The Old Man and the Sea - How Manolin Reacted to Santiago Dying

In one of my previous blog I explored whether or not I believed that Santiago died at the end of the book when he came home and laid down to go to sleep. In my own opinion I really think that he did die at the end. Now I will discuss what probably happened after Santiago died. I do not think anyone would have known that Santiago died until the next morning when Manolin went to check on him and the old man did not wake up. I think the very firt thing that happened would be Manolin double checking to make sure the old guy was really gone. Then he would pull the covers over my head. Afterwards he would run off to tell his boos that he would be busy for the day taking care of this dead guy do he would not be able to come out and fish today. After that he would start to dig the grave. Slowly but surely, most likely it would take him most of the day to dig a proper grave. By the time he finally got the right size hole dug most of the fishermen on the island would have come home for the day. Almost all of them would turn up for the funeral. With Santiago being so respected especially by the older men. Even more people would have shown up when they realized that Santiago had died making the catch of a lifetime. There would be a really touching ceremony. He would get buried and then that would be that. The ending of the whole issue would be the next day. Manolin would really dramatically go to the old mans boat. He would set sail and begin fishing much like Santiago would have. Manolin would use all of Santiago's things and this would be Manolin's own certain way of keeping Santiago alive in his heart and immortalizing the old fisherman. Three More words.