Connection between the current independent reading book "The Old Man and The Sea"

 I read The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway. The tone of this book was matter-of-fact, the reverence for Santiago and his struggle is apparent. Santiago's insistence that he will sail out farther then ever before foreshadows his destruction because the marlin is linked to Santiago, the marlin's death foreshadows Santiago's own destruction by the sharks. The themes of this novel is that horror in struggle, defeat, death, and pride. Santiago finds the marlin worthy of a fight. At the end of the novel is never defeats. Instead, he emerges as a hero. Santiago's struggle does not enable him to change man's place in the world rather it enables him to meet his most dignified destiny. So the message that I take from this book is not to give up on what you doing if you think that you could do it, then you always could do it.....