Why do emperor peguin gather in large colines

"now they have beaten me, he thought. i am too old to club sharks to death. but i will try it as long as i have the oars and the short club and the tiller."? this passage shows santiago's belief that a. he will never fish again. b. he is too old to continue fishing. c. man can be defeated but not destroyed. d. the sharks got the best of him.

Use morphology and syntax to make grammatical sense of the following sentence (mark all that the ova of all mammals except the monotremes undergo holoblastic segmentation. the -s inflection indicates that monotremes is a plural noun. the suffix -ic indicates that holoblastic is an adjective. the suffix -ation in the word segmentation is a noun-forming suffix denoting a process. the -s inflection indicates that monotremes is a possessive noun.

What is the central idea of paragraph 1 of the story?