The Old Man and the Sea

The old man talks to the "half fish" lashed to his boat. How can he feel kinship to the Marlin that he caught and that is now so mutiled?

Pages 95-115

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I think there is a bond between Santiago and the marlin: it is a bond of brotherhood sealed in a pact when the great marlin surrendered itself to him.

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