisherman and the fish alike?

17. What things does Santiago's think of while the fish pulls?

18. What might Santiago's dreams show about his present situation?

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1. How does Santiago know that the fish is about to circle?

2. Why does Santiago rebuke his left hand?

3. How are Santiago's thoughts as he prays the thoughts of a hero?

4. In what ways does Santiago seem an unlikely Christ-symbol?

5. How might Santiago's hands be seen as part of the books religious imagery?

6. How does Hemingway stress the endurance of Santiago?

7. Why does Santiago want the marlin to stop jumping?

8. How is the fish's size described? Does the description make it easier or harder to visualize the fish?

9. At what time does the fish die? Do you suppose Hemingway chose this time for a special reason?

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* Describe a time in your life when you might have struggled with something the way Santiago did with the marlin.

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