Tone, Writing Style - The Old Man and The Sea

In the book The Old Man and The Sea, the author, Ernest Hemingway, writes this book so people will want to read it.  For students like me, we do not want to read thick books with small print.  When I look at something like that I get intimidated by how long this is going to take to read.  Ernest Hemingway writes the book in big print and it is a very thin book, therfore making the reader less intimidated and it is a very short read.  What is not to like about this?  He puts interesting facts in the book to make it enjoyable, but he gets to the point of the book so that it is a short read.  You really do not want the struggle to go on for much longer, because it will get boring.  Ernest Hemingway had the perfect length to it, so that it was interesting, made sense, and made my life a lot easier by making it a short and quick book to read.
If there is any way that a book can be suspenseful and yet relaxing, well than Ernest Hemingway did just that.  He absolutely did a great job in writing this book.  He made it laid back for parts that got you relaxed and than when you were not expecting it he made it suspenseful and made it pop out of your seat.  "Fish," the old man said.  "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway.  Do you have to kill me too?" (Hemingway, 92).  The struggle between Santiago and the huge marlin has been going on and nothing has really happened for a while.  Than when you are laid back, Hemingway puts this bit of writing in the book, to get you thinking about what is going to happen next.  You begin to think is Santiago going to die.  Who will die?  You figure who dies, but at that moment you are not sure which makes it suspenseful.

Bibliography

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