OLD MEN AND SEA

Plot Summary and Study Guide

- IAN FRAZIER

This NarraTiVo is based on a predigital format (once known as a "book"). If you have been assigned "Old Men and Sea" as part of your advanced-level Taking Possession of Your Narrative class, you will first need to know enough about the plot, characters, and pertinent memes so you can explain this narrative in relation to your own.

The characters in the story are: Santiago, an old man; Eduardo, his friend; Ramón and Miguel, friends of Eduardo; José, Pedro, Esteban, Xavier, Buddy, and Antonio, friends of Ramón and Miguel; and thousands of other men of sixty-seven and above who are friends, or friends of friends, or friends of friends of friends, of theirs. The only character who is not an old man is a boy of about fifteen. He has a name, but is usually just called "the boy." Completing the list of characters are a marlin (a large type of fish, now extinct), some sharks (now mostly extinct or in private collections), and several extinct birds.