My Opinion - The Old Man and The Sea

For this blog, I am going to write about what I thought about the book, The Old Man and The Sea.  I thought that this was a very good and interesting book.  For not being able to pick out my own book I thought this was a great book.  I am interested in mystery and crime books and honestly I was not very thrilled about reading this book, but I was surprised about how good the book really was.  I heard it was a book about a guy fishing and I was not very motivated about reading it, but when I started the book it grew on me.  It helped that it was a short and big writing but it was a very easy book to read (Hemingway, 9-127). 
One of the main reasons why I thought it was so good was because of the background history that it gave me.  From the start of the book it gives you the fact that tSantiago has not caught a fish in eighty-four days.  If it had not given me that fact than the book would have been boring because it would have been a story of a guy catching a fish.  "He's taken it." (Hemingway, 44).  If he had not had bad luck in catching fish, than who would really care that he caught another fish.  Since he did have bad luck, than this quote is very exciting because he has finally caught a fish.  It would in no way be the same book and by putting such a drastic streak in the writing, it makes these three words so exciting.
Another good part of the book, was the journey home.  He had finally caught the fish and now he was battling sharks.  It gave the book another fascinating story to, because he ended up losing the fish.  Since he lost the fish, the readers felt bad for Saniago, and became  thinking of what could of happened.  Due to these reasons I loved the book.

Bibliography

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner, 1996. Print.