The_Fish_Bishop

The Fish Bishop There comes a time in a person’s life when every question they’ve had becomes answered. Everything confusing suddenly makes sense. The time can not be predicted, it just comes, like the wind. Unexpectedly, missing pieces, which caused confusion, take their place and become a clear, whole picture. Most people might say understanding occurs only in death, but some minor understandings before death occur also. An epiphany best describes the act of sudden understanding. Epiphany’s are displayed in Elizabeth Bishop’s The Fish, as well in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea. The two pieces describe epiphany’s dealing with natural order and how tradition keeps the order and life flowing. Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea tells the tale of a weary fisherman, Santiago, who, after many years of trying, catches the largest fish of them all, a marlin. The fish no one else in town could dream of catching. A catch such as this one is worthy of gloating over, but Santiago did not. He waited his whole life to catch the marlin and once he did, it didn’t really seem as important anymore. The marlin served as a turning point for Santiago; one could wait their whole fish, fisherman, order, let, epiphany, catch, old, natural, marlin, tradition, sea, santiago, man, life, go, else, whole, understanding, two, time, take, pieces, one, once, medals, great, didn’t, caught, after, years, wounds, way, uncatchable, triumph, thought, satisfaction