Describe Santiagos personal development throughout the story including how in some ways he changed and how in others he remained the same.

Santiago's growth and development is significant in the narrative.  His emergence into
what he can be from what he is represents the essence of the quest within personal identity.  At
the same time, some elements of his character are consistent throughout the narrative,
representing how goodness and a sense of honor in the world are not qualities that need to
change even though other elements within human identity might. It is within this dichotomy that
Santiago is shown to be a uniquely distinctive human being and establishing a standard of what
is possible from what is given.

Santiago is posited between the world of
external expectation and the realm of fulfilling his own subjective.  Being poised between both
equally desirable, but ultimately incompatible courses of action.  He struggles with what
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