Techniques - The Old Man and The Sea

In reading the book The Old Man and Sea, techniques revealed themselves as you got further and further in to the story.  You could find techniques pretty easily throughout the book, but some were there even though you may not have thought that they were.  The one thing that I thought about after the story was the technique of suspense.  This writing technique is usually found in mystery books, but if you think about it, suspense was maybe the biggest technique in the whole story.  Will he catch a fish?  How long will this battle go on?  Will he reel in the fish?  These are all suspensful questions that are in this book.  "God help him to take it." (Hemingway, 42).  Will the fish take the bate?  This is just another question that is an example of suspense.  Suspense really keeps the reader reading because it keeps them on the edge of their seat.  It is an excitement of what is coming next that thrills the reader.  I am in to mystery books, so I like it when there are moments when you do not know what is going to happen next, and this book does a very good job of keeping the reader interested. 
The other technique, which I am not sure if it is a technique, but I am going to make it one is the overall sense of relaxation.  Again, I have said this in previous blogs but it was such a relaxing book.  Sure it was an exciting book, but it was never a heart-thumper, (if you know what I mean).
I liked the book a lot, but one technique that I wish would have been in there is humor.  It would have changed the story a little bit but I would have liked to see it in the book. It does not have to be a comedy show type comedy, but little jokes here and there I think would have helped a lot.  A flaw with this is that I do not know where to add this, but I would have liked it.

Bibliography

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