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The main **__characters__** in the old man and the sea are the old man that loves to fish and the young boy that talkes to the old man and usually goes on fighing trips with him. Here is the **__plot__** of the story the old man in the sea. It starts out with the __**exposition**__, this takes place in the 1900's in a small town with an old man and a young boy. Then the **__rising action__** of the story is that the young boy that usually goes fishing with them is no longer aloud by his parents because the old man never catches any fish so the young boy has to go with another group of fishers even though he would like to go with the old man. So the old man has to go out to sea fishing alone for this trip. What happens when he gets out there is the **__climax__** of the whole story. When the old man gets out to sea were he wants to fish he waits there for a while untill hooking into a very large fish. The fish was the biggest that the old man has ever incountered in all of his years of fishing and now with no help he is going to have to bring this one in by himself. He is a couple hours into the fight to get the fish and he starts to notice that it is getting dark but he doesnt care because he isnt going to give up on this large fish. So it goes into night time and he is still fighting with it. The fish is so big he spent 3 days fighting it, he was very short on food and water so he had to watch what he ait and drank which made him weaker. He was so tired at some points that he would take naps and just keep the fishing pool held down by his body. After all that time of fighting with the fish he finaly got it in the boat and headed back to land. But he had to go a long way because he drifted so much. The **__falling action__** of the story comes next. He started to paddle home with the fish to the side of the boat and on his way back sharks started eating at the fish which made the old man mad because the fish needed to last the whole way home but he didnt think that it was going to. So when he returned home most of the fish was gone so he went home and all the town people saw the head of the fish and knew that the old man caught the huge fish. So the young man went to the old mans house to check on him. The **__resolution__** is when the young boy goes to the old mans house and he sees that the old man is tired and hungary so he went to the store and got the old man some bread to eat. And when the old man whoke up in the morning the boy was sitting there waiting with the old man. When he woke up the boy gave the old man the bread. Then the old man told the boy all about his fishing trip. And from there on out the young boy started going fishing with the old man. The main **__conflict__** of the story is when the old man is taking the fish back to shore and all the sharks are around taking bites out of it till he got back and there was just bone left on the fish. The __**point of view**__ in this story is more than one. At some points in the story the old man is talking and at other parts of the story the young boy is talking. The **__narrator__** would have to be mostly the boy and the old man. The __**setting**__ of this story is in the mid 1900's and in the middle of the sea and in a small town. The date makes the story different then what it could be because if it took place more in the present day then the old man could have had a motor boat to drive to sea instead of a boat that he has to paddle using all of his own strenght and energy. The **__theme__** of this stroy is as followed. The people are outdoor kind of people who love the ocean and love to go fishing and will do anything to catch a big fish. An old man goes fishing and gets a huge fish on the line and takes three days to real the whole thing in. Finally he kills it and ties it to the side of the boat and starts for home. On his way sharks were biting pieces of the fish off so when he finally got home it was just bone. Then he went home and slept and in the morning the young boy was there with bread and the old man ate it and then told the boy the story of the big fish he caught.