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The old man in the sea a la shmoop first off let me say that the title of

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this novella is offensive old man come on Hemingway [Man presenting book]

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do I really look that old? Check out these biceps! nice guns huh? ouch okay

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yeah I just pulled something.. anyone have ban-gay? alright so I'm a little old...

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A life of fishing on the open sea can really take it out of ya still it's [Santiago on a boat fishing]

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much nicer to refer to a guy by his name my friends call me Santiago I guess I

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should say my friend because I only have one a great kid named Mandolin, he'd

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been forbidden to fish with me because well more on that in a sec but he brings [Manolin disappears from boat]

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me food so he's kind of like my own personal meals on wheels normally I

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wouldn't need this kind of charity but back before my big adventure happened I

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hadn't caught a fish in 84 days no not because I'm a bad fisherman they used to [Santiago holding a big fish]

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call me el campeon the champion because I was so great all right well I just had

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a string of bad luck all right which is why Manolins parents forbid him to fish

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with me they told him he could only hang out with successful fishermen... [Manolin closes door on Santiago]

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I may not have fish but I still have feelings people and hey if they're not

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biting well they're not biting the point is my string of bad luck is what made it [Santiago attempting to catch a fish]

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such a big deal when my line was struck by a Marlin we're talking 18 feet and

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I'd may be el campeon but I'm big enough to admit that reeling this fish in well

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it was a real struggle the fish and I fought against each other for three days

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which is impressive you know not sure I could make it that long with a hook jab

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into my mouth no not that it was easy for me either I was tired, I was thirsty [Santiago battling with the fish]

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I couldn't exactly stop for a bathroom break and it was so hungry that I had to

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eat raw bait worst sashimi ever... in the end though I won after all I am el

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campeon and I felt kind of bad for the fish we really had a moment you know [Santiago looking sad and hits the fish with a bat]

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unfortunately neither of us got a happy ending just when everything was looking

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good in came the sharknado okay well maybe not that exactly but there were a [Santiago holding a fish]

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lot of sharks I fought em off as best I could but in the end they treated my

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fish friend like an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet by the time I got back to

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the beach well nothing was left of the fish but its skeleton and after that [Santiago holding a fish skeleton on the pier]

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there was nothing to do but go home and finally go to sleep

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on the bright side Manolin came by and said we could fish together again which

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is nice and all but can't a guy get some bengay around here

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