The Old Man and the Sea
What “The Old Man and the Sea” means to me. It may seem to be a pointless book that has no since of direction, it tells about an old man who has had a miserable life with no purpose but to fish and you know your right. Throw his dry strike of 48 days of no fish he keeps going, then came the fish of his life which he has struggled with for days, only to have it torn to peaces and eaten by sharks on the way home. So you are right it is a pointless book about an old man with a depressing life; but if this is all you see your not giving it you best effort. I’m going to tell you what you’re missing.One of the most amazing thing about he old man is that he never gave up. He had criticism for everyone he never had any help, his wife is dead, he lives in a shack and sleeps on a bed of only mattress spring and news paper.
“Others, of the old fisherman, looked at him and were sad. But they did not show it and they spoke politely about the currents and the depths they had drifted their lines at and the steady good weather and of what they had seen.”
The boy who is the only person he has gives him the strength to keep going. You could see this most when he was on the boat by him self. He continually said that he wished that the boy was with him or the boy was there to see this. He saying this was another way of saying I need to get throw this so I can see the boy again because the boy needs him and he needs the boy.In all his life he only tied to be a fisherman. He believed that that is what he was bourn to be and all he ever could be. Being a fisherman he new that life wasn’t easy and had few luxuries. From the reflection of the sun of the water he had contracted skin cancer; his hands had deep scares from the line cutting him.
“Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color of the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.”
He may not have lived a very luxurious life but he was content with what he had, he had the boy, his baseball and was a fisherman.Throughout the story he kept talking to him self, but it wasn’t crazy talk it was his thoughts and his ideas of what he should do and the alternatives to his actions. It is because he is alone on the sea and has no one to talk to and work through different options to salving a problem. He all was seems to talk to animals and relate them to people.
“The fish is my friend too… I have never seen or heard of such a fish but I must kill him.”
Why dose he say that he fish is his friend yet he is going to kill him, dose it give him the justification he need to make it seem right but why would you kill your friend.
I hope I’ve shed some light on your perspective of the book now that I have told you what you’re missing about the old man and the sea. I think that we should be more like the old man, take whatever the world throws at us and make it throw and still ready for the next big fish.
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