Oldman And The Sea
The Old Man and The Sea
Old Man and The Sea, a great book by Ernest Hemingway, is about a fisherman's struggle to save his career. This book is very different than any other book that I have read. It is different because this book doesn't have multiple events that happen in the story. Santiago, an old fisherman, goes out fishing and hooks a giant marlin. The book explains his struggle to kill the fish and bring it back home. The book symbolizes the struggle of the author to write a great book.
Santiago is an old man that wasn't having much luck fishing. One day he decides to go fishing and hooks a marlin. The man struggles to kill the marlin and in the process he is pulled very far out into the ocean. Santiago becomes attached to the marlin and calls it his "brother". Santiago gains strength by thinking about the things he loves and has interests in such as Manolin, a young fisherman, and the New York Yankees(baseball team). Santiago fights the marlin for three days and......
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