In the story the Old man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway Santiago is a strong but unlucky fisherman, put his prime. He is determined to catch a fish because of his pride. However the story ends in tragedy when the fisherman loses his fish while trying to bring back safe Santiago Finds honor in his struggle.
Santiago finds honor in struggle because in the story Santiago explains, “You are killing me, but you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother. Come on and kill me. I do not care who kills who.” I used this quote because based on the words he used in these he uses shows how much he finds honor in his struggle by referring to the fish as noble and great also, also how Santiago says that the fish can kill him (take advantage). He Goes on to say, “I do not care who kills who.”
Early in the story the author describes Santiago “He was too simple to wonder when he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of the pride.” Santiago also uses his thoughts by saying he was a “strange old man, because turtling kills your eyes, but he’s done it for years and he’s fine.” When Santiago says this he means how he thinks is strange, for example he is an very old man, who has not caught a fish in 84 and he still finds honor and he has a lot of pride in the job he does while fishing and being around nature his whole life.
In-conclusion Santiago finds pride in his struggle because in the story Santiago explains how much pride he has, in his job because he still goes to work every day fighting fish all day and preparing to catch fish and he hasn’t had any luck catching anything in the last 84 days. Although it gets hard the poor old man still proceeds on continuously because of the pride and honor he has in his struggle and the grind of being a fisherman.
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