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Why did the old man fight the sharks?

Santiago fought the shovel-nose sharks because they attacked his marlin and started to eat it. He saw them as villains who deserve to be killed for stealing his noble grand prize. He tried to with pleasure but failed eventually.
- What are the values presented in the short story War?
London criticizes war and governments that send young soldiers to their death. The unnamed young soldier spared the ginger beard man’s life, but the latter eventually killed the soldier in a kill-or-be-killed war law.

8- Why did the narrator in "Desert Places" enter the woods?

The narrator in this romantic poem conceives that the emptiness of the woods is nothing compared to the loneliness he feels himself and it does not scare him, so he enters.