The old man shows courage just by going out all alone everyday and still fishing at his age. Although he showed the most courage when he had to fight the big fish. He could have let the fish go, by cutting the line, but instead the old man was willing to die trying to catch it. "He had seen many that weighed more than a thousand pounds... Now alone, and out of sight, he was fas

The boy also looks up to the old man because of the old mans respect. He has respect for everything and everyone. He respects the boy by treating him like a son, the fish by realizing the beauty of it, and him self by not giving up on trying to catch the fish. "You are killing me fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer, more noble thing than you, brother,"(92). This shows the respect and the lover that the old man has for the fish and all things.

t to the biggest fish that he had ever seen and bigger than he had heard of" (pg 63) Yet he didn't fear the fish because he knew that if he fought the fish wisely he could beat it. However, if he lost his courage, then he would be done for and would never see the fish

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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)