The Old Man and the Sea is one of Earnest Hemingway's most powerful works. The Story is set in a small northern village in Cuba not far from the Capital city, Havana, with a fisherman who is down on his luck (Cummings, Pg.3). But on his eighty-fourth-day without catching a fish, the old man hooks a big marlin, but for this poor old man hooking the fish was not even half the battle. This book has brought many people to think of many different themes; Heroism, Pride and Christianity are just a few, and the story strives to teach important live lessons throughout its readings.

Heroism is one of the more thought of themes by the everyday readers. The fact that a man close to his death bed goes out everyday to fish, and continues to return with nothing, but some how ends up with the biggest fish...