In Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago is confronted by a series of sharks, which come in a specific order. This order is significant in a few ways. One significance in the order in which the sharks come is that it shows us how nature is organized and arranged. In this book, Hemingway seems to view nature as having a specific arrangement and believes that things in nature work in a specific way. …showed first 75 words of 467 total…

…showed last 75 words of 467 total…conflict is a basic part of nature. All creatures interact with each other in certain ways, but mainly, one lives and feeds off the other. There is also an order which all of nature's creatures obey and live by. This is shown through the sequence in which the sharks come and also portrays as man being at the top of this chain. Man depends on nature for survival and therefore man and nature are intertwined.