The Old Man and The Sea
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, "The Old Man and the Sea" has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple. powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificnet twentieth-century classic.
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Read this a few months ago. Not much to say about a 100-page story about an old man fishing; what you see is what you get. Yeah, I know there is a whole metaphor there but it wasn't one I haven't read a million times over. I thought I would be more bored than I actually was when reading it and it is an easy "classic" read to knock out.
 An old man went out to sea to fish... the fish he caught drug him further out to sea than anticipated... and it pretty much was a inner monolog for the entirety of the book... not my favorite read, but also not the worst I've read.
Although the book is decent as an allegory, the themes discussed here are obsolete and dangerous, to be honest. In conclusion, it did not age well.
3/5 stars
3/5 stars
I felt like I was reading a childrenâs story, but in a good way. This was an easy summer afternoon read.
“How much did you suffer?”
“Plenty,” the old man said
We suffer and we hope, and we think of all that we have today. We think of what we can do with what there is. Thank you, Hemingway.
“Plenty,” the old man said
We suffer and we hope, and we think of all that we have today. We think of what we can do with what there is. Thank you, Hemingway.
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