In Ernest Hemingway's classic novella The Old Man and the Sea, the author provides us with an old fisherman named Santiago who risks the dangers of the sea and a fierce group of sharks to land his prize catch, a marlin bigger than any he has ever seen. After exhibiting courage and endurance, Santiago ultimately catches his prize marlin but sharks attack it before the old fisherman can get his catch safely to shore. Despite this loss, Hemingway admires Santiago and the marlin as symbols that represent the respective struggle of human beings to maintain courage and dignity in an often harsh and unforgiving universe or nature. The main theme of the novella is that human beings can retain a sense of dignity and honor and resilience despite the triumphs and tragedies of the strug
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