The Old Man And The Sea By Ernest Hemingway

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Amazing Book and this is a must read book.Delivered nicely and Paper Quality is also good. 👍

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At the end life is a series of failures we persevere through. Even if there is no last Hurrah, it's absolutely worth it if you enjoyed the journey

A good story to read. Print and paper quality are fine

This book is earnest hemingway in its purest form about human resilience the simplicity and the mindset of moving forward when nothing goes us planned.

Very short story about an old man who lives near sea shore. It's very short book like pocket sized book you can carry anywhere you go. Old man loneliness and patience teaches a boy.

It's a award winning book by Ernest Hemingway. It deals with human psychological conflict at an advanced age and the thirst to prove one's capabilities.But it might feel a little ennui to read if you don't get the meaning of the book.Ernest Hemingway got the nobel prize in literature for this work.

Life drags you too far into the sea with its friendliness as well as temptations, but it's also your responsibility to come back home carrying the wisdom that your fishing journey provides. Desires and needs will keep existing, but the top human desire is to rest in peace and joy. That's what you'll learn through this wonderful book...and much more. A few portions of the story may appear dragged or to be testing your patience, yet the essence makes it worthy to be investing your time into.

I read this as a young man and was disappointed. It didn't work for me. I thought it was about a crazy old man gone off the reservation, picking a fight with an innocent fish while ranting about the New York Yankees ("I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing. They say his father was a fisherman...").I picked it up again, after the passage of some years, and found it incredibly poignant.It's a simple story. There's an old man, Santiago, who is a fisherman fallen on hard times. He is cared for by a young boy, Manolin, who no longer works on his boat. Santiago goes into the Gulf and engages in the fight of his life with a giant marlin. What follows is a dream-like, stream-of-conscious meditation as the old man matches strength and wits with the great fish.After 84 days of no fish, Santiago takes his skiff far out to sea. He drops his line and hooks a marlin. He can't pull it in, so he takes hold of the line, beginning the back and forth: when the marlin runs, he gives the line slack; when the marlin is still, he pulls the line in. The old man's hands are cut by the rope. His muscles strain. He has no food or water. Yet he doesn't give up. The obsession has shades of Moby Dick, except at the end of this novel, I didn't feel the need to dig up Melville and punch him in the skull:I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.Eventually, the marlin is hauled in and killed. The old man attaches him to the boat, and begins to row towards shore. Of course, the marlin is dripping blood, so if you've seen Jaws or read James and the Giant Peach, you can imagine that his dreams of hitting it big with this fish are probably not going to come to pass.Age teaches you a lot of things. You start to realize that you might never be the person you thought you'd be as a child. Days go by, you start to lose more and gain less. I thought about this as I thought about the old man, raging like Dylan Thomas against the night; an old man nearing the end of his days fighting against nature, time, death, a fish, able to boil all things down into one climatic struggle on the high seas. At the end, he did not succeed, at least not in the manner he'd foreseen, but he was, in an inimitable way, victorious.'You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food,' he thought. 'You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?'

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA…………………………………………………………Everyone talks about it.But no one does anything about it.This is the expression attributed to ‘weather’It applies to ‘classics’ also.Everyone talks about it.No one reads it.…………………………………………………….The book by the title of the article fits exactly into CLASSIC.I have heard about it.I have heard about the author.I have read one of his novels in Tamil.………………………………………………………………………Particularly after undergoing a surgeryI am instantly connected to the novel.The hero of the novel has a name .But it finds mention only in a couple of instances.The old man has a friend ,a boy, too young to be called a friend.………………………………………………..The old man entertains a guilty feelingthat he had not got anything worth in the last 84 days in the sea.He ventures alone.He talks to his own self.When he catches a marlin (big fish) he talks to the fish.And yet he is conscious that in sea he should not talk .……………………………………………………….The marlin entangles in the hook of the old man.But does not reach his hands before taking the old man for ride.For long hours the marlin (of the size larger than the boat)draws the boat (skiff) into the deep sea at great speed.Two nights and a day.The old man is not tired.His spirits are intact.……………………………………………………………….Ultimately when the old man is successful in killing it ,he finds it extremely difficult to tow the big fish ashore.Trade winds are his polestars at night.The return with the marlin is greatly disturbed by the attacks by sharks.The sharks eat half the catch.With several survivals he reaches the shoreto fall into the arms of the boyin a semiconscious state.…………………………………………………..Like the hero I was also sanguine about the surgery.I had rosy feelings that a new lease of life is given to me.But the post operative care in ICU was the most difficult one.Convalesing at home is also difficult.……………………………………………….Now from the OLD MAN AND THE SEA“I am not religious,”he said.“But I will say ten OUR FATHERS and ten HAIL MARYSthat I should catch this fish,and I promise to make a pilgrimageto the Virgin of Cobre if I catch him.That is a promise.”Like the hero I prayed within my mind hundred timesI was chanting my favourite slogan many timesI vowed in my heart to undertake pilgrimageto many of my favourite Gods and goddessesExactly like the hero.…………………………………………..“I could not fail myself and die on a fish like this,”he said.“Now that I have him coming so beautifully,God help me endure.I’ll say a hundred OUR FATHERSand a hundred HAIL MARYS. But I cannot say them now.”Hemingway, Ernest. Old Man and the Sea (p. 56).Scribner. Kindle Edition.Hemingway said that it was "the best I can write ever for all of my life".I say that “this is the best I can READ for all my life.”…………………………………………………………………………………………..Susan Beegel had very correctly pointed out that“ he tells the truth about human fear, guilt,betrayal, violence, cruelty, drunkenness,hunger, greed, apathy, ecstasy,tenderness, love and lust.”…………………………………………………………………..To the extent that the title could have beenTHE OLD MAN AND THE MARLIN,the marlin plays most part of the novel than sea.

One Sunday morning, I was talking to my friend. I was shocked when he told me…“Hey, I forgot to tell you; during my last trip to Goa, I met with an Old Man, we rowed a boat together and went into the Sea… The old man, I went with, was of strongest determination who can dare enter the deep waters and is stubborn enough to kill giant sharks all alone…”…by then I was out of the shock and understood that my friend, who can neither swim nor exaggerate despite being a proven Salesman, is actually referring to a book. I vaguely remember noticing this new book which he bought on our shared kindle account, titled Old man and the sea.As per the unwritten rule of comradery, I told him that it will be the next book in my ‘must read’ list.The next Friday, my week-off, it was my turn to meet the Old Fisherman, but I didn’t row the skiff with him. I had seen him, held onto his wire, being dragged deep into the Sea, by a Fish of not just giant size, but a noble Fish of respect and of enviable pride, who didn’t seem to get tired at all. I have seen the Old Man, who didn’t have a catch since the last 84 days and is held onto this giant Fish which he hooked, like he hooked his luck, with the wire of vengeance. All along, he wanted to kill the Fish and sell his Flesh, but never had he thought of defeating him nor of robbing his pride.“He said aloud, Man is not made for defeat, A Man can be destroyed but not defeated”.I was left dismayed, at the end of this short story of mere 112 pages; All the while I thought only a worthy purpose can justify a Man’s pursuit deep into the Sea, not a losing cause. But I have seen the Old Man, though returning empty handed, bringing Honor to his boy, to the mighty Fish and to the fellow fishermen. Now I learnt of what brings pride and honor to a Man; it is not the Fish but the endurance in the effort that brings honor and pride.There is much more to learn from this book of the shortest story, I shall read it again and again for that.Winning a Pulitzer Prize and winning the Nobel prize to its author don’t really add anything to this book for it is already a marvelous jewel which needs no more glitter.We both thank Amazon for its algorithm of suggesting books based on browsing history, which prompted my Friend to read it first. We suggest you too, to try rowing the skiff with this Old Fisherman.