In my last post, I focused on the AP worthiness of The Old Man and the Sea . In doing so, I didn’t include my weekly plot summary. This week, I didn’t go on any big trips like maybe some people did, but I did take a week-long break from looking at this blog. Not until recently have I responded to anyone's comments on my last post. That being said, I noticed that Meg commented: “ what meaning do you think Hemingway was trying to convey with the whole part about the shark eating the fish?” Well, thanks, Meg. This leads into the only topic I have yet to cover as the main focus of a post: the meaning of the work as a whole. I talked a little bit two posts ago about the role of religion in The Old Man and the Sea. In the Bible, there are many stories involving fishing including when Jesus helps Peter to catch a fish after he hasn’t been able to for a while. The boy is kind of like Jesus’s disciples if the old man is Jesus. Those are just some basic similarities between the Bib...