ARW Blogging Assignment 6 (OMS)

The most useful approach to use in critically analyzing The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway is Santiago as Christ Figure. The old man lives with the boy for 40 days. In Christianity, this number is blessed number. It is because after Resurrection, Christ live for 40 days and dead. So it is a metaphor that the old man is Christ and the boy is disciple. And also the old man goes to the sea to catch the fish for 3 days. For the old man, this 3 days are full of struggle. And the term that Christ was dead is 3 days, and after that, he resurrected. Which mean that Christ is full of struggle for 3 days.
I think It is very persuasive aspect, but I wonder that sequence is not same between the old man and Christ. The old man spent with the boy for 40 days, and after that, he spends on the sea for 3 days. However, Christ is reverse.