Yes he does die while dreaming of the lions of the beach
Santiago knows that the fish are getting tired because he is an experienced old fisherman and has been fishing in the same waters all his life. Hemmingway spells this out very early in the book.
The conflict in Hemingway's Pulitzer Prize winning novella is the external conflict of person against nature. The character Santiago is fishing for a giant marlin and struggling against the forces of nature such as the sea itself at first. Later, his conflict is is against the marlin itself as he fights to land the marlin even as the marlin almost sinks Santiago's skiff. Still later, once he has vanquished the marlin, sharks appear and his conflict turns to fighting off the sharks as the try to eat the marlin, which Santiago has been towing. All three antagonists, the sea, the marlin and the sharks are forces of nature which Santiago must overcome.
the rising action is when the old man is out in the sea and continues to build up to the point where the old man loses the fish to he sharks
Rising action:after 84 successive days without catching a fish,Santiago promises his former assistant,Manolin, that he will go "far out" into the ocean, the marlins take the bait,but Santiago is unable to reel him in, which leads to a struggle between the fisherman and the fish
The Old Man and the Sea ends with the irony that Santiago has finally caught a fish, but it has been stripped bare by sharks. In that sense, the elderly fisherman has been both fortunate and unlucky.
The lost harpoon - Santiago loses the harpoon as he fends off sharks, symbolic of individuals who lose their faith as life's woes attack.
I have never heard of this. Up to a point Hemingway may be putting the knock on solitary heroes ( for example Charles Lindbergh) but there is nothing objectionable in the tale of the fisherman. certainly no foul language, sexual plot twists, homo-erotic angles of development. it is sort of sorry tale, but nobody dies (among the humans) the exertions of the voyage do NOT kill the Fisherman, and the version I remember reading ends relatively happily as a young lad wants to go fishing with him as he returns ( alive but sans big catch) to port. It could have been more cheery, but there is nothing objectionable about the story- now you have domestic animal deaths in Red Pony, and some others, and often violence is cast in to some story just to pepper things up- but not here. I can"t see anything wrong with the story.
Santiago is a character based on the author Ernest Hemingway. He is precise, patient, and perserveres throughout the whole story. He loves Manolin, who is his much younger friend. He often dreams of lions on the beach, which symbolized youth.
This book came out originally in 1952; it is 127 pages in length, and has been reprinted in new editions several times.
The sharks represent consequence. As Ahab reaches his prize, the sharks surround the boats and bite the oars to shreds. It's a punishment for Ahab's sins, as his quest of vengeance against the whale represents a strike against God.
It begins in a solemn tone as the seafarer relates his life at sea.
The relation is that they have both been around for what seems like ages and are both full of information. As for sailors the sea calls to us and the call becomes stronger the older we get and when we answer the call we become one with the sea and are in harmony with it living as if it were a human, but we are always aware of her moods and can interperate them and understand them, and therefore want to be on the sea as much as we can because it is one of the few things that we can relate to.
A small fishing village near Havana, Cuba; the waters of the Gulf of Mexic
Hemingway, simply put, was a man of action, always aware of the battle between man and the elements, the carnivores in the animal kingdom (he was a daring big game hunter and an excellent deep fisherman himself). Those carnivores were found on land and in the seas. As he grew older the perception of the encounters between a hellion in the sea and the iconic male master o'er the sea gradually took shape in his brain, his idea of a to the death showdown between the old wily fisherman and the primed instinctive sea-denizen jelled into a metaphor of life's struggles itself. And as a writer he had to manifest that perception in a story, and thus we have his "Old Man and The Sea."
The lions in Santiago's dreams represented his lost youth and his decreasing strength. For instance, when he needed strength on his long and strenuous voyage he thought of his dreams of the lions, and of them playing on the beach without a care in the world. With this in his mind it seemed to make him stronger and gave him the endurance to continue. The lions could also symbolize pride. Like the lions Santiago had pride. He was proud of his fishing skills. He was able to keep his lines straight and at varying levels to improve his catch of fish. He was better at this than the younger, richer, generation. Santiago knew however, that too much pride was not good. It could lead to feelings of arrogance and a know it all attitude. He was humble simultaneously with being proud. For instance he knew that he depended upon other people for food and other sustenance. Once the weather was going to turn cold Manolin was planning to bring Santiago shoes, clothes and a blanket.