The Old Man And The Sea By Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man And The Sea is an American literature classic that stood through the tests of time literally and metaphorically and in a way told people of the interesting life of Ernest Hemingway but it also taught people about the struggles of life and simplicities behind it.The story revolves around a man named Santiago who relys on fishing for living and Meditation.In the novel he struggles to catch the great Marlin he's been trying to catch for years.In his struggles he manages to catch the great fish.But in process of all this the antagonists,the sharks,take away his great catch.In a sense, his dream comes true, he catches the fish and looses his dream as quickly as he catches it.In the end he is tired and beaten, but not defeated the next day he will go and do the same thing he did the previous day.Go fish.

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