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What four quotations does anyone know for the "baseball" and "lion" motif in the old man and the sea ?

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What four quotations does anyone know for the "baseball" and "lion" motif in the old man and the sea ?

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  1. BASEBALL:

    "I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing, the old man said. They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand." [In conversation with Manolin early in the novella]

    "I must have confidence, thought Santiago, and I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur in his heel." [During Santiago's fight to pull in the marlin, he throws another line out to catch a fish for food. His cramped hand begins to relax, and Santiago thinks about Joe DiMaggio and the bone spurs that hampered his play, particularly in 1947.]

    LION:

    "He lived along that coast now every night and in his dreams he head the surf roar and saw the native boats come riding through it....He dreamed of places now and lions on the beach." [After Manolin leaves Santiago's house, but before Santiago leaves to try to catch fish after eighty-four days of futility, Santiago sleeps and dreams]

    In Santiago's shack, Santiago "was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about lions." [Very near the end of the novella, Santiago has returned to the harbor and to his shack after his epic battle with the marlin but with only the marlin's shark cleaned skeleton, and he sleeps and dreams]


  2. It is a long time since I read the book but here are a couple of links that may help you.  

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