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Book Review #4
November 2nd, 2007 by William Core 4
Book Review #4 by William M
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea is a very simple book. It takes place in
Cuba, in a small community. The setting is sometime in the eighteenth or nineteenth century. It is about an old man who loves fishing. His apprentice, a young boy known as Manolin, was forced to leave the old man by his parents, because of the old man’s bad luck. They insisted that he move to a luckier boat. After 70 days of bad luck, the old man feels that his luck is about to change. He sets out into the gulf and starts to fish. When he hooks a fish, it starts pulling out the skiff, instead of the other way around. The old man has a great battle with the fish that lasts two days and nights. He expects that it is a giant marlin, and his prediction is correct when the giant fish leaps out of the water. The old man has to do things such as bear the tension of the line in order to go to sleep without losing the fish, and ignore painful cramps that endanger his mission. Can you imagine going through pain for two days and nights just to catch a fish? The old man must have been really dedicated.
I enjoyed this book. It was easy to read, and it was simple, but it represented many things; this book was both literal and figurative in many ways. I would recommend this book to anybody who wants to read a short story; this book is highly praised for a reason.
One of the main themes of this book is to never give up. The old man struggled for two days straight, but still managed to catch it. I’m not going to give away the ending, but even though some may say that he lost in the end, his goal was to just catch the fish, and that’s exactly what he did.
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