Old Man and the Sea Dominic Florence
Ernest Hemingway; 4/22/13
Published by Simon & Schuster “The Old Man and the Sea Book Review”
1952 Fiction
Old Man and the Sea
(A Boring Fish Story)
The Old Man and the Sea is about an old Cuban fisherman named Santiago that goes fishing for eighty-four days and catches nothing. A young boy named Manolin cared for the old man and helped him fish. He got food for him and kept him safe. One day he decides to sail out further than usual. On the eighty-fifth day he drops his lines out in the gulf stream and a fish bites, he knows its a marlin.
“It has a certain charm that you don't find very often”- M. Bilberry
I don’t agree with this quote because I thought the story was very boring and dull. Not a charm.
“Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?”
he makes it seem like he is talking straight to the fish when fish can't talk.
This story reminds me of a book i read called a long way gone because in both books someone is helping someone in need. In a long way gone, a doctor helped a child that just got out of war become normal again. and in the old man and the sea a young boy helps an old man catch fish.
It means someone can get brought down but never down enough to get back up and try again.
I didn't like the book. I thought it was really boring, until he caught a fish. I think he should have hooked more fish throughout the book to make it more interesting. 3 paws.
