Essay About Old Man And Symbol Of The Sea

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Explaining the Symbol of the Sea
Woman:
“se is very kind and beautiful but she can be so cruel [also]” pg 29
“the moon affects her as it does a woman” pg 30
“the old man always thought of her as feminine” pg 30
Deep/Dark and Mysterious:
“the water was dark blue now, so dark that it was almost purple” pg 35
“the sea was very dark and the light made prisms in the water” pg 40
“it was only the great prisms in the blue water that the old man saw now” pg 40
“the water . . . was a mile deep” pg 40
“that cold water in the dark” pg 42
“he could see the prisms in the deep dark water” pg 60
“the boat moved slowly through the dark water” pg 64
“[the fish was] slicing through the dark [water]” pg 67
“the dark water of the true gulf” pg 99
“he had come up from deep down in the water” pg 100
“the great sea with our friends and our enemies” pg 120
The Sea is abundant with good things:
“he was happy to see so much plankton because it meant fish” pg 35
“he look down into the water and saw the tiny fish that . . . swam between them” pgs 35-36
“the tuna shone silver in the sun and after he had dropped back into the water another and another rose [out of the water]” pg 38
Pleasurable [releases pain and suffering, “washes away”]:
“[the old man] washed his hand in the ocean and held it there . . . for more than a minute watching the blood trail away . . . the old man would have liked to keep his hand in the salt water