Much later that night, I thought the door opened and a man came into the bedroom. He was leaning on a stick. He didn't say anything but he stood there, looking sadly at Andreas and me, and as a shaft of moonlight came slanting in through the window, I recognized Atticus Pünd. I was asleep, of course, and dreaming, but I remember wondering how he had managed to enter my world before the thought occurred to me that maybe it was I who had entered his. . Anthony Horowitz
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The main character in Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" is a fisherman named Santiago. In the beginning of the short story, he is caught in a terrible storm. He is afraid of dying, but as his boat is destroyed by the storm, he finally realizes his strength as a man. After the storm passes, he kills a large fish and from this, Santiago's desire to live becomes stronger.

Santiago says that he wants to live as much as he wants to die. He realized that life is a gift and it must be savored to its fullest extent.

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