The Old Man and the Sea

Tami Kuo

Illustrations for Picture Book

👴🏼 Santiago and Manolin 👦🏼

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Everything about him was old except his eyes, and they were the san'le color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

🚣🏼‍♂️ Set Sail ⚓️

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Sometimes someone would speak in a boat, but most of the boats were silent except for the dip of the oars. They spread apart after they were out of the mouth of the harbou and each one headed for the part of the ocean where he hoped to find fish.

The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean.

🎣 The First Meet of the Marlin 🐟

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The moon had been up for a long time but he slept on and the fish pulled on steadily and the boat moved into the tunnel of clouds.

🐋Dead fish 🦈

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But he liked to think about all things that he was involved in and since there was nothing to read and he did not have a radio, he thought much and he kept on thinking about sin.

You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought.
You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman.

You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after.
If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?

🌖 The Great Marlin Skeleton 🌒

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That afternoon, there was a party of tourists at the Terrace and looking down in the water among the empty beer cans and dead barracudas.
A woman saw a great long white spine with a huge tail at the end. That lifted and swung with the tide while the east wind blew a heavy steady sea outside the entrance to the harbour.

"What's that?" she asked a waiter and pointed to the long backbone of the great fish that was now just garbage waiting to go out with the tide.

"Tiburon," the waiter said. "Shark." He was meaning to explain what had happened.

"I didn't know sharks had such handsome, beautifully formed tails."

"I didn't either." her male companion said.