Brave old man

Old Man and The Sea

Ernest Hemingway

Scribner Paperback Fiction

1952

Fiction

The Brave Old Man

The main character of this book is Santiago and of course, the marlin.  The setting of the book is the late 1940’s and a small village in cuba and mainly in the gulf of Mexico. This book shows struggle and honor, defeat and pride.  The conflict of this story is how Santiago has to struggle to get this great Marlin and return him back home safely.

 

My quote from the book is this, “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea.  What i think this quote means is try your hardest and know how to do something without luck, and when you get lucky you'll know you did it without that luck.  I agree with the quote.  I agree with it because if you want to become good at something you practice most of the time it isn't luck at all.

    This book is good but a little boring.  I'm not that interested in fishing.  “Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea” i found this quote on page 10, i picked it because eyes say a lot about people.  Blue eyes to me are a crystal blue sea.  It stood out to me because hes always on the water and they are similar.   It made me feel as if i was on a boat tanning in the sun.

Old Man and the Sea is very similar to, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, by Dr. Seus.  They are similar because they both talk about fish.  They also have a very good description to it and the plots are both well written.  Some of the settings are the same too, they're both either near or on the water.  

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated”  I am not sure exactly what it means but i think it might mean if a man is destroyed they are destroyed emotionally but they're not defeated because there still themselves.  i agree with it because anyone can fix what is wrong.  For example, if you drop a vase on the ground you can glue it back together, now if you ran it over with your car its destroyed.

This book reminded me a lot about me deep sea fishing trip 3 years ago.  Obviously the fish i caught weren’t as cool as this marlin but i was proud of my work.  Sitting there on the boat was boring but as soon as the fish hit the hook i was on a role.  It didn't affect me in any kind of way.  I didn't find most of it engaging but i had to read it.

I give the book 1 and a half paws!