With the narrator describing Santiago's situation as "salao... the worst form of unlucky" (9), he shows that the man lives with a huge burden of carrying this type of luck and that he still goes out determined to change it. ... This theme is repeated with the image of the rocking chair whose owners have died the same way; the townspeople threw it into the ocean to get rid of the bad luck and prevent anything bigger from it. ... This causes momentary doubt in Santiago but is then taken over by his drive to catch the fish and bring it in to change his luck around. ...

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