Death, Swimming, FlyFishing

The American Man is a person how dose what he wants but may not always like what he dose, he shows kindness and compaction for everyone, and doesn’t complain about what his life is like. He my not care how people see or treat him but he never treats them any differently. He takes no help and/or money from anybody. He may be a rancher or farmer, an old time carpenter, or a blacksmith but I see him working alone and living alone. He looks ruff my go weeks without a shower, he wears some sort of jeans it may be pants, overalls, or coveralls with a flannel plaid long sleeve shirt. He may live in the mountains or plains in a small town in Montana, Wyoming or the Dakotas. Has a dog most definitely, and goes to church on a regularly. The most important thing is that is him and the land. 

When the class finished the book there basically two reactions; wow that was dumb or wow.  The people that thought it was dumb opinions were; he just cut it off like he got bored with writing it, he stopped describing at the end like he had at the beginning, there wasn’t a conclusion, and/or the whole book was dumb and a waste of time. The others how thought it was a good book opinions were; it ended at a good time there wasn’t anything left to say, it was a meaningful or symbolic, it was thought provoking, and/or it gave you all the information you needed.

My thoughts were that it was a good book it was thought provoking, he just cut it off at the end but I don’t know if it needed a conclusion, he had seed all that was needed, he had caught the fish of his life, survived and now had to teach the boy. He didn’t really need to describe the end of the book because your mind did more for the image he was trying to give than his words ever could.

I feel that the book is more symbolic then anything. I see it giving a sense of encouragement in that he never gave up, he may have lost some of the force that keeps him going but he’s to keep on going. This book has shown that everyone should be more like the old man. In the end everyone showed him there remorse and sympathy when he returned for the way they treated him in the past.