The Old Man and the Sea By Ernest Hemingway

                       The Old Man and the Sea

                         By Ernest Hemingway

                               

     

         The Old Man and the Sea is a great work of literacy. It is a Nobel Prize winner of for Literature in 1954. The cover is self-explanatory; its about an old man at sea who most of the time fishes by himself. The poor old man is named Santiago he lives in a small shack and it seems that his luck has run out. He hasn't caught any fish in eighty four days. I would have given up by then. He fishes on a small skiff and he doesn't fish with a fishing rod. He just fishes with his hands and a long spool of rope with a hook with a little bit of bait on the end. He rows out far into the sea and while his line is sitting in the water it dipped sharply into the water. He doesn't know it yet, but he is going to be on a long ride. That dip in his line was a ginormous fish, it was a marlin. A marlin is a huge fish that looks a lot like sail fish just without the sail. After the long struggle to bring it in he finely got it. While the marlin is tied to the side of the boat when he goes home sharks start to bite off pieces of the fish. When he comes home he only has the remains of the marlin.

 

I think the theme of this story is to never give up or to endure. My favorite quotes I have ever herd is on page 95 of my book. "But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”(95) Another quote that I think says the theme is on page 44 of my book. “Fish” he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with until I am dead."(44) The third quote I will state is "It’s silly not to hope. It’s a sin he thought,"(96) that is on page 96 of my book. I think that last quote means don't give up in hope either because hope is what keeps you going when there is nothing left or in this case no luck left. I think the theme of this story is to endure what life throws at us, no matter what it is.

This is my favorite book! I would recommend it to any one for as long as I live. I think it appealed to me because I fish a lot. I had a story like that. Except it was a sea lion not a shark, we didn't use a knife we used a seal, and it was a king salmon not a marlin. We got 1/2 of the king back. It was great word of literature. It deserved the Nobel Prize. I didn't really agree with the ending, I wish it had a happier ending. I hope more people read this book, it was great. I hope I can find another book as good as this one!

Austin Rice

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