Help on the Old Man and the Sea Journal entry? It's either that the journal entry is too narrow or I just can't think of what to write. We have to write at least a page from the fisherman's point of view.

There
is one that says to write one about his inferiority as a fisherman and
determination to overcome his inadequacies. 

Yet I only wrote a small
paragraph and couldn't think of anything else to write other than the
ideas of his obstacles. Also, if I write it from his point of view, how
can I quote things from the book? Do I just say what he thought instead
of the quote?