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"There's nothing like a friend when your really up a tree," is a quote from Carolyn Hax of the Washington Post. This is shown in the story The Old Man and The Sea. The author of this story is Ernest Hemingway, Who has written many books and novels which he is w ....

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.... get's up every day and helps the old man, Santiago, take the mast down to the shore to his skiff. The captain of the boy's boat does not let him carry anything, yet Santiago let him carry things when the boy was just five years old. That is how young the boy was when he first started his "classes on fishing" as I would call them. The boy loved Santiago with all of his heart. To prove this one day the boy bought some minnows for the old man. That same day he also bought him a "can" of coffee. That day he wanted to go fishing with the old man, but the old man refused to let the boy come with him. He said, "You are with a lucky boat, stay with i ....