a less ridiculous comparison

Though there are an extremely low number of characters in the story the Old Man and the Sea, two of them are practically identical. These two characters are Santiago and the fish that he is trying to catch in the story. Both characters display very similar characteristics and traits. The first and foremost is their strength. Santiago shows this by holding onto the line for days at a time. The fish shows it by having the hook inside of itself and carrying the weight of Santiago and the boat from is. A similar trait is their endurance. Both of the two characters go on for days at a time doing things that require a massive amount of energy. By the end of the story Santiago is so exhausted that he cannot even make it back to his house. The fish looses its strength to go on only a little bit before Santiago and it costs it its life. Santiago shows even more endurance by going on to kill the loads of sharks that attack even after the fish is dead. Nonetheless, both characters show large amounts of both strength and endurance. Another characteristic both characters have is a high pain tolerance. It would seem that this is mainly for the fish, but Santiago also goes through quite a bit of pain. The fish has a hook in its mouth, or it may even be all the way in its stomach and it is pulling a boat by it. Santiago is on the other end of this pain too though. He has to hold onto the line and feed it or pull it in when necessary. This causes him to get cuts on his hands that bleed all of the time. Even when he puts it on the parts of his hands that are tougher from having this happen before, the force is still enough to cut through his tough skin. These characteristics are what make the fish and Santiago so similar.