Answer: From the very first paragraph, Santiago is characterized as someone struggling against defeat. He has gone eighty-four days without catching a fish—he will soon pass his own record of eighty-seven days. Almost as a reminder of Santiago’s struggle, the sail of his skiff resembles “the flag of permanent defeat.” But the old man refuses defeat at every turn: he resolves to sail out beyond the other fishermen to where the biggest fish promise to be. He lands the marlin, tying his record of eighty-seven days after a brutal three-day fight, and he continues to ward off sharks from stealing his prey, even though he knows the battle is useless.
Because Santiago is pitted against the creatures of the sea, some readers choose to view the tale as a chronicle of man’s battle against the natural world, but the novella is, more accurately, the story of man’s place within nature. Both Santiago and the marlin display qualities of pride, honor, and bravery, and both are subject to the same eternal law: they must kill or be killed. As Santiago reflects when he watches the weary warbler fly toward shore, where it will inevitably meet the hawk, the world is filled with predators, and no living thing can escape the inevitable struggle that will lead to its death. Santiago lives according to his own observation: “man is not made for defeat . . . [a] man can be destroyed but not defeated.” In Hemingway’s portrait of the world, death is inevitable, but the best men (and animals) will nonetheless refuse to give in to its power. Accordingly, man and fish will struggle to the death, just as hungry sharks will lay waste to an old man’s trophy catch.
Explanation:
Answer:
C
Explanation:
First of all he really doesn't understand what the debate is all about. It's not about pleasing the doctors. It's about being given another chance to do something that "fixes" him.
He doesn't understand everything, but he knows that they are trying to make it better for him and he wants to be part of it. So that means that C is the right answer.
Answer:
conserving resources at home so troops can have more.
Explanation:
According to the excerpt from Roosevelt’s State of the Union address, the speaker talks about the patriotic spirit of Americans and how they put patriotism above appetite by sacrificing a portion of their meals so that troops abroad can have more food.
Both the speech and the poster convey the importance of conserving resources at home so troops can have more. This is because, the idea of rationing was brought up and well embraced by the American people.
Answer:
Something that happened in the past
Explanation:
An event from the past.
