The Old Man and the Sea
how does the very first sentence tell you what the main conflict is ?
how does the very first sentence tell you what the main conflict is ?
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The first line is,
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. We can see right away that the old man, a fisherman, is having trouble catching fish. The reader can speculate that his old age prevents him from catching fish.
