The Old Man and the Sea, the classic novella by Ernest Hemingway, written with admirable simplicity and strength, deals with man's struggle for survival. The old fisherman Santiago will face the largest marlin he has ever seen in his life and will undergo the ultimate test, engaging in a desperate battle all alone off the coast of Cuba. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated," Santiago mutters, even when it seems that everything is over. A valuable life lesson about patience and perseverance, about the greatness of the struggle, about the belief that a man should never give up trying.