Setting - The Old Man and The Sea

Well, the setting was basically in one broad area.  That area was in the ocean.  I don not recall reading any text saying what ocean Santiago was fishing in but Santiago was from Cuba, so I think it would be a good guess to say that it was an ocean off the coast of Cuba.  It really was not an exciting place to have a book based on.  It was not in various countries or buildings; it was simply in the ocean.  From reading this point I got this general feeling of calmness.  Everything seemed liked it was relaxed and it gave me a very good feeling.  You could say in a way that this book was disstressful(I think that is a word).  The setting went along with this very calm feeling.  I think of the ocean when there is nobody in sight, a slight breeze, and very small waves.  This went along with the feeling that I got from this book.  It seemed like it slowed life down and it was a very happy but relaxive setting. "Far out to come in when the wind shifts.  I want to be out before it is light." (Hemingway, 14).  The setting actually was the reason Santiago did what he did.  It gave him life.  The reason why Santiago finally caught a fish was because of this quote.  He wanted to go farther out, where he knew fish would be, so that he could hook a fish.  Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Santiago went farther out into the ocean, so he could reel in the fish.  It is kind of funny because the ocean, in a way, was how everybody in Santiago's community made their living.  No ocean, no money.  Trying to remember other books settings, this books' setting stands out among the others because it was everybody's life.  In other books, the setting came to the people, in this book people went to the setting. 

Bibliography

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