The Old Man
The name of the old man.
What is Santiago?
The name of the boy.
What is Manolin?
The old man often dreams about lions sleeping on the beach here.
What is Africa?
His brother.
What does the old man call the marlin?
The old man uses this weapon to kill the big fish.
What is a harpoon?
The number of days it had been since the old man had caught a fish.
What is 84?
The age of the boy when he first went to fish with the old man.
What is 5 years old?
Where the old man fishes.
What is the Gulf Stream?
The old man calls this agua mala.
What is the Portuguese man-of-war?
The number of times the big fish circled the skiff before the old man saw him.
What is three?
How the old man had proved his strength when he was young.
What is arm wrestling?
What the boy did at the beginning of the story when he found the old man sleeping in his shack.
What is cover him with a blanket?
The part of the ocean the old man decides to go to to catch a big fish.
What is deep water or too far out?
What is over 1500 pounds?
What the old man did not want the fish to do while he was trying to bring him in.
What is jump?
The body part that gives the old man the most trouble when he is trying to fish.
What is his left hand?
What the boy did when he found the old man with cut hands.
What is cry?
Where the old man and the boy live.
What is Cuba?
Mako
What type of shark was the first one that attacked the big fish?
The length of time after the old man begins to return home before the first shark attack.
What does the old man have to eat while he is out at sea?
The number of days that the boy had fished with the old man (during his unlucky days) before his parents made him go with a different fisherman.
What is forty days?
The restaurant whose owner, Martin, sends food with the boy for the old man.
What is The Terrace?
Eighteen feet.
How long was the marlin that the old man caught?
What the old man first uses as a weapon to replace his lost harpoon.
What is his knife lashed to the end of an oar?