Blog 10

I was reading a few other of my friends and fellow classmates blogs to see if anything was said about the webinar because unfortunatley i was working when it occured. I came accross something interesting it was about the meaning of Santiago. Why was that his name? This inspired me to do some research. I found that it was a Spanish name. That was formed from Saint Diego, which is also Saint James because James and Diego mean the same thing in Spanish apparently. This Saint's name means greater. Which makes me think he was "greater" than the Marlin when he defeated him(Hemingway 4). Also if he was named after a Saint it makes me as a reader think that he was a religious man. That makes me like Santiago even more. I myself believe very much so in god and do believe he is on his believer's sides when they are in a battle. I think if he was a religous man that God was looking out for him out there in the Gulf during his three day battle. Honestly if you were looking at the odds of Santiago winning against the marlin after not catching a fish for about a fourth of the year with as old and frail as he was, the odds were not looking good for Santiago. Maybe god was looking out for one of his believers and was helping him survive out there so he could come to that final resting place as a person and be able to have a goodbye with his young friend and fishing companion(Hemingway 5). Santiago was a good man who deserved a good life which is why he remained a legend to other fisherman. The legend of the marlin and the old man who caught him. Santiago was deserving of being a legend.
Hopefully he was a religous man and god was looking out for him out there I could be completely wrong, but this is just a nice way i like to look at it. But who knows maybe his mother was crazy and just picked some old name. As a reader we will never know...

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner, 2003. Print.