The Old man and the Sea...help!

[y2jazz]

I am new here and I was wondering if I could get some help with this book. Would someone please tell 3 characteristics of Santiago. So far i have that he is 1) courageous, but i need support. can anyone please help me out?

thanks in advance

[Kiwi Shelf]

Man, that book, oh lucky you. Good book, but it was severally analyzed because it was done in school. Mind you it was a few years ago.... But, what about strong-willed? I don't think that means the same as courageous... Or, strong... Or well, old?

Santiago is the old man, right? haha (it was a few years ago, remember)

[y2jazz]

ya he was the old man, but i need to support the 3 qualities.

[imthefoolonthehill]

he was perservering, couragous, and stubborn.

[Basil]

1. He was old.

2. He was a man.

3. He was at sea.

[Dick Diver]

He was stoic.

I just read the book and thought that it was very beautiful and unlike the other Hemingway that I have read.

It was a lot more understated and I love the fact that he comes back and that is the ending.

[baddad]

.....you have read the book, right?

[baddad]

Santiago is not so much courageous as stubborn, he is only fitfully rational, he has, except for this episode, little initiative, few social skills, and little social grace. Santiago is a dreamer, but not goal oriented, content with little but very much aware of his location in the social strata of his village. S is also thoughtful, kind, caring, sensitive, and the list goes on......

[George]

1.-Persevering.
2.-Strong, both physically and mentally.
3.-Big baseball fan.
4.-Old (duh..)