Analysis: Day Two - The Old Man and The Sea

 As day one has now finished in the book The Old Man and The Sea, day two is set to begin bright and early.  The significance of day two is to really start the plot of what the book is really about.  Santiago gets up early due to the fact that he wants to go very far out in the ocean, to where the big fish are located.  "Before it was really light he had his baits out and was drifting with the current.  ONe bait was down forty fathoms.  The second was at seventy-five and the third and fourth were down in the blue water at one hundred and one hundred and twenty-five fathoms." (Hemingway, 30, 31).  I am not an expert at fishing and really have no idea about what this quote means, but I do know that Santiago is a very good fisherman, even though his look may not be as good.  You read on that putting the bait down as Santiago did, saves it from getting caught up in the current.  It really speaks levels about what an expert he is at fishing.  The plot gets exciting when Santiago feels the tug of one of his lines.  He prays that that the fish take it, "God help him to take it." (Hemingway, 42).  He does take the bait and you began to know that this is just not any ordinary fish, this is an enormous fish, who happens to be very strong.  "The boat began to move slowly off toward the north-west...  I'm being towed by a fish and I'm the towing bitt." (Hemingway, 45).  When I heard that the fish was moving Santiago and his boat, I was amazed.  Granted it is not the boats that we have today, in our society, but it is still a boat and it has to have descent size due to the fact that they are out deep into the ocean.  The second day is really the starting point for the whole story and it gets the story onto a good track.

Bibliography

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner, 1996. Print.