<P> On his way in to shore, sharks are attracted to the marlin's blood . Santiago kills a great mako shark with his harpoon, but he loses the weapon . He makes a new harpoon by strapping his knife to the end of an oar to help ward off the next line of sharks; five sharks are slain and many others are driven away . But the sharks keep coming, and by nightfall the sharks have almost devoured the marlin's entire carcass, leaving a skeleton consisting mostly of its backbone, its tail and its head . Santiago knows that he is defeated and tells the sharks of how they have killed his dreams . Upon reaching the shore before dawn on the next day, Santiago struggles to his shack, carrying the heavy mast on his shoulder, leaving the fish head and the bones on the shore . Once home, he slumps onto his bed and falls into a deep sleep . </P> <P> A group of fishermen gather the next day around the boat where the fish's skeleton is still attached . One of the fishermen measures it to be 18 feet (5.5 m) from nose to tail . Pedrico is given the head of the fish, and the other fishermen tell Manolin to tell the old man how sorry they are . Tourists at the nearby café mistakenly take it for a shark . The boy, worried about the old man, cries upon finding him safe asleep and at his injured hands . Manolin brings him newspapers and coffee . When the old man wakes, they promise to fish together once again . Upon his return to sleep, Santiago dreams of his youth--of lions on an African beach . </P> <P> Ernest Hemingway in 1954 </P> <P> Written in 1951, and published in 1952, The Old Man and the Sea is Hemingway's final full - length work published during his lifetime . The book, dedicated to "Charlie Scribner" and to Hemingway's literary editor "Max Perkins", was featured in Life magazine on September 1, 1952, and five million copies of the magazine were sold in two days . </P>

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