Explaining the Symbol of the Sea

Explaining the Symbol of the Sea

• Woman:

o “se is very kind and beautiful but she can be so cruel [also]” pg 29

o “the moon affects her as it does a woman” pg 30

o “the old man always thought of her as feminine” pg 30

• Deep/Dark and Mysterious:

o “the water was dark blue now, so dark that it was almost purple” pg 35

o “the sea was very dark and the light made prisms in the water” pg 40

o “it was only the great prisms in the blue water that the old man saw now” pg 40

o “the water . . . was a mile deep” pg 40

o “that cold water in the dark” pg 42

o “he could see the prisms in the deep dark water” pg 60

o “the boat moved slowly through the dark water” pg 64

o “[the fish was] slicing through the dark [water]” pg 67

o “the dark water of the true gulf” pg 99

o “he had come up from deep down in the water” pg 100

o “the great sea with our friends and our enemies” pg 120

• The Sea is abundant with good things:

o “he was happy to see so much plankton because it meant fish” pg 35

o “he look down into the