In Ernest Hemingway's Old man and the sea, Santiago, the book's main character, is an old fisherman who is unlucky in the past 84 days. Manolin, his young devoted apprentice and friend, was forced to leave the boat by his parents because Santiago hadn't caught anything for so long. So on the 85th day Santiago decides to go much farther than he has ever gone before, and in doing that he catches an 18-foot marlin, and that is when the adventure begins. In this book Santiago demonstrates the best and the worst in a person through his actions in struggle,
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