It is A i found it in my history book
Okay so I might’ve just looked it up . So idk how reliable it is but.... “Santiago loves, respects and finds the creatures of the sea immensely beautiful” and I also got “friends small=pity men-of-war (jellyfish) and shovelnose shark=hate respects birds and the marlin”
So do what you will with that info, hope it helps.
In texting we would (normally) not use proper grammar, but when we’re writing we normally use proper grammar sense someone important is more likely to read it