Blogging Assignment 5

The main characters in Old Man and the Sea are Santiago, a fisherman and Manolin, a boy who helps him. Three adjectives that describe Santiago are lonely, ardent and stubborn.

At first, Santiago is lonely. This is because in according to the text, it said "These were relics of his wife. Once there had been a tinted photograph of his wife on the wall but he had taken it down because it made him too lonely~".(page 16, line 2-6) This sentence made me sad and painful. Actually, there are some people of his surrounding, like Maolin and fisherman. However, I think he feels loneliness when he had lost his wife. No one can take his wife place. Secondly, he is really ardent man I think. According to the text, it said "Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated." (page 10, line 6-8)I feel his eager desire for the sea and fishing from this sentence. Finally, he is stubborn. The reason why he is like that because he never give up fishing for totally eighty four days. Moreover, he is always eager to be lonely and adopt an attitude of detachment toward other people although Manolin and some fisherman worried about him. This source is written in the text page 1.


Two adjectives that describe Manolin are innocent and longing. I think Manolin is innocent and longing boy. This is because I point out these adjectives from the whole of Manolin's saying. For example in the text, he often calls "Santiago". This word is often used in the text, and I think it is an effective expression of childlike saying. Moreover, according to the text, "Can I go out to get sardines for you tomorrow?"(page 12, line 7)and "May I get the sardines? I know where I can get four baits too." (page 10-11)I think these saying expresses his longing to Santiago. He loves Santiago because he never give up fishing, so I think he would like to cheer up beside him.

Blogging Assignment 3

The pieces of information I found in sources to use to support my thesis and topic sentence ideas for Essay 2 are as follows. The supporting piece of evidence that I found for body paragraph 1 is a paraphrase/quote from “About White lie” (http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%98%98) that explain it is admitted to tell lying to make people fun. The supporting piece of evidence that I found for body paragraph 2 and body paragraph 3 is a paraphrase/quote from “Psychology of lying” (http://www.n-seiryo.ac.jp/~usui/koneko/uso.html) that explain some kind of lying is acceptable because they sometimes make wonderful or relax situation for someone.