The Old Man and the Sea compared to "Shipwrecked Sailor"
By: Kyle Black

In the stories, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway and "Shipwrecked Sailor" by Gabriel Garcia Marques, there are so many similarities, like their losses and their love for the creatures of the sea, that it its eerie. Although, there are many similarities, there are also some differences, such as the main characters' love for the creatures of the sea. There are more similarities in these stories than differences, in my opinion.
A difference between Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea and the sailor in "Shipwrecked Sailor" is their knowledge of the sea. Santiago is expressed well as a fecund and resourceful old fisherman of the sea. This is prodigiously expressed when Santiago, "Hooked a patch of yellow Gulf weed with the gaff as they passed and shook it so that the small shrimps that were in it fell onto the planking of the skiff" (Hemmingway p.98). This is the act of a very intellectual and......

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