Before vacations, we studied the last passage of the novel (click here if you want to read it)

We found a question that was the more accurate on this extract: How far a travel story can change someone?

When you first read this passage, there is an impression of a status quo, as if nothing changed. Actually, only the old man thinks that, because everything has changed. Indeed, with the skeleton of the marlin, the old man will be respected now, no one will dare laughing at him. Moreover, Manolin seems to have changed, because he stands up against his parents and decides that he's going to come back on Santiago's boat, and that he'll bring the luck with him. We could say that everything has changed for the characters of this story. But is it true for all?