Analysis: Day Four - The Old Man and The Sea

As the book is over half way done now, the end has to be coming to a near.  The struggle can not go on forever, meaning that something has to happen soon.  When I was on day four, I always new that Santiago would reel in the fish.  I just did not know what the outcome of the whole situation would be.
At the start of the day, you could tell that this was the day that the fish would die.  They start battling and the fish is brought in closer and closer and finally Santiago killed the mighty marlin.  "The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength, and more strength he hadjust summoned, into the fish's side just behind the great chest fin that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man's chest.  He felt the iron go in and he leaned on it and drove it further and then pushed all his weight after it."  (Hemingway, 93, 94).  Finally, the battle is over.  Santiago has caught the prize of his lifetime, now all he has to do is get the fish home safely.  Should not be to hard right?  "It was an hour before the first shark hit him." (Hemingway, 100).  First of all, I never saw this coming.  I thought it would be a happy ending.  When I heard that there was a shark coming, I knew that Santiago was not going to be able to get the fish home safe.  There is no way one man with not many weapons can defend off dozens of sharks.  It is too bad that this had to happen.  Santiago fought so hard only to come up with nothing.  He only makes it home with the carcass of the fish.
This day of the story is the main part of the whole plot.  Even though the book is not quite over, it seems like the plot is over.

Bibliography

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