The Old Man and the Sea #9

Everybody has different motives in their lives. Some are motivated by loves, some by power, some by helping others, and many more. The Old Man, Santiago, in the novel The Old Man and the Sea is motivated by many things also. He is motivated by the lose of his wife. He is motivated by that because even though she is not with him anymore and he wants to make her proud, even with her death. Another motive he has is to be a good fisherman. He knows that he is a good fisherman and an educated one, but he needs to catch fish to prove himself lucky and to show the younger fishermen they are wrong about him. The Old Man has gone eighty four days without catching a fish and the younger fishermen are doubting that he is a good fisherman. Santiago is a great fisherman because he has been fishing his whole life and knows almost everything. The boy, who helps Santiago is motived to help him. The boy knows that the Old Man has it hard and he just wants to help him. Though after forty days of the Old Man not catching anything, the boy is forced by his family to leave Santiago. The boy still helps the Old Man when he comes in at night to help him clean up and prepare for the next day.

The Old Man plans to go fish out where none of the fishermen fish. His motive behind that is because he knows that is where the big fish are and he is going to catch one. I think this is a good motive because sometimes you need to take risks to get what you want and what you need. By being motivated to catch a big fish, he does catch a big fish. He catches a marlin. The Old Man is now motivated to kill the fish. With this motivation, he is patient and lets the fish do what it needs to do. Santiago just waits for the fish. Once he kills the fish, being motivated now by hunger, loneliness, and wanting to be home, he ties the fish to the side of the boat.

The sharks are picking at the fish. The sharks are motivated by what all things trying to survive are motivated by, hunger. The hunger of the sharks defeat the Old Man. Santiago is now motivated by little. He has no fish or anything left. He just goes back to the docks and is motivated by nothing.