Yesterday I read the book “The Old Man and the Sea,” by Ernest Hemingway. I really enjoyed reading it, a blend of humor, sadness, fiction and realism, contrasting elements in a simple story. I found it funny that a mere fish, despite how large it was, could drag the old man along for so long, but it was so disappointing when all his hard work was destroyed by the sharks. The huge fish, and the old man’s ability to survive for so long without food seemed almost fantastical, as well as his journey with the fish, but the story echoed reality in its point that we often get things that we longed for cruelly torn away at the most inopportune moments. While I didn’t particularly care for reading it at first, it eventually dragged me into the story and kept me up at night until I finished reading it. I found it very engaging, which seems odd for such a simple story, but the author’s tone and skill showed in how meaningful the story was. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good book with plenty of time and rate it a 9.7/10.
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