Not long afterward, Santiago feels a hard pull on his line and realizes that a huge marlin has caught his hook.īecause the marlin is so big, however, Santiago cannot pull it in. Finally, in the early afternoon, he catches a ten-pound tuna, which he decides will be his meal for the day. Santiago rows over the deep well where he has been trying to catch fish for the past week and decides to try his luck farther out. On the morning of the 85th day, Manolin helps Santiago launch his boat into the sea. Early each morning, Santiago walks up the road to Manolin's family's home to wake him up for work. Every night, Santiago dreams of lions on the beaches of Africa. Manolin cares for the aging Santiago, bringing him food and clothing, and in return Santiago tells Manolin stories about baseball legends and his younger days fishing in a boat off of Africa. His apprentice, Manolin, has been forced by his parents to seek another "luckier" employer, although Manolin continues to help Santiago launch and retrieve his boat from the ocean each day.
On the coast of Cuba near Havana, an old widowed fisherman named Santiago has been unable to catch a fish for 84 days.
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