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Ernest Hemingway's the Old Man and the Sea (Monarch Notes: A Guide to Understanding the World's Great Writing)

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Riveting; created a sense of aloneness, frustration, confidence and courage, but even in the old man's flustered thinking, he was lucid and planning how to beat the ocean and the fish that lived and survived there.

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway is a book about an old fisherman named Santiago. Santiago is very poor and does not catch many fish, until one day, when he catches the biggest fish he has ever seen.This book is about the fisherman's battle with the humongous fish and how he manages to catch it all alone. There are many lessons about life during the time he is alone, like to never give up and how having a lot of courage is very important. One thing that Ernest Hemingway mentions quite often is the ols man's pride and how he treats it, which taught me a lesson that many people could use. I liked the book, especially since i learned so much more about life reading it.The one thing that I did not like about The Old Man and the Sea was that it gets a bit boring while Santiago is struggling to catch the fish, but this ends when he goes through many obstacles on the way back home. I would definitely recommend this book to people at almost all ages, but i think that someone reading it is too young they may not understand it, therefore making them not like it as much. Otherwise, I believe that it is a good book and i would definitely read it if I were you.

It's a story about a man who goes out to sea and catches this huge marlin. I think that what the author was trying to tell us is that don't give on whatever you're doing, just keep on trying and if you miss try again. You will find yourself wiser everytime.

When I was 30 pages from the end of this book, a with whom I was traveling tapped me on the arm to get my attention. I turned to look at her, but I had no idea who she was, how we knew each other, or where we were. I was in the boat with the Old Man. Although the book is an easy and fast read, there is much depth and subtlety to the story and the writing. Like some of Mozart's music, it looks easy to understand until you try to fully understand it. Then it's obvious that there's much much more than you first thought.

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway is a book about an old fisherman named Santiago. Santiago is very poor and does not catch many fish, until one day, when he catches the biggest fish he has ever seen.This book is about the fisherman's battle with the humongous fish and how he manages to catch it all alone. There are many lessons about life during the time he is alone, like to never give up and how having a lot of courage is very important. One thing that Ernest Hemingway mentions quite often is the ols man's pride and how he treats it, which taught me a lesson that many people could use. I liked the book, especially since i learned so much more about life reading it.The one thing that I did not like about The Old Man and the Sea was that it gets a bit boring while Santiago is struggling to catch the fish, but this ends when he goes through many obstacles on the way back home. I would definitely recommend this book to people at almost all ages, but i think that someone reading it is too young they may not understand it, therefore making them not like it as much. Otherwise, I believe that it is a good book and i would definitely read it if I were you.

Old Man and the Sea is a tricky book. It may seem trite as it follows the exploits of a man trying to prove his worth by catching a big fish, but in the end the reader is the one on the fishing trip into one's own existance. Try it, you'll like it.

I FEEL SORRY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE READ THIS BOOK AND RECEIVED NEITHER JOY NOR WISDOM FROM IT. I FINISHED IT FEELING NOT ONLY ENLIGHTENED BUT WITH A FEELING OF HAVING BEEN THERE.

This book is one of the best of the twentieth century. It completely destroys convention, and surprises the reader at the same time. Written in a language so simple that a fourth-grader could understand, Hemingway conveys his true genius and mastery of his craft.

In the beginning, the book was fairly decent but when Santiago was out at sea and caught the "big fish", I realized it was losing its point. It didnt keep me interested.

This is the story of an old fisherman told in the most simple yet descriptive and powerful language, a typical Hemingway style. The plot of the story is the most imaginative I have ever came across and though initially a bit slow, the story catches such a pace in the later half that it becomes impossible to keep this book down without finishing it. End of the story elevates this novel to such a height that very few other classics are able to attain.

Is this novel symbolic ? Though Hemingway himself denied it, one can not help thinking that the characters in this novel represent something more universal than they appear to be.