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to have someone to talk to instead of speaking only to himself and to

the sea” (125).
Similarly, when Santiago sees flying fish in the sea he regards
them as his “principal friends in the ocean” (26). And when he sees a
flight of wild ducks, the old man thinks: “No man was ever alone on
the sea” (OMAS, ). This shows the continuation of the theme of “No
man is an Iland”.
This feeling is further reinforced when the sharks fall upon the
fish and tear it to pieces. The oldman feels unbearable pain when he
says:
I should not have gone out so far, fish, he said. Neither for you
nor for me. Im sorry fish (110).
And, in the course of his introspection, Santiago realizes:
You violated your luck when you went too far outside (117).
His suspicion now becomes confirmed tha his misfortune is due
to his going” far out”, “beyond all people in the world, where the marlin
had rightfully chosen to be beyond all snares and traps and
treacheries” (48).