Why do the boy’s parents consider the old man "salao"?
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| The Old man and the Sea |
Ans: The very first lines introduce us the character of Santiago. He is drawn as an old man. He catches fish and earns his living. But he has caught no fish for eighty-four days. A boy named Manolin is his friend.
He has been learning the art of fishing since his childhood.
All other fishermen were daily catching fish and the old man had gone to the Gulf Stream for eighty-four days without catching a single fish. ManoKn's parents were the first and last to consider Santiago's misfortune as a result of his being "Salao" which in Spanish language stands for the most unlucky man. Manolin strongly rejected the epithet of "Salao" given by his parents to his old tutor Santiago, the so-called "old man".
We feel at first he has been failed to catch fish. Now the fisherman does not regard his as a man but considered him a "Salao". As they believe in a code which is based on fate. It seems that fate is angry with him.
May be he is too old now to be either a real fisherman or a real man. Because of these reasons, the parents of Manolin force him to leave Santiago. ‘ They consider Santiago as "Salao" because he was not able to catch any fish for the last eighty-four days.
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