Can someone help please?? if you've read it ( i have, i just really can't remember the answer im sorry)

text: the old man and the sea

question:

Why does Santiago like and identify with the sea turtles whose white shells he eats to get stronger?

The turtles are at home on land and at sea, as he is.

The turtles avoid dangerous Portuguese men-of-war, as he does.

The turtles have a heart and hands and feet, as he does.

The turtles will attack the sharks if they must, as he does.