In the book, The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway tells a story of an old fisherman. The old man, named Santiago, had gone for eighty-four days without catching a fish. Santiago feels that the following day would be a good day because eighty-five is his lucky number. The following day he gets up before dawn and sets out for a day of fishing. He had set one bait at forty fathoms, the second …showed first 75 words of 1352 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1352 total…Second, I would have had the old man give his life to God in the end. He would have realized that there is something more to life. The fact that he had lost the fish would have had been no matter to him after he had given his life to God. The story, after having these changes, would now be a happy story with resolution to the problem. Bibliography The Old Man and the Sea